WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 27, 31 January 1917, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Although last, evening was so very hot, there was a crowded attendance a"t the dance given for soldiers at the Syd-ney-street Club. There is no. doubt as to" the immense popularity of these dances, and the committee must feel well rewarded by the enjoyment of all their guests. Last evening Mrs. Walter Blundell was in charge of the refreshment room, while Mrs. Coleridge and Mrs. 0. Earle.wcre in ■ the dancing room. Mrs. J. W. Salmond took charge of the supper for the dancers, in the gymnasium. Mrs. Dick Wood is the guest of Mrs. E. ¥. Hadfield,' Hill-street. Miss M'Lean is returning to Wellington to-day, having spent the holidays in the South Island. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Buckeridge have returned from a visit to Nelson.

A letter has' been received By the committee of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and Red Cross , Depot, Star Boating Club, Jervois-quay, from the 0.0. St. John Ambulance Hospital at Etaples' (Col. 0. J.. Trimble), acknowledging the receipt of thirty bales of hospital goods, and expressing deep appreciation to those who have sent such acceptable equipment. Col. Trimble says : "Our hospital is doyig a very fine work. Our organisation and staff enable us to deal with the very worst type of case, and, this being well known to the authorities, we get the very worst of both surgical and medical Vases. It is a. great pleasure to all of us to be associated with this institution, and we can thoroughly satisfy ourselves concerning the nature of the work we are doing, though it is very depressing at timgs. I am not allowed to give you figures as to the number of ca,ses that have passed through our hands, but I can roughly say th.it we have dealt with a. good many thousand. Perhaps it would interest you to know how the hospital is staffed. There is one oflicer commanding, with sixteen medical officers, one dental surgeon, one quartermaster, ami a secretary. At present we have fifty-six trained nurses and twentyfive St. John Ambulance V.A.B. nurses; also a provisional company, Jt.A.M.C.,' strength 142, all St. John, Ambulance Brigade men, enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps for the duration of the war. Of course, you know the hospital contains 520' ibcds, twenty for officers, and the remainder for other ranks. When the hospital is full, and the staff added, we have a goodly sized family. It is very nice to know that the St. John Brigade work is progressing well in New Zealand. I think that after the war there will be a big colonial expansion of this organisation. 1 am enclosing a. slip showing, what articles we use and require most of, and if it should come our turn again, and you can help us in this direction, I need hardly say how grateful I shall be to you. Dressings and bandages, as detailed, are most valuable and useful to us. Will you accept my very best thanks, and convey the same to the members of your ladies' committee. The underlined articles in the enclosed list are : Roller bandages, manytails, triangular bandages, swabs, pluggings (gauze and ribbon gauze, liri, 2in, 4in-wide), absorbent pads, gauze sponges, absorbent gauze, lint, cotton wool, adhesive plaster, waterproof sheeting, white jaconet." *

Two Auckland ladies, Mrs. D. Mitchell and Miss Ivy Wynyard, are leaving for England, where they will take up war work. Mrs. Mitchell is making the trip in order to be iioar her husband, who is on active, service with the- New Zealanders, while her sister intends taking up. hospital work. Before leaving Auckland Miss Wynyard received parting gifts from the Devonport Borough Council, in whoso clerical department, she has been employed for gome years, and from tho St. John, Ambulance Nursing Division of Devonport, of which she has been acting honorary secretary.She has now been transferred to the London division., At St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral last Wednesday afternoon Mr. W. V. Connelly, of Auckland, was married to Miss Doris Buckeridge, eldest daughter of Mr. and t Mrs. T. Buckeridge, The Terrace. Tho ' biide wore a cream gabardine costume. Miss Linda Hornibrook was tho bridesj maid, while Mr. Tremayne was best man. The llev. A. M. Johnson officiated. The brido and bridegroom le:ive for Auckland for a few weeks' holiday, after which Mr. Connolly, who has enlisted, will go into camp. A number of cards have been received at the Town Hall from Samoa, with grateful acknowledgments for the Christmas parcels and gifts from the Liverpool Fund. Sergeant Mulcahy sent a gift of £5 to the Mayoress for tho fund, with a letter of hearty, appreciation for tho work done by herself and her committee. Mrs. Philip "Vercoe, who died, lately, was one of the old colonists of New Zealand, and lived in the danger zone during the Maori War. She was one of the band of refugees who were compelled to leave New Plymouth and.seek safety in Nelson. She went to the Wairau with her husband in. 1080, and had lived in tho district ever . since. Mrs. Vercoe had been bedridden for fourteen years, but her facuities were unimpaired to the end. She leaves six sons, five daughters, 74 grandchildren, and 50 great-grandchild-ren. Several of her 'descendants ;are absent with the Expeditionary Reinforce- j ments. ' -, { Among the latest donors to the Martin Memorial Fund is a nurse now on active service in Fiance, a former patient of Dr. Arthur Martin, of Palmerston North. The result of Dr. Martin's treatment, involving a serious- operation, was restoration to perfect health. News has been received that Miss Kathleen Anderson, who loft Wellington in April last to continue her. studies at the Royal College of Music, has.recently won a College Council Exhibition, open to vocalists and instrumentalists of all classes. Miss Anderson is studying under Mr. Frederick Cliffe.' The Australian Women's Service Corps consists of several hundred enthusiastic young women, who are determined to do their bit at this time of national need, say.? a Melbourne writer. They would like to be used by the military to free men for active service. Failing 'this they are willing .to <lo any other job that needs doing. They are nearly all busy girls, bat one finds that it is generally the busy people who can find limp to be a little busier still, and the Service Corps now sods out to-tho soldiers' settlement at French's Forest arid helps U> clear the land. The men workers tacklo the big timber, but would rather occupy themselves in the construction of cottafjes than wrestle with the smaller undergrowth of the scrub. So the girls ride nut on tlic motor-lorries and work like Trojan? all day under the January sun at their self-imposed tasks. A great wave of intelligent enthusiasm is spreading rapidly through New Zealand in favour v( the genuine "No Piubbiiig " I.'iuudry Help, because it washes all silks, linens, woollens, 'etc., ho perfectly clean without rubbing or injury. \Vcliin.2tnn ladies and merchants are certainly dclishtsd with "' No Hubbimr."—.Advt.

