WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2846, 10 August 1916, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Wedding in St. Paul's. The wedding took place very quietly yesterday in St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral of Miss Annio Grace Roydhouse, vonngest daughter of Sir. AV. F. Roydhouse, editor of the "Daily News," Carterton, to Mr. Howard E. Jackson, only son of Mr. W. H. Jackson, headmaster of the District High School, Carterton. The ceromony was performed by the IteV. R. Young, of St. -Mark's, Carterton, assisted by the Rev. A. M. Johnson, M.A., and Mr. Claughton played the organ, finishing with the "Wedding March" as tho bridal couple left the church. The bridesmaid was Miks'D. Jackson, sister of the bridegroom, and Mr. W. Bey was best man. A reception was afterwards held in Miss Tendall's tea rooms. Wedding at St. James's. A quiet wedding took place yesterday at St. James's Church, when Miss Elsie M'Gowan, second daughter of Mrs. John M'Gowan,' Wellington, was married to Mr. H. J. Gunn, eldest'son of Mr. G. Gunn, of Marlborough. The bride, wlio was given away by her brother, Mr. H. M'Gowan, wnro a. cream gabnrdino coat and skirt and black velvet hat relieved with gold. She was attended by two bridesmaids, Miss Nancy M'Gowan and Miss Flossie Gunn. Mr. Gunn, who was attended by his brother, Mr. D. Gunn, leaves for the front shortly. Taumaru Hospital Acknowledgments. • The Matron of the Taumaru Soldiers' Home, Loury Hay, acknowledges with thanks the following gifts:— Countess of Liverpool, cakes; Mrs. Bristow, cakes; Hutt Patriotic Guild, £3 monthly; Mrs. Guy Williams, pap-, ers; R. T. Turnbull, papers, magazines, rifle prizes for shooting competition; Mr. ltasuuissou, rowing boat; Mi6S Lever, tea-pots; Mrs. Moorliouse, bellows and table linen; British Red Cross and Order of St. John, bed linen and hospital clothing; Captain Purdon, books; Miss Cooper and Miss Moss, £20 and £30; Mrs. Ward, eggs, cakes, . poultry, and jam, lettuces; Mrs. Adams, cakes; Mrs. Blundell, sweets, magazines and eggs; ladies of Nelson, fruit and vegetables; Mr. A. Gilbert (Stoke, Nelson), 6 cases apples; Mrs. Ewen, eggs and brown bread; E. H. Williams (Grassmero), 3 cases fruit; Miss Kirkcaldie, vegetables; Mrs. Brandon, cakes; Mrs. Findlay, papers; Mr. Hoare, magazines; Miss Grabham, cakes; Mrs. Fcrgusson, cakes; Mrs. Adams, oysters and eggs; Alison Balcombe Brown, and Jean Shritcliffe, £1; Miss i Barrett, books; Mrs. Ililey, book's; secretary to post office, weekly papers. . Gifts of egfjs. cakes, fruit, and poultry are especially useful to tho home. In ordef to facilitate the sending of gifts, Mr. C. A. Ewen, Commercial Union Assurance Co., Lambton Quay, lias'kindly consented to receive all gifts at his office. A Place of Pilgrimage. In the "Oornhill" Dr.- .Warmer describes a visit to Ypres as it is to-day. "There is no place like it in the world," he says, "nothing so sad and nothing so beautiful. For all the squalid and sordid things are gone; there are.no slums, no filthy hovels, no brawling or greasy sensuality, no crying in the strccls; the city is very ptire and quiet, and white under the sun, a dusty oasis of silence amid the drumming of the guns. It will be rebuilt somo day. But I think that, when tho war is over, Ypres will at first bo kept a guarded sanctuary within its moated battlements for ail tlje world to see. And all America will go to visit it, and all the neutral peoples: and they will realise what we fought for and ,why the fate of Christendom depended upon our conquering. Franco and Britain, too, will troop to see it—and Belgium: sucli troops of pilgrims as have never been seen be--1 oi g- multitudes among tlieni wearin" black." Patriotic Cake Room. Tho committee of the Patriotic Cake Room acknowledges with thanks gifts of home-made cakes, sweets, etc., from the following donors:—Mr. and Mrs. Firth, Mesdames . Siuitton, A. Ford R. Martin, Perkins, Badham, Askew) Holmes, Findlay, "Palmer, G. S. Matthews, G. Fulton; J. M'Lean, W. Booth- (Carterton), A. Myers, ,F. E. Chalmers (Masterton), W. G. Reid, J. Williams, W. Gavin, Finch, Sommerville, A. Williams, Isaacs, Hurst, Von Dadelszen, Hamer, G. Reid, Misses Cameron, M'Kellar, Wheeler (2), Massey, Didsbury,' Von Dadelszen, Kirkcaldie, Rose, Q. Johnson, M'Menamen, Wright, Maudsley, Richardson, Jacobson, Webb, Sidey, Clayton, Drum-' moud, Gaviu, Saunders.

