SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 27, 26 October 1918, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wellington Red Cross Shop

The Brooklyn "W.N.R. provided n very large and good supply of wovisions for tlieir Red Uross sale yesterday, and gave in over Mi for the funds. The cako stall liad much that was teroptiyg, and found ready purchasers. Tho sweets stall was filled with home-made delicious sweets, and there was a very attractive display of children's clothes and other useful articles on tho work stall. These vho took puirt in the mccessful sale were as follow -.—Fancy stall, Mrs. Eggie and Mrs. Clark; produce, Mrs. Hopkirk and 'Mrs. Austin and assistants; cakes, Mrs. Strangemuir, Mrs. Allen, and Mrs. Wort; sweets, Mrs. ]). Kennedy, Mrs. o : Sulliran. Mrs. Brown; raffles, Mrs. Chapman. Great help was received from ruimy- residents in Brooklyn, whoso work for the I?ed Cross is constant and untiring. The Misses Cooper, Moss, and Miles had their usual delightful display of flowers, which produced a good sum. Next Tuesday the Spinsters* Club will have a Bed Cross day, and tho ladies who ate organising it hope that many visitors will coino and buy, as they have made preparations for an exceptional sale. Jams, pickles, and cakes, in which these ladies excel, may be obtained, and there will be very many other attractive articlesf to buy.

A Suffrage Setback in America, Owing, no doubt,, to the war's prooccupying iiiiluence, no one seems to have noticed that the woman suffrage movement has had a sharp setback in the United States, where the Senate refused to pass, the-necessary legislation, states an Australian writer. It looked a certainty for the woman vote. There was not only the war's revelation that women have their place equally with men in tlie.most strenuous times, and even in the physical stress of war. As well President Wilson gave tho reform the benefit of his advocacy, and went out of his official stride to ask support for it. Just now, when he appears to be more powerful than any monarch, and to speak for the people of his' country as though they had unanimously concentrated upon a single voice, that should have meant victory for any cause. That it did not do so in this regard is an interesting example of American divergence from what appears to be tho settled opinion of all other Allied countries.

Mrs. J. Caselberg (Masterton) is visit- w ing Wellington. r< A packing of the soldiers' Rift parcels o: by the Countess of Liverpool Fund work- n ers will lake place at the Town Hall Z on Thursday, beginning- at 10 o'clock.. w Lady Liverpool workers are 'reminded a that their assistance will be greatly an- w predated. " a; At the stall in front of the Post Office ti in connection with the "Our Day 0 effort a on Thursday Mrs. Bethune (Johnsonville) g was in charge. A great deal of work I had been undertaken in connection with y this effort. Mrs. Bethune and her helpers 11 beginning their operations at a very early p hour' of the day. , ii ' ri Members and friends who attend the ti Y.W.C.A, service on Sunday afternoon a will have the privilege of hearing an ad- e dress by the Rev. James Palerson. Girls f. who are strangers to Wellington are spe- a cially invited to attend this service and 1 stay to the tea and social hour following, r A conversazione will take place at the a Young Women's Christian Association J clubrooms on Monday night at 8 o'clock, v when the members of tho Board of Di- i rectors will pb the hostesses. This will be preceded by the annual business meeting at which tho report and balancesheet will be read, and the usual election of board members will take place. Miss Jennings will provide the enter- I tainmentat the Y.W.C.A. social to-night, i The programme will include some orches- j tral music, as well as games and songs. An invitation is extended to soldiers to ; attend this gathering. Hostesses at the Sydney Street Soldiers' Club for the coming week are as follow: j Sunday, Lady Stout; Monday, Welluig- , ton College Old Girls; Tuesday, House | Committee; Wednesday, Mrs. Radcliffe , and friends; Thursday, House Committee-; Friday, Misses Skerrett and Eraser; Saturday, Mrs. Louis Blundell. , Miss who has spent the past five or six years in England, has returned to the Lower Hntt. The member's of the Busy Bee Club have just brought to a close another very, successful winter's work. Their numbers havo been greatly, reduced this sea-Jon owing to sickness, etc., but in spite of this they havo easily kept up previous years' records for the good they have done. Since they started work in May they have made somo 200 children's garments for the poor of Wellington, and chess ' have been distributed as usual through the Sisters of the afferent districts. Besides'this work, I hey have actively helped in different patriotic ventures, giving donations as the opportunity arose, and continuing with their help i at tho Sydney' Street Soldiers' Club and the Returned Soldiers' Club. Their ef- - forts in connection with (he latter are : continued through the whole year, but the sewing is only done during tho winj ver months. following ladies will be in charge uf'the JJavv Leaguo offices next week:— Monday, Mire. W. Luke and Miss Cable; Tuesday, tho secretary; Wednesday morning, Mrs. Larnach, afternoon Mrs. Buxton; Thursday, Mrs. von Haast; Friday, the "Spinnery" ladies. A meeting of the Society for tho Protection of Women and Children was held yesterday afternoon.- Lady Stout presided. 'There wore present Mesdames Hoby, Glasson, Harverson, and J. Kirk-, caldie. A large number of cases which i had been investigated were reported upon j and help rendered.. Other cases are being i attended to. The following subscriptions were acknowledged with tlianks: Lady Stout, £1 Is.; Mr. E. Tregear, J!l Is.; Mrs. Kotheram, £U Mrs. A. Hoby, 10s.; Mr. N. J. Smith, 55.; Mr. G. Mec, 55.; W. A. Kellow, 55.; T. W. Rowley, 55.; Mrs. J. P. Judd, ss. j Mrs. J. B, Glasson, os.; Mrs. W. F. Ward, ss. Mrs. Eolleston, Specialist in Hair and Face Treatments (Qualified, London and Paris), is recommended for the most successful treatments for falling hai;y dandruff, and premature groyness, face mas- ! sage, shampooing, and the permanent removal of superfluous hair bv electrolysis. A large assortment of transformations, toupees, and switches always on hand at I English prices. 256 Lambton Quay.— Advt.. What, is more humiliating to a woman, what detracts more from feminine charm than superfluous hair? Busma (rcgister- | ed) has destroyed this unnatural growth | for hundreds o'f grateful women. Busma $ may bo used iii the home without pain or a fear of disfigurement often caused by S other methods. Freo trial treatment. | Mrs. Hullen, Dent. D, opp. Courtcnay I Place Tram Terminus (upstairs). 'Phone | 10-17-Advt. | For your hoys' school wear no suit J- will -look smarter than a "Sports." See lij our greys and browns; all sizes, 255. to §'■ 535. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd.. Manners Street — | Advt. a. Lily of the Valley—that dainty, fascinfi, aling flower which recalls enchanting | dreams of weddings—is now coming in. I Order your bouquet in good time. Mins £3 Murray's, Vice-Regal Florists, 36 Willis | Street.-Advt. jj The run is on "NO R-ÜBBTNG" Innnl dry Help, "GOLDEN RULE" Soap, and | "GOLDEN RULE" Candles. Mrs. L. I Reed. Taranaki Street.-Advt. i Ladies are invited to inspect our smart % showing of silk sports coats and model \ blouses. Tho most exclusive selection in S Wellington. Herb. Prico's,' 54-50 Willis i 1 Street.—Advt.

