WOMAN’S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 95, 15 January 1921, Page 4

WOMAN’S WORLD.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL The marriage took place last week in the Methodist Church, Hawera, of Miss Clara Ann Mander, daughter ol Mr. and Mrs. A. Mander, of Hawera, to Mr. Con rad Harry Strack, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Strack, also of Hawera. The bridesmaids were the Misses Riti Strack, Lily Hulbert, Florrie Mander, and Olive Bla'ke. Mr. F. Hutchens, of Sydney, was the best man, and Mr. E. Powell, of Opunake, groomsman. Mrs. A. A. I). MacLaughTln, of Middelburg, Transvaal, South Africa, who has been spending a year with her mother. Mrs. J. H. Kerr, will leave next week for Sydney, en route to Africa. She is accompanied by her two small daughters. Mrs. Bisset Smith has left for 'he south after spending a few days in Millington. Miss Violet Warburton has returned from a visit to Pahiatua. Mr. and Mrs. D. Buchanan, of Tiakitahuna., are leaving New’ Zealand in March on a visit to Scotland. They intend to be away about six months. A gathering of about 300 residents from Otaki, To Horo. Manakau, Ohau, and Levin assembled at Otaki on Wednesday night, to do honour to Air. and Airs. Prank Penn and family, Mr. Penn, as editor of the ".Mail,” and as a horticulturist and prominent church ami patriotic worker having been closely associated with the progress of the-district for over a quarter of a century Air. Brandon, on behalf of the citizens and settlers, presented Air. Penn with a rolltop desk. Other presentations were a suitcase fom the Horticultural Society, and a set of cutlery and a travelling bag for Aliss Point from the Alethodist Church. On Wednesday and Thursday next the annual Horticultural Show’ will be held in St. Thomas’s Hall, Newtown. It prohiisos to be a great success. The weather has been very favourable except in a few cases where the heat has brought on tho blooms too quickly, but those who attend are sure of a feast of colour, and much to be seen in the way of variety. Competitors also should find the show one of much interest. Entries should be in tlie 'hands of the secretary, Mr. 1-1. G. Cooper, 170 Hanson Street, either e.t his residence or at the hall, on Tuesday evening, between 8 and 9 o'clock. The formal opening takes place on AVednesday at 3 p.m., and theie will be a good orchestra each evening. Tuesday afternoon next, on tho Millington Bowling Club’s green, will bo "Ladies’ Day,” when tho final game in the big rink tournapient will be played in the presence of ''Mis Excellency the Governor-General. For this special occasion tha president of the D.B.A. (Air. T. Bush) requests that all bowlers attending the green will wear their club blazers and hats, so that there may be some uniformity in dress among the bowlers. Yesterday morning the lady officers of the Treasury Department met to welcome back Miss Nancy Curtis —a fellow officer - —who has just refurned from Auckland, where she succeeded in carrying off the Dominion Lacu’s*"Championship, also the Combined Doubles Championship with Dr. Allison. Aliss Seddon, on behalf of the ladies, presented Aliss Curtis with a bouquet of pink roses and carnations, and conveyed to her the heartiest congratulations on her exceptional performance. Mr. T. AV. Triggs, of Napier, and his two daughters are visiting Wellington for a few days. They are on their way south, Mr. and Airs. Donald Al'Donald, of Maungaterata, AVaipukurau, have booked passages for South Africa by ilie Ceramic leaving Sydney on January 25. Air. and Mrs. Al'Donald, with their family, intend settling- in South Africa. Air. and Airs G. P. H. Davidson, of Kelburn. accompanied by Airs. Al. Capron. intend to leave to-day on a visit to Christchurch. The death took place last week ad her residence in Gisborne of Mrs. Maunsell, wife of Air. Cecil Maunsell, and mother of Mrs. C. B. de Lautour. Airs. Alaunsell was a pioneer settler of sixty-six years’ standing, and had a wide circle of friends. Among the many New Zealanders detained in Sydney owing to the stewards’ strike is Airs. Bain Dickie (nee Aliss Maud AVearn), who had intended spending Christmas with her relatives in Christchurch after an absence of ten years. Al any returned soldiers will remember the hospitality they received at her beautiful home, Roman Court, Bearsden, Scotland. Mrs. Bain is accompanied by her daughter. A thousand, pounds a year sounds a large salary for a woman, but it is interesting to learn that some women in England earn a good deal more. The Hon. Maude Agnes Lawrence, the newlyappointed woman chief of the British Treasury, gets 411000, but other women in* the Civil .Service are getting higher salaries. According to an exchange, Dr. Janet Campbell’s appointment in the medical service of the Alinistry of Health is worth 4:1200 to 411500. Four other women medical officers —Dre. Cameron, Cunningham, Lambert, and Turnbull—get from 41700 to 411209. Aliss Ritson, on the Board of Health for Scotland, and Mrs. Bickie, for Ireland, also hold ATOIW posts. Mrs. AV. R. Don, Dominion president of the AA’.C.T.U., who was a. delegate from New Zealand no the worlds convention of that organisation, held in London, has returned to Christchurch. While in Great Britain Mrs. Don addressed some of the largest meetings over held there on behalf of the temperance cause. Nurse T. Kidd, who has been acting as district nurse in Palmerston North, has been chosen by the Palmerston Ambulance Society to undergo a course of training at the Christchurch and Dunedin Karitane hospitals, preparatory to opening a branch of the Plunket bocietv in Palmerston North. Nurse Kidd has already begun her training at Cashmere under Alatron Chapman. Mrs. T. C. AA’illiamson left Auckland early in the week to pay farewell visits in Palmerston North and AVellington before leaving for England at the end ot the month. The engagement is announced of Aliss Doris Pretoria Peterken, only daughter of Air. and Airs. AV. Peterken, of Pahiadua, to Mr. Hart Allan Udy, eldest son of Air. and Airs. A. V. Udy, of Kukanut. Ths Sunday service at the Y.AV.C-A-, Herbert Street, at 4.15 p.m., will be taken by Canon Taylor. Strangers to Wellington will be especially welcomed to the service and tea following. The "Women’s Farm and Garden Union Journal,” published in London, announces that Aliss F. A. Roberts has sailed for New Zealand, where she hopes to take up fruit farming. She already spent enme years in New Zealand; so the conditions of life, etc., will not be strange to her. Aliss Roberts has been interested in gardening and fruit-grow-ing all her life. She was at. Swanley, and during the war aotbd as forewoman on a large fruit farm.

