WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2972, 9 January 1917, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

SOCIAL AN© PERSONAL

St. Dunstan's Hostel Fund. Tho fund raised in tho Lower Hiilt in aid of St. Dunstan's Hostel, which amounted to'£26s 10s., has been cabled Homo to the High Commissioner, with instructions as to its disposal. The committee acknowledges the following donations: —Girls' High School, 'Wellington, £100; J.R., £1; Mrs. Henry Hall, 13s. 6(1.; Gear Company, £2 2s. ; Jfrs.' Sohwartii, £1; Mr. Skerrett. £l; Mr. Hayward, £1 Is.; Jlr. Botliune, £3 r 35."; Mrs. .Wilson. £1 ,11s. (id.; Hutt Ladies' Patriotic Society, £10 10s.; "Mr. Scales, £5; Mr. Douglas, JL'2 25.; Mr. MacDoufr.il, js.; Misses Cooper ancl Moss, £10; Mrs. Adamson, 10s.; Miss Newman, 10s,; Misses.ltathbone, £1; 51'.' D. and H. Ko'sc, £3 6s; &».; per Miss £2 os.; Hutt Practice Club, 12s:; Mr. Spain,. £5; Hutt Borough Council, .£2O 95.. 6d.: Hutt Bp.v Sooiits,.i£.l 2s-; net result Picture Benefit Entertainment, £91. 7s.

Mrs. Henry. Hall and 'her sons arc leaving for'Miiritai to-day, to .spend a holiday.. .• • .

Mr. and Mrs. ..I' , . Samiiel have returned from a visit to Pioton. ,

. 'Mr. and Tvlrs. 1). A. Hamilton have returned from Kotormi qnd .Auckland..

(By Imogen.)

In connection with the recent show of the : Uose and Carnation Club, Mrs. Futler, of Lower Hutt, is. announced as tho winner of the first jirizo in the ladies' decorated, table competition, and also of tho third prize. Mrs. J. A. MacDoiigal! is the winner of the second prize. Mrs. Futter , s decoration for the first prize table consisted of sweet peas and carnations, while the. third was of clarkia. . Mrs. MacDougall's decoration for the second priise table was a lavender coloured flower. The winners were determined by popular vote.

Miss Arrow, who has been visiting Pahiatua,, returned to Wellington yesterday .

The Mayoress and h6r Entertainment Committee'are arranging to give dances the Town Hall oil the evenings of Wednesday and Thursday this week, T/hcn the 21st Keiiiforccments and their next-of-kin are invited to be present.

Mr. and . Mrs. Nicholls-Broglje, of San. Francisco, who.spent Christmas with the letter's.parents. Mr. and Mrs. Beotham, "Branccpoth," Masterton, have-'returned to Cbristchurch.

.An opportunity of seeing the extent and method of packing goods at tho Town Hall will be'offered to. interested persons on Wednesday and. Thursday next, between 11 and 1 o'clock in the morning, and 2 to 4 in the afternoon. The Mayoress, Mrs. J. P. Luke, invites the public to bo present in the gallery.of the largo hall, to watch tho packing.of tho citizens'' Christmas gift parcels, and get some idea of howtlieif money is being expended/ Admission to tlie gallery will bo gained by tho presentation pi a small parcel containing something useful for a soldier. Handkerchiefs (not white ones), socks, sniall towels, cocoa and milk, coffpn and milk, beef extract, etc., aro all' very acceptable, and will help to speed forward the next consignment.

The matron of the Alexandra 'Homo acknowledges the following donations towards a Christmas treat for tli'o in-mates:-—Mrs. J; -Duncan, "A.," Mrs. M. A. Williams,' Mrs. ' M'Lean, Mrs. Corkilli Mrs: Hunter, Mrs. Dunning, St. Vincent dc Paul Society, Mrs. Gilherd, Nurse Watson,. Mrs. W. Nathan, Nurso'Millar, Mrs. Hardwick-Smith, Mrs. D. Stewart. Tho committee.will ho very grateful for donations of clothing, etc., for girls and children, and old linen is urgently needed.

In America the scarcity of domestic servants is a serious problem. Cooks" able to do only plain cooking are receiving'from 40 to 60 dollars a month, with room and board; waitresses and chambermaids, 30 -to, 40 dollars a month. .Many families have half tho usual number, and the ones they have are most indifferent.

Thero arc fpw links with Florence Nightingale now remaining, and the death of Dr. James Vaughan-Hughes removes yet another. According to his ."ltominisbcnces iu Seventy Years, of Life in the Victoria Ei'a," he was for a time in. charge of Balaclava nospital. When Miss. Nightingale contracted Crimean or camp te'ver, and was being, nursed on a transport, it was Dr. Vaughan-Hughes wlio acted as her medical attendant. 'When sho recovered he accepted the offer made by Lord Ward, afterwards Lord Dudley, to lend his yacht to convey her bacic to Scutari. It was not Jong after this that the doctor himself fell a victim to Asiatic cholera, and was nursed most carefully by Miss Nightingale and some of her" nurses. "'He-'attributed his recovery entirely to the assiduous attention which they gave him. The hardships which Dr. Vaughan-Hughes endured at the front in his early days in no, way -undermined his constitution, as he lived to bo 95, -and up to a short time before his* death was able to ride on horseback, and drive his own motorcar. ... . .

. A pretty, wedding took place at Holy Trinity .Church, Kicbniond, 'between Mr. H. A. Anderson, chief officer in the Union Steam Shipping Company's service,..and Miss Olive Dorothy, elder daughter of . Mr. and. Mrs. W. J. Claridge, of Itichmoud, the ceremony being performed by the Ilev. A. 3. Can , . The bridesmaid was Miss .-Pearl Claridge, only sister of the bride. Mr. F. Cox acted as best man.

