WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 92, 13 January 1920, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

(By liioasN.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Atiss Anniri Rutherford (Bleiiheim) is visiting Wellington.

Nurse Fulton, of the Wnirau llospilnl at Ulenheiiu, is visiting Wellington.

Mrs, Arthur C. Jlaginnity, o£ Nelson, who catno oi-er for the grand opera season and Miss Daisy Kennedy's opening recital, returned yesterday.

Miss E. M'Master (Masterlon) and Miss M'Dougall (Martinborough), who have been spending some months in Honolulu, returned to New Zealand by the .Makura, which arrived in Auckland at the end of last week.

The wedding was celebrated at the Presbyterian Manse. Ohakuno, on December 30, of Miss Louisa Jennings, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Jennings, of Brooklyn, to Mr. Eben. Morton, of Hustings. Tho ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. Morton (brcther ot tile bridegroom). The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a cream tailor-made gabardine costume, with hat to match, and carried a beautij'ul bouquet of pink and white sweet neus. Tho bridesmaid, Miss Perry, Turakina, was also in cream, with hat to match. Tho bridegroom was attended by Mr. Murray, of Otiakune, as best man. After tho ceremony tho guests wore entertained at a wedding breakfast at the manse, the usual toasts being honoured. Mr. and Mrs. Murton left later for tho south.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Dittmer and family, of Palmerston North, left by the T'ofua yesterday for San Francisco. It is their Intention to settle in America.

Aliss Craig-Robertson left by the Tofua on her return to England, via America.

A thousand girls employed at the Edi-son-Swan Electric Company's works, Ponder's End, London, struck work to support a demand for the reinstatement of the manager of the lamp department, who had been dismissed. The girls passed a resolution demanding to be informed of tho reason for the manager's dismissal, and further demanding that he be reinstated. Later it was announced that the man would be reinstated.

Thanks to tho establishment of normal prices, movement upward of prices of food has received an .almost general check throughout France} says an exchange. In continuance of their action against profiteers, tho Government has confiscated goods belonging to boot shops in the centre of Paris, where shoes were boing sold (it prices ranging from M to iC. Most of the merchants in question liad . also disregarded the luxury tax, and they will be prosecuted by the profiteering tribunals and by the fiscal authorities.

The flenpral Purposes Committee of tile Dentford Borough Council, England, will recommend to the council that tho name of Nurse Muriel Dorothy Northen be recorded on (he Honours Board in tho council chamber, nnd that an illuminated record be presented to her commemorating her devotion to duty, and that ■she be invited to sign tho borough Roll of Honour. Nurse Northen, whose home is at Lewishnnv High Road, joined the V.A.D. at the outbreak of war. After serving as a nurse at Cambridge, she volunteered for overseas. On the way to Salonika in 1016 the ship in which she was travelling was torpedoed, and for services she rendered on that occasion she was awarded the Royal Red Cross (Second Class). In December, 1917, sho was travelling to Egypt, and on the way her ship was torpedoed,_ and Nurse Northen was mentioned in dispatches. She is still on foreign scrvico at Port Said.

Charles. Dickens's granddaughter, Miss Elaiuo Dickens, youngest daughter of 'Mr. Henry Dickens, the Common Serjeant, and Major Alee Wuley, M.C..R.E., were married at Brompton Oratory, Cardinal Bourne officiating. As the "pigeon man," Major Alec Waley was a very well-known figure at G.H.Q. in Franco during the war.. He was one of the first, if not the first, to organise the carrierpigeon service for signals and intelligence work, motor buses, converted into pigeon lofts, being utilised lo render tlfO service more mobile.

