WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1921, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONALS. Mrs. Home is visiting her sister. Mrs. Tod, of Otane. Mrs. Robertshaw was hostess at a. childrens’ party yesterday afternoon Mrs. H. Abraham (Khandallah) is the guest of her mother. Mrs. J. McKellar. Mrs. F. S. Johns has returned from Wanganui. Mrs. (Dr.) Campbell has returned from Wanganui. Miss Frame has returned from Auckland. and is the guest of Mrs. Frank Mackay. Mrs. J. Williams (Feilding) is spending a holiday here. Mrs. M. Fraser has returned from Auekla nd. Miss May Atkinson has returned from Wellington. » • • • Miss Mace leaves on Monday for Wellington. Miss Alison Greig has returned from a visit to Hamilton and Palmerston North. Mrs. Hugh Mills (Wellington) is a visitor here. Mrs. E. J. Carthew has returned from a holiday in Hamilton and Auckland. Mrs. Bothomley, who has been the guest of Mrs. Moyes, returns to Wellington to-day. Miss C. Heppell, who has been spending some months in the South Island, returned this week. a • • • < The High School “Old Girls” are giving a party to-night in the Victoria League rooms'for Miss Drew, who is severing her connection with the school. All old girls lire cordially invited. The matriculation candidates at the Boys’ High School gave a delightful dance last night in the Assembly Hall. Mrs. Oswald Hemingway, of F.ltham, won first prize in soprano test (Vilanelle in E flat, by Del Acqua) in the recent Wanganui competition. PRINCESS MARY. SUGGESTED WEDDING PRESENT. NEW ZEALAND CONTRIBUTIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington. Last Night. Viscountess Jellicoe has received the following telegram from. Lady AmpI thill, J.8.E.: “Will you invite the Red s ‘ I Cross and St. John voluntary aid deg ■ taehment members of New to I unite with the other voluntary aid detachment members of the Empire in making a wedding present to Princess Mary. Each subscription is limited to one shilling. Please cable the total sum collected before January 10 and forward the names in due course. (Sgnd.) Margaret Ampthill.” Copies of the telegram are being sent to the New Zealand, centres of the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance AssoHaI tion with the request that the matter I be brought before members of those ori ’ ganisations throughout the Dominion in " case they may wish to contribute. Ar- “ rangements for the receipt of subscrip- ~ . tions, which in the case of each contri--5 butor are limited to one shilling, will I be made by the centres or sub-centres ■ of the organisations above mentioned.

The Viscountess .Jellicoe has written to the secretary of St. John Ambulance Association, Mr. A. B. Gibson, enclosing a copy of a cablegram received from Lady Ampthill, asking her to invite Red Cross and St. John Voluntary Aid De taehment members of New Zealand to unite with other V.A.D. members of the Empire in a wedding present to Princess Mary each subscription to be limited to one shilling.

Lady Je -oe’s letter to Mr. Gibson reads‘as follows:—“I have received a telegram from Lady Ampthill, of which I enclose a copy, referring to a wedding present, which it is proposed to give to her Royal Highness Princess Mary on the occasion of her marriage, from the Voluntary Aid Detachments of the Empire. I have been in communication with Sir Heaton Rhodes and the Honorable Dr. Collins on the subject, and at their suggestion I write to you, and to other secretaries of the Red Cross Society ‘and the St. John Ambulance Association at the large centres asking if you will be so good as to inform the members of the organisation of the propo- L in case 11 v tvould like to contribute towards the wedding gift. A oil will note that subscriptions are limited to one shilling. In addition to informing the members of your branch of the organisation. I should be very grateful if'vou would also be so good as to communicate the proposal to the sub-centres in your district in order that any members who wish to' join may do so. I should be obliged if you would kindly inform me of the total amount of the subscriptions received by January 8, so ihal I mav inform Lady Ampthill; and if you would follow this up by sending me a list of the names of the subscribers. j would send the list to Lady Amptliill by mail in accordance with her reLocal members who wish to join in the present may pay their shillings at Mr. Gibson’s office or to Mrs. E. Doekrill or Mrs. Walker. Y.W.C.A. THE NEW PLYMOUTH BRANCH. A meeting of the A .W.C.A. Board was held at The Clarke Memorial Hostel on Thursday, December 8. Present: Mesdames E*. A. Walker (chair), Alexander, A. Ambury, List, Mills, MacDairmid, Weston, Misses Harrison. Hodder, and Roughton. Apologies were received from Mesdames Blundell and W- - Miss Roughton reported that there were at present 21 permanent girls in the hostel. Several business girls had used the rest rooms and dining rooms. Some of the larger rooms had been curtained off into cubicles. Three basins and a bath had been installed in one of the smaller bedrooms, the bath being a gift from Messrs. Smart Bros. These additional conveniences had added greatly to the comfort of the house. ‘ Several of the rooms will be vacated 1 by girls away for the Christmas hoiii (lavs. . Many applications have been received, including five from teachers, for the holiday season.

