WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 19

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Sir Charles, Lady and Miss Statham have left for the South. Commander and Mrs. A. M. Peters left New Zealand on their return to England by the lonic, which sailed from Wellington on "Wednesday. The Hisses Manifold (Christehurch) are the guests of Mrs. Morgan, Wellington, and are leaving by the Aorangi for America and the Continent. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Davidson Lave left for Auckland. Mr. Davidson will attend the conference of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers. Great pleasure was given recently when Messrs. Inglis Bros, arranged "a delightful motor drive for all inmates and staff of St. Mary's Homes, Karori. Cakes, fruit, sweets, and ice cream were also supplied. The outing was very much enjoyed by all. The matron of the Bed Cross Home, Hobson street, desires to acknowledge with sincere thanks the following gifts received during the month of February: Flowers and vegetables, the Prime Minister; flowers, Miss S. Nathan, Miss Price; case fruit, anonymous; case of apples (2), Mr. Stannard (Nelson); case of apples, Mr. Martin (Auckland); mushrooms, Miss Monica Ammon; magazines, etc., Miss Bicknell, Mrs. Ginn, Mrs. Riddalsworth, Mrs. C. Vallance, Mr. Broad; books, playing cards, Miss G. Nathan.

A very pleasant gathering took place on Thursday evening in the Constable Street Hall, where the members of the Wellington W.C.T.U. met to bid goodbye to Mrß. Keene, who is leaving for Auckland. Mrs. Mowlem referred most appreciatively to the many services rendered by Mrs. Keene during the years she had resided in Wellington, and presented the departing guest with an "Honour's Service Star," and Mrs. Chisholm presented a beautiful bouquet on behalf of the union. Mrs. Keeno suitably replied, thanking all for the kindly thoughts which had prompted the gifts. During the evening songa were rendered by Mesdames Davis and Bott, the Misses Webb and Harris, recitation by Mrs. Keene, monologue by Miss Pillar, and a violin solo by Miss Harvey. Supper was afterwards served, and many good wishes were expressed for the continued good health and happiness of the guest of honour.

The following from the report of yesterday's meeting of the Plunket Society will be of much interest:—"Tho committee approved of the appointment of Miss Blanche Clark as matron of the Truby King Karitane Hospital. Miss Clark has every qualification for the position, having a wide experience in every branch of nursing and administrative work. In addition to being highly certificated she was home sister and tutor sister at> the Wellington Hospital. Eealising the importance of the preventive work done by the Plunket Society, Miss Clark decided to take her training in that work and subsequently was in charge of the children's ward in the Wellington Hospital, being tho first sister with these qualifications to inaugurate the Plunket methods there. This was done with the sanction of the medical superintendent, Dr. Wilson, who had previously instituted the fol-low-up system between tho Hospital and the Plunket Society. Miss Clark joined the society some months ago, and has furthered her experience by working as a District Plunket Nurse. The committee feels that the Truby King Hospital is very fortunate in being able to commence its work in Wellington under such skilled guidance. Miss Hilditch, the present matron of the Mothercraft Home (which merges into the Truby King Karitane Hospital) leaves shortly on a visit to Canada and America, where sho intends studying hospital methods there."

Thero wns a very large attendance of members of the Wellington Plunkct Society committee at tho meeting held yesterday. The nurses reported that there were 119 new casos during the month, at headquarters 110, Eastbourne 6, Khandallah 2, and Johnsonville 1. Tho total of visits to homes amounted to 1337; to offices, adults.2loo, babies 1576. These included headquarters and rooms at Eastbourne, Ngaio, Klwindallah, Johnsonville, Seatoun, Brooklyn, Kelburn, Kilbirnie, Lyall Bay, Northland, Miramar, Karori, Hataitai, Wadostown, Nowtown, and Island Bay. Number of babies breast fed, 93; partially, 10; artificially fed, 10. Expectant mothers, 43; return vists to antenatal clinic, 131; mothers still under supervision, 134. The report of the matron of the Mothercraft, Home stated the admissions for the month to be 5 mothers and 7 babies. Tho matron thanks Mesdames S. Kirkcaldio and Wilson, Miss Peach, and Miss Barnot, for flowers; Miss Mac Lean and Miss Aitken for apples and magazine. Tho treasurer acknowledges with thanks the following donations and subscriptions:—Mrs. Carter, £.5 ss; Mesdames Massey and Corrigan, £2 2s each; Mrs. Luke, £1 Is; Mrs.'Gray, £1; Mrs. T. Ward, ss. Per Kelburn Sub-Committee, Mesdames M. Myers, CToranee, Lambic, Widdop, £1 Is each; Mrs. O'Donnell, £1; Mesdames Jones aud Caughley, 10s each; Mesdames Long, Griffin, Paske, 5s each. Per Hataitai Sub-Com-mittee, Mrs. Meltzcr; 10s 6d; Mrs. Bennett, £1; Mesdames Ardell and Peterson, 5s each; Mrs. Edwards, 10s. Per Khandallah Sub-Committee, Mesdames Stevens, Webber, and Gibbons, 5s each. Per Eastbourne Sub-Committee, Mesdames Isaacs and Dawson, 5s each. Per Northland Sub-Committee, Mesdames Ellison and Gunn, £1 Is each; Mesdames Blackmore and Morris, £1 each; Mrs. Bower, 10s 6d; Mrs. Kearney, 15s; Mesdames Mason and Turner, 10s each; Mrs. Chalkcr, 7s 6d; Mesdames Sotham, Nixon, Bridge, Taylor, 5s each. The nurses thank Mesdames Nathan, Wilson, M'Eldowny, Jones, and Miss Barnett for gifts. Miss Sybil Nathan was granted a year's leavo of absence on account of a trip abroad. The committee passed a very hearty vote of thanks to Miss Cameron and Mrs. G. Nathan for their work in connection with the furnishings for tho TrubyKing Karitane Hospital. Mrs. R-ich-mond was welcomed as the new Seatoun Sub-Committee representative, Mrs. Parton, the former representative, having resigned' on account of leaving Wellington. The matron would be glad of presents of old linen.

