WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2622, 18 November 1915, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

> (Continued from Pago 2.) Work of the Nurses In Egypt, ' Mr. H. B. Sorcnson, a member of the Christelnirch Hospital and Cliarit■iblo Board, has received from Nurse E. Hodges, a Now Zealand nurse and ono of those who were saved from the Marquette—a letter giving her exiwriences in Egyptian Hospitals. The letter was, of course, written before Nurse llodoes left Egypt.

The letter is dated from 21st General Hospital, which Nurse Hodges says is an enormous place, accommodating about 2000 patients, surgical, and dysentery. In the particular ward in which Nurse Hodges is working tho patients are all head cases, and one incident she mentions in her letter is as follows:—

"Thero was admitted into my ward just a week ago a young Australian only 19 years of age, who is mentioned for the Victoria Cross. He was throwing bombs, when his right hand was blown off, and lie continued to throw with, his loft hand, which is also badly injured. Ho was then cut down bv ma-chine-gun fire, which resulted in" tbo loss of both eyes, chest and head injuries, as it'ell as both. legs. It took us just an hour to do his dressing, and when I had finished ho started to sing in a very cheery voice, 'It's a long way to Tipperary.' His recovery has beeu so rapid that he will he getting up shortly. Poor lad! Ho does not yot know that lie has lost both liis eyes. "Several Now Zeaknd nurses, including Sister Christmas and myself, have been promoted, and are now wearing our scarlet badges. We cannot quite understand it, as there aro quito a number of" English nurses who liavo been hero much longer tlian wo have. We are very proud that we have not disgraced our • New! Zealand training. The weather is unbearably hot, and to work with energy, is quite impossible. When will this war cease? is a. question I ask wtoi we receive the wounded. Poor fellows! Wliat they suffer is indescribable. I. believe a hospital is bains, established at the Dardanelles to ac commodate 7000 patients. -If such is the case there is; io end of the war in view."

In a Zeppelin Raid. / A Zeppelin raid-on London is thus described by a lady residing thore in a ettor just received by an Auckland relative :— "I was sitting alone at 10.45 p.m., when I heard explosions coming nearer and nearer. At last) it seemed as'if the next. one must hit the house a large building of flats. I went out into the hall, and found that all the tenants Jm i fl° ors ' ia< l come down. ■Uiey had dressing-gowns on, or loii" coats, over, their night-clothes. No one was hysterical, but everybody was conscious of the terrible danger. When 1 heard tho bombs going off in tho distance, I telephoned to Daly's Theatre, where my daughter Marie had gone to find out whether'it had been struck, thank goodness it was safe. Marie hurried home, and we felt glad to bo together

-^ le next day I was walking through Jilooinsbury, and saw people looking at something. All tho windows in a house, had been smashed to bits. The bomb had, however, hit no one. Tho concussion broke all the windows in tlie neighbourhood, though. Next dav I went down into the city and saw two places where damage had been done bv Hie Zeppelins. One house had onl'y the walls aud window-frames left. ft liad been completely burnt out. Two motor buses in one part of the citv were struck, and they had not been awe to find even a button of one of the drivers. Ho was completely annihilated. _ In Daly's Theatre tliero was no panic, but they hurried over the end ot the performance, and tho audience applauded the performers for belli"so calm/ _ Several girls of the Gaiet? and Empire chorus fainted. A marlicd couple in the Alhambra chorus burned home on account of their two little children and got,-there in time to see the little ones carried out on stretcher®. There was not a mark on them. rhey had died of fright. lesterday 1 heard from different souices that the Zeppelins caino over again at midday, and that a cortain seaside resort was half burned down there is not a thing about it in the morning papers. In fact, they pubJisii very little of what happens." putting competition has been arranged by Mrs. R. W. Atkinson and the lady members of the Karori Golf Club at tho Basin Reservo on Saturday (Gallipoli Day). Tlie prizo will be a silvermounted putter suitably inscribed. One of the best portions of the grounds has been allotted to this competition, for which a large number of entries is expeeted. .

Mrs. W. E. Massey wishes to acknowledge cases of books for the Hospital Ship from Mr. Bensjon, Motor Company, Feilding. Last Saturday the Young Women's

Christian Association held a rose day of its own, and the association was able to hand in to the Young Men's Christian Association the sum of £100 to bo added to tho fund for sic!; and wounded soldiers in Egypt. Tho Board of Directors of the Y.W.C.A. is arranging a jumble sale, which is to be held oil Saturday at 1 o'clock in St. Thomas's Schoolroom, Newtown. Tho association has done a great amount of work for deserving and distressed causes, and this is only one of their efforts. Gifts of secondhand clothing for this purpose will be very welcome, and may bo left at. any ot tho following places:— Tho Young Women's Christian Association rooms, Herbert Street; Mrs. Korsley, 20 ICelbnrn Parade; Sirs. R. Pearson, 210 The Terrace; Mrs. J. Hislop, Austin Street; and at St. Thomas's Schoolroom. Accumulations of garments which can no longer be worn for various, reasons aro a problem that most people arc familiar with, and! by sending them to the assocation they can feel that they are likely to continue an existence of usefulness.

Miss Biroh, secretary of the Y.W.C.A., who has been away for nearly a year owing to ill-health, is expected to return to Wellington from Australia early in the New