SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2910, 24 October 1916, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Soldiers' Room Fund. The lion, treasurer acknowledges receipt of donations and subscriptions from the following:—-Mr. and Mrs. \Y. 11. S. M.oorohouse, Mr. G. lluntcr, M.P., Mrs, Corrigan, Mr. 11. E. Nieholls, Mrs. aiul Miss Kirkcaldie, Mrs. Brandon, Timiru ' Patriotic Society, Mrs. C. It. Smith, C. M. Banks, Ltd., "A Friend," Mrs. Mestayor, Mr. T. Itonayne, Otago Patriotic Socicty, Messrs. Wright, Stevenson and Co., Mrs.' Kane, Mrs. Joseph Joseph, Mrs. D. M. Yeats, "F.L.Y.," Mrs. E. Ikdfield, Mrs. W. Young, Mr. J. Godber, Mr. H. Hall, Dr. and Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Sydney Nathan, Mrs. E. Anderson, Mr. T.'F. Martin, Mrs. West,. Dr. A. Martin, Mrs. L. H. B. Wilson, Mrs. Mirams, Mrs. H. Hadfield, and Christchurch Lad.v Liverpool Patriotic Society. Red Cross Shop, Woodward Street. The commit too of the Red Cross Shop, Woodward Street, acknowledges with thanks contributions of homemade goods, flowers, otc., from the unnientioned donors: —Mrs. Holloway, Mrs. J. .1. Williamson, Stokes Valley School', Mrs. Parsons, Mrs. Mathoson, Miss M. Macandrow, Miss Dimmit, Mrs. TCeid, Mr. Ewart, Mrs. Wyatt, Mrs. M'Gnrr, Mrs. Magill, Mrs. Bradley, Mrs. Block, Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs. Barry, Mrs, Kircher, Mrs. Fox, Mrs. Wright, Mr. Brodie, Mrs. Watson, Mrs. Mow, Mrs. Murio, Mrs. Pholps, Mrs. Stitchbury. Mrs. Bennett, MrsShaw. Mrs. Hellyor._ Mrs. Christie, Mrs. Phil Myers, Miss Gentry, Mrs. Todd, Mrs. Tucker, Mrs. Jenkins, Mrs. .Fraser, Sirs. Haughton, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Keith. Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Longmore, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. M. P. Cameron, Mrs. MacMorran, Mrs. Jack Myers. Miss Levi, Mrs. Van Staveren, Mrs. Voiteh, Mrs, Fernandez, Miss Dorset, Mrs. Smytlie, Mrs. Arthur Myers, Mrs. Wood. Miss ■ Jupp, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Fuller, Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Tracey. Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Rawson, Mrs. Bailey, Miss Owen. Miss M'Kenzio, Miss Mnckay. On Wednesday the shop will be in rhargo pf si committco of ladies from Seatoun, who will have the customary excellent supply of liome-madn calces, etc., for sale. The Heart of France. At tho Trafalgar Day entertainment on Saturday evening last, one of the speakers, Mr. Jolly, also spoko very beautifully of tile French. Red Cross . work. Ho told an exquisite little story which appeared in a- recent issue of tlx; London "Spectator." It told' ofHlio visit of an Englishman to the cemetery at Rouen (in France), wliero many British, as well as many Australians and New Zealandors, lie buried. He found • there a, British grave smothered with forget-me-nots, and'on inquiry found that tho seeds had been, sown and the plants raisod by a French lady, who, with the assistance of her own gardener liad planted them 011 the graves. Tho visitor sought out tho lady, and asked her why she had done this, and she had replied very shnply that what ; she had done was nothing. If it had j been permitted her own son would have : gone to tho war, and might perchance have' been killed, and she had only done ; what she had done for that satisfaction ; which a mother has in tending the grave of her son. Those were the graves of men who no doubt had mothers and sistess far away, and she , was glad to bo abic to do what their mothers would hare done for them. The attention and cane that was being bestowed on numerous other graces was the work of French women who did not know where there own dead were lying, and probably never would, and they wore pleasfed to do tho work for the mothers ami sisters of their Allies. Such was the exquisite human touch tlmt was being given to the graves of our-dead hy ,tho French women, and in the saino iijensuro was the Fretuh Red Cross 'Society doing great and noblo work for our wounded in Franco. (Applause.) TOILET HINTS. .TREATMENTS TO BE HAD AT MRS. ' ROLLESTON'S. To keep the liair in good condition, monthly shampooing is advisable. Fee, 2s. Gd. , To strengthen the growth, .and prevent breaking 'and splitting, have the hair cut and singed. Fee, Is. 6d. • For failing hair, premature greyness, dandruff, or lack'of lustre, a cotirso of special treatment is invaluable. Fee, J3l Is. • A guinea course.of faco treatment is indispensable for improving tho complexion, removing blemishes, and eradicating .wrinkles. Foi"-tUe permanent removal of superfluous hair without the slightest scar, Mrs. Rolleston ' holds a diploma and medical reference for skilful t.ieatment by electrolysis. Fee, 10a. per hour. Transformations and- hainvork of every description a speciality. 25G Lambton Quay, Wellington.—Advt. JJadies! Purchase your Dainty Silk Hfl.iO for Trentham at Price's Store, Wilis Street. Pure Black Silk Hose Bs. Gd., unmatchable duality.—Advt. ' We have just opened a big line of black Golf Hose for school boys, with gold, red, red and gold, royal, red and 'white, preen, green and white tops—3s, to 3s. lid., at Geo. Fowlds, Ltd.—Advt.

