WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2883, 22 September 1916, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

j' MATTERS OP INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(BY IMOGEN.)

| SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Flower Day on Saturday. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of ladies roady to assist in tlio Citizens' Christinas Gift Fund was held in tho Mayor's lloom of the Town Hall. Tho Mayoress (lira. J. P. Luke) presided. Mr. Watkins and Mr. Barry Keeaing representing tho Associate! Sports Bodies, wero also among thoso who attended the meeting. Mr. Watkins, after the Mayoress had briefly opened the proceedings, explained to the ladies what. it ivas thoy were askod to undertake in connection with Saturday. Briefly, it was to sell flowers and badges. Tho cxocutivo committee had been very busy making appeals and securing promises for flowers, as many as sixty circulars having been sent out to the-Mayors of tho different country districts. A most satisfactory number of promises to send in supplies had been received. This evening it was proposed that a number of ladies, as well as members of . the men's committco and friends, should attend at tho Town Hall and got the flowors ready for selling on tlio following morning. Silver badges for one shilling aiid gilt ones for sixpence would also bo sold. Several of Messrs. , Kirkcaldio and Stains' assistants had I promised to sell silk flags atone shilling each, and as tho troops would he parading this Should do much to I brighten the streets. Other means of I increasing the Christmas Gift Fund would be by means of tho sale of poultry and produco which Mr. F. Townsend undertaken to auction every day at his mart, and the schoolchildren, it was. hoped, would secure much success with their bottlo campaign. • ThS Mayoress called upon different I ladies present to undertake the charge of various stands for flowers in tho streets. Tho following wore the arrangements arrived at, one or two of which will bo subject to the approval of those concerned: —Courtenay Place stand, Mrs. Colo and Mrs. Rounti-ce; I Bank of New Zealand corner, Vit-rorra League (subject to approval); Government Buildings; Mrs. Greenwood; Kirkcaldio ana Stains, Mrs. M'Lean and Mrs. Galvin; Kelburn Avenue, the Misses Ewart (subject to approval); Winder's corner, Albert Hotel cornor, and Veitch and Allan's, Mrs. Luke, With helpers. Thero would also be a number of frec-lances, who would sell wherever possible. On October 7 tho Mayoress's Entertainment Committee I Would carry out tho afternoon tea ar--1 rangements on tho Basin Roservo for the fete. Mr. Keesing announced that several attractions for this day had been arranged. Ho further stated that the I Marble Bar, which opens its premises j on Wednesday next in Manners Streot, I was handing its .'takings over to the ' committee for tho fund. A hearty voto of thanks to tho Mayoress for presiding was proposed by Mr. Keesing, and carried by tlio meeting. Offers from those willing to assist with Saturday's sale of flowers and badgos will bo gladly received. ■ . . ' Victoria League In London. Tho Lord Mayor (Sir Charles Wakefield) has opened tho Viotoria League's new club for overseas soldiors at Hat- . ton Gardens.—Press Association. ! ■ Contributions to the Parcels Fund at ' the Town Hall are coming steadily in, and it is hoped that they will still continuo to do so. Maoris as well as tho, pakeha troops have always been provided for, and the former receive exactly the same )smd or gifts and comforts l'rom tho Mayoress's Countess of Liverpool Fund Committee. j That the parcels which are forwarded to the soldiers at tho front reach their destinatfon would-, seem to find much proof in tlio fact that ono lady who lias consistently setit away parcels has received no fewer than twenty-five letters of thanks from different soldiers. Tho greatest appreciation was expressed, and one or two bf the writlira mentioned that thoy were so close to tho German trenches that tliey could with case toll tho GermlSn soldiers opposite thom what : their/presents consisted of. They took 'caro to do so, apparently; to tho envy of the latter. " Mr. and Mrs. Georgo Hume (Featberston) have been spending a few days in Wellington. Mrs. Fitchott has roturned from her visit to tho north, and is staying at Miss Malcolm's. Commander Armstrong' and Mrs. Armstrong are staying at