NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10276, 10 May 1919, Page 4

NOTES FOR WOMEN

On May Gth, the death occurred at her residence in Dunedin, of Mrs Fulton, mother of Mr J. E. Fulton, C.E., of Wellington, and of Mr Ft If ulton, of Napier. She was well known m Otago, where her husband, who died many years ago, was a prominent settlor.

Sister Scanlon, who resigned from the Palmerston North Hospital staff to go on active service nearly three years ago, has returned, and is visiting Palmerston at present. She will probably be attached to the military convalescent home at Rotorua.

Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool attended the social afternoon given to soldiers’ dependents in Auckland on Wednesday by the Women's Patriotic League, and briefly addressed those present. She extended a cordial welcome to the brides of returned men. Mrs Rhodes, of Seattle, also spoke. f Yesterday afternoon the Soldiers’ Wives’ Club of the W.N.R. met urth® •Charlie’s Aunt Club Rooms. This meeting had been postponed from last week on account of the Anzac Day celebrations. There w-as a largo 'attendance, and the wives spent a happy afternoon, with tea and music. Entertaining items wore given by the chilclron, who showed themselves very talon ted. Among the members present was one who joined on ,the iirst opening of the club and who has attended each meeting since. The club members now meet once a month instead of weekly, as formerly.

The Mayoress (Mrs J. P. Luke) has received a letter from Sister Hetheriugton (late of the Nurses’ Homo, Wellington Hospital) expressing thanks for the gift of cakes and puddings sent to the nurses by the Red Cross and Liverpool Funds. Such cakes, she said, had not been seen in England for many a day. It was very gratifying to the nurses to receive the gift, as, although gifts had been sent each year to the hospitals for Christmas, this was the first occasion on which the nurses had received them specially marked for their own benefit.

The Internal Affairs Department has asked the Women’s National Reserve to act as hostesses at the afternoon teas which will be given during the Townplanning Conference this month. The Reserve has agreed to do so.

SOLDIERS’ TRIBUTE TO WELLINGTON WOMEN. The latest number of. the returned soldiers’ journal, “Quick March,” has an appreciation by Major P. Waite, D. 5.0., of the Sydney street Soldiers’ ! Club and the ladies who ran that insti- | tution. Major Waite writes: “Some 1 people in authority did not like the | scheme at all, but the ladies were determined, and a few days sufficed to j turn the Sydney street schoolroom Into [si club house for the soldiers, who ! nightly flocked from the transports and i the camps to the crowded city streets. 1 The lonely soldier problem was a very ■ real one—we are all lonely souls —and i the things that matter must bo faced 'quietly and. alone. The soldier, unless he be a very strong-minded man, will meet questionable women if he doesn’t : meet good ones. This applies as much to the cities of New Zealand as it does -.to Cairo and London. Human nature is ■'human nature all' the world . over. Thank God, the women of Wellington sensed the situation in 1914 and organised the Sydney street dub. . , . From'now on it is natural that the Re- \ turned Soldiers’ Club in Lambton quay i should take up the work of entertaining the soldier on his return. Recognising ' this, the committee of the Sydney ■ street Soldiers’ dub has moat generously handed to our club in Lambton quay ’ their handsome surplus of £459 18s 9d. : New Zealand soldiers can never forget the ladies of Wellington. If everyone ' in this country tackled the soldier prohi lem' in the same spirit, there would very ‘ soon cease to be any returned soldier problem at all. The soldier only wants . to be treated like a man—which is ©xI actly what the ladies of Wellington j have done in the last five years of war, j, AN INTERESTING ARTICLE. ! The same journal has an interesting I article on the New Zealand Stationary 1 Hospital in France, illustrated with j views, among them one' of the nurses i sitting-room, a Nissen hut at Wisques, j and the hospital’s last resting _ place, , where it was placed after having to : leave Hazebrouck last August. The Stationary had varied adventures in Egypt, Salonika and France; eventually it had ICOO beds, and the largest number of patients’ at one time was 970, on Christmas Day, 1917. During the big German push of 1018 the hospital received 600 men in one night. During this-time At was practically a casualty clearing station. The 1 New Zealand Stationary had from 25 to 35 sisters. Sisters of the Stationary cun tell many thrilling stories of air raids and shelling. At Amiens the cap of a shrapnel-shell came through an office window, and just missed a head. At Wisques the droning of the German ’planes was_ a frequent tune of the night, especially when_ moonlight helped the raiders. Bombs fell all around the hospital, and killed cattle occasionally in adjacent pastures. They did not register a direct hit on the buildings, hut fragments of missiles were found on the premises. When the Armistice came the Now Zealand Stationary Hopltal was at Wisques, to which the German guns, had blown it from Hazebrouok. The Huns, when shelling that town, did hit part of the Now Zealand establishment, a section occupied by orderlies, of whom two were injured by one explosion. That shell made a hole 21ft wide. This was excitement enough for the sisters, who saw the burst-up from 1 nearby buildings.