Mrs. Gunson, Mayoress of Auckland, and Miss Speddiug halve come to Wellington to attend a conferenco called by Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool to arrange matters in connection with the forwarding of Christinas gifts to troops at- the front. The conference was held yesterday at Government House.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Stndholme, of Ruanui, have been a few days in Auckland, prior to leaving 011 a visit to Suva.

This afternoon the members of tho Tivoli .Follies ar<> entertaining returned soldiers at the latter's club.

Victoria College women students aro interesting themselves in the matter of forming a Women's League with the idea of studyiuy questions, social, po-litical,-and national. Women's questions in particular, and all affairs that affect their welfare, are to receive special attention. The league is to be on strictly non-party lines. It is hoped that at the inaugural meeting,to be held at Victoria College on Friday evening, there will be a good attendance of all women—not only university students who are "interested in the' social welfare of women and in matters directly concerning children.

Women's Education and War Problems. Some important questions, to women's education in connection with the problems which will ariso after the war were brought forward at the annual conference of the Headmistresses' Association, held at Wycombe Abbey School early in June (states the "Queen"). 'Hie Master of the Temple, in the course of an address dealing with these matters, said that the teaching profession should cease to absorb so large a percentage of educated women, and it was incumbent on those responsible for secondary schools to determine in. what professions they are most likely to succeed, and to modify the school curriculum accordingly. It was much to tie desircci that girls of the middle; class should be trained at school for some definite occupation. Social workers of to-day were too often amateurs, untrained and underpaid. If in the future -women occupied the posts of school attendance officers, factory inspectors, teachers of hygiene and domestic compulsory continuation , schools, supervisors" of dental and eyesight clinics, working together with .doctors of local hospitals and teachers in schools, it wonld practically form a bureau for protecting the interests of 11-0111611 and young children. Then every influence should bo brought to bear upon the subject of compulsory continuation schools. Domestic ignorance and ineptitude oouid be cured by education,' and they led to an appalling waste of infant life, to much ill-health, and drunkenness. The terrible loss of life caused by the war necessitated the prevention of all avoidable waste. After education and religious and social types of work there came medicine, .surgery, and nursing. The status of the nursing profession was rapidly advancing, hut a great need still existed for middle-class women to be in control of* wards and to bo matrons of hospitals. To competent nurses would fall more and more the direction of simple treatment. Nurses and doctors should be drawn from the same-type of school. In the commercial life of the country there was undoubtedly much work for girls above the artisan, class. Up to the present girls trained in secondary schools became clerks of various grades, white their brothers of ability coula hope to riso through these grades to important positions of control.. In the secondary schools girls could be prepared for a business career instead of having to go to a private institution, perhaps, on leaving school to get that necessary training. It was of the most vital necessity to the country that the higher education of women should be extended and specialised until the present progress, great as it was, should seem but a feeble beginning.

The engagement is announced of Corporal J. M'Naughton (now 011 active service) to Miss Ivy Gaby, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Gaby, Kilbirnie.

