SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3035, 23 March 1917, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Returned Soldiers' Club Entertain" ment. Last evening tile "Charley's Aunt" Social Club entertained returned soldiers and their friends at tho Club on Lambton Quay with a programme of songs and recitations. Contributing > to tho evening's entertainment were ! Miss Ivy Stewart, Mr. J, Carter, llr. Clements, Mr. Albert Russell, and Mr. O'Connor with songs, and Miss Ha'rdingo-Maltby, Mr. L. W. Hanlon, Mr. Kevin Dillon, and Miss Fanny Kutner with recitations. There was a good attendance of soldiers and their friends, and lencorcs Were frequent. Afterwards supper was served m tho buffet upstairs, where prettily-arranged flowers made the room look very bright and attractive, and afterwards dancing took place in the ballroom, some of the ladies present t acting as uhaperones. Carden Party at Levin. Under, the auspices of . the Methodist Ladies' Guild, an enjoyable garden party was held yesterday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Bowen. The day was perfect, and the attendance was most satisfactory. Tho Boys' Training Farm Band was prosent, -under Mr. Herd, bandmaster, and added greatly to the life_ of the entertainment, and the maypole dancers made a pretty picture as they danced, reflecting great credit on their,, teacher, Mrs. Hansen. Somo very interesting and amusing competitions were'taken part m, and the baby show was well patronised. The results are as follow:—Babies under six months—Mrs, Gettins, 1. Babies under twelve months—Mrs. Abbey, 1. Babies under eighteen months—Mrs. S. Goldsmith, 1. Apple hunt-rPrize-winner, Miss C. Butler. Blindfold driving competition—Mr. Sorensen's team, 1. Nail driving—Miss Butler, 1. , Afternoon tea was dispensed by a number of willing workers, under Mrs. Sorenson, and was thoroughly appreciated. -The Ladies' Guild desires .to thank all those who assisted in making the. garden party, such a success. Somewhere in Sinai. . ' A Clareville lady has received the following letter from a mounted trooper "somewhere" in the Sinai Desert. ; He says:—"lt-is so good of you all to send us parcels, and it gives us heart to go on fighting, knowing that even the children of New Zealand are ever in touch with us/ Some of us have been away a long timo now. ' I myself joined two years and two months ago,, but I had a trip back to New Zealand, being wounded at Gallipoli; but a lot of my mates havo been at it since the beginning without a stop. Those are tho men who want a few. lines from New Zealand. I am not allowed to tell you anything about whati we are doing, or where wo are/ hut you can rest assured the N.Z.M.R. aro keeping up tho lionour of New Zealand gloriously. They liavb not had a defeat yet, and have taken thousands of Turks prisoners. You' may well be proud of thorn. I myself have been in three other campaigns—Boer War; Zulu Rebellion, 1906, land Matabeleland—and I can honestly say that I don't believo there is another regiment in tho world to equal the N.Z.M.R.. I have two little ,children in New Zealand, a boy and girl, who will, ever keep sacred their name. In tho last few months I' have lost a lot of mates gone west. l We are now nearly like the Arabs—nomads of tho desert, travelling on and on, so that we are now near a verv lioly place mentioned in tlio Bible. Tfie sun rises and sets, the days roll on, and wo oven forget the day of tlio month; hut it is all in tlm game, and a contract that must bo finished, so that when we go back you'will all bo safe from any enemy and havo pcaco of mind and ho content; and that can.only be bought at the point of tlio bayonet."-

Mr. and Mrs. T. FitzGerald (Fcilding) and their children, who have been staying, witli Mrs. FitzGerald, Tinakori Road, left for their home yesterday.

Staff-Nurses W. Brooke-Leers and It. Smith have reported for duty at tho Trentham Military Hospital.

Tho Commandant at Trontham Camp acknowledges the receipt of a cheque for £10 from Mr. G. Tolhurst, Wellington, towards tho cost of equipping tho Soldiers' Club at Trentham Camp; also! tho receipt of the following gifts to the hospital From Soldiers' Comforts Guild, 2 cases'' pears, 2 cases tomatoes, and 1 ease apples; from Salvation Army, oranges, handkerchiefs, cako, and sweets; from Mr.' T. 15. It-odda, 8 cases apples. >

Tho following paragraph taken from the "Field" possibly shod's a littlo light upon the recent military orders restricting the marriages of nurses on active service. '"Hospital nurses,"'it says, "aro, marrying off at an alarming rate, and it is worth while noticing that tho brides iriost in demand are not the amateurs who havo taken to the work in the absence of social engagements of ,an exciting nature, hut fully-qualified nurses."

