WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 86, 6 January 1926, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

Dr. and Firs. Prior (Masterton) are visiting Auckland. Dr. J. A. Cowie and Dr. Helen Cowie (Flasterton) are visiting Dunedin.

Dr. and Mrs. McKay (Palmerston North) have left for a visit to Dunedin.

Mrs. M. Heaton Rhodes (Wellington) and Mrs. Ewen Clark arc visiting Dunedin.

Fliss Paterson (Dunedin) is at present staving with her sister, Dr. Ada Paterson. Wellington.

Canon and Mrs. Fancourt and family (Palmerston North) are spending the holidays at Pliininertou,

Mrs. F. F. H. Hill, who has just arrived from Melbourne, is staying with her mother, Mrs. Kircher, Karaka Bay.

Mrs. C. Webster (Feilding) is the guest of Mrs. McClelland, New Ply. month.

Mrs. T. H. A Valintine has been spending the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Vickers, Inglewood.

Mrs. Douglas Wood, after spending Christmas week in Masterton, has gone on to stay with her sister, Mrs. F. L. Collins, “Lowlands,” Taihape.

Miss Winifred Shanks, B.Sc., has been appointed domestic science instructress at the Nelson Technical School

Tn the ladies’ race at the New Year sports in Oanidru two of the competitors were grandmothers and one ot them was the winner of the race.

The engagement is announced of Joan Kathleen, only daughter of Mrs. C. J. Tully, of Wellington, to Vere Arbuthnot/onlv son of the Rev. FI. A. Arnold and M’rs. Arnold, of Welsingham, Durban, England.

Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Nichols, “Pueriri,” Turakiua, returned from a visit to Europe and Great Britain by the Tahiti, on Monday.

Commodore Beal and Mrs. Beal have left Auckland for Takapau to attend the double wedding of Miss Violet A’Deane and Lieut.-Commander Tolleniache, FI.M.S. Dunedin; and Miss Margaret A’Deane and Lieutenant Marshall, lI.MS. Dunedin.

A most enjovable dance was held at Ocean House, Paekakariki. to welcome in the New Year. Dancing was indulged in till midnight, items being contributed by those present, and also extras being played bv some of the guests. The hostess provided a very dainty supper, and altogether the gathering was most successful.

Sir Edward Stern, Bart., 71, the Melbourne “Herald’s” special London representative cables, has become engaged to Miss Svbil ’Puck, 38, daughter of Sir Adolf Tuck, Bart. Sir Edward Stern is a merchant banker, head of the firm of Stern Bros. Fie is honorary colonel of the East Surrey Volunteers. His first wife died in 1918. Sir Adolf Tuck is head of the firm of Raphael Tuck and Sons, Ltd., fine art publishers.

The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Clieal, of 17 Lochiel Road, Remitera, Auckland, was celebrated at their residence on Sunday. Fir. and Firs. Clieal Were married on January 3, 1816, by the Rev Dr. Macdonald, the ceremony taking place at the residence of the bride’s parents, Upper Queen Street, her father being the late Fir. R. B. Sbaldcrs, the founder of the Y.M.C.A. in Auckland. They have had four children, two- sons and two daughters—Fir. A. W. Clieal, surveyor, of Te Kuiti, Fir. E. Clieal, who is in charge of the Wanganui Tramway Power Station, Firs. S Clark, of Te Awamutu, and Miss Clieal, of Remucra. There are also six grandchildren.

The death occurred at Tattranga on Saturday of Firs. Burd, wile of Fir. Thomas’ Burd, who was for many .years district roads engineer at Tc Kuiti, and afterwards at Tauranga, retiring a few years ago The late Firs. Burd was born in New Plymouth 63 years ago, being a daughter of the late Judge Haise, well known in the Taranaki district in the very early days. Firs. Burd is survived bv ’ her husband, one son, Fir John Marsh Burd, farmer, of Oropt, and two daughters, Firs. Fabling, of Hamilton, and Mrs. G. Pott, of lauranga.

