WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2701, 22 February 1916, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

FRUIT LAXATIVE FOR CHILDREN,

UNDER GERMAN RULE

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM /AR AND NEAR,

[By Imogen.]

Weddlng at Pahiatua, The wedding took place at_St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Pahiatua, on Wednesday, of Miss Ethel May Lyons, second daughter of Mrs. Lyons, of Maharahara, to Mr. Joseph Logan, eldest son of Mr. Jas. Logan, of lliita. The Rev. M. Bawden-l-larris was the officiating -minister, and the clmrch was prottily decorated for tho occasion. The bride, who was given away by Dr. Dawson, wore a dress of white Chantiliy, laco with an overdress of ninon, and'a veil and orange blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet of white asters and maiden-hair fern. Misses Irwin Logpn and Idalia Lyons were bridesmaids, and both wore embroider- , ed voilo dresses, the former with a shell pink hat and shower bouquet of pink asters and maiden-hair fern, and Miss Lyons with a pale blue hat and bouquet to match. The bridegroom was attended by Private Job Pickford and Mr. Seafield Lyons. Tho bride and bridegroom left by the afternoon train for the south, the bride travelling in u navy military costume. Women In Executive Posts. Women hold many executive educational positions in the United States, according to the Bureau of Education's directory for 1915-16, just issued. Itshows that, of the 12,000 conspicuous positions, largely of an administrative character, 2500 are held by women. Those women are college presidents. State and county superintendents oi education, directors of industrial schools, heads of departments in colleges and universities, directors oi schools for afflicted, and librarians. Twenty-four out of 622 colleges and universities are presided over by women. Of the nearly 3000 county superintendents, 508 are women. Of the 70 institutions for the blind, 15 are directed by women. Of the 75 State schools for the deaf, 10 are under the leadership of women, and of the 22 private institutions of the same character, 16 have women superintendents. Of the 31 private institutions for the feeble-minded, 20 are supervised by women.

Fourteen out of 86 directors of industrial schools are women, and 48 of the 200 schools of art are in charge of women. Out of 1300 public and society libraries, women supervise 1075. Of the 33 bureau'officials in the Bureau of Education itself, 11 are women.

Delicious California Syrup of Figs can't Harm Tender Little Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Every mother realises after giving her children California Syrup of Figs— ' Califig,' that this is their ideal laxative, because they love its pleasant taste and it thoroughly cleanses the tender ilittle stomach, liver and bowels, Without griping- . . . , When cross, irritable, feverish, or when the breath is bad and the stomach disordered, look at the tongue, mother ! If coated, give a teaspoonful of this harmless fruit laxative, and in a few hours all the foul, constipated waste-matter, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the bowels, and you have a healthy, playful child again. When its little system is "stuffy" with a cold, when' it has sore throat, stomach-ache, diarrhoea, indigestion, colic—remember a good "insidecleansing" should always be the first treatment given. Millions of mothers keep California •Syrup of Figs—'Califig,' handy; they know a teaspoonful to-day saves a child from being ill to-morrow. Ask your chemist for a bottle of 'Califig' California Syrup of Figs, which has directions for babies, children of all ages and yroVnups printed on the bottle. Get the genuine, made byj California Fig Syrup Company, and sold by all chemists in bottles of two sizes, 1/1| and 1/9. Refuse substitutes.

