WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 174, 11 April 1923, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS ..OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR,

(By

Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. G. Mayne (Christchurch)' will leave by tho Ruahino for a visit to England. Nurse Macandrcw (Percival Street) left last week for a visit to Christchurch.

Mrs. Best has returned to Auckland from a visit to her daughter, Miss K. Best.

Miss Mabel R. Cameron, organising secretary for Australia for Dr. Barnardo’s homes, is tho guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ross, at the Grand Hotel. She leaves for Auckland this V'eek.

Miss Doris Flux, who is returning to uie Solomon Islands by tho Southern Cross from Auckland, after a stay of about five months in tho Dominion on furlough, has spent about a year on one of the islands. Miss Flux is a daughter of Mr. George Flux, of Maipu, but formerly headmaster of tho Wellington South School. Previously to leaving New Zealand for her work amongst the Natives, Miss Flux was engaged at nursing in the Palmerston North public hospital, where her capabilities were fully recognised. She is taking back with her a large gramophone, which will bo a great help to her in her work, and several friends have agreed to send her new records from timo to time.

The matron of the Wellington Red Cross Home thanks the following donors of gifts:—“Tatlers,” Lady Liverpool, ; London “Times,” Mrs. J. Nairn; English papers, "Wellesley Club; apples. Dr. and Mrs. Adams; plums, Miss Beckett; pears, Mrs. Roy; flowers, Mrs. Willis, Mrs. Roy, Mr. Searle; books and dainties, manager Ngahauranga abattoirs.

At the statutory meeting of contributors to the Wellington Society for Relief of the Aged Needy the chairman, Mr. G. Petherick, expressed sincere sympathy in the loss tho Home for Aged Needy had sustained in the death of Mrs. Boxall, who had been one of the trustees since 1910. For the past thirteen years she had given her services to the homo with credit to herself and had been a great help to the institution. A motion that the sincere sympathy of the meeting with the family of the late Mrs. Boxall in the loss they had sustained bo conveyed to them was passed, members standing meanwhile.

Wedding at Pleckville.

A wedding in which much interest was centred was solemnised at St. Cuthbert’s Church, Eketahuna, on Wednesday morning, the Rev. R. W. White officiating, and the church being filled to oveiffiowing with guests and interested spectators. The bride was Miss Elsie Mary Agnes Edwards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Edwards, Pleckvillo, and Mr. "William Leonard Eagle, son of Mr. W. Eagle, Eketahuna. The service was choral, and Miss Belle Harrison was at the organ. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a white silk frock with a filmy overdress of georgette, heavily embroidered with ivory beads, and having side panels of filet lace, and a wide swathed belt-of georgette. The bridal veil, embroidered with true lovers’ knot, was worn mob-cap fashiort, and held in place by a wreath of orange blossoms. A beautiful bouquet of white cactus, dahlias, roses and maidenhair fern was carried. The present from the bridegroom was » gold pendant, set with sapphires. Mies E. Coll io, of Masterton, was chief bridesmaid, and wore a jumper frock of lavender crepe do chine, trimmed with silver beads, the jumper and bottom of the skirt being scalloped, and she wore a hat to match. Her bouquet was of purple asters and chrysanthemums, with touches of lemon and maidenhair fern. Miss Eileen Matey, of Palmerston North, was also in attendance on the bride, and wore a frock of lemon crepe de chine, beaded with blue, the skirt having loose panels lined with blue. The bouquet of lemon dahlias and fem had touches of heliotrope, and the hat of lemon georgette was trimmed with silver loaves. The bride was also attended by two little flower girls, Peggy Collie and Jean Edwards, who wre in cream net dresses over pink and blue silk respectively, with ribbon chapeets on their hair. Each carried a basket of roses. The three firstnamed maids are cousins of the bride, and the last her small sister. All received gold brooches from the bridegroom. Supporting the bridegroom were Messrs. Len. Burling (best man), and R. Eagle (groomsman). As the bridal party left tho altar Mendelsshon’ii wedding march was played. They wore greeted at tho church door with showers of confetti, and motored to the hall where they received the congratulations of their friends The guests, over 80 in numbgr. were welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Edwards and entertained in tho main hall, where the wedding breakfast was sot. The bride and bridegroom left by th© northern mail train for Palmerston North, eu route for Auckland and Rotorua, on a honeymoon trip, the former travelling in a navy tailored costume, worn over a knitted cream silk jumper, and a brown cire satin hat with undertrirn of shot silk and panne velvet. The bride’s mother wore a grey gabardine coat frock, braided with grey, interwoven with kingfisher blue, which was carried out on the hat. Black fox furs were also worn, and she carried a bouquet in shades of pink and blue. Mrs. Jenkins, thb bride’s sister, wore a navy tailored costume, and lemon beaver hat. Guests from outside places included Mesdames Collie and Hathaway (Martinborough), Smith (Upper Hutt). Matey (Palmerston North), (aunts of the . bride). Mr. and Mrs. Collie (Kaitoke), A. Collie (Masterton), Mrs. Fulford (Palmerston North), Miss Wills (Ohura), J. Matey (Palmerston North ), (cousins of the bride), Miss Trotter (aunt of bridegroom), Miss Clouch (Grcytown). Mrs. Herbert and Mrs. S Munns (Pongaroa). In the evening Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, in honour of tho evont. entertained a very large number at a dance in the Pleckville schoolroom, and a most enjoyablo time was spent. Music was supplied by Mr. H. Cooper, assisted bv Mssdamps Handley, Yerven, and Jenkins. Mr. K. Edwards acted as M.C.