A very quiet wedding was solemnised in St. Alban's Church, Eastbourne, on Mondny, December 20, between Sister Amy Wallace, N.Z.A.N.S., and Mr. Edward Marsden. ■ The ceremony was performed by tho Bev. W. Fancourt. assisted by the Bev. O. Stent. The bride was given away by Mr. IT. Sanson, nnd woro a gown of white silk eolienne, and cream hat trimmed with tulle, and carried a bouquet of lilies, roses, pink carnations, and asparagus fern. Miss Christie was bridesmaid, and wore pale pink crystalline, and Leghorn hat trimmed with narrow black velvet ribbon nnd pink roses. She carried n bouquet of palo pink roses anil pale blue delphinium. Mr. R. Marsden attended the bridegroom as best man. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Marsden left later for Auckland. Tho bride's travelling costume was navy gabardine, with black crepe de chine hat, relieved with vieux rose.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Gray have returned to Wellington from u visit to Dawson Falls (Egmont) and surrounding' districts. The wedding was solemnised 011 Boxing Day in tho Eketahuna Methodist Church of Miss Beatrice Alice Baillie, only daughter »f Mr. and Mrs. James F. Baillie, of Eketahuna, to Mr. Hobcrt Stace Eowe, youngest son of the late Mr. John'Howe. The bride was attended' by Miss l'crrin as bridesmaid, and Mr. Harold Baillie, brother of the bride, officiated as best man. The bridegroom was onu of the earliest enlistments in the Main Body, • but was detailed for Staff work, and was stationed at Waipukurau as area sergeant-major for about eighteen months, ultimately leaving with a lato reinforcement and seeing scrvico in Franco. The best man also has recently returned after servico in Belgium, France, and Germany.,

Women's Suffrafle in Palestine,

Lady Rhondda in Canada,

Hiss Jessie Ho'nu, who returned to New Zealand last week with lier parents from Kngland, joined the Motor Transport Section of the 'New Zef.'and Army Service Corps, and for eight months was engaged driving an ambulance at tho No. i) General Hospital (Codt'ord). In November of tho same year (1918) sho was placed in eh.irgu of an ambulance at Wallon-on-Thames, and she remained thorn until the organisation was disbanded in August last year. Airs. K. Bayley and Aliss Erica Bay Icy have an'ived in Wellington from Now l'iymouth. Madame Edvina's Wadding. 1 A very interesting wedding concerning tiro brandies of the English peerage and the international operatic stage' took place in London on November 12, when the Hon. Airs. Cecil Edwardes, the sister-in-law of Lord Kensington, famous as one of the greatest of prima donnas under her professional name of Mine. Edvinn, was married to Major Nicholas 'Rothesay Stuart-Wort lev, AI.C., older son ol Ofiieral the slon. K. .1. Alonlagu-Stuarl-Worlley and nepliew of the Karl of W'harnclilfe. N'o one bn(. (he most intimalo friends of the bride and bridegroom knew that the wedding was taking place (says the. "Daily Mxpres,"). Jn tho middle of a iuncheon Mine. Hdvina suddenly looked at her watch and declared she must go. She was pressed to slay, oiid then calmly observed that she .really must go, as she was to l;e married within an hour. The wedding was at the Spanish Church, Alancllester Square. Lord Kensington gave the bride away, and Lord Grimthorpo aelcd as best man for the bridegroom. They e.iosscd to Holland Hie sumo evening. Aline. Edvina had an engagement, hi carry out at the. Opera House in Brussels, while her husband had business appointments in Holland. Her lato husband, Captain the Hon. Cecil Kdwanlevi, whom sue met in her lioiue in Canada, was killed towards tho end of 1917 in France. He wasytirsl. in the Scots Guards, but transferred later to tho \Tank Corps. There were two daughters of this marriage.

MATTERS W INTEREST FROM FAB AND

Although Palestine is still far from becoming a Jewish State political discussion in the country has already assumed a very animated character, stales the ".Manchester Guardian." At present the burning question is that ot voles for ivonien. The Jews had decided upon organising a llepre.-entativfi Assembly which should form the authoritative agency of I'lilestinian Jewry in relations witii the local authorities. But whilst all parties were agreed upon the necessity of such an Assembly, the question whether women should be allowed to elect, delegate.* provoked such an acute difference ot opinion that the convening of the Assembly, originally fixed lor a week later, had to he indefinitely postponed. The opposition to women s suftrnge comes almost wholly from the rabbis of the Orthodox religious element, who maintain that Jewish tradition is opposed to the participation of the Jewess in political life. On the other hand, within the Zionist organisation women have exactly the wuno rights as and even the members of the "Mizrachi," or Orthodox Federation, have raised no objection. The Jewish women in Palestine a;c resolved to secure hheir rights, anil have organised for the pur•pose. The official Zionist Hvorld is strongly in favour of their demands.

