SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2968, 4 January 1917, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

(By Imogen.;

"Country Day" at Red Cross Shop. Tho first "Country Day" at the Wellington Red Cross Shop takes place on Friday. The Kapiti Red Cross district, comprising Wuikanac, Paraparaumu, and Packakariki, have determined to mako their day a complete success from their point of view—that of supplying country produco of tho very best at the ordinary market priceruling in Wellington. Housewives wilL find there lamb, mutton, poultry, potatoes, beans, lettuce, watercress, dairy butter, homc-mnde bread,, currant loaves, i'refhly-inade scones, cakes of all kinds, including eight spongo cakos made with cream, fresh eggs, chutney, preserves, including fifty small pots ot mint-jelly, a now delicacy, to bo served with meat, combining thfl flavour of mint sauco an dred currnat jelly. Thoro aro also lavender bags and sachets of this season's fresh lavender, scented cushions made of all sweet-scented leaves used either for slightly scenting rooms or as headache cushions, dried herbs, sage, thyme, marjoram, mint, and parsley, ferns in small cardboard pots, to be sold at a remarkably low figure.; indeed, everything one can think of from jxirk to try "Day" there will be all sorts of friiit for sale, ami <H< district hopes by then to have pro,v:r arrangements made for tho sale of quantities of fresh cream;. .: < , } Patriotic Caka Room. The committee of the Patriotic Cak» Boom acknowledge with thanks gifts of home-made cakes, sweets, .subscriptions, etc., from the following donors :— Mr. and Mrs. Firth, Mosdaracs Smitten, Holmes, Palmer, Hurst, Sommerville, Alexander, Badham, Anonymous, W. Gavin; A. Williams, R. Wilson, Misses Rose, L.. Seed, Wheeler (2), Clayton, Didsbury, M'Kellar, Kirkcaldie, Cameron, M'Menamen, von Dadelszen.

Mrs. A. A. Cqrrigan and her daughter, Louie, are leaving for a- holiday in Gisborne.

Miss R. Denton, who has been spending a three months' holiday in Sydney, has returned to Wellington.

Misses'A. and M. Judd, of Masterton, are on a holiday visit to Wellington. .

Miss Hunt and her father, the Rev. Archibald E. Hunt, left for the south last evening on an extended holiday.

The engagement is announced of Mr. lvo C'arr, elder son of Mr. Ernest Carr, Feilding, to Miss Kathleon Pearce, daughter of Mr. Gilbert Pearco, Waitotara.

Nurse Daisy. Maude Anderson, 22/315, of the N.Z.A.N.S. at the front, was reported yesterday to be ill in hospital, though not severely. Tbo next-of-kui of Nurse Anderson was given as C. S. Anderson, Alicetown, Lower Hutt, father.

Tho engagements are announced of Miss Dorothy Roche, youngest daughter'of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Roche, Potone, to Mr. Harold J. Robertson, of Nelson; also of Miss Lena Lennoii, second daughter of tho lato Captain Lennon, Auckland, to Lce-Corpl. Jack Roche.

The official visiter to tho Porirua Mental Hospital (Mrs. Schoch) took a concert party to tho institution on Tuesday. The party included Mesdames Gardiner, Sandhurst, Maplosdeii (2), Misses, Murphy, Marjorie Wiggs, M. King, Yvonne Gibson, - M. Power.

The marriage of Mr. W. R. Russell, of the literary staff of the Hawera "Star," to Hilda, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs! C. D. Sole, of Stratford, was celebrated at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford, on January 1. The. ceremony ivas a quiet one, only immediate relatives of the bride being present.

A very qiiiet wedding was solemnised on New dear's Day at All Saints' Church, Auckland, when Miss Jennie Castlemaine Pyemont-Pyemont, daughter of Mr. A. B.P. Pyemont, of The Terrace, AVellington, was married .to Mr. H. Harcourt Andrews, son of Mr. Andrews, Hearne Bay, Auckland. The ceremony was ; performed bj' the Rev. Archdeacon Calder.. The bride wore a travelling suit of cream gabardine, and hat of crepe de cliene , ,with an osprey mount. She was attended by her cousin, Miss Clara Moore, as bridesmaid, who wore a frock of pastel pink cloth, and a large black picture ha,t. Mr. J. G. Moore anted as bust man. After the ceremony, the bridal party and a number of relatives and guests were entertained at a wedding breakfast, whicli was held at "Stonebury," tho residenco of Mrs. W. J. Moore, tho bride's aunt. Subsequently Mr. and Mrs. W. Harcourt Andrews left for Wellington, en route for Sydney, where the bridegroom holds a position in the Dental Corps attached to the Commonwealth Military Forces.