Soldiers' Needs. Contributions to the Countess of Liverpool Fund and also to the Military Hospital Guild are still slowly dribbling in to tho_ depots, although the need foi supplies is not by any means lessened. Socks for tlie Countess of Liverpool Fund are very much needed, and contributions of these ivill be welcomed. The list of goods received at the Town Hall for tho past week is as follows: — Oroua Wharo (H. 8.), 10 pairs bed socks; Mrs. H. Tonks, 2 balaclavas; Mrs. E. Mackenzie, 3 balaclavas, 1 pair mittens; Mrs. Hennah, 1 pair socks; Miss Kinvig, 5 pairs inittons; Miss Muir, G pairs socks; Mrs. Firth, 2 pairs socks; Mrs. J. M'Rae, 2 pairs socks; Mrs. R. Fletcher, 1 pair socks, 1 muffler, 3 balaclavas; Mrs. J. R. Blair, 1 pair, socks, 1 parcel 14 pairs socks, 1 pair bed socks, 1 muffler, 1 pair mittens; Mrs. Charles Donald, 1 pair handknitted socks; by post, 3 balaclavas; Mrs. Budding (Greytown), 2 pairs mittens; Pukera (Feilding), 2 balaclavas; no name (post), 1 pair grey socks; Miss Hector, 1 balaclava; Miss L. Powlcs, 4 pairs socks, 2 pairs mittens; Wellington South Knitting Guild, 13 pairs mittens, 1 pair bed socks, 6 pairs slippers, 1 balaclava, 14 face cloths, 7 bandages.

The secretary of the Military Hospital Guild, Miss Sybil Nathan, acknowledges the following contributionsNo name, 1 pair socks; Mrs. Macintosh, 1 •larcel old linen; Mokau Ladies' Sewlifj Guild, IS day shirts. 11 pyjamas, 10 pair day socks, 4 mufflers, 3 bags, 1 pair mittens, 4 cholera belts; Wellington South Knitting Guild, 6 pairs slippers, 1 pair bed socks; Wairarapa Branch British Red Cross, 50 one button bed shirts; Maraeltakaha Branch British Red Cross, IS books, 8 maga-

sines, 11 pyjamas, 9 flannel night shirts, 10 fomentation cloths, 6 rolls paper, 2 union night shirts, 10 eye bandages, 6 bed jackets, 10 face washers, 6 do?,, roller bandages, 50 many-tailed bandages, 12 flannel undershirts, 4 balaclavas, 2 bed socks, 5 pairs day socks, 1 pair mittens, 1 parcel old linen, 4 day shirts, 2 woollen clay, shirts. British and Allies' 1 Relief Fund. J Mrs. Rolleston and Miss Litchfield have received at the Town Hall parcels of clothing for the British and Allies' Relief Fund from Mrs. Baldwin (two parcels'), Mrs. O. S. Arthur. Hihitahi. iVlain Trunk line, 31. J. Kilgour, 129 Tinakori B-ond, "A Friend." Mrs. Hunter Brown (two parcels), Pihama, Tarnnaki (per Miss Pottigrcw, secretary), 2 cases, and two anonymous parcels. Miss Tsabel Halley leaves this week by tho Rotorua for England, where her marriage to Mr. David Heughan, of Portsmouth, i.vto take place. The engagement is announced of Miss Irwin Logan, only daughter of Mr. .Tames Logan, of Bata, formerly of Masterton, to Mr. Reginald G. Ekins, of Chicago, United States America. . Mr. and Mrs. A. Warburton and Miss Violet Warburton returned yesterday from a motor trip to Wauganui and Dawson Falls (Egmont).

The most effective aid to increasing the growth of hair, improving the lustre, and preventing excessive falling, is Mrs. Rolleston's guinea course of treatment. It in r , ludes Clipping and Singeing, Shampooing; Hand, Vibro, and Electrical Massage, and Hairdressing. Ladies are also advised hoiv to treat and care for their hair. The methods adopted are the best known to science, Mrs. Rolleston making a special study of all scalp complaints that retard the growth of hair. Consultation and advice gratis. 256 Lambton Quay. Tel. 1590.—A dvt.

