WOMEN'S CORNED.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16210, 13 May 1918, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNED.

The Lady Editor will be pleased to rcceive for publication in the "Women's Corner" items of saciai or personal news. Such items should be fully authenticated, and engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is inviU-d on any matters affecting, or of interest to, women.

Mrj W. H. Triggs returned from Vv'cllington on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Maurice Harper have returned to Lake Heron after a few days in town.

Mrs Harold Greenwood and Miss Cameron have roturned to Netherwood, Omihi, after a fortnight's stay at Teviotdale.

Mr and Mrs "\V. A. Taafo have returned to Auckland after a few days in Cliristchurch.

Mrs Gordon Hamilton (Waihao Downs) is in town.

Mr and Mrs Bowen, Miss Bowon, and Miss Freeman (Gisbonie) arrived from the north on foaturday. Thoy aro staying at Warner's. Mr and Mrs W. L. McDonald, and the -Misses :Mci>oiiaid (Tirnaru) are in town. Tho engagement is announced of Gunner i_ym A. bt-ad-Gowmg, only son 0 1 _ur ii. toead-Uowiug, of Onristcliurcii, to Lucy, socoiiu daughter of Mr H. J. Wyuuc, iveiourn. Mrs H. Louurngtou (Ashburton) is visiting Mrs .uoniy Aid/can, Aruross, Aiuoci.cy.

Ou baturday morning, at Broadways, Airs r. J. xiervcy gave a jouy iiciio tea in Honour or jvus ateaman. ma iong tea tauio was aitistieany uecoiatea with chrysantnemums and autuuui foliage. 'Xuo otuer guests inciuaea iuesuamcs Ugiiyie, iuoinuall, Cooper, Mcoreuic, Jaelene Cross, j>aliauvyne, Moss, \V kit son, iiulam. Mi son, uiid T. D. Kendall. This afternoon Mrs Ogilvie will he the hostess at a bridge arternoon as a farewell to Mrs Sledman.

A pleasant gathering was held at Daafues, X«td.' on eavuruay, to say raieu'o.l to JUis Watson, wno has been a memoer of tne oince stalf tor the past nine years. Tlie manager, on ijelialf of tuo firm, presented ner with, a purse of sovereigns, and Mr A. E. Chivers, on behalf ot the employees, handed hc>r a unique silver-mounted Doulton salad bowl, and a silvermounted card case.

"I should like to beg of mothers to let notuing muuee tiieiii to let their uttlo gul.s take part in any entertainment wnere, from the nature of the case, the attractions of tne performance are a consideration," stated iVliss i'uliing, headmistress of the Auckland Diocesan High School for Girls, in tlie course of her annual report presented at the annual speech day last week. ''The dance 3 and recitations and dramatic situations in which it amuses grown-up people to see little children take part are often terribly quick to destroy their simplicity and teach the beginnings of self-consciousness and pertness. It involves the health, nerve 3. modosty, and charm of the girls. I know the heads of other Auckland schools feel with me, that wo see the beginnings of harm earlier than parents do, and that we are to blame if we do not sound the warning." Another old and woll-known resident of Southland, in the person of Mrs M. Jose, passed away at her residence, Invercargill, last week, at the age of 86 years. With her husband she arrived in New Zealand nearly sixty years ago, taking up her residence in Invercargill, where she had resided ever since. Matron "Williams, of the Hokitika Montal Hospital, has been appointed matron to the Feeble-minded Girls' Home at Richmond (Nelson). The vacancy at Hokitika is boing filled by Nurse Drummond, of Sunnyside (Christchurch). A .military wedding, which aroused considerable interest, was celebrated "it St. Paul's Church, Wanganui, a fe-v days ago, when Rifleman R. A. (Tony) Holmes was united in matrimony to Olive, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs "Leslie Salter, of Rapanui road, Westmere, the Rev. J. D. McKenzie officiating. Tho bride (in the absence of her father, who is serving his country in Samoa) was given away by Privnto H. Price. The bride was attended by Miss Myrtle Gibberd and Miss Kathleen Salter, and Private Fred. Allcock (the brido's uncle) was best man. FALLING HAIR. The following aro the main causes for thinning oK the Hair, premature gieyneas, and baldness: — ...... -m. »t. 1. Local causes, which interfere with 'he nutrition of tho hair, such as inflammation cf the skin and oil glands, of which eeborrhosa, a form of dandruff, which is responsible for great irritation of the ecaip, is most common. 2. General causes, whicii lead, to debility ef constitution and so indirectly weaken the nutrition of tho hair, convalescence after tevor or various other illnesses, aud prolonged v-orry. 3. Purely nervous causes. The special implication oi tuo nerves is evidenced in various ways, eucn aa neuralgic pains of the scaip, tioin which loss of hair a Doth local' una vciy olteii übdoiute. 'ihe remedy is a special course of treatment (one giuuoa;, including cupping and singeing, massage with ocuip iood, auampvoiiig, massage with utimuiating lotion, and Vitro or etcctrical uiabaage.