WANGANUI NOTES. (By “Eileen.”) May 8. Mrs A. D. Willis and Miss Willis have gone on a visit to Waipawa. Surgeon-Captain Hutson. ' left last week for the south, where ho joins Mrs Hutson

Miss Nowcombe is on a holiday trip to the south.

Mrs Palmer, jun., is visiting her mother (Mrs Brettagh), in Wanganui. Mrs Daubney, of AlasDorton, if turned home last wools. Mrs J. Watsou and Mrs Nowli.jn are holidaying ia New Plymouth. Mrs McKenzie, of Martin, is tho guest of Mrs Rawson, Gonvitle. Mias Bates was the guest of honour at an afternoon tea given iat George and Horsley's on Tuesday last, the hostess being Mrs Orton, sister or Miss Bates. Tea was served in tho lounge, tho long table being beautifully decorated with tinted autumn leaves, while from tho gas brackets wore suspended pale pink ribbons, and at the guest of honour’s scat was arranged a horseshoe in pale pink. Among those present wore: Mrs Beauchamp, Mrs Duigan,. Mrs Brodie, Mrs Ross, Airs Armstrong, Mrs Smith, and Misses (Vance, Addenbrook (2), Anderson, Burr, Harper, Dyinook, Bret-

tagh, Ross, Higgle, Harden, Bayley (2), tagh, Ross, Higgle Harden, Bayley (2), W. Anderson, Hat-rick (2), Nixon, and Baddley. Mrs G. H. Suisted was presented with a gold wristlet watch and substantial cheque by the workers of the Red Cross Guild on Wednesday afternoon. The presentation, took place at tho Gothis, where a number sab down to afternoon tea. CHILDREN OF ROYALTY. Many people iare unable to bring themselves to believe that tho children of Royalty are similar to those of other people. This story will ho of special interest to such. Tho Royal party was sight-seeing some years ago in Scotland (says a writer in “Tit-Bits”), and on tho battlements of a certain castle jL'rincess Mary was deputed by the Queen to curb tho ardour of (little Prince John for climbing into dangerous places. She was perhaps overofficious in her charge; at any rate, she appeared so to tho child, who was overheard to say: “Oh, shut up, Alary; you fuss as much as mother." The fact , that so many people, never knew of Prince. John, tho brother of ■Ring George, who died in infancy, is inof surprising. lam told that King Edward once made a discovery about the Royal. Family that surprised him. Although everyone knows of Mrs Jordan’s children, few have heard of the two little girls born to William IV. and Queen Adelaide. King Edward was onoe walking at Windsor with Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar when ho came across the graves of those infants. The discovery surprised him, and ho remarked: “I had no idea that William IV. ever, had any legitimate children.” Prince Edward replied: “If either of those young ladies had lived, you would have been a small Gorman prince to-day.”