WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 55, 2 September 1916, Page 7

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool, and a party from Government House, will be present at the Victoria League entertainment this evening at the Concert Chamber, also many of the Staff officers from Headquarters and Trentham Camp. The programme is a particularly good one, and great interest is being taken by many people, as the cause of the sailors in the warships is one of special consideration just now.

Mrs. Hall-Thompson wishes to thank most sincerely all those who so kindly gave cheques and such lovely flowers, and also those who worked both hard and successfully for Mrs. Nimmo (president), Mrs. Hadfield (secretary), Miss Lawson (hon. treasurer), and their committee, stall-holders, and assistants. Sho feels sure that the officers and men of the Philomel and Pyramus will much appreciate the effort that lias been made on their behalf.

The girls of the Roseneath School sent in thirty-five pairs of beautifully knitted socks to tho Countess of Liverpool Fund yesterday! These are a most acceptable contribution to the 7000 pairs required for the Christmas parcels.

At "Argyll," Stoke-streot, Mrs. A. Campbell gave her second afternoon tea in aid ot Chaplain-Major M'Donald's Wounded Soldiers' Hospital Fund. There was a. large gathering of ladies, and good business was done at several well-arranged stalls; sweets, cakes, flowers, and useful articles being [or sale. During the afternoon Mrs. Prophet and Miss Gamble sang several songs. A competition, took place, and was won by Mrs. Gilchrist. Tho sum of fifteen pounds Jias been forwarded to the secretary of Internal Affairs for tho fund.

Dr. Harcourt Arthur gave a very practical talk to the girls in the Young Women's Christian Association on "The Care of the' Child." So many children grow up weaklings because of the lack of knowledge on the part of those whoso duty it is to take care of them. Dr. Arthur pointed out how very necessary to a child's health is regularity in all its habits, especially with regard to sleep and meals. He explained the need of being able to detect illnesses in their early stages, the methods of preventing, or of dealing with them effectively. At the end of the lecture the President of the Y.W.C.A. thanked Dr. Arthur on behalf of the members present. Another course of first aid lectures is now being given in the Y.W.C.A. club room, under Dr. Harcourt Arthur. The enrolment last Wednesday was thirty.

A gift tea was given by Mrs. W. G. Riddell at her residence, Oriental Bay, on Thursday in aid of her produce stall at the coming St. Joseph's Orphanage bazaar. About 90 ladies were present, and the affair proved a complete success.

The fortnightly . meeting of the Wellington South Nursing Division of St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas was held this week. The evening was spent m first aid work, being carried out in squads.

In the final of the Manawatu Ladies' Golf Championship, Mrs. Freeth beat Mrs. A. Seifert 5 up 4 to play.

' The Maranui School bazaar, which concluded yesterday, resulted in over £350 being raised for the Wounded Soldiers Fund and for improvements to the school grounds.

A sale of work, sweets, flowers, and home-made produce was opened yesterday afternoon in St. John's Schoolroom, Dixon-street, by the Hon. J. G. W. Aitkcn. The stalls, which were well arranged and.stocked, were as follow: — Flowers, Mesdames M'Lennan, Spears, and Robinson; produce, Mesdames Glen, Garnham, Whiteman, and Miss Aitken; work stall, Mesdamps Gibb. Allen, Wylie, and Forsyth; cakes, Mesdames Dalziell, Hally, Simmonds, Misses Steel and Stenhouse; sweets, Young Women's Guild; refreshments, Mesdames Menelaus, M'Kerrow, Johnstone, and Mennier. In the afternoon there were a few musical items, and for the evening Mrs. F. S. Pope had arranged the programme. The proceeds are in aid of the Homo Missions of the Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Arthur Hinton, -'examiner for the Associated Board of Royal Academy of Music, and Royal College of Music, London, is accompanied by his wife, who is tho famous pianist professionally known as Madame Katherine Goodson. Mme. Goodson, who has lately completed a tour of fifty concerts in the United States, has come to New Zealand with her husband for a complete rest, and will not be heard in concert here.

