WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2535, 9 August 1915, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

» (Continued from page 10.) Women at Work. The Women's Emergency Corps, which has carried through such a remarkable number of schemes at Home, in France, and Serbia during the war, is now making itself useful in a new direction. For the benefit of British 6oldiers passing through Paris, oil their way back to the British lines tram hospital, or travelling home on temporary leave, it is running a canteen at the Gare du Nord station, one of the busiest in Paris. The cantein is open day and night, with 68 beds for those who have hours to wait for a train, an infirmary ward, in chargo of a doctor and nurse for cases of illness, and a rest room where the men can write tlioir letters and read tho English papers. As all places of refreshment in Paris are closed at 8 p.m., the canteen is a much-apprcciatea institution. Tea and other non-alcoholic drinker© supplied, and food; the diffidgfl/i' of refreshment for tho Indian tro-Jpi" are solved by providing boiled eggs and oranges for them. Miss M'Dougall has returned to Pirinoa- from a visit to Auckland. Mrs. Gower Burns and Miss Burns (Christchurch) aro visiting Wellington. Miss Strange (Christchurch) was a passenger by the Ulimaroa for Sydney last week. Miss Ada Battantinc, having resigned her position with the Kaupokonui Dairy Company, is leaving Wanganui to-day to join the New Zealand Nursing Sisterhood at Trentham. Miss Downie Stewart (Dunedin) is so far heading the poll for the Carnival Queenship of that city. Miss Coombe, who is engaged in missionary work in the Melanesian Islands, has 1-een very ill at Mota Island, in the Solomon Group. The mission steamer, Southern Cross, _ arrived when lier fever was at its height, and fortunately a nurse was on hoard, and her life was thereby saved. Within four days she was out of danger. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds (Gisborne) aro visiting Christchurch. Miss Butts is visiting Napier and is the guest of Mrs. Troutbeck. FOOD PRICES IN GERMANY The "Labour Woman" for June contains an article on the high cost of'living in Germany, in which it is stated that on March 10 Erau Ziotz, a member of the executive of the Social Democratic Party, sent to the Reichstag a petition in tho name of tho Socialist women of Germany, in which tho following passages occur: — ■'Famine prices are charged in pas ticular for potatoes, bread, flour, and meat, and, unhappily, also for other important means of nourishment. "Since tho rations of bread and flour per head havo been fixed, potatoes have been more than ever the chief food of great masses of tho population. But their enhanced pricc, and tho absoluto lack of potatoes in many places, brings the direst privation upon the poorer population. The consumption of meat lias also shrunk to a minimum among these classes, and it is impossible to make satisfactory substitutes by increasing the - consumption of milk, chcese, pulse, oatmeal, barley, rice, sugar, and other things, as these also aro scarce or enhanced in price. "It is truo that all classes of the population are ready to make the greatest sacrifices for the interests of tho whole; they aro not only ready and willing to practise tho greatest economy, but voluutarily undergo many privations which are required owing to tho scarcity of certain articles. But for this very reason they feel all the more bitterly tho fact that certain groups of interests have raised prices beyond all measure, and thereby intensified tho distress for purposes of gain. _lf somo remedy is not soon found, it is to bo feared that affairs will develop in a serious way. "Therefore the Social Democratic women request the Reichstag immediately to fix lower maximum prices of' flour, bread, potatoes, and meat, promptly to take control of the supplies of meat and potatoes, and also to fix modorato maximum prices for all foods, whioh owing to tho dislocation of supplies are in great demand and subject to an increase in cost. "Tho Social Democratic women ask that the Reichstag will consider their words and fulfil their request in the interests of tho poorer classes and of the country as a whole."

UNCERTIFICATED NURSES NO WORK FOR. THEM IN EGYPT. The Hon. J. Allen has been pressed lately to accopt for army nursing work the services of untrained or partly trained nursing sisters from this country. Ho lias communicated with tho Officer Commanding in Egypt, and has received a reply, from which tho following is an extract: —"We have plenty of first aid in Egypt. Nothing further required." MILITARY HOSPITAL GUILD SOLDIERS' COMFORT DEPOT. Gifts to the above fund are'acknowledged as follows:—Mrs. Morley, soup; Rawena Hugo, eggs; Miss G. Nathan, os.; Miss Wheeler, calves' foot jelly; Mrs. Salmond, 55.; Mrs. M'Master, 55.; Miss Cowie, soup; Mrs. J. Tamblyn, beef tea; Miss Morton, 55.; Miss E. Morton, 55.; Mrs. Y. C. Fulton, 55.; "Kelburn," jam, cooking apples, and magazines; Mrs. and Miss J. A. Tripe and C.L.R-., 95.; Mrs. A. Williams, soup; Miss Patterson, soup; Mrs. W. L. Meek, eggs; Karori, eggs;' Mrs. Nicliolls, custard; Mrs. T. Pascoe Bryant, eggs; Mrs. C. Plimmer, e"gs; Mrs. Bridson, soup; Mrs. P. Blundell, soup; Miss Strachan, soup; Miss Adams, cake; Mrs. Tweed, soup; Mrs. Morley, soup; from Pahiatua, 2 crates eggs; Miss Thomson, £1 Is.; Mrs. Moore, 6 doz. eggs; Mrs. Drake, eggs; Miss,_Wilkinson, Is., spongo cake, jelly; Miss Fitzgerald, jam.