WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 301, 16 September 1919, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

HATTERS OP INTEREST FROM FAB AND W^k

(By Imogen.)

The first plain and iancy dress ball of the Railway Social Assembly was held in the Railway Hall on Saturday evening. The.hall was. decorated with flays, and there wero about 80 couples present. The fancy dresses 'worn were of great variety and ckann, and were judged by voto of tho audience. The first prize for Indies was awarded to Miss Mf.lar, who wore a pretty and effective Irish dress, and tho men's prize was undoubtedly due to Mr. C. Snow, who presented a splendid impersonation of Dick Turpin. During the evening extras were played by Messrs. Walker and Nickless, end a dainty "hand round" supper- was very refreshing:, Messrs. Linford and Cox were M.C'.'s, and Mr. Norman Izctt provided excellent music. Mrs. J. D. Gray has returned from a visit to Auckland. The sum of ,£43 was realised by a sale of work organised hy members of the Girls* Auxiliary and the "busy bees," and held in the ICkanclallah Presbyterian Church Hall. The amount is to be handed over to the building fund of a cottage hospital at Ruatahima. Miss Dorothy Walpole, daughter of the late Colonel Horace Walpole, was the heroine of a queer opisoue on the day appointed for her marriage with Major Austin Scott-Murray, at St. James's, Spanish Place, London, a couple of months ago. The Duchess of Norfolk, the Earl of Eltham, Baroness Beaumont, Lady Mowbray and ii.tourton, and many other well-known society people were in the church to witness the ceremony— which did not come off. Bride, bridegroom, and priests ready to officiate wero present; but there was no marriage. At the last moment it was discovered that, owing to an oversight, notification of the marriage had not bee'a sent to tho Registrar, as required for marriages in a Roman Catholic Church, and tho necessary documents were missing. Arrangements were mado for tho celebration of the manage next day, but the reception at Gloucester Place, the home of tho bride' 9 parents, was held before the weddiag—after the ceremony jtl.at did not take place. . •

There is a strong movement afoot among patriotic Frenchmen to include in the. French- language all tho slang that has arisen (luring tao war (states an English writer). These words, they say, have been forged in fire, and they are if anything more valuable than words of less drastic provonaiice. The word "chic"—essentially Parisian in character—figures. Already in French dictionaries, ; and tho'other day it was used by 11 pmnce of tho ChurcJi in con. nection with the behaviour of)the clergy during the war, which was described as being "tout cequ'il y' adc plus chic." There are words, however, in such a book as "Gaspard" which it is difficult oven for a Frenchman to follow, yet which are essentially expressive of tho "Poiiu." We> also have our war words, anil "hot air" and "cold feet" and "wind up" and "binged" would adorn any dictionary and provide etymologists ii himdred years .henco with all sorts of matter for ingenuity in discovering derivation.

Lieutenant Garland Jones, D.C/M., and Mrs. Jones, arrived in Wauganui last week, the former having been away on active 6ervice from the beginning of tho war.

The effects of lax parental control in regard to wayward children is referred to by the superintendent of the Auckland ■Presbyterian 'Social Service- Association, the Roy. F. E. Jeffreys, in his annual report on tho association's work. "Ono is : often forced to\the conclusion," says Mr.'' Jeffreys, '."that when young' folks go : astray tho blame tis misapplied, for tho' offenders have not had that kindly guidance, and- discipline' which is the birthright of every child. I havo often wished that somo parents could be mado to realise that pur, criminal population, our prison and'reformatory inmates, aro to a great extent composed of spoilt children."

Tho marriage took place in Christ Church, AVanganui, by tho Rev. Archdeacon Reeve, of Miss Irene Powle, third daughter of the late Mr. John Powle, of liurie Hill, to Mr. Walter Georgo Randa'l, third son of Mr. and Mrs. Randal, of Titchfield, Arnmoho. TJie bridesmaids were tho Misses Lola Powlo, Miss K. Randal, and Miss MerU Singleton (niece of tho bride). Mr. Leslie Randal was best man. The service was fully choral, tho bridegroom having been for many years a inenvber of tho choir, and assistant organist. ' Mrs. L. Horrocks has returned to Fielding from a. visit to New Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs. Ulton iM'C'nbe aro visiting Wauganui. Mrs. Kineton Parkes, who had been visiting New Plymouth, left on Saturday for Aupkland. A sale of. bo held in tho Y.M.C.A., Willis Sheet, to-morrow afternoon,. September 17, at 3 o'clock. ' Stalls will comprise:' Work, plain and fancy, produce, sweets, flowers, cakes, and afternoon tea. Tho meubers of the Ladie.s' Auxiliary will gratefully receive any contributions. The.proaeeds are. in aid of Iho local work,

