WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16433, 29 January 1919, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication m the "Women's Corner'' items of social or personal now.. Such items ahould 1)0 fullv authenticated, and engagement no'.i'Ps must t, bo B, K na " tures of both parties. Correspandence is invited-nn any matters arioctiug, ct ci interest to, women-

Mrs Sliolio Djv.friaa arrived in town from St. Leonard', last night. Mrs Davison (St- Leonard's) is in town. •

Mr and Mrs Newsom (Wellington; arrived from the North yesterday, and are staying at Warner's. Mr and Mrs Batche!or (Dunedin) are visiting Christehurcli. Miss Othlie Bean is in town. The Misses Maearthur (Lumsden, Otago) are staying with her at the vicarage, Addington. Miss McKeegan and Miss Walker (Wanganui) returned North last night after a stay at Warner s. Mrs J. Ballantyne has been staying at "Ilfracombe," Akaroa.

Mr and Mrs Arthur EKvorthy and Mr and Mis Herbert Elworthy are in C'hristchurch, on their return from the West Coast.

Mr and Mrs W. T. Douglas (Napier) arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning, and are staying at the Clarendon. Miss Joan Quane returned yesterday from her trip to Wellington. Miss C. Hunter (Takaka) is among the guests at the Clarendon. Air and Mrs F. Armstrong (Daiuievirke) are visiting Christchurch. Miss Muriel Price (Riccarton) is spending a holiday with relations as Hororata. At the Gilby's College scholarship examination, held on January 18th. the following candidates were successful and have been awarded the prizes: First, Alice M. Thompson; second, Annie E. Jones, Mina Alexander; third, Marjorie Abbott, Nina M. Streeter. Mesdames T. A. and D. Mahar, of Lyttelton, are at present spending a lew weeks' holiday at Sumner. Miss E. N eave, Nurse Wyndcer (Christchurch), and Miss Barton (Featherston) are the guests of Mrs It,. Neave at Trench am. Lieutenant-Colonel Neave and Mrs Neave leave for England early next month. It is ratter interesting to leam from a contemporary that American women recently commenced a movement to wear shabby dresses for the duration of tho> war, the idea being to release workers for essential war work Also we are told, there was another patriotic purpose behind the movement, which was the saving of money with which to buy Liberty War Loans. It was intended that society 'eaders should be_ prominent in the movement, and a white tape on the left arm was suggested as a badge. Mrs Mary Henneliy, a well-known resident of who died recently, was a very old colonist, being a daughter of the* lato Mr Peter Grace, one of Auckland's earliest residents. Mrs Henneliy took an active part in church work, and v.-as president of the Women's •Society connected with the Church of the Sacred Heart, Ponsonby. She was

alto identified with the women's political movement ever since tho inauguration of tho female franchise, and was for vsome years president of the Women's Political League. She leaves a son and daughter. Her husband died many years ago.

The Tvife of Sergeant Anderson, a 1914 man of the 13th Battalion, who rejoined her husband on arrival at Sydney in tho .Niagara, is one of tho most delightful examples of French femininity it would be possible to meet the "Evening News"). She expresses herself in English with quaint difficulty, and the fact has been responsible for anything but a placid time, judging from a chat on the wharf during her courageous journey to meet her husband. The little Toulousenne is one of the real French heroines of the war. She was living in the little village of Solsmes, near Cambrai, in eventful '14, and was hunted out with the rest of the family and the other inhabitants by the German advance on August 26th. Truly the little bride has done her bit. With their own hands, she and her father, mother, and sisters built trenches. The family . travelled for seven days in the train to their native Toulouse.

