WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1919, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

PERSONAL Miss J. Curtis is spending a few weeks in Hnwera. Miss IC. Hamerton has returned from Inglewood. Mrs Booth (Patea) is on a visit to New Plymouth. Mrs. Harold Lepper leaves for Palmerston on Monday. • • « # Mrs. Fred. Watson left last night for a visit to Auckland. Mrs. Walter Bayly entertained Mrs. Addenbrooke at bridge last Wednesday. Mrs. Drew, who has been the guest of Mrs. H. Fookes, has returned to Wanganui. • » » • Mrs. Fred. Robertson is visiting Auckland. • • * . • Misses J. and L. Shuttleworth, of Auckland, are spending a short holiday in New Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs. B. Skeet, who have been spending a short holiday in New Plymouth. motfred back to Masterton this week. t ' • Mrs. Dodgshun left last Friday for Hamilton. * * t * • Mrs. Howarth, of Auckland, is the guest of Miss F. Wood. * « * • Mr. and Mrs. Hal. Cock, of Nelson, spent a few days here this week. « * * » Mrs. Eric Shaw, of Inglewood, is staying with . her mother, Mrs. Winfield. Mrs. James Wilson has returned from a short visit to Inglewood. « * * * Mrs. and Miss Gawith have returned to Masterton, * * * » Mrs. Baker and Miss Dora Baker left by mail train this morning on a trip to Auckland. • * * • Nurse Rowntree, of Mangatoki, is returning home by the Paparoa- She is expected to reach Eltliam on Thursday next. Mrs John Marshall, of Marton, k' spending a few days in New Plymouth. Mrs Smedley and Miss Burt (Wanganui) are staying at Cliateworth. * '* * * Mrs. E. Mullins, of Eltham, with her two children, left Wellington for Australia by the Maheno on Tuesday on a holiday visit to her mother in Melbourne. She is accompanied by her brother, Mr. W. Bolster, a returned soldier. * » • » Mrs. E. J. Sidi'iford, who has been absent in England during the. past seven years, returned*" to New Zealand by the Remuera. She is accompanied by her daughter. WEDDING. A very pretty but quiet wedding was solemnised at the Patea Presbyterian Church, on the 22nd inst., by the Rev. N. J. Raven, the contracting parties being Edward Osborne, second son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Horner, and Margaret Annie (Pearl) third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Thompson, of PateaOLD BOYS' BAti The first annual ball since the war of the New Plymouth Higlt School Old Boys' Association was held in the Assembly Hall of the school last Friday. A strong committee worked hard to make the lwill a success, and they succeeded. The floor was in splendid order and the music all that could be desired. The hall was decorated with festoons of ivy round the gallery, while bamboo and evergreens adorned the walls. Cocoanut matting covered the paths from the school to the dining room, where suppfTr was partaken of. the tables being beautifully decorated with cherry blossom, roses-and rannunculi. " The supper arrangements were in the hands of Mesdames Moves. Rockel, Ryder. MacDiarmid. .T. Wilson, DennyBrown, Sladden, H. Fookes, E. King, G. Fraser. '. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' SPORTS. The snorts at the Girls' High School on Thursday, were held in ideal weather and attracted a large crowd of parents, old girls, and friends of the school, the ground presenting a charming appearance with its fine stretch of velvety turf, and the girls themselves looking very trim and smart in their workmanlike sports attire. Great credit is due to the staff and girls for the promptness with which the events were got off. There were no long waits, and not a single dull moment, so that even those spectators who were not directly interested in the contestants found the time pass all too quickly. A dainty afternoon tea was served in the assembly room, and the proceeds from this, together with those from a well-stocked sweets stall, go to the Young Helpers' League. A PRESENTATION. Yesterday afternoon, the staff of the Education Board mot at afternoon tea to say farewell to Miss Mona Corkill. | on the eve of her severing her connection with the Board. Miss Corkill has been on the staff for the last four years, and is leaving now w join the nursing staff of the local hospital. Tn the ab=encc of the secretary, through illness. Miss Sybil Thomson presided and in a short hanpv speech referred to the pleasant relations that had alwavs existed, mid expressed the regret of all the staff at. Miss Corkill's departure. She then presented Miss Corkill, on behalf of the stair, with a leather suit cusp, suitably inscribed. Mr. Johnstone. Mr. Morton. •Mr. Ballon iync and Mr. Moore, all endorsed Miss Thomson's remarks, after which Miss Corkill. in a few appropriate remarks, expressed hei thanks for the gift. MR. HARRY DEARTH. Mr. Harry Dearth, one of England's repre. l ent.ative baritones —representative in the truest, sense of the word, will appear at the Empire Theatre for a twonight season commencing on Friday next. He is a Londoner and was trained at the Royal Academy of Music under Manuel Garcia, son of the great Manuol Garcia, who taught. Jenny Lind and Malibran the finer points of vocalism. After three years at the Royal Academy, Mr. Dearth was appointed a. member of the Westminster Abbe'' Choir, -rthv Jut jsplefct JBe then

