WOMAN’S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 66, 10 December 1921, Page 4

WOMAN’S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By

Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Her Excellency the Viscountess Jellicoo has received the following cablegram from Lady Ampthill, G.B.E.: —“Will you invito Red Cross and St. John Voluntary Aid Detachment members of New Zealand to unite with other Voluntary Aid Detachment members of the Empire in a wedding present to Princess Mary. Each subscription is limited to one shilling. Pleaso cable total sum collected before January 10, and forward names in duo course. —(Signed) Margaret Ampthill.” Copies of tho cablegram are being sent to the New Zealand centres of tho Red Cross and tho St. John Ambulance Association, with the request that the matter be brought before the members of those organisations throughout the Dominion, in caso they may wish to contribute. Arrangements for tho receipt of subscriptions, which, in the case of each contributor, are limited to one shilling, will be made by the centres or subcentres of the organisations above-men-tioned.

Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Williams have returned to Oriental Bay from a six months’ visit to Sydney.

The Misses Card (2), Featherston, aro spending a few days in Wellington.

Mrs. A. W. Mouat, Aurora Terraco, has returned' from a visit to Auckland.

Miss Massey left lasi evening for a visit to tho south.

A Christchurch exchange announces tho engagement of Beatrice Mary,, oldest daughter of Sir George and Lady Clifford, Stonyhurst, to George Ronald, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Macdonald, Hambleden, Christchurch.

The monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Young Women’s Christian Association was hold on Thiirtday, Mrs. D. O. McClay, president, being in the chair. The reports received showed that the club work of the association in particular was in a healthy state. Special mention was made of the Eswi Club for Overseas Girls—a swimming club in connection with which a life-saving class was to be formed—the “Y” Tennis Club, and an outof-doors reading circle, to be held during December and January. Special events to take place during the coming week were also referred io, and these include a Christmas tree and party to be given by the members of tho girls’ department to a number of children and the carol service to be held on Sunday, December 18. to lie followed by a Christmas tea. Twenty-four new' members were shown to have connected themselves with the association during tho month of November—eight of them being girls under twenty. Tho cafeteria and hostel reports showed a steady maintenance of work in these departments, 6819 meals having been served during the months at the cafeterias at Herbert Street and Boulcott. Street, and 89 visitors in all, in addition to the usual residents having been accommodated at the hostels in MacDonald Crescent and Brougham Street. Great interest was expressed by all tho members of the board in the children’s playground project which is under the auspices of the National Council of Women, and gratification also that the Christchurch association had been able to spare Miss Jarvis, their girls’ department secretary, to take charge of this work. Mies Jarvis had several years* experience in playground work in British Columbia before coming to New Zealand.

Tho wedding took place on November 30 at Wesley Church, Taranaki Street, of Miss Ruth Priscilla Lynam, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lynam, Karaka Bay, and Mr. J. W. Jenkins, youngest son of tho late Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Jenkins. Th« Rev. F. T. Road performed the ceremony. Tho bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of ivory satin embroidered with beads, and a tullo veil and orange blossoms; she carried a shower bouquet of white and pink roses, maiden-hair and asparagus fern, with tullo streamers attached. Miss Freda Lynam, only sister of the bride, was bridesmaid, and wore a frock of pale saxe blue crepe do chino and a black tullo and lace hat trimmed with flowers and streamers to match. She carried a shower bouquet of apricotcoloured roses, pansies, maiden-hair and asparagus fern. Mr. R. Fox was best man. Mr. Temple White was at tho organ, and tho church was well filled with friends and relatives. A reception was afterwards hold in tho Dominion Farmers’ Instittue Assembly Hall, where Mr. and Mrs. Lynam entertained a largo number of guests. Later, Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins ’left for a tour, the bride travelling in a navy blue gabardine costume trimmed with naw blue braid and silver stitching and a pale lemon-coloured picture hat. The bride and bridegroom were the recipients of many heart} wishes for their future welfare.