Munition Worker's Feat. A Leeds young lady, Miss Dons Halton, who is employed at Messrs. Greenwood and Batle.y's cartridge factory in. Leeds, has just performed a feat which stands as a record for the firm, says the Hudderslield "Examiner." Working on a piercing machine which punches holes in the cap chamber of the cartridge, sho pierced, out of a possible 130 cases per minute, a grand total of 70,500 cases in a ten-hours' day. The , operation is one which requires exceptional deftness of tho fingers, for each case has to be separately handled and inserted into a perforated plate which is constantly revolving. The performance is rendered all the wore notable by reason of the fact that tho piercing machines aro very fragile and liable to frequent breakages. Miss Halton is 17 years of age. ' In drawing attention to the performance, "one of tho workers writes to a contemporary: "Our reason for sending you this record is.to show that some of us are doing our bit here in Leeds, and also to silence some of the pessimistic croakers." Letter From , Chaplain-Captain Creen, Mrs. Suisted, of Wanganui, has received the following letter from Ohap-lain-Captain Green, of the Salvation Army, written on December 27, from Alexandria.' "I am in receipt of your letter of September 30, in reference to the boxes of parcels, sent to our New Zealand boys for Christmas, and in reply wish to say that these camo safely to hand, and have been attended to as per your instructions. I must thank your guild for their very kind wishes, and I can assure you that it is a great pleasure to do anything for our 'sick and wounded men in the various hospitals', and also to try and cheer them. We are kept very busy in this work for some months, and 1 am pleased to note that our men appreciate what has and what is being done for them, especially by the women of New' Zealand."

Madame Blanche Marchesi recently pave a song recital at tlie Aeolian Hall, London, when the works of women com* posers wore specially featured, states a London correspondent. Dr. Ethel Smyth, our foremost living woman musician, conducted a chorus in the "Benedictus" from her own Mass in D. Songs by Anne Boleyn and Liza Lehmann figured on the programme.

Miss Ruth Northcroft, of Poverty Bay, daughter of the late Commissioner of the Cook Islands, has decided to enter the nursing profession, and with that end in view she has gone into the Auckland Hospital.

The many friends of Mr. Guthrie, M.P., and Mrs.. Guthrie, will regret to have peen in- the hospital report list from Egypt, published on Saturday, tho. name of their daughter, StaffNurse Guthrie, of the Australian Army Nursing Service, who is reported to bo in hospital suffering from appendicitis.

The annual general meeting of tho Miramar Ladies' : Golf Club will be held this afternoon at four o'clock, in the Chamber of Commerce rooms.

Miss Vera M'Beth has returned to Feilding from a visit to Ekotahuna and Dannevirke.

Mr; and Mrs. Howard Fulton, of Gisborne, have returned home from a visit to Wellington.

At a meeting of the W.C.T.U., Potone branch, the following resolution was passed unanimously:—"That tho Hon. Minister •■f Defonco be requested co have legislation immediately introduced forbidding, under heavy penalties, tho practice of 'shouting for soldiers.' Many parts of tlie Empire havo passed similar legislation, and have subsequently found that the evil of drunkenness has considerably diminished.

GERMANS lIATE AMERICANS

WOMEN THE MOST OUTSPOKEN. Germany's hatred of Americans is much keener now than it" was early in the war, reports an American traveller to the San Francisco Press. "Wir Hassen die Amerikaner und alles was aus Amerika kommt!" (Wo hate thei Americans and everything that comes from America) they have said over and over again in the presence and hearing of the writer. And, what appears to be worse, they actually moan it; mean every word they say. Not only do you find that they have developed an actual hatred against the United States and its citizens, but there are many who go as far as to openly declare that they actually despise the American people. These declarations of hostility are made mostly by the middle classes. Of course, there are many of the highest standing in the Fatliorland who will denounce you when you tell them that you are an American. The most outspoken American-haters are the women of Germany. They seem to feel much more the awful hardships which such a world-war, or, worldslaughter, has brought upon them. They appear to appreciate more keenly than do the men m the field what such a frightful strife, such fearful sacrifice, means not only to themselves in particular, but to the entire Kaiser lleich in general.

The women are the ones who always put on deepest mourning when they hear that ono of their people hag sacrificed his life upon the altar of his country. Men, while naturally feeling the losses as much as do the women in Germany, are not as demonstrative as are the womenfolk.

