WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 160, 26 March 1918, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

(By Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Soldiers' Club at lsmailia

In the course of an interesting letter from one of the Volunteer Sisters at lsmailia (Egypt), thanking the Countess of Liverpool Fund for the money which had been cabled to enable themembers of the Sisterhood to havo a much-needed holiday, tho writer says: "Perhaps you might be interested in our club. Tho club rooms consist of two fairly large soldiers' rooms, one officers' room, a tiny hall, one small office, and a couple of bedrooms (wo sleep on the premisos). A spacious verandah opens on to the garden, and apart is a kitchen, storeroom, and cookhouse. Still further away is a canteen, which is run in connection with the club, and where all soldiers may get hot or cold drinks' and eatables from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The garden, which consists oi a few fine shady trees, is really our tearoom, being used both summer and winter. In it we have innumerable small tables and forms, and the soldiers fit about and have their tea and smoke and talk. Running a long to form a wall at the back entrance aro boiler, bath, washingup room and- coal shed. The club is situated near a fine square of. lofty trees, ■which are a great boon tn the men in the summer weather. Our front entrance looks on this park. The back entrance (really thf' general entrance, as boing handiest to the canteen) opens into the business street of lsmailia, So altogether the club is conveniently placed. We have a really good piano in tho men's room, and it is much appreciated. I can assure you, and never idle. This, with a few pictursß of good old New Zealand scenery, a few tables and chairs, and many "mproviscd couches, which, though int very elegant, aro remarkably comfortable, as many a weary soldier can testify, completes the furnishing of the men's rooms. Wo aro particularly fortunate in the floors, they being of red tiles and easily cleaned and polished. We havo a splendid gramophone and excellent records presented by Lady Godley. Our New Zealand Band (Lieutenant Stewart in charge) has frequently given us band concerts, and the Australian Orchestra and other bands havo done likewise. The men play cards, draughts, and chess, but the principal amusement is music. We are threo co-workers at this club. . Miss Jopp iB acting recretary uiid bookkeeper, and also superintends the serving of tea to tho officers. Miss 1 Jones housokeeps and asuists, serving .at the canteen, and 1 manage tho can teen. We have two Sudanese sorvants and a working party of T.B. men from the camp to help. We have been established t<m months, ard by careful management have in that timo been able to return a loan made by Colonel Samuels on behalf of tho N.Z.N. Brigade of £500. Don't think by that our prices arj exorbitant, for such is not the ca-jo. Our prices aro fixed by the roigning prices of camp canteens. where they, having no such expenses as rent, lig'i.tiiig, rate?, are ablo to supply as near to cost as possible. We do likewise, but as there has always been a great turnover with us wo have succeeded, as I havo stated, in paying off our loan. The club is open to all soldiers 'and sailors. I havo served Egyptians, Italians, Frenchmen, Indians, British West Indians, Hcdjezs (from Arabia), Irish, English, Scotch,' Welshmen, Canadians, Australians, South Africans, and, last but not least, N«w Zealanders—a motley crowd representative of every British colony and dependency. This alone compels one to realise the incalculable force and power, th«. Unseen Hand be-, hind all." The writer (Mrs. Barry) also adds in a postscript that there is also n free 'ibrary and paper room in connection- with the chi\

slr. and Mrs. .'Edgard Holmwood (Masterton) and Miss Norah Moore motored through to Wellington on Saturday.

Mrs.. Armstrong (Akitio), Miss Esther Armstrong, and Miss Zona Vallance (Kahaumingi) are visiting Wellington.

Mn and Mrs. Simons (Foxton) are visiting Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Penrce have taken up their residence in Wangamii, Mr. Pearce having recently disposed of his Waitotara property . to # Mr. Lan Johnston. . .. ' .

Miss D. M'Clelland, of Wellington, who has been spending a holiday with Mrs. W. F. Dairies, of Blenheim, returned to Wellington on Saturday.

