WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 18, 16 October 1918, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL A cable announcement has linen received of tho liinrriage of Justin Grey Toulon, son of the lute-Maurice 13everidgo Toulon and Mrs. Toulon, "of Croydon, Surrey, and Elsio Gertrude Dimock, only cliild of Mr. and Mrs. ■\Y. Dimock, of vSilvcrstream. Tho marriage took place at St. Saviour's Church, London, W., o;i October 7. Captain and Mrs. Hnll-Thompson have returned to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cameron and Mrs. B. .Bunny (Waii-arapa) ore visiting Wellington. Mrs. Hosking (Mastcrton), Miss Vallance, and Mrs. Bennett are visiting Auckland. , • Mrs. Martin: Elgar (Woirnrapa) is visiting Wellington. Mrs. Y. Ward is spending a few reeks at Waikanae. Miss AVardell arrived in Wellington yesterday from Masterton. . Miss Cameron, who has been spendiug some weeks w.ith relations in Mnstertou, returned to Hastings yesterday. Miss .Hilda Miles lias returned to Wellington from a visit to Auckland.

Miss Joan Hislop is doing war work in England, and is at present staying with 'Iriends at Brockenlmrst. -

Miss Evelyn Barlow,, daughter of the late Dean of Peterborough, and sister of Sir Montague Barlow, M.P.,, has become an auctioneer for Messrs. Sotheby, ■ Wilkinson, and Hodge, the noted art autioneers, of Wellington Street, Strand, London.

Mrs.Vj. M. Bell/ daughter of Mr. ■Harold Beauchamp, and her two children,- returned to ;New Zealand by the Niagara. Mrs. Bell "is the wife of Major J. Mackintosh Bell, who is attached to the Imperial Forces, and is now engaged on a special service in Russia. Major 801 l was director of the New Zealand Geological Survey for some years, and prior to tlie war wa6 engaged in mining-work in Canda.

A plain, fancy dress, and poster ball, in aid of the Crippled. Soldiers' Hostel, lias been organised by tlie Wellington Jewish Social Club, and will be held in the . Town ..Hal! towards the end o the month. ' '

On November 7 a Maori entertainlrent will be held 'at the Town Hall in aid of Lady Liverpool's and Mrs Pomare's Maori Soldiers' F\ind.

The hon. secretary,of the L,ady Liverpool's and Mrs. Pomaro's Maori Soldiers' Fund acknowledges the following donations:—Ngarauru Committee, Kaihvi, £10 135.; Waipatu Committee, Hastings, £30; Owahaoa Committee, Waiotapu, £10; Hiruliaranea Committee, Wangamii, £10; Otaki Committee (selling flowers), £2; Ngatjiraukawa Committee, Otaki, £49 6b.; Mrs. T. G. Russell, Cliristchurch, 10s.; Awahou Committee, Foxtoii, £6]65.; Manunui Committee, £5 monthly; Hiruharama C-ommittee, £5 monthly; Waihcketua. Committee, Tokaanu, £a; MahingaVangi and Tamaihutoroa, Mokai, £2 10b. ; Te-iti-a-Motai Committee, Mokai, £3 monthly;.Ngarauru, Kai Iwi, £10 monthly; Mr. Stevenson, Harotonga, £5; Waihekotua'Committee, Tokaanu, sixteen feather and whitau kits, three flax kits, ono tiuiko mat, and feather mat; TuahiVi Committee (pijr Mrs.. Fhitey), Kaiapoi, 3 pairs mittens, 4 mufflers, 4 balaclavas, 15 pairs socks; Ngtiahokopu Committee, Whak'atanc, £10 (two months); ! Ihutia Patriotic League, £6 10s. (id.; per Miss Veal", lion, secretary Cambridge Women's General Hospital and War Fund Committee,, two cases of phristmas cheer; per .Miss Anderson, Mpari Sunday School children, Te Kuiti, 55.; Tnahiwi Committee, Kaiapoi, £14; Putiki Cpmniitttr, Wanganui; £20; 'Awahou Committee, Foxton, £6 25.; Mahingarangi and ' Tamaihutoroa Committeo, Mokai,! £3; Wairaka Committee, Taupo, £o; : Ngatiawa . Committee, AVlisikatane, £20;- Owhaoa Committee, . Waiotapu,' £5; Awahou Committee, Foxton, £4 10s.; Tuhorangi Committee, Wliakarewarewa, £10;. Miss May Cook, Otiiki, selling flowers, £1; Wailieketua Committee, Tokaanu, £5.

