COUNTESS OF LIVERPOOL FUND

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 51, 28 August 1914, Page 9

COUNTESS OF LIVERPOOL FUND

Contributions received by the Mayoress's Committee at the Town Hall yesterday for the Countess o,f Liverpool's Expeditionary Force Fund were as follow :— T.H.P., 1 cap; Mrs. G. Oliver, 1 hot water bottle; Mrs. E. H. Anderson, books; W.A.L. Bible in Schools, 4 balaclavas, 1 scarf, 3 pairs socks ; Ha» wera, books and magazines; A. S. Evan6, books and magazines; Mrs. J. Myers, books and magazines : Mrs. T. W. Ward, 3 ambulance hoods ; Greytown North, 24 balaclavas, 2i dozen shirts, 7 parcels bandages, 22 tooth brushes, 32 pairs socks, 12 towels; Mrs. G. S. Cooper, French and German books; Mrs. Andrews, sen., 2 pairs socks; Mrs. W. S. Reid, books and magazines : Mrs. D. H. S. Riddiford, 2 caps; Mrs] W. F. England, 12 pillow-cages ; Mrs. C. S. Young, books; Mrs. Moncrieff, 5 caps; Miss Barraud, French and Gei> man phrase books; An Old Nightingale Nurse of St. Thomas, 3 caps; Mrs. Coradine ,(Masterton), case of books; Mrs. W. Young, 3 caps; A Little Country Girl (Bethel Coloneus), St. John's Gospel; Wickford (Auckland), 4 dozen "housewives," 21 shirts; Masterton Nursing Division of St. John Ambulance Brigade, 320 hospital sponges, 134 roller bandages; Carterton branch of the Countess of Liverpool's Fund, 1 hot water bottle, 3 flannel bed jackets, 2 flannel belts; Masterton, 1 large case books; Eastbourne, French looks; Mrs. Hulberfc, 5 caps; Miss M. Ward, 2 caps; Rev. C. Maclaverty, books and magazines; Mrs. E. H. Dean, 3 deckchairs; Ohakune Ladies of the Anglican Guild, 25 singlets, 2 pairs pyjamas, bandages, 2 parcels games, writing paper, envelopes, notebooks, 2 combs, 1 box biscuits, 20 pairs socks, 3 nightingales, 8 cholera belts, 18 " housewives " ; Mrs. Paxton, 1 cushion, 1 nightingale, pipes, and " housewives " • from an English nurse, 3 caps, 2 pairs socks; Paraparaumu, 1 pair mittens; Mrs. Bakewell, French books, 3 socks, and 2 parcels literature; A Little Boy and Girl at Heretaunga, 1 hojdall, 3 handkerchiefs; Mr. Hannah, leather and mohair bootlaces; Mr. E. Pearce, leather and mohair bootlaces; Esperanto Society, Esperanto books; Miss Newton, 23 caps; Miss M. F. Marshall, 3 caps; Mrs. Contesa, 1 dozen pair mittens. JBrom Martinborough— Mrs Munro 1 dozen pillows; Mrs. Cobb, 2 pillows! 2 pairs sheets, 1 dozen pillow-cases ; Miss Orr, 1 dozen surgical towels, 1 dozen pillow-slips, 1 dozen handkerclneis, 1 dozen cards safety pins; Mrs. Benjamin, half-dozen towels; Mrs. Arthur Mai tin, 1 dozen pairs socks, 10 Pipes; Mrs. Dick, 4 pairs socks. Per Mrs. Catherine Martin (Martinborough), 5 balaclavas, 5 scarves, 8 flannel undertt h u ts ' }}, ? airs PyJ amas » 12 cholera belts, 12^ dozen surgical towels ; Mrs. Henry Smith, French books; ladies of Paraparaumu, 30 pairs mittens, 5 caps; St. John's Presbyterian Women's Association, 2 caps; Chetwode Schoolgirls, 6 cholera belts, 3 " housewives " ; Wellington Girls' College, French and German books; New Plymouth Victoria League, 52 balaclavas; the women of Elslhorpe, 12 "housewives," 8 flannel belts, 4 pairs socks, 3 undershirts; Mrs. Nicholson, books and papers ; A Friend, 7 caps and French books. Sums of money received yesterday were as follow : — Auckland Patriotic League, £20; Featherston Ladies, per Mrs. W. Barton, £59 8s 7d ; Mrs. C. S. Young (collecting card), £3 11s 2d ; Mrs. Hueston, £2 12s 9d ; Mrs. Laing-Meason, £1 ; Miss Potts, £1 4s ; Miss Barraud, 6econd collecting '-ard, 10s. The sum of £30 has been handed into the fund by Mr. Davidson, on behalf of the committee of last Monday's patriotic concert. The Countess of Liverpool Fund at Petone amounts to £117 5s 9d, £30 of which was raised in picture entertainments by Hayward's and the Mascotte Picture Companies. The equipment for the men cost £90 10s lOd, and the balance is being held over till a future meeting decides how it is to be expended. Tho Mayor, Mr. J. W. MacEuan, has set up a committee to enquire into any distress caused by breadwinners having gone- to the fiont. The Mount Cook School pupils are giving their annual entertainment in St. Mark's Schoolroom on Tuesday and Wednesday next, at 8 p.m. The programme is an attractive one, and includes scenes from "Alice in Wonderland," and "Uncle Tom's Cabin " The Otago Witness anounces the engagement of Miss Jessie M: Jones, youngest daughter of Air. Robert C. Jones, Haslemere, Roslyn, to Captain A. V. Short, of the Otago Field Ambulance Corps, son of Mr. VY. S. Short, Assistant Secretary of Public Works, Wellington. The engagement is anounced of Miss Eawena Andrew, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrew, of 40A, Wright-street, to Mr. Ernest Samuel Bicknell, of Surrey, England. Mr. Bicknell goes home in the troopship Ruapehu. "Elderly's" object in writing to The Post last Friday week is simply to try and bring together a few women of kindred spirits to entertain each other with their' wonderful experiences of things that have happened within the last sixty or seventy years. They ciould arrange' for other ways of entertainment. Anyone wishing for further details must send their address to "Elderly," Post Office, Wellington South. One often hears the wail of a neatlyveiled woman at afternoon tea, and watches with sympathy her struggles to get her mouth free for the cup she longs for. Some, who have more regard for their appearance than desire for tea, have been known to actually refuse the refreshment. Here is an idea that may ease the situation. The newest veil has a beauty-spot over the lips, which works on a hinge, and makes an opening large enough to admit a straw, through which the tea can be sipped. It seems necessary, if more solid refreshment is desired, that a larger aperture should be arranged. One fancies women would look rather extraordinary with their visors up, or their beavers down, and the veils — ephemeral and expensive at best — would be too costly for the new idea to become popular. The engagement is announced of Miss Madge Pollock, daughter of Mrs. R. Pollock, Kelburn, to M,\ D. Brunskill Reid, manager of Messrs. Yuills, Ltd., London, and son of Mr. David Reid, general manager for Australasia of tho Orient Steamship Co. The death of Madame Alice Carbonnel Kellerman, on Ist July, closely followed her appearance at a concert given on 10th June in Paris, in the presence of Princ6 Charles de Bourbon, and an aristocratic gathering. Referring to the decease ot the veteran pianist, th 6 Sydney Morning Herald says that olio was a loading teacher there from about ISB2 until her de-