ContrTbutions to the Countess of Liverpool Fund have been received from tho-following:—Mrs. Arthur (Stratford, 131 parcels), Mrs. Baumgart (Hunterville), Feilding Ladies' Patriotic Society, Waverley Ladies' Patriotic Guild, Waipawa Ladies' Patriotic Guild, Wai•roa ladies, Pongaroa Red Cross Guild, Mrs. Leach, Ohau Red Cross Guild, Lower Hutt Patriotic Guild.

A telegram irbm the Y.M.C.A. vapresentatives working in the Raetihi district, assisting in tho relief work, has been received at the national headquarters, asking for quantities of men's clothing and socks, maids' clothing and underwear, for those from two to fourteen years of age. Tho association representatives assisted at the funeral of victims of the fire, and they aro orecting tents provided by the Public Works Department. The Y.M.C.A. agents are also representing the Women's National Reservo and the Sydney Street Soldiers' Club, and any parcels sent to the latter place, the local Y.M.C.A. in Willis Street, or the national office of the association, Baker's Buildings, Featherston Street, will be immediately forwarded free of cost.

Treatments Facial, Treatments Heud, to suit one and all. Delight and relief instantaneous. Fees, from 10s. Gd. Cuitene Skin Food, 35.; praised everywhere, used everywhere. Miss Milsom's Hygienic Face Poudre, 'is. 6d. and ■is. (M., all shades. Protects and improves tho complexion. An indispensable toilet requisite. Our women know the Miss Milsom Preparations aro the best, and take: pride in using Die best. Call or write for information and prices of every kind of skin accessory. Youmay long have'been using the wrong thing, but someone is in your midst to adviso you. Authority on hair and liair-work—all hair preparations and tonics. Miss Milsom, 0-t Willis Street, opp. Sh'ortt's Picture Theatre. 'Phono 814.—Advt.

The Australian Nurse and Her Outfit. To every nurse who goes on active servico the New South Wales Division of the Australian Red Cross provides the following equipment:—Hot water bag, deck chair, cushion, sheets, towels, pillowslips, etc., mosquito-net if required, bloomers, grey cardigan, parcel of old linen. This equipment is given to each individual nurse, in addition to £10 each in cash. In addition, cases are supplied to the sister-in-charge, containing mixed comforts such as dressing-jackets, haberdashery, scissors, thermometers, books, games, etc. Alo cases containing assorted groceries, such as tea, cocoa, condensed milk, biscuits, etc., to vary their diet on the ship. With a grant of £20 from tho New South Wales Government for her outfit, tho Australian nurse is very comfortably proyided for when she leaves on active service.

•Sister Frances M. Shirtcliffo, Q.A.I.M.N.S.K. (Nelson), has been in France for tho past thre years, and has been attached to several base hos.pitals as well as having charge of an, ambulance train bringing wounded from csualty clearing stations to the base, states a London correspondent of January 22. At the Cambrai attacktwo men were brought in to the 48th casualty clearing station four, hours after goiug over the top. Sister Shirtcliffe has now joined tho New Zealanders, and arrived at Hornchurch for 'duty a wee kago after spending a short holiday at Whitchurch.

On January 12 at Kew Parish Church, the marriage took place of Captain Johu William Bright, N.Z.E.F., of Wellington, to Jeannette Elizabeth James, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Arthur C. R. James, of Jamaica, and of Mrs. James, 5 Cumberland Gate, Kow Gardens. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Alfred Ogilvy, M.A:, curate in charge.

Tho Countess of Liverpool Fund Committee havo dispatched to the sufferers at Raetihi threo cases of warm clothing, also contributions of clothing sent in by tho Wellington United Dorcas Society, "F.M." (Johnsonvillo), and Mrs. Mct-z.

Tho engagement is announced of Lieutenant-Colonel Stophen Sheppard Allen, D.5.0., and Mary Isobel Hay, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Foster, of Auckland, and of 41 Iverna Court, Kensington. Lieutenant-Colonel Allen is the fifth son of the. late Mr. W. S. Allen, and of Mrs. Allen, of Woodhead Hall, Chcadle, Staffs. Tho •wedding is expected to take place at an early date, states a London correspondent of January 22.

