WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 298, 11 May 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted Dy "Eileen''). WEDDING BELLS. STREIFF—RUTHERFORD. A wedding of much interest to many Taranaki residents was solemnised at Eltham recently, the contracting parties being Mr. G. H. Streiff, of Taupiri, Waikato, and Miss F. M. Rutherford, of' Pungarehu, and sister of Professor E. Rutherford. All Saints' Church was prettily decorated, and the service was witnessed by a large assemblage of friends. The Rev. G. W. Dent, assistedhy the' Rev. C. Aihleubrooke, Okato, performed the ceremony. The bridesmaids were Misses C. Keasbcrry (Pungarehu), Joyce Rutherford (Raglan), and Jean Rutherford (Waverley). Mr.' W. Bell (Puniho) was groomsman.

ROMANCE OF A BABY. j LEFT AT HOSPITAL. CLAIMED AFTER SIX MONTHS. Quite an interesting little story connected with the Christchurch Hospital was related to a Christchurch Press reporter by Mr. W. W. Tanner, chairman of the hospital committee, the other day. ''Some six months ago." said Mr. Tanner, "an infant five weeks old was taken to the hospital suffering from malnutrition, and so wasted was it then that it only weighed five pound.-. Those who brought tiie child to the hospital withdrew hastily, leaving only the meagre information that the mother of the child bad died in giving it birth, and that they knew nothing about the father. The consequence is that the child has remained an inmate of the hospital to this day, and is now a splendid and healthy little boy. and one of the most attractive of the juvenile patients.' As a child can hardly be allowed to grow up as a hospital protege or foundling, inquiries were recently made with a view to its being adopted into some decent family. A suitable family was found, and arrangements were in hand for the adoption to be carried out when a letter arrived from Australia from a man claiming to be the husband of the child's mother. For the time being, therefore, all the adoption proceedings arc suspended, and developments as to the ownership of the infant are anxiously waited for. The Ladies' Committee at the hospital have taken a great interest in the child, and were engaged in providing it with a proper outfit of clothing preparatory to its 'adoption, when the unexpected claim arrived.

NOTES .FROM LONDON. ' London, March 24. The King and Queen paid an informal visit last Saturday afternoon to the Hampstead Garden Suburb at Golders Green, and spent over an hour visiting the various public institutions in the parish and the residences of some of the old people. Their Majesties were particularly intere'ed in the Haven of Rest, which is a quadrangle of single-roomed | tenements let to aged people, or widows, with -one child, at the small rental of 3s 3d per week, and tile Queen was! specially interested f in the ladies' flats,' in which she spent some time. I Dr. Theo Hyslop, who lectured before a branch of the Church of England Temperance Society recently, gave his opin-j ion that it is from a neurotic heritage that we obtain geniuses and the huge horde of individuals who may be classed I as being on the borderland between | sanitv and insanity. He contends that sometimes precocity—or abnormal retentiveness of memory—is a sign of familiar degeneracy. Mrs. Ramsay Macdonald and her colleagues in the Women's Labor League are issuing a leaflet in which it is pointed out that when the mother of young children becomes a wage-earner there is great risk of her children suffering lifelong injury or being destroyed altogether as the result. The remedies which are suggested i arc an extension of the provision of the! Factory Acts that no employer shall knowingly allow a woman to work with-1 in four weeks of the birth of her child :| provision by law for the carrying out of i the principle of the "right to work" for | men and the "right to leisure and home! comfort" for their wives; State mainten-l ance for widows with young children.;! and an opportunity for the house mother to give her time and her thought to her' husband and children. I