A quiet wedding was celebrated in Masterton on Wwlnesday, when Miss 51. 11. Payton, daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Payton, was married! to Dr. Gordon,, son of the late. Mr. Peter Gordon.

At a woll-attended meeting of tho Wellington branch of'tho Women's< International League iliokl yesterday tho following resolution was carried unanimously:—"That this meeting of women, in view of existing conditions and in view of tho excellent results obtained in countries where it has been tried, urges the Government to move in the direction of appointing women police in New Zealand."

Tho Women's National Rc.ssrvo in Napier is doing good work. Jlvs. M'Cartby (president) and Mrs. Smart (sccrcfcarv), supported bv a strong and enthusiastic executive, accomplish a largo amount of war work. The Borough Council has lent them two large rooms. One is used for sewing, in the davtimo and for commercial classes at night, where a number of students are learning typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, etc. The sewing room is open every day", when a member of tho executive is always in charge. A quantity of hospital sewing is doue, also a monthly contribution sent to Wellington. A produce stall is held oncc a fortnight to provide funds for material .or for whatever purpose money is most needed. For tho last month, instead of a stall in the street, members have been Jent'a. shop in a good position, which is more comfnrtablo in the cold winter weather. The country peoplo- specially arc most generous in sending in supplies of poultry, meat of all kinds, flowers, etc.

A Clergyman's Fighting Family.

With sixtsons serving in .the Forces ■of the Empire; three of whom have already won high service honours, the llov. J. Howell-Prico and his wife probably occupy a -unique position in 'Australasia (states a-Sydney paper). Mi\-Howell-Price is well known in various Jjarts of New South, Wales. ,• He was the first clergyman to reach the sceno of the Mount .Browii gold rush, 230 miles wo6t of Wilcafinia, when tho field was opened-up in .'lßßl.l Both Mr. and Mrs. Hoivell-Price come from families with, fino fighting and their family of six sons is upholding the family honour. One sou, Lieut.-Colonel 0. (jr. Howell-Price, 26 years .of age, is with his regiment in France, and holds the auui-ary Cross for service at Lone Pine. Captain Phillip HowellPrico is also in France, and word was received. very recently that lie had been awarded tho. D.S.O. for conspicuous gallantry. .Ho was recommended three times in dispatches, the. last timo by Sir lair Hamilton himself. He also saw. 'service on Gallipoli, and was wounded at. Lone Pine.'Lieutenant John HowellPrico,- R.N.It., wears the Distinguished Service Cross,' and was sub-lieutenant on tho Alcantara, .which fought an engagement'with the German cruiser Grcif in the North Sea, both vessels boing sunk. He is now serving on a submarine of tho newest typo. Lieutenant Frederick Howell-Prico, 28 years of: age,is adjutant, Headquarters A.A.SX);, Anzac Mounted (Division. He has iheen 1 , mentioned' in dispatches for tho. IXS.O. Troopor Richmond G. Howell-Price belongs to the Sixteenth Reinforcements, 6th .Australian Light Horse, and is 20 years of ago. Lieutenant D. C. W. Howell-Price is attached to tho A. and 1., Staff, Victoria Barracks, and has offered himself foi service abroad. Ho serv'ed;in tlio South African: War, and at 21 was mado acl- t ing-adjutant of his regiment; (-'■■■ I

Ln charge of the Triangle/Depot in the'Y.M.C.A. Buildings on Friday will bo Mrs. Allan and Miss Steele, and on Saturday Mrs.' Waterhouse and Mrs. Montague.

Recent- visitors' to H:M.S; Lion Included a party of girl'munition workers from Boardmore's works (states.an English writer). The "girls had worked 'so splendidly that the manager, who declared that they were doing ten times the work that moil were formerly doing in the . same time, asked if they could have'one .thing they most wanted—that, was'to see tho Lion!- The girls came and'were entertained': on board, and when they asked ■ if. they could give anything as a, memorial of their!'visit,' the'men of the Lion-asked for a shell. So-one of the show things in the ship is an shell - made by these girls. V, '■'. ; V '.'■