WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16149, 1 March 1918, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

' * Matter for publication in thiß column should be addressed to the n Lady Editor, and should be iullj authenticated. t " C Mrs Melville Jameson arrived in * Christchurch. by yesterday mornings t] ferry steamer. e: Mr and Mrs W. R. Barker (Gisborne) fi and 31iss Barker are visiting Christ- « church. b Mrs J R- Thomson (Sydney), with her daughter, Miss Thomson, and Miss J M. Gillies (Albury), went to the Coast e yesterday after a few days in Christ- v church. ? Mr and Mrs Savill (Hanmer) aro c staving "Warner s. £ Mrs Ewcn, sen., and Mrs D. A. Ewcn (Duncdin) went north last night. « Miss Meyer (Sydney) is visiting a Christchurch. * Mr and Mrs Gilbert Garlick arc among s Sydney visitors to Christchurch. \ Miss Margaret Russell, travelling secretary for the Zenana British Medical Mission, is coming to Christchurch on March 2nd and staying till the /th. She will be the guest of Mrs S. S. Blackburnc, Rollestou avenue. Several draw-ing-room meetings are being arranged a to welcome her. } Mr and -Miss Leslie arrived from Wei- * lington yesterday, and are staying at the* Clarendon. r Mrs Widdowson (Nelson) is visiting Christchurch. * Dr. and Mrs Ewart (Invercargill) ' motored home yesterday. A quiet wedding was celebrated at St. ( Matthew's Church, Mastcrton, on Wed- ] nesday morning, when Miss Rita May , McKenzio, daughter of Mr James Mo- j Kenxie, of Masterton, was married to Mr G. G. Smith, son of Mrs Smith, of Christchurch. The ceremony was per- ( formed by tho Rev. John "Walker. 1 Sister Ruth, who for the last two j years has been in chargc of the Metho- ■ dist Deaconess Home in. Christchurch, ] has accepted the offer of an engagement in connexion with tho Methodist ; Central Mission, Sydney, of which the ( Kev. S. J. Hoban, who visited Christ- i church a few weeks ago, is the superintendent. Mrs J. W. LiU (Tai Tapu) and Mrs W. J. McMillan (Greenpark) have returned home after spending a holiday at Sumner. Mrs H. Wright left Sumner yesterday for her home at Ihinsandcl, after a few weeks' holiday. The foltowing from the "Australasian" is of interest to New Zealanders: The Now Zealand Government representative (Mr H. J. Manson) recently convened a meeting of New Zealand . residents in Melbourne, with a view to aiding the appeal by the State War Council. It was unanimously decided that the Dominion should be represented at the carnival on March 15th. To carry out preliminary arrangements, those taking a practical interest in tho movement attended a meeting in the New Zealand Government offices on Monday afternoon, February 18th. Arrangements were made to have a kiosk in the form of a Maori whare, the stock-in-trade to be typical of Now Zealand. Steps are being taken to obtain suitable articles from the Dominion. Already several liavo been contributed, including a Kaiapoi rug and a picture, which presents a New Zealand scene, and these aro being raffled. A feature of the .New Zealanders' efforts for March loth will be the official open in" of tho spacious basement cafe which Messrs Simpson and Davenport i have had fitted up at their premises in Collins street. A musical programme is being arranged, and the firm will give half of the day's returns. Jn addition to the ladies' executive there is a strong working committee to assist in carrying out arrangements. It