SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2745, 14 April 1916, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

A Red Cross Tea. A very enjoyable Red Cross Tea was given on Wednesday by Mrs. Rathbone, in her grounds at "Charnwood," Lower Hutt, in aid of the Overseas Club which is providing for a "Lower Hutt cot" in Net-ley Military and Naval Hospital, Hampshire, England, for which •Miss Douglas has been very energetic in collecting funds for some time past. There were stolls for cakes, sweets,, pot plants, produce and cut flowers, which all found ready sale. The garden was gay-with Hags, and flowers and the Boy Scouts did good ■ service in tying up and delivering parcels for which they earned everyone's thanks. The amount realised' was £20 12s. 3d., which was very /satisfactory to all those who helped in making it such a success. There were.many guessing competitions; also palmist and fortune-tellers, who were kept very busy. 'omen as Curates. Why not women curates? (writes a correspondent 'in the "Daily News"). The Church of England is a conservative institution, but there are disquieting indications that it may have to consider seriously its position with regard to the ascendancy of man in the direction of spiritual matters. Many curates have enlisted, and the outlook for :the future is exceedingly, unpromising, because of the small number of candidates for ordination. Theological students who have not already enlisted j will be absorbed under the Compulsion Act, unless they are medically unfit. For about ten years before the war there was a steady decrease in the applications for ordination, owing, in some measure, to the modern recognition of the fact that a young man of what is known as "good" family" may engage in commerce without any social disadvantages. General starvation is no longer preferable to getting a good living°outside "the professions," and the candidates for the Church have gradu-, ally been narrowing down to those who feel an earnest call to preach-or to undertake the more exacting forms of Christian work., The war apparently has bift hastened the process. Curates, consequently, can get better financial terms now than they'ever, got before. "A really good man from a University," the secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid .Society told a ' "Daily News" representative, "will receive from £170 to £200 a year nowadays. The Bishop of London's suggestion that clergymen who have retired should resume curates' work is being taken up to some extent, but the scarcity, according to the present outlook, will be worse in the future. "There is a great shortage, too, of lay workers. This difficulty is being met partially by women, who are doing very useful work'in a number of parishes. •Women lay readers? No. Women are not taking any part in the actual conduct of church services. The duties allotted to them are parochial."

Soldiers' Room. The hon. treasurer (Mrs. Henry Hall),, of the Soldiers' Room Committee, acknowledges tho following donation.— Mrs. Lankshear, Cs. Gd. Also the following monthly subscriptions;— Mrs. J. G. Stott, £6 (six months); Khandallah hostesses, £4 (two months); Messrs. W. and G. Tumbril and Co.. £2 Is. Bd.; Mrs. Alec. Crawford, £2 (two montns); Mrs. H. Kirkcaldie, £2 (two months); Mrs. C. R, Smith, £1 10s. (three months); Mrs. W. Nathan and Mrs. G. F C. Campbell, £1 Is. each; Mrs. AV. S.' Moorhouse, Mr. AV. S. Moorhouse, Mr.-G. Hunter, Lady Stout, Mrs. I'. R.> Chapman, Mrs. H. Crawford, Miss Coates, Mrs. W. Ferguson, Mrs. M Eldowney, Mr..Yeats.(two months) Mrs. Bucholz (four months) Mrs AV. Calender, Mrs. A. Levy, Mrs W. F. MasKey and Mrs. S. AVheeler (four months , £1 each; Lady Gibbes (two months), Miss Scales, Mfs. Zohrab Mrs Corkill (two months), 10s. each; Mrs L. H B AVilson, Bs. (two months); Mis. Gill, Mrs. J. Renton Watt and Mrs. Ernest Hadfiold,.ss. each; Miss Booth, •h fid Per Miss Murray, AVilhs Street:' Mrs. and Miss Peat, £1 each; Mrs. Corrigan, 155.. (three monihri; Sirs. Yaldwyn (two months), Mrs Heidman, and Mrs. Forsyth. 10s. each; Mr. Samuel, ss. _____

Mrs Smith (Hnutcrville) returned to Wellington yesterday from l'eatherstoii. Captain Smith, who was in camp at Featherston, is now at Irentliam.

Among the visitors staying- at Bellevue Gardens .Hotel are: Mr. and Mrs. E 11. Clunies, Ross, and children, Mr. and Mrs. F. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. tt. A. Coonietti (AVellington), Mr. and Mrs. Thompson (Featherston), Mr 1. lone (Stratford), Mrs. and Miss Dunlop (Gisborne), Mr. and Mrs. Poynton.

The knitting classes at the Town Hall, which have been unavoidably interrupted this week, will be resumed on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Mesdames Fuller and Rowntnse, of Seatoun, had charge of the Red Cross shop in AA'oodward Street yesterday, pud were very satisfied with the result. On the Tuesday previous, Mrs. Black, of Seatoun,. gave a largo "tea in aid of the shop. A very enjoyable afternoon was spent, several competitions having been arranged by Miss Fuller. Mrs. Middleton was busily engaged in telling fortunes. ' . '''..-

The registrations at the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel include the following: —Mr. and Mrs. D. Parker, Gisborne; Mr. and Mrs. AVeston, Hokitika; Mr. and Mrs. ' AVagg, Masterton; Mr. M'Dougall,'Masteiton; Mr. Sinclair, Melbourne; Mr. Johnston, Rotorua. Miss M'lntyre, Greymouth; Captain Chapman, Temuka; Mr. J. Powell Pahiatua; Mr. Jl. Gray, Auckland; Mr J AA'hitlock, Palmerston North.

The only means of permanently removing superfluous hair is Electrolysis. Mrs. Rolleston specialises in this treatment, and is recommended by our leading medical men. Pormanent results without the slightest scar are guaranteed. . Ladies troubled with this disfigurement should arrange for a weekly treatment of either half an hour or an hour. A'ery littlo inconvenience is experienced, and in a short time the growth of hair is entirely removed. Strictest privacy is observed. 256 Lambton Quay.—Advt.

Have yon ever puzzled over the origin of the word "SA r DAL"? Spell it.backwards. At first this was chiefly a preparation for ladies, but now scores of men use it after shaving, and on their bauds after doing the »arden, otc— Advt.

Wedding Announcement.—Beautiful roses and "the choicest of ilowors only are aeed when designing wedding bouquets, which I make a speciality o/. Packed and forwarded through, tho Dominion, ilisa Murray. Vice-Regal Floriste, 36 Willis Street.—Advt.

The Rev. AY. H. Thornton, 'eightyfive, who has been in holy orders for' over sixty years, has just completed fifty years as rector of North liovey, Devonshire.

I'ot Ghvonlo Chest C<Hnplnint», Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.*