Though weddings m Muy :uul on JTridays will never be popular, marriage superstitions are, to an extent, passing. For instance, at weddings nowadays there is often a decided green colour scheme, a thing that never would have been even considered twenty years ago, and girls are not troubling about the old saying: "Three times a bridesmaid and never a bride." Girls do not seem to mind how often they act as bridesmaid, but not so long sgo few would have ventured thus to tempt fate. One of these modern girls with whom the old adage carries,no weight is Lord and Lady Bath's youngest daughter, Lady Mary Thynne. She has been a bridesmaid many times, and attended her friend, Lady Barbara Bingham, at her marriage to Mr. John Bovan, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, recently. This was one of the great matrimonial events of the season, for the pretty, dark-haired bride is, through her father, Lord Lucan, a Lord-in-Waiting, related \&?. feaJ! Jie jpeerag© jusarJjj,

Mrs. Henry Smith has returned from a visit to Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Irons, of Vancouver, who have been touring in New Zealand, left by the Auckland express to catch the Aorangi, on their return home. Mrs. Atliya and Miss Florence Athyu (England) are in Wellington, and the latter will leave next week for the South. Mr..and Mrs. Alistcr Clarke, of Melbourne, who have been visiting Sir Heaton and Lady Rhodes and other relatives and friends in New Zealand, are leaving to visit the Franz Josef Glacier before returning to their home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis, of Wellington, left on Thursday for Rotorua, and intend spending two or three weeks in the thermal district. The engagement is announced of Miss May Fielding, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. "W. Melding, of Wellington,' to Lieutenant Paul E. Coloney, U.S.A. Navy. Mrs. Will Lawson, who has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. Willis, at Wadestown, is leaving for her home in. Sydney on Tuesday next by the Maunganui. Yesterday there was a delightful little gathering of some of her intimate friends at Mrs. Willis's, when .an opportunity was given to bid Mrs. Lawson farewell. The Lower Hutfc branch of the League of Mothers opened the year's work on Thursday afternoon in the Oddfellows' Hall, Knight's road. The branch has a membership of over fffty mothers, and the committee hopes to carry out an interesting and profitable programme, and to extend its work to other parts of the rapidly-growing district. The Eev. W. Rowe has kindly consented to speak on "The Child Fully Developed," and all who can attend ■will enjoy an interesting address. The -wedding of Olave Mary, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Looker, of Palmerston North, to Stanley Eric Chilmaa, eldest son of Mr. aud Mrs. C. H. Whitehead, was solemnised at All Saints' Church, Palmerston North, when the Rev. Canon Fancourt officiated. Mr. J. H. Runnicles provided the organ music. The church was prettily decorated, and the bride was in a charming frock of ivory satin and lace, with a pouched bodice and petalled skirt. The petals wore lined with pale pink crepe de chine, and finished with rosebuds. The satin court train was lined to match, trellis-worked and trimmed with pearls and orange blossom. The tulle veil was held in place with a coronet of orange blossom, and the wedding bouquet was of white asters, sweet sultan, and maidenhair fern. Misses Gladys Looker and Doris Sorcnson were bridesmaids, wearing opal blue taffetas, and head dresses of silver leaves and blue shaded flowers. Their bouquets were to tone with the frocks. Mr. F. M. Steelo (Palmerston North) was best man, and Mr. L. Looker was groomsman. A dainty silver horseshoe was given to the bride as she left the church, The guests were entertained at the Broadway Lounge, where the mother of the bride received the guests wearing black crepe de chine, trimmed with bois do rose suede, and a hat to match. Mrs. C. H. Whitehead was in navy crepe de chine, trimmed with noral georgette, a hat, and bouquet to match. Among the wedding gifts was a handsome one from the P.D.C., Ltd an afternoon tea-set and case of spoons from the fellow employees of the bride and a silver tea service from the bridegroom's fellow employees on the staff of Wright, Stcphenson, and Co., Ltd. Wellington. The bride's charming travelling frock was of auteuil ottoman silk, with a hat to match, and foxfurs, the gift of the bridegroom

