WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3156, 7 August 1917, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

I ■ (Continued from Pago 2) War Work in Italy. An Italian lady resident in Sydney tells a representative of the "Sydney Horning Herald" sorno interesting facts about what is being done in Italy in connection with the war. "War funds," she states, "are raised by a voluntary graduated tax in each large city, managed and administered by -tile municipal authorities. The different war charities, including the Hod Cross, get each its own percentage of this. In tho country districts there are separate funds. Tho invalided returned soldiers are treated, according as to whother they are townsmen or peasants. They have different standards of living, different requirements. The voluntary 'tax is found to be very equitable in its working. Italian manhood of tigliting age is either actually on war service or militarised. But the latter class may include men well beyond sixty. Ono merchant captain recently in Sydney was an old man, but he told mo ho was proud to be militarised, and to feel that he was serving his country. He was doing so very woll, but, of course, I can't particularise about that. My own brother, a man in the thirties, is militarised and not in ,tho fighting line, because he is doing expert work from which the authorities do not wish to relcaso him. Our men in foreign countries, as in Australia, for instance, are not required 'to go to Italy to fight. They- give their names and addresses to the consul and are ready if called upon to go and serve the colours. Italian women work very much as tho women of France and England are doing, at all kinds of unusual occupations, besides their war work, their knitting and Ked Cross. There is strict need for economy all over the country, and everything is made there. In Milan and Turin there is a paper campaign, in which children join and work -rery ardently. Old papers, newspapers, MSS., pv»n the old archives of the cities are collected, rubbed with grease and rolled .tightly up. Then they are chopped into slices (like a jam roll) and sent to the Italian front. Are you puzzled as to their use? The paper Toll is placed under the soldiers' "gavetta" (tin dts*.), ft match is put to 'the paper and it burns just v long enough to warm his soup. In thosl- liiglr altitudes they used to have the greatest trouble about tho soup, which would freeze on its way from the cook to the hungry soldiers. Now, the paper rolls obviate that difficulty. No more cold soup!"

When the last mail left Madame Melba and Lady Susan Fitzelarence were tlie guests of the Governor-General of Australia at Adelaide.

At the Patriotic Shop, Masterton, on Saturday, tho sum of .£320 os. 6d. was made by the ladies of Essex, Cole, and Pownall Streets, -who were in charge. Of this amount, J3119,65. 6d. was obtained by tlie auction of a fivo shilling cake. Tlie proceeds of the day are to be handed over to St. Dunstan's Hostel for Blinded Soldiers. This is the second highest total to be taken at the shop, the Girls' Red Cross Brigade on a previous occasion having taken ,£361.

Nurse'l. Tozer, who recently resigned from tho staff of the Napier Hospital, was met .before her departure by the patients of tho Ward and presented nith an illuminated wristlet watch, suitably engraved, as a token of the high esteem in which she was held. Private A. Nugent, ivho made tho presentation. expressed deep regret at Nurse Tozer's departure, and heartily thanked lier for the many little acts of kindness with which she had made the patients' lives more pleasant. Nurse Tozer was also presented with a gold-mounted fountain pen by the patients of Ward No. 1, accompanied by tho good wishes of the donors.