A correspondent of >tho "Manchester Guardian" tolls the following delightful war story:—"l called the other day to see a wounded officer who is under treatment at a hospital in Hampshire. The hospital is a wing of a mansion lmilfc 011 a hill-top, and the approaches to it arc slopes covered with chestnuts and becches and pines. Standing at a window of one of the wards, I became interested in what was happening in the drive! below. 'Anything doing there?' the officer asked. 'Only a nurse pushing an invalid chair up the slope,' 1 answered. 'She seemed to find it heavy work, but an old lady is now helping her to push, and they are coming up nicely. The invalid's grandmother, perhaps I' Tho officer came to the window. 'Grandmother!' he exclaimed softly. 'That's not his grandmother. That's tho dear lady who runs this show —the Empress Eugenie.' "

Women Farmers. A meeting was held recently in Adelaide to form a woman's branch, of tho Jtarniers and Settlers' Association, with the object of encouraging a knowledge of science of agriculture, and procuring better facilities for tho education of women in viticulture, horticulture, the growing of medicinal herbs, hitherto procured almost exclusively from Germany, bee-keeping, dairying, poultry-farming, and' fruit-growing. There was a large and enthusiatic gathering, composed chiefly of women, many of whom were landowners and workers on tho soil.

Miss Nora Herring, of Sturt, related hor experience as a viticulturist lor the hist ten years. Out of her savings she had bought sixty acres of fruit-growing land within the .suburban- radius, and built herself a homo, -where, with a woman companion, she enjoyed a life of freedom and health for. mind and body. Miss.Amy Tomkuison _ referred to what had been done in England, America, and France, and in parts of Australia, to settle women, on the land, and pointed out that without organisation there were- already over 16,000 women engaged on the land in South Australia, and some-educational and co-operative scheme should bo formulated to briag these women togother and to arrange for the- marketing of their produce. Mrs. Caley Smith, of Aldgate, spoke of her work'as a floriculturist, and said she was frequently approached by other women to givje. instruction on hybridising. "' Mr. W. G. Mills, presidents of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, said wives and daughters of Australia were working to replace the- country boys: who had gone to the war, and girls could bo found stock-riding, attending to sheep and cows, and running farms. He did not advocate women bachelor farmers, and considered the co-opera-tive system woe the host. Canteen Work. An interesting account of the work done by voluntary'helpers in the rutini-. tions factory canteens in London is given in a letter in the "Herald" from an English lady, who at one time re-, sided in Auckland. The- writer says: "There aro 2000 girls in the factory at present, who are filling shells, but they aro wanting 1500 more. Still you may imagine it is no light task to supply 2000 with a mid-morning lunch, dinner and afternoon tea, and to do all the washing-up, etc. Even the 2000 knives to clean each day aro something, and I suppose" there will he, a good way on to 4000 plates after dinner alone. "The kitchen is a marvel of convenience. There are several ovens — one huge ono, in which I could almost stand upright. It-opens with two largodoors. The three lower shelves aro full of joints of meat —the two upper of milk puddings, naked in what, at home, I should consider a- washing-up howl. The vegetables are cooked in several large boilers. Then there are long, bot plates for carving and servinp i and yards of warm ovens for putting the. plates in, for, needless to say, 2000 plates of meat cannot bo carved all at once. Tho carvers beein about an hour before. Then at 12.30 the girls come pouring in and make a long queue at the meat-counter. It is. interesting .to watch them; no one would think from their smiling faces and any lauchter thnt they were doing their share of killing thousands of men! Wo have a small hospital, too, in caso of a Zennelin raid or an explosion.' During the lust big raid—before I came—they were all in total darkness for two hours, and the girls were locked in. "So far I have done onlv two days a week. Tho committee ndvised me to start with that; but this week I am going to try one night as well, and when-I have settled, down to that I hope to do two mornings at Queen Mary's Needlework Guild also. That is a place where you can go, or.not, as you feel inclined. If you do go mors sewing is done; if not. less, and there, is always anv quantity to' do.- That suits nip well, as I cannot go \\Mn too tired, so cannot take any olTier work demanding regular attendance. . The cnnteen work is really v ery hard. We get sore feet and achinr bones long beforo tho day is over. But I have not snent such a happy winter for some time."