WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 161, 14 December 1914, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

IN A WOMAN'S WAS HOSPITAL. BRITISH LADY DOCTORS AT WORK. Wc have already read something of the splendid work being performed by women doctors at a war hospital in Paris. Mrs. Cuniock, in the London Daily Mail, fully describes operations in the following article:— Paris, Monday. In the city of hospitals the most remarkable is that of the Women's Hospital Corps, in the Avenue des ChampsElvsee, the first military hospital in the wo'rld to be entirely staffed and organised by women. 1 have just left this hospital, where I heard Lord Esher say to Dr. Garrett Anderson, after his visit of inspection, that no higher compliment could be paid to the efficiency and excellence than those paid by the wounded men themselves. Here, in fact, is the crowning achievement and justification, if any be needed, of women's entry into surgery. The whole work of the hospital is done by women, with the exception of a few orderlies who work under the nurses as stretcher-bearers, etc. Women doctors bring the wounded in cars from the field ambulances to the hospital, all the operations are performed by women surgeons, the anaesthetists are women, also the dressers and nurses, and a band of women orderlies completes the staff. And it must be understood that the cases brought to this hospital have not been slight ones, those have mostly been sent farther on, but cases necessitating serious operations, amputations, and all the skill and knowledge possessed by accomplished surgeons. Famous men surgeons now in Paris cannot say enough in praise of the work of these devoted women. DEEP BREATHING CURES NERVOUSNESS. WHAT THE NERVES REQUIRE. .In these days of hurry and scurry and '. strenuousness, people suffer more from nerves than was once the case. Too prone are the victims of nerves to fly to the chemist for a cure-all, warranted, as per the extravagantly-worded advertisements, to make a "new woman" of the purchaser before she has half emptied the bottle. Lilian Russell, in the Chi- , eago Tribune, advocates a different method of dealing with nerves—deep breathing. ''Your nerves," she writes, "must have three things—food, rest and oxygen. Practise lung gymnastics in the fresh air daily, and you won't know the meaning of nerves. Deep breathing in the open air is the surest, safest, and cheapest preventive and cure for r nervous trouble." FIRST SYMPTOMS OF NERVOUSNESS. The subject of deep breathing is one that needs to be dwelt upon at great length and in many ways, as it is a cure for so many important troubles (continues Miss Russell). For instance, you have studied with great care a long and difficult composition to play on the piano or to recite. You have committed it perfectly and are so sure of yourself that you do not hesitate to come before your audience, be it one or a thousand. You may make an excellent beginning and do it' finely, when suddenly you become confused, you cannot control your brain, you hardly know even where you are. Self-consciousnessness, everyone will tell you if you ask, but if you study yourself you will find that you • are not'breathing farther down that your collar-bone, are perhaps holding your | breath and taking little gasps in order to get breath at all. A sure cure for this is to begin, the moment you feel it affecting you, to draw long, deep breaths, way down from the diaphragm, slowly and evenly. This will keep your nerves working properly, your brain working normally, and you will gain such confidence in yourself that you will pass over the moat difficult parts witli astonishing ease, but keep up the deep breathing. HOW TO EXERCISE THE LUNGS. A fine exercise for deep breathir.g, and a healthy one, is to throw open all of the windows of your bedroom in the morning, go back to bed for a few moments, and lying flat \>i\ your back, without a pillow, close your lips and draw in a breath through the nostrils slowly, taking just as mum air ss the lungs will hold while counting six, then hold the breath while you count six more, and expel it suddenly through the mouth. Do this three times the first morning and once more each morning till you are repeating it six times, then six times every morning. It is astonishing how this develops the lungs and their capacity for breathing . Another easy exercise you may use while walking in the street. At each street crossing you come to begin to inhale through the nostrils the moment you cross the curb, and inhale until you get to the opposite kerb, when you must exhale quickly through the mouth. These are such simple means to a great end that every child should be taught them. If deep breathing were a regular habit with you, you never would be be troubled with nerves, unless, of course, you were suffering from serious organic trouble. But "nerves," as we Americans know them, are in ninetynine cases out of all undrcd the result of the lack of oxygen. WEDDING. WHITE—PENWARDEX. A very pretty wedding was solemnised at Whiteley Memorial Church on Wednesday, December 9th, in the frcseneo of a large assemblage of friends and well-wishers. The bride was Miss Florence M. AVhite, eldest daughter of Mr. J. 'I. White, local manager for Messrs. J. I'. MacEwan and Co., and the bridegroom was Mr. £rk' H. Penwarden, youngest son of Mr. T. B. Penwarden, of Oakura. The Rev. C. Olds was the officiating minister, Miss Cannell presiding at the organ. The bride, who wan given away by her father, looked sweet in a dainty robe of white charmeuse silk, the bodice being trimmed with silk embroidered muslin, and sleeves of ninon, finished with a wide swathed belt; butterfly bow and orange blossoms, the pointed train having a butterfly bow and horseshoe, studded with brilliants, and finished with orange blossoms. From a, chaplet of orange blossoms fell a pretty embroidered veil. The bride carried a lovely shower bouquet of white sweet peas, bells, real orange blossoms, maidenhair and asparagus ferns, made by Miss X. Chattorton, a valued friend of the bride. Misses Elsie and Nellie White, sisters of the bride, acted as bridesmaids, and were dressed in dainty white embroidered voile frocks, with tunic skirts, and white hats with pale fieliotropc flowers. Each carried a lovely shower bouquet of pale heliotrope and white sweet peas, maidenhair and asparagus ferns, and heliotrope streamers. The bridegroom's gift to the bride was a gold band ring, and to the bridesmaids gold bangle's. , The bride's gift to the . bridegroom was a gold, signet ring. Mr.