Miss Malcolm's. Mr. and Mrs, G. Bloomfield, of Auckland, aro visiting Wellington, and aro staying with Mrs. D. W. Duthie. Dr. "Mary Blair (Wellington) is still out in Corsica in chargo of tlio institution for Serbian refugees, but it is not unlikely that she will bo returning for a time to Salonika, writes a London correspondent on August 10. ■ This hospital at Ajaccio is quite full. A number of cases Have been transferred thero from Bastia, and a largo numbor of tho patients aro s'ufforing- from tuberculosis, so that thero is prospective steady work ahead for the' medical staff for many months to como. Bastia also sent to Ajaccio a number of discharged soldiers who still require medical care. Dr. Blair went out to the Mediterranean in July, 1915, in charge of a hospital unit, under the a-uspices of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign'Servico. 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Gd., 7s. Bd., and Bs. Gd. Call at Price's Store, Willis Streot.—Advt. "Face dry and parched after tho outing, dear? . . , Mine was, too, but it's better now. I applied 'Svdal.' It's so refreshing, and my.!—hasn't it made a change. 'Just feel how soft and smooth my face is now! It's just grand! Go round to the chomist and get a pot of 'Sydal' to-daj'. It's simply splendid, for softening tho face and hands and arms. Inexpensive, too—you got such a big pot for 25." At all choinists and stores:— Advt. l

For Red Cross Day. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of delegates of variouß bodies engaged in . patriotic work was held in the ' Red Cross Depot in Morcer Street to consider the various proposals which were | to be submitted in regard to Red Cross Day by a sub-committee which ; had boon set up at a previous meeting 1 this week for that purpose. His Wor- ' ship tho Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) presided, and among those who were present were: The Mayoress (Mrs. Luke), Mrs. Moorhouse, Mrs. W. Nathan, and Miss Sybil Nathan, Mrs. L. Blundell, Messrs. Wright, Holmes, M'Laren, and Browurigo, representing the Red Cross; Mrs, Hall-Thompson and Miss Ward, the Women's National Reserve; Mrs. Rankine Brown, Mrs. Ernest Hadfiold, and Mrs. Corliss, the Victoria League; Mrs. Burko and Miss Wheeler, tlio Catholic Ladies Knitting Guild; Sirs. Peat, Mrs. Preston, Mrs. Gaby, and Mrs. A. T. Williams, tho St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas and Red Cross Society; Mrs. Fitcliett, the Countess of Liverpool Fund Com- 1 mittee; Mr. L. 0. H. Tripp, tho War Relief Association; Mr. 1 Lowis, Mr. M'lntosh, Mr. M'Laren, Mr. Brownrigg, and Mr. Wilford (chairman of sub-committee); tho N.ow Zealand Patriotic Society; Mr- Manton and Mr. Phipps, tho Commercial Travellers; Mr. Luke, tho Mayor's Patriotic Society. , . A brief-resume of what had been accomplished at tho* last meeting was read by Mr. T. Young (the chairman of the Men's Committco of tho Red Cross Society) and Mr. Wilford then prooofded to submit to the meeting the proposals which his sub-committce had thought would be instrumental in raising funds on lted Cross Day, November 3. Those proposals, wliicn wero dealt with separately after having been put before the meeting, were as follows:— (1) The direct appeal." This proposed that the (sub-committce should issue circulars setting out tho object of Red Cross Day, and asking for direct subscriptions. It further recommended that tho AVomeu's National Resorve be asked to address tho envelopes for tlieso circulars ready for distributing. Mr. Wilford explained that in sanding out theso-circulars caro would be taken not to overlap the subsidiary committee's work in tlio suburbs. (2) A street collection. (3) Thar tlio co-operation of the Tramways Union Executive be sought as a collecting body, their work to be done in' their own particular way. (4) A combined schools concert to bi» held in the Town Ilall on November 1 and 2. , (5) A sale of souvenir Red Cross cards with verses of tho National Anthems of the Allies, fac-similes of their flags inscribed on them. Mr. Wilford further suggested that a money prize should-go with this souvenir card suggestion. (6) Sale of Red Cross badges of three; fixed prices, Is.,_2s. 6d., and £1. (7) A night procession with torchlights; bands, qtc., after the manner of the carnival processiqn, ending with a fete in the Basin Reserve, where brief fivo-miinite speeches would bo made, tlio evening .to end