WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2591, 13 October 1915, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Continued from Page 2.) St. Mary's Guild. The monthly meeting of St. Mary's Guild was held in the Diocesan Oflico yesterday morning, Miss Coates presiding. Three new members were elected. The Rev. A. M. Johnson was electcd warden of tho guild in the place of Archdeacon Harper, who has gone to England. It was decidcd that tho annual sale of work shall be held at the Home on November 18. It was announced, that little Marjorie Hayes and her friends intended to hold their annual children's party and sale on October 30, at the residence of Mrs. Hay'es, Karori. It was reported that the health of the girls was good and that the Homes were full. Women on Ships. The El Cordobes, a cargo boat from Liverpool, which lias just 'arrived at Brisbane, claims to be the first British deep sea vessel to try the experiment of substituting woman service for man service in .respect to some of the lighter occupations on a vessel (states a Brisbane telegram of October 7, in the "Sydney Morning Herald"). While women are considered to be a success for 6hort voyages, the opinion is held that the experiment on deep sea going vessels, bo far as it-has been tried, has not proved a complete success. Sandbags for the Front, \

The scheme for making sandbags for use at the front has been taken up by the National Reserve executive in Auckland, and it is hoped that about 4000 bags will be dispatched by a troopship at tho end of the month if the nccessary arrangements can be made, states the "Herald.". .Miss B. Butler, head mistress .of the Girls' Grammar School, has collected about 3000 basic slag, lime, and other bags from the country, and these are at present stored in the basement of tho schoolhouse. A:"number of-ladies have been taking bags home, and working upon them, but the work is far beyond the capabilities .of a .'few people,, and the Reserve officials' are anxious to get it properly organised at - once. The basic slag bags are exactly the right size for the purpose, and it is only necessaryio wash and mend them, and provide them with- strings at tho mouth. The other bags have to' be undone and remade, two of them providing the'necessary material for three sandbags, 33iu. by 14in. 'A number of-reservists have already offered to ■ work oh the bags at nights and in, their spare: time—such,as the lunch-hour; The work is simple— just' sewing' "over-and-over" with a packing needle, and twine. , The authorities say that sandbags are used for every coijceivable purpose at the front,. and that it is impossible to have too many of them. ; \ The Reserve officers point: out-'that tho . work is hardly suitablo for ladies, but they 'are sure that there are hundreds of men who can drop in for .twenty .minutes,; occasionally, arid sew up a few bags. One old gentleman with time on his hands haß offered to put in two whole days a week, and- there are others who could easily do tho same. • > -

The marriage took place in the Basilica yesterday morning of Miss Beatrice Seymour, daughter of Mr. and Mis. Seymour, of Lower Hutt, to Sergeant W. R. Bamford, of tha Bth Reinforcements, son of Mr. R..W Bamford, Up;per Hawthorn, Melbourne. The Rev. Father (Seymour, of Timaru,'brother of the bridte, performed the ceremony. Miss -.Gertie-,<Aark, t 6i Nelson;-, .was brides'maid,:/and Captain- G. Johnson best man. ■.

• Mr. and Mrs. Manoy,. of Motueka, arrived in'Welluigton on Monday by the Moeraki from Sydney.'- ■

Mrs. and Miss Hudson return to Motueka to-day from Wellington.

- At the Town Hall yesterday afternoon the art union of a beautifully hand-worked supper cloth, made by Mrs. L. M. Moraiij of Cleveland Street, Brooklyn, was drawn in the presence of the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) and. an officer of the law. The winner was Mr. Arthur Wilson, of Harrison Street, Brooklyn. . The art union realised the sutu of £10 15s. for the Soldiers' Waistcoat Fund/.

. Mr. and Mrs. Warren, of Tomoana, Hawke's Bay, are staying at the. Hotel Cecil.'

In a V.A.D. Hospital In England. In some of the V.A.D. Hospitals in Bnglaud tho soldier patients appear to havo a very pleasant timo —at least as pleasant as it can be made. At one place, formerly a country rcsidenco in Kent, but now one of the V.A.D._ Hospitals, the soidiers receive their visitors any day. in tho -veek between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., according to.a letter received by a Wellington • friend from a Red Cross Jiurso stationed in it. "Most of thorn, however, come on Sundays," alio writes, "and with the convalescent soldiers wander about tho grounds till tea-timo at 4.15, when those who havo visitors have tea with them in another room, as it would bo rather trying for them to have to meal all together. We give each party a separate room, and tho other Sunday we actually had eight different toa parties going ill different rooms and at different times, some of them numbering eight' or nine people. After tea they go out in the garden again and we pick flowers for their friends to take»away. "This afternoon our well-enough patients had a grand croquet tournament—Regulars against Territorials— and tho Territorials won the prizeslabs of chocolate. I wish you could have seen them careering over the lawns, screaming and laughing, and in the happiness of the moment quite forgetting past sufferings.. It is really rather amusing. - Last year no one was allowed to as. much walk over our lovely tennis lawns with heols, and now they havo been turned into croquet, bowls, and football greens. I wish you could fly over in an aeroplane and see our patie'ufs. In spite of great suffering they are so cheerful, bright, happy, grateful, and anxious to help us in any way possible. I believe they would do anything for us ; and most certainly we would do anything for them." There are evidently many formalities to be observed in connection with these voluntary hospitals. In another part of her letter the nurse says :—"Everyday two postcards, containing the number of sick, wounded, and empty beds, havo to be sent to Fort Pitt, Chatham, tho Military Hospital to which we are attached, and to the doctor at the head of the .Red Cross in Kent. Every patient that comes in or leaves has to have his name, ago, religion, regiment, etc., sent at once to both of. : these places, and every -week lists have to bo sent of all the • admittances and discharges during that week, as well as of those remaining in the hospital, and what .their wtounds or diseases are. Medical sheets have to be written for from the different depots, and when we get colonials th'eir names have to be sent to a different place as well. Also, directly a patient gets well, enough for furlough or convalescent home, wo have t'o wnte for a railway warrant. So ,there is plenty of writing to be done, and add to that the writing of letters for the patients who are not well enough to write for themselves, also the postcards to Red. Cross nurses, telling t-hem what are their hours of duty for the week, as well as letters to ex-patients who write'to us, some; of them once or 'twice a week.