WELFARE WORK

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 95, 16 January 1935, Page 5

WELFARE WORK

Methodist Ladies’ Guild The final meeting of the Webb Street Alethodlst Ladies’ Guild for the 1934 season was held recently, with the president. Airs. Evans, in the chair. The Rev. G. S. Cook led the devotional exercises. Alembers decided that the following donations be made: Returned Soldiers’ Association. £1; Otaki Health Camp, £1; Rev. G. S. Cook’s social work, £1 ’5/-; and the following usual donations were also passed: Masterton Methodist Orphanage, 10/-: Home Alissions, £1; caretaker, 10/-: quarterly donation to circuit funds, £l/5/-. A pleasant meeting was brought to a close by the serving of afternoon tea. Women’s National Reserve The secretary of the welfare brancu of the Women’s National Reserve has received messages of thanks and appreciation from the matron of the Porirua Alental Hospital for hampers sent for women and children patients from the Hawera branch of the Women’s National Reserve and Women’s Institutes at Ballance and Okaiu. The secretary acknowledges the following additional donations for Christmas cheer and special treats throughout the year for _ patients from Miss L. Williams (Pukehou) per Mrs. J. E. Lane, £6l Lower Hutt branch. £l/1/-: Miss EFraser, 2/6; Aliss Hitchcock (Levin Infant School), 7/6: making £7/11/-. This makes a total for the Christmas appeal of £34/14/6. Bridge Evening The annual bridge evening organised by Airs. W. Alartin in aid of the funds of the Free Ambulance was held on Friday evening last in St. Mark's Hall, Plimmerton, and proved a great success. There was a good attendance, the guests including Air. R. L. Button, a member of the Hutt County Council, and Superintendent and Mrs. Rolle, of the Free Ambulance Association. At the conclusion of play refreshments were served, and prizes, donated by Mrs. Alartin. were presented to Miss Naunestad, Mrs. Green. Miss Bates, Mr. Anthya and Mr. Reith. Other competitions were won by Air. C. JSmith and Mrs. R. S. Wall. Air. Button, who is a member of the Ambulance Board, expressed the board’s appreciation of Air. and Mrs. Afartin’s continued in the work of the organisation, and the valuable assistance that they had rendered from time to time. He also congratulated all those who had helped on the success of the evening, and gave a short resume of the work done by the ambulance service during the year just ended.

ENGAGEMENTS JENSEN—PHILLIPS. The engagement is anounced of Olive, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 11. H. Phillips, “Jersey Meadows," Dannevirke, to Thomas, third son of Air. and Mrs. Af. Jensen, Tauranga Road, Wai hi. ♦ * ♦ TWONTYAIAN—COTTLE. The engagement is announced of Alildred, daughter of Airs. W. H. Learmonth and the late Lawrence Cottle, of Hastings, to Richard Wilson, eldest son of Air. and Mrs. W. O. Twentyman, of Hukanui, Wairarapa. THE NO-HAT HABIT Growth in United States Alillinery, it seems, Is one of the black spots in American trade, and university professors are discussing gravely the underlying causes of the decline of the hat, which ■ is having so disastrous an effect on the trade generally, says an English exchange. Alethods are also being discussed whereby the hat may be restored to the head and its importance as the crown of the work again duly recognised. Too many people, it appears, have taken to making hats; and there are many who even make their own hats. Also hatlessness in the United States, as elsewhere, is increasing, and types of hairdressing have made hats less indispensable than they were, say, in Marie Antoinette’s day. Efforts to make the hat much more of an affair have not been really effective against the craze for sunning and tanning, and the sad part of it is that the decline in the hat is by no means due to the decline in business generally but had begun during the boom period. The United States, in short, are inclined to go teetotal as regards hats, .with the result that unscrupulous salesmen, rather than risk a total loss, are continually selling off hats at prices which are entirely uneconomic. It is realised that people must again he brought back to a proper attitude about hats. The cultivation of lily-white complexions again would induce a demand for large and expensive hats. Less boyish hairdressing, the feminine note, might help. But chiefly people are to realise, It seems, that it is a duty to wear hats when so many people are depending on this habit for a livelihood. Carried out logically the argument is the same as that of the chimney-sweep who protested that people nowadays did not make enough soot, while, logically, as many of us as possible ought to die if we are to give the undertakers the chance of making an honest living.

“Supporting” a Tea-Table. Most criticism of afternoon tea, which an English doctor has been vigorously defending, is based nowadays on arguments of health. Eighteenth-cen-tury opponents attacked it on grounds of extravagance. In a manual on matrimonial etiquette, published in 1756, a husband is represented as lecturing his wife on household economy, and declaring: “I look upon afternoon tea as one of the greatest superfluities that custom has introduced among us. I have calculated the exixmse, and dare affirm that a very moderate tea-table, with its equipage, cannot be supported on less than forty or fifty pounds a year.” Evidently hostesses in those days did not restrict hospitality to a “hand-around in the drawing-room.”

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