WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2645, 16 December 1915, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Continued from" Page 2.) | A School Break-up. The breaking-up for the summer holidays of the Misses Morton-Clark's kindergarten and preparatory school (Roigel House) was held in the Goring Streot Hall last evening. Much interest was displayed in the programme by the gathering of parents and friends, and seme, pretty performances wero given by the children. Tho memorising powers displayed by the young performers wero quite striking, as the call which was made upon them by recitations, and also by a little play which followed in the second half of the programme, was by no means inconsiderable. The first Sart of the evening was taken up with rill, marches, songs, recitations, and a little character sketch, "Three Wise Women and Three Wise Men," all of which were contributed by the little ones, who looked very fresh and dainty in their pretty drosses! Miss Ngaire Clark and Miss Ullic Curtis played' a piauoforte duet. After tho interval came a play, "Trouble in Toyland," in tbreo brief sets, in which was described the deep trouble that prevailed in Toyland because dolls wero not wanted: the demand in Earthland was all for teddy bears. Into tho play were introduced 80-peep (Mollie Roderique), Boy Blue (Billie Gill), Fairy Tales (Ngaire Clark), Fairy Queen (Vivien Upham), Santa Claus (Miss Cora Clark), Little Girl (Eileen Clapham), and dolls. Songs and somo pretty dances added variety, and altogether a very good performance was given by all the children. The 6tage had been prettily arranged for the play, with a background of canvas ornamented with a frieze of pink flowers, and with various necessary furniture. Miss Mor-ton-Clark played the incidental music. The presentation of prizes and a song, "Off for the Holidays," sung with much vigour, were the .ooncluding acts of the evening. The Stocking League, What be done with old stockings and socks was wonderfully illustrated in the examples which are being dispayed in the Singer Sewing Machine Company's windows to-day by MrsM'Laren, of D.unedin, organiser of the Dominion Stocking League. The society, which was founded by Mrs M'Laren. is now in its fifth year, and during the greater j>art of,that time it had been devoting its energies to the making of garments—out of stockings —for the Barhardo Homes and for the West Ham. Mission. Since the outbreak of war, however; it has' sent home cases of clothing for the Belgian children as well. Stockings of all kinds, the warmer tho better are collected, and having been sent to the hospitals for sterilisation, are then made up into garments, and so clever bavs the workers become that they can clothe a child completely with all that is necessary, save, of course, for hoots The nearest they have approached to the latter is in the making of little house slippers made of old felt hats. Out of thick-ribbed stockings are made little jerseys, and some gay effeots are produced when they are made out of the brightly-striped stockings and socks that wero iso much in evidence not so very long ago. Out of golf stockings are little bonnets for little girls, I the border of the stockings being' used to form the decorative part which turns off the face. A baby's jacket was made out of the best part of a merino vest, and was feather-stitched and. bordered 'wifh a crochet silk edging. Ono littlo frock was made out of black stockings with a rose-coloured yoke taken from a pair of very elaborate fancy stxiclnngs, and another was also of black stockings, the yoke being outlined with tan material, which was. once a .pair or,tan stockings. Very , cleverly made was a littlo gray petticoat entirely made out of the upper part of men's socks, tind with a crochet edging, it looked an attractive little garment...- There were

also knickers, bloomers, scarves, and inittenn which were beautifully made, wliile in | everything that had a pocket was placed a penny. It is Mrs. M'Laren's wish to establish a Stocking Society iil Wellington, and for that purpose a meeting will bo held on Friday at half-past three in the Y-W.C.A. rooms, in Manners Street, ilrs. Hoby will preside. ' Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool is the Dominion patroness of, the league. Such an organisation should be most valuable in tncse times, and in the times to come,, as it certainly utilises material that most people have looked upon as being utterly useless. The special course of HalT Treatment for. One Guinea at Mrs Rolleston's comprises Clipping and Singeing, Massage, with Scalp Food. Shampooing; Hand and Yibrl) Massage; also a lesson in the latest style of Hairdreasing,. and advice on the care and treatment o! the hair. 258 Lambton Quay. Tel. 1599.—Advt. For Bronohlal Coughs and OoMg, Wood' Great peppermint Cure, la. 6<L

