WOMEN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 64, 9 December 1919, Page 4

WOMEN'S WORLD.

(BX lllOQEH.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

A farewell party for Jliss Jobson was given last week by the girls of Queen Margaret College. Games and dancing formed the principal cnlercainnienl.. and supper was served in one of the classrooms specially arranged for the occasion. The head prelect, on behalf of this girls, expressed sorrow at Miss Jobson's departure, for each and all had a great regard for her. and held her in high esteem. Miss Jobson was presented with a. bound volume of snapshots taken by the girls during the year. Much applause and the singing of 'Tor She's it Jolly Good Fellow" preceded a brief speech from Miss Jobson, in the course of which sho expressed her appreciation of the gift and of the hapuv relations which had existed between herself and tho girls during the past year. Some typical Maori photographs we included among the snapshots for "the purpose of itispelliiij; in Australian .minds any delusions regarding our Maori. people. Mcmbars of tlio stall' were, also presented with farewell ami CliiT/tmas gifts.

A net sum of j>s3l Gs. was realised at' a hospital iete held in Christchiivch recently tor the purposa oi raisiiir/ jiintls with which to establish a rest /cottage for nursi's convalescing from illjiijs'i, or recuperating atter strenuous wo:fii.

A meeting of the Women's/ General Committee of tho Town-plnnijyig and Municipal Electors' Associatini/ was held yesterday altenioun in tiie / .dominion Farmers' Institute. Dr. Platl/s-'Jlills. presided. Various matters were- , i/esilt with, including correspondence, a/id, the election of Mrs. Donaldson to tho committee. The chief business of the nieetiim. however, was the. election oi; representatives of the women's committee to various, other committees of 'jiwj association. The following were appointed to date:— Garden Suburbs Society (formation), Mrs. A. Crawford; Garden Suburbs Society (lay-out), Mrs. M'Vicar and Mj\s. Watts; Housing and liiiurovement, Miss Myers and Mrs. M'Vicnr; Reserves and Forestry, Mrs. Matkw, Kolmcs and Mrs. Corliss; School Playgrounds, Dr. Ada Paterson and Miss Coac'l. :

Mrs. Hugh Elder. </f Timaru, who has been visiting her sou. Mr. Alexander Elder, at Pdlinerstjn North, and was en route to Tnparoy, East Coast, passed through Wellington, on Saturday on h<?r way to Timaru, owinc to the serious illness of her daughter, Xiiise Isabel El-! dor,, of the Timari i Public Ilpsjiital stall'.

I Miss W. Macki.e, domestic science instructress at the Masterton Technical School,, was fare-celled by the managers, 'teachers,, and gi rl pupils last week.'Mr. J. It; Cor,adine, ( chairman of managers, presided, and niter .supper (provided by the girls) had been handed round he presented Miss, .Vackie with a dinner service as a i;olren of the reanect and esteem in iv!ii oh sho is liekl by" nil con iieeted.with tljo school. Mr. Blackmail, representing tli.o managers, • .several of tho teaching sfoiff, and Mr. Grant, Hip director, all fjulogised Miss Mackie's work in tho school, and wished her every happiness, i.n/tho future. Mirs Mankie is to b.o. nuiiied early in the new y«ar.

The weijd/ng took placo in tho Pre?h.vterian Church, Wootlfille, last week of Miss 1./iey J. Jf. Shirley, second daughter.' off Mr. and Mrs. ,7. Shirley, of MaliarnJiiira, West Woodville, to" Mr C. J. tfnJsm Bicknpll, onlv son of Mi J. B. Ijichiell and Hie iato Mrs. Bickncll, of Pa/iintua.

Mr J, If.ineton Parkes has been Msiting jNelsan, and ou Friday she left for Chr'fitcliurch.

Hiss Eleanor Hopivooil, who was in' charge of London's food distribution d'jrinif tho strike of the railwnymwi, is one of tho large number of brilliant eusine&s women who, "having pained. laißo experience of organisation and control of workers in th? service of comI moreial houses before the war, eaina forward to servo in various Government I Departments; states the "Dnilv News." Fhe has served under Hie Ministry of food, as Assistant Food Commissioner and Jam Distribution Officer hitherto, I but she has done her work so quietly that even tho doorkeepers in her own office know nothing about her but her name. Cheerful, competent, and confident, she is busy with the task of seeing that the food available for London is fairly apportioned, and she is quito confident that there is no reason for the public to worry. Her appointment is a sharp challenge to tho=e who have sometimes been near forgetting the invaluable ■work dono by women in the last few years. In the Ministry of Pood they have done more independent and administrative work than in eomo other Departments, and Londoners may feel fltiito easy about their food arrangements being in -fsminino hands.

