WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 51, 25 November 1918, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Rain, Sunshine, and tho Microbe. Tho heavy <lo\ni|)oiii nn Siitim!.-ty, followed by the bright .siiii.sliiuc mid brislc sriiilliprly bi'CL'/.u of Sunday, were beltt'r (li'infecliiiils Mian (|imr(s of exponsivc I'hv'iiiiciili , ' 'I'liu ram wnsOied away llu> dciidly germs, iiinl purilietl tho air, nud ihiSbiiiishiiiß which loUowod up as n I'cinl'oi'fpmcDt. hcarlciicd up I lie ennvulcsconls anil l-lii'stcil and encouraged Ilic workeiv. Wusl inspiring report* (ire coming (ii of the retreating slropfo and nllipr kind of I'orci, who have been hunted into Ilieir very la.sl trench, and arc on the point of surrender everywhere. A low more diiys of (strenuous bailie, and careful nursing of any reliKiiitin-: casualties will proclaim (ho (iniil osit. of Kins; Microbe and all his pestiferous allies.

Owing lo tjcinsr confined lo her room through the epidemic. Miss if. V. Cossgrnvo, (lie financial secretary of the Pominion Roy Scouts' organisation, is iinablo lo follow her duties.

Lady t'indlay and her two soldier •/.us, 'Major Wilfred Findlny and Caplain Lloyd Fiudlay, 51.C, h;ive arrived in Canada, en route for Now Zealand. They are expected to arrive in Wellington'the first week in January.

Mrs. Monzies, who has recovered from her recent- iUtnck of influenza, is now the guest of her sister, Lady Johnston, at "Homewood," Karori.

Miss Kathleen Russell, daughter of New Zealand's popular general, Sir Andrew Russpll, who bus been staying in lticcarton, has returned to Jtawko's liny.

Mr. W. A. Bowring, the, well-known artist, lias returned lo Wellington from Christchurcii, where ho has .been engaged on a portrait of Sir John Denniston for tho Canterbury Law Society.

Mrs. P. V. Ryan (Auckland), who lias been in Clmslchurch for a fortnight, has gone north again.

The many friends of Mrs. Veale and Mies Connie Veale will bo pleased to hour they are- Froth improving after their severe attack of influenza.

Great sympathy will be extended lo the Misses Pollen- in their bereavement. Miss Me Pollen herself has been very seriously ill for the past three, weeks, iiml just as she got better and every hope was being entertained of Dr. J'ollon's recovery, he sult'ercd from the relapse which 'ended so fatally.

Miss Robinson, who was for some years on the staff of tho mantle at Kirkcaldie and Stains, died yesterday as tho result of an-attack of intluenza.

lira. Smith, wife of Mr. G. M. Smith, Ml , for Pahiittua, clrad m Wellington on Saturday (telegraphs our Masterton correspondent). Deceased was a daughter of the late Mr. M. K. Meredith, Masterton, and leaves a family of lour. One. boy is at the front.

Miss M. W. Mnckie has been appointed hoiiie science instructress at the Masterton Technical School. A holder o first-class edrtificates for coopery and dressmaking from City alul Guilds ot London Institute. Miss Mackic was for four years (1913-18) on the stall' of the "Wellington technical College, having extended her prnctjcnl experience by asso-cifltin-i herself for two years with the dressinaUin'ir (leparlmeiit ot Messrs. Kirkcaldio ami .Stains. During (lie last tivo years Miss Mackie hns acted sis chief domestic science instructress at tlio AVeslport Technical School, doing excellent work •Iγ, Westpoit and tlio surrounding district.