A Lucky Miss, "I was about to leave England for America," said Mrs. Mead, of Christchurch, "when I received a letter from my lyisband (in Now Zealand), telling me to be sure and book my passage by the Lusitania, 'as it had the speed to beat the submarines.' Four days before that letter arrived tho Lusitania had bcon sunk. Had it arrived a week earlier, I might have made an effort to travel by the ill-fated steamer. After that, I looked out for an American, boat, and selected the Philadelphia, which flew the American - Eight hours after we left -'port, wnen wo were all feeling pretty anxious, the steamer suddenly stopped—and so did my heart. The vessel stopped for a quarter of an hour, and I don't know to this day what for. The passengers at once leached for the lifebelts, and many of toem put on their new patent air-waist-coats, and blew them up (they cost a guinea in England). But nothing happened, and in. due course we arrived in New York, a city I cordially loathe I" Levin Memorial Home. _The committee of the Levin Memorial Home held their monthly meeting on Tuesday at the Home, Brittomart Street, eight members being present. The matron reported that four of the children had been seriously ill, but wero now better. The health of the' other children was good generally. The pupils of Miss Baber entertained them at a Christmas tree party on December 4, and it was a source of keen enjoyment to the little ones. Tho following gifts were reoeived with thanks Pupils of Fitherbert Terrace School, £1 135.; Mrs. Hazalwood, Owen Street, child's clofcliing; Huroomb and Sons, fish weekly; Mrs. Fraser, bread. Red Cross Tea at Ekotahuna. There was a large gathering at the Red Cross tea last Friday afternoon, when Mrs. Anderson, Alfredton Road, Eketahuna, was the hostess. There were about 40 ladies present, and they were all kept busy making pneumonia jackets and bags, and quite a great amount of work was got through. Miss Hastwell entertained the workers with music, and Mrs. Mark Herbert 1? m i Hastwell gave vocal items. Airs. Cowlam will be hostess next week. Women Aviators, Parisiennes seem to be more go-ahead than Londoners, writes a London correspondent on October 25. There are actual-! ly eight French air-women, each furnished with her pilot's certificate, and ,all anxious to be of use. For some time past there has been a society of lady balloonists in Paris, the secretary of which, though approving of the balloon as a vehicle for women, discouraged members on purely aesthetic grounds! from venturing into the inore busi-ness-like forms of air craft. She considered the graceful manner in which a balloon drifts before tho ■ breeze to be essentially feminine, and seems to have passed over such course details as, for instance, the method of descent. ■ However, these eight air-women are all capable of aeroplane, and are petitioning the Minister of Aviation to make use of them in some ' way. There is no suggestion of their being sent to the front, but their idea is that they might be utilised at one of the aviation centres behind the fighting zone, thus releasing eight men for more important duties. So. far their enterprising offer has received neither encouragement nor reply, but still they persist.

Br. Burnett, late of Rangiora, writes from St. Patrick's Hospital. Malta, ■rt'liere no has a good many New Zealanders under his, care, that ho thinks it would be of great comfort to people to know that all the hospitals at Alalta nre well staffed, and that in addition cliero is a staff of specialists on the island—men whoso names are known all uver the world—whose services are available for any cases that requiro them. He adds that the letters that .people write, giving the local news, are very gratefully received by the men wlio have got friends to write to them.

The Rev. AV. P, Poole, accompanied by his wife, arrived in 'Auckland on Monday by the Niagara. They left , -I Zealand m April on a pleasure trip to England, but reaching New York at '■he time of the greatest activity of enemy submarines in the Atlantic, deeded to postpone their visit to Britain mey spent the interval in travel in tlio United States. The Rev. Mr. Poole is a brother of Mr. C. H. Poole, M.P., as a missionary of the Methodist Church in Fiji. Mr. and ■\lra. Poole will spend some weeks in /New Zealand before returning to Fiji.

Nurse _ Mabel Atkinson, of Christchurch, is on'the staff of Lady Paeet's hospital m Serbia, wliich Las been captured by the Bulgarians. News has been received that all the staff are safe, and that probably, the hospital would be declared international, as there were American and Dutch citizens on the staff, or else that they would be interned. An official German message rweived some Says ago stated that Lady Paget and hor staff were safe. Nurse Atkinson left Cliristchurch before the main body, in order to ttroceed to England', where she joined Lady Paget's staff for Serbia. Nurse Atkinson was trained in the Strathmore Hospital, Ohristchurch. Trooper R. Atkinson, of the C.Y.C. (Main Pody), now on leave as a. wounded soldier, is her brother.

The hon. secretary of the Mayoress' Countess of Liverpool Committee wishes to acknowledge the gift of two dozen skins from Messrs. Ullathorno, Hartridge and Co.; from Messrs. Hutchesen and Wilson the remittance of an account of £1 3s. 6d., and from the firm of John Newton (Caledonian Soap Works, at Kaiwarra) the gift of 2.boxes of 6Qap.

The Town 'Hall Committees wish to announce that their rooms will be closed from the afternoon of. December 22, and reopened on January 5.

Prom the beginning of the weak the workers at the' Town Hall hare been, very busy getting the fruit ready for 'tile Christmas puddings for ■flie soldiers, and one of the rooms on tie downstairs floor has been the scene of intense activity. The quantities which have to be ■used are very large, and the mixing of the materials in the dry state alone is no inconsiderable part of the work. Long trestle tables, the wholo of the surface covered with fruit, which was drying in the _snn, were in use-yesterday, and the mixing of the fruit was done in largo 6quare troughs or tins, capable of holding something like twenty-seven or thirty pounds of pudding. They were lent by the Wellington Moat Export Company.