Mrs. William Barton, of Feattierston, and tho Misses Barton, ore to kavo Wellington at the end of the year to connect with, the Omontlo, which leaves Sydney on January 10. They intend to enjoy a trip round the world.

Mr. a,nd Mrs. W. J. Jorgenson, of Seatoun, ac? leaving on a trip to Japan early in tho New Year.

Mrae. Karsavina, who made a popular raipr/oarnnce at the Empire in tho Russian Ballet recently, states the 'Daily M-aij," has had London at her feet siurii slip danced in "Armida" at Covent Garden in 1911. In private life she is Mrs. Uruce, hor husband being a young Encli'lhman in tho Diplomatic Service. Off the stage lime. Karsavina is a. pale little l.ldy, almost timid in manner, with a l'Dw voice and large, expressive eyes. Sho sipeaks French more freely than English.

Miss Bobieson (Mastorton) is visitins 77ellington.

Dahlias, now figuring so pleasantly in aJI tho cotlv autumn flower shows, have ft endlv mironiaiitic history, stales a v Titer in the "Westminster Gazette." J.hev were introduced into Western .Vliirono about the tiino of the i'rejidi Revolution bv Dr. Dahl, a Swedish botanist, for the prosaic reason that the roots were considered suitable for supnlnnlinir or supplementing the potato. ' Tiiev didHiot "catch on" in this country, and the diihlia-flish soon disappeared from British dinner tables. But our Knrdeners at once perceived the great In'ent nossibilibVs of the flower, and in : due limn developed the dotibl? dahlia, flip cactus, and other floral delights. Tho roots of the dahlia, which proved too ai'.vUi for our insular palates, are slill ocfasionallv ealen in some parls of France, whero they wero doubtless found to bo hishlv desirable "war food."

Mr. and Mrs. M. Whitoand their little son .sailed by the Palormii for Melbourne on Saturday. Mr White returned from fwo nnd a half years' active service in Kc.ypt last .\iigii.it. For Iwo year.-i previouslv he was staff ferKcnnl-major at Fealliorston C'iimp. Mr. While has pur. chiuwl a property in Viclorin, where he is sroiiig farming.

Mre. Barclay, wife of Captain W. M. de R. Barclay, who died last week, wa? the onlv daughter of the late Mr. Fran-, cis C. Leslie, of Ballywams, Castlewellan. C.'oiintv Down, Ireland, and her death severed a married life which had continued .for fifty-six years. In ISG.I film went to India and uiirmali, and arrived in New Zealand in 1881. Since ISBG the late Mrs. Barclay had lived with her hushane and family in Wellington. Among a wide circle of friends and ncouaintanceri, wlni knew her y; a wo--limn of exceptional (uleuts. - A fine linKuiF.t, n womgyi oP wide and inrellieent culture, possessing a remarkable memory —dualities which could not fail to attract—she. nevertheless devoted all liur snnro time to the. service of others, find dimmed piihlieity (o the oikl. She /loaves a family consisting of Mrs. M'ood , '(wife of Colonel Wood), living in England: >frs. Arnntron'/, of Gislxinic; Miss Barclay, of Wellington; Mr. V. A liarclaA'. district manager of tho A.M.1 , . Pnciolr at liiverearftill; nnd 3fr. A. de ]!. Barclay, editor of tho "Sunday Times," Sydney.

MATTERS OP INTEREST FROM FAB ANB NBA&

Native Nurses in Samoa. Last year in connection with the Apia Hospital we started training native nursed; wo now have five (states a writer in "Kai Tiaki"). The idea is to train them two or three years, then send them out into the villages on the island to work, amongst their own people, for two or three months then return to hospital, report on the work done, and brush up in hospital again for two or three months. The girls we get are well .educated, being students from the Papantu School, which, is under tho London Missionary .Society, and Mi&s Moore, the principal takes a keen interest in them. Of course they do not understand English very well, and that was what I found so hard at first; one hits to treat them very differently from the ordinary probationer. Being very childish in their ways they could not understand tho hours on duty, and it was quite usual to lind them sleeping. One has to (,'ivo in at first as everything was nil so strange to them. They soou got into the way of hospital lit'. , , and now are a great help. One need never be afraid of them fainting at any sight, os the more ghastly the sight, the more they enjoy it. When a jiiiitiw lias an operation tho whole family ooroe with him and squnt outsjde Hie door. Three or four friends used to attend tho operation, but now we have got them <lown to ]ust one. The girls attend to the natives in hospital. Each patient is allowed to have two relations or friends to stay with him. They provide their own food and cock it unless on a special diot, their food being chiefly coconut,, bread fruit, bananas, laia and rice. W<i have, just got b?ds in the native wards. Before, the .natives bnaight their ,owu mats' and slept on the door which in the custom here. The chief diseases are elephantiasos—one sees somo terrible cascs-awl yaws, which every unlive has. liir and ey.) trouble are very common, also fa&ri'al abscesses. We have also iivij nnt.'.ve male classes, but tho Samoan men aro very lazy- Not much work is done by them. Tho natives are a very lirii'ht nnd happy people. ' They spend most of the time singing and having chinch —they have it every niiiht after their kai kai (food)—one will read u chapter from the Bible, then have long prayers nnd hymns, They sing 'iiost beautifully. I often went round at night just to hear them sing.

