NOTES FOR WOMEN

Wairarapa Age, 26 February 1927, Page 2

NOTES FOR WOMEN

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. B. V. Skeet (Glemore) has returned from, a visit to Napier.

Mrs. Wardell and Miss Mary Wardell have been staying at Feilding.

Mr. and Mrs. lan Balfour (Bute) are visiting Napier.

Mrs. H. J. Francis and Miss Cecily Francis (Renall Street) are paying an extended visit to Marlborough Sounds and will be away fer some weeks.

Mrs. Walter Cameron has returned home to Te Ore Ore from a visit to Wellington.

Miss Bee (Renall Street) who has been, visiting Christchurch, has returned home.

•Mrs. G. C. Saxton, who has been the guest of Miss Beiliss (Pownall Street) has returned to Pahiatua.

Mrs. H. Stubbs, formerly of Wellington, has taken up her icsidence in Masterton.

A pretty wedding was celebrated at St. Patrick’s Church on Thursday, fhe Right Rev. Monsignor McKenna, V.G., officiating, when Miss Elizabeth B. Collins. Lansdowne, Masterton, was married to Mr. Hugh Devanny. PLUNKET SOCIETY. SUBSCRIPTIONS ACKNOWLEDGED. The treasurer of the Masterton branch of the Plunket Society wishes to acknowledge the following subscriptic ns and donations: Mrs. J. Coradine, 10s; Mrs. G. W. Perry, 10s; Mrs. D, H. Rutherford, ss; Mrs. H. H. Dawson, ss; Mrs Tregurtha, ss; Mrs F. W. Dixon ss; Mrs. C. O. Hodgins, ss; Mrs. F. Garland and Mrs. G. P. Clapcott, 5/; Mrs E. M. Hodder, ss. ’

METHODIST MISSIONS. WOMEN’S AUXILLTARY. The first meeting for the New Year of the Masterton Methodist Women’s Auxiliary for home and foreign missions, -was held in the schoolroom on Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Rutter presided over a fair attendance. Plans of work were drawn up for the year and prayer circle cards were distributed among the members.

Several most interesting letters were read from Sisters in the Solomon Islands, giving a full report of their work.

The box organiser reported having sent a parcel of clothing to Sister Elinor Dobbie, Deaconess amongst the Maoris, and it was decided to send another parcel in April. A bright and helpful, letter was read from Mrs. Pacey, New Zealand President.

Mesdamcs Cocker and Jackson provided afternoon tea.

NAVY LEAGUE SHOP DAY. FUNDS RAISED FOR “BRITANNIA.” The president and members of the committee of the Ladies’ ’Auxiliary of the Masterton branch of the Navy League held a shop day yesterday in aid of ‘ 4 Britannia,” the Navy League Queer, in. the Military Pageant to be held in Wellington early next month. The ladies who organised the calc were Mrs O. A. Bunny (president), Miss Sellar (secretary), Mesdam.es A. Caselberg, A. H. Daniell, E. Homewood, J. Macrae, G. W. Sellar, C. M. Strouts, D. M. Graham, and S. J. W. Gill, Misses B. Vallance and Daniell.

Following are details of the takings: Cakes, £5 12s; produce, £4 2s 6d; jumble stall, £8 8s 9d; sale of “Britannia” badges, £2 12s; donations, 15s; total, £2l 10s 9d.

At the garden party at Government House, Auckland, on Wednesday afternoon, the Duchess of York wore an exquisite toilet in flesh-coloured tints that were charmingly accentuated in her accessories. Her frock of georgette in a beige-pink shade was cut in simple lines, the only ornaments being a dimante clasp and. ropes of lovely pearls. The full skirt was attached to a deep tunic and the cape-collar at the back formed narrow panels, looped under a slight swathing at -the hips. The hat of crinoline straw, wreathed’with a trail of roses, had a faint pink tinge and the brim was curled toward the face. Shoes of glace-kid and stockings in deeper flesh-coloured tones were worn, and Her Royal Highness carried a long-handled parasol, embossed ' in tones of pink and beinge. Lady Cavan wore a frock of mastic crepe de chine and crinoline straw hat ia the same tone with a beigc-colourcd wrap finished on the shoulder with posy of pink roses. Magnificent jewels were worn by the Duchess of York at the civic At Home at the Auckland Town Hall on Wednesday evening. Her frock was of shcel pink ninon and tulle encrusted with diamante. Fashioned in long straight lines with petalled skirt, rows of diamante ornamented the frock from the shoulders, from which there fell a filmy draping of tulle caught with emerald and diamond clasps. Her Royal Highness wore ropes of pearls and a diamond and emerald pendant with a diamond tiara. Her pink brofede shoes were fastened with diamond buckles and the heels scintillated with diamante. She carried a long feather fan shaded from faint pink to rose and a beautiful bouquet of pink and white roses. Lady Cavan wore a frc-ck of black ! chiffon velvet softly draped and caught on the shoulders with diamond clasps. Despite the many advantages claimed for the spattec over the Russian boot, the latter shows no sign of diminished popularity, and is, indeed, more übiquitous than ever, says a writer in an Eng-

lish exchange. This is largely ft is said, to 'the fact that the spattee follows closely the contour of log and ankle, and emphasises dimensions rather than otherwise, whilse the Russian boot, of course, affords an impenetrable disguise to thick and thin alike. There is a- uniformity about the booted logs which appeals strongly to the less dainty daughters of Eve, who are thus enabled to camouflage, their too, too solid flesh, and provide the more male with another feminine puzzle. The spattee, while eminently becoming to slim lines, is a trap for the unI wary, and is, moreover, far too redolent for the modern miss of the gainers which adorned her grandmother. Utility nowadays, to be fashionable, must never taste of the antique, and goloshes and gaiters, though a part of the distant past, are still vivid in imagination and' memory. The Russian boot, on the other hand, is, in this country at least, a product of fhe present generation, with no doubtful ancestors to mar its halo.