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A Patriotio Suggestion. A London correspondent is responsible for the following paragraph:—"A Mother," writing to The "Times," suggests that a suitable and patriotic manner for parents to make a memorial for their sons who have fallen in the war is by presenting scholarships or prizes to 'their cons' schools. The writer says: "I am offering prizes for history to my two sons' respective schools—ons in New Zealand and one in Scotland — because I believo this subject is very inadequately taught at present, and in the words of a speaker at tho recent meeting of the Historical Association, 'Historical knowledge is an essential part of a liberal education, and absolutely necessary as a preparation for citizenship.' " A Musician and the Call. Tho London correspondent of the Christchurch "Evening News," writing on January 30, says:—"Pathetic interest attached to' a concert arranged by the li-oyal Acdemy of Music (Students' Club), when the groter portion of the programme was devoted to the compositions of Pte. W. B. Manson, London Scottisji Regiment, who was killed in France on July 1 last, on his nineteenth birthday. He was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Manson (late of Dunedin), and grandson of Mr. Braithwaite (Dunedin). Until the beginning of 1916, young. Manson carried on his studies at the .Royal Academy of Music, as well as his work as one of tho sub-professors. He was tho holder of numerous prizes and medals awarded by the. R.A.M. To hear the items performed, at the concert was, says the "Daily Tele-, graph," "to recognise at one© the uncommon promise of a career cut short before it had hardly begun. An unfinished trio for piano, violin, and violincollo was perhaps the most ermarkablo of the works brought forward, because it was such an astonishingly mature production for,' a young man of less than nineteen. The interest was maintained from the first bar to; tho last, and no cmde, pseudo-modern eccentricities spoiled the flow of the development of tho young composer's ideas.. In the songs, as in the piano and violin pic-oes which followed, There was ample evidence of creative and constructive talent. Evidently this boy had an abundance if poignant and wholesome ideas, and an unusual facility m giving them lofty and appropriate utterance." • The critic of the "Daily Mail" remarks that the works "showed a very promising- career cut sliort at the very point where tho promise was being fulfilled." Not Starving. Mrs. Norman Sholley, who' is one o£ Sydney's most eloquent women speakers in tlio present recruiting campaign, says tho plea that" Germany will be staVved into surrender within a few. months is madness. "I Lave lived in Germany, and I' know something of these Germans against whom we are now fighting for everything we hold dear in life, our honour and our freedom, and I tell you I will believo in no cunningly-circulated ■ rumours of their shortage of food until I hear that tho women in Germany and tho old men aro dying 'in thousands! and tons of thousands of starvation. ■ •

Sister ; Urwin (niglit "sister •: at'the Wellington/Public Hospital) / has resigned. _ Miss Mackenzie (acting-sister) has resigned for healtli reasons.

Hostesses at tlio • Soldiers' Club in Sydney Street for tlio coming week are as follow:—Sunday, Lady Stout; Monday, Wellington. College . Old • Girls; Tuesday, Mrs. D. StewartAVednosi%-, Johnsonvillo Ladies' - Patriotio Guim; Thursday, Busy Bee Club; Friday, Mrs. A. De B. Brandon; Saturday, ladies of the Hutc. •

Mrs. Firth, lion. treasurer of the Wellington Women's Red Cross Committee, acknowledges tho following contributions Mrs. Blundell,. £I,;' Mr. Bray, 55.; Women's Red Cross Committee, Shannon' (payment material), £3 19s. 6d. ; Miss G. Kirkcaldio, £6 ; Mrs. R. Hunter, £1; Mrs. Stewart,, 55.; Keop On League (payment material), £6 65.; Women's National Reserve, £0; Upper Hutt : Women's National Reserve, £5. - A very successful "At honr.o" was held by the Civio League in Auckland on Tuesday evening, the financial results of which, aro to be : used to buy materials for tho 300 handkerchiefs which tho sewing circle of tho loaguo has undertaken to supply every month to the Patriotic League. Mrs. M'Kail Geddes received, and tho arrangements for tho ovoning woro in the hands of the House Committee. Among tlio guests was Mrs. Don, of Dunedin; president for the Dominion of tho Women's Christian Temperanco Union. Miss Mackenzie, acting-sister at tho Hospital, has resigned on account of her health. Tho resignations of Sister Urwin and Nurso Hetliorington, submatron of the Victoria Military Ward and Seddon Annexe, havo also been received. Miss N. Drummond_ has returned' to Fendalton from a visit to Wellington. Her sister, Nurso K. Drummond, who accompanied her, has rejoined tho hospital ship. The London; correspondent of tlio "Evening News" _ states . that Staff Nurse E. M. White, from the Homo Forces, is _at the Nurso Rest Home at Sandwich, suffering from heart trouble, also that Miss A. Holmwood, N.Z.A.N.S. (Pahiatua), was recalled from Egypt to England, and is now oh tho staff of tho No. 3 N.Z. General Hospital, Codford, and hopes to remain as long as military nurses aro needed to cope with the work of tho war. SPECIAL TREATMENTS AT MRS. ROLLESTON'S. For falling hair, dandruff, or premature groynoss. Couroes of treatment, including hand, vibro, and electrical massage, clipping and singeing, and shampooing, One Guinea. For improving the oolour and lustre of the hair, Henna Shampooing, 7s. 6d. For improving tho growth and preventing the hair falling, Shampooing, with friction, is. 6d. For strengthening the growth, Clipping and Singeing, Is. 6d. For improving the complexion, removing and preventing wrinkles, eradicating blackheads. Courses of Face Treatments, One Guinea. \ For the permanent removal of superfluous hair by Electrolysis, per halfhour Treatments, ss. . Special Preparations for Hair and Face Homo.-Treatments. Combings made up, 2s. Gd. oz. Switches,: Transformations, Toupees, and every design in hairwork at English prices. , Mrs. Rolleston, 25G Lambton Quay.— Advt. Wedding Announcements. — Beautiful roses and the choicest of flowers only are used when designing wedding bouquets, which I make a speciality of. Packed and forwarded through the Dominion. Miss Murray, Vice-Regal Florist, Bfl Willis Street.—Advt. <nLARKE'S Hair' Dye restores youth-. ful colour, black or brown; harmless and odourless, colourless. Post free, Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. Clarke, Chemist, 11G Victoria Street, Auckland.