WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 164, 5 April 1919, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The Wellington District W.C.T.U. held the monthly meeting in the Constable Street rooms on Thursday, when Mrs. Wright presided. Business in connection with polling day occupied most of the time. Mosdames Spearman and Butler were elected delegates (o the convention which will be held at Napier. Mesoames Wright and Bolt were nominated for the Newtown School Committee. Mrs. Bingham moved that the following resolution bo forwarded to the convention to consider ;-"That this District Union of Wellington wishes to bring before the Dominion the state of matters re Indian indenture system in connection with tho sn»ar plantations in the islands, and asks that an. effort be made to improve the conditions under which the Indians and especially the women live."

Mrs alio: Miss Gorton, who had been the guests of Mrs. Stewart, left last even, ing for Christchurch, where they intend taking u.p their future residence. Both had been keen patriotic workers for the Navy League during the time they had beeii living in Wellington.

Mr. .and Mrs. L. 0. H. Tripp and Miss Eudora Henry left yesterday on a visit to Kotorua.

Captain Elder and Miss Elder arc visiting Auckland. .

Her manv friends in Wellington will ■be "lad to hear that Dr. Agnes Bennett, according to recent news was leaving England for New Zealand by the Paparoa, which was scheduled to sail on March 31.

The Land of Poppies,

Mrs. Jolly returned to Wellington on Thursday from a visit to Stwtford.

The Brooklyn branch of the Women's National Reserve held a, meeting on Thursday afternoon, and various avenues of work were discussed. It was decided to make a special effort for nursing instruction, and much interest is being taken in regard to the matter. Mrs. Hopkirk reported that the chiloren of the school had handed in that morning eleven I dozen eggs and two sacks of potatoes for the Returned Soldiers' Day. The meeting felt that this was a splendid piece of work done by the young people. Mr?. Strangemuir was elected president, in place of Mm. Hopkirk, who resigned owing to the strain of work during the war I period. This branch has uone a largo ! amount of work and supported numerous j objects as well as Red Cross.

The stall at the G.P.O. yesterday was ■in the hands of the Y.W.C.A. Board of Directors, under the leadership of Mrs. Cieorgo. Mrs. Tope, and Mrs. Adams.

miss L. W. Packard, who has been abroad with the Australian Nursing Division since lOli, has arrived in Australia, and is due,back in Wellington at an early date. Miss Packard, who was in Australia when war broke out, was formerly in tho Wellington and Dannevirke Hospitals.

• Mrs. D. T. Stewart, who was in charge of the flowers at the Returned Soldiers' Club vestei'dav, received 'u supply of real Scotch heather from Mr. Archibald. Over 50s. resulted from its sale.

Miss Margaret Bilton leaves .by the Moana for San Francisco en route to England.

The wedding took place in the Edgeworth Methodist Church, Christchurch, of Mr. Leslie Hurold Fee, son of the Llev. Thomas and Mrs. Fee, St. Albans, to Miss Ellen Ewing Mncfarlane, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John MacfarUtno, Christchurch. The Rev. W. C. Oliver, assisted by the Revs. T. Pee and Bond, performed tho ceremony. Miss liello Maefarlane and Miss Myra Fee were bridesmaids, and the best man was Mr. W. Pomeroy. The Rev. A. A. Bensley was .groomsman..

Leaving by the Moana are Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Bennett and Mrs. Kempthorne and family. Joining the steamer at Papeete, en route for France, will be His Excellency Governor J alien, Madame Julien and family, and a party ot about twenty.

Lieutenant nud Mrs. Gnerson are passengers by the Aloana, which is about to leave for San Francisco.

Tho Mother's Holp Division of tho Women's National Reserve is now in working order, and prepared to give a certain amount of help to mothers needing it. Mothers needing help are asked It, communicate with Mrs. Aherne, lion. secretary, 157 Featherston Street. All hell) at present is voluntary. Everyone feels that, owiug to tho difficulty of getting domestic help, mothers of little children are having a very trying tune, and it is hoped that the number of helpers will become so great that more than ono day's help can be given to each applicant.

Mrs. R. W. Holmes and her daughter, Mrs. Sinclair Thompson, are leaving by the Moana for San Francisco.

