WOMAN'S WORLD, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2665, 10 January 1916, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM AND NEAR, 1

(By Imogen.)

A Wellington Wedding. A quiet wedding took place pt St. Andrew's Oliurch, The Terraco, on Wednesday, December 29, when Miss Jessie Scott, 8.A., youngest daughter of Mrs. Seott, Macclonald Crescent, Wellington, was married to Mr. Norman A. Campbell, LL.B., of Auckland. The bride woro an embroidered voile gown, with tho usual tulle veil and orange blossom, and carried a bouquet of roses and maidenhair fern. Her travelling costume ivas of dove grey, with a picture hat to match. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are now visiting Christchureh. Tho bridegroom goes into camp at an early date." Waikato Wedding. At St. Andrew's Church, on New Year's Day,, Miss Vera Smith, third daughter of 'Mrs. L. Smith, of "Bonny Glen," Hautapu, was married to Mr. D. Smith-Bitch, eldest son of Air. P. Smith-Hitch, of Herts., England, the Rev. C. Mortiniar-Jones performing the ceremony. Tho bride, who was given away by her mother, was gowned in , white satin c'harmeuse, draped with real lace, and the court train was finished with sprays of orange blossom. She wore the usual bridal veil and wreath, and carried a beautiful bouquet of uliito stocks and roses. The- Misses N. and 1 A. Smith, sisters of the bride, who attended as bridesmaids, were attired respectively in coral pink charmeiisc, veiled with pleated tulle and soft white silk, but each wore a wreath of pirns and white rosebuds. Messrs. E. Smith and It. M'Veagh acted as best man and groomsman. After the wedding a reception was held at the residence of tho bride's mother, Mrs. Smith receiving in a grey silk costume, with a grey and pink hat, and a bouquet of pink roses. The bridegroom's present to the bride consisted of a thoroughbred liorso, ar,d to the bridesmaids gem rings. Later in the day Mr. and Mrs. Smith-Ritch left by motor for Hamilton, en route to Lake Takapuna, where their honeymoon is being spent, but/their future homo will be in Mangairui. An Egyptian Soldiers' Club. Mrs. (Colonel) Meldrum is calling a meeting at the Y.M.C.A. 011 .Wednesday, January 12, for three o'clock, at which Mrs. Massey will preside, to both explain and discuss the question of a proposed Soldiers' Rest Club, either at Cairo or Alexandria. Mrs. Meldrum, who is leaving for Egypt next month, has already had many offers of help from

Auckland, Duneclin, and Christchureh, and is holding this meeting on -Wednesday to give any Wellington ladies who are interested in tho subject an opportunity for full information. Morning Tea to the Nurses. On Saturday morning in the Parliamentary Library tho Hon. G. W. Russell, with the Minister of Defence and 't'he Hon. W. Fraser, entertained at a pleasantly informal morning tea, tho group of nurses who are proceeding to Mo front, including those who were on the ill-fated Marquette when she was torpedoed. _ After brief 1 speeches of congratulation upon the iino work already done, and good wishes for that to come, from the Minister of I'ublic Health, tile Hon. James Allen, the Hon. W. Fraser, and Colonel Valintine, Mr. j Allen requested Mrs. G. W. Russell to present the Marquette nurses with their new badges, their former ones being lost, with many other tilings,, in that disaster. The enjoyable little fanction terminated with the siaging of 'a verse of God Save the King.

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Red Cross stall. The St. John Ambulance and Bed Cross Society had a most attractive stall on Lambtou Quay on Saturday, and Mrs. Murray Thompson and Mrs. Raleigh, who were in charge, were kept very busy selling the tempting homemade cakes and dainty boxes of sweets,, with which the stall was laden. Lron-dcla-shaped sweet • baskets of crepe paper, ill the Kalian and Belgian colours, found a ready sale, also tho very striking, lted Cross French bonbons of crimson and white paper, with fringed tassol-liko ends; most of ihest. pretty things had a. convenient rib'oou loop for carrying. 801110 delightful presents for "khaki friends" wore the "sftrprisa boxes" tied with flowers and Allied ribbons, and containing not only home-made sweets, hut tin boxes of ilio over-welcome cigarette.

Miss ■'•May Kauo left, on Friday for Hastings, on a fortnight's visit. Sir. and Mrs. John Eyfo, of Miramar, have returned from a holiday trip to Wanganui. Lady Hall-Jones and her daughter are spending the holidays in tho Auckland district, and are at present in Eotorua. Mrs. C. J. D. Skinner, of Feilding, and her sister, Miss Speedy, who have been'spending a holiday in Auokland, have now returned to their homes. ' . The Carrington School Committee has donated olio dozen pairs of socks to the work of the Carterton Lady Liverpool Committee. Miss Holena Cronin, an English girl who spent some months in Gisborne before the war broke out, in a letter to a Gisborne friend," describes some of the work being done in England by voluntary 'nurses. "I am attached to tho British Red Cross," she says, "and am very busy. It is very hard work, but one has' the satisfaction of knowing that one is Teally doing something that really helps, and 0110 is truly appreciated. You can imagine me cooking, baking bread, washing the tables, cleaning up tho men's mess room, and getting tea for thirty men. The first time one of our wounded called mo 'nurso' I thrilled all over, and tho poor chap narrowly escaped being _ scalded with the afternoon tea I was giving him. I mako cakes for tliem every . week. Yon may guess w : hat a busy time I have, and in addition there aro lectures to go to, and some studying. The hospital is practically run by tho volunteer Red Cross workers, and w r e are awfully proud of it, although it is only olio of many such places. The real nursing is dons by those who are highly certificated, which I hope to ho some day. At present it is practically .spring cleaning and scullerymaid work that wo do. Tho uniform looks jolly nice with the great K«d Cross on tho bib."