Eight months a<M it was not permitted to talk Englisli in public anywhere in Germany. In those days the Germans would make no distinction between the English spoken by an American and the language used by a British subject. But to-day it is different. They don't want to _ near you speak English, but. they insist that they are particularly keen that you do not talk "American." This in a slight measure illustrates the feeling that exists to-day against Americans.

Tlio writer was getting some information as to market prices from a woman hist outsido of Dresden, the capital of Saxony. Sho was telling how at tlio beginning of tlio war' lentils had been plentiful, but now none were to be had for love or money. Sho told how prices had advanced 111 general, and gave detailed statements as to different articles. Of course, tlie writer bad to take notes. Suddenly the woman stopped. Looking the writer straight in tlie eyes, the good German frau said:

"Of course, you don't want that 111-. formation for America P If' I thought you did, I'd take your, paper away from you, inoin Herri"

A steamship bearing 62 British women, children, and a few men, as well as three hundred Belgian refugees, arrived at Tilbury this week (writes a Lo;idon correspondent on January 5). All the adults had long stories to tell, and theso agree that • the Germans in Belgium are in a despondent and mieasy mood. One of the party was Mrs. Carter, who was 'arrested for a supposed political offence by the Germans almost immediately after their arrival in Brussels, and was kept in prison for a year. A second English woman was Mrs. Jeanne Church, who once protested publicly in a cafo in Brussels against some German doings, aud in consequence received threo months' imprisonment. Another was Miss Swire, a student of music at the Brussels Conservatoire.

Miss Swire says that life in Brussels at present is practically the same as it was before the war, except that the greater part of the population now is German. "A single woman is not pestered so much as a married wonian," she says. "Living in Brussels is much better than in Germany. The officers and soldiers are quite courteous, but the Gorman Boy Scouts are very insolent and abusive. There is a great scarcity of soa 1 }). There is plenty of bread, and it has been white for the past eight months. I could have come bank a long while ago, but X was quito comfortable, and had it not been for the American Consul advising ill women and children to leave as soon as possible, I should not have come now."

Mrs. Thomson, with three children, came home after her husband's arrest, he having been made a prisoner recently in common with nearly all Englishmen in Belgium, and sent to the prison camp at Ruhleben.

One of the company whose experiences attracted much attention was Miss Cambridge, a nurse who was in the neighbourhood of Mon6 during-the battle, and who did considerable, work among the wounded there afterwards. Miss Cambridge was for three years in Miss Cavell's Nursing Institute in Brussels, and loft it to undertake private nursing. She-was at a chateau in.Mons when the British and Germans met, the advance guards coming together almost in front of the chateau. She organised an ambulance, and in the black days that followed tended both our own men and the wounded of the enemy, who were in tho houses round. Her kindness to wounded Germans evidently won her the goodwill of some of the German authorities, for they gave her a letter which afterwards stood her in good service. When others were driven out or imprisoned, she was allowed to remain.

One of the party said that the ruined and burned towns and villages in Belgium are not being rebuilt. Termonde still remains the blotch of cindered heaps that Germans made it. Malines, Louvain, and a score of other places remain as they were. A man established hiinself in Dinant to rebuild the houses, but people refused his services. They lack confidence. "Of what use is it for us to rebuild now?" they ask. "Something may happen soon to destroy all again. There will be more fighting in our streets when the Allies return. Let us wait."

Miss Daplans Knight, of Auckland, who has been visiting Feathorston and also Wellington, where she was the guest of Mrs. Halley, left last week on tier return to the north. Dr. and.Mrs. Webster hare returned to Wellington from a visit to the Cold Lakes. The death occurred at Maeterton on Saturday of Mrs. J. 8. Pinhey, at the age of 43 years. The deceased, who bad been ailing for soma months, leaves n family of three daughters. Mrs. Katharine Carswell, wife of Mr. J. W. Carswell, of Bideford, died in the Masterton Hospital on Sunday at the age of 53 years. The deceased lady leaves a family of seven Sons and one daughter. One of her sons was killed in action at Gallipoli, and another is on active service.