Mlle Odette Piau, secretary to FI. Albert Thomas, director of the -International Labour Bureau attached to the League of Nations at Geneva, won her third European typewriting clianipiotiship in Paris recently. -Mlle. Imu struck the keys of-her typewriter 40i8 times in five minutes, or 131 times a second, states the Paris cm respondent of an English exchange. An English trirl Fliss E. Mitchell, who beat Mlle. Piau in the’-speed test because, she made fewer mistakes, struck the keys 4060 times in five minutes. Fliss Mitchell wrote many- more Words than her French rival because she chose a sentence composed of the shortest words possible, namely, “It is the dutv of a man to do me a turn, and, if he can, he is to do one-

The wedding, was solemnised recently in St. Thomas’s Church, Newtown, of Doris, elder daughter of Mr. oed Mrs. O. 11. Rollins,’ of Wellington, to Edgar, vounger son of Mr. and Mrs. !'■ W. Faber, also of Wellington, the Rev. C- V. Rooke officiating, assisted by the Rev. E. Burgin. The church was decorated by Jriends of the bride and bridegroom, and the ceremony was a choral one. The bride, who was given awav bv her father, wore a frock of cream georgette and silver lace, with la'tc train.’ the bridal veil being held in place with a coronet of orange blossom. She, carried a bouquet of cream roses, carnations, orange blossom, and maidenhair fern. The bridesmaids were Miss Gertrude Rollins and Miss Eileen Faber, who wore frock's of lemon and mauve brocaded crepe de chine respectively, with hats to match and bouquets to tone. Little Gertrude and Nellie Collins and Barbara Wells made charming flower girls, in frocks of pastel shades and Dutch caps of white lacc, each carrying Dolly Varden posies. The bridegroom’s gifts to the bridesmaids were a gold armlet and a string of pearls respectively, and gold bangles to each of the flower girls. The best man was Mr. Walter Faber and the groomsman Mr. F. 11. Harris. On leaving the church the bride was presented with a luckv horseshoe by little Gladys Hands. The reception was afterwards held at the Masonic Hall, Donald McLean Street, where about 80 guests were entertained. The bride and bridegroom later left on an extended tour of the North Island before taking up their residence in Auckland, the bride travelling in a frock of tan crepe de chine, with hat to match, and fox fur, the gift of the bridegroom. To-day, the woman whose hair is permanently waved bv the Eugene process, whether she retains her tresses or is shingled, has a wave indistinguishable from the natural, and her individual charm is accentuated Perfection and nothing less is the ideal offered you in the artistic distinction of the Eugene permanent wave Stamford and Co., Ltd., 68 Willis Street. ’lTiou- 44—745. -I-*

Fliss G. Robinson has returned from a visit to Blenheim.

Firs, and the Misses Chrisp, of Gisborne, are visiting Auckland.

Fliss FI. Percival Street, left last week for a visit to Dunedin.

Fliss Whitelaw has left Dunedin, cn route for England. She will travel by the Remucra. »

Fliss Vivian Opie has arrived from India on a visit to New Zealand, and is at present in Christchurch,

Firs. Svdnev Johnston, of Orouawbaro, Takapau, is expected to return to New Zealand from England early in February.

Firs. W. Thomas and Miss K. Thomas, who have been away visiting Great Britain and the Continent, are expected to return to Greymouth next week.

Fir. W. A. Waters, chief engineer of tlie Flanawatu-Oroua Power Board, and Firs. Waters are passengers by the Tahiti for San Francisco. Mr. Waters expects to visit several United States and Canadian cities during bis absence from New Zealand.

