SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2357, 13 January 1915, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Queen Alexandra's Puggarees. Visitors" to the new British Red Cross Hospital'at Netley report tliat the wounded Indian soldiers under treatment there are very deeply impressed by the care that is taken to ensure their comfort. In each of the Indian wards is one sister and three orderlies. The Fister attends to the general management of the' meals. She directs the nursing, but does not come into actual contact with the patients, tho nursing being carried out by the orderlies. Indian gentlemen living in the district attend regularly to act as interpreters and talk with the men. The Indian soldier is described as a "good patient." It is apparently a point of honour not to admit that he is badly hurt, and tho doctors mention with admiration the handsome Sikh with a gunshot wound in the lung who tells everybody that he is "Very well," although he has to gasp to say so. Some of the Indian soldiers have been much distressed because they have lost their puggarees. Head-wraps provided' as a substitute did not at all please them. Word of this reached Queen Alexandra, and Her Majesty at once sent 400 yards of lawn muslin, so that the men might have new puggarees. But they are not wearing them. They havb folded them away carefully in paper so that they may take them home to India. Women Doctors and the War. In; Dr. Sloan Chesser's lecture the other day the lecturer, deplored the failure of the British Red Cross authorities to recognise women doctors, states a writer in the "Manchester Guardian." I believe that this is no longer the case. Miss Evelyn Sharp, who has just returned from Wimereux, where Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson has established a hospital of seventy beds for wounded British.soldiers, tells me that this hospital is now recognised officially by the War Office, takes its orders from the R.A.M.C. at Boulogne, receives all its cases from them, and draws army rations. As this is, I believe, the only voluntary hospital that has been placed on this official footing out there,_ a real step would seem to have been gained by medical women. The Women's Hospital Corps is officered entirely by women, with the exception of one or two men orderlies,- and it went out to Paris at the beginning of hostilities under tho auspices of the French Government. Its hospital in the Hotel Claridge is, still being conducted by Dr; Flora Murray. Signs of Wealth and Mourning. London is notoriously difficult to test about its affluence arid condition, so much of the world's wealth being poured into its lap, and so enormous tho ramifications of its resources, but so far as external signs go everything tends,to confirm the impression made recently by the easy raising of the enormous loan of three hundred and fifty million pounds,, states a writer in an' English newspaper. People still drive in the park, and the- queue of waiting motorcars at fashionable matinees seems almost "as, big as ever. Soon after the outbreak of the war (to take one small sign) tall hats almost disappeared,in the City and the West End, but thoy are now fairly common again, andtho tall jhatas a rule is a sign of a fairly com-,-fort'able scale of living... The restaurants ■ are suffering somewhat because tho supper trade is poor, but the hotels axe fairly busy, although there are very few American and foreign visitors. The .cafes and taverns are in a curious and unprecedented phase, for though alcoholic liquor cannot be sold—or oven consumed —after ton o'clock, many of ~the West End ones (such, as tho Cafe Royal) keep open until .after eleven, while the habitues continue their evening's, diversion of dominoes and conversation on coffee or aerated waters or beef tea or syrups. It is a terrible discovery to soldiers from the colonies or foreign parts who have been Well brought up on Mr. Kipling's poems about "town." The shadow of the war is. showing itself most clearly . in the West End, where there are many people in mourning clothes, and where memorial services for the sons of great houseu are being held every day in fashionable churches. Every day the' columns of the "Morning Post" increase,' in memorial notices for the officers who have fallen. In humbler quarters, whero the losses fall so much thioker, there is little sign yet of the terrible months of suspense and anguish through which so many poor people have gone. The sign that is seen most clearly by the middle class is when their charwoman some day does not appear, and a scrawl arrives, by post to say that she has just heard from, the War Office, and would the lady please excuse her? Another' pathetio evidence is the comparative ease with which people can now get good servants. Old servant girls and ladies' maids (very many of\the Guardsmen's wives were ladies' maids), their married dreams over, are now going back as widows to service again.

Canon and Mrs. Nelson (Auckland) are staying with Miss Coates'.

• Mrs; J. Caselberg (Masterton) has taken a, house at Island Bay. Mrs. A. Casolborg (Masterton) and Mrs. Moss (Carterton) havo been staying at Island Bay House.

Mr. W. H. Field, member for Otaki, and. Mrs. Field returned to Wellington yesterday from ft visit to Rotorua and Auckland.

Miss Baird has returned to Hawke's Bay from Duncdin.

Miss Joan Barnott (Ohristohurch) is the guest of Mrs. Morris at Wadestawn.