Mrs. Rose presided at the monthly meeting of the Women's Red Cross Committee and reported that the usual supplies of tobacco, cigarettes, and chocolate had been sent to the ex-soldier patients at Wellington Hospital, Porirua, and Hobson Street Home, and seven packets of tobacco (280 pieces) to Pukcora Hospital, also twelve issues of clothing had been made up ready for distribution. On the eve of her departure for England, Miss Tlmrston, late matron of Pukcora Hospital, was entertained nt morning tea by the ladies of the Red Cross depot, and a very pleasant time was spent. Great regret was expressed at the loss the Red Cross will sustain through her departure. Mrs. Rose, on behalf of the ladies of the committee, extended a welcome to Mrs. llcrzog on her return from England.

A street, day was held in Christchurch for the Nurses' Memorial Chapel, and the "Star" says:—So far £2500 has been raised, leaving £500 more to bo collected, the total amount required being £3000. The' organising committeeis anxious that the amount may be raised before the laying of the foundation stone, which will take, placo on Tuesday. With this idea in mind, the sellers were untiring in their efforts to raise the money, and a person seen without a badge, which is given in exchaugo for silver, has a difficult task to proceed on his way.

A child should be sdequatelv clothed and fed and should go to "bed at a reasonable hour," said Dr. Alice Hutchinson at the Winter School for Health Visitors and School Nurses at Bedford College, England. "I am constantly amazed to find how very late some children go to bed," she added. Dr. Hutchinson contended that it was absolutely normal for a child to love himself only and to think of himself only. "Do not let us despise the little V'-V/ said Dj '- Hutchinson. "If a child tells lies it has a reason for doing so. Instead of turning away askance let us rather find out the reason. We can frequently lead the child to unburden itself as to why it has told a lie. Self-preservation is the commonest reason."

There was a happy little gathering at. the Grand Opera House yesterday, when members of the staff of the J. "C. Williamson Company, together with the performers in the comic opera, "Frasquita," now being produced, mot and congratulated the treasurer of the company (Mr. Bryce Marshall, of Christchurch), on his marriage to Miss Winifred Flint (of Wellington). Reference was made to the assiduity with which Air. Marshall pursued his duties, to his unfailing courtesy, and to the high esteem in which he was generally held. J-he health of Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Marshall was proposed, and cheers greeted Mr. Marshall as he rose to return thanks, and when he resumed his seat after making a cordial reply to good wishes of those present.

Although the wearing of the veil by women in Turkey has been openly discouraged for some time past, the proclamation issued not long since by the Vali of Trebizond forbidding women to wear the covering hitherto customarily worn by the Moslems assumes a certain importance, because it represents the first time that the authorities have definitely ruled against its use. The proclamation says that the wearing of the veil deprives women of the possibility of earning their livelihood, that the custom is well known to be insanitary, and that it tends to hinder the work of the police by enabling criminals to conceal their identity. The vilayet of Trebonizond is one of the least progressive in Asiatic lurkey, and its having been selected for the experiment is probably due to the fact that it is beiieved that the prohibition of the veil would encounter opposition there if it would anywhere. There seems sound sense in such a theory. It may be recalled that, evidently with the same motive, the Ghazi Pasha appeared in one of the most backward centres in the country and made a speech wearing a hr.t some months before the fez was officially abolished.

'Live furs for women" arc mentioned in an English exchange, and perhaps may ' be the solution of the cruelty complex" which exists at present^ The writer says:—A lemur that has just arrived from Madagascar was bought by a woman in London. When the chilly days started she found that by wearing him round her neck he made a first-rate fur. The quaint animal slept soundly all the time, with his paws across her shoulders and his long, bushy tail hanging loosely over her coat. One day, while wearing him, she went into Regent's Park and sat down. Her neighbour eyed her enviously and looked long at the neat little fur. She noted it was the colour of chestnut and saw that its eyes were closed ... a good idea, she thought; much better than ugly glass eyes. While she was still looking at it, the fur suddenly jumped up and yawned, its fluffy tail waving like a banner in the breeze. After stretching itself once or twice it settled down again round its owner's neck. "It is probable," says an animal dealer, "that lemurs will be quite a craze this winter. They are excellent house pets and easy to feed, their sole requirements being nuts and salad. A good lemur can be bought for about £4 10s, and at present there is a great demand for them."