WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Gift Parcels for Soldiers. Tho f -Citizens' Service League aro having a bifr'''pn'c'l;Tng"6f. parcels of soldiers' gifts on January 10, and they hopo that there will bo n good'niuster of .helpers. It is not'liknly- that a great , many more packings will bo reqniredj but'everyone will feel that.so long as there- are soldiers of. oura abroad w.a must not forget them. Quite, a. .num,ber of energetic workers..who .usually help are awayjust how, 60 it is hoped tliat.all who aro in to\yn a.fttt" do go.

'• 'A-quiet wedding was celebrated in St. Paul's Cliufcli,' Papanui, 0n , .-Tuesday morning.- fThe 'bridegroom wns Cnnon H. T. Purchfe; viwir of Glenniiirlc, and • the bride Jfiss Adele Hodgson. (laughter of Mrs. J.'A; Hodgson,'James Avenue, Papanui. The officiatinß clergymen wore the l?ev. W. H. Orbell, vicar' of. St. ■Faults, .and the Ray. .Canon, Hamilton. There were no. bridesmaids :or groomsman. After the ceremony a few intimate friends and relatives were entertained at the residence of the., bride's mother'.'"'The , ' bride' : wrtß formerly a ■feach'er at the- Papanui School.' The Rev. Canon Purchas wns'at'ono time vicar of St. Albany Anjrlican Church, and aSo -of Papanui. Mid.was assistant priest nt the Christehurch Ca(liedtal • in- 1902 and 1903. ' ■ ' "• " ;j

.Miss Barbara Mollis'on; instrnclor .in home science at Wanganui Technical College,- is .Cliristehiirch.

MT.-nhdMr's. Xoiiis Blundell and Mr. nnd Mrs. .T. "L. Blundoll are at present in Christchjirch, as., ar.e also Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Firth. ' ' ' ,

Mies' Itnckenzle, member of the ex-pcutive-of ; tlie -Now Tiealnnd Educational Institute;' Miss 'Haleton, one of the ptago ■ delsKatej to ' the annual meeting of tho' New Zealand Educational Insti-hite;-and-Miss'Norris,' see'retaryof the Women Teachers' branch and of the Duuedin branch of the 0.D.E.1., have all arrived in Wellington to attend the annual meeting-of tlie'New Zealand Women Teachers'. Association. ; i

Mrs. M'Gavin'. 'wife of Colonel D. J. M'Gavin, C.M.G.,"D.5.0.. of the N.Z. M.C.-is the gue.st of the Rev. T. M'Dpnaldand Mrs. .M'Donald, Opawa, Christchurch. ..... ... '•

Mrs. Truby Kin?, who -han bren visit ing■ friend's 'l'ij Wellington amLChristchurch,- has Tefcurnedtto Dunedin,

Captain H. HayhuTst and Mrs; Hayhiiret havogone to-live in\Eketahuna.

" Miss.Frorehcb"',l r oung , ix> at present' in'' Sydney with thel Eoynl Comic Opera.Cpmsany, recently celebrated tho twenty-eighth year df her association with the'stage. ■ Miss Young made her first appearance as Casilda in "Tlie Gondoliers." .

At St. Mark's Cl'.uich, Carterton, on Wednesday afternoon Miss Daisy Myrtle Eofe, fifth daughter of Mr. V. Hofe, of Wyndham Street, was married to Mr. Edward Burnett, of the Wellington Police Force, and.eon of Mrs. A. Burnett, of Aberdeen, Scotland. Miss : L.vdia Eofo was bridesmaid, and Mr. A. D'ixbn,- of Hamilton; best man. Afte,r the ceremony a; reception was held, nnd tlie bridal pair left later on their honey,moon tour north.

President Vfilson is fortunate com•pared with his brother President of the French. Eepublic in being able to bring, his , wife to Europe, for a French President who took hie ivifo out of the country would at onco be faced by the rigours of. tho protocol. Mnie. la Presidente in France is, very strictly limited by the protocol. She receives foreign royalties whon they, go over to Paris, but-'her-realm ■■ is strictly., limited to. Paris. If the French President goes anywhere .on an ..official ..vj'sit his wife may not necompany him; she may not return visits paid by .royalty to Paris. She doi>3 r.ot, even reconipany him on hi-rState .function's at home, ' President Wilaoh. is not eo strictly governed. There is no protocol in the States.

Lady Allen' and Miss Allen are staying at the Hermitage, Mount Cook.

Miss Staples and Miss E. Staples are spending their holidays at Sumner,

: Miviml 'Mm: Frank Bullen, of Kaikourn, are visiting Clirifitchurch.

