WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 114, 11 November 1919, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Lady Ward has returned to Christ clmrcb. ■*■

Lady Findlay has left for a visit to the South.

Mrs. Hosking left last week for Waitaki and Dunedin.

A good movement, which should tend to lessen the price of vegetables—which are so necessary and health-assisting'— has been made in England, and' is reported as follows : —The Essex Federation of Women's Institutes has organised market stalls in the county town and other towns. Members of the institutes in the various neighbourhoods send produce to the stalls, and it is stated that this new outlet for surplus vegetables, etc., lias led to a marked increase in garden and. allotment* production. The Essex Federation has also organised a scheme for basket-making, and an order for a- thousand basketß has just been received from a. market grower.

Among those who have gone to Christchurch for the races are : Mr., and Mrs. Ha-rcourt, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lowry, Mrs. M. Gillon, and Miss Litchfield.

Mrs. Walter Rawsou, of Wellington, has gone to New Plymouth for a visit.

Miss Carwell Cooke is giving, with her pupils, a. dance recital at the Opera House on Saturday next at 2.30 p.m. The proceeds of this entertainment will be given in aid of the Nurses' Club, Ken.-sington-street, an institution which is of the greatest value 'and benefit to the nursing profession, and one which has had little general public support. It is hoped that all who value the good work performed by nurses will aid this effort, by attendance, or by contributing sweets, cakes, or flowers to the stalls which will be held by the nurses on the occasion. Contributions will be very welcome, and may bo sent to the Opera House on Saturday morning. Miss Carwell Cboke has prepared a particulai'ly dainty and attractive programme of dances, and the.performance will be well worth seeing. The box plan opens at the Bristol to-morrow

Misses Girdler and Watkins, of the British Imperial Emigration Mission, have paid a visit to Wang-anui. and have gone on to New Plymouth.

The soldiers, with their wives and families, who arrived by the Paparoa, had the usual pleasant entertainment at the Returned Soldiers' Club From the time the ship arrived, till the trains and steamers left, ■ the club hospitality was made the best' use of, and the ladies in attendance had n very busy time.

Mrs. J R.. Gibbous, ■accompanied by Miss Ngaire Gibbons and Master Kingston Gibbous, is leaving by the River--ilia on Friday for Tasmania, where the summer months will be spent.-

Mrs. Seudamore Stanhope has gone to Christchurch for Cup week, and will be the guest of her sistev, Mre. Stvonacli Paterson.

The engagement is announced of Miss Mndge Wimsett, only daughter of ilr and Mrs. H. H Wimsett, of Austinstreet, to Mr. Roland Charles Hall, second son of Mr and Mrs. F C. Hall, of Pirie-street, Wellington.

: A New Zealand wedding of interest took place on Bth July at Holy Trinity Churcn, Hermon Hill (states the London Daily Telegraph), of Captain E. Ainslio Pomtt, M.C., eldest soil of Colonel Porritt, Auckland, New Zealand, to Miss Doris Liliftn Baldry, step-daughter of Mr David Drummond, of "Holly Bush," Jlaybank-road, Woodford. The bride wore powder blue charmeuse satin with sequin and pearl trimming, georgette sleeves and train to match,,with a wreath o£ orange blossoms fastened with a veil that was a family heirloom. Her ornament was a gold badge brooch 0! the Auckland Regiment designed by the bridegroom's mother, and she carried a sheaf of 'ilies and carnations-. The bridesmaids were the Misses Marjorie Baldry, Edith Gooley, Queenie Smith, Eileen Giddens. who wore pale blue merv satin gowns, cream net mob caps with black velvet narrow ribbon streamers. They carried bouquets of pink sweet peas and maidenhair fern. Master Walter Redford, Miss Mary Bedford,- and Miss Mary Drummond were train-bearers. The bridesmaids' ornaments were amber and pearl necklaces, the gifts of the bride; groom, and the train-bearers' enamel and silver brooches. Sergeant M'lTawortli, Jf.Z.E.F , waf best man,.and the Key John i-lolyoak performed the service, which was choral. A : reception was subsequently held at "Holly Bush," and later the bride and bridegroom left for Deal.

The subjects to be given by Miss TJna Carter at her gas cookery demonstration at the company's rooms to-morrow afternoon will include tile following :cDripping pastry, steak and kidney pie, eggless rock cakes, black currant tart, fish casserole, doughnuts.

A social evening to welcome the new vicar, tie Rev G. C. Blaythwyat, and Mrs. Blaythwyat to the parish, will be held at St. Hilda's, Island Bay, to-mor-row, when all parishioners are invited to attend.

The following account of the course taken with the.children who come under the care of the Babies of the Empire Society is given in the Daily Telegraph. Fresh air and light enter the training centre, 29-31, Trebovoh-road, S.W., where some eighteen babies of the Babies of the Empire Society are tended and nursed Four nurseries are simply furnished to provide .perfect cleanliness. The floors are covered with highly polished linoleum, the walls are white, the windows are long, and every nursery has a. wide balcony, shaded on a hoi. day, open to the air when the rays of the eun arc not too strong. It is now a year since this home was opened, and during that period out of ninety-five babies only one has died, and that was a twin weighing 3ilb. Infants brought to the centre are suffering from malnutrition, but they are restored to health and strength by the methods of Dr. Truby King, the medical director. The training centre is unique in this country, being the only educational residence for babies and mothers. Dr. Truby King's theory is that over 90 per cent, of mothers can feed their infants naturally. The first nursery into which new babies are received is kept at a temperature equal to that to which they have been accustomed, and in it the tiny creatures are shown. A series of charts indicate the history of the progressive weight nf each child along with the value of the mother's milk in calories, and recording the food given. Ward No. 2 is adapted to start the hardening process where infants are fed every three hours. The windows are always open, and it is interesting to see the wa,y in which the infants are packed into 'blankets when asleep to prevent tho risk of chills. .Ward No. 3 is the "Karatane." named after Dr. Truby King's Hospital in Xew Zealand, and here the infants begin to stretch out and en.my the freedom of day nursery life, In Ward "So. 4 they arc hardened to sleep with open windows in all weather.

Mr. and Mrs. P J. Nathan returned by the Westralia this week,' and are staying with Mrs. Arndt,. Oriental Bay.

A remark was made recently by the Auckland Star that it in characteristic of divorce proceedings nowadays that very few children are involved in the reshuffle of husbands and wives effected so simply by a stroke of his Honour's pen. Four cases heard in Auckland the other day gave a total of thirty-two years' married life, and the only benefit to the State was one child.

A Spring Fair is to be opened by Mr. E. A. Wright. M.P , on Wednesday afternoon next at 2.30 in connection with the Parsonage Fund of the Island Bay Methodist Church. The sale will be held in the Schoolroom, and various attractions have been provided. The Central Mission Band will be in.attendance during the evening. .

At the last meeting of the Women' 9 International League, the question of widows' pensions was discussed, and members present expressed great disappointment with the scanty increase proposed and adopted by the Government. It was resolved that a letter be sent to the Prime Minister, pointing out that with the present high cost of living it was impossible for a widow to secure the barest necessities for herself and children with the totally inadequate allowance of 7s 6d for herself and 7s 6d for each, child, as proposed by the Prime Minister ; and urging that all widows should be provided for at least as generously as the -epidemic widows.

A woman of Alameda, Cal., has obtained a divorce on her testimony that her husband had bought her only two dresses in seventeen years.