FOR WOMEN FOLK.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1915, Page 8

FOR WOMEN FOLK.

" BY EILEEN."

" Eileen " will bs glad to rsccive items of interest and value to women for pubiicati on or reference in this column.

ITEMS OF INTEREST 1 Mr. and .Mrs. Huberts (Ikwith) are spending a few days in New Plymouth. Miss I. Kirkby, who lms boon for several mciiitli.s visiting Auckland, lias returned. Mosdamcs and Misses Oairworth (2i, of Rotorun, are spending a lew days in .New Plymouth. Mrs. and Miss Currie (Auckland'!, who have iheen visiting New Plymouth, are at present in Wangamii. The Hon. and Mrs. 0. Samuel have left for Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. Sexton have returned to Wellington after their pleasant visit to j New Plymouth. Mrs. K. A. Walker, who has been the guest of Mrs. Claude Weston at Welling,' has returned. Mr. and Sirs. S. Ley land (Ponsonby) are at present in Xew Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron (Wanganui; are holiday-making in Xew Plymouth. EXHIBITION. Last Thursday afternoon nu exhibition of medals, curious, anticpie works of art and other articles of interest was held in the Good Templar Hall in aid of the stationary hospital. it was organised by members of "'The Rolling Stone" Society and proved an unqualified success. No one person eon Id be praised more than another, as all the members worked, in splendid unison, and with a will. Amongst thoso present were:—Mrs. J. E. Wilson (Mayoress), who wore a black eoat and skirt, black hat with white feathers; iMrs. Truby I King, navy costume faced, with Oriental trimming, cerise colored hat; Miss Godfrey, navy coat and skirt, cornflower colored hat; Mrs. Arden, navy blue, black hat; Miss T. Arden, brown coat and skirt, black velvet hat; Mrs. Stanley Shaw, black costume, black toque with rose-colored velvet crown; Mrs. Black ley, smart greeny-grey coat and skirt, pretty black velvet hat;. Mrs. Walter Weston, navy blue charmeuse, piped with gold, navy hat trimmed'with floral ribbon; Mrs. 11. Stocker, navy coat and skirt, white hat; Mrs. J. Glenn, navy costume, black velvet hat and black fox. furs; Miss Devonish, dark preen costume, black hat lightened with .scarlet; Mrs. E. A. Walker, black cloth costume, black hat with white lancer plume; Mrs. Wylie, saxo blue costume, black li.it with pink roses; Mrs. Newton King, saxe blue costume, toque to correspond; Mrs. Dodgshun, navy coat and skirt, black li.it: Mrs. Ewing. dark grey costume, black hat with white lancer plume; Mrs. G. Pott, black and white check costume, black hat swathed with iloral ribbon; Mrs. Bowley, grey costume, black hat; Miss Devon- (Auckland), navy coat and ukirt, black hat; Mrs. P. G. Evans, black costume, with seal coat, hat lo correspond; Miss B. Evans, navy costume, saxe blue coat; Mrs. Denny Brown, mole-colored costume, navy S'due silk, hat swathed with rose-pink silk ribbon; Mrs. E. Blu.ndell, navy blue costume, black and while hat; .Miss Bhmdell, brown costume, hat en suite; Miss Wade, saxe blue costume, trimmed with a darker shade, black and white hat; Mrs. Cornwall, black; Mrs. Sladden, navy blue costume, black feathered hat; Mrs. Courtney, saxe blue costume, black hat; Mrs. Roy, navy costume, black hat with white ospreys; Miss Roy, saxe blue costume, small black velvet hat; MrsA. 11. Colvile, navy coat and skirt, black velvet hat with white osprey; Mrs. Carthew, senr.; Mrs. Lysons, navy costume, black hat relieved with pink roses; Mrs. Crooke, fawn-colored costume, black and white hat; Miss-I. Crooke, brown coat and skirt, hat to correspond; Mrs. P. Carthew, navy coat and skirt, black toque wreathed with tiny pink roses; Mrs. McCleland, navy costume, faced with Oriental silk, black hat with cherry colored velvet crown; Miss Ellis, navy costume, hat to correspond; Mrs. F. Bayly, mustard colored