Mrs; R'. B. Gibbons, of Khandallah, with'ticket No. SO, was the winner of the competition for tho ham held in connection with tho stall in front of lurkcaldio and Stains yesterday. A donation of goods to this stall from the Empire Manufacturing Company, Broadway Terrace, was a much appreciated gift.

Y.W.C.A. Notes, On Sunday afternoon Miss Dora Johnstone will speak at the Y.W.C.A., when members of the girls' department will be represented. All, young women aim girls, especially those who are strangers to the city, will be welcome. Miss Jean Stevenson, industrial secretary for the National Y.W.C.A. of Australia, in company with Miss A. M. Benthain, industrial secretary of the Melbourne Association, sniled for Sydney by the Moeraki on Thursday. At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Y.W.C.A., held last week, it was agreed that the building in Boulcott Street, at present occupied bv the Y.M.C.A. as a soldiers' hostel, I should' be taken over by the Y.W.C.A. and appropriated to the use oi girls. It will be remembered that the building was purchased by the- Y.W.C.A. in 1910, but owing to the pressing need there was at that time for housing soldiers, it was a"i-eed to let tho men in camp be in occupation till the end of the war. Meanwhile the work of the Y.W.C.A. has been going on under severe restrictions caused bv limited space, and it is with relief that the extension of the girls' work is anticipated both by leaders and lriei.ds. At the beginning of next month the blue triangle of the Y.W.C.A. will take the. place of the red triangle of the Y.M.U.A., and it is expected that the alterations and additions will soon be in operation, and the girls will have a building of their own now that the war is over. The Magpie Club, under tho leadershin of Miss Dalton, will be in charge of the' refreshment part of 'the programme at the Y.W.C.A. social to-night, awl Miss Clarke-Johnsoii and Miss Staco will be in charge of 'tho entertainment part of the programme-

Mrs. Rolleston's Course of Face Massago Treatment at Home has made many friends by its successful results. The Course covers full throe months' treatment, and includes all necessary preparations, together with a set of massage cups The cost is JGs. (id., plus Is. postal to any address. Mrs. Kolleston, 251! Liiinbton Quay, Wcllington.-Advt. !\w Parents! Py.iama Suits for boys at' a price less than material can now be purchased for. Hoys 5 lo 6 yours, ;is 3d., up to boys of W and 11 at Is. :iil (100. Fowlcls, Ltd., Manners Strwl.Advt. Eastertimo weddings will be made nil the more attractive with our exquisite bouquets and floral decorations—mako a noint of early ordering! Miss Murray, Vicc-IJcßal Florist, Willis Street, Wellington.— Advt.

Health of Women and Children. The monthly meeting of the Royal Xcw Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children was held in tlic Phuket rooms on Thursday. Present were: Mrs. Chapman (in the chair), Lady Stout. Mesdumes A. Myers, Ponsouby W. Luke, Tythe-Brown. 11 ipes liiehard6on. M'Vicav. Ward, Earle and Haiian, Misses Kirkealdiu. lugiis, Cable, 51 Lean, and Harnett. The muses report tor last month showed a record month tor visits to (lie rooms. New cases i>o; eases visited in homes, 374; visits to the rooms 570, Bona Bay 33, Kliandallali 28; babies solely breast-fed 21, partly 13, artificially 13; expectant mothers visits to rooms. 6; mothers taught how to prepare humanised milk, 29. The. expenses for the month wye £ba lis. (id. Nurse "Walton has resigned to lako up Phuket work in Hastings. ■ Mrs. Chapman and Mrs. \V. J:. Ward will represent the society at the lownPhumins Conference next month. The annual meeting will-be held on Monday, April H. I'll" Hoy. Robertson Or has promised to preside Donations and subscriptions were acknowledged as follow :-irom the War Upline Association for the Material Fund for Garments for Soldiers" Children, £5; Mesdames Bell, liethune, Quirk, and Miss Sybil Nathan, £\ Is. each; Mesdames Esby, Crawford, Kotheram, 10s. each; Mesdames Tilly, Prichard, Rountroe, Capper, Barr, and 51 ill?, ss. each; Mrs. Nond. Cs. Subscriptions!!) r this vear are now due, and will be received by the hon. treasurer, Mrs. C. Richardsnn, Sehvyn Terrace.

