WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1916, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

(By "Eileen.')

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. McLean (Ui-uti) spent a few days in town this week.

Mrs. K. M. Standi*!) l fi> returned from her holiday-making in Auckland.

Mesdames Benson and Saw well (Folding) are the guests of Mrs. C. Bowden

Miss I. Kirkby has gone on a holiday visit to Auckland.

Mrs, and Miss Wheatley (Lepperton) spent a few days in town this week.

Mrs. F. G. Evans, who has been on a visit to Wellington, lias returned.

Mrs. Ansell left by the s.s. Karjwa on a visit to Auckland.

Mrs. Askew ("Wellington) is the guest of Mrs. F. G. Evans,

Miss Stephenson has gone on a holiday trip to Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. yewton King, who have been on a short visit to Auckland, have returned.

Mrs. Daniels, who has been visiting her mother (Mrs. Simpson), left last week for Wellington.

Mrs. B. B. Reid, v.'lio ha? been on a visit to Ne\7 Plymouth, has returned to Pahiatua. .

Mrs. Fa bar Footer, v.'lio lias been visiting Wellington, has returned to New Plymouth. •

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Skhnwwho have been on a visit to relatives in New Plymouth, have returned to Napier.

•Hiss G. -Shaw, who i 3 on the teaching staff at Ha'vclock, w spending her holi-. days in New Plymouth.

Miss E. Greatbatch and Miss L. Mills, who have been holiday-making in Wellington, have returned.

Mrs. JO. Blundell left last.'tveek on a visit to Timaru on account of her mother's {Mrs. Miles) health.

Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt, who have been on a short visit to New Plym villi have viiiirned to Wellington.

Mr.v (Mng, after her pleasant trii.) tc the Mountain /louse and New Plyi-.uiitii, has ictun eel to Wellington.

Mrs. Grant-Cowan (Hawera) during hor short stay in New Plymouth, was the guest of Miss Leatliam.

Mr. and Mrs Find lay. who have boon on a '••■ sit to New Plymouth, have returned to Wellington.

Mr. and Miss Crump (Elthaml. who have been spending a few days in Now Plymouth, have returned.

Misses ('. Leatliam and H, Outfield have gone on a holiday to Wellington, Damievirke and Nelson.

Mr. and Mrs. Lancaster have returned to Palmerston North after their pleasant stay in New Plymouth.

Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Smart, who Ijave been on a short visit to New Plymouth, have returned to Hawera.

Mrs. R. Drummond, who lias been visiting her mother, Mrs. Walter Bayly, has returned to Auckland.

Misses Shuttleworth (two), who have been visiting relations in New Plymouth, have returned to Auckland.

Miss Casey, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. R. Paul, has returned to Auckland.

Mrs. Melliard Devenish, who has been tlie guest of Mrs. Devenish, New Plymonth, left some weeks back for Auckland, but has now returned to her home in Tasmania.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Another of our New Zealand soldiers, who has been an inmate of an English hospital, has found a wife in one of the nurses (writes The Post ? s London correspondent). At Birmingham, recently, •Sergeant R. M. Howland. 12th Nelson, was married to Sister Helen Mitchell, who had been on the nursing staff of the Ist Southern General Hospital. Birmingham. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. E. Sliarpley, 8.A., 8.8., and Mr. Matthew Muir (late of Dunedin) gave the bride away. Private W. K. Darby, of the Headquarters stuff, was groomsman, and another comrade present was Private C. W. Connell, 7th Weilington Infantry. Mrs. M. Muir—who with her husband has been doing much good and useful work among the New SCealanders who have been receiving treatment in Birmingham hospitals—was there with her sister (Mrs. Macdonsld) and her small son. while Miss Alison Muir was bridesmaid.

Miss Rosina Buckmann's name appears frequently in concert programmes in London (writes a London c* frrespon-ib-nt). She had a great reception the other day at the Alhambra, and was recalled scleral times after singing ''Sonny" and "Land of. Happy Hearts." But it was Alfred Hill's "Waiata Poi" that nearly brought down the house.

American women are having a monopoly of good tilings just now, for not only is France supplying them with the very best in the way'of hats, gowns, and other dress luxuries, but New York is. for the time being, the greatest retail centre of furs of the world. In times of peace the United States was dependent 011 the. Russian and London markets for its supply of exclusive furs, but now the skins are being brought to New lork because there is no demand for them in Europe. It is said that the wealthy American women are quite alive to the opportunities which are being offered to them, and the prices for even Russian sables are relatively cheap. It is stated that no such quantities of furs ivere ever seen in the markets of New York as at the present time, and probably will never be seen again. Statements to the same effect are also made regarding precious stones of superfine ipality, for the records of importations to the United States during 1915 show that there was. a fivefold increase of precious gems to the port of New York. These conditions are, of course, the result ot the war in Europe, and will probably continue until peace is declared. Yes, our latest war saving, say 9 Eve, in the Tatler. And everybody else is }oing it, too—getting rid of great town tarrocks (if they're lucky enough to be ible to) where you only use about six of the dozen rooms and simple can't cut down your servants and thing 3 to nearly .totfcing, m the Monomy neoplt keep on

