WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 31 October 1914, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

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SOCIAL AND PSESONAL. The Scottish Society of Wellington. Hallowe'en'was celebrated with a' children's party in the afterr.oon and a social at night by the Scottish Society of Wellington yesterday. Between 70 and-100 children attended the party, which was hold in St. Peter's Schoolroom, and apparently they enjoyed themselves immensely. Gomes, dancing, and all torts, of quaint Scottish customs, specially reserved for Hallowe'en entertained them, the bobbing for apples causing uproarious fun. National dances were danced by the Misses Alice and Violot Campbell, Eita Westwood, and E. . M'Dorniott; Master M'Lean sang, and Miss Myrtle Campbell and Master Murray recited. Mrs. M'Mullen and Mrs. Marshall played the music for the dancing, and Mrs. Campbell, assisted by Mesdanies Ballantyne, M'Lean, M'Lennan, and Furlonger, gave themselves 'up to the entertainment of the children. In the eveuing' the social took place, and a very pleasant time was spent by those attending it. The hall had been decorated with flags and lycopodium, and the supper table, in the adjoining room with' all tho flowers in season. Songs, recitation's, etc., were appreciated, and the committee spared no effort in securing the enjoyment of those prosent.

The marriage took place in the Scots Church, Collins Street, Melbourne, on October 13, of Mr. Alexander Stewart Morton, second son of Mrs. John Morton, Invercargill (N.Z.), to Miss Mabel Athelis Hicks,- only child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Hicks, Clevedon Mansions, East Melbourne, and granddaughter of the late Mr. Robert Hicks. The Rev. Dr. Alexander Marshall ■ performed the ceremony which was witnessed by a very large gathoring 'of friends.

Mrs. H. M. Campbell returned to Hawko's Bay yesterday.

' Mrs. Herman has returned to Christcluirch. from a visit to Wellington.

• Mrs. 'F. K. do Castro has returned frcm a visit to her daughter, Mrs. S. Twigg, Wairoa, Rawke's Bay.

■ The engagement is announced of Miss Belle Pettit, daughter of tho late Mr. John Pettit,' of Dannevirke, to Mr. Harold Kebbell, son of Mr.. W. Kebbell, Nga Rata, Alfredton.

» A booklet issued by .the . World's Young Women's Christian Association lias arrived. from England this week. It contains,, in addition to intercession for Iwomen of all lands, a summary of conditions as they affect work amongst women and girls, which makes this publication very interesting. Preparations are madeat tliis v time or the year by all Y.W.C.A-.'s throughout the world for a week of prayer, which begins on November 8.

_ Members of the Vivian Street Baptist Church, will take tho subject at the Y.W.C.A. service in-the afternoon, and will afterwards be tho guests at the toa following. |

. The annual sale of work to be held in the Sydney Street Schoolroom in connection. witJv.-StjyPaurs parish,' Thorndon, promises to bo a great success. It is to he opened at 3 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon next, November i, . by Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool, and Mrs. Massey will perform, the opening ceremony, on Thursday at the same hour. A most attractive collection of'useful and ornamental articles will be! offered for sale, including some very fine art furniture given by ' Mr. Collie, of Newtown. In addition to the various stalls, there will be .an art gallery and side shows. The .musical programmes will be specially attractive features. The choir boys will provide the ,entertainment. on Wednesday, ' the Kindergarten children on Thursday afternoon, and Miss Beere's pupils on Thursday evening. A large attendance of parishioners and their friends is expected.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Finney, who have been visiting Masterton, left yesterday on their return to Nelson.

■Our Otaki correspondent writes that the wedding took place on Thursday at the Otaki Roman Catholic' Church, of Mr. Vivian Kerrigan, son of Mr. M. Kerrigan,-an erstwhile resident of Waikanao, to Miss Myrtle Coe, daughter of Mr. N. Coe, of Brooklyn. The bride was attended by Mi6s Queenie Coe (a sister) as bridesmaid, and Mr. G. Short, of Brooklyn, was tho best man. Tho Rev. Father Mclu was the officiating minister. The wedding also took place at the Anglican Church ou the same day of Mr. William Giddcns to Miss Eva Landall, daughter of Mr. A. A. Lsuidall, of this town.

Our Masterton correspondent" writes that Mr. Alfred J. Stone-Wigg, formerly of Masterton, was married at Sydney" recently to Mies Kathleen Scriven HowV lett. . .

Among' the motley crowds in the streets of Wellington and other centres, Wo occasionally note a man or woman wearing, apparently as a badge, a small silver star. On inquiry, we ascertainthat this is the' sign of an' unsectarian nixk'i- called the Order of the Star in tho East, to which belong many of those who believe that tho world's tremendous muddle will bo "squared"' by tho appearanco on earth of a mighty worldjtescher at no very distant date. Members of this order seem to think that tho precent terrific war is but tho stoi-m that precedes a wondrous calm, and its blackest moments are lit for them by v .the:bopo of "the good time coming." We can certainly do with a. few cheering hopes-of this kind at such iv crisis. Indeed, when we hear of tho irspired courage of' soldiers throwing themselves on death for the sake of honour, and when wo note the really wonderful devotion and generosity with which the women/of all countries aro working in numberless ways, "pro patria°" ■ wo cannot help perceiving that very strong good influences must bo at work to counterbalance all tho bloodshed and distress, .and to promise nobler things for tho future.

