WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 212, 2 June 1919, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAB AND NEAR. f ■

• (By Imogen.)

Mr.-ami Jii:. J. \V, W'uilaco aro visaing Christchurch. The wedding took place last week In the Anglican Church, -Castlecliff, of Miss Annie Thornton Cresswell, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C, M. Cresswell, of Castlecliff, to Engineer-Lieutenant Ernest Hargreave, E.N., only son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Hargreave, of Cardiff, South Wales. Miss Nella Cresswell was bridesmaid, and Private R. M. Cresswell, who has recently returned from active service abroad, was best man. Tho bridegroom had served in the Navy during tho groater part of tho war.

Mrs. MacShane (Auckland), who had been spending some time with friends in the Wairarapa. is with Miss .MacShane, staying at Lyall Bay.

Holders of blue tickets are reminded of the meeting to be held in the gymnasium of the late Sydney Street Soldiers' Club aJ: five o'clock this afternoon to, discuss arrangements with Sirs. Cole-' ridge and Mrs. C. Earle for tho entertainment of the men from the New Zealand.

Mrs, A. H. Bristed (Christchurch) has come to Wellington to see her son, Mr.. J. Bristed, of the Eastern.Extension Com-, pany, who has been transferred i to. Sydney. Mr. -Bristed leaves this week for Australia.

Miss Bathie Howie-Stewart, the attractive and brilliant soubretto who earned three big recalls at. Everybody's Theatre on Saturday evening, as the preliminary, to a long engagement with the New Zealand Picture Supplies, Ltd., is a Duncdin girl. She was at one timo a member of the Pollard Opera Company, playing with that organisation during the latter years of its existence, and relates tiiat she was renewing acquaintance with an old l stage when sho walked , the steps on the stago of Everybody's' Theatre cn Saturday evening. Miss Howie-Stewart has played many parts with amateurs in Dunedin, including responsible roles in light opera and musical comedy. Sho came to reside in Wellington last yenr, and was secured for the part of Tessa in "The Gondoliers" by the Wellington Amateur Operatic Society, in which rolo ■she approached perfection, tier genial, temperament and clever acting placing her easily in tho professional class. Her success 'on Saturday evening, when she had to do four "turns" before the audience was satisfied, stamps her as a performer of unusual charm and mqrit.

Mrs. Margoliouth and Miss-V. Margoliouth are visiting Napier. ■

Mdlle. Dolores was the guest of the Canterbury Women's Club (Christchurch) on Friday afternoon.. Of much interest was an exhibition of women's work which was held during tho afternoon, beautiful examples of needlework, painting, drawing, and china painting being shown.

As the result of the-kindergarten street sale made on Friday iu aid of kindergarten funds, a sum of ; £316- was banked on Saturday. . There "tiro yet one or two smaller amounts to come-'in.

A 6mall 6ale of cakcs was opened in the Y.W.C.A. buildings in Herbert Street on Saturday afternoon by tho Mayoress (Mrs. J. P. Luke). • Mrs. Pearson (president) welcomed Mrs. -Luke, and tho delicious-looking cakes, pikelets, sconos, etc., met with ready purchasers.' Tho resulting funds aro to go towards a piano fund for the Boulcott Street Hostel.

Wo are asked.to slate that the announcement of the engagement of Lieutenant M.Luxford, M.C., of Jlastings, to Miss Sclm'lte, of Warivickshife, England, made By a London corresiibnclent, is in correct.

Sister"Norinnn .Hunt,. N.J!.S.N.S., has returned to Ashbui'tori after having spent tha last three years in nursing in Franco and England.

"We are proud,", ran ths annual report of the Nursing Division of the St. John Ambulance Association,. Palmerston North, "of the work of two of our youngest members who went to England in January, 191G—Jliss 'Doris Crabb and Miss Taplin Allman." Miss Crabb, the report goes on to state, saw service iu the hospitals 011 the land, in canteen, with the Women's Legion as a chauffeur, and afterwards with Queen Mary's W.A.A.C.. to which organisation she is still attached. Among the capacities in whicli Miss. Allman acted w-'is convoy clerk in an enteric camp, and in a, prisoner of'-war hospital.,- Afterwards she was transferred to Trance, where she engaged in similar work at the Lo Treport Hospital. According to latest advices she had been transferred to Rouen, instead of getting her discharge, as siio had eipccted..

A Nurse's-War Work, Sister Lewis, of the New Zealand Medical Corps, returned to New Zealand by the Toftm lust week. Sister lewis belongs to Otaki, and during ,her years of war work lias received five;' decorations, British and foreign, and also wears the gold wound stripe, an uncommon distinction among no-combatants. In tlio early part of'the war she nerved through the Serbian campaign, and underwent the horrors of the military operations there, being also for a time a prisoner in the lianas of the enemy. After having what would have been thought sufficient adventure for any woman, she volunteered for the New . Zealand Medical Corps, and joined it on the eve of the great German thrust of last year. _ Here, again, she served through'an arduous campaign. Jn view of so much patriotism and devotion, it is well to have to ndd that the

nature of the warm-hearted lady's injury, which is a wound 011 the back, of the'neck, is such th|it her vision is affected, and she is threatened with total blindness, which may superveno in the course of a few months. Nevertheless, she is of the cheeriest disposition, and contemplates the prospect of her future; with complete equanimity and even cheerfulness.