I parture in 1899. Madame KeUerman I was born at Cmcinatti, U.S.A., and after studying the full time at the Paris Con-, servatoire she went with her father to New Caledonia, where he was procureurg6neral. Subsequently, in the course of an Australasian tour, which opened in Melbourne, she made her Sydney debut in 1878. Her style as a pianiste was brilliant, but superficial. Of 'her children born in Sydney, her son Maurice is a violinist in America, and her daughter Annette is a swimmer whose ingeniously devised aquatic feats have for several years past been popular as a star turn at vaudeville theatres all over the world. ! Miss Jeanne Beauchamp, who has been visiting friends i.n Sydney for some months, returned to Wellington in the Manuka. In the July number of the Parents' Review, a writer, discussing a recent article. "Does the Child Start Fair?" lays stress on his theory that climate has an enormous influence on character, Discussing a hereditary strain of intemperance iD a> family, he is opinion that, if slight, it may be counteracted easily by removal from a damp to a- dry clii mate. He instances as a fact that children of confirmed drunkards, if born in South Africa or Australia, seldom if ever inherit the failing. Elder children t of the same parents, born in England before the migration of the family, very often carry on * the failing, despite the new enwronment, while the younger children, born in healthier conditions, do not do so. Writing from South Africa, he is struck by the large number of men who are drafted out by impatient relatives in order to enforce the turning over of a new leaf in fresh surroundings. The result can generally be taken for granted. Of the six, eight, or ten children who may make up the family, the only ones to follow in their fathers' footsteps are the English-born. A delightful style of table decoration has come into fashion in England. Instead of a lamp or an electric candle, the newest idea is to have an imitation flowering plant lit up inside by electricity. Lately a hostess gave a large dinner party, and the table was decorated in this new style by hydrangea plants. They were made of electric lights springing from a stem, the electric bulbs being covered cunningly with silk petals, making them look like full flowering hydrangeas. _ The stems were hidden by an artistically arranged profusion of hydrangea foliage. The effect of the elqctric light shining through the leave* was luminous and fairylike in the extreme. The hydrangea, owing to the size of its flowers and the beautiful colourings., in which it can be had, lends itself better than any other plant to this style of decoration. _ Some ladies have these charming lights scattered about their reception rooms, with v«ry fin© effect. "Very touching and pathetic is the Empress Eugenie's devotion to the past," says the London Daily Telegraph. "It is well known that when she visits Paris she selects by preference " rooms in the I Hotel Continental, whicli overlook the Tuileries Gardens, as though it gave her a sombre pleasure >to revive ancient memories of happiness and greatness. In the same spirit, as our own correspondent in Paris tells us, she has during her present stay in iho French capital deliberately chosen to visit the Chateau of Fontainebleau — where everything must 1 speak to her of days of glory and power, when she was 'Empress and ruled men's i hearts and earned the willing seivice of their hands. Now well advanced in the vale of years, she loves to bethink herself of that wonderful experience of herß, when Mademoiselle de Montijo came to Paris -came and saw, and conquered. It was at the Elysee, we believe, that she first made the acquaintance of Louis Napoleon at one of the ba*»s given by the Prince-Preaident. When she was 26 she had the honour of being invited, with her mother, to Fontainebleau, and now, in her recent three hours' ramble through the Chateau, doubtless she sees once again how, as a dashing horsewoman, she, the beautiful young Spaniard, whose name was on every tongue, won the heart of her adoring host."