with the National Anthems playedby massed, bands. (8) Cards to bo sold for Is. and 2s. Gd., bearing a short appeal signed by Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool. . " (9) That tho picture theatro proprietors be asked if thoy would contribute 25 per cent, of their takings ou- Red Cross night. (10) That collection cards be given to the. children of tho various schools with which to collect money for the fund, a flag to be given to tho school which had collected tho most. In regard to tliis last proposal it was suggested by one of those- present that this proposition'- be submitted to- the Headmasters' Association, as it had been held that theso collections had interfered with the children's work. All tho other proposals, with the exception of No. 3, in which it was proposed to associate a monoy prize With the sale of souvenir cards, were, passed without discussion. In regard to No. 5, how--fiver, some discussion.'took placo, some of those present taking exception, to a. method in' which tho element of chance was the, phicf factor. On being put to tlio vote of the meeting, however, the proposal was 1 carried. . This disposed of the business of tho mooting, and jt was. loft to Mr. Luko's executivo to sot up the different committees, who would' arrange matters in connection with theso various methods ,of work for Red Cross Day. The name of Mr. Tripp was added to the Executive Committee. For everything worn bv little sons. This week we Teeomniend to your inspection our boots and shoes-at 3s. lid. to 14s. Gd. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners Street.—Advt. Wedding Announcement. — Beautiful roses and the choicest of flowers only are used when designing wedding bouquets, which I make a speciality or. Packed and forwarded through the Dominion. Miss Murray, Vice-Regal Florist, 36 Willis Street.—Advt. (Continued on Pago 30 l

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(Continued, from pago 2.) Returned Soldiers' Club Dance. Tho. weekly entertainment given by the members of the Returned Soldiers' Club for their friends was held last evening at the club, and took the forin , . of a dance. Tho ballroom was just ! pleasantly filled with danccrs, and re~ turned soldiers themselves supplied the greater part of the music for dancing, . Mr. Baxter, of Auckland, on ono occasion accompanying ivitli his violin. Mrs. . Hyams also contributed some songs. Some very lovoly flowers, anemones and ranunculi, sent in by Lady- Gibbcs and Miss Skerrett, decorated tho supper room, Lady Gibbcs and Mrs. Martin arranging them. Tho chaporonoa present . were Mrs. Batten, Mrs/ Martin, Mrs.' i C. Earle, and Mrs. Fox, and the ar- / rangemeuts wore carried out by tho-En-tertaiumont Committee. : Next Tuesday /afternoon tho members of the Allan ;• Wilkio Shakespeare Company will visit the club and wiU give an eutertam- \. uicnt.' j Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Jones, of Tii maru, who liavo been away from New \ ■ Zealand for threo years, returned: by ( the Niagara. . The wodding took place in' St; Mary's Cathedral, ' Auckland, last' week, of Miss Barbara Thomas, daughter of Mr. Charles Thomas, trust manager, Now Zealand/Insurance Company, Auckland, to Mr. E. B. Davisoh, son of Mr. J. ' 13. Davison, Canterbury. Miss Marjory Thomas was bridesmaid, and.Mr. 'L." TV Davison was, best man. Tho bride will be. leaving New Zealand shortly to bo near, her husband, who is bound for tho front. Mrs. Peacock, of Napier, wiio has been away staying at the hospital in Rochester, U.S.A., • whiclris conducted by tho Mays brothers, the celebrated surgeons, returned to Auckland by tho / Niagara in company with Mrs.' M'Lernon and Miss- MLornon. , ■ ' ■ .Mies "Mary M'Lennan has returned .. ' from a visit to Auckland. ; ■ Nurse Lewis, of Otaki, who has been working in connection with the sick and- wounded abroad, is returning by tho TJlimaron. .The' marriage takes place .in St. : ' Paul's Pro ; Cathedral early iii October .of. Miss May Cottle, of Levin, to Mr. Ward Pearce, of .Pahautanui, has been refused for active service. The face, once a woman is over thirty, needs daily a skin-food to feed it, to be well rubbed in. at night and morning. The very be6t only should be'need; this is not necessarily expensive, for a pot, lasts for some weeks or monthß. Miss Milsom recommends her "Cultene" (Bs.) i ■ for nightly use, which, is a tissue-builder, possessing the nourishing yet healing qualities which the skin demands, cures blackheads, reduces largo , pores, and , leaves a fine smooth surface. The - "Cultene Balm" (3s. 6d.), for U6e by day, is a sure preventive 'for chapped and ' • cracking skins. .All hair preparations; All'hair work; Electrolysis; Manicuring. Miss. Milsom, Barnett Buildings, M Wil- ■ t lis Street. Tel. 811—Advt. "The Song of thS> Shirt."