GIRL BOOTMAKERS TAUGHT AT JOLLY L.C.C. CLUBS. Thirty-six clubs for women and girls opened recently in London and received thousands of members who are being taught (ill manner of useful subjects, and to improve their knowledge of tho three It's..

Officially (he clubs are known as L.C.C. Women's Evening Institutes, and a "Daily Mail" representative who called at (lie Exmouth Slrcet Institute, just off Hampstead Road, NAY. 1, found it a beehive, of industry. Seven hundred and fifty students have enrolled for the term; many of them are old members who are becoming experts at tlieir particular subject?. The majority of the pupils are clerks, dressmakers, and toyniakers, and a few of them are mothers' helns. After the day's work they go to tho institute, wliere hot water, son;), and towels are provided, and refreshments can bo got very cheaply. The building opens at fi and the lessons do not begin until 7.45, nnd in the meantime they can read fie latest magazines, weekly papers, or library books.. Nearly all the pupils belong: to the gymnastic class. Twenty girls, wearing nretty gymnasium dresses, were'busy following the leader over a vaulting horse. All forms of gymnastics are provided, nnd the girls are taught morris and folk dances. In another room the mysteries of boot repairing wen; being taught. Women and girls, after they have learned the various st.igts, bring their own or their relatives''boots and, rennir them. The materials are provided 'bv the L.C.C. at cost price, and many families have their boots repaired by tho dagiihtcr or tlip mother. Budding violinists were practising in .■mother room, and on the floor above, tv singing class of 30 women and girls was rendering a part fiong. They are to learn Snllivnn s "Golden Lcend" and one of Handel's works, anil next May they will form part of u choir that w to give a concert at Queen s Hall. Some of the dressmaking class were wearing garments which they made at the institute last term.

The influenza epidemic was responsible for the "death at Home of a notable women in the person of Marion Rutherford of Glasuon-. Shu was the head of the 'Queen Margaret Settlement for tho trainin" of students for diplomas m social work. Her great work was to found the first school for crippled children who were too ill to go into the primary schools. The wluoiiHonal authorities followed her example, and now there -are numbers of those schools all over the city Klii- also formed a conn- , try homo 'hospital for children. She wiu one of the early members of the Women's National Council, and really gave her life for (he children of Scotland She was one of the ladies on the Invalid Children's Aid Association and Infant Tleallh Association, which visits everv baby born in the city every tortiiidit (luring the first twelve months of its life, and all Hie visitors are trained women working umlor the Public Heaith Association,

Tlie wedding look place yesterday at j tlio Sacred Heart Church, Petone, of -Miss l'ii-iliiio ("Bully"! U'Coimnr, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred O'Connor, Udy Street, l'etune, to Mr. Walter Sharon, son of Mr. E. Sharon, Nelsnn Street, the R«v. Father Quealy offi- ! dating. Tho bride was given away l>y her father, and wore white urepo do.chine, witli penrl trimmings, Liuiensk tulle, veil, mid carried a shower bouquet of roses, sweet peas, Christmas liliiss, ami maidenhair fern. The. bridesmaids were (ho liride's sisters, Misses Alina O'Connor (lavender crepe do chine) and Try O'Connor (pink), and both carried beautiful bouquets. Tlio bridegroom's present (o tlio bride was a gold bangle, set with diamonds and rubies. A reception was held at Waish's rooms, Jackson Street, and a dance- at Sydney Street Hall. Mrs. O'Connor received hsr guests ill a navy blue costume. The honeymoon is being 'l spent at Palmerston North. i

The Boyal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children wish to tender their grateful thanks lo nil those who helped to make their Appeal Hay j euch a success:—Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool for donating cakes, produce, and flowers to each stall; Hunt, Cottrell, and Co. for free cartage; to the Public Works fbr the stalls, the D.1.C., Messrs. Hannn. and King, the malinger of the Artcraft Theatrej Mr. Hunt, Messrs. Johnston and Co., van Staveren Bros., the pupils of the Norman School for donation of £!> .Is. l<l.. and lo all those who gave so freely. At the meeting nf the society held on Friday Miss Tloskins. was elected lion, secretary, in tho place of Miss Barnctt, whose resignation was received with regret l