has Mr H. -I. Manson as chairman, and Mr H. L. Solomon as lion, secretary, other members being Messrs R. Linton,' E. V. Jones, Price, J. Cunningham, A. J. Laurie, and Gurr. XO CORRESPONDENTS. By arrangement with Mrs Rolleston, Hair Physician, Specialist in Electrolysis, and Face Treatments. Qualified London. Paris, and America. Correepondence replied to privately and confidentially by post, ot through this column on all matters pertamin» -to the care of the liair and complexion. Advice is aleo given gratis on the treatment o£ tho following:— Falling Hair Premature Greynees Faded or Lifeless Hair BaldneS3 Dandruff and Seborrhrea Alopecia Areata ([Bald Patches) Electrolysis (permanent lemoval of superfluous Hiiir) Complexion Treatment Blackheads (Acne) • Freckles ac<l Tan 5 Premature "Wrinkles t fn-o nf Hair Combings _ , > Value of Transformations, Toupees, and Switches . Treatment of Children s ilaii i Wrlt ° MRS ROLLESTON. ; i Dominion Building, Cathedral square. YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. ) Miss Mary Geddes, National Y.W.C.A. > Secretary for Girls' Department tlirough- • out Australasia, is the guest ot _ Mrs A. I Kaye, Durham street, during her staj . in Christchurch. Miss Geddes, v,ho is ' visiting New Zealand Associations in the r interests of the younger gu's. was wel- • corned by tho Christchurch Board or : Directors on Wednesday evening at tho Y.W.C.A. rooms in High street. Among ? those present were Mrs Kayo , dent), Mesdames Warren. Lester. - son Malcolm, Newell, Callender,White, : Carey Newburgh, T.awry, and Bowron. ' Miss Geddes spoke of the work m othcA- { Associations, specially mentioning oyclne.v and Melbourne, and the work m i France and Russia, where Miss Spencci, 1 travelling secretary for the "Y.W.C. A- ' World's Committee, had lately spent some time organising the work there? the first city association being_opened in I'etrograd at the end of 1917. TO USE A COAT AND SKIRT. A woman's coat and skirt may be made into a pretty school frock lor a girl jn the following way: —Clut the top of the skirt off so as to make it tho desired length. From the part cut off make two pockets of a fashicn- ' able length, and stitch them to the ' skirt, which must then be arranged i into a band. It may be gathered or f put in plainly except for some pleats ' at tho back or in any other way. From • the back of the coat cut a piece for the front of the sleeveless bod'eo in the shape of the bib of a nurss's apron ; • and. if it can be cut from one side or > i an opened sleeve, a similar piece for the ; back. If there is no piece of stuff big I enough to allow of this the back piece • may have a neatly joined and well- ' pressed seam. Join tho pieces at the ' shoulder, and put them into tho waist band. Sew on two tabs to keep the vest in place. The belt may be made 5 of some of the cloth well stitched and finished with a buttonhole and button, or a leather belt may b© used. If preferred the npper part of the dress ; and the pockets and belt may be edged ; - w ith braid. When worn with white i - 'blonses this little dress looks quite 1 b smart. Either a silk, linen, or cloth • dress may be used; and, of course, any 1 of the many sleeveless bodice styles i may be used'instead of the apron effect. j jf the dress is for a small child sleeves r and a blouse top can easily be planned > by using the coat sleeves for tho ; biceTes of the little dress.

