WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16370, 15 November 1918, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in the "Women's Corner" items of social or personal news. Such items should bo fully authenticated, and engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to, women. Mr J. B. Harcourt and Miss Harcourt have returned to Wellington. Mrs Hope, accompanied by her daughter, have returned to Timaru. Among the many present at the meeting in the gardens of the City Council Chambers yesterday -were: Mrs Holland, Mrs Boyle, Mrs Wood, Mrs Wynn-Wiliiams, Mrs Lavie, Mrs Evans, Mrs Raymond, Mrs O'Laugulan, Miss Cardale, Miss Hay ward, Alias Stoddart, Miss Tabart, Miss -\lary 'i'abart, Miss Cowlishaw, and | Miss Trent. Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam says that a I'ctrogiud message states that Mme. Bieschkocskaia "the grandmother of the revolution," has * been shot, for resistance to the reign of terror. There was a pleasing incident on a city-bound car from Karori on Tuesday morning (.says the Wellington "Post"). When the car was passing the residence in Tinakori road of Right Hon. W. V. Massey the guns signifying the signing of the armistice were heard. Tne passengers in the car with one accord rose and sang the National Anthem and cheered Mrs Massey and her daughter, who stood at an oper window and acknowledged the spontaneous tribute front the excited anc* enthusiastic passengers. The death of Mrs 0. B. Pemberton, which occurred on Wednesday night, came as a shock to the many friends of her husband, Mr 0. B. Pemberton, the secretary of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association. The late Mrs Pemberton was a daughter of the late Mr A. G. Howland, who was well-known ill Christchurch in connexion with his activities on the Industrial Association and in connexion with the agitation in the early days for the construction of a railway between the East and West Coasts. _ The late Mrs Pemberton was of a delicate constitution, and fell a victim to tho prevailing influenza, upon which an attack of bronchitis supervene'd. Very great sympathy was expressed for Mr Pemberton by his many friends. A private letter received in Wellington states that Miss Joyce Lane, third daughter of the late Mr W. Lane (formerly editor of the "New Zealand Herald"), has died of influenza in Auckland. Mrs Lane and two other daughters, one being the wittow o£ the late Captain Malion, who was killed in action, are all seriously ill with the epidemic. Mrs Lane's eldest son was killed at Gallipoli. The death occurred in the Featherston Military Hospital, on Sunday of Sister Mabel Helen Whishaw, of the N.Z.A.N.S., a daughter of Mrs J. H. Whishaw. Featherston. The late Sister Whishaw had been a member of tho nursing staff at the Featherston Camp for several years past, and early last week contracted pleurisy and pneumonia. Influenza has complicated the work of the Plunket Society, having rendered many mothors incapable of attending to their babies. To meet this situation the Society has accepted tho loan of a house in Armagh and has installed its nurses there witii a view to taking babies off such parents' hands until their recovery. Details are advertised in another column. Mrs Emmerson, wife of Mr Fred Emmerson, of Grey mouth, died at the Grey River Hospital on Tuesday as the result of an acute attack of pneumonia. She was a native of Greymouth, and a daughter of the late Mr William Turley, a former well-known resident of the town. Quite a gloom was cast over Tuahiwi when word was received of the death in Christchurch of Mrs Ruilia Teaika Korako (Kelly), and also of the severe illness of her husband, Mr Tehau Korako, chairman of the Maori Council. Mrs Korako was tho eldest daughter of i

the late Mr Moses Teaika, a nd had been associated with the Kaiapoi district since her childhood. During the last four years Mrs Korako had taken a keen interest in all patriotic functions, and on the formation of the Lady Liverpool Maori Soldiers' Fund became secretary to the local branch, and by her hard work and devotion to the cause maintained a steady supply of comforts to the trenches. Her_ loss is a very severe one to the especially to those associated with her in her work. The benefit derived by the Guinea Course of Hair Treatment at Mrs Roliceton'e is considerable. _ The course _ consists of five treatments, including clipping or singeing, massage with scalp shampooing, with tonic and friction. Hand and vibro massage, also a leeaon in tho _ latest hairdressing. All troubled with falling hair, dandruff, or premature grejneea are assured of successful results. DOMINION BUILDING. Cathedral square. ' 1 DOMESTIC HELP DIFFICULTY. liel'erring to the in?possibility of securing girls in sufficient numbers to meet the demands for domestic workers, the annual report of the Labour Department states: "The war has, of course, accentuated the difficulty, but the problem is sure to remain after the war is over. A suggestion by way of solution is the establishment of communal kitchens in some of the chief centres of the Dominion, which would, if some enterprising people would take the matter up, certainly prove advantageous to many classes of the community, as has been recently shown by the institution of communal kitchens in England, as well as in other countries. Many people probably do not realise that the total cost of a general servant, which is £1 10s per week or more, including her board and lodging, would pay 8 per cent, on £1000, so that if a number of householders residing in one neighbourhood were to combine in such an undertaking by taking up a few shares each the expenditure of the few pouiids involved would soon repay the outlay. In these kitchens, too, a proper training in the art of cooking could be acquired."