A Nurse and tho Brave British "Tommies." Writing to a sergeant of tiie A.1.F., whom she had nursed in Egypt, from "Somewhere in Franco," Nurse M. B. Curtain, now attached to tho British Kxpeditionary Force, formerly of Australia, gives a vivid pen picturo of the flowers that everywhere deck the failland of France, through which for months she has beon travelling, living in an ambulance train. "Wo are having a day's respite," writes Nurse Curtain, "and right glad we arc of the rest. Our life in France ha/; all scorned a dream. In my wildest imaginative 'lights 1 had not seen myself so near as to hear and see the con-' timious caruionacling and tho terrific artillery fire, but I have often as we go up for tho men who have been through fire and bring them bade. Absolutely the British soldier is tho I most wonderful being; his enduranco and prude make one prouder than ever than ho or she, as the case may be, is British.. -My memory is stored with stories flf heroism, and the impression loft on my mind by these men who are the survivors of the charges against fearful odds will never fade. Wo try to keep tho ache- out of our' hearts for those who will never go into action again—those bravo, smiling lads who went under, but havo returned maimed to us, and also for those, alas, who have received their last wound. But this must be in warfare ■"Do you notice by the papers' that' everywhere the Australians are referred to as Aliases r 1 In fact, I have beon hailed by a doctor who recognised the uniform with the expression, 'Hello, Auzacl' i most strongly object to all Australians being calleu Ansae, and consider it grossly unfair to the original Anzacs, who received their baptism of iiro on the shell-torn peninsula of Ciallipoli, and whom we did our best for in the back-waters of Egypt. But, all the same, I get wildly excited at tho spectacle of tne well-known turncdup hats and tho smart tunics when one does come into view, It is so different here to Fgypt now that open warfare has commenced. I know 1 should feel awfully had if 600 Australians as badly wounded as my last batch of j7nglish 'Tommies' were tumbled in tipon us to 'steam off with. You see Australians are so much further from home than these British boys. "This is my third month of living in an ambulance traiu, sleeping in a bunk under another blink,, with black engine smuts generously peppering my pillow as often as not. We live mostly' on what are known as 'iron rations,' and from your experiences- at Gallipoli you will understand what dainty food that is. But wo have compensations, for what a glorious land is this land of France. 'J he scenery is a never-end-. •iug joy, and 1 write pages homo, doing my best to describe- it—its woods, its pine forests, and its flowers, especially tho latter. I am trying my best to collect and press as complete a sot as I can of the wild flowers of Franco, but I fear that tho best aro out of reach on tho railway embankments, and I only see them from the windows as we flash by. In tho woods I have seen veritable carpets of lilies of the valley; and, while enjoying their scent, havo listened to tho liquid notes of the nightingale. And often between the flowers one notices : little wooden crosses, and I think of the words of that old sage Omar, where ho says:— "I sometimes think that never-blows so.red The rose.as where so buried Caesar . bled; That every hyacinth tho garden wears Dropt in its'lap from some onco lovely ' head." . '■".'"- "With alteration of tho!.word ",. 'hero' for 'Caesar,' how true this is of-hun-dreds of miles of country in. Franco today." , At the monthly meeting of the Wellington Central Women's Christian Temperance L'nion held, on Friday last tho following resolution was passed:— "That this union, beueving that tho appointment of women police by tho Government would tend to diminish crime, deeply regrets tliat tho deputation of .representative women, which recently waited on tho Minister of Justice, asking for flio appointment of women police in tho Dominion, mot with so unsatisfactory a reception, especially as the Ministers-ill' his reply, stated that voluntary police women in. other parts of tho world were rendering valuable service... Members wero desirous that New Zealand should be in tho van of this reform, instead of waiting for its adoption by older countries. In speaking to . the motion, _ the opinion was expressed that the Minister had treated the deputation unfairly by side-tracking fheir request with irrcvalent issues. Mr. and Mrs. Kcrnot were passengers from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday. 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The Citizenship of Women. "What is citizenship?" asks Miss . Elsie Simpson in the "Australian Kindergarten Magazine" for September. . Her short article is very thoughtful. Li defining citizenship as the relation of the individual to the State, the writer says that "as teachers and 'students v we should be interested in bringing ■< about tho widest possible extension of ' ' this feeling of responsibility or public spirit, as it is commonly called. .... . The [question is, how is this oonacidus- '. ness to. be awakened, and. when awakened, "to bo effective? The'answer is, through education.' But what is the kiud of education that we stand most • in need of?' Surely'it cannot be the kind'of education that exalts tho State and debases the individual; nor, on the other hand, can it bo the sort of education that eleyates the to the disruption of society. It cannot be the , kind of education which seeks to mould all men to one pattern,- or the kind that confuses liberty with license, or that makes action a substitute for : thought. It must be the kind of education that frees men and women from