Flowery Names. It is iv curious reflection for a flowershow that many men have won a verdant immortality by giving their names to flowers; the m.nies linger, but the origins are forgotten. Who .connects the peony with Paeon, the Greek,physician, or the gentian with Gentius, king of Illyricum, the fuchsia with the botanist Fuchs, the lobelia with Lobelj tho dahlia with Dahl, who was u pupil of Linnaeus, or .nicotine with one Jean Nicot, an ambassndor who brought, tobacco to France? Many more people than are aware of it take their names from plants and trees. Family'. and place names beginning with "Gold" are often derived from Hie old namo of Marigold, and the Norman name of Chesney, equivalent to the English Oakes, appears in many renowed surnames and placo names. Mr. Twehetrees had an ancestor, one Peter-ntte-Twelvetrces, who lived hard by some group of trees; Mr. Rowntreo is associated ancestrally with the rowan. The Woodrulfes' and Caltrops come, too, from flowery origins. Tozer had an ancestor in the woollen trade, who loused or teased cloth with the plant called teazle. Snooks need not be ashamed of his name—it is derived from Sennocks, and that from Sevenoaks.

Fashions for Men, Men are grumbling very much at tlio high price of civilian clothes, but it does not prevent the majority from making themselves very smart indeed in colour schemes of grey and blue, states a writer in the Manchester "Guardian." Coats are short and tightly buttoned. Tho jdea seems to bo to got away lrom tiio uniform as much as possible, and yet to retain tho cccentiicity of tho Guards' tunics. 1 Generally speaking, tho cut. is that of the eighties, but instead of a mixuu of shades a symphonic effect is doI sired; a grey suit implies a grey hat and 1 grey gloves, and even a grey handker- ; chief. With blue, a handkerchief of imvv blue silk is considered effective. The young man's gait is also based on that of the Guards, mingled with a touch i of tho Botticelli slouch, and with the ex- , ouisite newness of his-attire is calculated I to convey at ft fiance the man-about-'town effect. Even sueda shoes are seen, and are worn—under protest by the authorities—with uniforms as well as with civilian suits. ! Less fortunate men, whoso gratuities I wero disposed of ''.ong beforo they materialised, have been trying the effect lof a uniform—or parts of it—upon the I civilian eye. Khaki trousers are being ■ worn more and n.ovo with a navy blue coal; it is, indeed, becoming a fashion 1 almost in itself, and no doubt will bo recorded bv historians as one of the result? of the Great AVar. One or two bold spirits even wore their tunic, having removed from it badges, buttons, and pockets,

At Archangel. The hospitals in connection with the Expeditionary Force at Archangel are elaborately equipped, states an English correspondent. There has been no caso, of cholera sinco 11)15, which is tho moro remarkable from the fact that the drinking water is taken from the Dvina, and,, although it is filtered and chlorinated, it is deeper of'huo than the tomato soup served up' in soino of the Soho restaurants*.' The average Russian appears to bo hopelessly ignorant of tho iirst laws of sanitation, but Nature has taken compassion on him, and in tho winter, when tho temperature sinks to 30 .below zero, his sins of negligence are' mercifully frozen. There are 230' beds on the Dvina and Vaga fronts, <u:d other beds at I'inega and the railway fronts;'" The hospital barge at Beresniki is certainly in tho charge of an officer, hut he will bo the first to agree that tho hospital has achieved distinction through the devotedness. of Nurso Valentine, a brave Irish lady who escaped from Petrograd with her parents and sisters, whom she lost on tho' road.:- She came to Archangel, where she asked for" work as.a nurse. Down on the Dvina front she displayed a courage which won for her the esteem and admiration of every man in this force. Once she taught a handful of wavering Russians the meaning of discipline, and though they went back to their posts at the point of the revolver—her revolver—they went back to fight with new courage. Nurse Valentine wears the decoration of tho Military Medal. . . Tho whole of tho personnel under Colonel Thorn numbers about 800. Every man is needed because of the vast distances to bo covered. That word again! Distance! Not a verst, nor a mile, nor a hundred miles, but distance, with Uhe means of transport so negligible that your country practitioner who grumbles when asked to turn but of his bed on a wet night and journey four miles in a comfoftablo car should ask a pardon.