costume, faced with*Maek feathered hat; Mrs. Wilfred „ Perry, navy costume, black hat with white wings; Mrs. H. Whitconfbe, .black costume, with white coat, black hat with ,t lancer plume; Miss Whitcombe, grey ■ e costume, faced with black and white 3 silk, hat en suite; Mrs. B. Griffiths, navy r . costume, with brown hat; Mrs. Douglas; ' c Miss Shaw: Miss How Tie, violet costume, , black feathered hat; Mrs. Addenbrooke, navy costume, black hat; Mrs. James K Wilson, navy costume, black hat; Mrs. ( j S. Teed, brown, velvet costume, hat j lightened with saxe blue; Miss Stanford, chocolate-brown costume, black feathered hat; Miss Marshall, navy costume, black bat; Miss G. Cole (Auckland), navy costume, black hat with white lancer plume; Miss Leatham, mole-col-ored costume, cherry-colored velvet hat: Mrs. (1. Millar, navy costume, navy hat trimmed with floral ribbon; Mrs. Prank Blundell, golden-brown costume, faced . with black, black velvet hat; Mrs. Matthews, navy costume, black hat; Miss Matthews, navy coat and skirt, black hat lightened with pink roses; Miss Rawson, mole-colored costume, black hat; Mrs. S. RMinell, peacock blue costume, black hat with lancer plume; Mrs. Foote. dark navy coat and skirt, black hat; Mrs. George King, mole-color-ed costume, ecru-colored hat trimmed with black velvet and pink roses; Mrs. 1). Robertson, navy coat and skirt, violet hat; Miss Ferrier, brown coat and skirt, hat lo correspond; Mrs. Kyngdon, dark grey costume, black hat with cerise-col-ored wing; Miss C. Douglas, navy cos-

Airio, with Iloral silk facings, black hat tviih white leather; .Miss Bedford, black . ;;ostiinii-, with grey check coat faced with purple, black velvet hat; .Mrs. (!. Kcblicll, mole-colored costume with plaid silk collar, toque to correspond; Miss Read, brown flecked, tweed costume, black hat with gold wings; .Miss F. Wood, navy costume, faced with emerald green, emerald green velvet hat; Mrs. Heard; Mrs. Elliott, brown costume, hat to correspond; .Mrs i'enn, brown coat and skirt, wallliowcr velvet line with black wing; Mrs. Brewster, navy costume, black toque; Miss Brewster, navy coat and skirt, black velvet hat; Mrs. 1!. C. Hughes, green flecked tweed coat and skirt, black hat with hunches of scarlet cherries; Mrs. Rollo, black coat and skirt, with nurplc toque; Mrs. Balham, navy costume, black feathered hat; Mrs. Thomson, navy costume, fawn hat with pink and fawn shaded lancer plume; Miss Baker, black and white check coat and skirt, black velvet hat: Mrs. Chancy, senr., navy costume, ecrucolored hat with pink roses: Mrs. Martin, deep violet costume, hat en suite; .Airs. W. J). Webster, black costume, cream bonnet with pink roses; Mrs. G. Neal, brown costume, hat en suite; Mrs. T. Anderson, navy costume, cerise-color-ed fiat with feather ruche; Jlrs. 11. Pookes, navy costume, black velvet hat: Mrs. Leslie Webster, violet costume, hat to correspond; Mrs. Mackay, dark groy I costume, black toque; Miss 0. Mackay, moss-green costume, black hat; Mrs. Sturtevant, navy costume, black feathered hat: Miss P. Stnrtovanl* fawn eos- | tume, hat en suite; Mrs. A. B. P,. Pookes, grey costume, black hat; Mrs. Hirst, Miss Hirst, Mrs. I) K. Morrison, Miss K. Mills, Mrs. Corfe, Mrs. W. Newman; Mrs. p. Ilonan, navy costume, cerise-colored hat; Miss 11. lia.wson, brown tweed costume, faced with green, black feathered hat; Mrs. MacDiarmid, grey costume, black hat; Mrs. W.Nicoll; Mis: B. Bayly, grey costume, faced with ] black, saxe blue hat; i.Mrs. Mcllardy, pea- | cock 'blue colored costume,, faced with ; black, hat with lancer plume; Miss K. I Hamerton, navy costume, black and j white hat. , OLDEST BRITISH SUBJECT DEAD. j Death lias removed the King's oldest j subject in the. kingdom in the person j of Mrs. Mary Edinond, aunt of Principal Griffiths, of Cardiff University College. Siie died on Tuesday