The talk is everywhere of vegetarian food (says a writer in the Gentlewoman). It is now years ago that the Kitchen Committee first prepared vegetarian dishes for our legislators at Westminster, but only those who wished it partook of them. Now it is a needs must, a.nd those who once scoffed at the dishes are partaking of them with good grace enough. Some of the prettiest women, and those famed for their complexions, became vegetarians at their own sweet wills long before there was a, general talk of fruit and vegetable and nut eating. The Duchess of Portland, Lady Lytton, and Lady Cynthia Graham have 'been .among the .meat abstainers, and whatever their regimen, it has certainly become them. Now hostesses are hunting everywhere for attractive vegetarian dishes, and one' lady has introduced a banana and an apple savoury with great success that she got to know in America. The banana savoury is made like this. The fruit* is sliced in small slices, rolled in grated cheese, peppered, salted, and toasted in a hot oven to a, delicate brown, and then laid between buttered slices of brown bread and popped into the oven to heat through. For the apple savoury large tasty apples are sliced, cored, and fried in butter, put hot on a slice of well buttered white bread, salted and peppered. The other buttered slice is laid on top and the savoury is made piping hot in the oven.

"There is something in the distresses of our best friends that is not altogether i displeasing to ns," wrote the French savant, and when we read that Americans are worse off for domestics than we are, well, it does not annoy us (writes Queen Bee). Someone has written a book on, the outlook for the woman of the Future, wherein she pictures a hard social world, in which we all do our own work, from beginning to end, but are we not very near to that now? The house of the future; will contain the minimum number of small rooms, the ridiculous white elephant drawing and dining-rooms and hall ceasing to exist. Tile furniture will be just chairs, tables, and beds. There will be no carpets, and just a few rugs hero and there. Tinned and potted and ready cooked foods will supply the meats. Labour-saving appliances will do a good deal of the work. Tradesmen will call no longer, and everything will have to be fetched from the shops. Meals will be reduced to two a day. Fires will be done away with, their place being taken by electric radiators. We shall make all ourt)wn clothes and hats, and, a« we shall all bo guys, we can laugh all round. As most illhealth is said to be brought on by laziness, that will disappear, as hard and continuous work will be provided for everybody, and the house father, instead of resting, after his day's work, will have 'to help wash up, and perform other household duties formerly done by domestics. As Mr. Asquith says, "We must wait and see."

A great change in London hotel life is the hotel tea, which is very fashionable at the present time (says an exchange). The price for tea at the big-hotels is hali'-a-crown.. For this price you have the privilege of 'sipping" tea or chocolate in a spacious and richly decorated lounge, in company with several hundred smart women, whoso names figure from time to time in the columns of society journals. There is also a band. The fooct, consists of toasted tea-cake, bread and butter cut into fragile slices and prettily folded, and a selection of miniature sandwiches of all types. It has been estimated, that an outside value of the, tea, bread, and cakes is 7d. The rest of the 2s 6d or 3s is payment for tho smart company, the band, and the Spanish dancers, who parade up and down tho central gangway. Tho. scandal is that, at a time when silly young flappers or flighty matrons are wastingmoney there in this pretence at riotous living, hospital nurses, women clerks, typists, Government servants, and muni, tion workers are required to pay 4£d. for an egg, or Is 3d for a dish of eggs and bacon, at an ordinary tea-shop. Four 1 slices of bread and butter cost 2£d. Very many women workers make their chief, meals at these city teashops, so they are hard hit by the recent rise in prices. Girls serving as- clerks in Government offices and banks are paid from 25s to 35s a week. Rigid economy is necessary if the salary is to coyer lodging expenses, clothing, and meals. The luckier girls are those who are attached to big firms or large Government departments, which'cater for their staffs during office hours, and in some cases even provide hostels. In most munition factories women workers can get a meat meal for 6d, 3oz of . cooked meat being sufficient for most girls. In all, 600,000 workers arc being fed at the canteens attached ■ to-'' munition and v transport firms. The charges are based upon the cost of the food, plus the labour, of cooking and serving. The differencebetween these prices and those charged by the public tea-shops and restaurants is the tradesman's profit. :

The proposal at home to do_ away with window dressing seems a curious one to us here, but perhaps it may be needful, says an exchange. The other idea, to get people to carry home their own parcels up to fourteen pounds weight is a very sensible one, as it would do away with so much oE the delivery business that keeps men and horses or drivers and motors employed all day long delivering little packets that could very well be carried home by the purchaser, especially now that women are having pockets put into their coats and skirts. ShopKeepers have themselves to blame a good deal for their customers' 'disinclination to carry home their own parcels. The custom has grown up through the question being always 'asked of the buyor, "Shall I send it?" and so every, little paltry package comes by the firm's cart, even if it weighs but a few ounces. Shops could be run much cheaper, and goods in consequence would be less expensive, if people Would carry home their purchases. For many years we have been getting into a helpless kind of way, wanting everything done for us, just as if we had neither hands nor legs, and, for the matter of that, head either.