American Catholic Nurses for the War, In the early morning darkness and under the strictest military discipline hundreds of Catholic nurses and Sisters have been sent to I'rauce recently (slates tho "Catholic Bulletin'* of St. i'aul). So quiet and secret have been tho movements of theso bands of mercy, that only lew persons know of their sailings. 'i'he,nurses and Sisters have all been under command of a regular army ollicer and marched through the stillness before dawn to SI. Stephen's Church, in an eastern cily, where- they were received by Bishop Patrick J. Hayes, Bishop Ordinary of the American Army and Navy. Promptly at II o'clock Mass vas. said for the departing Sisk-vs and nurses, and each received Holy Communion. Then, to the command of the military officer in charge, the black-robed figures marched to a waiting train to take them to a nearby Atlantic port t.o await the first boat for I'rance. As much secrecy has been maintained about the departure of the nurses as has been spread about the departure of troops. The Rev. Joseph D. Dineen, -Bishop Hayes's secretary, has had many of the nurse units in charge, and haa escorted them to trains in tho early morning. He said recently— "Catholic nurses and Sisters arc going over by hundreds. The units are composed of 100' women, all in charge of a regular army officer. They are inarched here from the Nurses' Mobilisation House, always in darkness. They are formed in regular military formation and obey tho tho commands of their officers like welldrilled veterans. The Bishop is always up and ready for them, and greets ti:r:n as they march into the church. Immediately following the Holy Communion the nurses and Sisters arc again drawn up in military formation and marched to their train. These nurses and Sisters are not confined to the army./as mnnr of them have volunteered and been trained as navy nurses. The latest unit to sail for Trance was made ,np r.f S3 trained Catholic, nurses and 11 Sister nurses. All of this unit were mustered in the far south, but were mobilised at a certain time in the east. It is not permissible to say just how many nurses we havo sent over, but the number is large—much larger than those on the outside world ever dream." It was announced bv Father Dineen that Bishop Hayes and'himself would sail for France, Bishop Hayes taking active charge v.: affairs of the Church there.

Death of Mrs. M'Menareen. The death took place yesterday of a well-known and greatly respected old resident of Wellington, Mrs. ..Hannah M'Menamen, of Island Bay, at the age of 92. Mrs. M'Menamen, whose maiden namo'was Miss Wilkins, came'out to NewZealand in the ship Arab in 1841. She was married in Wellington, and had been a widow for oG'yenrs. She lived at Terawhiti Station till she vas 77 years of age, and was a most hospitable friend to many old residents of Wellington district. Then slie lemoved to a property at Clyde Street, Island Bay, and her granddaughter, Mrs. Smittou (nee Miss Dunn) ha-j resided with her for many years. Mrs. M'Menamen kept all her faculties splendidly alert up to the time of her death, and within the week drove in and out of town as usual on her regular errands to Victoria Hospital and to sec her family and friends. She was an 1 enthusiastic helper of the various societies. Some of the members of her family predeceased her, but those who are left are Mr. James M'Menamen. of Te Kamaru Station; Mx. John M'Menamen, of Island Bay; Mis. Wheeler, of Wellington Terrace; and Mrs. M. Laing, at present resident in London. Mrs. M'Menamen leaves many friends, who will miss her greatly, and- much symI'pathy will be felt with her relatives.