A little sale of work was recently held by four small children—.Jean, Clarence, and Albert Macklin, and B. Urquhart—in aid of the Soldiers' Pudding Fund. The result was £1 12s, so the children have the pleasure of feeling that they have provided for thirty-two puddings. The amount has been sent to Mrs. J. P. Luke, the Mayoress.

The Hataitai and North Kilbirnie Red Cross Sewing Guild, formed some time ago from members of this branch of the Women's National Reserve,' forwarded last week to England for distribution to the "Navy Sailors' Departments" two cases-of children's clothing. The Guild is fortunate in having some members who are expert' knitters. One case was entirely filled with beautiful knitted garments. The workers, who meet at the residence of Mrs. C. H. Seville, have been in charge of Mesdames Plimmer and Bayfield. The latter is now retiring, and Mrs. Greenslade'has taken her place, and the Red Cross work will go on as usual.

A lady writing from London to an exchange says : One meets soldiers on leave who only know the Strand and the Commonwealth military offices in Westminster. When they want to go anywhere else, say, to Oxford-street or Holborn, or to Park-lane, they take a taxi. This week a batch of them—"raiders" they are called for the time being, because of the successful rush they made on a German trench —are in London on a week's holiday, and, as one of them expressed it " Getting petted as if they were prima donnas." Said another, " This flower-giving business gets you down, somehow; you'd feel a fool if the people weren't so jolly decent about it. At Marseilles it started. I daresay you've .seen it on the pictures—we did the other night at the theatre—but I can tell you there's something in it, and it's no good saying we don't like it, for vre do." Another of them remarked : "We had an idea the "English summer was due about now ; that it came along when Australia's having her- winter; but evidently seasons are tho same."

Miss Arndt has gone for a visit to the country.

Mrs. R. Tripe and Miss Tripe are at Paekakariki for a. visit.

" What are the girls at present taking the place of men who aro away going to do in the immediate future?" was the question propounded by Mr. G. M. Thomson at a. meeting of the V.M.C.A. at Dunedin, states the Otago Daily Times. Fifty thousand men, he said, were coming back, and- it was the duty of the community to the men who had risked their lives to give them the first opportunity of getting into employment again. This remark elicited applause from the meeting. Proceeding, Mr. Thomson said he was in the Union Steam Ship Company's office in Wellington a month ago. He saw a number of ladies attending to the public, and to the young lady who gave him his ticket he- said : " What are you young ladies going to do when the boys come back from the war?" "Oh, we're going to marry them," replied the lady, who added : " We wouldn't marry the blighters who won't go." At any rate, said Mr. Thomson, the problem was a serious one, and he threw it out bccause'it was a matter that the association, among others, would have to face. He believed the combined wisdom of the women of the country would do more for the settlement of tho problem than anything else.

At Messrs. Tingey and Co.'s warehouse last evening Miss Howard, one of the office staff for over three years, was presented by the firm and her fellow employees with a dinner service on the occasion of lior approaching marriage. Mr. W. H. Tingey eulogised the good services rendered by Miss Howard.

A sale of work, organised by the ladies' auxiliary of tho V.M.C.A., will be held in the V.M.C.A. Rooms on Wed-, nesday and Thursday next. The sale will be opened on Wednesday by Mrs. W. R, Williams, at 2.30 p.m. The stalls will consist of plain and fancy sewing, flowers, sweets, home-made cakes, kitchen and produce, and surprise packets.

The annual bazaar in aid of St. Thomas's Vicarage Debt will be opened by Her Excellency Lady Liverpool on Thursday next, at 3 p.m., in St. Thomas's Hall, Riddiford-street. Special entertainments have been arranged for each day.

Women appear to be proving themselves very successful grocers in England. News comes from England of Her Majesty the Queen having lately paid a visit to the Girls' Trade School, Hammersmith, and watched the girls learning to be grocers. Hero the girls go through a very efficient training and are then qualified to take positions as grocers, some hundreds already filling successfully the positions of grocers' assistants. And, it is pleasing to learn that their employers are highly satisfied with the girls. Like so many of their sisters in other novel employment for women, it is thought the woman grocer has come to stay.