On Monday evening next, at 7.45, an entertainment will be held in the Cambridge Terraco Congregational Hall in aid of the residential nursery, one of tho most praiseworthy movements of tho Women’s National Reserve. Tho programme prepared is a very good' one. Tho Pass It On Club will repeat (by request) their successful cantata, “The Seasons.” Miss Flo Heyworth will give some artistic dances, and the second part will be provided by tho pupils of Culford 8011. Some of these are gold medallists, and Gio varied programme of sketches monologues, and dramatic items should bo most enjoyable. Flowers, cakes, sweets, and Christmas novelties will bo for sale. The doors will be opened at 7 p.m. sharp.

A meeting was held at the Methodist Church, Ngaio. to form a branch of tho British and Foreign Bible Society., Ine liov. A. T. Thompson was present, and spoke of the society’s work at homo and abroad. Mrs. Lynneberg was elected president, and Mrs. Mansford hon. secretary Amongst tho ladies present, the following agreed io collect for the funds of tho society early next year:-Mes-dames Chatwin, Morris, Hicks, Watt, Mclxwd, McKay, and Misses Bannister, Newbold, and Letcher. Afternoon tea was handed round, and .pongs were sung by Mies Strafford. Miss Miller, assistant organiser, was also present.

Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Odlin were passengers to Sydney by the Ulimuroa.

A fine day is all that is required to make the citizens’ garden fete a success at the grounds of the Prime Minister’s residence in Tinakori Road to-day. The gardens nre looking very well, and the stalls will bo laden with a. variety of tempting articles, while novel and amusing competitions have been arranged. Tho music is being contributed by twenty-fivo instrumentalists from the Bohemian orchestra under Mr. Frank Thomas and by the Pipe Band of Ihe Scottish Society. An illuminated cave with a live Father Christmas has been prepared for the young people. Tho fete will bo opened-by tho Governor-General at 2 p.m. Dame Clara Butt is to lie entertained at the Pioneer Club on Tuesday after noon at four o’clock. Members only are expected to bo present.

The members of the Legislative Com* cil and a number of ladies spent a very pleasant evening in the old Legislative Council Chambers on Thursday. The Hon. G. M. Thomson presided, and introduced Mr. F. E. Tomlinson, the official photographer to the Parliamentary party that toured the Pacific Islands in the Mokoia. Mr. Tomlinson, lie stated, had secured a very fine series of photographs which ho had made into lantern slides for lecture purposes. Mr. Tomlinson gave a very descriptive and interesting address, explaining each picture of the various islands and its people, as shown upon the screen. At tho close of the meeting. The Hon. W. C. F. Carncross, Speaker of the Legislative Council, moved that a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Tomlinson be passed for the very pleasant evening’s entertainment given, which was greatly appreciated by all present.

The initial dance of the series of summer “flannel’’ dances inaugurated (by the Mufitai Teunis Club, was held last Saturday at the Day’s Bay pavilion and was an unqualified success. The correctness of the club’s diagnosis of the Bays’ social needs on Saturday nights in summer was proved unmistakably by the presence of 170 young people very evidently enjoying whole-heartedly the combination of good floor, good music, good arrangements, ami that indefinable “something in the seaside air.” In addition to meeting social needs it is believed that the object for which those dauces are being held —the securing of funds for laying down an urgentlyneeded additional, tennis court, was considerably added to as a result of Saturday’s dance.

Mrs. J. Gibbons (Masterton), and (her small son leave next Thursday for a visit to relatives in Hawke’s Bay.

