WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1917, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

' SOCIAL NEWS.PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. Cachmaille, who has been the guest of Mrs. J. W. Wilson, has rV.uru>u to Wellington, •'# * « Mr. and Mrs. J. Glenn, after spending their Easter holidays in Wellington, have returned. • # • » Mrs. B. Chaney, with her sister, Miss L. M'Allum, have returned from their visit to Wanganui. # # • « Mrs. A. Williams (Palmerston North) is visiting her mother, Mrs. E. Cock, * * • « Mr° Grant, who has been on a visit to Auckland, has returned. » * « « Miss K. Penn has returned after her mjoyable visit to Napier. Miss Godfrey has gone on a short visit to Christehurch and Dunedin. * # • * Mrs. Beekbessinger (Waitara), is holi-day-making in Auckland. • < • • Miss Peart has returned from her visit to Wanganui. » » » • "■ Mrs. J. Q, List left for Wellington on Wednesday where, she will remain until her husband leaves finally for the froat. Mrs. J. Paul, Misses Maekay and Brewster have returned after spending their Easter holidays in Wellington. Misses White and Bach, of Hawera, ure staying at New Plymouth. * * * * Mrr. Hammond, Inglewood, was the guest of Mrs. A. C. Fookes during her short stay in New Plymouth. * » ♦ • Miss Shepperd (Auckland), who has been visiting Mrs. D'Arcy Robertson, has returned to Inglewood. Mrs. Sims has returned to Palmerston tsorth. • v * • Mn> O'Holloran, after her short stay here, has returned to Auckland. Mrs. Cowlan, Miss Julius, and Mr. anil Miiis Turner, who have been holidaymaking in New Plymouth, have returned to Eketahuna. » » • • Mis 9 Bander Death, Kaimata", is the s lest of Miss 0. Palmer. » » • * Mrs. and Miss B. Matthews, who have >«n on a short visit to Wellington, have eturned, » » • # Miss Devehish, who has been the guest of Mrs. Watson (Bulls) has returned. Miss Nutting, Inglewood, is at present in New Plymouth. * « • • Mr, and Mrs. W. H. Skinner, who arc llir guests of Mrs. Dovenish (the latwirs mother) return to Christehurch next Tuesday. • ♦ • « Mrs. Rigg, after spending the Easter holidays in New Plymouth, has,, returned, » » » • Mrs. J. Crawford (Palmerston North), lias returned after her visit to Now Ply- j mouth, -*here she was the guest of Mrs. J. W. Wilson. * » • • Mrs. Auld (Inglewood), is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Km Bain. Amongst those staying at the Mountain House during the Easter holidays i were: Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Grove (Auckland); Mr. and Mrs. Bell and Mi*. G. Bell (Ashburton); Miss Bradley (Dunedin); Mrs Hine and Miss Lye (Tikorangi); Mr;. Black (Auckland); Messrs Bailey (2) and Miss Grant (New Plymouth); Mr. and Mrs. Anderson (Auckland); Miss Porter (Korito); Mr. and Mrs. Rundle and Mr. and Miss Morris Coher (Palmerston North), and Mesdames Ewing. Davie, Kebbell and Moyes. Inadvertently the name of Mrs. W. Blake was left out of the list of guests at Mrs. Bundle's' birthday gather ng last Monday. This lady is Bfi years of ago and celebrated her 62nd anniversary of her wedding day on April 9.

PATRIOTIC WORK. The New Plymouth Women's Patriotic Committee acknowledge with thanks the following gifts:— Miss Hunt. 6 cup covers; Mrs. J. J. Callaghan, 6 face washers, 3 pillowcases; Miss -E., knitting socks and face-wash-ers; Mrs. McAllum, Uruti, knitting jocks. "~

Gift parcels 2/6, Miss Eustace, Miss A'. H... Vogeltown, "Wild West" Show; Leppcrton" Ladies' Guild, per Mrs. Lepper, 5/-; Okato Sewing Guild, per Miss Sterry, £2. Pungaraehu 'Subscribers— Mrs. Andrews 7/6, Mrs. H. Goodin 1/-, Mrs LayRid 2/6; proceeds of dance 'Pungarehu 18/-; balance of farewell dance Frankiey Road, per Mr. Lister, £1 13s 6d for S7M.C.A.

Mrs Jenkins, result of guessing competition,, '£3 ss; Mrs. JoTin Avery £1 Is For the Belgians.. Pukcaruhe School. —Marjory and Keitha Frceth and Barhara Cartwright, 0 garments; Mrs. J. Callaghan, three garments; Misb Deacon, woollies.