Mrs. Richard Todd (Napier) is visiting Mrs. Sims, Christchurch.

Miss E. M. Hooper has been appointed infant mistress at the Hutt District High School.

Miss M. Grossweil, daughter of the headmaster of Wellington College, is to leave on a trip to England by the Tainui on May 14. Mrs. C. Nelson George, of Te Aroha, will be a passenger by the same steamer.

Miss Constance Leatham, of New Plymouth, is visiting Christchurch, and last week was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Empson at a farewell evening given in her honour before leaving with her father, Dr. Leatham, for England to continue her musical studies.

It is interesting to r/ote from the monthly report of the Citizens’ Day Nurseries that use is made of the nurseries as well by fathers as ■ by mothers. It has been found that children left there daily are left not only by working mothers, but also in many cases by fathers, who have been happy to find their children cared for during tho mother’s illness at home or in hospital. At the committee’s monthly meeting yesterday, which was presided over by Mrs. Leicester, in the absence of Lady Luke, the following gifts and donations were gratefully acknowledged:—Mrs. J. S. Elliott, fruit, vegetables, and scones; Mrs. F. T. Clarke, jam and golden syrup; Mrs. Alex. Gray, jam and magazines; Mrs. Sevier, apples; Mrs. R. Kennedy, apple jelly; Miss Wallace, biscuits, butter, eggs; Napier Fish Company, weekly supply of fish; Mrs. W. F Massey. £1 Is.; Mrs. R. Kennedy, £1 is.; Mr. F. T. Clark, 10s.

A big Blue Book concerning London and its people were issued by the Stationery Office recently. It costs Bs., and contains millions of figures. On being investigated, “Census of England and Wales, 1921, London Tables (Part II),” reveals something of Hie romance and mystery of the great city. London, for instance, has a solitary fisherwoman, who lives at Wandsworth; it has one, ,and only one, woman blacksmith, who works m Shoreditch ; and there is one woman bricklayer, of Deptford. There are two London women who are o-asfitters’ labourers ; one lives in Deptford and the other in Hampstead. While London County has but one fisherwoman, the City of London jhas but cue 1 si erman. There are eight London shepherds —two of whom live in St. l’incras; 23 widows in their ’teens, 82 women who make clogs. Among the queer trades are “hacklers,” “jacquard punchers,” “phinkers,” “teasers,” “slashers,” “scratch-brushes.”

A RIVAL TO THE “PRINCE OF BEGGARS”

GREAT WAR WORK. Frail looking, with a soft voice and very gentle manner, Miss Mabel R. Cameron, a visitor from England, who arrived in Wellington from Australia, presents a study of contrasts. Only an indomitable, tireless, woman could have achieved.what she did during the dark days of- the war—and who, looking at the slight physique, the sensitive face, could have gues>sed what lay beneath.

During those early days of the war when the little Belgian army was fighting with its back to the wall against the German hosts, their plight so far as comforts and even necessities were concerned, was entirely overlooked by her fellow, combatants among the nations, who were engrossed in theii< own struggles. For instance, they had only two camp kitchens for the whole army; for six months or more there were men who had not even a change of clothing ; uhey were short of harness, short of water ■sterilisers, of waders, of ever so many things that were commonplaces afterwards. Realising these things, Miss Cameron and her friend, Miss Oarey (who left for America later), got to work to raise funds, and were able to supply the Belgian army with 200 camp kitchens, 200 pure water sterilisers, horses’ harness, camp outfits, trench heaters, waders, respirators, and two tons of provisions and comforts sent over every Monday to Belgium, tho Governments giving free transport from Charing Cross to Dunkirk. That was all done in the first year of the war by these two ladies. The following year a sum of £lOO,OOO was raised for Lord Roberts’s memorial workshops in different parts of England, and later still, a sum of £60,000 was raised for the Y.M.C.A. hutments in France. Those who have organised appeals for money in New Zealand at different times will realise the magnitude of Miss Cameron’s efforts, and in her Lord Knutsford, the “Prince of Beggars” (for hospitals), must find a formidable rival, as she too Included hospitals in her money raising efforts. Talking of the work- for disabled soldiers that is done in connection with these memorial workshops, Miss Cameron could not say too much in their praise. They gave work to a very large number of disabled men, and Enabled them to readjust themselves to their changed conditions, happily and successfully. The range of industries covered by these workshops included furniture making, baskets, brushes, poultry fanning requisites, leather work, toys of all descriptions, printing, etc."; and armless men, too, found a °ni<ihe, land aomlntimes acted. as guides over the factories. Pensions, though they may not be so large as some of the pensions here, went further in England than their New Zealand equivalent, as living was cheaper. Miss Cameron is now associated with the Barnardo homes, and is the organising secretary for Australia of this great movement.