"THE SCRAP BAG." Every housewife owns one (says an Australian woman writer)—and it _ is nearly always at bursting j»omt, straining to the uttermost the longsuffering nail on which it hangs. Mine has been a veritable friend :u need on many occasions, not only to its familiars, but to tolk farther afield, who have gleaned exactly the patch ther wanted from its heterogeneous contents, and have gone away lilltfd with satisfaction. It is a jov for ever, but scarcely a thing of " beauty—and. curiously enough, tho more ugly and ungainlv it gets, the fonder of it wc housewnos grow and tho more _ indispensable to our outward and visible happiness it becomes. .. , .. Children hold in mighty vcspcct Jus cumbersome associate ot mother s, toi has it not produced the material fcr everv garment the doll family o'lei wore? Did not mother's very chic camisolc emerge from the same receptacle, metamorphosed from an inserted flouuee of a long discarded • undei- " Vhen there was that dozen yards of green silk, faded and discoloured, once used as a mantle drape—dyed black, and turned into a dainty and pretty evening frock on the spur or the moment, as it weie, for notice was short on that occasion—but the scrap bag rose to it immediately. Oh, there aro possibility in a scrap bag Lots of theni! GIRLS WHO ARE ALWAYS BUSY. A man comes iionio in. tiio evening and rests, whether ho happens to be very tired or not. He utnes it ioi granted that certain things will be dono lor him, and as a rme does not bother his head about the way they get done. But comparatively lew women manage to achieve this habit of real relaxation. Unless they are so tired that they simply can't move, nine out ol ten of them will lond a iiand v itb. eonic domestic detail or other, or tliey will hunt out some job of their own and concentrate on it until they have not half an ounce of onergy loit, and go to bed wearied out. "'The family" very seldomly points out to a girl the error of such ways. On the contrary, it is usually taken lor granted that she ought to lond a hand with everything that is going on just because she is a girl. "Yes, Edith's awfully good," I hoard a mother say not long since; '"she doesn't havo much leisure, as she works such long hours at the office, but sho always puts in some time in the garden when she gets home on Saturday, and she does tho cooking and o\eiy- | thing on Sunday when tho maid is j out,°and even gets up first and brings ] us our breakfast to bed." j A little later I heard her telling somebody else that poor Edith liadn t been particularly well of late—she thought tho work was beginning to tell on her! This sort of blindness to the relation between cause and effect is not by any means raro. i Some girls whose homes are arranged ! considerately for them, so that thero is , really no need for them to do anything J at all, nevertheless use their leisure to do little jobs on their own account, just as they used to before they took up any kind of outside work. Thoy will continue to make their own clothes, perhaps, or to launder their best blouses themselves, their argument being that it saves money, and that they rathor like doing it anyway. Very likoly, but too often'they will fill in every free minute, and allow themselves no time at all for the lazing pure and simple that everyone who works hard needs to indulge in at times. Nor is it really economical, for the loss of health that may be tho ultimate result is never cheap, whichever way you look at it. In the case of most workers what is needed is not even recreation, but absolute rest from all effort. Even hobbies can bo tiring. WOMEN POLICE; SUCCESS IN SYDNEY. Some interesting details regarding, tho appointment of women police >Ji Sydney are supplied by a writer in the "Daily Telegraph." She says:—"When tho question of appointing police-women in Sydney was mooted it was received with amusement, and some derision. It was not then understood that the duties differ from those the policeman. The woman, whoso work is principally among her own sex and among children, makes no foi-ciblo arrests, interferes in no street brawls, has nothing to do inconsistent with her womanly dignity. "Thero ar e but two women in tho New South Wales Polico Department. Known as special constables, they aro on the same footing as the nien in regard to pay ancf allowances, -jind pass the same educational test and medical i examination. As they wear no uniform, women who would resent having | to march through the streets in custody of a policeman willingly go along ! with _ them. _ All that indicates their | association with the force are a brooch, | worn inconspicuously, and a warrant or appointment carried in their pockets. "Tho have been successful in rounding up fortune-tellers and crystal-gazers, who had been the means of extorting money from those whose husbands are at the front. They havo also accomplished useful work in rescuing young girls whose parents have no control over them, and have either restored them to their relatives or sent them to a home. During one year 178 girls passed through their hands. ''Within tho two and a half years since their appointment, they have, by tact and sympathy, saved many a woman from a life of crime. "Satisfactory work has been accomplished also by two women patrols, employed for the last twelve months by tho City- Council as rangers in Hydo Park. Their hours are shorter than those of the men patrols, and they wear a unjlorm. consisting of a navy blue coat and skirt, with a Panama hat in the summer and a navy blue felt hat in winter. An inscribed, brooch is their badge of office. "Included in tho list of their dutios is the business of warning young girls with no visible means of employment, who sit in the" park day after day, reading novelettes, as well as nursogirls inclined to speak to undesirable men. They arc able also to give a message of encouragement to the erring woman or tho wayward girl that may be the moans of turning them from a downward path towards a useful, happy life."