No less than three one-act plays by women dramatists are to be produced M the Court Theatre on May 8. These are: "Jack and Jill and a Friend." by Miss Cicely Hamilton; "In the Workhouse," hv Margaret Wynne Nevinson (Mrs. H. W. Nevinson); and "The First. Actress," bv Miss Christopher St. John, in which Mis; Ellen Terry will appear. The organizing secretary 1o the Child Eniisrralion Society is appealing for pecuniary aid for the society, in order to establish an experimental'school cither 1 in Newfoundland, or wherever a free grant of suitable land can be secured, and for workers for propaganda purpose--. The object of the Child Emigration 'Society is the emigration of quite young "dependent" or destitute children, to be trained for agricultural and domestic life in farm schools in the colonies, to compete in a market where the demand for efficient British labor is always trrcater than the supplv. Lady Sibvl Grimston, fifth daughter of the Earl and Countess Vcnilum, is known at the London Hospital Nurse's Training Home, Tredegear House, Bow, where on Saturday she began a seven weeks' course of preliminary instruction in bandaging and other elementary subjects, simply as "Nurse Grimston."'When this course is finished she will undergo an examination, and, if she shows aptitude, will be admitted a probationer for a two years' course of training in the hospital itself.

A matinee is to bo given at Stafford House early in May, and playwrights are invited to enter a competition on or liefore April ?, for a one-net. play, which enn lie played on the staircase of the historic house. The plays should not la>t more than about twenty minutes, and should not "have more than two. three, or four characters. The stage in this ease will be the landing of the main staircase. The phiy m „st npen with a qmct note and end quietly. The pin vers

must first cither walk up or down the stairs without any formal introduction. For their exit they must walk down or up the stairs. The actors and actresses are to have no artificial aids of any kind, A committee will be chosen to judge the plays. A strange bequest was the gift of £25,000 by the will of Mr. Thomas Windsor, proved 28th May last year, for the relief of suffering, in such way as to his executors might appear best, witli the restriction that nothing should be given | to any hospital, or dispensary, or medical society, or medical institution, or to I any church or charity, subject to any ' particular religious body or sect, j On Monday night, at a concert at Barnsbury, an inscribed gold watch was I presented to Miss Viola Pope, the four-teen-year-old heroine who last July rescued a boy from drowning in the Regent's Canal, and four days afterwards dragged out at the same place a woman who, unfortunately, died later. In an address to the members of tha School Dentists' Soeietv, Mr. A. Hope-well-smith, of the Royal Dental Hospital, this week said the way in which bacteria produced the decay of teeth was still a mvstery. In an attempt to elucidate it he had been conducting experiments vvitlr a view to finding what substances retarded or accelerated the growth of the germs which caused decay. The most striking factor in the proI motion of'growth was sweets. Acid drops apparently prevented it, but chocolates were extremely bad, and bull's eyes, butterballs, and sticky sweets were worse still. From a dental point of view sour mi|k. often prescribed by physicians, was very bad. as the germs grew rapidly on it. He had tested the effect of oranges, apples, grapes and lemons, and found that in sixteen hours a huge amount of growth of bacteria was presented by them. Mustard, vinegar, and coffee were good, as they stopped the growth, while tea, salt, and cocoa retarded decay. On the' other hand pepper encouraged it to an enormous extent. Wheaty and starchy things were.not good, as anything containing starch was I converted into sugar when in the mouth, ' and from that into acid.

Granddaughter -of Mr. John Bright, Miss Clarke, ;M.D„ was appointed on Tuesday by the Portsmouth Town Gouncij medical officer in charge of a new dispensary to be established for the treatment of consumptives. The Needlemakers' Company is honored by having the Queen upon its rolls as an honorary Freeman. It is one of the few .of the guilds which can elect ladies to.this "privilege, and in asking this distinction on the part of Her Majesty it recognised not onlv the skill anil accomplishment of the Queen in the use of the needle, but also the encouragement that she has given to others to attain proficiency in it.

The Queen of Spain, .wording to a writer in Seville, has initiated n campaign against tlie promiscuous kissing of infants and young children, and lias'forbidden, on hygienic grounds, that her own three children be embraced by all and sundry loyalists, and her example is being widely followed. Elegantly printed labels bearing the words "Ho me bi'«e!" (Do not kiss .me!) are now on sale throughout the country.