Victoria League—Miss C. Stanford, 2 silk handkerchiefs and knitted sock* s-ol-l°etid by Mrs. Blundell, 8 handkerchiefs; Mrs. Grayling, 5/-; A Friend, £1; Beb pan penny hags from kotare, per Mrs; Bower. 6/-; Upper Uruti School, teacher Miss ,T. D. Wallach. for Belgians, 11/-} Okau Branch, per Mrs. Bower, £45; tea donation <>/■■ Mrs. Bnrjess wishes to thank the West End Infant School for a donation of ill Is 3d from sale of bottles. The Central School bottle fir.d now stands at £3 2s, and there are still bottles for sale. The Women's Patriotic Committee has forwarded the following gifts since January:—l33o gift parcels to Franco and Egypt, 1 case shirts and knitted woollen goods to New Zealand Ilivision, France, through y.M.C.A.; 1 case for Egypt containing cotton shirt? and wool underwear, cashmere hose, towels, biscurb), insect powder, ehbcolate, soa,p. bovril. Horlick'3 malted milk tablets, btationerv and spirit lamps, 14 cases butter, 4'casea of books for troopships, 1 east; to No. 1 Stationary Hospital, France, from Victoria League, 1 ease

Belgian maternity homes and creches" 2 sacks rifle cleaning material to Trentham camp, 2 cases gifts for the voyage to Chaplain Seamen, Trentham The money donated to Mr. Wheeler's appeal and collected at the Agricultural Show has been sent to headquarters by M.C.A., London—£so to Codford convalescents and £SO to French Comfort Fund.

The patriotic share of the mart takings for two months, also of the money from sale of Waiwera badges, in all £l5O, has been voted £SO for the M.C.A. Home Hour Teas at the front, £SO to New Plymouth ambulance upkeep, and £SO to the Victoria League Overseas Club for our men in London.

The Mayortw wishes to say that the depot is open to workers every day, and much more work is needed. If ladies would only give one afternoon each week a great deal more of this urgent work might be accomplished. ; ? NOTES.

Wealthy women are giving their services free in many directions in these days of national stress, when every fit man is wanted for the Army, says the London correspondent of the Age, Several titled women have organised parties for agricultural work; these parties place themselves at the disposal of farmers who are short of labor. The spectacle of a party of ladies of social position hoeing weeds in a turnip field, for nothing a week i 9 liable to make ",i farmer think that the IBs a week he formerly paid his men is a ridiculously high -wage. The combination of free labor, and high prices for stock and all farm produce, makes the farmer very pleased that there is a war on. In London wealthy women serve the State by placing their motor-cars at the disposal of Government departments. A good story is told of a lady who placed her ear at the disposal of a high official), and also lier services as driver. She drove this high official to an important conference and was to wait for him until the conference was over. At the end of an hour the conference was still sitting, and no information could be obtained by the lady from the attendants as to when it was likely to rise. A little later a note was handed in to the high official by one of the attendants. It was written by the lady, and it contained the information that a3 she had accepted an invitation to dinner that evening, she must drive home to dress. In order that her departure with her car might not inconvenience him, she enclosed 2*s to pay his taxi fare home. The. afternoon tea habit has spread extensively in London offices, as a result of the invasion of female clerks who have taken the place of men called to the colors. For years past female typists have been accustomed to make afternoon tea for themselves in the offices in which they are employed, but now the habit of taking a. cup of tea in the afternoon has spread to all grades of employees and extends even to the "chiefs." Old-fash-ioned business houses in which the sight of a cup of tea would havaibeen regarded a few months ago as an outrage on the decorum of the office, have had gas rings put in for boiling the kettle, and pantries built for housing the crockery,, cakes and biscuits that make their appearance at afternoon tea. The Manchester Guardian tells an interesting story, on the authority of one who was present at the incident, which illustrates the democratic influence of afternoon tea in high official quarters. An important conference between 'Ministers and heads of departments was being held. "At a pause in the deliberations on an all-iniportirnt subject tho door of the council room opened and a little typist came in quickly and asked the presiding Minister quietly, but not so quietly that the words were missed by a single official round the table. 'Oh, Mr, X Y , what did you do with the little blown teapot?"

Tlie war lias reversed the positions of the drivers of London taxi-cabs and the public. In peace times a man could please himself whether he would take a cab; but now the taxi driver pleases himself whether he will take a fare. The taxis plying for hire in London streets have been reduced from 10,000 to fewer than 7000 owing to many drivers having been called up for military service. Owing to the shortage of petrol, the maximum daily amount allowed for each taxi-cab is three gallons. As a result the drivers will not take fares to the suburbs, because these journeys consume too much petrol and there is little prospect of picking up another fare on the return trip. They prefer to keep to the busy thoroughfares of the city and the West End. When a driver is hailed in the streets (London taxj-eaos are not restricted to cab ranks, but are allowed to drive along the streets in search of fares), he usually tires to ascertain before the door of his cab is opened where the fare wants to go. If the journey does not suit him he drives oil'. During the past few weeks, states the London correspondent of the Melbourne Age, many cab drivers have been fined in the police courts for refusing to take fares to their destinations. In some cases the drivers assaulted the passengers, in order to get them out of their vehicles. In one instance a young lady, after spending an evening at a party, was placed in a taxi-cab late at night by her host, who told the driver to take Iter home to an address in Hampstead. Instead, he took the lady to the nearest tube station, and told.her to get home as best she could for he had no intention of going to Hampstead. ~.,_