WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 29, 2 February 1917, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Miss Rout writes from Alexandria that she is obliged temporarily to leave her work for our soldiers in the desert, as. fihe lias had several attacks of "Nile fever," and feels that the. best way to get well is to come right away from tho country. By the kindness of Colonel Chaytor, a passage was arranged for her on tho Marama, and so she hopes to return to sec her friends in New Zealand. Mrs. Ghisholm. and her daughter, from the Empire Club at Port Said,, had 1111 dertaken to manage the club at'lCantarm during her absence. Tin's club. Miss Rout says. wa3 opened on 6th December with a grand concert by the N.Z.M.R. Band, when the place was packed, ft- had been well patronised since, and brought in about £20 a day. A- gramaphone, sent out by Lady Godley, was a great boon, and was continually kept going, and they also had the pia.no brought from Tel el Kebir. The volunteer sisters were all doing excellent work and the matron at'Giza told six new English V.A.D.'s that the N.Z.V.S,' were her best probationers, evidently hoping that it would bo an incentive to make the new arrivals do their best Colonel Samuel had done wonders for the New Zealand boys with the canteen profits fund. The men had been supplied with fresh eggs, tomatoes, and other things to supplement the rations, and he still "had about £1400 in hand. Colonel Samuel had started a garden scheme for growing vegetables for the men, and, although in the wilderness, it was flourishing in a wonderful .manner. Miss Rout hopes to take back "plenty of vegetable and flower seeds when jshe returns to Egypt. She remarks that she wished she could, get-New Zealand goods, such as tinned meat and cheese, to sell in the canteen, instead of Galifornian pears, English meat -paste, and- Chicago tinned tongues. ■ ,

The Sydney-street Soldiers' Club hostesses for next week wil] be.—Sunday, Mrs. Morrison and Mrs. R. A. Holmes; Monday, Mrs. H. Hall and Mrs. W. Young; Tuesday, Mrs. A Crawford and Mrs. Ernest Hadfield ; 'Wednesday, Miss Coates and Mrs. Shirtcliffe; Thursday, Mrs. .Bucholz", Mrs. Wheeler, and Mrs. Mackcrsey; Friday, Mrs Wilmot and friends; Saturday, Klmndallah ladies. In charge of coats and parcels.—Sunday, Mi's. Sommervillo ; Monday,. Miss Jenkyns; Tuesday, Miss Davidson; Wednesday, Mr. Lawrence; Thursday, Miss Leod; Friday, Mrs. H. S. Hudlield; Saturday, Miss Eyes.

The festival of St. 1 Mary's Church at Boulcott-streefc is going on most successfully A great number of soldiers arc expected this evening, and there will be an excellent enterisSMSipnt provided

Mrs. (i. W, lliisgfil, jnasident of the Honorary Div'isioa of the Women's National Reserve of Ns» Zawimd. called a special' meeting of tho committee on Tuesday last to lay before them 'the desirability of getting into touch with the mothers of tho soldiers and sailors serving at the front, deeming it a very suitable work for the honorary division to do. The committee took up (he matter in a very whole-hearted, manner. It Was decided to ask all tlic mothers of the soldiers and sailors serving the Empire to be the guests of the members of the honorary reserve at social gatherings, held at stated times, for mutual. intercourse. The committee are to make all the arrangements, the most important of which is to secure a suitable room for the purpose. When this is done further announcements will be made.

The monthly meeting of the Eoyal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children -was held at 3; Couritonay-place, on Wednesday, at 2.30 p.m. Present: Mrs. Algal Williams (in the chair), Mesdames Kirk, Burd, Ward, Cook, Corrigan, M'Vicar. M'Leati, Chapman, S. Kirkcaldic,.Ponsonby, and Richardson, and Misses Burnett and Kirkcaldie. Apologies were received from Lady Stout and Mesdames Gordon, Reid, Leekie, J. .Tripe, and Anderson. Miss Barnetit gratefully acknowledged parcels of clothing from the Training College, Girls' High School, and one from Miss M'Kenzie, 6E Dannevirke; also the following- donations towards the Material Fund ; : Lady Glasgow, 17s 6d; Miss K'irkcaldie, £1; Mesdames Ponsonby and Richardson and Miss Barnett, 5s each. A general conference of tho society is to be held 1 in the Accountants' Buildings (this month. It should, be a very representative gathering of delegates from all parts of New' Zealand, and it is anticipated that it -will last .three days. Tho lion, treasurer, Mrs. C. E. Richardson, acknowledges .with sincere thanks itie following donations: Mi-s. S. Smith, £2 2s; Mrs. Furley, £2 2s; Mrs. D. Cook, £1 Is; Mrs. Tonilinson, £1; Mrs. M'Namara, ,10s; Mrs.' Gemmell, 10s; Mesdames Tonks, Tarrant, Darroch, and Jourdine, 5s each.