in her I lillifh year, having celebrated her luVilii ! birthday in October, 1014. She was the | daughter of Mr. David Tiiier, who came j from near Berwick-ou-Twced, and was I manager of the Leith and Clyde Ship- ' ping Company at Aberdeen. She was j one of five children, all of whom lived I to a ripe old age. I Mrs Edmond was in her sixtii year when the battle of Waterloo was won, ; and she remembered distinctly the ox- . cilement of tlio.se days, and how when the news reached Britain almost | every house throughout the land placed j a lighted candle against each window pane in celebration of the victory. ! The family removed to Banff, and there the learned French, becoming quite pro- | ficient in it. During this period she atI tended one of the dancing assemblies at j Banff, and was invariably taken to and from her dancing lessons in a Sedan ; chair. I The arrival of the mail coach was a daily excitement, the inhabitants turning out in numbers to see it. It'was drawn by four horses, driven by n coachman in red livery, with a guard similarly dressed. At the age of seventeen Mary was sent to a boarding school at Greenwich. A week's journey was covered by coach to Aberdeen and by a fishing to the town on the Thanhs, she being the only lady pas senger on board.- This school was kept by Mons. .and Madame Martin, and she remained there /or two years, during j which time she improved much in French Mons. Martin was a captain in Napoleon's army, and after the battle of Waterloo he found refuge in England. On her return to Banff Mrs. Rose, tintown clerk's wife, induced the young lady from Greenwich to accompany belaud her daughters to Rouen as an interpreter. She was twice married. Her first husband was Dr. Marcus Sachs, Professor of Hebrew at Aberdeen, where with him she soon became a well-known figure in literary and artistic circles. They travelled a good deal in France, Italy, and 'Germany, until Dr. Saclus' death on September 2!), 1809. In 1577 she married Francis Edmond, L.L.D., of Kingswells, Aberdeenshire, an eminent advocate, wdiose gifts.to Aberdeen University and charities reached £IOO,OOO. Shewas left widow for the second time at the ago of eighty-three. She then went to reside at Cambridge with Dr. and Mrs. E. 11. Grifliths, the latter being her niece, and on Dr. Griitiths's appointment in 1S!I2 as Principal of the University College of South .Wales and Monmouthshire, she removed with them to Newport Road, Cardilf, where sheremained until her death. On the hundredth anniversary of her birthday, Mrs. Edmond received a congratulatory message from King Edward VII., and on October 1G in each succeeding year she was the happy recipient of a Royal message. WOMEN REFUSING THE WIDE SKIRTS. As the season advances, dressmakers say that many women are refusing to take the wide skirts which fashion has designed, says a fashion writer in an English paper. There are always some who accept extremes with alacrity, but they are not the most exclusive trade. The head of a large dressmaking establishment which caters exclusively to the high-class trade, says that, although his customers consent to have their own gowns made somewhat'wider than they were last summer, they refuse to take them as he tried to make dresses at the opening of the season. He said in the first fitting, when they saw the unusual width, they would invariably insist on having the skirt taken in some. When they reached home and thought it over they would frequently telephone and request that more of the fulness be removed. There appears to be a general aceenfance of the full tunic, but consiilcrable shyness in accepting the full plaited and circular skirts, although these styles are favoured in moderation. At fhis time three and a half yards around is considered good width, but too wide if it is for the foundation skirt under a tunic.

