WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 291, 28 August 1918, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD

(B? J.MOOEH.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Wellington Red Cross Shop. Thu Si. Mart's ladies Jieid a successful day yesterday, and hantied in lbs. t>U. for ike fund. A great deal of interest was shown in their work, and tiiey aro to bo congratulated on tho results. 'i'ho stalls wero well lilled with good things, the home-made calces, pickles, and jams being espocially dolicious, and finding ready buyers. Mrs. Askew, with many earnest Red Cross workers, organised the day, and thoy dosiro to express their thanks and appreciation for tho gonerous help they received both from those who gavo and from those who bought.-The sweet stall, which consisted of much of Miss Una Carter's work, was most attractive, and the (lowers (in charge of Misses Cooper, Moss, and Miles) was another great attraction. Tho needlework was useful and good, and was greatly appreciated by those who bought. Next Friday will be a day that is waited for by many peoplo who do often make tho request for "another country day." Tho Kapiti distinct is sending in quantities of moat, poultry, butter, eggs, jams, pickles, cake's, bread, and delightful spring flowers. There will be delicious marmalade mado by Mrs. Hadfiold, , of Lindale, from oranges and lemons grown at her home, which are said to bo of rare excellence. If patrons of the shop will reserve their week-end buying till Friday thoso who are sending Red Cross help from tho country will bo grateful, and they express the wish that those who have bought and encouraged their work previously will come again, and so swell tho fund for our soldiers who are lying sick and wounded in hospital. Roturnod Soldiers' Ball. Yesterday afternoon a meeting ■ was held in the Returned Soldiers' Club to mako arrangements for tho second annual returned soldiers' ball, which is to be held shortly. Mr. J. D. Harper presided, and thero wero present:— Mesdames Harper, Boden, AY. H. Montgomery; Preston, Miss Speed, Messrs. Maxwell, D. J. 15. Seymour, R. J. Aldrich, G. F. Wilson, j. Fox, and. T. Bohlson. Owing to tho fact that tho size of tho ball would mako it necessary, to secure tho use of the ■ Concert Chamber as well as tho main hall some difficulty in arranging tho date for the ball had lieeoi experienced, and it was decided to hold it on September 11, as otherwise it would liavo to he held very much later on in the year. Mr. D. J. B. Seymour was elected hoit. secretary, and the following executive committee was set up:— Mesdames J. B. MacEwan, AY. H. Montgomery, Boden, A. E. AYhyte, J. D. Harper, Colonel llughos, Messrs. M. J. lvilgour, J. P. Maxwell, J. D. Harper., and D. J. B. Seymour. Various other committees are in process of formation. Invitations will be issued at the end of the week, and as tho lists in tho possession of tho committee aro somewhat incomplete it is hoped that notioe of omissions will bo sent in to tho secretary, so that they may be rectified. Tickets may also bo obtained from Mr. T. Bohlson at the Returned Soldiers' Club. The proceeds resulting from the ball are to be donated to tho In connection with last year's ball it was emphasised, that evening dress was not a necessity, and it .is considered that the same restraint is as desirable on this occasion as on the last.

Arrangements are hoine made by Miss Beero for another dancc recital, •which will take place in October.'

On Monday evening at the residence, 'i' 2 Drummond Street, a party' of friends assembled to congratulate Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Grimes on the attainment of their silver wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Grimes, who were married at Obristcliurch, Luton, Jvont, in 1893, wore the recipients of many presents. During the evening musical items were contributed. ; i

An old resident of Masterton, in the person of Mrs. Robert Johnston, has •died at the age of eighty-two years. She arrived in Now Zealand in 1575 by the ship Osseth..

There arc not many Nelson residents who can claim to have, been born in Nelson and to have lived thero for seventy-fivo years. Last week Mrs. Fairey, sen., mother of Mr. Frod Fairey, celebrated her soventy-liftll birthday, having been born in Nelson an August 17, 1843. For over fifty years Sirs. Fairey lived on the site whore the Central School now stands. Her recollections of the early days of tho settlement are always interesting. She received many birthday congratulations on Saturday.

The ladies of Mnrtinborough and the surrounding districts have beon working hard for tho Copper Trail. The Martinborough Red Cross Committee cbal•lenged the Featherston Red Cro3s Committee to lav the trail halfway to Martinborougli (six miles) wliilo Maryborough laid it halfway to Featherston, starting on July 4. Martinborough was victorious in this contest by crossing tho line on August 5, before Featherston had 'completed the distance. But, although their challenge is concluded, tho . ladies of the district arc still continuing their work for the Copper Trail, and in Martinborough and tho surrounding districts the sum of £1742 has been raiscxl to date, by direct donations, bv entertainments, and by the Patriotic Shop, which is open once a fortnight.

Sirs. It. J. Scddon, wjth her two daughters, Mrs. Bean and Joss Seddon, returned to Wellington yesterday from the South Island.