Visiting.the Battlefields. A New Zealand lady whoso husband, an officer in the Artillery, was killed m action, has recently visited the battlefields of Franco and Flanders, and iiv a letter to a friend in .Wellington she writes of her experiences. "We were lucky to reach England, ste writes. "Coming through tho Bay of Biscay we ran into a terrific storm. A boat five miles ahead of'i'us struck a floating mine. She sent out an '5.0.5., which our Ship picked up, but owing to tho heavv seas running could not render any assistance. Only three people were 6avcd. Then,.o\ving to heavy war work, our boat's engines wore done. They couldn't start again, and the vessel drifted broadside on, nino miles out of her course, nearly going under three times. The crew were all up with lifebelts oii ready for any emergency. "I went across to France, all my papers being marked 'very special permission.' If you could only see what the poor boys had to go through. Although it was very harrowing,: it was also very interesting. ' ' "Not a building remains standing at Bailleul, where —; lies sleeping. One thing, the graves wero all in good order. The late Brigadier-General Johnston lies near -—. His- friends had erected woodwork, round the grave.

"Tho Imperial Government are going to erect marble crosses over all a 6 soon as practicable. I was all through Bailloui. ' Voperinghe, Zonnebeko, Mcnin Road, Mount Kommol, Hill GO. No Man's Land, Hazebruck, Ypres, and had a look at tho onco famous Cloth Hall and Cathedral, Stcenwerck, Douai, Armentieres, Lille, a beautiful city, Sommo River, Abele. You never saw such de,'struction and desolation in yonr life." In writing of a visit to Paris,,the writer says:—"l must tell you of a great war pictui'o,in Paris. Tho canvas is 412 yards long;' it took four years to paint, and 1000 artists were engaged to paint it. I think the principal portion is that of tho steps of the building at Fontainebleau, where tho Peace Congress is being lield. On those steps aro 5000 soldiers of all ranks, all lifo size, and a living portrait of men' who have fought in the great war, and can easily bo recognised by their friends. That picturo is tho' most marvellous I've "seen, and defies description'. Of courso,' United States has bought it, and is sending it to America!" In conclusion, the lady writes:—''l vo actually oaten, frogs and enjoyed them— very delicious, too."

Various general diseases affect the scalp. Tn most cases, as the health improves, tho falling ceases, T>ut treatment a necessary to preserve the roots. Massage is most essontial. Special courses of treatment, one guinea, at. Mrs. Rolleston, 256 Lambton. Quay,, Wellington.— Advt. Well dressed lads! Parents—See our stock of Tweed and Navy' Sports Suits for boys i to 18 years, ranging in price from 295. Gd. to 553. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners Street—Advt.', Give to the wedding that added touch of beauty imported, by floral decorations. Choicest flowers always •at Miss Murray's, Alee-Regal Florist, Willis Street, Wellington.—Advt.

Baking is an art, and depends for success upon. two things.—practical knowledge, and reliable ingredients. Many a housewife has tho knowledge; yet her cakes and scones never turn out as appetising and dainty as she wishes. Tho trouble often lies in .using the wrong baking powder. To ensure .success in all your baking, you should use "K" Baking Powder j theu you will be assured that your baking will be tho daintiest nnd most delicious .you could wish for. So tempting will the good things be, that you will hardly refrain from taking one as they come hot ■ and crisp from the oven! ' "• Add to your grocer's order a tin of 'K' Baking Powder and your baking will be a pleasure and pride to yourself and the delight of your family ami guests. Eeruember, it must be "K" brand if you'd have tho best.—Advt. As soon as you feel the slightest symptom of Influenza, tako "NAZOI" on sugar, and also, 'inhale through a Nazol Inhaler, and you're safe.—Advt.