FOR WOMEN FOLK.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1916, Page 6

FOR WOMEN FOLK.

*- BY EILEEN."

SOCIAL NEWS. PERSONAL ITEMS, Mi-, ami Mrs. )<rank llill and Miss Hill me veiling .I"lyruoi.ith. Hiss Lily Reardon, oj M<uterton, is holiday-making in New Plymouth. Mrs. F. G. Evans has returned from her short trip to Wellington. Mrs. Dalgettv, of Auckland, is at present in New Plymouth. 'Mrs. Brvce (Wanganui) is holidaymaking in New Plymouth. Miss Munroe (Stratford) is the gueet oJ Mrs. W. Bswley. • « » Misi Datnpisy, who bat bstm spondlnj holiday* in AuokU&d, has returned ' # # * MiM Wsd» siS# retftPSeii frotTi ft *li§ri visit to Wellington. * » « 'Mrs. Lawrence (Wellington) is the guest of her sister, Mrs. H. Collier. • * * # Mrs. George Pott is spending a few days at Mokau. j * * #■ Archdeacon ( and Mrs. H. Reeve, who have been on a visit to New Plymouth, have returned to Wanganui. Miss Rawson and Mrs. Bertalot, who have been holiday-making at Mokau. have returned. •* * * Miss Iris Crooke, who has been visiting friends in Wellington and Feilcling, returns to New Plymouth on Monday. Miss Beryl Hirst lias joined the nursing staff of the New Plymouth Hos- j pital. | Mrs. P. A. Hadlcy, who has been on a short visit to New Plymouth, left for Wellington on Tuesday. Miss IT. Rollo. who has been visiting relatives iu Wellington and Palmerstou North, returns Monday. Miss Stanford, who has been visiting Mrs. Robinson, of Mokau, has returned to Now Plymouth. * * « Mrs. P.ixoii, who has been the guest of Mrs. E. A. Wsdker, has He turned to Levin.

Mrs. Gordon Kramer left for Auckland last Tuesday, where bhe wi4l join her mother, -Mrs, ILilroy, of Duncdin. Miss Rockfl, who has been visiting friends in IViMin-' and Palmerston >'orth, has returiH-J. -lr.v and h rs'.v-iar, V,JO sysnt a few ila.vs in Palmei'ston North* have re-turned. Mrs. O'ffalloran (Auckland), who has been visiting New Plymouth, has left for Hawera. * * # Mr. and Mr. Perev Smith. (Taihape), who have been spending a few weeks in New Plymouth, have returned. Mrs. Paul and Mrs. Percy Webster, who have been on a short visit to Auckland, return to New Plymouth early next week. • # • Miaa 0. Shaw left New Plymouth this morning for Haveloek (Hawke'a Bay), where she has accepted a position on the school's teaching stuff. iMss Hodges, headmistress of the Kew Plymouth Girls' High School, who has heen spending her holidays at her uome in Timaru, lias returned.

Mrs. Harold Abranam, who, •villi lior family, has boon spending the holidays in Xew Plymouth, has returned to Stratford. At Pahiatim on Wednesday Mr. .T. TC. Shanahan was married. to Miss K. Moyiwlian, daughter of and Mrs. J. Moynahan. The Rev. Father T. McKeima performed the ceremony.

Mr. and Mrs. Balliam (the former being late French master of the Xew Plymouth Hoys' High .School )left on Friday liioriiiijpf for their new home in ■Wellington, Mr. Balham bavin# accepted a position iu tlie Wellington Boys' College. Madame JTiimcliu* (Dura Wilcox), well known as one of our Xew Zealand pets, is iKiw emiaged in F.ngland nursing the wounded. f-he worked for some, time .:t Bristol. and is now at St. (ieorge.'s Hospital, London. where she gives special attention to XW Zealand boys. The fir.it lady io tour the Dominion in a managerial capacity js Miss MacFarlane, who lias-been ahead of "Xeptune's Daughter" iu this island. Of Scottish descent, Hiss Mac.Farlaiie, was bi.rn iu Mexico, and has travelled over most of the world.

