WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3008, 20 February 1917, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MATTERS OP INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By Imogen, j

SOCIAL ANB PERSONAL St. Peter's Missionory Guild Bazaar. A very .successful sale of work was held by St. Peter's Missionary Guild in Mrs. Morrah's beautiful grounds in Upper Willis Street, on Saturday. The garden was beautiful with a wealth of. summer bloom, and the cool green of tho tennis lawn, surrounded as it is by numbers of fine trees, raado an ideal place for an outdoor fete. Tho-tea arrangements were under the direction of Mrs. Lewis, and little tables were set about the lawn under the shado of the trees. Miss Tanner and the Chilton House girls were in charge of a really splendid work stall, containing many dainty and desirable articles, such as clothing for children, and all kinds of knitted goods. This stall represented ihe result of much patience, perseverance, and hard work on the part of Mrs. Henry Smith's girls. Another stall was under the management of the Girls' Friendly Society, and contained both useful and fancy goods. Miss Brewer's working party were responsible for the work stall, and Miss Lyon and Miss Bowden sold ■ all kinds of home-made sweets. . Other attractions were a gramophone, a bran tub, and an exceedingly vivacious "Aunt Sally," whose dexterity in dodging wooden missiles during the greater part of the afternoon was really remarkable. As over £30 was made altogether, the ladies o'f the guild have every reason to feel satisfied with the result of their effort. ■ Cifts for tho Red Cross. The following have sent goods to the Red Cross Depot in Mercer Street during the past week:—Greymouth Red Cross, 2 cases and 1 package; Ohingaiti Branch, British Red Cross; Mrs. Colley, Island Bay; "M.M.," Mangatainoka; Mrs. W. F. Wiren; Otane Sub-centre; Marton Sub-centre; Hutt Patriotic Guild; Victoria League Girls; Maraokakaho Sub-centre, British Red Cross; Waverley Ladies' Patriotic League; Takapau Red Cross. Weekly packing:— 145 pyjama suits, 35 underpants,' 30 ward suits, 50 day shirts, 20 bed jackets, 155 surgical towels, 50 undershirts, 60 hospital shirts, 65 nightshirts, 80 pairs machine-knit socks, 220 face-washers; 4 largo tins biscuits, 1 case cocoa, 40 limb pillows, 70 manytail bandages, 190 triangular bandages, 100 fomentation flannels, 1035 rolls of bandages. Miss Elizabeth Asquith. Tho engagement has been announced of Miss Elizabeth Asquith, daughter of the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, to Mr. H. S. Gibson, secretary \o tho American Legation at Brussels, says an exchange. Mr. Gibson made strenuous efforts to save Nurse Cavell, who was executed by the Germans in October, 1915. Mr. Asquith has only two daughters. Tho elder girl, Violet, who was married some months ago, was more interested in socfal welfare than art and literature, but Miss Elizabeth seems to have inherited the artistic inclinations of her gifted and elegant mother. Although she is only in her early twenties, she has for some timo been one of the leaders of the younger set in. London society. Having raised iho clothes probleni to a fine cult, Miss Elizabeth's frooics have always been a source of interest to those who follow up social gaieties. Her critical sense of beauty enables her to disclose many interesting developments in this direction. She has a penchant for tho stage, and has appeared with somo success in various benefit performances. Her last effort was made on behalf of tho Serbians in a diiologuo written by herself. Miss J. Beadel (Opawa) is visiting Wellington, where she is tho guest of Miss Irwin (Kelburn), By tho last London passenger steamer which arrived at Auckland, a number of domestic servants arrived, in tho chargo of Matron Sykes, who has been engaged iu nursing in English hospitals. The women who will commenco their new life hero are fifteen in number, and all fine examples of their type. The voyage out was made to the benefit of them all, and they are looking forward to the success of their venture. Tho shortage of domestics is being keenly felt here (says the Auckland "Star"), and though only small numbers arrivo by each steamer they ably fill their positions, and do credit to the Government scheme for supplying such service. Miss B. Thomas (Auckland), who has been staying with Miss Strachey, Aberdarq House, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Davison, at Featherstou. Mrs. George Sellers, of Mastorton, is staying at Lyall Bay with her children. Mrs. Bodington (Neweombe) is spending a few weeks at Lyall Bay.

