WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2381, 10 February 1915, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

[By Imogen. |

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Base Hospital, Trontham.

Miss Sybil Nathan, hon. secretary of the Women's Citizens' Committee, •wishes to inform the General Committee that a "sowing bee" is being held on Thursday and Friday, February 11 and 12, at the Town Hall, between 11 and 1 and 2 and 4. It is hoped all who can will attend. Tho following subscriptions for the hospital have been received: —Mrs. Fred Nathan, £6; Mrs. Perston, £2; Mrs. Bradbury, 10s.; Mrs. H. A. M'Gregor, £1 Is.; "Z.V.N.," 10s.; "L.8.," £1 Is-; R- N. Johnston (Takapau), £1.. Subscriptions can bo sent to Miss Sybil Nathan, hon. secretary, 96 Hobsoit Street. Wellington Senior Nursing Division of St. John. A meeting of the Wellington Senior Nursing Division of St. John Ambulance Association was held in St. John's Schoolroom last evening, and was presided over by Mrs. W. S. Moorhouse. About fifty members were present, and several new members were enrolled. The syllabus for the coming year's work was placed before the meeting, and was approved of generally. The matter of ratsing funds for the Base Hospital at Trentnam was discussed, and it has been decided tHat the Wellington Senior Nursing Division should give a \ bed. Subscriptions are already being freely given for the purpose;

The Trentham Gamp Library. The camp library which is being formed by Airs. W. F. Massey for the permanent use of the troopors in camp at Trentham is meeting with a sympathetic response from tho citizens of Wellington. Already a supply of fully, nine hundred books, to say nothing of magazines and periodicals, have been received, and contributions still continue to be received. Novels form the greater number of the books, and perhaps a little variety might be welcomed in the way of more solid reading for troopers who happen to bo of a studious turn of mina. At the present time the books are housed in the Y.M.C.A. marquee at the camp, and the members of the association have most kindly, .volunteered to' take care of them in the meantime. The Boy Scouts, or at least two of their number, have been giving valuable assistance to Mrs. Maseey in collecting for her. Further contributions of books to the library are acknowledged by Mrs. Massey from Mrs. Stowe, ana magazines from Mrs. E. S. Dick. Those who find | it more convenient to do so may if they ' wish leave books or magazines for the camp library at this office, and they will be forwarded to Mre. Massey. Concert at Trentham Gamp. Miss Mora Shaw gave her second concert at Trentham on Monday evening. The programmo was contributed to by the following:—Misses Shaw and Jean Jclley, Messrs. D. Young and J. Simpson, a reel: Miss Jones, Mr. J. Simpson, Mrs. Marshall, Miss Silver, and Mr. Howard, several songs each; Miss Vivienne Bruce, a dance; Miss Jean Miller, a sheantriubbhas; Miss Jean Jelley and Miss Flora Shaw an Irish Jig. The latter performer, with Mr. D. Young, also danced a double sword dance.. The accompaniments were played by Mrs. Marshall and Miss Silver, and the music for the dances was played by Pipe-Major Fraser and Piper Simpson, of the Wellington Pipe Band. Hearty cheers, were given at the end of the concert by the troopers for Miss Shaw and her concert party.

Mrs. MacArthnr has returned from Rotorua. Dr. Brewis and the Misses Brewis (3) and Hamilton are staying at the Grand Hotel. Tho Mayoress and the Committee of the Countess of Liverpool Expeditionary Fund will be glad to receive hampers of oake, etc., during the nest few days for the troopers. Contributionr should be forwarded to tho Town Hall. Miss Hester' Maclean, Assistant Inspector of Hospitals, will be in charge of the fifty nurses who are to leave New Zealand for England shortly. The date on which they sail has not yet been decided upon. Miss Zita Gifford, who has been nursing in London for the past ten years, and arrived in Napier a fortnight ago with the intention ' of. staying some weeks with her mother in Luclmow Torrace, leaves for' England on Thursday, having received news of the sudden death of her aunt, Mrs. B. M. Simpson, at London. Miss Gifford travels by the P. and O. liner Egypt, embarking from Sydney in about a fortnight's time.