Mrs. Macarthy-Reid is at present recuperating at .Picton after -a strenuous time nursing epidemic ciiso'3' in the Upper Hutt and Tronthnm districts. She experts to return to Hevetaunga ' next week. . ' •

Sirs. Hurley is visiting Mrs. Hickson, Feilding.r -■■

Miss Giffbrd'.Laure-ison has returned from a visit-to her sister at Tβ luii.ti. '

Mrs. Linley Kichards'on and her daughter Barbara have returned from a visit to Napier. ■ ,\

Dr. and Mrs. Apploby have returned to Auckland' from .Suvn. Dr. Appleby was stationed.at the/Islands when the epidemic broke out, and after helping for a timo was himself attacked, nnd is; now' in New' Zealand on sick leave.

On Monday, December 30, Miss Gladys S. Cork, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Cork, of Lqvin, and formerly of Jjastei'tou, was quietly married to Mr. Harry A.:Horrocks, solicitor, son of Mr. and Mrs; L. B. -Horrocks,. of Auckland. The ceremony was performed by the licv. A. M. Johnson, jn St. Pnul'e Pro-Cathe-dral, Wellington. The bride was attend-ed.-by Miss Mena Wnddington, of Mnsterton, and Miss Dorothy Cork, as brklesmaids. , %

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND Jflßftß,

- Countess Lariniii'/llagriv bettef'known ns Mrs. Tom Thu'iiib, lias fcelebrnted her 77th birthday (says: a-New'York: message of *tne 'first week' in. November), . The Countess Jlagri. was a beautiful.Anici'iciin girl,' just' 32 inches' high.riVheiV.sfemarl'ie'd General Tom Thumb, a perfectlynroportioued .liKtn .of. 31, iucliee.

A London paper saye the. munition girls, whose , ;eyes.sparkle ..at the suggestion of emigrnti'oii': lifter-peace,, arei found among the 000,000' who.;were not; wageearners .'.before .the" ii'nr', and-Ttlie girls who have grown- up during 'the-"war nnd have foiind.,eniployjiiei)t.jil-.iiU))itioii factories, offices,., and. -Government-corps. "Aly break from, home ■ life was .mhde "when'l went into' ammunition hostel,! so inoth'ei , won't mind so-much ■. now if 1 go Oversea," said.one recently; ."You-dou't know till, you livo in a-hostel or join a corps what a large number of girls have iio iionie and who .have only -..an mint or married sister ; to go to, Tliese : girls nil loojc...forwaixl 'to,going., to' Zealand or Cfmadi '• or. Australia. ■ rTliey;. -want liomes of their own and think they'will make them there,,-while here- they might live in lodgings ..all, their, lives:'.' An ■ A'lS.C.'.,woman-, motoixlriver- "The happiest - day of.- my life- will be wfoen I .find ]ny6elf,-a,la'di'. i S'.mnid.,!igain.,!iucl can sit' behind' a -sewing-machine;-- -I'-only tpokup this work to fill a man's'.jilace." 'iThe ..women at -Woolwich ■ Arsenal are not making any- plans-yet,"'snid-.Miss Barker, the ; -woiniVi. euperinjteudent. "Some jtallc of emigrating, -but:on the .whole they will ..wait: to :lcnriw what the Ministry pf. Reconstruction suggests."

