WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2850, 15 August 1916, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

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SOdIAL AND PERSONAL Red Cross Work. Miss Sybil Nathan, lion, secretary of the Women's Committee of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John, acknowledges contributions received at the depot- in Mercer Street from the following districts or donors:—Wairarapa branch of Britisli Red Cross, Miss Bray. Miss Weston, Mrs. W. H. Ward, "Pctone Mother," Oliau Red Cross, Waverley Ladies' Patriotic League, Ladies' Guild, Ohakune Junction, .Mrs. Dumbell's Guild, Khaiidallah, Mrs. Walter Reid, Mrs. Hill, Mm. Coley (Fox-ton), Miss Hulbert, Napier branch of Britisli Red Cross (four bales of 2o pairs blankets), Otane branch of British Red Cross, Girls' Friendly League, Karori Women's National Reserve, Mrs. Bruce, Miss Smith, Marjory Thompson, Mrs. E. If. Lewis, Edna Griffiths, Mrs. Hassall, Maraekakaho branch of Hawke's Bay, M'Eldowney Bros., Seatoun branch (per Mrs. Fuller), Una Curtis, Mr. Cassidy, Miss M. Tendall, j Fitzherbert Terrace Red Cross Guild I (Miss Babcr's school girls). Appreciation of Gift Parcels. That the gift parcels which arc forwarded by the Countess of Liverpool Workers and various other patriotic bodies of women aro . reaching their destination safely is shown by tlio number of letters which have been received from tho men at the front, telling the Benders of their safe arrival and of tho delight with which they have been welcomed. Olio New Zealand man says that they form- up almost in queue fashion when it is expected that these parcels are to bo given out, and they behave for all the world liko a pack of boys eagerly anticipating these simplo little girts, ■ which, as they say, show that the people they have left behind them in Now Zealand are thinking of them 'and working for them. It is these personal little touches that convoy so much comfort to these men of nurs. In another letter which was received by a worker at the Town Hall tho writer says that four or five of his parcels arrived together, and as he was receiviug them a man next to him, an Englishman in his company, whose relatives or friends had evidently not thought of him in this way, stood next to him, a most pathetic, lonely look upon his face. "I can't tell you how I felt for him," the writer continued, "and I was going to share my things with him. To my great joy, however, every man, including himself, was presented with a parcel from New Zealand, and you should have seen this maii's face. It was a study." Another writer in tho course of N his letter said: "Send socks and handkerchiefs, and, above all, something to eat. It does not matter about being a big parcel—a small one sent regularly is greatly appreciated, and meets tho great need of the men. It is the personal feeling about it all that counts for so much with the men." Soldiers' Room Fundi The lion, treasurer, Mrs. H. Hall, acknowledges tho receipt of the following donations Mrs. J. M. M'lVae, £3 3s. ; "A Mother" (Napier), £2; Mr. J. L. Morrison, £1; Mr. G. Turner (Christchurch), as.; Mr. Gow, 2s. Also the following monthly subscriptions:—Mr, W. J: Bridson, £.12 (12 months); Dan* nevirke Mayoress' Patriotic Society, '£5 ; Christchurch Lady Liverpool Fund, £5; Otago" Women's Patriotic Association, £5; Mrs. J. Kirkcaldie, £4 (two months); Miss Kirkcaldie, £4 (two months); Mr. Max Eichelbaum, £3 3s. (three months); Timaru Ladies' Patriotic Committee, £2; Mr. D. Robertson, £2 (two months); Mrs. W. Nathan and Mrs. G, F. 0. Campbell, £1 Is. each; Mrs. Massey, Mrs. J. M'Eldowney, Mrs. Yeats (too months), Mr. and Mrs. W. H. S.'Moorhouse, Miss Coatea, Miss Tendall, Mrs. Birch (Morton), Mrs. C. Earle, Dr. Harcourt Arthur, Messrs. T. •F. Martin, li. G. Reid, T. Ronayne and G. Hunter, M.P., £1 each; Mrs. Salmond and Mrs. J. Renton Watt, 10s. each; Mrs. Mestayer, 7s. fid.; Lady Gibbes, Mrs. R. E. Earle, Mrs. E. Hadfield, and Miss Jenkyns, ss. each; Mrs. E. E. Gillon and "A Friend," 2s. 6d. each; soldiers' contributions (two weeks), £5 15s. lid. Countess of Liverpool Fund. Contributions to tho Countess of Livorpool Fund have been, received at the Town Hall during the past month from:—"A Friend," "A.P.," no name, Normal School, Standard II (per Miss R. Fallowes, Ladies' Guild, Ohakune Junction, Ladies' Guild, Waitara, "2," Pahiatua (per Mrs. Barltrop), Mrs. Leech, Mrs. Hoare, Mrs. Ramsay (Ngaio), Mrs. Chatwin, Mrs. Bishop, Girls' Club, Paraparaumu (per- E. Vaughan), Mr. Blundell, Mrs. C. F. Baker, "F.E.W.," ■no name, Mrs. F. E. Severne, Miss. Pratt, Mrs. J. G. Maclean, no name, "C.M.A.," Mrs: M'Kibbon, Miss Perry, Clyde Quay School, Patriotic Guild, "L.E.5.," "A.P.," J. B. Clarkson and Co., Ltd.,' Mrs. ikikford, A. Webster, Mrs. Young, State school children, Miss Andrews, Miss Duncan, Miss Jacob, Khandaliah Ladies, Normal High School, Mrs. Parkinson, Normal School,. Standard 11, Wadestowii Women's National Reserve, "Kia Ora."

Mrs. J. P. Luke (Mayoress) and'her Entertainment Committee wish to express their gratitude to tlio Trentham Camp Band for the excellent music tliey supplied at Saturday's soldiers', evening in the Town Hall.