telling lis we positively must, (hough, as a matter of fact, these last—the servants, T mean —are mostly cutting themselves down. They etui make Into more of munitioning, and feel patriotic in the movement, too, all thrown in. Which reminds me, one hears a lot about women going on the land and that sort of tiling, but I wish someone would otart a league tor providing servants—just as patriotic, I'm sure, to cook the food and dust the rooms and generally look after the soldiers of the future as the ones of the present. 1 suppose if the worst comes to the worst, and we really do start in to practise war economies in real earnest, we shall all be doing our own work, shan't we? —though I dread to think what some women'll look like if their maids leave them in the lurch. As for your Eve, well, I can ijse a chafingdish with anyone, and, after all, there's always the Kit?, and places, isn't there? Anyway, it's a pity, I think, some of them don't stop havering about women farmers'and so on, 'cos you know there are things women can't, do, just as there are ones men can't, though, of course, not so many. And more than a few of us were quite glad to hear Lady Francis Balfour voicing our sentiments when she said it required—well, the House of Lords, to imagine that one had only to call upon women who were at their sewing machines to go on the land and they would instinctively know everything, though I didn't quite agree with her as to women failing if they took up work they were unaccustomed to. Work they were incapable of, yes, but it's hard to find a limit to what the will and the spirit will make a •roinun do, 'specially pour la patrie. By way of playing her part in the appie campaign, says an exchange, an enterprising Melbourne lady during the week entertained her friends at an apple luncheon, which is said to have been most successful. The meal began with an apple salad. For this brightly colored Jonathans were polished till the-; shone, a slice was cut from one end, and the inside of each apple removed with a spoon, leaving a perfect shell. This wa.s then filled with a mixture of chopped apples and celery and a sprinkling of chopped walnut, and a little good mayonnaise dressing was poured in. Some finely shredded palecolored lettuce was heaped on top of each apple, and the salad looked as good as it tasted. The next course consisted of firied fillets of whiting with an apple sauce sharpened by the addition of chopped capers and a few shreds of red peppers, and was followed by small lamb chops served with slices of fried tomato, some apple fritters, and potato balls. For sweets, little apple tartlets and an apple whip were served, and an apple drink made a pleasant beverage. To make this apples were stewed in plenty of water with a little sugar, and a very small piece of lemon rind. When the apples were cooked, the liquid was carefully strained o(T, allowed.to get cold, and then iced. The little party of guests were quite enthusiastic about their simple but appetising meal.

T.ady Doughty, formerly well known before her marriage as Miss Eugenie Stone, of Melbourne, 'who wrote for the Bulletin under the pen-name of "Tryphcna," is now part proprietor of a newspaper in Lincolnshire (says a writer in an exchange). To a recent issue she contributes an excellent article on "The Grumblers." in the course of which she sa y S; _"We want to keep the homefires of love and patriotism and hope burning. We can't if the extinguishers of the grumblers are constantly at work to put them out. . . . Only the adamant optimist, encased in the steel of sublime and imperishable confidence, can resist the depressing murmur of the ■grumblers. It is insidious and continuous. 'l'liere are many societies for the protection of this and the prevention of the other thing. Ought we not to have an association formed to suppress the grumblers, to fine them, or to cut them adrift, until we were utterly rid of their corroding presence?"

WHAT WOMEN CAN DO. LORD RANFURLY'S PLAN. London, March 9. In view of the fact that a number of men from New Zealand and Australia are with the forces in Mesopotamia, the new energies of the "Silver Thimble" Brigade should attract lively attention if not active—and monetary—support. The scheme is one in which Lord Ranfurly has taken keen interest from the beginning. Its history shows what women, bv eo-operative effort, the individual shares in which are trifling, can accomplish. . This scheme for the benefit of our soldiers is that known as the Silver Thimble Motor Ambulances, for which Lady Maud Wilbraham is responsible. There are few of us, whether classed as rich 'or poor, who have not about us old, broken, disused articles made of the precious metals—a brooch, a thimble, a cigarette case, a silver knife, a ring or other' oddment. As to many, at all | events, of these articles, probably most of us v,:.i be glad if we could make them of lie™ co the nation. We can do so, thanks to the patriotic ingenuity of Lady Maud and her friends. Articles can be sent to 2, Crescent road, Wimbledon, and sold, and the proceeds used for our armies. Tn six months the founders raised £IBfKI, and this has bought three Then Lady Maud's co-workers were asked to help to raise 1000 guineas for a motor disinfector. the War Office approving. Within a few weeks the money was obtained, and ihe helpers are now turning their energies tn a new direction. Lord Riinfuriy, when his'advice was asked, wrote: "You ask whether the gift of another disinfector would be acceptable. 1 have carefully looked into the question from every point of view, and feel that the money (or silver) so generously given could at present 'be better utilised in providing a motor hospital boat for our sick and wounded on the Euphrates. "We are in real want of these, and as all cases have to be moved by water it is practically the same thing as providing ambulances in France, and is much more, needed than ambulances at the present time. These motor-boats carry nine cases and cost about £BOO. I hope one or more may carry the title of 'The Silver Thimble."