SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 50, 23 November 1918, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Invalid Cookery, The necessity for disseminating informillion regardi'iig invalid cookery was referred to yp.ilerdiiy by the Hon. G. W. Kussell. 'Ordinary foods could mil", be given to patients in liuiL- nl' .sickness, mid tilts people required knowledge uf the preparation of Jim special foods Hint Hie invalids cuuld take. "1 feel sure-," eaid Mr. Kusscll, "that t.lie lessons «l' I Ins epidemic will not lie lost on the people of \e«- Zealand. I recognise the value oi' thi! fine work Unit is being done by the SI. .lolin Ambulance Association, but liomething very much wider tluin that organisation is necessary. 1 hope it may be possible to create a nursing organisation throughout New Zealand, and to givo the members of ihat organisation instruction by means of meetings, lantern lectures, .and scientific talks by qualified, men and women doctors. 1 think' tlmt not only .should we provide fciiis training for the women of ail classes of society, but wo should go out into Hie highways and hedges, to use the Hiblieal plira.se, and compel the women of our country to qyuio to tho lecture rooms, where liiformatiqu Hint will be of benefit to them and their families may lio obtained. Without'wishing to place undue emphasis on the value of badges, I think that once we had a national nursing organisation, the women of New Zealand would bo proud lo wear a. badge Hint indicated they had acquired knowledge tlmt guaranteed their usefulness in «imo of sickness. :\n organisation of that kind would hiivo supplied a magnificent band of workers at the present juncture. Now is the time to move in this matter, while the lessons of tlie epidemic are before us in nil their nakedness, nwl cannot be hidden or overlooked. Now is the time to-realise what tliesejoasons are, and to improve our organisation ami our methods in order to meet them." "He Was Preparit." Apropos of. that amusing Scoteh story of how ii woiiiiis living in the basement of ii flat was oiico asked if n man was prepared to (lie, who hud fallen from the top .story of - her building, and who replied, '-Ay, 1 ken he was proparir, for as ho foil ■past my window 1 heard him . «iy "iioo for the bump.'" A nurse was recently sent for, and when she arrived she foil lid that the patient was a young married man, whose temperature was quite normal, and who showed no signs of illness. The puzzled nurse asked him why ho wn.s in bed. and he replied that three days previously ii friend had taken his tfiinperatiirn, sind found it; had risen a point. «> he had gone to bed at once— lie \rns'"prei>nrit!" The inirsi , , noticing that his wife looked worried and far from well, took her temperature, niid foimd it was nearly ]02i!cr. Very quickly indeed the scene was changed, and .the cautious ono was hustled up and the sick wife was put promptly to bed-

The 1 death was announced in Hawern yesterday of Dr. Alary Dowoll. The 'deceased, who was qiiil'o n .young girl, had a brilliant university career, and was very jiopuhiv both socially and personally. Her loss will bo greatly felt by numbers of friends.

Mrs. Hermann. Brown and lie.r son, who liavo returned to Wellington, have been very ill with influenza, but arc now well on the road to recovery.

Mrs. Porter, the organising secretary of the ■Women's National Reserve, who lias been suiVering from influenza for the last fortnight, is making satisfactory progress.

/An error was made in Ihe acknowledgment of a cheque fnr .CM for the Coppor Trail, which was credited by mistake to Mr. James Wood instead of the Wtiinui lied Cross Sewing Guild.

The engagement is announced of Miss Gwendoline Bull, elder daughter of 111'. .Tamos Bull,, Makaraka, llnnterville, to Mr. .Bernard Glasgow, nldey son of Mr. A. .11. Glasgow, Wanganui.

Miss 3F. W. Mackicv domestic science instructress of tho Westporfc Toeliaical Hcliool, hafi been appoint'cd homo seieneo instnictiess to ihe Masterton Technical School.

Miss Helen Ga-rd'ner, of I)nncdin, who has 'been seriously ill at Saycs Court since tho iH-rfovinnncn of "The Gondoliers," is now definitely on- the mend.

Dr. Pliitts-Mills has been tcmyornrily relieved from her duty in connection with the Public Service on account of the urgent need fxr doctors amongst the community.

Mrs. Cruiclishank, who has linen staying for fiome time, at llisa Malcolm's, left hurriedly tor Masterton on .hearing that her daughter had been taken ill. Mrs. Cniickshnnk is now ni work cooking in an emergency hospital. \

There is a story told of the democratic Uovison. lie »'as siiiiiinoiicd to seo King Edward at Buckingham Palace, and was assured by a'friend (hat it mis essential to present himself in a (op-hat. As ho had not s nt (lllt ' lim .' refused to liny one for the occasion, his friend insisted on lending him one. hut it was much ton small, and lie had to walk along the Mall on his way to (ln> audience wiyryim: the outward sign of inward resprc'tability in his liniul. It simply would not i.'o on his head.

Apropos of the hiiviic wrought by the. Germans in Amiens, described liy Mr. I'crry Kobinson in the "Daily Now.s" lately, was the rescue of (lie tainuus mural painting by J'liris dp Chavmiiies from tliu partly-wrecked Picardy -Museum, ouo uf flie most remarkable, salvage feats of Hits war Under an intense bombardment and in continuous peril of their lives, lmlf a dozen devoted nion succi'odcd in tjeiting - every one of these masterpieces away, only one sufferinir dainaßc. What Ihis meant may bo judged from tlio fiici that well nver 201) scjuare vards nf eanvas bail to be detached inch lit , inch from it.) foundation with a knife and rolled linon cylin:l«rs for removal lo a place of wii'elv. iiUN wlio have visited Ihn Vantcon iii I'iivis will remember the Famous frescoes liv fiivis ile '."liav.i'iiies there, which are titill, (he. priilu of i'aris.

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