The first porson to hold the Tnrannki Scholarship ,is Dr. Mary Dowlin;;, who is at present practising in Eawera. ,Dr. Dowling also won the Medical Travelling Scholarship for New Zealand, which, however, owing to the scarcity of doctors, she will not avail herself, of till after the war.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR,

Denmark's Women Legislators. Olio of the four women who have been elected to the Danish Parliament in the first election held since their enfranchisement -is Mrs. Mtinch. She was selected by the Radical Party, and is the wife of the Danish Minister of AYar, president of the Danish Suffrage Society, and a member of tile Copenhagen Town Council. Another successful candidate is Mrs. Helga Larson, a town councillor, a prominent member of tho Social Democrats, but unknown in the women's movement. The successful Conservative candidate was Mrs. Mailing Hanseliultz, a barrister, and tlio fourth, Miss Anherstad, had done good work as a town councillor. Several other women had been nominated, most of them prominent as lecturers, writers, politicians,\or social workers, but not all feminists. One of. these had been placed first on her party's list of Copenhagen candidates/ but "there was some disappointment at the positions accorded to women by other parties. The women electors took a great share in the elections, 75 per cent, of them voting. Graftswomen. Mr. F. Kellaway, in opening the exhibition of women's munition work at the Whitechapel Art Galleries, let it bo known that there aro now a million women workers (states the "Manchester Guardian"). Tho Munitions Ministry want a groat many more to fill the places of the men who have been taken for tho Army; hence this popularising exhibition, which is of great variety 1 and interest. It is a oommonplace now that there aro hardly any of the innumerable processes in war engineering which women cannot do. One's chief impression. is the extraordinary skill and delicacy of the finer kinds of work which are now almost entirely in the hands of girls. The making of gauges, for instance, in which a mistake of one ten-thousandth part of an inch would bo a vital matter, is women's work. A scrow gauge for a percussion fuse is made almost entirely by women down to the finish—gauging "and inspection with an optical projection apparatus which multiplies every defect fifty-fold. Orio can imagine the horror wltli which everyone would before the war" have received the proposal to put women on to such a process. The fino touch aiftl precision of women's hands arc employed in the making of optical glass for war purposes, such- as poriscope lenses and the special instrument used in tanks. An artist's feeling for the variations in tho different kinds of material is a special, qualification of women. An examplo of the completeness with which women's services can be used in nighclass work is an air-pump for the Clorgot engine, which is i completely manufactured and assembled by girls. There aro only two men in tho whole department,, which is under women supervisors. Women, too, now do most of the processes in making magnetos, a pivotal industry rescued from a German monopoly.

An event td which is attached a. great deal of interest is tlio entertainment which is to he given in the Town flail on Friday evening by the Wellington Savage Club. Tho gross proceeds art) for war funds purposes, and the public is cordially invited to attend. A programme, which fully sustains the clwb's reputation 'for entertainment,, has been arranged, and during the evening home-mado sweets will be sold by members of the Spinsters' Club. A returned soldiers' ball is to, he held in Christcliureh on September 3. The resulting proceeds are to go towards a Memorial Club. Amongst the Christcliureh girls who aro doing oxcellent war work in England is Miss Alys Gower Burns. For a long time Miss Bums was working in'a munition factory in England, wliero she got on so well that slio was made overseer in the finishing room. She was advised to take a rest from tho trying work, and in order to get a complete change she learnt motor driving, and succeeded in passing an examination and obtaining a certificate, which enabled her to become a member of the Jtoynl Motor Air Force, and she is now busily engaged in driving motorcars, presumably in connection with aerodrome transportation.

Miss Hitchings (Napitr) is visiting Dumedin.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Bridson are visiting Christchurch.

The ontorbainmcnt which the Victoria League has arranged in aid of the French Appeal Fund promises to be particularly attractive. The programme is of a very varied character and includes some charming scenes, one in particular being of the period of Louis XVI. in which Marie Antoinette, Marie/Fhorese, and other historic personages appear, A garden forms the setting, and needless to say the dressing is most picturesque. Mnrie Antoinette being, a particularly charming figure in her panniernd frock of buttercup brocade. pointed velvet bodice of the period, and large velvet hat, massed with ostrich foathors. Those taking iravt iri iho scene also dance a gavotte. Other attractions are tile "Historic Hall of Statuary" and the presentation of the "Bat-broom Door : ' comedy, and various other items. Miss M. Butler is the organiser of the entertainment for the Victoria League, and it will take plac? on Tuesday, September 3.

Mr. H. S. fiart addressed tho Sunday afternoon meeting ct. tho Y.M.C-.A. rooms. About 3D soldier!* and visitors, to tho city were vj.eomed at the strangers' tea. Sixty-soveii soldiers were entertained at tho after-chuivh supper. During tho week-end 183 beds and 403 meals were supplied to men on leave from camp at the Hostel in lloulcott Strejt, and i 5/ beds and 256 meals at the main Y.MC.A. building in "Willis Street, a total .it 340 beds and 659 ine;us.