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NOTES FOR WOMEN

PERSONAL ITEMS. Miss A. Miller (Renall Streef) is visiting Wanganui. Mrs. Langley, of Christchurch, is a visitor to Masterton. Miss Falknor returns this morning from a visit to Australia. Mrs. Julian (Wellington), is the guest of Mrs. D. Grant, Cole Street. Mrs. Donald James (Rangitumau) ami family, arc spending a month at Seatoun. Mrs. Archer Hoskiijg (Church Street) and Mrs. J. Perry (Upper Plain) are leaving shortly for England. Mrs. C. Stilburn returned to Masterton last week-end, affer spending a few weeks in Wellington. Mrs. W. Taylor and family have returned to their homo at Tinui after spending three weeks at Castlepoint. Miss Olive Small (Seatoun), who has been the guest z of Mrs Douglas (Tinui), is now staying with friends in Masterton. Mr. and Mrs. Donald ’Buchanan, of Tepurupuru, arrived in Wellington yesterday after a visit to the Old Country, and will reach Masterton this morning. Miss Bastin, of Wellington, who has’ been the guest of Mrs. W. M. Webster, 11 Chester House,” returned home early this week. Miss Kemball (Essex Street), has just returned to Masterton from a visit to Wellington, where she attended a reception to the party of Red Indians who are providing the prologue to the remarkable picture, “The Vanishing Race,” at the Regent Theatre. Cretonne shoes arc attractively new for bedroom wear, but there is no need to buy them ready-made in the shops. If you hanker for some, ’ and already posses a shabby pair of felt slippers, you can cover them with charming re? suits. A spare piece of pretty cretonne, loft over from household furnishing, or picked up at the sales, will some ih very well. Take some cretonne, place it over the slippers, and cut out on the cross of the material. Tack

carefully all round the top of the slipper. and close to the sole, leaving £iri. turnings. Turn in and sew as closely as possible to the sole all round. Finish with silk braid round the top.

There are still many good housewives who do not realise that the washing of delicate china must be set about very carefully. Carelessness can result in casualties other than breakages—casualties not quite so tragic, but sufficient to spoil the appearance of fhe ware. Tea dishes shduld always be washed in moderately hot water only; and a specially soft dishcloth should be used. The reason for this precaution is obvious — too hot water is liable to crack the fine glaze. The articles should be rinsed after washing, in tepid water, and after being left to drain well should bo dried with a linen cloth. Never, on any account, put soda in the water. Even such a little of it is prone to spoil the colouring of your “pet” china ware. If you are up against the very hard water difficulty, soften it with a little borax. Tea stains can be successfully removed by rubbing the stained portion with salt.

It is some months since, at a worldfamous dance club, I saw the first of the careless nonchalantly-tied belts on evening gowns, writes a London correspondent. This was made of a double fold of white georgette, and, as it had been tied with considerable energy, it did look rather like a string. Yet it •was on white georgette dress so thickly encrusted with pearl beads and blister pearls that its appearance and obvious cost inspired respect. Since then the practice of having a casual tie-belt, and fastening it with as little, ceremony as is accorded that on a golf jumper, has grown. Often the belt is made of a piece of material to match the dressy and is only an inch or so wide. It is tightly round, the figure, causing the frock to pouch slightly. A pink lame dress had as its belt a string of cherry-colourect .glass beads. The satin shoes were cherry colour and so was the shoulder knot of organdi which took chrysanthemum form t

I’hte dandy of Victorian days prized his gold scarfing and silken ‘‘topper,” anti now his granddaughter borrows both. The top hat hhs made such gallant attempts to outdistance the “also ran” millinery class, th&t it really deserves a place. It has taken to itself a wide brim and has been labelled

“Spanish,” “Welsh” or “Futurist,” but in spite of camouflage, the inspiration is of the old “stove-pipe” model our ancestors loved, and kept with a soft silk handkerchief in the best hatbox. To-day’s feminine topper is made of gosgrain ribbon, it may have geometrical .decorations, made from ribbons in contrasting colours, and its height is sometimes astonishing. Picot straw and felt are occasionally used, but the last looks hot. The point to bear in mind is that, unlike grandfathers’, his grand-daughter’s topper must have a dull surface; he liked his glossy! Now for his scarf-ring. His young descendant having become bored with her shoulder knot of expensive or-chids.-in trying to get ahead of fashion has gone back 50 years. The solid gold hands, engraved or embossed, fail to content her, however, and something set with diamonds is more to her liking.

If you want to get an effect of modernity and sophistication into your clothes, it is necessary to spend—no, itot only money, but a good deal of time and thought on them and to study the methods of women who are successful in this way. The thing that you will notice first of all is that everything they wear seems to belong together. They do rfot wear a smart coat, a not-so-smart hat and a quite unsmart dress and vaguely hope they look all right. They have made quite sure, monious and in the same style, but that their shoes, gloves and handbag are the right, inevitable ones to wear with them. This does not mean having a huge assortment of clothes—on the contrary, it often means cutting out all you don’t urgently need, and spending a-11 you can on those and the etceteras you are going to wear with them. Even if you only posses ©ne costume in the world, get it perfectly right in aD its details. It is not a big of use hoping where smartness is concerned—you have to know!

Lavender comes to its prime rather late in summer, and just about now, when the tiny flowers are turning from lilac to withered brown, is the best time to gather it, Plucked in the early morning and laid to dry all day, by evening the flowers are crisp enough tc rub off the stalks and use for sachets. The prettiest and daintiest of these are made of lavender net or muslin, finished with bebe ribbon bows to match. If the flowers are left on the stalks an unusual sachet can be made by binding a little bunch together with narrow ribbon so that the heads of blossom are completely covered. Another way is to make a lavender fan. This is done by cutting out the shape of an open fan in transparent materials and then sewing the stalks of lavender to it, fan stick wise, finally covering them with another layer of material, and finishing the sachet with ribbon. There is nothing fresher and sweeter than lavender-scented bed linen. Apart from the big lavender sachets kept in the linen cupboard, sew triangular sachets in the corners of bed pillows so that they are covered by the pillow-slips. The same idea might be repeated with the chain' cushions. Do not cast away lavender stalks if you use only the flowers. They make a delicious perfume thrown on the first autumn fires.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Age, 9 February 1927, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
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NOTES FOR WOMEN Wairarapa Age, 9 February 1927, Page 2

NOTES FOR WOMEN Wairarapa Age, 9 February 1927, Page 2

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