WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15983, 18 August 1917, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

Matter for insertion in this ' column should be addressed to the Lady Editor and should b® fully authenticated. Mrs A. Bain is giving up her house in Park terrace, and will reside in Rastrick street in future. Ladies helping with the outside sale of flowers in connexion with the Red Cross shop yesterday morning were Mesdames Cripps, Hurton, Gilliard. Bristed, and J. G. Wilson, and Misses Edwards, Bain, Munro, Thompson and Reid. There was a brisk demand for flowers, and a good sale resulted, most of the racegoers purchasm--liberally. " Mrs H. Acton Adarus is the guest of Mrs Stevenson, Fendalton. Mrs It. Bray (Fairlie), who has been visiting Wellington, has ret-urnad hoir.e, bringing- with her as her guest Mrs J. W. Bray. Mr and Mrs Radford (Wellington) are staying at Warwick House. Mrs Louis Whitcombe arrived from Wellington by yesterday's boat. Mrs Jamos Christie (Dunedin), wiio has been visiting Christchurch, has returned homo. Mr and Mrs Nelson returned North yesterday evening.

Sister Constance. cf Palmerston Xortli, lias accepted an invitation t>"> act as deaconess in Auckland for tiio Presbyterian Social Service Association. _ Sister Constance will den.te her time principally to work among young girls, and will work in conjunction with the superintendent, the Rev. F. R. Jeffreys. For the past sixty years, Mrs Elizabeth Neville, who died. on Tuesday at her son's residence, Bolton street, Wellington, had lived on the same spot ; n Wellington terrace. The late Mrs Neville, who was in her 72nd year, was born in County Armagh. Ireland, and came oub with her mother (her father being dead) to Wellington when only 11 years of age in the ship Derwerit Water. Until the commencement of her illness a week or so back, she had never had sickness nor been confined to her bed, and lived an energetic life. She was twice niarrial, her first, husband being the lale MiRobert Grant-. Her second husband was Mr Robert Cameron Neville, who predeceased her. Women workers of all grades, volu itary and financial, are ieeling most keenly the stoppage of trains ami trains (says a Sydney paper). In ail the depots which' have been able to keep open, the talk has been of 'this strike," and very little else. The women who are busy making comforts lo send our boys have a depressed sensation that the_ soldiers in the trenches will be made to suffer deprivation. and that many arrangements made on their behalf will be brought to non-fulfilment owing to the inability of workers to get together. Women have been seriously thinking of offering their services as carriage and window cleaners while the strike is on. Whether or not the olfor is practicable, it shows that those who make it have no sympathy -with the strikers. The great majority of women are openly ,and unaSiamedly indignant with the men who fire proving so disloyal to the State at this time of crisis, and the remainder take matters in a sririt of resignation that is none the bitter because it is ciuiet.

On Tuesday evening the past and present pupils of Mi.ss iiuehanan and their friends assembled in the A!,e\ audra Hall, "to chase the glowing hours with Hying feet." Tho dancc, which was the second held this season, was thoroughly enjoyed by all present. The music, which contributed greatly to the success of „the function, was supplied by Mr. Reg Woods (piano) and Mr Hut-ton (flute and piccolo). A delicious supper on small tables was ■supplied by the caterer, Mr A; Rattray. The guests of the evening who acted as . chaperons were Miss Buchanan, becomingly attired in black merv, and her sister, Mrs Marlev, in blue ninou trimmed with net. Amongst those present were: Mrs Marshal!, Misses Brunton, Grant, Hastings (2), Osborn, Hartle, Green, Pennall, Hodgson, Nankivel, Priestley, PricstnaM (2). lies, Turvey, Hester. Hickenbotr.om. Cruickshank. Cadenhead. Watkins. Scott (2), and Felt on, and Messrs Brown, Cotf.rel; Joyce, Watk>n«, Tucker, Cotteo. Sparrow, Moeller, James. Crane. Henderson, Arnold, Somerset, Gunn, Kidd, Alexander, Nicholson, and Hamer. Tho committee which < organised the dance was composed 'of Messrs Cadenhead, Thomas. Wicks, and Woodward. MRS BROWN POTTER. There aro many people who will still remember the name oi' Mrs Cora Brown Potter, who was once upon a. time not only tho most famous of American beauties, but also one of the first women of society either in the Untied States or England who adopted the stage as a profession (writes a London correspondent). I had rather a shock the other day when. I was motoring through a rivers.ido town not f*r from London by meeting Mrs Brown Potter once again. 1 did not realise at firsu the identity of tho mysterious-looking lady who spoke to mo. J.n place of tho bright chestnut red hair, that some years ago was a distinctive feature of her beauty, I found that she now has a short crop of perfectly white hair that stands out round her" thin, but still beautifully face with an odd effect. ShcT now wears extraordinary draperies rather than dresses, made of curious Oriental fabrics, and in place of a hat she wears a shawl like an Indian woman's • sari draped over her head and shoulders. Mrs Brown Potter has, it is said, adopted tho Mohammedan religion, and is immersed in the most learned form of. study. Site sees few of her old friends, and is almost a recluse. She lives in a lovely old seventeenth century house in tho'little riverside village of Staines. Tliere she has_ collected an amazing amount of Indian literature, and her only visitors are the Oriental priests and sages who occasionally find their way to this side, of tho world. The once celebrated heauty and actress claim s that through this religion she has discovered what is practically tho secret of immortal life, and she takes little if any interest in Tyntters that, aro going on in .the outside world. To thos© who remember her in tb c heydey of her beautv at»d both in London and New "York, t.his amayins phase seems an extraordinary finish to" a career that has been both sensational and historic.

. TO-DAY'S RECIPE. Curry of Fish.—Remove the bones from boiled fish, and divide the flesh into flakes. Peel and mince 2or 3 good sized, onions into a stewpan, and add a small cupful each of vinegar and water. Stir in 1 dessertspoonful of curry powder, moistened slightly; season with salt, and hoil until the onions are tender. Pour this over the fish and cover till cold.