ANSWERS' TO CORKEfePONUUXTS. fßy .Arrangement with Mrs. Jlollesion, flair Physician-and Wee Specialist. Qualified, London and Paris.] "W.W."—Sycasis can be cured eventually, oven in the most chronic cases, but l-cliipses are common and great patience must bn exercised in tho treatment. It will not Tie necessary for yoiii to rcniain in Wellington, periodical visits and h6mc treatment will be sufficient.

"Anxious."j-Shetkling--of the nail follows -many aeute inflammations and sometimes nerve trouble". The genernl health is the first consideration, and the most scrupulous care must bo taken in pfotectiiig the neighbouring Uasnes a or (IcL'onmfv, more or les-s, will be the result.

Viirther repliw bv loiter. Switulies, Transformations »t Knglisli

prices. Mi*, liollestou, 'JfjG LnniMon Quay.A.lvl.

The Camp Commandant at Trcntham (Colonel Potter) lias pleasure in acknowledging with"thanks receipt of the following gifts to the hospital:—Vi'aipu Ho.v Scouts, livo copies of tho "Auckland Weekly News" per week for six months; Salvation Army, Christmas gifts for patients, also oranges, sweets, ami handkerchiefs.

Lady Ireno Denison, only daughter of Lord and Lady Londesborougli, paints charming pictures, and is a clever musician. .Recently she composed a song called Some Good Hour," which was sung l>.y Madame Clara Butt, wlio thinks very highly of it. ■ Lady Iron? has plenty of interests, and is one- of the two ladies ivlio. "wait" "unofficially on Princess Arthur of Connaught, the other being Lady Evelyn Farquhar.

■ Miss Helen P. Barnes, the national secretary of tho Y.Vi.GuY., "will bo returning to America'tliis year. Her term ..as national secretary l)»:j been ■a vory-helpful one for.tli.e Australasian Associations, and for foreign centres as well, 'US" she -has; "pushed forward tbb work in iho mission lield in a-most indefatigablo 'mariner. ;She was. instrumental in having Miss Ella JL'Noil (formerly secretary of tho : Christchurcli Y.W.C.A.) sent to' China as an associii-. tion secretary., «nd another will be seiit shortly. Jfiss Barnes ia a tine type of American University woman, and Aus-r tralasia will ho sorry to lose her. Miss Mary Geddcs,. hjr "first lieutenant," is an Auckland girl, who left. Now Zealand for Sydney a couple of years ago, to be national secretary for tho Girls' Department.

Mr. and Mrs. M. A.- Anderson, of Vancouver, and Mr. and Mrs. M'Mil]a», of. London, are visitors to Auckland. . '■" •

Mrs. and Miss Walls.-of-Wellington, , are visiting Christclnu'ch. " .

Tho .Duchess of Sutherland since the war has given herself up to nursing, .and has. done much to advance the cause of poor workers, her Scottish Industries and Cripples' Guild being among her most prominent and. successful ventures. The daughter" of Blanche, Lady Rosslyn, and tho fourth Eari of Rosslyn, she married from tho schoolroom the then ■ Marquess of Stafford, subsequently fourth Duke, of Sutherland, and during her.reign at. Stafford Houso she upheld the family traditions, and was one of -the: most brilliant hostesses of .the Edwardian era. Sho has distinguished- herself in tho world of. letters, and wroto a romantic play that was produced in London, "Tho Conquerors," : while her book, "Ono Hour and the Next," was much talked about/ ;

Queen -Mary has always set her Efice against indiscriminate charity. She strongly disapproves of it, ancl discountenances..it. as much as she is able.. Since the outbreak of war an' enormptis number, of. .bogus charitable- appeals havo been sent out, and the people responsible for them havo made .special efforts to securo gifts from the- King and Queen, for tho simplo reason that, a subscription from Their Majesties is regarded by tho general public, as an indication that tho cause is a good and deserving one. Tho.Queen.knows this, and is therefore specially careful not to give anything to an undeserving cause lest sho encourages her subjects to waste their money. Tho Queen takes, a great interest in thfi newly-estab-lished toy industry of Eamsgate. . A big German town has made jts. fortune, out of toys, and Her Majesty' sees no reason, why Eamsgato should not do'so."

Many of the most- successful and popular flag and programme-selling girls of-last year have taken iip regular war employment. Among them,. Lady Diaf.a Manners is engrossed in the Duchess of Rutland's, new hospital, where a dozen officers are .Being well looked after; Joan Dickson'-Poynder has gone- to Hiirso in France, and Nancy. Cunard and Countess Nada Torby have just been married.

King George has paid a notable honour to Sir Frederick Ponsonby,, the Kfieper of His Majesty's Privy Purse, by appointing his little thirteen-year-old son Edward to bo a Page of Honour. There are always four Pages of Honour, who have to attend: the Sovereign at Court and other ceremonies, and a vacancy was created by. tho resignation of Viscount Hampden's elder son, the Hon. ' Thomas Henry Brand, who is now nearly seventeen, and getting too old for the post. ..

Tweuty-four women were recently elected to 'the Finnish Diet, forming 12 per cent, 'of its total membership. In Iceland several women candidates aro standing for election to the Lower Houso this month, and Mrs. Briot Asmiindsson, president of the Icelandic Association, affiliated to tho International Woman Suffrago Alliance, stood last August for election' to the Upper House. This'was the first political election at which women recorded^their vote, according to the new Constitution of June 19, 1915. ' .. ...