Women and tho Air Service. Are women to be used for air work ? asks an Australian writer. That quos? tion is agitating a good many women keen to pass the test for. air pilot at once. ' America has already ''several hundred women trained \as pilots and observers. A little grou v p or Englishwomen have learned to fly. Only a proportion of young men of 'suitable age and physical fitness possess tho "flying temperament"—a combination of physical and psychical qualities which arc determined by special medical tests. Many of the' hoya who eagerly apply for air sfirvicc will never make even second-rate pilots.. It is rot a matter of courage, of "nerve." Questions of blood pressure, defective eyes and ears, of muscular '.'balance" are .involved. The '(lying temperament is a combination or -''qualities' , as likely to belong to the female'sox i>s to tho male. Tli« mental and nervous equipment of the successful aviator may oven be- more commonly possessed by womcii than by men. Women are an integral part of .the British Army already. They oanpot bo excluded from aviation oil/ logical, ; grounds.

Thanhs to Amerioa, Mr. Hoover, the American Food Controller, has received hundreds of thousands of letters from British schoolchildren thanking him for the help which America has riven to Britain and her Allies. One little girl wrote: —"I am very thankful to you for what you nre now doing for me and the people of England. It is very hard and tiring work for you, and I think you will earn tho title of 'World's Food Controller.' " Piles of these letters were convoyed in two motor-cars to tho American Embassy and' hurriedly arranged. Two children wero then introduced to Mr. Hoover by tho editor of the "Teachers' World," who explained that the letters formed the children's own heartfelt expressions of gratitude to the great nation which had denied itself to provide us with food. Addressing a deputation, Mr. Hoover said: "I shall very proudly distribute these letters amongst our American schools, and I am quite sure they will form one of tho most effective links between the peoples of the two nations." Ceneral Pau. New Zealanders will be glad to meet Goneral Pau, the one-armed hero of two wars, who, it is now announced, will visit, this country with the French Mission in December. In Aus-, tralia lie appears to have '(states an Australian daily) charmed everybody as a great man and a great soldier with a boy's capacity for enjoyment and a boy's heart. "Hois the youngest of all of us," said a member of his Mission, though the General is in his 71st. year. He was -"enchanted" with his visit to. the Lithgow small arms factory and.aviation ground, recalling that he had been one of the promoters of the applications of aviation to military science. But a visit to a State school gavo him equal pleasure, especially when tho infant . room was reached. "His drawing of animals on the blackboard," said a chronicler, "was perhaps to the children the most remarkable event of an exciting day. In the kindergarten his • reputation as a soldier has vanquished; he will be remembered Solely as the man who drew tlie most frightful crocodile that ever carao out of a"'fairy tale." Sight-see-ing, however, is' the least important part, of tho French Mission, which'is composed of specialists in half a dozen departments, and has.for its object to lay tho foundation for permanent amicable relations, trading and other, after, the war; ■■' ; -

The Crimes of Germany. No more uncompromising enemy of Germany exjsts than M. Motte, of the French Mission at present visiting Australia. ' He more than any oF tho mission lias suffered, and Men bo speaks of the sorrows ot Northern France his words burn into the memory. He holds his chair with a grip of steel. His eyes harden, and lie raps out his sentences like the bursts of a mitrailleuse. .Speaking at a meeting recently he said: "The sufferings of people who have remained in the conquered areas I cannot explain. You must have lived through it to know. My father has been <aken prisoner, and my father-in-law. My wife has been in gaol. Many of jour people read tho papers and say tho news is exaggerated.. 1 say that all thathae been said ofi German atrocities has not been exaggerated. On Easier 'Monday, 1916, they came to Lillo and took a- girl from overy homo as a slave to work in the Ardennes, with little food. Most of them came back. vith tuberculosis, looking like nothing .on earth. My poor words-,cannot tell you. Then thoy! took civilian boys of 15 to 18 to dig trenches and work on railways, without adequate food. : When they camp to your home,' to be found eating potatoes jrcant gaol. Had it r:ot been for' tho American Relief Committee in.those daye all Northern France would .have died of starvation. Women hostages up to 70 years of age were put in a. .room—ls women in a room five yards square. That is not exaggerated. My aunt was among them. Then the men were so closely confined that when one died there was no place to put his corpse except on the. table. The remainder ate their meals round the corpse: Theso crimes must be punished. ■ We shall fight on till they have been: It k necessary to bring bsck the reign of justice. Our children and our children's children- must never suffer as we have." • '