WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1914, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Go often to tlio hill-tops. Prom Micro you will nee tho mist tn Iho valley of your mind.— Oylcr.

A novelty in the way of cntcrtnininont, with a practical purpose wjw oivou jiy I tho Rev. C. H. Itarvoy last night, wlion a purely masculine gathering held a "kitchen" evening for tho lulcncn »tnll at the bazaar next week., Tho quaintest gifte wero brought, oven including a mangle, and one wonders how many corkscrows — a-n implement peculiarly ma-sculinc — woro among the donationa. It is pleasant to learn that, in spite of the absence of the women, a thoroughly enjoyable evening was spent with smoking, chat, supper, and musir, items by Messrs. Harvey, Farmer, and Carwcll Cooke, Master Pankhurst, iMcflsrs. Clnrk and Oswin being much appreciated. Tho guests joined heartily in popular choruses, and finally sang "For Ilo'a «. Jolly Good Fellow" — in compliment to thoir host — and the National Anthom. H wna 11. happy thought converted into mast successful action, and it must have been diverting to sec the men arriving with their various kitchen utensils. Ono wonders if they did tho thing thoroughly and bought them themselves. The matron of the Hospital desires to acknowledge tho following gifts; — Flowers, Her Excellency Lady Liverpool, Wellington Girls' Collcgo, ' Mrs. Tonics (Melrose), Mrs. Hills (Danicl-strcot), Kent Terrace Junior Endeavour Class. Mrs. Whiting, Miss M'Laren (Masterton), Mrs. Bews (Upper Hutt), Miss Coupland (Lower Hutt), Mrs. 'H. W. Lawrence (Johnsonvillo), St. Luke's Church, Mount Cook School ; books, 8, Balmoral-terrace, Ncwtown, Sirs. Hills, defence fctores ; illustrated papers, Vicountess Kclburn, Miss Ham (Broug-ham-street), Mr. R. T. Turnbull ; clothes, Mrs. Harty. Tho Mayoress's Committee" for tho Countess of Liverpool Fund has received the following donations during the past' week :— A. A. A., 2 pairs socks; Mrs. G. B. Davy (Wadestown), 8 boys' shirts, 1 knitted spencer; Mrs. R. C. Kinvig, parcel of clothing for Belgian Relief Fund; W.N. (Marton), 2 pairs bed socks ; no name, 1 pair socks ; Mrs. O. W. Clayton, Vivian-street, 3 coats ; Marton Committee Lady Liverpool Fund, 13 hospital shirts, 6 pairs pyjamas, 20 towels, 27 pillow-cases, 57 bandages, f> boxes soap, 20 packets cotton wool, 6 ! packets gauze, 9 packets roller bandages, j plaster and oil silk, 6 hot-water bottles, l 2 pairs hospital blankets, lint, 12 pairs socks, 3 pairs mittens, 1 pair bed socks ; Loyal Orange Institution, Wellington South (per R. 11. Wilson), two guineas for socks ; Mrs. Hussey (Brooklyn), 2 cholera belts ; Ladies' Patriotic Guild (Reefton), 2 cholera belts; 7 Nightingales (per Sarah Morris) ; from Royal Oak, books for troops. Also the following cash donations, per Mre. Royd Garlick (card) : — Miss V. Chapman £1, Harrington's, N.Z., Ltd., £2 2s;" Mrs. Anderson (card), £1; Mrs. Moran (card), £1 Is 6d. The final evening of the Girls' Branch of the Victoria League was held last night in the Pioneer Club Rooms, prettily decorated with flowers. Among the guests, who were received by Mrs. J. D. Grey, wearing rose silk and lace, were many members, of the Victoria League. Purely a feminine affair — held, curiously, on the very evening when Mr. Harvey gave his man's party. The girls let themselves go as to costume, pretended to be what girls often hanker after— -their brothers. Coon songs, ragtime dances, choruses, a competition J (wpn by Miss Montgomery), music by Miss Dall and Miss Anderson, recitation by Miss Phyllis Bates, pianoforte solo by Mrs. Stephens, and a ragtime dance by Miss B. Putnam made up a delightful programme. Prizes (given by Mrs. Triggs and Miss Coates) for the best camisole were presented by Mrs. Grey to Miss Gow and Miss Doris Dall. Supper was served during the evening, and before leaving three hearty' cheers were given by the girls for their president. .The members of the Daffodil Assembly Club held their final evening — an extended night— last night, this being the eighth season. Mr. A. Firth, the secretary, in a speech expressing much appreciation of her popularity, presented Miss Hawthorne with ,a silver- teapot on the occasion of her twentieth season as dance pianiste in Wellington. The assemblies will reopen at the end of February next. The funeral service for the late Mrs. Bremner took place yesterday afternoon in St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral. "The Battle of Flowers," to have been held in Newtown Park next Saturday, is indefinitely postponed, owing to the indisposition of its organiser, Miss Johnston. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Elgar are staying in England till the end of the war, and are at present with their daughter, Mrs. Hamilton, wife of Major Hamilton, of the Grenadier Guards, and son of Lord George Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. Graham Moffat are staying at the Empire Hotel. Mrs. H. M. Campbell, of Hastings, is in Wellington for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Will LaWson, who have many friends here, and who are now settled in Sydney, are visiting Wellington, and are staying with Mrs. Lawson, Talavera-terrace. Mr. Lawson is a member of the literary staff oE the Sydney Evening News. Mrs Cotter, of Greytown, and Miss Alice Jackson, of Woodside, returned yesterday to the Wairarapa. Mrs. Carlyon, of Hawkes Bay, and j Mr. and Mrs. Cardale, of Christchurch, I returned from Sydney yesterday. I Mr. and Mrs. A. E. T. Devore and the Misseß Devore, who havebeen spending four months in Australia, returned to Auckland by the Riverina on Monday. When, for a very short time, there was some delay in the rush of recruit-* ing in England, women took the matter up. They distributed appeals and used all their powers of persuasian. On' the parade at Deal, it is said, girls went along among the young men who congregated there, and presented each with a white feather ! Tho engagement is announced of Miss Ida May Richardson, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Richardson, Wash ington-avenue, Brooklyn, to Mr. C. H. Bingham, of Carterton, second son of Mr. and the lato Mrs. Bingham, of Doncaster, England. In an article on Royal Queens, which appeared in a recent issue of Vanity Fair, allusion was made to the Kaiserin as one who has always been praised for her excessive cleanliness. It is said of her that she is " washing her hands in hot water all day." In her domestic affairs, it is said, she personally practises the thrift which is a national characteristic of Germans. As long as her six sons camo under her domestic jurisdiction they never possessed more than six shirts at a time, and these were not replaced until they became frayed at the wrists. Furthermore, we aro told that

nono of thn Itohoir/.ollern priiiccsscs liavo over more than " two dozen of ouch " in thoir troiiHfloaux, and Princess Victoria Louiho, tho Kkikoc'r only <lnii|jlt(,cr ( who wna mnrricd lust year, wits no exception to the rule. When tho two younger ilnughtoi'B of tho Kmproas Frederick (sisters of tho Kainur) woro married their mother (oldest daughter of Ouccn Victoria) added nix pairs of black witin " bloomcra " for wearing when riding. Tlicbo garments tittractud tho wondct of nil fominino ]]niiin whmi they were exhibited in tho window of tho establishment whore they wore made. When Iho present Kamcfin whs miirriofl, wo learn thai her trousseau was extraordinarily commonplace, and oven now hlio has only the plainest of lingorio, and not more than half n dozen of each article in daily went". This in wiid to bo not unusual, for, iib v vulo, Gorman women, no mnttor what their station in life, silwnya have a largo mipnly of underwear. It is true that it is both coarso and ugly according to our idona, but then no one could pretend that fine lingorio is in any way utilitarian, and in Germany that qualification comos first. It is pathetic to road in some of tlie latest Kliglish journals _ for feminine readers how those in Paris, whoso busi* ness is connected with dress and fashion, made a brave effort to keep their own particular flag flying after war was declared. But tho work of the Paris correspondent is scrappy enough, and the details, such as they arc, sandwiched in gasping paragraphs among stories of distress caused by the mobilisation of the troops. In ono letter from Paris, dated at' tho end of August, a woman bewails tho fact that no ono will be able to wear tho charming frocks which Worth had prepared for the forma] autumn display. Sho had a private interview with M. Joan Worth juat before ho left for tho front, and ho showed her some of the models, which, she says, seemed strangely inappropriate to tho martial sentiment of