SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2231, 18 August 1914, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

A Golden Wedding Celebration. There ore at present in Wellington two * standing in the person* of Mr. and Mrs. J. J, Connor, of Dunedin. Mr. and Mrs. Connor recently celebrated the golden jubilee of their weddjig..amidst he congratulations of host' of friends, and are now on ii prolonged visit to the many branches of their famil>y settled in -aiioua parts of the Dominion. Mr. Connor was, before his retirement from active .work, one of the most widely known of New Zealand's master printers, and was also, iii conjunction witff the late Bight Rev. Dr. Moran tlio founder of the Now Zealand Tablet," aiiit acted as editor for some timo, Mrs. Morrison, who has been staying for the last fortnight at "Balmoral," lefl for Blairiogio yesterday. Mrs. Armstrong (Daimevirke) is visiting Wellington. Lady Kelburn is visiting Auckland, and is staying at Cargen. Miss K. Turn-jr, who came to Welling, ton to farewell her brother, Captain Harcourt Turner, who left with the firs) Expeditionary Force, returned to Christ, church on Friday. Mrs. M'Gregor (Hunterville) and Miss M'Gregor arrive in town to-day, and will stay at "Balmoral." The - Misses Polsen (WaiTarapa) arc utaying at "Balmoral." Mts. FitcheEE leaves for Auckland today to say good-bye to her son, who ha* joined the Expeditionary Foroa, and will leave with iho Auckland contingent. Miss Ethelwyn Williams, daughter oi the late Mrs. R. P. Williams, of Hawke's Bay, has been studying music at Leipzig, Germany, for the past three years. - It is thought that .lie was among the rush of English people from Germany at the time war was declared. Miss' Nan Heath, of Napier, who has been in England and • Scotland for the past four years,' intended leaving for New Zealand on September 3, but owing to present conditions she will now probably Ik delayed. ' The annual. dance of the Oriental Football Club is 1o be , held in the Sydney Street Schjolroom on August 2G. The rhaperones are Mesdames Nimmo, Wylie, Kinvig, and Little. The committee is formed by Mesdames Hempton, Everitt, Misses Pnilp, Maxwell, Galvin, Dunn, Kinvig (2), Allard, Messrs. AV. Nimmo, E. Perryq, Avery (3),/L. Ritchie, J. Moffitt, F. Roberts, R. ifllraith, F. Wilkenning, H. King, and G.'Owles. The joint secretaries are .Messrs H... li. Johnston and S. E. Donne. . ■ < Much interest is being evoked in the ilance recital which is being given bj Miss Estelle Beere,' in aid of the Lady' Liverpool Expeditionary Force Fund, oii Friday next. There is already a heavy booking'at the! Dresden, and it is confi dently expected; that on .Friday night, when the curtain. rises on the opening tableau)'. "A Peep into Fairyland," there tvill be a full house. Intending patrons ire advised to book their seats early ta ivoid disappointment. 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'Within, 80 liours," writes Miss StobaaH:, 'tha Women's Convoy Corps Hospital vas a going concern for already lines of >ullock-wagons from the fields of Chatala and Lme Burgas were drawn up at ;he doors, apd. human remnants shattered in arms, legs, heads, everywhere, vera being taken out of the carts and sarried : o'n stretchers and in handseats x> our new wards. Hero our doctors, eis»rs, and nurses took the patients in sharge.- and distributed them, the more ;everoly . injured in the beds as far as ;liesa were available; and when these jave out, the weary wounded Who had irovelled for. many days in exposed ox-' :arts ■ over rough country, their- wounds intended, were placed on sack • mattresses in the halls, corridors, out-houses, ill every available space, there to have iheir tattered blood-stained garments removed arid their wounds dressed. "And. from that moment any doubt which may have existed as to the wisdom )f'allowing English women to nurse and doctor Bulgarian and Turkish soldiers ivas dispelled. The patients themselvees ivere loud in gratitude and approval of the manner in which they were handled, and on the other side tho doctors and nurses can never speak too highly of tho delicacy, courtesy, .and chivalry shown by their Bulgarian patients. The Commissariat, "But the work of the hospital did not consist only of doctoring and nursing tho patients. They had also to bB fed, and tho work of the kitchen staff was by no means- the least laborious. We could requisition as much sour brown bread, sugar, cheese, salt, tea and meat as wo required for the use of ourselves and putients, but meat meant whole carcases of tough bullock and eheep which had to bi skinned and cut up and dealt with entirely by tho three lady cooks, who,' every day, with iio apparatus except ■ an open fireplace and large stewpots, did all the cooking for 120 people, and—it must be added—to the entire satisfaction of the. patients; who continually sent complimentary: messages to the kitchen. But appreciation and gratitude were everywhere accorded us, not only by our patients, but by all the authorities, who frequently visited the hospital and took the greatest interest in our work, affording us every facility in their power. That there were difficulties in a work conducted in empty buildings in a Turkish town ■ with problems of sanitation, language, scarcity of food, etc., to be combated, is not to bo denied. There mav also have Jieen some hardships and privations which Womoli ore not usually willed upon to face.' Yet the spirit with which these were encountered by tho women with whom I was privileged to work has, I think, established the fact that, though ilntrained and undisciplined women are not wanted anywhere, trained arid disciplined women are, in a national emergency and without being a burden oil men, fitted for any work, under any ccnditions, wherever alleviation of suffering is the object." SUPERFLUOUS HAIR. Mrs. Hullen, Bouloott Street, has received. the following testimonial, which has been abbreviated"l have much pleaisiire in recommending your "Rusrna' for the remova.l of superfluous hair. Having been treated, per medium of elootrolysia, also depilatories, at great expense, without reoeiving any relief, I am gratefully thankful to you for your treatment of my case. 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