Countess of Liverpool Fund. Tho following have sent goods to the Town Hall during the past week for tho Countess of Liverpool Fund Eastbourne Liverpool Committee, socks etc.; Mrs. Asher and ladies of Methodist Guild, Pctono: Mrs. J. Kirkcaldio; "A Wanganui Girl": no name, 1 vest and 1 balaclava; Stratford Patriotic League, per Miss Bridge; R.. Drewitt, Paraparaumu; Ladies' Patriotic Committee, Okaiawa, per Miss Betts. Nurses in War Time. A tribute to tho "band of devoted ladies who have given up their lives to tho care of the wounded" was paid by Viscount French in opening the Imperial Nurses' Club in London. "In all my experience of warfare in Egypt, South Africa, and he said, "the military nursing sister and her glorious self-sacrificing work has ever impressed upon my mind the best form of high-souled Christian courage and devotion to duty. In those early days in Egypt, when tho Soudan was a seething mass of fanatic Dervishes, to fall into whoso hands meant death and torture even to a man, these noWe women used to accompany our forces under burning suns up to tho very border lino of imminent danger,- and were only prevented by the most peremptory orders, from running terrible risks of death and capture. In South Africa and during the present war in France no one can measure tho value of their devoted work. Since I leftFranco and took up the chief command at Home, I have visited almost all the hospitals in London, and many others in all parts of the United Kingdom. Conducted as these hospitals are with no effort spared to ensure bright and cheerful'surroundings, and with every endeavour made to secure the utmost measure of comfort for the -wounded and maimed soldiers, there must yet always bo within them an atmosphere of depression and sadness inseparable from the contemplation of _ strong, vigorous frames maimed and injured for life, and young lives permanently' blighted by the loss of sight or limbs, fet it is in these sad' surroundings and in this depressing atmosphere that, week in and week out for more than two long years, these noble-minded women have spent nearly every moment of their lives. Surely no effort can be too great for us to make to give them what peace, rest, and recreation is possible for lives so spent." British Rod Gross, The income of . the British-Red Cross for the second' war year was' £3,064,232 (states a Press Assn. cablegram). Tho total since tho outbreak has, reached over £6,000,000. Tho management expenses last year were below 7d. in the £. Tho expenditure upon hospitals was £162,703; 'Red Cross units, £270,798; grants to auxiliary bodies, £162,220; surplus carried forward, £1,470,644. Tho society possesses 2522 ambulances; cars, wagons, and travelling soup kitchens—lß29 in France. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Sshoo! Nurses. Under a scheme formulated by tho Minister of Education (tho Hon. J. A. Hanan), six school nurses were to ho appointed. Their duties will be.somewhat on tflio lines laid down for the school nurses in England—duties which includo attendance during tho medical inspection of children and tho "following up" of children found to be defective; examination in the schools in re-' gard to cleanliness, and, under tho supervision of tho medical officer, tho application of treatment of minor ailments. The following appointments liavo been made: Nurses Early, Jenkins, 'Willis, Lorrimer, and Pryce. Tho sixth appointment will bo announced shortly. Health of Woman and Children. A conferenco of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of AVomen and Children will bo opened at the Accountants' Chambers, Johnston Street, to-day. Tho proceedings will be opened by the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) at 3 p.m., when a short address will also be given by Dr. Truby King, general president of the society. This is the first general conference since the war commenced. It will be attended by some forty delegates, mostly ladies, from'all parts of the Dominion, besides the Wellington members. Since. the last meeting in Wellington in July, 1914. great progress has been made by tho society. Further it has com© under Royal patronage, and these and other matters connected with development and organisation call for certain modifications in tho rules, with which the conferenco will 'deal. The.other busi-. ness will bo mainly tho consideration of suggestions made for the further extension of tho work by tho Hon. G. W., Russell (Minister of Public Health) and the discussion of various proposals to bo brought forward by-the branches.. ■ V' Tho Brooklyn Branch of tho Women's National Reservo has promised to mako 150 bags for Mrs. Gibbons's surprise Bag Day. All Brooklyn people aro asked to hand the bags into Mrs. Aulin, Cleveland Street, before February 28. Mrs. A. H. Bristcd, of Christchurch, who is on a visit to Wellington in connection with the conference of tho Royal Now Zealand Society, for the Health of Women and Children, is staying with Mrs. C. Earlo. Miss Kins, costumier, Willis Street, inserts a removal notice notifying that slio bus taken larger premises at Harnett's Buildings, M Willis Street (abovo Miss Jlilsom's). Telephone GOT.

"Luxury of the Newly'Rlch.". '. .'One.:'of themost disquieting honie : symptoms of the present-hour is the' extravagance, of a.class of women that been.'enriched,-by war. (writes the Countess of Warwick). . I >do not, of ;course, refer .to women of the working classes; their transgressions iu this direction are. venial. Nor to tho women of. the upper, classes—l "hate these adbut know of nothing that will vtake their place—who have seriously reduced their normal expenditure. What '■•I protest against is the" fashion in which so many of the wives and daughters of the profit-makers are'spending •the money. \ I paid a rare and very necessary visit to my dressmaker the other day,. and the slightness of iny needs made me .almost apologetic. ■Madame. reassured me. She was so busy with'big orders for extravagant gowns that sho hardly (knew how to execute them; all the orders, she told me, came from clients unknown to her before the war. The restaurants and hotels in London and in the largo manufacturing centres are' crowded with people eating and drinking rich and unfamiliar food and wines. The women whose husbands are profiting by war are indulging under false.pretences in their passion for pleasure and. extravagance. They declare that soldiers back from the front must be' entertained, and the entertainment is the most extravagant, lunch or dinner in .the most public place, and an afternoon or night at the places .where . the most banal ■forms of- revue and-musical comedy imay be found. The dignified protest of one of our most distinguished generals falls upon deaf ears. .The young subaltern may'be amused, though many are not to the' seasoned soldier the spectacle of luxury and "stupidity can only ;6e repugnant.' ,■- : ■- ....-..- : .