the hour. Nevertheless, the writer was able to give some idea of the styles that tho dress designers had planned, and these, under normal conditions, would have developed some striking novelties. Tho term "novelty," used in this connection, must not bo taken to mean something realiy new or original, but merely to suggest a style which has been dormant for a few years, for the' woman who is being quoted says that without exception the skirts of these unseen gowns were all Very' full, and very short, in fact, she says it was impossible to exaggerate the fullness at the foot and at the sides. In some instances the fullness was hung over a "jupe tuyau." or funnel skirt, but the predominative notion was the anticipated evolution of the tunic to skirt, and the newest in line swung full and free from belt to ankje. By a nise which almost t failed, an English lady was successful m duping a German naval officer and thereby escaped capture. But only by the greatest of luck did she eecape, for even under hei stewaress garb and grimy face, the German thought he recognised a British subject. The lady, Mrb. Roberts, the wife of a Middlesbrough, hotel manager, had been on a visit to Riga, the Russian seaport on ,the Baltic Sea, and on her return she told the story of her narrow escape. While in Riga she learned of the declaration of war between England and Germany at 'the English , Church, where the annottneement was made by tho clergyman. The Gulf of Riga was full of German merchant vessels. Their wireless installations were dismantled, but one German captain replaced his instrument and cent messages to the German Government. He- had learned a good deal of valuable information during his stay. He was afterwards discovered, courl-martialled^ a«d shot. The manager of a theatre in the city had obtained extensive plans of the fortifications and movements of troops, and it was thought that he intended to despatch these in a bag of grain. Information from a servant led to his arrest, and a similar fate to that of the aea captain was meted out to him. "It was a most exciting time for all of us," said Mrs. • Roberts. " Besides my boy, 1 was the only English passenger on. the vessel on which we finally left Riga; all the rest were Norwegians. We passed the German' shores to the south of the Baltic and south of Sweden, and on to Burgen, in Norway, where we took ship to Newcastle. I was entered on the books as a Norwegian, and on. the advice of the captain I disguised myself ac a stewardess and my son as a cabin boy. We were pulled ujl several times by Germany torpedo boats and cruisers. They entered into communication with us, and at one moment I thought I was certain to be .taken, prisoner. The captain of a torpedo boat asked us whore we were bound for, and who we had on board. Our captain replied : 'We are sailing into Hefeingfors.' ' And whom have you on board ? Are there any English?' he was asked. The captain ■replied : 'We have only Norwegians and one ' 'English lady?' interjected the captain of the torpedo boat. He spoke in excellent English. I was terrified. Then he asked if we had seen any Russian battleships, and the cap tain said : 'We have seea nothing in the Baltic so far.' The captain of thetorpedo boat etill insisted upon having a definite reply. ' Will you say on your honour whether you have anybody on boord the vessel besido Norwegians?' Our captain replied with the remark : 'I am sailing as reported.' This seemed to satisfy the torpedo boat captain, but he gazed intently at me as I stood along with the other members of the crew and passengers. I had been doing some active work as a stewardess and had dirtied my face and hands in ordei to escape detection. My boy had also been helping to make the dinner. It was evident that the other captain was slightly suspicions. Anyway, he called : ) Adieu and good-day, madam,' the latter remark being to myself. I replied : 'Goodday and good luck,' and we sailed away. We were hailed several times after this, but our captain's explanation was evidently deemed sufficient, and we did not experience much more trouble. We arrived at Newcastle after what seemed a lifetime, and were very thankful indeed to see our own warships on the coast. We saw no trace of the German fleet apart from the odd cruisers seen at various times — about half a dozen— and these were all in the south of tho Baltic."