Mr. T. Jones, of the Auckland Chief Post Office, received a cablegram on Saturday from his sister, Nurse S. Carrie Jonos, who is in London, stating that she is attached to Queen Alexandra's Nursing Reserve Hospital Ship. Miss Jones, who comes from Napier, resigned her position as senior district nurse, Wairarapa, on tho outbreak of war, and loft for London to offer her services to tho authorities as a nurso at the front.

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Danoe In the Coring Street Hall. Yesterday evening some of the officers belonging to the Supplementary Forces stationed at Trentham entertained the ladies who have assisted with the concerts and entertainments which have been given at the camp from time to time at a dance which was held at the Goring Street Hall. The room was just comfortably filled for dancing, and had been decorated with quantities of flags and lycopodium, while the stage had been furnished for the comfort of onlookers. Roses and sweet peas formed tho decorations of the supper room. "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipporary" was of course played and sung, and danced to during the evening, and 'warm though the night was for active pleasures, the zest of the dancers continued unabated till the end. Tho chaperones were Mrs. Chatfield, who wore a gown of deep blue satin, draped with sequinned net, and Mrs; Dal!, who was in a black gown with an amber brocade cloak. Among those who wore present were Mrs. W. F. Massey, who was iu dark bluo satin; Mts. Waltor Massey, in white satin; Mrs. Seaton, black charmouse; Mrs. Davies, black satin; Mrs. Beamish, black satin and ninon"; Miss Massey, palest pink crepe, bordered with brown fur; Miss Turner, blue satin, draped with ninon; Miss Dall, pale pink Batin, with cream net overdress; Miss Hamilton, maize ninon over satin; Miss Johnstone, fuchsia frock of dark amethyst satin, with overdress of violet ninon; Miss Putnam, reseda green charmeuse, with net overdress; Miss Stella Putnam, white satin and ninon, with pink sash; Miss Kendall, pau de nil charmeuse: Mrs. Fitzherbert, black charmeuse and ninon, with a red rose at the waist; Mrs. Taylor, white lace, with deep swathed sash of pink satin; Miss Brandon, white ,frock, bordered with brown fur; Miss Seaton, white charmouse and ninon; Miss Wilson, floral ninon over blue satin; Miss Mantel,' white satin, with a pink tuhio; Miss Ward, white satin, with blue ninon overdress; Miss Ewart, mauve with geranium pink sash; Miss Wright, blue satin, with lace tunic; Miss Edmondson,- geranium pink charmeuse; Miss J. Mackenzie, white frock, with a pink sash; Miss Marie Fix; pink charmeuse, with draped tunic or ninon; Miss Lissack, gown of shot grey and pink silk; Miss Stott, reseda green satm: Miss Bulkley, draped frock of blue charmeuse and lace; Miss Wilbrfoss, pink charmuse. Among the officers present wero Colonel Howie; Major Fordham, Major Hume, Captain Munro. Captain Waite. Lieuts. M'AUum, Ginnis, Dick, Elworthy, Denniston, Beamish, Taylor, and others.

Paris Fashions In War Time. The Tango is dead in Paris. Eccentrio fashions have vanished, and Red Cross uniforms are everywhere. French women declare that they would have been unable to stand the rigours of nursing but for the hardening of the muscles by dancing for hours daily last season. —Press -Association ("Times" and Sydney "Sun"-Services.) Domestlo Servants'lnsurance. The Domestio Servants' Insurance Society is trying to persuade ladies' maids and head housemaids to take situations as house-parlourmaids, and untrained girls they are placing in training homes to 'qualify as cook-generals in order to meet the shortage (states an English correspondent). But thoy find a growing unwillingness among young girls to take to service; and in order to combat this side of the difficulty they_ are aiming at making more'of a profession of- the work' and encouraging the idea of daily servants. They maintain; that if trained girlß are allowed to live in a hostel and go out to do daily domestic work for a. definite number of hours each day domestic service will become more popular with the girls of England.

Madame Cope-Dowsing and her daughter have returned to Welington from a tour of the Nortlh Island. They visited Rotorua, motored through to Tauranga, and. returned via the Waitomo Caves.

Miss Muriel Bollard, of Hamilton, is tho guest of Mrs. Stanley M'Laren, Hinakura, Martinborough-

Our Napier correspondent writosthat the wedding took place in St. Patrick's Church, Napior, yesterday of Miss Mary Lloyd, daughter of Mr. G. Lloyd, of Napier, to Mr. John Kioly, of Dunedin. The Misses Ettie and Mabel Lloyd and Miss .Nance Kiely were bridesmaids, and Mr. A. E. Lowry best man. Subsequently Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd loft by train for Wellington. f Returning to New Zealand by .tho Remuera aro Mrs. and Miss Willis (Rangitikei), Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Pike, of Wellington, and. Miss Dorothy Pollen. /