General principles are good, but concrete illustrations are better. Here are two stories furnished .by the Girl Guides’ Association showing the value of expert knowledge in emergency (states a London correspondent). In both cases a life was saved, and in both cases a small girl guide was the instrument of salvation. I pass on the stories in the hope that they may interest girl guides in the Overseas Dominions. The first comes from America, and tells that the quartermaster of the steamer J. T. Florse fell overboard. For. several minutes the quartermaster was not missed; then the head of a drowning man was noticed, and a boat put off from the shore and brought him ashore unconscious. A crowd gathered, but no one knew what to do until Evangeline Sawyer, a girl guide, pushed through the people and suggested sending for a doctor. Then she began artificial respiration, which she had learnt at her summer cam". Before the doctor arrived the quarts, master was sitting up and drinking coffee. The second story is similar, but the scene is a lakeside in central Sweden Barbro Torssauder, a Swedish girl guide, had been bathing with her father, when a boy ran up and asked Mr. Torssander if. he knew anything about artificial respiration. “Someone has been drowned,” he explained. The father confessed ignorance, but Barbro said: “I know what to do; I learnt it at Guides.” The three ran to the shore and found a young man Iving on his back, blue in the face, and unable to breathe. While someone ran for a doctor, Barbro turned the vouth on his face, and tried to get the water out of his lungs, telling the met? how to rub his arms and t legs. Soon the youth began to breathe, and when the doctor came an hour later, was on the way to recovery.

FRESH FIELDS WOMEN BOTANICAL EXPLORERS. We are constantly hearing of women who have made a great name for themselves iu various blanches of science, but little is ever heard of feuiiniue triumphs in botany and natural history. Yet iu many instances women have proved superior Io men in those subjects, states a writer iu au English exchange xts tno result of the efforts of a woman botanist who died a tew- months ago the Natural History Botanical Department of the British Museum has gained many very valuable specimens irom all parts of the world. This benefactor to natural science was Fliss Lilian Suzctte Gibbs, who during her adventurous lifetime made journeys to the unexplored parts of Fiji, Borneo, New Guinea, ami Australia in search of plant life. Fliss Gibbs went through a course of botanical study at Swauley Horticultural College and the. Royal College of Science in South Kensington. In 1910 she had the honour of winning the Huxley medal for research iu natural science. A Dangerous Expedition.

Her first exploration trip was to Fiji, whore she climbed Mount Nadarivatu. Later she went to British North Borneo and succeeded in reaching the summit of Mount Kinabulu. This climb was a big undertaking, being 13,00ift. high and presenting many dangers for the explorer; yet Miss Gibbs succeeded where others had failed and secured many extremely valuable plants that were quite new to science. During her various explorations Miss Gibbs went through swamps and -impenetrable forests, as well as facing the risk of being attacked by hostile natives; and there at e very few'male explorers who have, lived a more hazardous life than this courageous woman botanist. Very little botanical information about British Somaliland would be avaitriblo to-day but for the untiring efforts of two women explorers, Fliss I’dith (.'ole and Mrs. I.ort Phillips. They formed an expedition and penetrated into the wildest parts of this 'little known region of Africa. They returned, after many exciting adventures, with about 300 species of flowering plants and ferns which they presented later to .Kew Gardens

Exciting Adventures. Another notable woman botanist was Miss Mary Kingsley, who was a nieefr of the famous novelist, Charles Kingsley. She went to West Africa and later to the French Congo, where she explored country that was untrodden by Europeans. After a long scries of hairbreadth escapes in the forest and on the river from cannibal tribes she managed to get back to the coast with a valuable collection of botanical specimens. An Unknown District. Further botanical information about Africa was obtained at a later date by Mrs Lugard, who explored unknown Ngamiland. This district is for the most part uninhabitable, and it was at great risk from fever and famine that the intrepid Mrs. Lugard carried out her investigations. Firs. P. A. Talbot has rendered great services to botanical science by her work in South Nigeria, and one must not forget to mention Firs. A. F. Broun, who discovered many formerly unknown plants during her Sudan expeditions.