In the course of nn interview witli a representative of the "Manchester Guardian," Lady Rhondda, who had returned from a visit to Canada and tho States, had much that was interesting t-;> tell of what sho had seen. Discussing the handling of tho puro milk supply, she considered that they were far more ahead with it in America than they were iti England. "Long ago they realised —as we should do, but have not donewlmt an amount of illness and of child mortality is due to impure milk. It takes a long tune to get things in order for dealing effectively with tho milk supply, but American women have realised it. was their job to bring a limit a change. They have succeeded in focusing public attention on it, aud the authorities havo taken the matter in hand. "They do not, ncrhaps, pay as much attention to guarding against casualties there as we do here, but there is no doubt they deal with health matters in a very practical way. They have a .horror of disease, and' are doing their be?t to stamp it out. They assured me that their care about milk had considerably reduced infant and child mortality. Now that wo have a Health Ministry, I hope ire shall get something done." Lady Rhondda visited several of the Cfinndiftii town®, sometimes just niter the Prince of Wales had been there. The reports that had reached this country, she said, were not in the least exaggerated. Ho' liad simply taken the people by storm, and thev were all enthusiastic about his friendliness and unaffected manner. • An International of Intellectuals. There was an interesting meeting called by Colonel Wedgwood at the Bouse of Commons recently, states the "Manchester Guardian," to consider whether an English branch should be founded of Henri BprbuMo's new "International of Ideas." The author of "Le Feu."'with Anatole France nnd other members of the Socialist Party, has already founded this new Socialist and intellectual International, nnd Ims called ifc/ r Clnrto. It if n.ot a societv for political action, but for enlisting literary men, artists, and "intellectuals" generally in (he _ work oi snreading the ideal of internationalism. The meeting was in a,committee-room, and there were some interesting people there. Madame Miigdaleinc Marx explained the objects of the society, and among others present were: Mr. iieorgo Bernard Shaw. Mr. Israel Znngwill, Mr. II G. Wells, Mr. Siegfried Sas;soon, Mr. E. D. Morel, Mr."Robert Williams; Mrs. Crawford, Miss liebecca West, Mr. AJciontf Kuxlev (grandson of the great, fcientistL and Mr. Miles Malleson, who was the only actor present. There was a good deal of critic'i-mi. Mr. Shaw thought that tho intellectuals really wanted educating UP to the practical men in the existing organisations, and suggested that perbans CI arte might be made useful as an elomcntarv school for intellectuals. Mr. Znivwi'll could not sul-scribe to its Soe:alisni; Mr. Koh-rt Williams thought that'll'ost of the likely peonlo were busy in practical Socialist work; and Mr. Wells was not sure whether the same orgaiiisntion would both (lie Irench and British temperament. These are fragments, apt to bo misleading, of a hither-and-thither diswiss'on of a conversational kind, friendly but dubious, which ended in the adjournment of tho meeting.

From Trentham Hospital. The officer commanding and matron, Trentham Military Hospital, acknowledge with appreciation and thanks (on ;behalf of patients), the following:—Entertainments, outings,' and gifts for week ejiding 011 Saturday., tho lied Cross. Drives daily through the week: On Friday, tho Bth, the patients of Ward 7 were taken for a picnic, arranged by tho nursing staff of the wr.ni, the lied Cross and Salvation Army providing the transport. On Wednesday Lady Bell entertained a number of patients to afternoon tea at Lowry Bay. A much-enjoyed entertainment in tho shape of a card tournament aud supper was given in the Bed Cross Club by the club staff, assisted by the nursing staff; and 011 Friday Miss Daisy Kennedy delighted the patients with a violin recital. The following gifts are also acknowledged with thanks;— 2 boxes of books from Mr. Goring Johnston, Oakhurst, Palmerston North; flowers and use of grounds, Wellington Boeing Club; football from Miss ,E. Bell; salads, fruit, fish, (lowers, and sweets, Bed Cross, Wellington branch; fruit, cakes, literature, and sweets, from Salvation Army; Lady Bell, gift ,of flowers.

Mrs. Lloj'd George, who was the principal speaker at one of Lady Astor's meetings at Plymouth recently said tho women of Wales were great politicians, but the women of the West of England came very close to them. Parliament would be more serviceable to the country if a few women were sprinkled amount the men. Modern legislation had a great deal to do with the homes of the people, with housing, education, and the development of the land, and it "was of the utmost importance that women should 5 take a keen interest and have a share in shaping the laws.