WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1917, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

| NEW PLYMOUTH SOCIAL NEWS. .PERSONAL ITEMS. Mr. and .Mrs. Wagstaff, wlio have been holiday-making in Auckland, have returned to lnglewood. * » # » Miss Muriel Lennon, svlio lias been spending lier vacation with her parents in New Plymouth, has returned to Wellington. • * • * Miss Willis. who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. F. G. Harvie, has returned to Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. A. 11. Glasgow (Wanganui) are at present the guests of their daughter, Mrs. J. C. Nicholson.

* v# » Archdeacon and Mrs. Evan9, who have heen on a visit to Cambridge, were the guests of Bishop and Mrs. Avcrill, Auckland,, for a short timte before their return to New Plymouth. a«• " # Mr. and Mrs. Tomlinson, who have been visiting Mrs. Whitton, the letter's mother, have gone to live at Waitara for the present. Mrs. D'Arcy Robertson, who has been on a short visit to Wellington, has returned. Mrs. T. C. Fookcs, who has been visiting New Plymouth, has returned to Stratford. * » # • Mr. and Mrs. Alf Grant, who are on a visit to New Plymouth, are the guests of Mrs. Grant, sen. Miss Brookes (Cambridge) is the guest of Mrs. F. G. Evans. Last Friday. Mrs. Sam Teed entertained a number of young people at a musical evening, in honor of her son, Mr. I.co Teed, who was up on final leave. The prizes for the different competitions were won by Miss K. Campbell and Miss Joan Esse. » # • * Mrs. Parr, who has been the guest of Mr. A. C. Collins, has returned to Nelson. » * * • i Mrs. E. Cornwall, 'who has been on a ! short visit to Hawera, has returned. Mrs. "Doflgslmn, who has been on a visit to Fcatherston, has returned. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Elliott, who have been visiting New Plymouth during the week, left this morning for Levin, en route for their home in Wellington. * • • • Miss McLood, M.A., of the staff of the Hawera High School, has been appointed as assistant mistress at the New Plymouth Boys' High .School in succession to Mr. T. A. Baunatyne.' Miss Gibson, who has been active in connection with Red Cross and other patriotic work, particularly as to Saturday collections, for the past two years, leaves next week to take up a position as probationer at the Napier hospital. * ♦ • *

Mrs Drummond, who has been on a short visit *to 'New Plymouth, has returned to Wanganui. • . • • Mrs. Sam. Brewer. Whangamomona. and Mrs. Nolan, Te Wera, are at present in New Plymouth. The Misses Hart, who have been on a short visit to New Plymouth, left for Wanganui this week. Mrs. CampbeJl has returned to Palmerston North. . • » • Mrs. and Miss Greig, who have been visiting New Plymouth, have Teturned to Pukearuhe. Mrs. Aitkinson has returned to her home in Wanganui. Miss Thompson, Melbourne, and Mrs. McLaren, Hawera, are visiting New Plymouth. Mrs and Miss Avery (Awakino) were staying in town during the week. Miss Avery left for Wanganui on Thursday. GOLDEN WEDDING.

Mr. and Mr.-. J. Nodder, of Hobson Street. Auckland, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage on Monday, and the ceremonies of the goiden wedding were attended by the descendants of the aged couple. Mr. Nodder was born in Sheffield, England, in IB.'«i, and was educated at the Lancastrian school. He came to Auckland in 185K by the ship Cadueeus, and after a short stay there, went to the Thames. Ifr. Nodder subsequently went to Wellington and then to, Nelson, in which district lie and his brother drove the first sheep from the Awatere Valley to the- head of the Grey River. In 1864 Mr. Nodder started out to return to Auckland, but on the way landed at Ni'w Plymouth and was requisitioned under martial law and sworn in as a vo.unteer. He was engaged with tne Tan.'uaki Bush Rangers, in which he became a sergeant, and served until 18011. At the ft me of the White Cliffs massacre Mr. Xodo'er gained the New Zealand war med;>! for active service. He settled at the Thames in ISOII, and was employed as a teacher .'or two years. Mr. Nodder, who is now rc'ired and living with his wife and daughter in Auckland, has taken a prominent part in all temperance movements, and has been active in the formation of Orders of Rechabites and Good Templars. He has passed all the chairs in the Star of Hauraki Tent, T.0.R., and was its secretary for ten years. He was a past District Chief Ruler of the N.Z. District No. 1, and Deputy of the Grand twenty years. Mr. Nodder was for twentv-six years superintendent of the Juvenile Tent of Rechabites. He was married in Isfi" to a daughter of the late Mr. S. Howell, of New Plymouth. Mr. Nodder is now 82 years of age, and his wife is in her seventy-third year. Their descendants are Mrs E. Street, flrs. T. Xew. late of Hawera, Mrs. J. Johns and Miss Nodder (daughters), and Messrs. Jos., John (New Plymouth), j Harrison and Leonard Nodder (Hawera) i (sons), and 1-1 grandchildren. | WOMEN'S PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE. The New Plymouth Women's Patriotic Committee acknowledge with thanks I the following gifts:— For soldiers.—Friend, six cartons cube | sugar: Mrs. E. A. Walker, 28 cool underwear for men in Egypt : Mrs. Austin, handknittcd socks; Mrs. T. Woodward, Okftto, five pairs handknitted socks, old iiMfli'Ma Si H ; Jul >'' GpoUwood, ted