A description of life at Salonika is civen in the Sydney "Telegraph' by a recently returned nurse, Sister Dorothy Feneley wlio was there on military service for about two years. The Greeks, Bister Feneley says, endure pam with stoical patience, ami the way m which ihey fought: in the big "stunt." jusl. before the signing of the armistice made up for any previous indeteriiiiiiation on their part. Salonika itself, she. says, is a quaint old place, the streets payed with cobble-stones, and stalls punctuating the highways, in addition to tho big bazaars. Old Olympus, in the distance, covered with eternal snow, makes the Greek gods seem near and more than mythical, and from tho top of Kotos Gallipoli could: be seen in the distance. Homo colours appear monotonous after the exuberance of brilliance in the fields surrounding the town. Nothing could describe the hue of the sky nor the changing tints of the sea, where the bathing was one of the joys o[ existence. In the early mornings the nurses, would go into | tho'fields and return with armloads of poppies and cornflowers, and the brilliant blooms of the native cactus. In spite of the frequent vanrah, the terrible wind which made life a misery for the three : days it lasted, the hard conditions, strenuous work, ami the few pleasures available, the nursing staff of the 50th spent the time.happily enough—they were famous for unity and good fellowship. Salonika, like the rest of the world, went man' when the armistice was signed. The cos- ' mopolitan population crowded the ' l streets, singing, its many native songs, and using tin' cans as instruments, livery "tin Liazic" and lorry in tho i place was requisitioned, and for the while i pandemonium reigned. Crowded London. Visitors to London daring the present ■ year will find it extremely oifiicult to obi "tain hotel accommodation (states a Lon- > don correspondent of the Melbourne - "Argus"). Over twenty of the largest - hotels in Loudon are still occupied by '• (he new Government Departments which 1 sprang into existence during the war, s and none of thes'j Departments is dis-

playing any desire to abolish itself. These Departments reduced the hotel accommodation of London by 8000 beds. But dveii if all these hotels were available for visitors, the accommodation would' not be sufficient for the number of visitors' expected when the peace pageant of the armies of the Allies marches through London. At the present time London is uncomfortably crowded. It is difficult to obtain a seat at « West End restaurant or a theatre without booking it beforehand. During the busy hours of the day a seat in a bus or a lube train has to be fought and won against great odds. The. crowded condition of Lonaon is due to the presence of thousands of soldier;' and sailors on leave; thousands of Belgian and French refugees, who are not yet able to return to the devastated areas where they had their homes. And during the four years of war London has been stationary, instead of expanding to meet growing requirements. Owing to the outcry raised by the fact that officers and liien coming to London on leave were often unable to obtain beets, and had to spend hours going from ono hotel to another in search for .accommodation, the War Office established an organisation to keep in constant touch with the chief hotels as to their available accommodation. Householders with vacant bedrooms were urged by the War Office to place these rooms at the disposal of this organisation for the iuo of officers on leave. Large empty buildings were taken over temporarily in order to provide sleeping accommodation for 1 non-commissioned officers and men.

Typists at the Peace Conference. The London correspondent of the Melbourne ''Argus," writing on January 21 of matters in connection with the Peace | Conference, states that the wholo of the j Australian delegation live at the Hotel Majestic, a vast hotel, in which the feminine element is supplied by a great companv of girl typists from the Foreign Offioe and other Government Departmentis in London. Serious as are the subjects under discussion at the conference there is time for mild dissipations at the Hotel Majestic. Dinner parties aro frequent, Mr. Balfour 'being a particularly indefatigable host. Nor are the great company of typists forgotten. Before they left London each received a special cress allowance of X"25, to cover evenin" gowns and other articles of attire which would ensure the womenfolk of the British delegation holding their own with their sisters of France. Muhc, sin<nii", dancing fill in tlie evening. Miss Lloyd George is such a constant attendant at the dances that some wit has proposed to change the name of the hotel from Majestic to "Megautic.