WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2685, 3 February 1916, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

[By Imogen.]

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

; Patriotic Cake Room. ! TIIO committee of the Patriotic G'ako ; Room desires to acknowledge with thanks gilts of home-made cakes, sweets, subscriptions, etc., from the following donors: —Mesdatnes Firth, Smitton, A. Crawford, Alec. Davios, Ferguson, Badhaoi, Findlay, Askew, Holmes, Bethune, G. Didsbnry, W. Gavin, Willis, G. Fulton, C. Richard- ! Ron, Watkins, Palmer, Henry, Hamer, Hurst, Mirams, Misses M'Menanien, 1 Macintosh, Paterson, Gear, Chapman, ' IVheeler (2), M'Kellar, Cameron, Dids- ' bury, Henry, VOll Dadelszen, Chalmers, Mackenzie, N. Drummond, Sidev, and Mr. Firth. "The Woman." , The Australian Women's National t League (Victoria) publishes each month a paper called "The Woman." The journal consists of twenty-four pages and covcrs a wide field of activities, including politics, war work of every kind, literature,-• personal notes, the house and its necessities, including cookery (this particular section being headed "She Looketli Well to the Ways 9f Her Household") and also children's interests. A considerable proportion of its space is, of course, given up to the records of league work throughout the Stato. As may be gathered from the foregoing, it deals with matters that are of particular interest to women, olid should bo of . considerable assistance in making the work of the league well known. The ediiress is Mrs. Arthur Robinson. The account of its war work is particularly interesting, both in regard to reading matter and illustrations. News from Egypt. A nurse, writing from Egypt to a Wellington friend, in the oourse of her letter says that one or two of the volunteer sisters are assisting in tea-rcoms fin- soldiers in the gardens in Cairo. There are a great many nurses at the present time in Egypt, so manv that work was fairly slack at the time of writing, and they had been enabled to have a good rest. The largo Scmiramis Hotel in Cairo had been turned into a Nurses' Home, and there a great many nurses found a very comfortabln resting-place. The writer also touched unon the Aot.ea Hospital (Convalescent Home near Heliopolis),' which she described as being very well fitted up for the nurses, and much like a home. Gifts for Sick and Wounded Soldiers. Tile Matron of the Hospital acknowledges the following gifts for sick and wounded soldiers:--Eggs: Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool. Soup and fruit: Soldiers' Comforts Guild. Blowers: St. Mary's Anglican Church, Levin; Mrs. Hills, Mrs. O'Connor, Mrs. M'Kelvio (Rona Bay), Mis. Brown (Brooklyn). Fruit: Mrs P. Howard, Day s Bay Ladies' Native Association, it n u ' e (^ llauc e)> Sir Francis Bell, ..Ladies' Guild, Natives' Association, Mrs. Page Howard. Jam: Mrs. Miles (Hobson Street). Sponge cake: Mrs. Salek, Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Ferguson. Scones and eggs: Mrs. Salek. Old linen: lire. Foster. Lettuce, sprint onions, and tomatoes: The Ladies' Na° tives' Association. Lettuce: Mrs.Page Howard l . Cakes, eggs, and jellies: Mrs. Pearce, Illustrated papers: Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool.. Books and magazines: Dorothy and Sydney Butler.

Cas Cooking Demonstration, Yesterday afternoon Miss Una Carter, instructress in gas cookery at the Wellington Gas Company's office, continued her interesting series of lectures and exhibition of domestic cookery on thegas cooker. The attendance, which during the holiday season hrfd somewhat fallen off, is now very good. All the practical work is carried out on the company's W.G.C., cooker, which is mado up in the company's local workshop, and when fitted up ready for itso costs £2. A very interesting and instructive programme was carried out by Miss Carter, and the following were some of the dishes preparedßaked tomatoes, stewed sausages and marrow au gratin, jacketed potatoes, sago custard and baked apples. Miss Carter also demonstrated how to preserve whole fruits such as plums with sugar, apricots, greengages, tomatoes, and peaches in the syrup, and pulped apricots. The demonstration will he continued next Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The nurses who are leaving by the next transports are: Nurses Edmondson and Garrard by the Mokoia, Nurses Tucker and M'Leod (who have already seen service in Egypt) by the Navua, and Nurses Barnard-Brown and Stronach. by the Ulimavoa. Nurse Stronach lias been nursing in Samoa.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM /AH AND NEAR.