WAR AS \VOihaj.T x-cUi-S IT. An interview with the wife of a eon-, spicuous Russian general by a correspondent of t!ie New Yuri: Times is interesting. "You ask," said she, "what I can tell you about our life here. Well, all oar dogs are hen- with 11s. The rooms are lovely. The view of (lie river, the cottages and gardens, ami, on tin* i-hore. the cupolas of a church, as you we, are simpiy a delight. .Now o\cry(]iiiig is white witli snow; in summer anrl :ii'.timin it was st.il! lovelier, lint I look at all this through a mist; my thought* and my heart arc not hear. What is this cheerful voice and the calm around it when one thinks of what is going on in the west at this moment—what we all haw lo liw through? "'this hon.v" belonged to a young Woman. U'e came to be very intimate with her, for her husband, an artillery nllicer, is alno at the front, and during the whole autumn and winter we made up parcels together to send to the front to (lie soldiers and ollieers. tin Christmas «he and licr son, a small .schoolboy, started fur the frontier. Imping to catch a glimpse of lier husband. Mie caught a chill on the way, and died of inflammation of (he lungs. Xow her coliin is on its way back from (laiicia. Her husband and little boy are here—lie obtained leave of absence to bury !iis wife. l"or six months lie was daily exposed to .-.hells and bullets, and is unscathed, and she, who went full of joy and anuimatiou to pay hi in a visit, is dead! "< >lir soldiers are (igliling for (lie right. I know not whether Cod will grant to such insignificant people as you and I' our life tu see their ultimate.'triumph, bet ihere can he no donbt that our llnsi-ian manhood will prove itself ; stronger than our enemies. i|y husband is a national hero now. His portraits are everywhere, 011 postcards and cahni- , (ters. I'ut I (eel ijuite detached from all the-. li;s health and final victory---1 cannot lliink of anything else. | "If yon only knew what we see in the hospitals. At present, in my own nursing home, there are To wounded, and in the hospital about 700: in (he Local Hoard Hospital there are more than 11)0(1, and in two private hospitals 100. During the Christinas and Now 1 \ car's holidays ] organised amusements ' and the distribution of presents in all , the»e places. All the ladies in the town .were gathered into group:-, each of which had its own nursing home and barracks. In this way no one was forgotten or received less than others. Heal artists ■ sang for them, recited, danced for them. A dying soldier sat propped by pillows and laughed heartily, for tin' 'last time in this world, at some comic song, ia my own nursing home 1 had a Christmas tree and presents for the soldiers and for the two orphanages—eighty children in all. 011 the whole, we are able, to take care of th.e disabled, feeding them, clothing them, healing them—or burvin« . . them. This is our life. 1 "-My husband's whole being is in lii- . . great undertaking, his duly, lie m: ( : longer belongs to tis. Ilis encrgv and . . n, " ral f" l ' l ' l ' are like the tense string ~f . a musical instrument, drawn as tightly t vis pos-ible. His letters do not comfort him: 'Pray not for me, hut. for liushe firm in (lie thought that we ha\e. given our lives for our countrv. : . Such seni onces, and the nets that go with them, do not comfort my heart, mid I cannot be 'firm' in anything I am tortured, I suffer in the sufferings . and sorrows of others. I am tortured, 1 I sullcr. f live between the upper mid lietlicr millstone of the frightful tillering of our soldiers in hospital and the high tension of my husband, (he warrior oT Christ." Shampooing, Hairdresslng, and Twisting. Electrolysis for the permanent removal of superfluous hair. Switches, Toupees, etc. Lad'es' combings made U[) to any lies;,,.. Mr*. BK.\ni/K, Kpnont Joilet Parlors, i_; r ;iliths' Buildings, neat Carnrglj Liftnrv.