THE WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15918, 4 June 1917, Page 2

THE WOMEN'S CORNER.

Matter for insertion in this column, should b© addressed to tho Lady Editor and should be fully au then tiea ted.

Mrs H. D. Buchanan (Merivale) and Mrs A. F. Roberts (Teviot) are spending a few days at Sumner. Mrs Goss (Fendalton) and family have returned from a visit to Hanmer. Miss S. Palmer Chapman (Cr.urch stroet, Papanui) is visiting friends in Ashbuiton. Mr and Mrs Stuart Meares (Fendalton) and family have gone to Sumner, having taken a house there' for tho winter months. Mr and Mrs Boals (Fondalton), accompanied by Mrs Rice, left on Saturday for Wellington. Mrs and Miss Watson (Tho Terrace, Wellington) left recently for a visit to Samoa. Mr W. Inglo (Cashmere Hil's), who lias been on a six months' visit to England and America, has returned to Christchurch. Mrs J. D. Lance (St. Albans) and Captain and Miss Northcoto moved into "Cashmere" on Saturday, where thoy will reside during Mr and Mrs J. Cracroft Wilson's absence in England. Mrs J. Peter (Okawa, Anama), who has beon the guest of Mis H. H. Knight (Winchester street) for a few days, returned homo on Saturday. Mr and Mrs F. Eu'len (Chapter %treet) have taken a house on Cashmere Hills for tho winter. Mrs Hutchinson (Little River) is in town. Mr and Mrs Ciipps (Burwood) are spending the winter with Mrs F. H. Brittan (Avonside). Mrs Cecil Louuson, accompanicd by hor mother, Mrs Elirenfried, returned to Christcliurch on Saturday, after a lengthy holiday in America. Mrs Frank Mason, of Wellington, is the guest of Mr and Mrs T. R. Kirkor, Bishop street. Mr'and Mrs Claude Sawtell (Cashmere Hills), arc staying in Wellington at the lloyal Oak. The Rev. Mr Van Staveren and Mrs Van Staveren have gone to Australia for a visit of about a month. i

Dr. Florence Keller, of Auckland, is at present in Rochester (Minn.), U.S.A., where she is taking a postgraduate com so at the hospital of tho Mayo Brothers, famous as surgical specialists. Dr Keller hopes to return in the course of a few months.. Mr C. Louisson and Mrs Louisson, of Christchurch, aie visitijg Auckland. In a school not 100 miles from the Coast, the teacher "was giving a lesson on the franchise, and was telling the class that New Zealand was the first country in the world to grant the vote to women (says the "G icy mouth Star"). As the interest in the lesson was flagging, tho teacher, to - revive interest, asked why it was that the women should bo given the voto, saying, by way of stimulating the girls, in particular, that man as tho superior animal should have the sole right of .running the country's affairs. One small boy, however, took up the on. bohalf of the fair sex, and, puitiflig up his hand, stated that man was the superior animal "on'y until ho reached home"! It is the opinion of that teacher that that boy's knowledge of human nature will carry him far in this world. The Wanganui Women's National Reserve are undertaking potato-grow-ing. Tho Wanganui-Waitotara Board of Efficiency Trustees are looking after the financial side of the proposition. The net proceeds will belong to those who do the work. It is hoped to cultivate twenty or thirty acres of Wanganui East Park. It is now an unwritten law in tho West End of London to refrain from calling at tea-time. "Not at Homo" is the answer if visitors appeal 1 at that time. It is now suggested that the "No-treating" order should be made compulsory as regards food, as woll as drink. ,» Balaclavas, or, rather, soldiers' caps, are much wanted by the Lady Liverpool Fund Committee. These caps are now made so that they tmn back over the ears in tho day lime and do not interfero with.the hearing. Directions for making can be obtained at tho Depot, Colombo street. Socks and sanitary, shirts are also needed, and all food comforts. In last week's "Gazette" the Education Department notifi s tl) 3 registration of the school colours and badge for the Girls' High School, Invcrcargill. Tho colours aro: Band 2iin wide of navy, with rod edges Jin wide, and a white stripe iin wide running through the middle. Tho badge is a shield bearing a rn ta flower and cnci cled by a blue band, with the inscript : on "Non scliolae sod vitae discimus" thereon.

| l"ho success of Surpriso Bag Day was j not unexpected by those who knew the hard work and good organisation of I Mrs J. 11. Gibbons, the convener, Mrs Leicester, hon. secretary, Mrs Lynch, and the committee and workers generally (says Saturday's Wellington "Post"). A little over £1000 will be available for comforts for the sick and wounded, and all conccrncd are to be heartily congratulated on the splendid result of thrir efforts, for it is not at all an easy thing to raise £1000 in Wellington in one day. The varied contents of the bags, some with extraordinarily good value and others much smaller, caused great interest and excitement, and at various corners people got into the tramcars to open the various bags anil parcels, and many quaint and pretty things were. discovered. Following a long illness, Mrs Alfred Seamel*, an old and respected resident of Wellington, died at the family residence in Wallace street, last week. The deceased lady, who was bcrn at St. Kew, Cornwall. England, in 1840, arrived in New Zealand in the ship La; Hogue in 1874. With the exception of two short visits to England, she had lived in Wellington ever since her arrival in the Dominion. The late Mrs Seamer leaves one son, .Mr Alfred Seamer, who is serving at the front, and cno daughter, the wife of Mr J. W. Griffiths, of the "Evening Post staff; also thirteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The funeral of the late Mrs Checkley took place at Linwood Cemetery yesterday, when the Itev .P.J. Cocks, of | St John's, officiated. Amongst the members of the scholastic profession present were Messrs J. Sutherland, YV. C. Colc-e, G. Davidson, W. Kennedy, J. Bovce, J. Kennedy, It. Malcolm, H. Kennedy, and V. J. Gamble. Representatives from St. Albans included j Messrs E. H. Andrews, F. Cole. J. W. Beanland, A. D. Hassall, and J. McFarlane. Wreaths were sent by Mr j and Mrs R. Oakley, Sir and Mrs! Hans Kennedy, Mr and Mrs F. J. j Murray, Mr and Mrs F. Smith, Mr and Mrs A. A. Bickerton, Mr W. J. Hunter, Mrs R. Billens, Mrs and Miss New- , man, Mrs Collett. the Misses Kennedy, Bates, E. and A. Ritchie, M. Murphy, and the St. Albans State, School*

REAL IXXUESTIO ECONOMY. SAVING THE MATCHES. "Enough matches are wasted in it year to build a British battleship," said Lord Balfour of Burleigh, to a patriotic mass mooting lately held in ??* , no , Theatre, and consisting mostly of domestic workers, nearly all women. It -was a happy thought to bring tho need for saving homo to those who can do most to promoto it. Tho theatre was crowded. Malo domestic officials of various aTistocratio houses spoko. Mrs C. S. Peel, Director of Women's Service in tho Ministry of Food, was present, and Harry Lauder gave an amusing speech. Tho meeting ended with a resolution passed unanimously: "That all present would co-operate with their employers in strictly carrying out Food Regulations." If the domestic servants will do their part, it is felt in England that all will be well. Tho "Daily Express" has been investigating tlio question of how few matches per day a family can manage with. Two matches a dav seemed to win, but there is proof that this can oasilv be eclipsed. An Enfield family of thrco were said to use only one match a week. Wooden and paper tapers were efficient substitutes. A Bristol reader contrived to live on half a match a day by dividing a wax match in two. An Ash (Surrey) household made one box last for two months, while a Peterborough "widow of pre-war days" had not used * match for more than a year.