Returned Soldiers' Hostel. The first meeting of tho Returned Soldiers' Hostel Committee was held ou Tuesday night. Mrs. R. Fletcher was voted to the chair. The secretary reported \ipon the work done up to the present time, and intimated that it was necessary to meet' for discussion at frequent intervals. A discussion ensued as to the best means of raising funds for developing and extending operations. It was decided to issue lists and solicit subscriptions (several havo already been promised), all of which will be handed to Mr. 15. C. Levvev, solicitor, who will acknowledge same through the Press. It was also decided to enlist the sympathy of the various societies, etc., and that the newspapers be asked to open subscription lists on behalf of the Returned Soldiers' Hostel. Literature will be thankfully received by Hiss Phoebe Myers, who will he glad ' to receive the same, either care of Mr. Lcvvey or at her own home. The hostel will be informally opened by a subscription tea, due notice of tvhich will he given. Deck chairs, easy chairs, or lounges are urgently required. Mrs. Wilford has donated a gold fountain pen and Mrs. RadciifFe a live hedgehog as the nucleus of an art 11111011. The sectary was requested to apply for a permit. The next meeting will be hold 011 Wednesday next. Women's Anti-Cerman League. Donations to the funds of the Women's Anti-German League have been received from: Misses Xing, A. M'Gregor, Beatrice Day, Holmes, Coleridge, Large, Hodge, Lady Stout, Mesdames Harry, Lowry (£100), R. Fletcher, Bates,. Mastean, Williams, Ilrwin, Kirby, Robinson, Somerville, Chatfield, Seville, Hudson, Wilford, Boden, Boeufve, Wood, Hadfield, and M'Vicar, and "Anonymous" (£10). The total amount received to date is £114 6s. The league has secured an office next to the Pioneer Club rooms on Lambton Quay.

3lr. 'and Mrs. W. F. Ward have taken a furnished house at Day's Bay for tho month of February. Miss Saxon passed through Wellington yesterday on her return to Nelson. Tho wedding took place in St. Andrew's Church, Hastings, on Tuesday, of Sir. Joseph Alexander Davidson, son of Mr. and Mrs. 'I'. J. Davidson, of Hastings, to Miss Constance Emily Beckett, daughter of' Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Beckett, of Hastings. Another wedding was that of Mr. Jeremiah M'Carthv, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M'Carthy,--County Limerick, Ireland, to Miss Mary Patricia Foley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Foley, Mangateretere, Hastings. The ceremony took place in tho Sacred Heart Church, and the Rev. Father M'Donnoll performed the ceremony. Miss H. A. Darling, who recently resigned from the Napier Lands Office to join the local staff of the Bank of New Zealand, has been presented with a gold brooch, set with pearls, by her late follow workers. The Commissioner of Crown Lauds ill making the presentation expressed regret at tlie'loss of such a ' competent and obliging officer. Word received from Mrs. D. H. S. Riddiford, a few days ago, dated from Cornwall Gardens, London, was to the effect that all the family were now settled down and in good "health, writes a Featherston correspondent. Mr. Riddiford is in training with tho Grenadier Guards at Chelsea, and expects to be ordered to the front shortly, probably to Egypt. Mrs. Riddiford is an official visitor to one of'the hospitals, and also helps at the New Zealand Club, which Sirs. T. C. Williams and family have started at Victoria Street. Mrs. Williams is paying all the expenses of the eiub. and nearly all the cooking and waiting is done by voluntary helpers. They are endeavouring to get all tho New Zealand wounded soldiers moved into one hospital in London, so that they will be better able to be visited and attended to.