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A Wellington Nurse at the Front. Nurse Laura James, late of the Wol-' liugton Hospital, who is a member of Queen Alexandra's Nursing Service, has much that is interesting to tell in a letter that was written from the General Hospital, Rouen, and published in tho "Nurses' Journal." "Our hospital." she writes, "will accommodate's2o patients, and including the matron wc ought to have a staff of 43 sisters and staff nurses, but for various reasons we have lost twelve, so it makes tho rest of us much moro hard worked. Uf course, there are nursms: orderlies a* well, 06 in number. The hospital is well equipped, even to sheets and white blankets. The latter turned up to-day, October 3, and we had a strenuous day changing all tho brown blankets with which we were equipped at first. In the midst of all this turmoil we were suddenly called over to our own camp to remove our belongings. We begaji our camp life in store tents, but as these leaked last night they were hauled down to-day, and lined marquees put up in their places. They are much warmer, but very dark. By the same token we al6o had white blankets given out to us. We even bad two oats—Siamese. They were' presented to our matron_ by the Mother Superior of tho convent in which fourteen of us stayed when wo came to Rouen the second time. We were there ten days and we were so sorry to leave. I have never experienced such kindness as was shown to us by the Reverend Mother' and Sisters.' It was an enclosed order the sccond monastery of the order of the Visitation. The convent is very old and full of treasure. "Well, enough of our adventures. I must tell you a little about the work. Nearly all the patients here are suffering from wounds caused by shrapnel shells bursting over their trenches. I do not think there are half a dozen in the camp with bullet wounds (single); some of the wounds are awful. For instance in my section (I have a section comprising three marquees on the surgical side), I have a man with a compound comminuted fracturo of the femur. He was 6hot at very close quarters, consequently the wound to begin with was full of powder and the femur badly split'up. Fortunately, it just escaped the knee-joint. At first the medical officers thought he would lose the leg, but it is going on satisfactorily and they think in a year's time it will be sound "again. I have a piece of bone—about foiir inches long— which was removed. It shows the mark where the bullet struck. We have many arms which have bad to be opened .up and drained, but they are all doing well. There have been many minor operations for extraction of bullets, pieces of shrapnel,, etc. I saw a wound mado by a German dum-dum. The wound made by the ingress of the bullet is small, hut coming out it tore the tissues terribly, and shatters bone, too, if it happens to come in contact. We also have several men who have been shot through the lungs, including a German who is at the present moment dying. I was told that at the military hospital at Versailles a great mauy are dying from tetanus and to-night I am told there is a man in our hospital showing symptoms of it. Some of the wounds are beyond description and the men tell us appalling stories of things that have happened. Surely this ghastly war cannot last for long. "It is dreadful to think that so many Royal Army Medical Corps officers and men killed and mis^isg; those attached to the cavalrj and field ambulanc«>.'

"Acoording to the accounts heard from men some of the regiments havd been badly cut up. I expect you saw the account of the wonderful charge the 9th Lancers mado. They come from Tidsworth where I was stationed when lie war broke out; "Since writing above we have had another batch of wounded in, amongst them a quartermaster-sergeant of the 9th Lancers, who was injured by fragments of a melanite shell. He was literally peppered with wounds from head to foot, none very serious. How _he escaped death is a marvel. Some soldiers beside him were killed outright—one being blown to pieces. A melanite shell is quite a new thing. It weighs 90 pounds and instead of containing bullets it is filled with scrap iron which inflicts very nasty wounds. The soldiers call these shells "coal boxes." Most of the men now in the hospital have come from Braesiro and Soissons, where so much fighting is taking place. They are all wonderfuly bright and cheerful in spite of tho hard times they have experienced. They are not kept in bed unless absolutely necessary, so they amuse themselves playing cards and other games."

HAIRS ON THE FACE. The greatest humiliation is suffered by women who have superfluous hair. When conversing with friends who happen to look at them interestedly they feel that it is the hair that is drawing attention. To a certain extent this is so, for one always notices and feels sorry for those afflicted in 'this way. Depilatories are useless, electrolysis as a 1 rule marks the skin permanently, and very few remedies are to be relied npon. for this trouble. There is a safe, sure, and simple remedy in "Kuldah" which is ■ quite different from any other preparation—it is a lotion which penetrates the hair shaft and' withers the root. A remarkable feaiture of this remedy is that while it destroys the hair permanently it does not affect the skin.' Women who are troubled with supeifluous hair should write at once for "Kuldah" to Madame Bouffare, Swanson Street, Auckland, enclosing Gs. 6d. Tho parcel will be sent in plain sealed wrapper, well packed, or it may be obtained from Mr. Geo. Mee, Chemist, Lambton Quay—Advt.