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WOMAN'S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(BV 111 OQEN.)

A ROYAL WEDDING

PRINCESS PATRICIA'S MARRIAGE. The weduing ol Princess, Patricia of Connaught to Commander Alexander Robert Alaule Ramsay, D.5.0., K.N., called out a not unexpected display of popular enthusiasm, states the London "Times."

There have been many more showy weddings than that which, took place at noon in Westminster Abbey. And eomemore, we may be sure, than Court mourning (which was waived for the occasion) was the origin of tho stately and reticent beauty of a ceremony which was throughout in tune with the visible and the historic grace of the Abbey church. A few white flowers on the altar and the gold church plate massed on the south side of the Sacrarium were the only decoration. For splendour we must wait, no doubt, till khaki is superseded by the old scarlet, and State uniforms are in use again. There were one or two spots of brilliant colour in the dresses or hats of the ladies in the congregation. For the most part the colouring was subdued, and tho postilions outside were the most splendid figures of tho occasion. This, however, did notAabate from the general air of happiness and contentment. 'Within the Abbey, or in the street, people seemed ' to be pleased about it all. , On entering the Abbey, and being taken in charge by a Gentleman Usher to the King, the guest would .find his notice first attracted by the guard of honour that lined the nave. This guard was composed of a party of seamen from Commander Ramsay's ship, H.M.S. King George V, and of men of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel A. Hamilton Gault, D.5.0., who founded the. regiment, and carrying the colours which Princess Patricia worked for the regiment and presented to it at on August 22, 1914. The half hour immediately preceding the ceremony was filled with organ music played by the Abbey organist, Mr. S. H. Nicholson.' . . , , The King and Queen arrived shortly before th£. bride. The King/ obviously out of compliment to the bridegroom, wore the uniform of an Admiral of the Fle'et, while the Queen wore a becoming gown in a pale shade of silver-grey crepe broche, artistically draped and embroidered in silver beads and silk; over this was a cloak of soft grey velvet embroid-' ored in silk and silver. • A ltussian toquo of silver and grey tulle, trimmed with silver embroidery, completed the tout ensemble. The first intimation of the bride s arrival was conveyed by a muffled sho'it of welcome from the crowd without, the processional hymn, "Praise, my bout, tho King of Heaven," echoed soltly through the. Abbey as the procession moved slowly through the nave. Headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the b'u)>-.Dean of the Chapels Royal, .Canon Edgar Sheppard, D.D., and the Dean of Westminster the procession' passed from the nave to the choir stalls, and on to the entrance to tho Sacrarium, where Commander Ramsay and his best man awaited the bride. Princess Patricia was escorted by tier father, the Duke of Connaught, Mid looked radiant in her beautiful gown, which was Venetian in effect. Made ot white broche panne on an under-dress •of silver lace, over which the panne vas caught up with silver true-lovers' knots, fringed with silver acorns, were long white'chiffon sleeves, and the bodice was draped across a vest of silver lace. A Venetian girdle of silver embroidery hung in long ends at the side, and vas finished with lovers' knots and acorns, whilo a cluster of white heather and myrtle was tucked in. the front, iba train, which ww? carried by the Earl of Macduff; the four-year-old son of Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught, and tlwt Hon. Simon Ramsay, nephow of the bridegroom, was. of rich .cloth of silver, with embroidery in a design of lilies at the .sides and a large bunch of lilies carried across to the hem designed in raised silver tissue. TheJjride being of Royal birth, her veil was worn off the face, but. was held by a narrow wreath of irvrtl" lecves and small buds. • Following the pages came the bridesmaids in the order as given: Princess li:»rid of 'Sweden;, with Lady Jean Ramsay, niece of the bridegroom; Lady May Cambridge and:' Lady Ida Ramsay, niece of tho-.bridegroom,; Princess Mary and Princess Maud, and the Ladies Victoria and Helena of Cambridge. The grown-up bridesmaids wore picture hats of chiffon in a pretty shade of. blue known as ' love-in-a-mist," trimmed in front with semiwreaths of wild roses, blackberries, and foliage, the roses being formed of rose, green, and blue tissuo. The chiffon dresses were in a lighter shado of blue than the hats, with full skirts falling in pleats from the waist.' The bodices ivero ■draped over a vest of white blonde lace, embroidered in silver, and held at the waist by a deep folded belt of blue tissue, surmounted by narrow folds of rose and green tissue, which formed a bunch Ot wild roses-and leaves at the side. The frocks worn by the younger girls wen. similar in shade, but made in more simple style, and in place of hats they, had- narrow bands of tissue ribbon caught here and there with little roses. All the bridesmaids carried bouquets oi mixed anemones, tied with blue gauze to match the frocks. •U some moment not observed by most of' those present the bridegroom had, with' the morlestv characteristic of- a sailor, come through the south transept nnd, with' his groomsman, LieutenantCrromnnder Bowlby, R.N.. taken ■ l'ls place (it the end of the front bench on the south side below the Sacrarium rail. Both officers wore naval uniform. And when the bride had joined him th« Archhisliop of Canterbury, with the Dean of Wesiminster on his right and the SubDean of the Chapels Royal (Canon Edgar Sliepnardl on hisilef.t, stood at the top of ' the Sacrarium steps, and the marriage service began. , ' ' At its conclusion and upon the return of the bridal party from the Chapel -of Edward the Confessor, -where the register was signed, Mendelssohn's Wedding March was played, and the'united ,'sion of the clergy,, the bride and bridegroom, the King and Queen, and the Royal Family went down the Abbey, be-tw'-e'i rows of faces, to the west door. Those who left the Abbey soon ns the procession hnd passed were in ample time to hear the roars of ' cheering v ith \l-hieh the bride and bridegroom were greeted by the dense crowds all round the precincts, in the street, on lamp-posts, on the tops of vans and carts, at every window, and on every roof—cheering which continued all the. way up \\ hitchnl 1 and all along the route by which Commander and Lady Patricia Ramsay drove to Clarence House. The fifty •guests present at the wedding luncheon at St. James's Palace comprised all the available members of the lioyal Family and of the family'of the bridegroom. The King proposed the health or the bride and bridegroom. Afterward? the bride went to Clarence House to change into her travelling dress. All the members of the two families who had been present at the luncheon, with a number of guests specially invited to witness the departure, were assembled outside the main exit from the Palace. A thoughtful policeman had provided himself with a quantity of rice, and ths Royal ladies gladly availed themselves of the opportunity of giving to their send-off the orthodox form. _ _ Commander and Lady Patricia Ramsay left in a motor-car, the hood of which was turned back, and they were well se<ci by many thousands of people w*ho were crowding that part of the Mall. The people cheered their loudest, waved their hats and • handkerchiefs, and shouted good-will greetings. Although large police force was in attendance, it was quite impossible to keep back the crowd, and the car had to go at first at a walking pace, and then was brought to an absolute standstill until the police could make a passage for it. All this time the demonstration continued, and frequently people in tho front row of tho crowd held up littlo children to the bride and bridegroom, who were both kept constantly employed in acknowledging the affectionate warmth of the greeting extended to them. The members of the Royal Family within the Palace Gardens 1 heard tho commotion and went to the Terrace to sea what wns happening. The Duke ot Connaught, Prince and Princess Arthur, and some others mounted the wall and, holding on by-the ivy, watched the scene until at last the newly-married couple had succeeded in getting away.