Tho ...'Countess of (Liverpool Fund workers will cease work for the Easter days beginning from mid-day on Thursday until tho following Thursday.

Innurnorriblo parcols of clothing for tlio relict of tho fire sufferers at.-Rae-tilii have poured into the Y.W.C.A. from all directions, at all hours_ of the day, in most cases without leaving the uamo of the donor, and consequently no recorded list has been kept. The members of the Board of Directors take this opportunity of thanking the people for their prompt and generous response Good parcels of clothing have como to the Young Women's Christian Association for Borting and packing from Chilton House, and frorn tlie Berhamporo and Kilbiruio Stato Schools. By the generosity of tho New Zealand Express Company, the goods from the Y.W.C.A. have all been carried to the station frco of cost. Mrs. Pearson (president of the Young Women's Christian Association) is still distributing cTothing as, it arrives at Raotihi and Oh'akune. Seventeen cases and paekagos were dispatched on Saturday, and another consignment was sent off yesterday. Mrs. Peawn wrote, saying that tho goods had arrived safely, and that the people were so grateful for the clothing. Numbers had borrowed clothes to come and get some for themselves, especially the children, who are urgently in need of more warm clothing.

The hon. secretary of the Countess of Liverpool Fund Committee acknowledges receipt of the following sums:— Marton Red Cross (parcels), £6; Mas* terton (parcels), £12; Miss Lawson, for Y.W.C.A., £2 14s. 6d.; Woodville (parcels), £5; Shannon (French Refugees Fund), £5-10s.

The evident advantage of cleaning carpets, upholstery, curtains, etc., by the Vacuum process is now so well understood and appreciated, as a hygienic necessity in every well-ordered home and institution, that it only remains to select the best type that combines high efficiency and • simplicity of construction with economy of cost— 'essentials aro combined in the "Daisy" Vacuum Cleaner (of British manufacture). Demonstrations daily at Oscar Hewett and Co., sfi Cuba Street (just below Bank of ,N,Z.). 'Phone 520—Advt.

Wedding Announcements. — Beautiful roses and the choicest of flowers only are used when designing wedding bouquets, which I make a specialty of. Packed and forwarded through the Dominion. Miss Murray, Vice-Jtegal Florist,,36 Willis Street.—Advt.

With a Sorbian Dressing Station. 11l the course of a very interesting etter received by a Wellington resident from Sister A. D. Kerr (formerly of the Gate l'a, Tauranga, but who has sinco been with tlio Scottish Women s Hospital Unit, of which Dr. Agnes Bennett was commanding ofthe' following passages:— I am now on a French hospital ship on route for England, my first holiday alter two years' foreign service. I should not take it, all the same, if I did not feel that there is probably a strenuous summer ahead of us, and I want to bo very fit for it. We have lost our dear C.O. tDr. Bennett). She was so ill with malaria she had to give up work for a while. 1 havo been transferred from our field hospital to our transport column) which is right up among tho mountains within the hrst line,of the shell-fire. That sounds much more dangerous than it really is as we are in a very safe camp. Our column consists of twelve chauffeurs, a transport officer, a cook, housekeeper and one sister, 'lhe number of chauffeurs varies, but that is pur full equipment. We are.all women. There is 110 doctor, so that a sister is necessarv. ) 0 . ar ® attached to a field dressing station of about 60 beds. The work is very interesting, but, 0111 the cook would break your heart. The men lie 111 their clothes—no sheeting. In the summer they 'are in tents, but owing to the awful blizzards we aro now in log huts, earth floors, no tables or chairs, only a few packing cases. The men, however, are warm, well fed, and seem marvellously comfortable. The worst cases are sent in by our ambulojices to better equipped and more perJnanent dressing stations or field hospitals. We only keep the ones who can be made fit to return to the 1 t'l? In a c ' a^s weeks at the most. They come down to us talking, carried on the backs of mules or on stretchers by their comrades. I cannot do very much for them, but the hospital orderlies ("bonichars") are very good, and it heartens them up to have someone to praise and encourage them. I can make any very ill ones more'comfortable, and they love having a sister to get little things for j them. I hated leaving them, but I i shall bo btick in two months' 1 time at [ the latest, and a very nice sister has i been sent for a time to take my place. | " here are two doctors at the dressing j station, a little Greek, who is quite i clever and keen about his work (he j only speaks French amJ Serbian), and the old Serbian mediciu, Major , He speaks German and enjoys the importance of belonging to the only Serbian dressing station to have all English sisters anywhere near our front. We have very cold weather, *25 degrees of frost and terrible blizzards, which blqw our tents flat..' Three times now they have built us log huts for the winter, which are most 'comfy,' two living in each, with a little stove. The forest is quite close to us. The Serbians are wonderful axemen. It is marvellous to see them split a tree in half, shape the ends and dovetail one into the other. The roofs of the huts are very sloping and covered with flat-tened-out petrol tins, so that the snow does not lie there. The cracks in the walls "are plastered with mud, but in spite of all the chinks being stuffed up we often wako to find sjiow 011 our beds and falling 011 our faccs. The wind is so strong and the snow so fine it gets through anything. My hut j •was made of ammunition boxes filled with earth, tho lids forming the very sloping roof. Those, of the boxes near top,- if left empty and turned on ■ their sides, make very lovely cupboards. Our mess tent was uninhabitable for a time, and they could not build us a mess hut, so we had meals in our hut, as it was the biggest. It was a squeeze, but it is wonderful how many women can squeeze 011 a camp bed when they . try. We have not been getting so many wounded lately j mo.re cases of malaria, rheumatism, bronchitis, and frostbite." ■