Clothing for the widows and children of sauors lost in the Jutland Battle are acknowledged from Mrs. P. Sullican, Mts.Moag Levy, Mrs. F. Archer, Mrs. R. C. Kinvig, Mrs. J. Foote, Mrs. H. V. Hammond, Mrs. W. H. .Wallace; Mr. Gold, Mrs. F. C. Favill, Mrs. J. Foote (second parcel).

On Tuesday evening, at the residence of Mr. ami Mrs. Waite, Oriental Street-, Petone, the 'friends of Pte. Hamilton Maxwell (who leaves with the Sixteenth lleiuforceinents) assembled at a fnrev.'ell "social." During t'ho evening Pte. Maxwell was presented with a leather waistcoat and an air pillow, and hopes wero expressed that ho would return sale and sound.

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The Women's Way. I havo seen a little of tho management of horses by. women during the past three months (writes a correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle"), and I am wondering if the horses appreciate tho change. A few weeks ago I watched the harrowing of a- great wheat field. It was done by a man and a woman and four horses. Tho man and his two horses started at one end, and tho woman and her helpers at the other. Though a great distanco lay between the workers they kept pace together as regards work done, and "the only difference I could see lay in the treatment of their horses. As the man with his pair readied tho hedge, he used his stick freely to turn the. horses round. As the woman reached the hedge she merely clicked lior tongue, and, still holding the reins, she turned the horses as easily as she turned herself.

A series of Red Cross teas, for material chiefly, have been instituted at Miramar by the Miramar Red Cro6s Sewing Guild. Last month Mrs. Rowntree gave-, one with successful results, and recently Mrs. Hazolwood gave another, at which home-made cakes ajid sweots were sold. As a result of her tea tho sum of £5 was handed in to Miss Sybil Nathan yesterday at the Red Cross Depot, in. Mercer Street, part of the amount to go to the puroliaso of material and the remaining half to Red Cross funds.

Every momber of the Sixteenth Reinforcements passing through Christchurch this week is to be presented with a. parcel containing chocolate, fruit, and cigarettes. These aro to be made up by members of a ladies' committee representing the Lady Liverpool Fund and the Christchurch branch of the Women's National Reseryo, and will be presented to tho moil on the trains after leaving Christchurch railway station by members of the C.D.C.

A tribute to the heroism of the 2500 women who have come forward to do men's work at the Post Office was paid by the Postmaster-General in the English House of Commons recently. When tho Zeppelin raids wore going on, and even when bombs were dropping, the gallantry and devotion displayed by tho women in persisting with their work were declared to bo an example to the whole country. In the same spirit the women employees at tile Dublin Telephone Exchange held to their posts "with bullets flying and fires raging round them," and by thus keeping communication- open enabled the military to be brought lip in time to suppress the revolt—"Manchester Guardian." '

During their stay in Christchurch for tho Grand National Meeting, Their Excellences tho Governor and the Countess of Liverpool are the guests of Mr. and Mrs; A. E. G. Rhodes, To Koraha. .

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Lan Hay/<n>lomlon. ' A much larger thcatro than tho'Caxion HaU should have been selected by the Ladies' Council of the Primrose Losgue for Captain lan Hay Beith's leoturo on, "Human Nataro at the Front," given in London recently, states tho "Manchester Guardian." As it was, tbo hall was packed! Jong before tho author of "The First Hundred Thousand," who .is an officer of the Argyll and' Sutherland Highlanders, appeared.

/ The looture was largely anecdotal, and in the main bore welcome -resemblance to his famous war book. The idea, was to describe a Scottish workingman battaEon. . Captain Beith said that his own platoon was rich in character, but that,its appearance and deportment would have made a drill sergeant weep. One recruit joined in the attire of a waiter in a third-class

restaurant, and before uniforms were available-he paraded in a swallow-tail coat,_ slightly decollete waistcoat, and no diokey. That waiter became a firstclass fighting man, was wounded at Loos, and is now back at his original calling. Another-recruit was on "independent Briton," who founded a mutual aid society, in the ranks and by certain acts mortgaged his pay. Told that there was no money due to him, but that he owed the Kong'ss., he 6aid with scathing Glasgow irony: "Wull the King get itP D'yo no' get it yersel'?"

The leading feature of the regiment was its ability to provide , experts for any emergency. One day Captain Beith sent a mail on a certain mission after explaining.!to him the points of the compaes and h-crw to read a maip. The man said not a word, but later the. captain found that the man was by profession a land surveyor. In con- _ elision, aa lan Hay true anecdote. The opposing trenohes are flooded. It is raght. voioe from the German trench to the Scottish lines: "Are you dor, JookP Are you der, Jock? Haf you any whisky ? We.haf plenty of water."

> Mrs. P. S- Laing and Miss Margaret ' Laing, of Napier, left on a visit to 'Australia, la-at, Thursday. They will be away for some months.

■ Hrs. T. H. Lowry, of Okawa, who, wiEH Mr. Lowry left some time ago for America to undergo treatment at Rochester, under t lie famous Dr. Mays, is (according to Jatest advice) making good progress under the treatment. An operation not being thought necessary, it is probable that they will return by the nest trip of the j^iagara.,

' A military wedding took place in the Hastings Methodist Church recently, when Private Edward 6. Ellis, son of iha lato Mr. Benjamin Ellis, of Yorks. England,: was ; married to- Miss • Alice Jan#. Townshen'd, second, daughter of Mrl and 'Mrs. Thomas' Towns£?nd, of Queen Street, Hastings. Miss Elsie Musson was bridesmaid, and Private Herbert Astridge' best man. ChaplainCaptain M. A. Rugby Pratt performed the ceremony.

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