WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1920, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

PERSONALS. Miss Doris Roy lias returned from Wellington. * t « » Mrs. Ward (Diuiedin) is the gtiest of Mro. Barthorpe. « * • * Mrs. Harry Good and Mrs- TJ' returned to Wanganui., |/V--j£n. O'Carrcil and Mrs. SuH&y (wßjifc' ill'for golf this week^r" t * , Mrs- W. Kelly, of Awakino, is spendW two or three weeks here. # * * * Miss D. Simpson has returned from Auckland, c • • • * Mrs. E. C. Horner has returned to Tatea. • • • » Mrs. Noel Fookes (Stratford) is stayin* with Mrs. Bawy Fookes. « * • • Mrs- Price (Australia) and Mrs. Barr (Dunedin), are staying at Chats worth. t * t « Mr. and Mrs. Robt- Wilson, of Makuri, are the guests of Captain Wilson. * * # • Miss W. George returned to Auckland oh Tuesday. * * • • Miss A- Hnrsthouse has returned to Wellington. i » * • Miss A. Marshall is the guest of Mrs. Hamerton, Inglewood. » • • • Misses Edna and Elsie Greatbatch are spending a holiday in Wellington. 1 • . * • • Miss Hay Renaud is' on a visit to Waverley. ...» ! Miss Stanford has returned from a [trip to j Miss Thomson has returned from a trip to Wanganui and Hawke's Bay. Miss Stephenson leaves nest wees for Eisgland by the Niagara. ft' * * * Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Sewcll, who have been on a short visit here, have returned to Wellington. » Mrs. Cooper, who has: been the guest of Mrs. T. P- Anderson, has returned to Christchurch. • » • • Mrs. E. P- Webster, who has been visiting Feilding and Wellington, returned on Tuesday. • » » i Mrs. and Miss Armstrong left this week for Auckland, en route to Wliakatane. • ♦ » • Mr. Sand Mrs. W. Atkinson, who have been spending a few days here, have returned'to Wanganui. • « • Mrs. A. A. Maguire, of Winchmorc Hill, England, who has been the gnest of Mrs. .1. R. Cruickshank, left this week for Wellington. ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced of Miss Lois Bayly, eldest daughter of Mr. G'. T. Bayly and the late Mrs. Bayly, of "Prospect," Mt. St. John, Auckland, and Mr. F. G. Treweek, of Hawera, youngest Bon of Mr. Charles Treweek, of Wellington. The engagement is announced of Miss Mildred B. Thomson, youngest daughter of Mrs. J. B. Thomson, Tc Hcnui, to Mr. Burnham Homer, of Stratford, son of Mr. E- C. Horner, Patea. The engagement is announced of Miss Doris Callaghan, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Callaghan, Young Street, to Mr. F. J. Millman, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Millman, Pendarves Street. THE MART TO-DAY. Everything promises well for a good day at the Mart to-day. The stalls are well stocked by the generosity of the town and country folk, the flower stall being a special feature. It is to be hoped purchasers will spend freely, as a Girls' Hostel is greatly needed in New Plymouth. SOCIAL FUNCTIONS. Mrs. Beamish was entertained by Miss Courtney at an afternoon tea party this week. Morning tea, v on the occasion of the Prince's visit, will be dispensed by the Mayoress and her committee, assisted by the young girls of the town. A delightful afternoon tea was given by Mrs. C. H. Burgess at her office, to the ladies who were present at the recent general meeting of the Victorta League. PENALISED OK ACCOUNT OF SEX SHABBY TREATMENT OF FAMOUS SCIENTIST. How a woman's invention helped our troops to overcome German poison gas was told by the inventor herself at a demonstration before" the Association or Science Teachers in the Physics Theatre of University College on January 5. Mrs. Ayrton "was demonstrator. She took her audience step by step through the various stages of her discovery, and with a "service fan" showed how the gas actually was driven off- She showed how the fan was used in clearing a dug-out of gas, and remarked that many deaths took place because dug-outs were not cleared. She next narrated her difficulties in getting the War Office to act, it being over a year before the rfuthoritieg accepted her invention. "I offered it to them in May, 1915. My assistant was out in France in the following May showing how the men could be trained to use the fans. They were not made in anything like the quantities they ought to have been. The fans saved some lives, but thousands more could have been saved. I had great difficulty in getting the War Office to

believe that any training was necessary in the use of the fan. They never realised it was a scientific instrument, which would require knowledge before it could be used properly. They were constrained to supply the fans, because there was such a demand for them, but they did not have men properly trained to use them, up to the very end- That the fan was accepted at all seems to have been due to the sympathetic insight of Dr. Addison, at the Ministry of Munitions. Mrs. Ayrton's son-in-law telegraphed to Mr. Lloyd George thus: "Lady physicist has invented a fan to gas attacks; yon must see it," to which the Prime Minis--7 ter replied offering to make an appointd jnent with her. Mrs. Ayrton answered d that she had no wish to talk; her object II was to demonstrate the usefulness nf 5i Her invention. So she took it to London ijjtltk bn. hut it "wu just a*£«d at &v

a gentleman at the Ministry of Munitions." As she could not see the Prime Minister the carried her invention to Dr. Addison, who was much impressed by it. and after witnessing a Mi" l saitl '•I will get you into commuiti'*" 011 "' lil ' the right person." Tlic eutc '? n , e -*T a that it was''thoroughly fetwl I>V ,?,? School of Military 'l r . K-ported favorably i o j^HHp| m with a f '■'.! . be ordered. It wil Mrs. rilstinflf*™*'*'' 0 ' 11 '' 1 " 0 ea ™ er > ;uml 1S the. member of the Institute /if '"Electrical Engineers. In 'l'JO/i the t Jtoyal Society awarded her the Hughes i medal for her investigations on the eleo- ( .-trie arc and on the phencmeua of sand \ ripple?. Mr. Israel Zangwil) is her son. <\ in-law- ]