MBS ROLLESTON'S Course of Hair Treatment, at her charmingly appointed Booms, has surprised many ladies by the modesty of its cost. The course, however, is very thorough and complete, comprising: five separate treatments; hair-cutting, and singeing; massage, with. scalp food; shampooing, with friction vibro and hand massage; besides all necessary preparations used, and also a lesson in hairdressing. Especially beneficial in cases of falling hair, dandruS, nud premature greynesß. MBS BOLL.ESTON (qualified London, Paris, and America), Dominion Buildings, Cathedral square, Christchurch. 1 HOMAGE TO EDITH CAVELL. BRUSSELS, November 20. The Belgian Councillor of Justice, M. Moordecker, and the French Captain Kenoit Stein, who is attached to the Staff of tho Military Administration, accompanied the members of the Communal Council yesterday to the Evero Cemetery to lay wreaths en the graves of Belgian soldiers. * The party then went to the spot where Nurse Cavell is buried. There --they saluted the dead, 41 others shot by the Germans being buried close by. "They knelt with deep emotion at tho grave of the British national heroine, Miss Edith Cavell, who rests among the Allied martj-rs," says a telegram sent by the Military Governor of Western Flanders to the vice-president of the Imporial Graves Committee at the British Headquarters. WAGE-EARNING WIVES. A soldier wrote ito his wife the other day; "When I come homo I want you to give up working, so that we can live as we did before the war." Because the man so .greatly desired; her perpetual presence in the home the woman consented, but reluctantly. By instinct and wish she was a worker. But her cleverness found its most adequate expression in office organisation. Housewifery was not her strong point, yet no woman I know has a. greater Jove of home. And it is with sincere regret and "with a certain emptiness that she will set herself to the. uncongenial task of cooking and cleaning. The experiment will not be a success. In many places I have come across this fear on the part of our fighting men that in their love of "work outside the home women are losing their love of tho home itself. _ . I am certain that the fear is groundless. No woman loves her home better ' than the worker who, after the days , fight is over, comes in happiness to tho comfort and refuge of the little house that is hers. . I More often than not. it is the woman ■ whose work and activities are limited to the home who most quickly tires of it. Home has become to her a b usl * ness, a profession; it has meant hard work, and every room and every bit of furniture is associated with the day s toil. Is it extraordinary that when night sets in with its ease and time for rest, the woman should be as glad to get away from home as the man is from the office? , ~ . The urgent needs of the time have taken women away from the machinery of homo life and so taught them how

to appreciate it as they never did in the days when theirs this the job of incessant toiling. With a .little adjustment, with the help all the laboursaving implements now to be obtained, it is possible for a woman to supervisa her house without needing to work in it all day long. . . And the happiest married folk I know are those who come together after "the dnv's work to a home which is as nun-n a for to the woman as it is to the man. —'(D.B. in London "Daily Mail."') A SENSIBLE VIEWPOINT. There was a time when I thought- if a woman took time to rest before her work was all done she was shiftless, observed a busy country woman recentiv. After thirty years of housekeeping on the farm, J "have changed my mind. The ever increasing demands upon my time and strength have taught mc to consorve both as much as possible. The care of a large garden and lawn., besides the milking, care of chickens, house work and sewing, have made it these last few years to work from eaily morning until la to at night. 1 These warm days, 1 spend two hours ] in the garden o? lawn as soon as break- j I fast is over, c-ows are milked and chick- , ens fed. By that time 1 am too tired to do more. an\J 13 or 20 minuter are spent out in the hammock or on the j cot, with closed eyes and every nerve ! relaxed. This ability to relay took | strong will' power and was not acquired all at once, but it. is the only way to really rest, both mind and body. Try it. just let go of everything for a few 1 minutes, and be determined to think of nothing at all or of something pleasant. I no longer find it necessary to apologise if a neighbour comes in beiore the dishes are washed or floor swept. It is my home, and knowing that I must ! do the work, J have a perfect right to do it in the way that will make me the greatest help to my home and country. After the few minutes' rest, the morning work is finished, dinner prepared, and dishes washed. Then a half-hour is spent, in rending., writing, or talcing a nap. Sometimes it is a short drive with my husband (I am never too busy to go with him) when ho must make a business trip somewhere. In this w;»y I can accomplish far moro in a day, keep sweeter, fee! better, and enjoy life more than when I toiled from early dawn until late at night, without tak- [ ing any time to rest. TO AIiIJ LOVERS OF FURS. /"10LWILL, THE FURRIER, hat a Lirgo Stock of FURS and FUR COATS. Latest Styles tor the coming season gelling at pre-war prices. CALL AND INLPECT MY STOCK. Skins oi all descriptions Tanned and Dre?eed. ogg 205 HIGH STREET. TO-DAY'S RECIPE. Curried Turkey. —Mince into small particles two small onions, two stalks of celery, and a carrot, and stew until tender in turkey gravy or rich stock, then add a generous pinch of curry powder, and beat all together until it forms a smooth sauce. Chop the turkey meat into small bits, and just before serving pour "the hot curry sauce over it. Boiled rice is the proper complement of the curried turkey, and it may bo served on a separate dish, or as a garnish; beins heaped in a ring around the turkey dish. In either case the rice should be served hot, white, and flaky.