. DEATH OF MISS AGNES '.' ■ .'- ; -WESTON- s'v ..:;■■;:' ■■■■ . "THE'SAILORS'FRIEND':"i :' By the death;of Mies.Agiies:E,'.Weslou, G.8.E., which occurred recently at-the Hoyal Sailors' -Beet, Devonport, th'e'personnel of the British Navy lose nri estimable lady become known'- all ovef-'tlio world as "Tlie Sailors' Friend," says the-London-"Times." >The daughter of a barrister, she was born in London in 1840, but while ejio^was'still, a •child her parents moved to Bail;; 'She began her philanthropic' work in 1868, when sho took to visiting hospitals, and also to Sunday school and band of hope, work, following this up by visiting among tlio men V the 2nd.- Somerset Militia.' All this, however, was but .a j preliminary, to tho great ..labours of her lifo; though these in reality ikni-tjSd.from' what was in itself a voryamiiinndident —nnmoly, the writing of a letter to a man 'on board Her Mnjesty's ehip Crocodile, who had lost his mother, and, missing the letters she tised to iserid to him, expressed; a desire to have a letter from wme Christian lady who would -write to him instead. Miss Wcsfoii'speedily hu<i similar requests from- othor' qiiiirterSj and"tho applications at leiieth'becauic so nunierbus that sho begen to issue n series, of printed monthly letters to the Service The circulation of these letters—known as "Bluo-backe," on account of the colour of their covors—was at first only a few hundreds; but f it has of,.late years increased to over half■ a million, inclijd* ing a special issuo for boys. In addk tioh to this, Miss AVestbn hos been known to i write- 10,000 • Derson'nl. letters' in tho ■ course of/a year'm':reply to cominunica-. tions from.'officors arid men in the British Navv/ In th'is .way. her letters, printed or written; followed tho ships of' tho Navy : regularly. to every part, of .tlio globe, and wore .always welcomed with; the greatest eagerness. • . Thori. almost at the outset, of her work for the- Navy, Miss Weston became the active superintendent of the "Royal Naval Temperance Society," and the operations of this body -.have isince then been so extended that Ihoy are.said, to be,, now. in active, .work.i'ng in oyory ship-in the Royal Nnvy.: "'ln 1876 Miss W.estpn,' aided by her 'friend , w«l hetpeivMiss'Wintz.-'started a , "Sailors' Rest", in Dbvonport; being'convinced that work'.afloat was not sufficient and that' the provision of a "Rest" where a. sailor could obtain food,'a bod, healthy .recreation, and all the comforts of., ft temporary home .was-.tho only practical way' of keeping. him from yielding lo the temptations, of all,"kinds that .surrounded him as soon.as,he-put his foot on .shore. The idea, that "Jack" would, bo willing to substitute tea and coffee for the orthodox grog was at this time entirely new, and Hies Weston related, that it' was at-first r,egarded'.as "a crank whichcould only cxiet'in tho brain, of ono or tsvo " misguided .women. But the' "Best"; was speedily crowded with -seamen, .'extensions, became an , absolute necessity, soveral .neighbouring..publicnouses were bought up: and their eitesutilis'ed, and, finally, tliore pleted the .'present splendid range of buildings Which stands directly opposite the dockyard gates at Devonport. .Ihe large,, bright, and thoroughly cheerful; coffee-room is'open, to everyone, .but.the institute'proper is; reserved for .seamen and marines, and for them the.place is a "home" in the truest sense of tho word. They.'can" hot only ha-ve theirmeals at the "Rest," but can sleep , there, • take their wives'knd children there, and. spend their leisure time in comfortablesmoking, lending',' and recreation rooms.- ■ Then there is a large hall for gatherings of various kinds, and it should be mentioned that ono of the bedrooms bears, tho inscription "Given by Queen Victoria, 1805,"-"Her Majesty.liaving asked' Miss Westoii to , accept from-'liereelt'a= gift tdwnlrds tho work which, she was , - so pleased to say, that lady had "so admir-. ably and successfully'■ 'carried " out.. "Naval Sociables," to which seamen can' bring their fauiilie3, are a : feature of tho establishment, and'there-are, too, tenv perance evenings, • lectures,-, -evangelistic.' 'meetings,' ■" ••workrooms ■■ -for, sailors' wives, ambulances-classes,, .etc., while' tho" institute ,, serves, also,--, as -theheadquartia's of- various' nnval clubs and benefit societies which formerly met: indifferent ■ public-honacs. One prominont feature of tlio woi'k lias been, however, the principle "of" "No coorcion"-:'as regards tho feinptoanceaild evangelistic efforts of Mise'Westoiv and 1 her ! f riendii, full allowance'being'mSde for thb"inde- ; pendent character of the-British' senniiin. A branch institute; on similar lines, was also, opened by ; ' Miss Weston at Portsmouth, and it was her' boast that from neither had any seaman ever' been iturii.edaway, while she l estimated tho attendance at the "meetings' • during the year at 150,000/ with aii additional 'SO.OO'J at 'the Saturday night' temperance; entertainments.' .' ■'-■* T ";~"' ■".; '"■"'';' " ■.

•All those' "weroj- undoubtedly, groat re-' s'ultß''to"be bl'ou|l.it ab'put/by two wqinen —for Miss Weslun aUv'ayri' insisted that the name of Miss Wiiitz should be'couplr ed with Her bwni'TjuT.tlio pructicul/good done; thereby,-alike to individual seuiuen and to'the naval "service as a. 'wliole was great The public, steadily supported her with donations. amounting in the aggregate to a very, large sum. In M«y, l!) 10, Miss WeStoii received tho; King's.; con--, gratulations on'tier 70th birthday, und in May two yenrs"agoy when an adtlition to the Royal Sailors' Rest was opened, Hiji Majesty sent ;i messago expressing his: satisfaction and his certainty that the.' extension would benefit the men of the Navy. ■ In, June of tho present year the decoration of ..Giß.E.' • wsh- conferred .upon' Miss rWeston. -.Miss.Weston was. a i'reriueut speaker at temperance' meetings in various parts of the country.