better times than ever before in their lives. Many of the soldiers had never tasted wine until they got there. In Ber lin, during this time the women were looking after their homes the best way they could, in the midst of all the sorrow and excitement caused by the daily —almost hourly — arrival of wounded and prisoners. The Franco-Prussian war brought vietdry to the Germans, but it was followed by very hard times, when the poor suffered greatly indeed. In 1877 Mrs. Jaucks and her husband left for Aus--1 tralia, landing in Rockhampton after a i voyage of sixteen weeks. They were told they had come at a vory bad time, as there had not been any rain for nine months. Then followed many hardships for the immigrants. Eventually the husband got employment on the railway construction works between Rockhampton and Brisbane, and in trying to go to him 'she tramped 130 'miles, with three children, the eldest of whom was aeven. On tile way one child died of hunger, and the mother dug a grave and buried it. Eventually she arrived where her husbanu was, only to find him sick with fever, which shortly afterwards at tacked herself. But, in spite of these and othev troubles that followed, Bhe wrote to her mother in Germany, telling her she did not want to go back. One of the prized possessions of tho family is a letter from the great Bismarck, signed by him 'and sealed, sent to the old lady's grandson in acknowledgment of good birthday wishes, and a photograph, forwarded by the lad to the great man. "Ever since the Kaiser, throw Bismarck out, the people," she said, "have been against the Kaiser. They worshipped Bismarck, because of what he did for the nation ; but they don't like the Emperor."

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