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The British Medical Association is to confer with the' Government as to how tho medical profession can best co-oper-ate in dealing with the shortago of drugs owing to the stoppago of foreign supplies. .

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEA&

BEHIND THE FIGHTING LINE SHADOWS OF THE WAR. loss in life, and that life the life that We have read much of tho horrors of wa-- till it seemed as though there were very little left to tbo imagination to picture. The English illustrated papers tear away that deception, and leave ono face to face with somothing akin to reality. Shun it as much as ono will, again and again tho thought comes back —"That is what British men, Frenchmen, Belgians—and Germans— ai'o facing for their country; for their King, for all that men hold of value in life, and one must indeed bo a pitiable thing if courage is so weak that it cancot face and try to follow out what war meaus —what these men aro enduring and facing day after day, month after month, till ono can only marvel at human endurance." Only till its full horror is realised by all the'peoples of the world can war ever come to .an end.

And so these mute, compelling pictures lay their ghostly hands again on one's soul, and reluctantly,, shiveringly ono spells the heart-breaking tragedies unfolded in every lino, tho suffering, and the blessed release of.death.

And out of the many, one grows olearor and clearer till all others fado away, and leavd it to speak for all the quiet dead, .and for'the still living. Outstretched upon the gashed, torn breast of the earth, whose green fields ho once perhaps ploughed in the days that are forever ended for him, with lingers tight-closed over a handful of grass, aad with face pressed > close to tho torn furrows as a weary child presses close to its mother, ho lay, this German soldier, whom death had at last consoled. Not far from him was the dead body of his horse, with maimed, broken limbs lifted in dumb supplication and tortured protest to - the blind skies above. Why? Why.?' Why? each broken member that was once such a miracle of beauty pleaded in its suffering, and "Why?" again asked the niuto form lying so pronely beside tt

The contributions of', winter clothing that liaveS'been sent to'th6 Young Women's Christian Association by various friends for'tho'British and Belgium collection nave been repaired and sent in a large packing -case this week. Another case is in readiness for packing, so that clothes may still be sent. Members are meeting to sew or knit for tho British and Belgians on Tuesday nights.

The assertion that girls employed in offices in the city sometimes _ have to work under unhealthy conditions was made by Mr. John Dempsey, a Reform candidate for the Parnell seat, in the course of ,his first politioal address on Thursday night, at Newmarket. Ho stated that in regard to factory laws a good deal had been done, but a great ■deal remained to be done, so far as shops • and offices were concerned, especially now that so many girls were employed, in thorn. In many fine buildings going up in Auckland,- inadequate provision was being made for light and .ventilation. They were going in too much for the American system, without' duo re= »ard or consideration for those who had to work in them. Some of the; completed buildings had grand fronts, or facades, hut what • about tho typist under the ntairs, or in some dark corner where thero was never'a glimpse of sunshine? A great deal was [heard of eugenics nowadays, and yet, hero in Auckland, many future mothers wero to be found who wore working under gas-light, with ill-effect on their health . and vision'-. Drastic remedial -manevrcs were necessary.—(Auckland "HerMd."). ■

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Had he ever seen this Kaiser, this modern Afctila- for whom he laid down his life? Did ho ever dream that right was not on his 6ide, that he was but tho victim of a remorseless, allflovouring death-machine of an insatiable vanity that would have the world for its throne, for which lives were being poured out like water? Did ho see for one moment before ho died, this German soldier, that it was for this that he was called away from his quiet village, from wifo and child, from all the dear comradeships that are such a solace as we wander through this blind, incomprehensible maze of lifo.

And death, that should come gently, tenderly as a welcomed friend at the end of lifo, comes instead in its most dreadful guise, in scenes of unimaginable horror, and in waves of blackest hatred. Not even in the actual moment of death, when tho soul is torn from tho broken body, is that hatred quenched, as wo realise wheri we hear of tho drowned bodies of Belgians 'and Germans found locked in each other's arms in the dykes and canals, fighting still as they died. It is boll itself let loose!II.- . 1

Those' are some of the things ihe pictures tell, as well as of bravery, selfsacrifice and endurance, but of all the questions that are raiscU the outstanding one is "What gain is commensurate with the loss in such a war?" The desolation, the suffering, the appalling loss " in. life, and that' life in ! ,60 many cases, the. life that is of most value to the country, the payment that will have to be made in physique, nerves, and spirit for the next two or three generations, what is .the off-set to all these losses? Where again is the compensation for the setback to everything that lifted the world a step higher ? The only compensation, and not even that can weigh down the balance, is that when all this nightmare of madness into which the whole world has been dragged is over, war will be made impossible, or nearly so. If woman have a ■ voice in such a . matter, war - will become a, thing of. the dark ages, tied >nd manacled and flung into the bottomless abyss_ of things nevermore to see the daylight of civilisation, nevermore to scar the green earth with its bloodshed, its millions of broken human forms, and the ghost of. lost happiness and hope.