NOTES FOR WOMEN

Wairarapa Age, 5 February 1927, Page 2

NOTES FOR WOMEN

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. T. M. Page, of Eketahuna, is on a visit to Nelson. Mrs. W. B. Ch on nel Is, Short Street, is visiting Christchurch. Miss Beryl Udy (Petonc) is staying with Mrs. H. Miller, Cole Street. Mrs. J. Mahoney, Napier, has been visiting Masterton and Wellington.

Mrs. L. Clarke and family (Essex Street) have returned from Packakariki.

Miss Jessie McLaren, Rcnall Street, has gone to Wellington for a few weeks.

Miss Joyce Jeffery, Te Awamutu, is the guest of Mrs. E. N. Bundle, Pownall Street

Mrs. Carrick and family have returned from a holiday spent on the East Coast.

Miss Mary Major, who has been spending her holidays in Hawke’s Bay, has returned home.

Mrs. Claridge (Tawataia) is at present an inmate of a private hospital at Pahiatua.

Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Pither, of Lansdowne, have returned from a month’s motor tour of the North Island.

Mrs. and Miss Wesney (Wellington) arc visiting Masterton and are staying with Mr. P. Wesney, York Street.

Mrs. R. J. Cassidy and her daughter, Josephine, of Napier, who have been staying at the Empire Hotel, have returned home.

Mrs. E. Drysdale (Nireaha), who was receiving treatment at a private hospital at Pahiatua is now at home. Her health is very much improved.

A very pretty wedding was solemn i«cd at the Mauriceville North Methodist Church on January 25, the Rev. Spencer officiating. The contracting parties were Beatrice May, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Larsen, of Mauriceville North, and Albert George, eldest son of Mrs and the late Mr. G. Swinn, of Parkvale. The bride, who was given away by her father, was charmingly attired in cream silk maroeaia, with side panels of silver lace. She wore the usual veil ami orange blossom and carried a beautiful bouquet of white flowers and maidenhair fern. The bride was attended by Miss Gladys Swinn, sister of the bridegroom, as chief bridesmaid and Miss Gladys Gyde, a friend of the bride, the former wearing a cream silk and white hat, and the latter green silk and black hat. Both carried pretty bouquets. Mr. Charles Swinn attended his brother as best man, and Mr. Owen Larsen as groomsman. After the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of the bride’s parents, where the usual toasts were honoured. Later the happy couple, left for their honeymoon in the north, the bride wearing a navy blue dress with hat and shoes to match. Mr and Mrs. A. G. Swinn will take up their residence at Mauriceville North.

Some novel watches are being worn by smart women in Paris just now. They are in beautiful enamel, and on the face is a Small square, in which the actual time is shown in hours, minutes and seconds in luminous figures. Another fashion in “time” is the miniature watch which is inserted in the back of the expensive cigarette lighter that every woman in Paris now seems to carry, while tiny travelling clocks hardly more than an inch are included in the handbag.

A vogue has sprung up in Paris for strings of beads in light-hued tortoiseshell, which is becoming even more popular than amber. Tortoiseshell, in fact, seems to be coming into its own again, and the new cigarette cases and holders are all in this material, Another Paris fad f<sr' the moment is the Deburau doll. Deburau, a famous pantomimist in his time, is the subject -9* Sacha Guitry’s latest play, and the doll shows the famous actor and dramatist looking very mournful in his part.

There Is much talk just now, about * 1 brighter clothing for men.” Someone, gifted with an aesthetic rather than a practical imagination has suggested the revival of knee breeches • and ruffles, says an English writer. There is much to be said for a reform in male attire, which, should be not merely practical but attractive. But the average man has so confounded conservatism and convention that'he will never, of his own accord, abandon his blue serge suit. Though staunchly conservative, they scorn convention and have the courage of their convictions. Already Cambridge has started Oxford trousers and Oxford high-necked jumpers.

One of thft big stores in London patronised by at least three queens is trying to educate the .general public into trying Dominion and foreign fruit and vegetables. When the Queen of Norway visited it recently she personally congra tulated the manager of the fruit department on his variety of stock. Among the usual vegetables shown there are cardons, which look like tremendous heads of celery, chow chows, marrows from. Madiera, and fresh lettuces from America! There is a new salad called Barbe, which is a smaller and liner edition of the endive, but with a more pronounced taste.