socks: Mrs. Bielby, .knitted socks; Mrs. Cornish, Opunakc, Mrs. Deacon riflecleaning material; Mrs. E. 15. Kvngdon, Mrs. Deighton, Friend, Mrs. McGil), Miss Evans, face washers; Hiss Robson, gift of flower basket; Miss Uaisv Marsh, six pinenshions; Arthur, 1-2 dishwashers'and rifle-cleaning material: Mrs. Owen, jam. Gift parcels.—uMiss 'Browne. Te \Vuikato Sanitorium, Canibridw, "is; Anonymous, £1; Mrs. Alexander, £1 ; Mrs. Duff, ss. Mrs. Layard, Pungareliti, Mrs. Teed, senr., Mrs. Yeale. seiir.. Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. .Sumner. Mrs. 'Sloeker, -is lid each; Mrs. Sandford, Y.M.C.A., All Is. West End School, V.M.C.A., 12s- Miss Cleda l'ratt, Y.M.C.A., 12s (id; Hiss Pkippon, soldiers' comforts. 10s; afternoon tea, Is lid; holdall donation, ss; holdall donation, as: donation Mrs Dabb, lis. For Belgians.—Mrs. Samson, woollies; Miss Armstrong, garments; Miss Reed, parcel clothing; Miss Deacon, woollies. Mrs. A. E. Walker's violet fund, £1 ss! Victoria League.—Mrs. Heard, gift of handwork; Mrs. A. Sole, Awakino, parcel books and games for soldiers; Awakino Ladies' Guild, 48 biittcrmuslin shirts, 82 doz. swabs; Mrs. C. T. Hall, knitted socks; Mrs. Stuart Larsen, Uruti. 10s: Central School, junior associates' gift parcels, £1; Mis Greenwood, gift parcel, '2s Cd; tea donation, os Cd,

TAXING LUXURIES. PRETTY STOCKINGS, ETC. Advocating the taxation of luxuries and amusements in the House the other night Mr. G. V. Pearce, M.P. for Patca, evoked loud laughter by his statement that he "had been at the Opera House the other night, and it was full up to the hilt." "Yes," said .Mr Pearce "and if there had been a tax on tickets, I would willingly have paid my tax." The hon. member stated that there was also a great deal of extravagance on motor-cars. A member: "You have two, haven't you?" (Laughter.) Mr. Pearce: '-I am only running one at the present time." (Laughter.) Continuing, he admitted that he liked to see ladies with pretty stockings on and all that sort of thing. (Loud laughter.) But such things were extravagance and ought to be laved. (Laughter.) Ttaeing, picture shows, tobacco, and many other things should also be heavily taxed. Mr. Vigor Brown (Napier): "Tobacco is already taxed 350 per cent."

Glasgow tramway! conductresses wear a short green and blue tartan skirt, a green coat piped with red, and a soft green motor-cap. Dundee has selected a uniform of navy serge furnished with shoulderstraps, edged with brush braid, and adorned with wine-red pipings. Miss Jeanette Rankin, to whom has fallen the lot of being the first woman member of Congress, is essentially a womanly woman. Fond of children, she was the official home-finder for homeless children in Seattle, and social legislation is her chief concern. Miss Rankin is 35, makes her own hats and gowns, and is an adept at cookery. Her voice is low, far-reaching, and of sympathetic timbre, and she owns to being a veteran at the game of politics, having spoken in public on suffrage and prohibition for the last eight years. She has addressed miners in the camps at California, spoken at meetings in New Zealand, and is not at all "nervy" about the work in Congress. "Are Women People" is the quaint heading to the views of a woman writing in the New Y'ork Tribune. In speaking of the recent remarkable conversions to women's suffrage, she remarks that "in spite of the talk of pedestals and the intolerable burden of the ballot, suffrage has been withheld till men's opinion of woman has risen—then they become converted. No one in Parliament said that (hey were sorry for women, but that it was time for them to get down from their pedestals and do a little work. "The other point is that while women do really value the work of women in the home, men ai"e much more impressed by their work outside of the home. Generations of women can perforin their traditional duties without making one convert, but as soon as women appear in munition factories and field hospitals men become persuaded of their worth, and give them the ballot." The women on the land idea is going to develop remarkably well (says a writer in the Lady Pictorial) for us. The other day I was visiting two sisters who are keeping a farm going in Sussex for their brother, who has joined the Army. I knew them in town as real butterflies, never satisfied unless they had three and four engagements a week for dances, and either a big amateur theatrical enterprise or a big charity entertainment on hand. They were just the average nice girl that one knew so well in the pre-war days, striving hard thoroughly to enjoy themselves. I saw them on" the farm looking splendidly well and full of energy. They had been up since 5.30 a.m., had milked/ four cows, fed pigs and chickens, and done a turn at digging with two farm women whom they have engaged as helps. W T e all had luncheon; such lovely butter and home-made bread (their mother does the dairy and bakes) and jam and other country dainties, but no meat. It was one of their meatless days; they have two a week. There was not a man on the place, and the directress was a Canadian woman who had farmed here and in her own Dominion, and could teach the others . Do you know, I never saw a happier, healthier household, and the girls said they never again wanted to go in for a round of London gaieties, although a dance now and again, and a play occasionally, would be a real treat. That is just the core of the whole matter; the pleasure hunt had become strenuous and monotonous, and was more trying than the really interesting and useful life they are now living so happily.