the shackles of stupid traditions and prejudices; the kind of education which stimulates the desiro to know and to think, as well as the desire to do; the kind of education that encourages at the same time a sense of freedom and a sense of responsibility. It is the kind of education that must be given to all classes, to women as ; well as to men. Nothing could be more ridiculous than the statement that women do not need the same kind of eduoation as men. We are the 6ons and daughters of our mothers as well as of our fathers, and no nation can with impunity neglect the broader eduoation of its women. Fundamentally women must be trained for. the same purpose as men, namely, to be deevlopmg personalities, and to root, their growth in service."

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An Investiture. _ Writing to Melbourne friends from London, Miss E. A. Conyers, toatron-m-chiof of Australian hospitals abroad, gives an interesting account of lio investiture ceremony by His Majesty King George, states an Australian exchange. The nurses received a command to atfcond at Buckingham Palaco at 10.15 a.m. on Juno 27. Five of them —Miss Conyers and Mrs. J. M'Hardie White,, with throe sisters— motored to the Palaco. They were attired in sorvico dress, cap, anil white kid gloves. They were shown into a room where about a hundred nurses were sitting. A few minutes , later their names wero called, and they filed into a larger room ready to receive the decorations. A lino of. tall Indian officers stood faoing tho Kinjf. Queen Mary stood behind tho King to the right. She looked grave and stately, and had hdr hair dressed just as in the pictures one is accustomed to see of Queen Alexandra. Miss Conyers confesses to a certain amount of shyness when her turn 'came to step forward and face tho King, who was on a dais with an attendant at his side holding _a crimson cushion with her decoration in £he centre of it. She curtseyed, stepped forward, and tho King hung the decoration on to a little hook that had previously been attached to her dress. King Gcorgo then said, "I thank you for all ypu have dono; how long have you been on active She replied, "Four weeks here, and eighteen months in Egypt." Ho then shook her warmly by the hand. She curtseyed again, took one step backward, and retired. Outside the room an attendant undid tho decoration, put it in a small box, and handed it to her.