Garden Party.—Last Thursday a gardon party \va» arranged i, aid of the Vicarage Fund of the Holy Trinity Church, Te Hcnui, under the auspices oi the Ladies' Guild, at the residence of Mrs. E. Griflith:>, Fitzroy, and although there «cre ciuiitcr.a llj'acium, in the town tis ut f. my attendance, br.':'-: bi:;s being douv anions; tj;? sfail-iokl'.'rs. The following wefo the stfll'.s and the ladies who managed them: —Plain"work: MosdaniftS Footc, Fox and .Miss Fetch. Strec.ts stall: Misses U Cutficld, Foote and Harilinj;. Tea stall: Mesdames Griffiths, Addenbrookc, Cowling, Jones and llennell. Pianoforte Recital.—Miss Dorothea Bayly, L.A.8., gave a most enjoyable pianoforte recital in the Good Templar Hall on Tuesday evening. She was assisted by Miss M. Peart and Mr. Norman Day. As a pianist, Miss Bayly was speedily recognised to be above the ordinary player, and her technique, though somewhat concise, was of a very delicate and sympathetic nature, which was specially portrayed in her rendering of two selections by Grieg. Miss P tart's and Mr. Day's items were well received, both perforata being well fcnewn, ted great fnvsrites with the

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present were: Miss Bayly, wearing a very pretty shell-pink hand-painted liinon rube, with deculletage draped iu jewelled net: Miss Peart, rose-pink cliJiiueuso, lightly trimmed with Oiental ciiibioitlcrie^.: I'-1 rr.. Monait Bayly (''iti'.iilonll, very 'b.-'int-iniie lil.n-l: nepe (ii- [ I'lll' 1 . II i ill 'li'd vII ii ir.if |,ht XgyrlT'. J.'.n 11 , p.ik'. |>ltll, l-lrj.f lie cilllM:. deftly t, imiiii ii '■ ii :i ulin. Lice; Mesd'amts I aiilh.'iii, I'aton, j. Clarke. li. Chancy. F, .lilundeli. C. Curtis, A. i'facDiarmid, Jlennon, Choiweil. Rcnaud, Mc•Hardy, Heard, Roy, Denny-Brown; Misses Fantharn, E. Douglas. Roy, Read, Radcliffe, Barnstaple. Stanford. Duigan, F. Bayly, Lennon, Chohvell, Gol.dwatfr and McKenzie.

THE BRITISH WOMEN'S HOSPITAL. "SXAB AND GARTER" HOSE BUILD- | ING FUND. Mise 'Adeline Bourne, lion, wganisav o{ the British Wowsfi'it Hospital, ffriip*th" wlif>lo utafy fif (Iti? wac ■ thare Is nothing that strikes on« as more terrible than the thought of the number of healthy vigorous ynnn<v men who have become totally disabled. The splendid courage and clieeviness of the wounded men is constantly before us, We see the man with one leg helping himself along ; and the man with, an empty sleeve or a patch over one eye going through the streets or sifting in a hospital ward, but we, see little of the tragic host who are disabled for life—who. in the very midst of the joy of youth and strength are cut oil' by a hopeless barrier from the things that make life best worth living. These men have lost nil hut life itself for the si'.ko of the country they love and lo shield from harm and horror the women of (he land —of the whole Kmpirc. The women are ■asked to show their undying gratitude by more than mere word:, of sympathy and thankfulness. * " j

Her most Gracious Majcsiy, who is full of compassion for the wounded and the sick, has handed to the British Red Cross Society the site of the "Star and Garter' 1 Hotel, presented to her by the Auctioneers and Estates Agents' Institute of the United Kingdom, on condition that it is used as a Home for the men rendered incurably helpless by the war. The Tiritish Women's Hospital have been asked by the British lied Cross Society to raise the money for a new building for this purpose, to be fitted wi[h every modern appliance snd they appeal to the women of the K.mpire, far and near, to give towards this fund. There are many funds for ni'ible purposes, but iliere is 110 other raised by ivuiuen ukase for men as a Keaoriai of their gratitude. AH women, rich and peer, are urged to have a share in this their own special offering. Large sums are needed that thi» best way be offered to these heroie invalids, but -in,ill sums iie ;io:s» the ie?s welr:mf, ris.stnucb as 5-' :r - ;s -ores way >.■; •■ayi::g a heavtfeit "thaik you" to the mer who '"eve suffered, who have sacrificed, who are doomed to a lifelong helplessness, Money and iirowKr.s of nsoj.. .• «W-' be sent to th" Hon. Treasurer, grid cheques should he nmde payable to The British Women's Hospital. Address: 2, Robert Street, Adelphi, W.C., London, AUSTRALIA'S GIRLS. "Renediet" writes to the Sydney Sun: One of the things that struck me when I first came into this State was the large number of old maids and unmarried women. They are conspicuous everywhere. At. the church I attend there arc about fourteen ladies in the ehoir. and ien of these appear to be hopelessly on the shelf. There are also several families with three or four daughters, and they appear to he in the same fix. Such a state of things is not good for a sparsely populated country like ours. How is it? There must be some reason why they are not asked to take their true position as wives and mothers?