By the Ruahine Mrs. Rolleston received a varied assortment of Toilet Specialities, including exclusive Face Powders. Prices, from 2s. Gd. to 103. Gd. per box. Solide, "La Roine," is. 6d. Imperial Hair Stain, 4s. 6d. Absolutely reliable and easily applied. And a large consignment of the best qualit.,-' Hair for Switches, Transformations, and all designs of hair work. Every, fhado can be perfectly matched. Private rooms. 256 Lambton Quay.—Advt.

DISABLED FOR LIFE WHAT THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND ARE DOING AN APPEAL TO NEW ZEALAND Miss Adeline Bourne, hon, secretary of the British Women's Hospital, writing from London, asks us to publish the following:— "In the whole story of the war there is nothing that strikes one as more terrible than tho thought of the numbor of healthy, vigorous young men who have become totally disabled! The splendid courage and cheeriness of the wounded men' is constantly before us. We see the man with one leg helping himself along, and the man with an empty sleeve or a patch over one eye going through the streets or sitting in a hospital ward, but we see little of the tragic host who are disabled for - life —who, in the very midst of the joy of youth and strength are cut off by a hopeless barrier from the things that make life best worth living. . "These men have . lost all hut life itself for the sake of the country they love, and to shield from harm and lior-' ror the women of the land—of the whole Empire.

"The women are asked to show their undying gratitude by more than mere words of sympathy and thankfulness. "Her Most Gracious Majesty, who is full of-compassion for the wounded and the sick, has handed to the British Red Gross Society the site of the Star and Garter Hotel, presented to her by tho Auctioneers and Estate Agents 1 Institute of tlie United Kingdom, on condition that it is used as a home for the men rendered incurably helpless by the war.

"The British Women's Hospital have been asked by tho British lied Cross Society to raise the money for a new building- for this purpose, to be fitted with every modem appliance, and they appeal to the women of the Empire, far and near, to give towards this fund. "Thero are many funds for noble purposes, but thero is no other raised by women alone for men as a memorial of their gratitude. All women,- rich and poor, _ are urged to . have a share in this their own special offering. Large isums are needed, that the best may be offered to these heroic invalids, but small sums are none the less welcome, inasmuch, as every penny is some woman's .way of saying a heartfelt. "Thank you' to the men who have suffored, who have sacrificed, who are doomed to a lifelong helplessness. "Money and promises of money should be sent to the lion, treasurer, and cheques should bo made payable to the British .Women's Hospital. "Address: 2 Kobcrt Street, Adelphi, W.C., London."

The marriage took place on December 6, at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, London, of Major 1 Drummond Spencer Smith, R.H.A., elder son of Mrs. Spencer Smith, of 54 Egerton .Crescent, and Mi&s Roma Hope, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hope, of Timaru. (N.Z.). The Rev. H. R. Gamble officiated. The bride was given away by her uncle, Mr. Charles Hope, and Mr. Geoffrey Robinson was best man.

On November 21 an interesting wedUlhfg joccurred at St. Vladimir's Cathekdral, 'Petrograd (Russia),' when Miss Mary /Elizabeth Sibbald, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Sibbald, formerly, of Auckland and. Dunedin (N.Z.), -was married to Mr. George Hias Belitzky, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Belitzky, of P<?trograd, states the "British, Australasian." The ceremony took place in the. private chapel of the Cathedral, and noticeable'amongst the guests were the Grand Duke Constantin, cousin of the Emperor, and General Alabyscheff. After the ccrcmonv the goicsts assembled at Mr. Belitzky's residence,. where the wedding breakfast was held. The bridegroom serves in the Russian Imperial Guard, and some months ago was invalided home from the front.

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