The wedding of Miss A. Solvander, eldest daughter of Captain Solvander, of Gisborne, with Mr. Douglas Bray, son of Mr. G. E. Bray, of Wellington, and lately of Dunedin, was celebrated quietly at Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne, last week, by Ven. Archdeacon Paoke. Miss D. Solvander assisted as bridesmaid, with Mr. D. Pollock as groomsman. The guests were afterwards enterained at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Solvander. ■' The bride and bridegroom left for their future home in Wellington.

A London paper announces the engagement of Miss Monin, of Ringwould, Dover, to Commander Viscount Broome, R.N., nophew of the late Lord Kitchener, and heir to the present Earl. The prospective bridegroom is heir to the Broome Park estate and Earl Kitchener's Kentish property, and the £80,000 voted to the late War Secretary after his Khartum and South African campaigns. Ho is aged 38.

_Tho engagement is announced in English papers of Mr. John Hugh Langdon, of Bristol, late 9th Battalion A.1.F., to Miss Elizabeth Harwood, of" Wairarapa, New Zealand.

The Countess of Glasgow, who went to Ceylon to meet her husband, who is in command of one of His Majesty's warships, returned to Wellington by the Manuka yesterday.

Mrs. A. E. Kernot and Miss Kernot, of Wellington, who have been in Australia for some months, were passongors by the Manuka, which arrived hero yesterday from Sydney.

Mrs. Pomare, wife of the Hon Dr. Pomare, and Mrs. Muriniai Matu, of tho South Island, have been visiting Otaki. At a Native entertainment there they were accorded a . hearty welcome in good old Maori fashion. During the evening both the ladies addressed the gathering in Maori, , exhorting tho Otaki Natives to imitate the'good example of the pakehas and contribute regularly for the relief of needy Maori soldiers. • . :

The concert given in the-United Institute Hall, Fcatherston Camp, last woek by the Victoria League Girls' Concert Party attracted a crowded audience. The ; Camp Commandant, Lieutenant-Colonel N. P. Adams N.Z.F.C., and the..'Adjutant, Major Newcorabe, were present, besides a number of the camp hospital nurses, and a heavy sprinkling of officers.

Mr. and Mrs. Somerset'Playne- (neo Miss Lucy Standidge) left by tho s.s. Riverina last Thursday for their home in India, via Sydney. '

Mr. and Mrs. T. Fraser, of Pouawa, .Poverty Bay district, celebrated their golden wedding last week. Mr. Eraser arrived in Christchurch just fifty-throe years ago, and thrco years later married Mrs. Fraser there, the lady "having come out from th'eOld Land.tojoin him. For somo years thoy resided in tho Amuri district, and. eventually came toGisborne about thirty" years ago, when Mr. Fraser took ,irp • tho well-known Pouawa property, being ono of tho pioneers of farming on tho East Coa-st. .There w«rc twelve children of the marriage, and of the eight surviving (four sons ; and four daughters), seven are married, and the only single son is at tho front. The old couple are grandparents of twenty hardy young New Zealanders, one of whom is now in training for tho front.

Tho death occurred last week of a very old resident of tho Gisborno district iu the person ' of Mrs. Berry, widow of, tho late Mr. Robert Berry, who died two years ago. Tho deceased lady came to New Zealand with Mr. Berry thirty-three years ago. They first settled at Waikari, Nortli Canterbury, subsequently moving to the North Island, and taking up land at Tiniroto, whero thoy resided continuously for.many years. In addition to her son, Mr. Jas. Berry, of Gisborno, she leaves_ a daughter, Mrs. Gowland, of ChristcTiurcli.