WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3109, 13 June 1917, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD

(By Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PE RSONAL

A Golden Wedding

A very highly-esteemed couple, Mr and Mrs. lieorgo Dunn, of Dunedin, "colebrated their jolden wcddinjr on Thursday- Jlr. and Mrs. Dunn wcro married aO years ago in Edinburgh by the Eev. Alexander Cou ? ms, of Lady tilenorchv's l'.ice Church, For some years they resided in various districts in Scotland and some 0 £ the children, at least ?e Bra,v la ;ts o£ Ga ln. Water." Mr. and ™ -"'"'in came to Otago inanv years •'ko, residing in Mornington for "some Co .JSiiderable time; afterwards removin" to North-East Valley, where they and their,largo family of 12 solid nnd daughters are as well known as they are popular. Representatives of all the members of tho family were present from far and near, but none appeared more healthy and bright than the heads of the claii. Many old friends of Mr. and Mrs. Dunn eaniD to do honour to the worthy couple, and the visitors were hospitablv entertained In- the members of tho family. Probably tho most pleasing incident of the day for Mr. and Mrs. Dunn was tho receipt of a congratulatory cablegram , from their youngest son, who is fighting ins country s battle in France. Women in the Courts. Tho fact that for the first time in Now Zealand the caso for the union was conducted by a woman at the Arbitration Court on Monday morning, was commented on by His Honour Mr. Justice Stringer at tho conclusion of tho hearing of the upholstresses' dispute, in Auckland. This was the first time, ho said, they had had tho pleasure of listening to a woman advocate in Court, and it was only right that Mrs. Baunjo should be complimented on the care in which she had prepared her case. Even if women, ho said, could not cut loose covers, as required in the upholstering trade, he was convinced that they could conduct an arbitration caso as well as men.

A very welcome Rift Ho the Spinnery, which was opened on Monday afternoon, was that of a spinning wheel from the pupils of Fitzherbert Terrace School. At Monday's ceremony it was decorated with the school colours, while tho wheel used for the demonstration of spinning by Miss Green (tho property of Lady Liverpool) was decorated with red, white and blue-coloured ribbons.

Next Friday the Wellington E«l Cross Shop will be in charge of the Hobson Street Indies. For many weeks women have spent their time collecting produce, making sweets and cakes, embroidering iino work in silk, linen, and beads, and spending their timo with tho keen desire to raiso a large sum of money for our sick and wounded Soldiers. Customers may bo assured that tho many beautiful things will be sold at reasonable prices, and all produce at market rates. The meat stall will be n special feature, a whole bullock has been Riven and shoujd bring in a good sum. Ihero will be mutton and numerous turkeys and other poultry. Coffee ami tea. will bo served in tho shop. There will bo a parcels stall there, and on payment of an extra 3d. parcels will bo delivered. All interested in this work ot raising money for the Red Cross are asked to como and buy and help on tho Rood caufA A separate stall has been set aside for raffles, so that no canvassing will bo done in the room.

x rhe Camp Commandant at Trentham acknowledges receipt of the following Rifts to the hospitali-Soldiers* Comforts build, 12 hot-water bags and covers, old linen, magazines and books; Salvation Army, oranges, sirepts. cakes and handkerchiefs; Sister Hitchcock, 24 earthenware foot-warmers; Mr. G. Brocklchurst, Petone, walk-in; Mrs. Steel Biak Wellington, 2 ] MXC s gramophone needles; also the receipt of 10 parcels of goods troni tho hou. secretary. Lady Liverpool i'lind, Wanganui, for the Ifaetihi men who joined from Main Trunk.

111? (kith took pl;uw in Christ church on Monday evening of lira. Albert Cutis. I hei deceased lady was a member of Pollards Juvenile Opera Company, and will tvi 1 ' 0^ 111 ??™' 1 by theatre-goers as Little filly 0 Sullivan, daughter of Mr. W. 0 bulhvan, who was treasurer of the company. Mrs. Cutts, who was married six years ago, leaves one child.

Women and Economies,

Last week a very successful daneo was ?i™\ "' ¥ D '° Geor so's Kail, Tetane 1.. £7 3 y,, by tJlc Kaiwalta Soldier bettlers. From every part of the district the guests came, many arriving from Napier. The settlors themselves were largely represented, and the men who had acquitted themselves splendidly in the ranks at the war and were now busy carving out for themselves new homes and new careers in what townspeople call the backblocks- wero tho most hospitable and assiduous of hosts. Mr. G P. Donnelly, tho "Father of tho Settle-, ment," as he has been called, was unable to be present, and his place was filled by his representative, Mr. j. Hart, whom lio had appointed to act as euperl viser and adviser to the settlers in connection with tho carrying on of the various works. The dance was very greatly enjoyed by everyone, and the net proceeds are to go to the Napier Soldiers' Club. At a meeting of the Countess of Liverpool Fund Committee, recently held in Cliristckurch, tho Mayoress read the folI lowing extract from a letter written by a soldier "somewnere in. France," dated March IG:—"We got the Liverpool bucksheo parcels safely. In the one I got was a stick of Havelock tobacco. I got on it without delay. It was a treat to get a good smoke. . . . Had another Liverpool parcel the other day. They were very welcome, 1 can tell you. The ono I got this time, however, did not have any Havelock tobacco in it. You ought to give them tho top—the boys, like myself, would give anything for a good suioko." I i I

HATTERS OF INTSESST FROM FAR ANB NEAR.

A plea for tho girls who are to be tho mothers of the future was inado at the Arbitration Court, Auckland, on Monday morning by Mrs. Baunie, who appeared on behalf of tho union in. the Upholstresses' dispute. There was nJiotlier aspeot to the case, sho said, and that was tho social, moral, and human aspect. The girls should bo given, the right to live a full iifo such as would make them an asset to tho State. The women, it was stated, would be largely lesiionsible for the rebuilding of the nation after the war, and it behoved us to treat the girls in such, a way as to be for the good of the community as a whole. Anything which was detrimental to tho Slate was economically unsound. Many girls lived <it homo and were, in consequence, able to take work at lower wages than if they had to pay board, while they could spend practically the whole of their money on dre-ss, which, unfortunately, many of them did. This, however, should not bo taken as a criterion in fixing the standard of wages, and every opportunity should be given a girl to live a full normal life. Some women, it was stated, did a few hours' domestic work before going to their work in town. This tended not only to iin- , pair their efficiency for business, but placed so great a. strain on them as to be a menace to their health. Allusion was also made to the moral effect upon a girl who never had a penny to come and go tipon. A normal girl, it was I stated, wanted :i certain amount of amusement and was entitled to it, if only to break the monotony of work. It was not possible, concluded Mrs. Baunie, to keep a girl mornlly good unless sho was in such a position that she ivas morally independent. I

People w.ho have relatives at the front (and who have not in those days) should adopt the plan of it Sydney woman. Sho keeps a writing pad and every day she and the members of her family, and any visiting friends' -write a message to tell somo interestiiiK item of news. At the end of each week (or when there is a mail) the pages ejo torn off and 6ent to the relative at the front. Little arausing, cuttings from newspapers are also pasted on a pad sheet ami posted with tho letters.