had a tempting offer from Mr. George Edwards and played baritone lead in "Gipsy Love" and "The Marriage Market," both of which enjoyed a long run. Mr. Dearth also figured for three seasons with the Beecham Grand Opera Company. Supporting Mr. Dearth are Madame Marie Power, a beautiful contralto, Miss Carlin Jurs, a brilliant Australian accompanist and solo pianist, and Harold Beck, a talented cellist. It is a long time since a sound concert company headed by such an eminent star as Mr. Dearth has appeared in New Plymouth, and his concerts will be eagerly looked forward to, and no doubt music lovers will have a treat. BUYING IN SMALL UANTITIESThat the retail trade in the cities is getting more and more like, the Old Country ways of trading, was the opinion expressed recently by an Auckland grocer who had been engaged at the business for a long period of years. ' The retail trade,'' he said, <c luls altered very •much during the past year or two, and people are buying in much smaller lots than formerly, and all this tended to increase the cost of running a business. It used to be a very uncommon thing a little while back for the ordinary housekeeper to buy half a pound of bacon or half a pound of cheese, and the days used to be when few people ordered less than a pound of butter. Now, too, it is quite common for people to ask for a pound of broken biscuits, which are sold at a cheap rate. To sell in big lots means less handling, and that a counter hand has much less work, which means that the cost of turnover is less. Last week many counter hands did not put through more than £8 per day, and some did not do more than £7. in one establishment that I know- Three men were kept busy enough, but big quantities of stuff did not pass through their hands in the large quantities that it used to do. Ladies, dressed in the most fashionable styles, very often ordered their goods in the smallest quantities, which was quite different from wnat happened before the war. People are evidently feeling the pinch of the increased cost of living more now than they ever did, because it affects everything a housewife needs and everything that is worn as well. No one would have ever dreamed that the retail trade would have been cut up the way it is. and the worst feature of it all is that the alteration is not» at all tending towards the benefit of either the buyer or the seller. The markets are uncertain, and trade is just as yncertain, al,(1 Srocers all over the country," he concluded, '"long, for a return of those days when freedom in buying was so common to all." USEFUL HINTS. Roll up all cambric things—neckware, frills, so on—after you have put them through very thin, clear starch, and then iron while still slightly damp. Otherwise the iron gives- no gloss to the material. Iron embroidery on the wrong side over a piece of felt or blanket, and the pattern will have a nice raised appearance. Do not use too hot an iron for this. Pull and press, cut any points, and iron until the trimming is quite drv. Dissolve a teaspoonful of painter's size in a pint of warm water, aiid with this wash white paint, afterwards using a chamois leather. It takes off the dirt easily, and leaves the paint highly polished. When washing mauve prints and .muslins, put a little soda in the water in which they are washed in order to keep the color from running out. Soda is said to have exactly the opposite effect on mauve that it has on other dyes. A blacking that will be found Invaluable for stoves is made by mixing 'equal parts of kerosene and turpentine mixed with a good stove polish untM you have a paste of the consistency of thick cream Apply while the stove is •slightly warm and polish with a flannel cloth. An easy way to clean brass. —Make a paste with the joice of a lemon end •whiting. Rub the brass with this till all the stains have disappeared, then polish with dry whiting. Clean Benares brass trays by rubbing with the half of a lemon, and polishing with a soft cloth. Blaekening brown shoes—Dissolve in ■boiling water a lump of washing soda the size of a walnut, and when cold ri-' 1 well over and into the brown leather. This will darken them, and if they are polished with shoemaker's ink (two coats) thev will be a good black, and will take additional polishes as easily aB any other black shoe.