JUivS BOLLESTON, Dominion JDuiiaiuge, Cathedral square. 1

"HOME CASUALTIES." "Homo casualties" is tne striking term wuich air -levilio luaytuau, u visitor Horn hew aouui Walesj applies to ihe large number or pieveuuibie ueatiis ot wiant&. "vJur homo casualties," he says, ''hav© been diviued into two categories—tlio dead and txio more or ioss permanently disabled or weakened. It is, pernups, impossible to number the iniants in ihe sccond class, but those in the first division amount to alarming figuro3. For tho decade ending 1910 INew South Wales alone lost 36,000 infanta who did not survive the first anniversary of their birth. In the whole Commonwealth (luring tho ten years ending 1915 upwards of 00,000 infants under one year wore lost. Sir Charles MacKcJlar, an eminent New South Wales authority, states that, in his opinion, 50,000 of these precious live-3 could and should hav© beon saved. This loss of valuable lives goes on year in and year out. The principal causes have been emphasised by medical men over and over again—insanitation, overcrowding, dirt, "bad air, incompetent midwifery, or absence of obstetric services at birth, interference with natural processes, ignorance of mothers who have never had any specific training to fit them for intelligent maternity, and last, but not least, insufficient nourishment with pure milk and right food. Although this waste of life 13 in oart preventable, no definite nationwide effort has yet boon made to stop it."

THE CASE OF MISS FRIN'GLE. , The Wellington Womeh Teachers' Association held a special meeting on Friday night to give some expression of sympathy with Alits Eileen J.*ringle, teacher in tho Brooklyn School. Miss ■ Coad presided, and proposed the following motion, which was seconded by Miss Fitchott and passed:— ' "That this meeting of women teach- 1 ers wishes to express deep sympathy Tvith Miss Pringle—one of their number—in the ordeal through which she is passing, and on account of her high fharacter, and with a full knowledge '

of the circumstances, to exonerate her from all blame in the reckless and cruel charges recently made against tier."

The motion was supported by many present, including the iromon teachers of Brooklyn, who all attended the meeting, ana spoke feelingly of the sympathy with Miss Pringle. Miss Coad said that some officials of the Department had expressed sympathy with the women teachers' action in this matter. It was decided to send the motion as passed to the Education Board and to the Department. Miss Coad said the committee of tho association at its last meeting had passed the following recommendations, in line with other women's societies: — "Tliat in caso of raids on suspected houses of ill-fame no names bo published before conviction, and that after conviction the names of the men as well as the women implicated be published." She asked the meeting to confirm the action of the committee. This was agreed to, and it was decided that these recommendations be forwarded to the Minister of Justice. TO-DAY'S RECIPE. Applo Marmalade.—6lb apples, 9Jlb sugar, 6 lemons, 6 pints water. Pare, core, and quarter tho apples, cover them with 21b sugar, and let them stand all night. Slice the lemons thinly, cover them with the water and let them stand all night. Next dav boil both together for one hour, then add tho rest of the. sugar, and boil for an hour more, until the jam has a nice clear red colour.