Christmas Treat at Point Halswell. An enjoyable afternoon tea and concert was given yesterday afternoon at the Point Halswell Reformatory by the Women’s Prisoners Welfare Group (W.N.C.). Mrs. J. Henderson, Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Stable, Mrs. Snow, and Miss Cable were in charge of the tea arrangements, and contributing to an excellent programme of entertainment were Miss Ava Symons (Mrs. W. Prouse), Mrs. Hempton, Miss Eileen Clifford, and the Misses Eteveneaux (2). Dances in costume were given by two little girls— Frances Cliftry and Rone Zanders. The thanks of the society are due to the Controller-General (Mr. Matthews) for his kindness in permitting the entertainment and for facilitating the arrangements, also to the matron and staff of Point Halswell, to St. Andrew’s congregation for a gift of gramophone records, and to the many kind donors of sweets, cakes, Howers, fruit, etc. The society has also given a complete croquet set in very good order to the reformatory, and it is expected that it will add greatly. to the enjoyment of the weekly half-holiday. The visitors were greatly impressed with the improvements that had taken place since their last visit there —the very fino garden, the trim, wellkcpt lawns, the good work carried out in tho vegetable garden, and the equipment of the dairy. In health and appearance the women showed much improvement, and the visitors hoped that what was being done now was but the first step to tho ultimate goal—that of a self-supporting farm colony for women offenders, with the introduction of tho honours system to follow. • COMMUNITY CLUB INFORMAL OPENING. The opening of tho Community Club, established by the National Defencs League for the benefit of Senior Cadets and Terri-oriais, was informally carried out in tho club rooms last evening. Mr. J. P. Firth, vice-president of the league, made a brief dpoech outlining the uiies of tho club, and stating that it was but tho modest beginning to what he hoped would bo a more extended scheme later on. He stressed the point that the cadets should organise and carry out their club life themselves, making their own rules, and setting up iheir various committees independent of outside help. Mrs. Chatfield, also a vice-president of tho Defence League, was another speaker, and she, too, stressed the point that their club life should bo organised by the boys themselves. The women who had interested themselves in the formation of this club for the Cadets and Territorials, had done so because they wished to show their appreciation of the training work that was being done by tho Cadets and Territorials, and they hoped to make them realise that their interest was a practical one in every sense, and would add to the comfort of boys, who, through various circumstances, could have but little homo life. A programme of entertainment followed, songs, musical monologues, fancy dances, and incidental pianoforte music being contributed. Supper, which was provided free of charge last evening, and will be again this evening, was served by the ladies’ committee. The club, which is established in the stores building of the Defence Department, comprises two large upstairs rooms, each 70ft. long by 40ft. wide, separated from each othei* by a partition. Between the two is a kitchen with slides opening into each room. One is for the Senior Cadets and the other for tho Territorials, and each room will be kept strictly separate from the other, and will have its own entrances. Table gamce have been provided, bookshelves put up (contributions of books will be very acceptable), and comfortable nooks, provided with chairs, lounges, etc., and partly shut off from the rest of the room with screens,'have been arranged. Green covered tables for magazines are placed on one side of tho room, and on the other are long tables or buffets for refreshments. Tea, coffee, soft drinks cakes, scones, etc., at cost price will bo providcd each night, and a rotary of hostesses for each week has been arranged. At the present time there arc about one hundred hostesses on the list. The club will be open each night from six to ten and on Sundays from two io ton. Later, at tho end of January, a series of lectures is to be inaugurated, one for each unit per month, the lectures being by educational and medical authorities. Mr J. I’- Firth will give the opening one. ' For the Territorials a billiard table has been provided, and as time goes on and needs make themselves apparent, it is planned to provide further facilities for recreation. The kitchen has beeu well fitted up with cupboards, binns and a heater, which provides for hot water. Large supplies of crockery have been obtained, and the club is now ready to fulfil, it is hoped, the aims and purposes of its organisers. J”}* not least, the Cadets and Territorials will have the use of a miniature rifle range, which is the properly of the Defence Department, and' it m planned to arrange shooting competitions later on, a silver trophy for this purpose having been already donated. Last evening the club was opened for the Senior Cadets. To-night ii will be opened for tho territorials.