The Y.W.C.A,. Ramblers’ Club would like to enlarge their membership. The girls leave 5 Boulcott Street every Thursday at 3 p.m., and next week they are going to Kaiwarra Gorge. They will return to the Y.W.C.A., Herbert Street, for tea, followed, by volley ball, and at • 8 o’clock a service, when Mrs. Stewart will speak. Mr. Lloyd George was recently presented wijth a most beautiful screen from the Emperor of Japan by the new Japanese Ambassador. The description conjures up a delightful vision in the imaginative mind of lovers of things beautiful and Oriental. The framework is of polished ebony wit’ll corners of filagree silver, and on the panels are seascapes of wonderful colourings and high artistic, merit, giving the idea of paintings, but which are in reality of the finest needlework on silk. Tha screen is described as magnificent. “I have never met a single person who has been improved by this war,” said Mrs. Asquith recently. “The extravagant are more extravagant, the cranks are crankier, the backbiters more spiteful, the rich more frightened, the poor more restless, the clergy more confused, and the Government more corrupt. _ The clever novels of the day are fptiguingly indecent, and there is more hardness, levity, blasphemy, and materialism than 1 have ever seen before.” The Unknown Warrior and the Women. If ever there was a woman's ceremonial it was the unveiling of the cenotaph and the burial of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey, writes the London, correspondent of “The Australasian” on November 18. As I watched the unveiling of the cenotaph by, the King in Whitehall, it seemed that nine out of ten in the vast assembly were women. Only those actually taking part in tho procession were men, and most of these were there in token of their sacrifice—a son dead, two sons, three sons. Ona wreath placed on the cenotaph bore these words:— "To the Loving and Sacred Memory of My Dead Brothers: TOM HABRY TED JESSE JIM. “God Make Us Worthy of So Great a Sacrifice.” The men of Britain knew that it was > their womenfolk who felt the loss of ’ brother, husband, or son most deeply; for this reason they gave them pride of place in Whitehall and the Abbey. During the week about a million people have' made a pilgrimage in honour of the glorious dead, known and unknown. Pan-. ties of school-children who were orphaned in the war were often of the number. ■ It was pride rather than grief which filled their little hearts as they saw the nation mourning for their lost parents. "It’s fine to think they put the cenotaph up for daddy, mummy,” whispered one little boy. The mourning widows and mothers, however, thought little of the glory, and much of their loss. In the Abbey the ballot* for places favoured elderly women. There were many more mothers than wives, doubtless because it was a young man’s war, All were in black or grey, the only touch of colour being the ribbons which many of them wore. With the opening notes of Chopin's "Funeral March,” Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra came to their places beside one of the great pillars facing ths grave. With them were the Queen of Spain, the Queen of Norway, Princess Alary, Princess Victoria, the Duchess of Argyll, and Princess Beatrice. Princess Beatrice lost a boy at Ypres. During the pilgriptage to the grave of the unknown warrior, later in the week, ths stream of people was stopped for a few moments. Dressed in deep black, and carrying a bunch of red flowers, the Princess came to the grave and placed her tribute close to a wreath of myrtles grown at Ypres, which was among the flowers. She stood for a while in’silent prayer, then moved quietly away, and the unending stream flowed on. From the other bank of the Thames it came to tho great north door of the Abbey, and then passed down the navo to the grave near the west door. The coflin wa» covered with a Union Jack; on the top was a wreath of laurel for victory, and a sprig of rosemary for remembrance.. At each corner of the grave was the motionless figure of a sentry, one from each; branch of the services, with heads bowed over their reversed rifles. Two by two the pilgrims passed on either side of tha' unknown. Knitting Jurors. Tho inevitable has happened- Aw» , man juror has taken her knitting into the jury-box, and it remains to ask what barristers will make of this innovation, writes a correspondent of the “Munches-' ter Guardian." Juries differ widely. Charles Russell used to say, for instance, than there was all the difference in the world between English and Irish juries. Irish juries enjoyed the fun and the drama of a trial; they entered into it all, and appreciated the cut-and-thrustj' whereas English juries were concerned more with wondering how soon they would be released. Bur there is a characteristic common to all juries. They have quite as much influence, though in a different way, over counsel as counsel have over them. One of the greatest of advocates, Scarlett, Lord Abinger, declared that his success was due chiefly to rhe rule he made of selecting one particular juryman, not necessarily th® foreman, and addressing the argument as if to him personally. He would then work away till he felt that he had convinced this uian, and could rely on him when the verdict was being considered. Naturally a great* deal must depend on the selection. It ia there that Montagu Williams’s boast of “I am by trade a reader of faces and minds” conies in, but consider the effect of a knitting woman on a nervous barrister! Woman, w» know, think busily while knitting, but the effect of a person in the jury-box with some other occupation than that of listening would be torture to some men at the Bar. The result will Ire that ha will, almost insensibly, address himself to the knitter specially, and the knitter may not be the right person for this kind of persuasion. It is a sad possibtlity.