WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1915, Page 9

WO MEN IN PRINT.

An ( additional regulation under the Public Service Act provides that "after twelve months' satisfactory service females will be placed on the permanent staff." A quiet wedding was celebrated at "Manora," the residence of Mr. Andrew Walke-r, M.P., Maori Hill, Dunedin, when Mr. Percy Manning Muir, of the head office staff of the Railway Stores Department, Wellington, third son of the late Mr. H. E. Muir, of Dunedin, was married to Miss Muriel Walker, second daughter 6f Mr. Andrew Walker, M.P. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. R. S Gray. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a pretty travelling costume of navy blue, with which she wore a pink hat and handsome Kolinsky furs. She wag at tended by Miss Dora Walker (cousin of the bride), who wore a nattier blue costume and black velvet hat, relieved with - ostrich plumes. Both bride and niaid carried handsome bouquets. Mr J. Kerr, of Masterton, was best man. The usual toasts were honoured and Mr. and Mrs, Miiir subsequently left by motorcar for the North. They will take up their future r6sidence in Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Lind, missionaries in India, are at present spending a holiday in Dunedin. Mrs. Lind was a Dunedin girl, and before her marriage was engaged in Pandita Ramabai's Mission at - Mukti,. The Mardia Mission, .on which they are engaged, works among a tribe in Central India, which lives among great jungles, almost cut off from the other tribes in India. Mr. and M_rs. Lind are pioneer missionaries in this almost unknown land, and already Mr.. Lind has succeeded in reducing the Mardia language to writing, arid even to print. Miss" Wales, of Dunedin, who is en route to Australia, is spending a few days With Mrs. J. Campbell, Salamancaroad. Mrs. J. Martyn-Dawson, of Lower Hiitt, has taken a house at Island Bay. Mrs. J. C. Burns, of Auckland, is oh a visit to her mother, Mrs. Jamesori, Rawluti-terrace, Kelburn. The engagement is announced of Miss (Nurse) E. Rawlings. daughter .of Mr. P. J. Rawlings (Christchurch), to Mr. W. Gregg, of Hawkes Bay. A children's party, in honour of her little son and daughter. Allan and Mabel, was given on Monday afternoon by Misj S. Hempton, at her residence in Thompson-street. ' The decorations for the table resembled a Union Jackstreamers of red, white, and blue ribbons spread from the cake in the centre of the table, .which was also, decorated with a large silk flag, and a ring of tiny ones, a flag for each child. Master Allan Can 1 proposed tho health of the little host , and hostess, and Master Francis Bustin replied. Recitations were given by Ellie and' Jeanie Ashby, Dorothy Scott, Allan Carr, Frank Whale, and Francis Bustin ; songs by Allan and Mabel Hempton, every child singing the well-worn "Tipperary. " In tho evening a number of "grown-ups" attended to help celebrate the happy occasion. On Tuesday evening last an interesting lecture Was given by Dr. 'Whyte to the Wellington Nursing Division, th 6 subject being "Pneumonia.'^ About forty members of the division were present. The Staff of the Christchurch Tramway Board have decided to nominate a candidate in connection with the " Queen of the Carnival " competition, which is being held in connection with the harvest festival on Saturday, 17th April. Their nominee is Nurse Maude, who has given her Consent to nomination. The staff have already commenced the campaign in the interests of their candidate, and every effort is to be made to place Nurse Maude at the top of the poll. The colours chosen are green and creamIn connection with the cost of living in England, all amusing story is told of the disclosures of a cupboard, and what an enraged husband learned when he enquired into his wife's apparent extiavaganCe. One day, instead of sitting down to the familiar leg of mutton, he found it replaced by a wild duck. On tho first occasion "he concealed his nervousness, but when a pheasant appeared a night or two later, and partridge had its turn, he began to' wonder whether ho had not better see his wife's mother about it. The line had to be drawn somewhere, with the cost of living rising every day. A few days later he wa's treated to woodcock, oysters, and hothouse pine, and then the surprised and horrified husband gave his wife a bit of his mind. To his amazement he found that what he supposed to be an absurd jest was really a good business proposition. Whitstable oysters, formerly 2s 6d per dozen (a contrast to New Zealand prices !) were pleading for purchase at Is- Pines, formerly prohibitive, ranged from Is upwards. The poultry dealer confessed that woodcock, usually retailed at 3s each, had gone begging at 9d. Pheasants are 5s 9d a brace instead of 7s 6d. Wild duck may be had for 2s 6d each. Fine hares ai'e as low as 3s. Fish, in spite of the fact that the Germans' think they command tho North Sea, was actually cheaper. Another'' sal 66f Mr. W M. Jackson's begonias will be held in Meiers. Harcourt's rooms this afternoon in aid of the Belgian Fund. • A splendid' gift has been received by the Mayoress, Mrs. J. P. Luke, oi 150 pairs of socks, labelled " For our Boys at the Front." These have been knitted by the ladies of Wanganui, and for. warded by .Mrs. Warnock, lat6 Of Wellington, who has ■ many friends in this city. The Swies papers are poking , fun at' the rie%V '/.afternoon war tea£" inaugurated in the German' capital. There is no thin and delicately curled bread^ and butter at these functions, but thick hunches with a lump of something which might be a cross" between oleomargarine and gruyere. The idea is partly tio make Berlin Society realise what the food of the men at the f^ont i& likfe, and partly to' make itself accustomed to the class of fate Berlin will be glad to get before the yeaT is out. According to a Avriter in the Tribune de Geneve, the fashionable quarter of the city is already experimenting with loaves made of a mixture of buckwheat, rye, and potatoes. One of these military teas was given at the Reichstag under the patronage of a committefe of Parliamentary ladies. It« feucceris ivas pronounced." " War pies" Were a speciality — sold and rudely cooked On purpose — with tough cakes covered with goose fat, which Berlin knows as "leather substitutes." The point about this particular five o'clock affair was that nothing was served that did not contain in come form or another the regulation tye and potatoes. Many ladies insisted that everything -was far nloi'e savoury On that account. The best known actresses of Berlin lent grace to tlie party. Dr, Agnes Bennett, physiciin Ofl the