MEDICAL MIRACLES

DOCTORS TRIUMPH IN THE WAR

SOME REMARKABLE ACHIEVE

MENTS ' ' An American doctor spent a year studying the hospital methods and tne camp sanitation on the British, Frencn, and Italian fronts, and lie had a week oil | hospital ships of he Britisii Navy (says j the "Christian World")., His book, ■ written in. very readable style, cnlivem.il by humour, is a record of veritable , miracles—victories won ever wounds and : disease in the field, victories in sale- ! and building i.p the health of : the civil'population at home, that rival jUlie triumphs of Foch, ..JJaig, and Diaz. The book supplies the hard-pressed theologian with the most effective answer to the question "Why did God permit ! the war?" "To teach the doctors howto save life." It is a fact that almost the whole loss of life in the fields has bqen compensated, as regards the Western Atiios, itf the saving oi infnut and adult life at home. Dr. Woods Hutchinson I tells its:

'Our armies in Flanders and Northern France, in the winter of 1917-18, out in open trenches in some of the vikst and 'siclcliest' weather, troops ever had to face, had less sickness nnd fewer deaths from penumonia and all other diseases than soldiers used to have in br.rracks in time of peace, and far less than the general civil population at home. Inoculation protected them against typhoid; splendid feeding,' with plenty of meat find fat, against pneumonia and consumption; fly campaigns n/rninst dysentery and diarrhoea; shower-baths and clean underwear agninst spotted typhus; and quarantine against measles, summer diarrhoea, diphtheria, and influenza. The old plagues of army camps—cholera, Black Death, and spotted typhus—nil lifted their heads nnd began to 'resurrect' in Italy, in Serbia, and in Russia, but all were promptly stamped out by modern sanitary sciencc—cholera by isolation, disinfection, nnd vaccine; Black -Dentil by extermination of fleas; typhus by measures directed against lice and by shower-baths. "There is no armour against fate," but when it conies to typlins a clean undershirt pretty well fills the bill, and is a better Pfe-protector than any shirt hf mail." Tho three now horrors discovered by the war were trench fever, trench nephritis, and trench feet. Properly drained trenches, loose, comfortable loot and leg wear, and grousing 0 f the feet every night, with clean socks and plenty of. them, settled their business. As to mental trouble through shell-shock, tho total number of serious or lasting cases was only 2600 in the British Army—less than one in a thousand, and little more than the ordinai-y insanity rate in men of military age in times of peace. Tho German infamy of gas-sing was met and conquered, and it is the best of news that victims suffering from gassing reasonably hope in six or twelve months to' shake themselves free of its effects.