1 A vote of thanks accorded to Messrs. Smart Bros, for their generous gift of a bath. A cheque for £lO6 was received from Mrs. Clhude Weston, the proceeds from the performance of “Billeted.” A vote of thanks t o Mrs. Weston and her company was passed. It was decided to fix the tariff for casuals at 6s a day (minimum). There will be no board meeting in January. The executive only will meet to pass accounts. “MERRY” ENGLAND. Giving her impressions on a visit to England, an American woman wrote recently: “On every hand in London the finest residences bear the notice, ‘For sale.’ Throughout the country, at the gates of magnificent parks or on the lawns before Tudor mansions or feudal castle a description of the perty and conditions of sale are posted. And who is to buy? The rich Americans? Or the war profiteer, native or foreign? Warwick and many other ducal estates are let to Americans, who not only pay a heavy rental, but keep up the repairs. T was told that a fallen wail cost the lessee of Warwick several thousand dollars. In Oxford I was with a delightful family, hard hit in affections and in fortune by the war. They own a rambling Elizabethan home, with black oak panelling and carved furniture within; without, flower and fruit gardens. They are struggling to keep this home where they see no way of doing with less service than can be given by a man servant —who faithfully returned to them after the war—two housemaids and a cook. But the wages of the four hardly equal those paid one in the States . . English poets have sung ‘Merry England.’ and our compatriots, leaving behind the brown July hills of New England or the eternally yellowplains of the West, have been filled with wonder at English greensward. Consequently when T. arrived to find England neither merry nor green, i felt like expressing commiseration with every Briton j met. The Briton, as the war showed everyone ofi observing mind, is not given to complaint. But drought and loss of crops, after war losses,, is overwhelming, and condolence on the subject is net rejected.'

PRIZE WOMAN. GRAZIER’S IDEAL Provision for the granting of prizes to women of unusual attainments ie made in the will of the late Peter Stuckey Mitchell, grazier, late of Bringenbrong, Upper Murray, New- South Wales, who died on January 4, leaving personal property in Victoria of £27,000, and estate in New South Wales valued at £219,132. In tue first schedule to hie will. Mitchell states: —“The persons to whom this schedule refers shall be unmarried females, not exceeding 30 years. British subjects, residents of the Commonwealth, of a white race, and not offspring of first cousins. The purposes of this schedule shall be the providing each year of prized' for 15 of the fittest of such persons. In deciding the fitness of any candidate these considerations shall be taken into account:— (1) Her physical excellence and the goodness of her general health; her freedom from any hereditary taint; her brightness and cheerfulness of disposition, and the fact that she is a person w’ho may oe calculated generally to bear healthy children. (2) Her knowledge and understanding of the main elements of the history of the British Empire. (3) Her general knowledge of the climate and geography of the Commonwealth. (4) Her knowledge and understanding of standard English literature. (5) Her knowledge of elementary anatomy and physiology, and the main functions of the human body, her knowledge of first aid, and her ability to ride on horseback and swim. (6) The soundness of her knowledge of practical housekeeping and domestic economy The main test co which the candidate roust be subjected is as follows: Her practical and theoretic knowledge of the nursing, handling, management, training, care and rearing to perfect health and strength of babies and young children.

Writes our Mokau correspondent: Just read the following recipe for a cake, sent by one of our backblocks young ladies; and then say if we have no eligibles fitted to be the wife of any progressive bachelor: First of all it must be Saturday morning; plenty to do. Wefl, you buzz round, start mixing up a bit of butter and sugar, leave that and run and see to something else that wants doing; come back, slap m rising powder and flour, put an inch or so of fat on some paper for the meat dish, flop in the cake; fire must sure be out; then get chips and heat up till everything is red hot; run away to something else that needs doing; forget all about cake; go back an hour afterwards; lucky if it’s not burnt black; flop it on the table, cut with a knife and serve while hot, and, by golly, it will stick to one like glue. This is a bona fide recipe. Is is announced from Washington that a marriage may shortly lake place between General Pershing, Unitel States Commander-in-Chief during the war, and Mrs. Vanderbilt, widow of Mr. George W. Vanderbilt. Mrs. Vanderbilt is well known in London. She inherited a huge fortune from her husband, including the New York and Washington family residences, while her daughter Cornelia received £10.000.(M)0 and one of the most beautiful country houses hi the States. Tieneral Pershing, who is a widower with son. is looked upon in the States as a national hero. The romance is said to have sprung up shortly after the armistice.