TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 39, 13 April 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

They Say: | That the Dean of Dunedin, accompanied by Archdeacon Fitchett and Mr. Whitehead, warden of the Ecclesiastical College, will be in Wellington during the meeting of the General Synod, to be held in about a week’s time, That many people will miss Dr. G. W. Harty and Mrs. Harty, who, accompanied by their family, intend leaving immediately for a British and European tour. They will go via Australia, and expect to be away from the Dominion for a comparatively lengthy period. Beautiful Napery. Beautiful linen appeals to every diseriminating house lover more than any other possession. So much so that if for’ instance a really distinguished hostess were told that she must make her choice between silver or china or table linen or glass (meaning that the item chosen might he the most valuable possible, and the other three very mod- | erately priced), it is certain that her choice would not be silver, nor china, | and certainly not glass, but table linen. } An obvious choice, after all, since plated | silver can be beautiful, and inexpensive glass and china can have the decorative beauty of rarer example. But there is no substitute for quality in_ table linen. Nothing can imitate fine, even threads closely and skilfully woven -nothing can imitate (not even when it is starched and glazed to the uttermost), the soft satin smoothness, the suppleness and weight, of hest quality pure linen damask. The linen closet is the treasure chest in truth of the fastidious hostess. Beantiful napery is: always heavily soft-it falls very much the way satin does, and it has almost a satin sheen, but heavier, softer, finer. We all know, of course, that nothing if more delicious to the face than a heavy damask towel, or more hecoming 10 the bathroom towel-racks. The Hour of Ceremony. Dinner in every important house has always been the hour of ceremony. The test of a practised hostess is in dinner giving; the test of a perfectly appointed house in its table equipment is the quality of its Hnen damask. Linen that is beautiful because of its texture igs something that the unknowing seldom, if ever, appreciate, The hostess without tradition is apt to think if her table cloths and napkins are thickly embroidered and heavily lace-trimmed, they are something to be proud of. Perhaps they are. Perhaps again they are not. It is true that Iunch cloths, supper-cloths and tea-cloths, runners, mats and doyleys, can be trimmed as much as purse can pay for. A hampering qualification this last, since it must be pointed out that the more elaborate the trimming, the greater the necessity for fine quality. In other words, trimming must always be in addition to quality, and not an attempted camouflage of its lack. As an example of bad taste, nothing couki excecd a certain picture film, that-in one of its scenes attempted to show a fashionable and Iuxurious din-ner-table. Auyone knowing anything at all could see that the over-trimmed table-cloth ‘was of such tawdry cheapness that no woman of taste could possibly give it house-room. One of the characters left the table holding a. napkin which stood out like a square of paper muslin, small in size, stiff in texture, and bordered with the cheapest but yery ornate Jace.-Miss Buceleugh, 4Y¥.A. Disconcerting ! Among the fund of Scottish anecdotes told ‘by Sir Archibald Geikie, the famous geologist, ig ote concerning a minister who had been appointed to a Scottish country parish, During his first round of visits on his parishioners he called at a small farm, but found only the farmer’s son at home. He was shown into the parlour with due ceremony. Glancing round the room his eye finally rested on the bookcase. "Are these all the books your father has in the house?" he inquired of the boy. ‘‘Aye,’’ was the stolid reply. ‘Now tell me," went on the minister, ‘which of them does he use oftenest?"? "That ane,’"? replied the boy, at the same time pointing to a large leather-covered Bible, which seemed to be well, worn. "Oh, the Bible,’ said the minister, beaming; ‘I’m glad of that. How often does he use it?" ‘On Sunday mornin’,"? was the reply. "Oh, only once a week ??’ said the minister. ‘‘Well, well, does he read it aloud to you all, or just to himself??? ‘Na, came the disconverting reply, "he shairpens his razor on’t."? Curacoa. Peel very thinly the rinds of two Se\ille oranges and one lemon, Add 4Ib. augar candy and one bottle unsweetened gin. Infuse in a covered vessel for three weeks, stirring daily. Strain and bottle, covering the cork with wax.

A Unique Honour. Tew people feel more sympathy with Lady Haig in the loss ot her husband than Mrs. Mary Bell, who for four and a half years shared the duties of maid of honour to Queen Alexandra with Lady Haig, and who had a double wedding with the Haigs in the Buckingham Palace Chapel, Before her marriage Lady Haig was Doris Vivian, Lord Vivian’s sister, and we used to take it in turns to act as maids of honour to Queen Alexandra. It was the (Queen who suggested that they sfionld have a double wedding in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace. ‘This was an honour accorded to no other commoners either before or after. A Woman Politician. ‘The recent return to Parliament of Laly Iveagh has inimensely strengthened feminism in the House of Commous, placing at the service of English womanhood one of the cleverest female brains in these enlightened days, She has already given such a taste of her quality that the House knows that she will go a long way. In her speech on the Praver Book measure she addressed the Hause of Commons as one to the manner trained, and in a style worthy of a descendant, as sli is, of the great Speaker Onslow. A Bostonian having read Shakespeare for the first time observed gravely: "T don’t suppose that there are twenty men in Jsoston to-day who could have written that book.’’