WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16402, 23 December 1918, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

Tho Lady Editor will be pleased to reccive for publication in the "Women's Corner" items of social or personal news. Such items should be fully authenticated, and engagement notices must bear the signatured of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to. women. Mrs W. S. Bean is visiting her mother, Mrs It. J. Seddon, in Wellington. Mr and Mrs Jack Guthrie will spend Christmas camping at Lake Lyndon. Captain and Mrs Noel Johnson havo returned to Wellington. Miss Dorothy Hay (Emerson street) leaves to-day on a visit to Mount Cook. Miss Selby (Sumner) is visiting Mrs Holmes at Holmeslee, Itakaia. Miss Amy Kane and Miss D. Isaacs passed through Christchurch on Saturday on their way to Mount Cook. Mr and Mrs do Beer and Mrs Thompson (Wellington) arrived from the North yesterday, and go South to-day. Miss Lorimer, principal of Nelson •>iirls' College, is in Christchurch on her way to Mount Cook. Miss Campbell and Miss Prendergast arrived from Wellington yesterday. They purpose going on to Akaroa for Christmas. Mr and Mrs. S. A. Staples left on Saturday afternoon for Akaroa, where they propose to remain until the New Year. Tho engagement is announced (says tho Sydney "Sun") of Miss Mollie Barnard, only daughter of the fate Mr L. p. Barnard,"of Newcastle, and Mrs Barnard, of Strathfield, and Lieutenant A. T. Day (late 20th Battalion A.1.F.), second son of Mr and Mrs Day, of j Christchurch, New Zealand. The engagement is announced of Mr K. G. Salmond, son of Sir John Salmond, K.C., Solicitor-General, to Miss Gertrude Applegate, Coromandel. As a result of the recent epidemic, a' number of widows made application for and were granted the widow's pension by Mr F.'V. Frazer, S.M., at Wellington, on Thursday. Nine young children, who had lost both father and mother through influenza, were committed to a receiving home. Since their parents' death the children have been taken care of by kindly-disposed residents of Petone. Tho orphans showed by their appearance that thoy had been particularly well cared for. and the Magistrate, Sergeant Bird, and Mr Dineen complimented and thanked the citizens who had so willingly come forward in the time of stress. "It is in times like these that the good that is in people is often discovered," said Mr Frazer.

The death occurred a few days ago at Ismailia, Egypt, of Mi*b W. F. Barry, wife of Quartermaster-Sergeant Barry, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Deceased was the second daughter of Mr and Mrs W. D. McClure,' Dannevirke. At the outbreak of war the late Mrs Barry was engaged in. school teaching at Matahiwi, and she immediately devoted all her energies to patriotic work. She joined the Volunteer Sisterhood organised by Miss Ettie I'out, and was associated in canteen work at tho camps in Egypt, Last year she married Quartermaster-Sergeant iJarry, the soldier's wedding being a happy event at the front.

The work of women in the present war has demonstrated their capacity to do most- things as well as men, and n ' ai jy bettor," remarks the latest issue of the ' Waitnkian." "In England, especially 4 has ilus been sho.wn, and only a thorough shock could liave convinced conservative England that women could be trusted with a share in the administration of the country and; the election of Parliament. The wartime methods of women have done wliat the militant acts of a certain secx'°? V 1 I ? eaco dfl ys were unable to do. :\obcdy doubts now the power of women to decide questions of importance. How ridiculous it would be if the women of England who, bv their unani-" inous and hearty response to the call for labour, undoubtedly solved the problem of getting munitions to the front in the gravest crisis of our history, were not to have a voice in deciding the great post-war problems which will arise! The complete emancipation of women is a natural and inevitable resuit of tho war."

St John's Anglican Church, Invercargill, last week, Miss Medi &trettell, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs O. \\. H Strettell, of Invercargill, was mamed to Sergeant-Major "W. J. Fisher, of the Invercargill Defence staff. Miss isoline Streitel] was bridesmaid, and Mr Percy McNeilage best man. .both the bridegroom and best man are returned soldiers. After the ceremony Mr and Mrs Fisher left for Akaroa, where the honeymoon is being spent.

At Church, Eastbourne, Wellington, last week. Miss Kathleen Smith, daughter of Captain and Mrs G. U. smith, of Ifciy s Bay, -n-as married to Lieutenant G. J. Worrall, of the New /JeaJand -Dental Corps, son of Mr and Mrs Charles Worrall, 0 f Dunedin. The " e 'v Stent officiated. The brid© was V ; er father. Miss Rennie M I. "iian attended as bridesmaid, and' Oa;>t:un Cross was the best man.