SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 147, 11 March 1918, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Auriranil Women's Effortt

In connection with the effort which the Auckland Women's Patriotic League is making lor the purpose of 1 raising £25,000 for the Dominion gilt Scheme, it lias been arranged to lilivo a window display, of over aOOO post cards from men at theffrontt t received in acknowledgment and appreciation of parcels sent by the league. It was hoped that the public would contribute a shilling for each post card received. In the same window will he seen nietm bors of the leaguo packing parcols for shipment, showing how they work for the comfort, pleasure, and relief of tiio soldiers. In tho utreot procession the league will demonstrate, by means of decorated lorries, their activities in working for the men, from tho time of their • enlistment to that of their return, and in this final effort tho uidinbers of the leugue will take part, . soliciting subscriptions in thoir march past. The campaign will he followed by a personal, canvass of the city and suburbs, ami during the next few months a country carnival will take place, when-'tho branches of the league, numbeing over 100, will do their share towards raising the sum required/ Nursa Davoll's Nephew, American newspapers jtisfc to hand stale .that Lawrence Cavell, 1.9, ntphew of Nurse Oavell, lias enlisted in the American Army ii-ftor being rejected three times (states the "Daily Mail"). Miss Cavell's brother, the father of Lawrence, went to Chicago a number of years ago. As soon as ho heard of his aunt's death at the hands of tho Huns Lawrence tried to join the Canadian Army, but was rejected on nct/junt of his youth and deiicient weight. Ho tried to get this decision reversed, but without success. When the United States entered the war he offered himself as a recruit, but received the answer, "You nro too small." He then went to Washington, made some influential friends, and was at last accepted as a signaller. He is eager to be transferred td the Flying Corps so that he can "drop bombs on the hated Bodies from the air,", and so avenge his aunt's murder.

A quiet wedding was solemnised by the Rev. J. G. Chapnian at the Wesleyan Church, Taranaki Street, on March 6, The Dirties were Miss Rita Irene Aldridge, daughter of the Into Mr. Charles Aldridge, of Mastorton, to Ashley Edward, son of Mr. Edward Frost, of Brooklyn. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Clarico Aldridge, and the bridegroom by Mr. J. O'Keeffe. The bride wore a gown of white creue do chine, with the xistiul veil and' orange blossoms, and carried a shower bouquet of white astors and asparagus, and the bridesmaid cream gabardine, with hat to match. A reception was held at the residence of the brido'g mother, Aro Street. Tho presents included a silver and oak salad bowl and biscuit barrel from the staff of C. Smith's, of which the bride was a member.

Mr. Justice Stringer and Mrs. Stringer are staying at Miss Malcolm's.

The appointment of Nurse E. E. Wells to the position of maternity nurso under tho Wanganui District Nursing Committee is announced. Nurso Wells takes up her position on April 1.

Miss H. G. James has been gazetted deputy registrar of marriages, births, and deaths for the Stratford district.

Mrs. G. O. Johnson, of Suva, died in tho Colonial Hospital, Suva, on Sunday, February 24, as the result of an accident. She was being driven in a phaeton by an Indian driver, when the horses'bolted down hill at a point whorfe tho road winds somewhat. One curve was-safely .negotiated, but the momentum Carried the vehicle on until it crashed into tho posts of a building, smashing one of the posts. Mrs. Johnson was thrown out, and sustained fractures of both legs, as well as other injuries and shook. Mrs. Johnsou was a native cf Victoria, and was 57 years of ago. She leaves a. daughter (a nurse, who was in Now Zealand at the time of tho accident) and two sons, one of whom has been engaged as an'engineer in transport work- since the outbreak of war.

Tho wedding took place in the Presbyterian Church, Hastings, last week of Miss Gladys Lena Watson, daughter of. Mr. and Mrs. \V. M. Watson, of Hastings, to Mr. Angus Maedonald, nf Stornoway Ness, Scotland. Miss Ruth "Watson and Miss Daisy Taggart were bridesmaids, and Mr. Donald Mackav was best man. The bride was for sonic time on tho nursing staff of tho Napier Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Lusty, sen., of Richmond, Nelson, attained the fiftieth anniversary of their marriago on Tuesday. For the first eight years of tho'r married life Mr. and Mrs. Lusty resided at Collingwnod, aiid for the past 42 years they have lived at Richmond. For over' twentv-two years they have resided at Amhcrley Hill, at which iioniMtend llioy worn married half a century ago. Of their family of cloven, ton aro now living. The celebration ol tho golden wedding was attended by all the' surviving members of the. family, p.xcepl Rifleman Hen Lusty, who is absent on active service.