Children's Hospital honorary staff, has been granted extended lfeaVe of absence during her service abroad with the Red Cross Society. The Hospital Board, at its meeting yesterday, passed a vote of condolence with the relatives of Nurse C B. Prince, who died at the Hospital on 23rd January. The Mayoress, Mrs. J. P. Luke, acknowledges the following sums for the Base Hospital Equipment Fund:— From Masterton, per the Mayoress, Mrs. Coradine, and her committee of ladies, an additional £6, obtained by private subscription ; £2 2s, the result of a sale of a picture given by Mrs. Sanderson, Maa-rama-crescent; and from the Wanganui St. John Ambulance Brigade, per Mrs. Gifford Moore, £21, mattress, bed, and bedding. Dr. Violet Field; of Nelson, has returned to New Zealand front India. Mrs. E. S. Baldwin is bn a. vitit to Chris'tchufch. Miss Haddon, Petone, is th& guest 6f Mrs. Kirk, Ghristchrirch. The engagement is announced of Miss Helena M. Cleave, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cleave/ Ellerslie, to Mr. J. E. Le Pine, Mount Eden, Auckland. Mrs. W. O. M. Johnson, who was Miss Constance R«ad, formerly 'of Wellington, and lady editor 1 of the New Zealand Times, widow of Lieutenant W. C. M. Johnson, R.N., the navigator of the auxiliary cruiser ViknOr, has received the followirig telegram from the King and Queen : — "Buckingham Palace. Mrs. W. 0. M. Johnson, Lish-avenue, Whitley Bay. The King and Queen deeply regret the loss you and the Navy haVe sustained by the reported death of your husband in the service of his country. Their Majesties truly sympathise with you in your sad bereavement. — Private "Secretary." The first prizfe for boys in the baby show at St. Patrick's Day sports on Wednesday was won. by-M. Wilson (not M. Watson, as printed in yesterday's Post). ' Princess Mary will be debutante in chief of • the very quiet season in front of us, for she is eighteen in April, and fully equipped to take her place at' 'C6uft and in the world (says a!n English paper). Her great friend Lady Maud Xavendishy the ' eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, was presented last yfear, but three others of her contemporaries may be named who aye included by the prophets in the list 6f girls io come out. The Lady Morvyth Ward, second daughter of Lord and Lady Dudley, f6r instance', who is lovely to look upon; bfesides a daughter of Lady Meux ; and Miss Nora Lindsay, datightef of Captain and Mrs. Harry Lind&ry, a ni&ce of the Duchess of Rutland ; and possibly the second daughter of Lady Mond, who is remarkably pretty. For the first time sinoe the death of Queeri Victoria,, fourteen years ago, n6 wreath frbni the Kaiser Was laid 6n her grave to mark the anniversary. Princess Frederica of Hanbver, however, remained faithful to old tfaditidns. No services are held at the mausoleum nowadays, but on the anniversary of Queen Victoria's death it was Operi to. privileged old servants and residents of Winclsbr.