As to wounds, the dootors' control over wound-infection wa6 so complete that of the wounded who survived six hours 90 per cent, recovered; of those who reached the field hospitals 95 per oent. recovered; of those who reached the base hospitals 98 per. cent, got well. Bullet wounds, owing to the hijh velocity generating heat, which, seared tho flesh they passed through, almost healed themselves.. The trouble was with wounds from- shell fragments. -Apart from the jaggedness of the bits, the shells usually fell, before they burst, into the richly cultivated soil, swarming with germs of diseaso, which were carTied into the wounds. Lockjaw and gasgangrene were the spccifio dangers. These also found their masters. Microscopic examination of a handful of soil from a battlefield discovered the tetanus bacillus and the "bacillus gasogenes perfringens," or "bacillus Welchii;" named after its finder, Dr. Wolch, of Johns Hopkins University. Cables to European and American laboratories soon led to tho turning out of the necessary antitoxins. The laboratory of the Health Department of New York City alone supplied in a single year over ,£15,000 worth of anti-toxin and typhoid vnccine. That notorious disease-germ distributor, the fly, found no place , where it could settle, feed, or deposit its eggs, for every bit of corrupt or otherwise fly-attractive material was immediately collected or burnt, nnd there were practically "flyless camps." ■ Officers sometimes thought tho doctors faddy. Said a cheorful young subaltern to ' Dr. Woods Hutchinson: .

"Why, youi know, these doctor chapshave got 6iich a l«t of fussy regulations passed that I actually have to see i:ot only that my lot get clean underwear and clean, socks twice a /week, but that they put 'em on, and if they haven't got 'em on when inspection .comes I get a wigging. I've got to go round every night and see that they've greased their little feet and washed their pretty pink toeses before they go to bed. But I'm bound to -say that- the beggars keep as fit as fighting cocks with it all." Evidence is given by- our doctor as to tho diabolical provision made by the Germans for gassing years before the war. Gas-containers were captured stamped "Model of 190!)" and "Model of 1911." The chief German "tear gas" was made from the seeds of a .tropical grass known as Sabndilh, discovered by the extreme annoyance which it caused to labourers clearing the Central American .jungle for rubber or cocoa plantations. It became, known that Germany had been importing these seeds by the ton for' years past—for what purpose no one could, guess until tho war broke ■out! "We conclude our notice of a tru'.y fascinating book with the author's statement that the. doctors, by vanquishing typhus, probably saved 300,000 lives a yeari on' tho British front alone.

."Those who talk glibly of the Russian proletarian revolution ignore the incontrovertible fact that after a year of Bolshevist rule the Russian proletariat hn; disappeared. Russian industry is destroyed. The factories of Petrograd am' Moscow are nearly all closed. Bolshevism is the negation of the liberation of industry. It is sheer madness -within diabolical method."—-Dr. Harold Williams.

Edinburgh University has not yet completed the roll of hononr which it is drawing up. But even thus far it may bo stated that some 5000 of its members look active part in the grfot struggle, while botween six and seven hundred gave their lives. Many honours were earned, including two V.C.'s, 95 awards of the D.5.0., and 328 of the M.C. In addition, 18 members cf the university had the French Croix de Guorre conferred. i

In his recent visit to Manchester University to lecture on "Astronomy and the Electrical Theory of Matter," Sir Oliver Lodge pointed out how great is Manchester's contribution in this field of knowledge. The theory, lie said, was born at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, and "had been developed in the laboratory at Manchester University more than in any part of the world." The lecturer paid high tributo to the work of scientific discovery carried out by Sir Ernest Rutherford, Professor of Physics in the University.

A Baptist will lead the new House of Commons and a Baptist will &lso lead the Opposition. Mr. William Adamson, the new chairman of the Labour Party, is a Scottish Baptist, fifty-six years of age, with twenty-seven years' work as a miner behind him.

Ladies, why endure «old motor runs? See our splendid range of ladies' motor scarves, in silk, also wool, 7e. 6d. to 50s. Goo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners Street.—Advt.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 177, 22 April 1919, Page 2

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WOMAN'S WORLD. Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 177, 22 April 1919, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD. Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 177, 22 April 1919, Page 2

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