One reason, I think, to put it mildly, |is their Jack of good look-. Having travelled in many countries, 1 must say I have never met a plainer set of women anywhere. There is not one in twenty that could be called good-look-ing, aiiu, ■- nretty woman is a rarity. T. must aumlt ther dress well, are well I set-up, and good figure o . 'nit that is all. | Their features spoil them, for sallow faces and colorless eomph'X'inns tire not nice to look upon. A back view, | -or seen at a. distance, gives one the best impression. What a contrast to the giris who used to land oil our shores some years ago, whom we call pommies but who :uv soon snapped up by our boys, the bonnie girls from tScotland, the rosy-cheeked girls from lieland, and the blue-eyed lassies from Lancashire. Their beauty and charms are the theme of our most popular songs. Whoever heard a song about the beauty of our girl.-.? Weil, after all, they cannot help it. Dress, powder and paint will not do it. The only remedy is to improve the stock by importation. Let the Government give free passages to say MOO pretty girls; these would quickly be snapped up, homes would multiply, population increase, and the country benefited all round. j

I WHAT OTHER WOMEN ARE DOING. | Spc-akiri" at a recent women's interecs- { Moil inctstinj; at St. Jvtartin's-in-tho-i 1- icii Is, tlu-. Iti.-.liop of l,mi.'|.its fUti'd that iii.v clergy »i: ihu iust fcr.d i><id told iilw that i! ";. had never oof'.".'!. 1 known such, fin Or.TY of dTUTtko T InO? t '' WOmO" , <ls durintr the last 12 month?. I Mrs. Dr. Sloan O'essar srts it is a i remarkable fact Ihat Ilia collective i health of tlio women of Great Britain is improving under hard work and the i strain of the present times. Women arc neither delicate nor fragile these days, I but are tough and resident. Where are I all the neurotic women? Most of them are cured, and cheerily "doing their bit" is hospitals, in depots, and in munition works. The neurotic woman, as a rule, has considerable energy, which, in the past, had little or no entlet. An old Serbian woman, at least 70 years old, climbed a telegraph pole as cleverly ar, a cat, and cut the wires beI fore the Germans had time to fire, murmuring: "t don't mind if they shoot rae. I I am old enough to die." Contrast this (says the. Evening Standard) with the I statement made at the meeting of the I jaram l Cgttaoii; "Many worst® rg|U4«d

lo work on the land. . , . Mr. S. tvidner said he might u» well knock his bc.tcL against a wall as try to get woman :labor on his farm!" The use of bracelets by German women has been banned under heavy penallies, which include imprisonment. In a recent issue the Local Auzeiger warned tliß well-to-do of the risk, they ran in wearing bracelets made from munitions material. It appears that such can be worn only by the permission of the military commander, and are given in exchange for a weight of metal corresponding to that of the copper employed in the manufacture of the bracelet. For saving two persons from drowning, u girl guide, Joyce Buckley Yeoman (13), daughter of Dr. Yeoman, of Prestwich (Kngland), has received the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society. While bathing at Llanfairfcchau she saw a man and girl in difficulties. In correct life-having fashion she took the man by the head, and, with the girl flinging to tlio man's arm, she bronchi. (hem safely to nhorc. .She (hen •ksiial Oil' (•! hu aktii QueMiona- 1., »l»> t-w **-■ )■.(•?, >h. said; "nil. i-'ve jnst been hauling in two people." One of j;..- ■«]» window-cleaners at NcwcasMe-on-Tyne wears khaki trousers and a smock when performing her duties.