( A petition, sent out by the Women's Social Investigation League and signed ( by the lady principals and most of the teachers in secondary schools throughout the Dominion, protesting against the compulsory teaching of domestic science inthe schools, and asking for more specific information as to the regulations governing this subject, has been sent m to the Minister of Education.

There were sent away from the gymnasium of the Sydney Street Soldiers' Ulub yesterday ror the relief of the sufferers, of the recent fires, six large cases of clothiifg and three smaller ones, packed by Mrs. Massey and her helpers. One of the cases was filled entirely with children's clothing, a large portion being quite new, and the rest in excellent condition. The boys from the Terrace School also arrived.upon the scene carrying bundles of clothing which were very acceptable. From all over the North Island voluntary workers have hastened to the scones of devastation and have been doing their utmost to relieve the suffering and destitution that have fallen like a bolt from the, bluo upon people who are amongst the most courageous and most industrious, of the people of the Dominion. Among some of the contributions sent in to Mrs. Massey was a collection of tools which have been dispatched, and wlfcb are likely to b6 very servicable to residents of a farming community. To date about 30 oases in all have been dispatehed to the devastated districts from the Sydney Street Soldiers' Club.

HOME TREATMENT OF THE HAM. ITS MARVELLOUS SUCCESS. Unprecedented success in restoring the growth of the hair has recently been manifested by tho marvellous results obtained from the use of Mrs. Rollestou's three months' course of home treatment. Tins method is in vogue in the Old Country and America, and appeals to the average woman who is uuablo to visit the Hair Specialist. Being thoroughly flualified in her profession, and having had considerable /experience both in New Zealand and abroad, the secret of Mrs. Rollestou's success is readily understood. At her rooms, all ladies undertaking a course of hair treatment, may, if they desire, have all examination of their scalps, also a microscopical examination of their recent combings. Others unable to call may forward a few recent combings, and slate the condition or general appearance of the scalp. Cost of three months' preparations, 10s. Gd. Posted in plain wrapper Is. extra. Mrs. Eolleston, 25C Lambton Quav.— Advt.

Tho best cold weathar Garment for Boys is the Woollen Jersey, all 6hn(les, polo collar, or shoulder fastening, 3s. Gil. to "10s. Oil., at Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners Street.-Advt.

All parents are hereby cordially requested to encourage Stationers and Storekeepers to push the salo of "Thinker" Brand Writing Tablets and "Thinker" School Exercise Books for tho nation's good—Bannatyne and 'Hunter, Ltd., wholesale agents for the "Thinker." -Advt.