The many Wellington friends of Mr. P. G. Braithwaite will regret to learn of the death of his mother, which occurred at Crouch Hill, London, on the 4th December last. Prior to the war Mr. Braithwaite paid biennial visits to New Zealand on behalf of his firm, Claudius Ash, Ltd.

Mrs. Eawson and Mrs. . M. Holmes, who have been paying visits in the South Island, have returned to Wellington.

Miss Joan. Hislop is staying with Mrs, C. 0. Graham in Dunedin.

The Bishop of Nelson and Mrs. SadHer have returned to Nelson after visiting the Wairara.pa and Wellington.

Mrs. A. de Castro has gone to Australia on a short visit.

Miss N. Reeves (Cbristchurch) Is the guest of Mrs. =W. Barton, Featherston.

Mrs. Algail Williams has returned from a visit to the South Island.'

Mrs. AT. Kennedy, who has been visiting her daughter in Wanganui, has returned to Wellington.

The fortnightly meeting ot the Wellington executive of the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society took place last night. Delegates from various sub-centres of the Red Cross Society attended, and other branches were represented by proxy. The main, object of the meeting was to elect three delegates to attend the. conference at Christchurch called by His Excellency the Governor. After a ballot Messrs. Young and Shirtcliffe and Mrs. Luke were elected. There was a very good attendance at the. meeting, and many matters of interest to lied Cross matters were discussed. The treasurer of " Our Day " Fund. Mr. M'lntosh, forwarded a completed balancesheet, showing that £19.364 5.; 6d had; been collected in the Wellington military district—which is about a record far tii'e four centres. Tile draft constitution submitted by His Excellency was discussed, and finally a sub-committee was appointed to consider it and to report. a> the next meeting on 14th February. The conference takes place at Christchurch on 20tlv February. /

Mrs. J. S. M. Thompson, of Wellington, lias been visiting her mother, Mrs. Krull, in Wanganui.

Although the weather was so hot on Wednesday there was a good attendance at Miss Una Carter's clever demonstration of gas cookery at the company's rooms in Courtenay-place. The menu given included flaky pastry, tomato and beef roll, lemon and coffee buns, chocolate and raspberry biscuits, soda bread, and black currant tarts.

Under date 15th December the London correspondent of The Post writes : — "Matron E. Nixon 22/6, Staff-nurse A. L. Smith, 22/293, and Sister M. S. Tucker, 22/166, arc all in England from .France, and' they . are resting at Sandwich. Matron Nixon ha? had. bronchitis, and Staff-nurse Smith has had bronchitis and rheumatism. Staff-nurses I. L. Bennett, K. F. Kitching, and E-. M. Curtis _ are at the convalescent home at Sandwich-; all have come from Brockenhurst and <are in need of a little rest and change. Sister JI. S. Tucker has come up to London from Sandwich, and is ready for duty.,

Referring' to the daylight-saving experiment, a Melbourne writer says: What do you think of the new daylightsaving scheme? For- all indoor .workers it is an immense idea. Gives them a chance of getting very much needed exercise and fresh air, combined with a . good dose of sunlight. There is not a doubt that it will greatly improve the health of these members of the community. There are, of course, people who entirely disapprove of this putting on oF the clock.. The denizens of the nursery, for instance. There are nightly riot's among the small people, who very properly refuse to go to bed while the lovely sun is shining and they .could be out at play. My own grievance against this change is that it robs me of two hours' sleep every night (never can logically work out how it does that, but it does). That old motto, " Early to bed and early to rise, and you don't meet any nice peoplel" .has no significance nowadays, because wei simply cannot go to bed early, for who woidd think of retiring in broad daylight? And as tor early rising, one gets to be so late after waiting tor the sun to go down one lias to take it out in the morning. But the most exasperating aspect of the change is the irritating way everybody...has, the minute a time is mentioned (such,as 12 o'clock), of chorusing, " but it isn't 12 really, you; know, it's only xl!" It is when -nearing bedtime that things become most acute, and I find all Jiiy evenings are devoted to knitting aiid sitting up in order to make a new set of. rules .on living one's life by the clock. '^Whenever I. make a- move to retire, one of the family is sure to expostulate, •'But you cannot go yet; it's riot rsally late, you know." If only the Government, at the' time of putting on the clock hands, would have announced an hour at which it; would bo perfectly correct to turn in without appearing eccentric, a very harassing problem would be solved.