A Tribute to Women,

In his speech \it the Institute of Public Health Loi'd d'Abernon paid a remarkable Irihnlo to the restraint mid sobriety of the women of Great liritain through three years of unrelieved and cxaetiilg stthiih (states the "Daily News" ili the course of flit editorial article). Tho statistics he was able to <|uotn raised his statement from the level of opinion to that of ascertained fact. With an influx into industry of not fur short of 1,500,000 women and an increase in women's wages of anything up to £200,000,000, there has been a decline in femaledrunkenness of' 73 per cont. as compared with pre-war figures. It is no doubt true that drunkenness statistics are no complete test of sobriety. With womon even more than men drinking that never ends in n police court conviction may be, doing grave and permanent constitutional harm. But here, again health Statistics go to support the general claim that women, whether they are avoiding drinking or iiot, are scrupulously avoiding anything that could he described as excessive or oven immoderate drinking, That is a great testimony to the moment of England, for while there- can lie iio question that certain external factors, such as the restrictions of public-house hours, the welfare work in factories, and the women's clubs outside, have all had their effect, the outstanding fact is that the women of tho country, working tinder a strain that might seem calculated to impel them towards such relaxation as the public-house and its contents claim to provide, have resolutely eschewed indulgences detrimental alike to their industrial efficiency and to their functions as mothers and as citizens.

Adopting U.S.A. Warrior Sons. A proposal was recently made by M. George Lecomte, president of the French Authors' Society, that French families stfould each adopt an American soldier for tho duration of the war. The suggestion has been taken up by the Association l'ldee Francaise a I'Etrange.r, of which M. Leygues, Minister of Marine, is president, and is now being carried out, so that each American soldier in France will be adopted by a family that will treat him as a son.

Dr. Alice Gow, of Wellington, and her children are staying with Mrs. hi. K. M'Dougnll, Fendalton, Ohristchui'ch.

Death of the Dowager Lady Lawrence. I A notable link with the past has been ' broken by the death at Kenley, Surrey, at the great age of 97, of the-Dowager Lady Lawrence, widow of the first Lord Lawrence, the "saviour of India." Horn in 1820, a daughter of the late Rev. Richard Hamilton, Lady .Lawrence married in 1841 and was left a widow in 1870. Her husband entered the Bengal Civil Service in IS2B, and when tho Mutiny broke out was Commissioner of the Punjab, his elder brother, Sir Henry Lawrence, being tha defender of Lucknow, where he was killed. Lady Lawrence's husband dis-, played great energy at Lahore on the outbreak of the Mutiny, his efforts helping in its suppression, and he was afterwards Vicoroy of India. The famous Koh-i-Noor diamond was lost in Lady Lawrence's house. Her husband had charge of it when he was Lieu-tenant-General of tho Punjab, but one day it disappeared and nothing was seen of it for some weeks until a servant knocked over a cigar box m the Governor's bedroom, when the diamond rolled out. Mrs. Woodrow "Wilson benefits considerably under the will, just proved, of a patriotic American citizen, Mr. H. G. Freeman, who, deploring "the miserable pittance allowed the man holding the greatest position on earth," has bequeathed £2400. per annum to the wives of tho Presidents of tho United States. The miserable pittance allowed the President is 75,000 dollars perannum, and tho President's wife in the event of widowhood enjoys n yearly pension of £1000. Two ladies nifi in enjoyment of this State recognition at the present time. '.Hie marriage of Mr. G. Hay M'Kenzie, manager of the Union Steam Ship Company's branch in Apia, io Miss \ Agnes Goncviovc Swann, second dnughi ter of Mr. J. W. Swann and the. Into Mrs. Swann, of Apia, took place at Apia, on February 8.