—This poem • 1 portrayed the .hard lot of 'the needlewomen of-earlier days, which has been largely removed'by the advent of eewirig machines, of which Oscar Hewett and' Co. (established 1889) have 6old upwards of 25,000, and for which they • guarantee to supply needleß, parte' as may be required. Parts, needles for all . makes stocked. ' Repairs 'promptly, efficiently. and economical. Depot, just below Bank of N.Z.\ 'Phone 520. Best value in. Sewing Machines. Try us.— . Advt. -

Women Army Doctors. Dr. Emma Buckley, a young Australian doctor who bad been engaged by the. War Offico at tho Lister Institute discovering preventive mcdicines, such, for instanco, as anti-typhoid and anti-para-typhoid' vaccines, roturned to Sydney last week. She was also doing pathological work in the interests of tho Australian soldiers, somo of whom suffered from tho after-effects- of wounds or illness contracted in Egypt. Dr. Buckloy, who is an old Sydney High School girl, took her degree of medicine at tho Sydney University. Sho says that, though women army doctors receive the same pay and havo tho same status as men doctors, thoy have not tho same rank—that boing against the British constitution. To nil ijitonts and purposes it is, however, a distinction without a difference. Women army doctors wear a khakkuniform, but aro not pormitted to don tho stars or tho Sam Brown belt.. , Tho British Women's Medical Association recently issued pamphlets asking for medical women to volunteer for positions in the military at home and abroad,, strictly on tho understanding that they did not ask for military rank. Dr. Katie Ardell, a captain at Mapsbury, is in receipt ,of £1 a day, the sanio as a man in a similar position, but rcceivc3 310 recognition of rank. -Dr. Elsie Dalzell is in a hospital near Paris, and Dr. Lucy Gullett is located near Marseilles. Dr. Buckley 6peaks most enthusiastically of tho work boing done by both English and French women. In chemistry, sho says, they aro just doing wonders.' What particularly struck hor was tho - business-like manner of tho women bus conductors. On one ocpaeion when sho was travelling in a bus a dhmken. man made himself very objectionable'. " When on being politely asked to leave the bus he absolutely refused, tho fair conductor, though anything but an Amazon, seized hold of and removed him to the road with tho greatest ease.- Sho:then went quietly on collecting fares as though throwing intoxicated men from buses was all in a day's work. As for the man, the fact of being forcibly removed by a lady brought him to his sober senses, and ho stood in tho middle of the road gasping witJi surprise. , Another thing that struck Dr. Buokley was tho simplicity with which •people now dress at" Home. Erstwhile leaders of fashion wear the plainest of clothes, and not oven the young people spend much upon them. TIIO matron .of the Foatherston Military Hospital acknowledge# tho following gifts Jam and books, from Mrs., D. Thomas, Carterton; tho Lady Liverpool Committee, Masterton ; cases of oranges, eggs, fruit, jam, jellies,_ and linen; tho Lady Liverpool Committee, Carterton, eggs; Mrs. Wakelin, Cartorton, eggs. " The death of Mrs. John M'Manaway, senr., removes another of the early settlers, whose numbers are fast diminishing. .- Arriving with her husband (who predeceased her 41' years ago) in the.;ship Oliver Lang in 1856 (after an •adventurous voyage, the vessel sinking shortly after the passongers had disembarked), the deceased "experienced a full share of the hardships of the early settlors. The deceased lady leaves a family ,of three sons and five daughters. A daughter, the late Mrs. C. Gibbs, predeceased her a fortnight ago. She also leaves 30 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. A Requiem Mass will" be held at the BasilicA, Hill Street, this morning at nine o'clock. Ladies are invited to inspect our SilkAnkled Hoso at!3s. 6d. Also our pure Silk Hoso at 6s. Gd., 7s. 6d., and Bs. Gd. For value, tliev can't be beaten. Price's Store, Willis Street.—Advt. ■