WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18158, 2 August 1922, Page 12

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL NEWS. Mrs. E. B. Evans, of Martinboroitgh, is visiting Auckland. Mrs. T. Savage ha* taken Tip her residence in Orakui Road. Mrs D G. Hunter left on Monday on a visit to her mother in the Wairarapa. Mrs. Hardin, of Palmerston North, is staving with Mrs. E. Russell, Princes Street. Mi S3 Ailsa Brown, who has been visiting friends in the South, has returned to Auckland. Miss Enid Upfili has gone to Napier with Mrs. Gould, who has returned to her home there. $ Miss P. Bloomfield leaves to-day for Christchurch, where she will pay a round of visits. Major and Mrs. Malet are going south this week. They intend to spend some time in Christahurch. Mr. and Mrs. J. Vallentinc are returning from Sydney this week and will take up their residence at Courtville. Mrs. J. Burns, Mrs. A. M. Ferguson, and Miss B. Ferguson returned on Monday !tjm a visit to Rotorua. Mr. and Mrs. P. Hanna are leaving on Friday for Christehurth and will stay there over Grand National week. Mrs. J. L. R. Bloomfield, who has been in Wellington attending the biennial Plunket Conlerence, has returned to Auckland. Mrs. W. Blundell, of Wellington, is staying at Cargen. Mr. and Mrs. " M." Louisson have also taken up their residence then?. His Excellency, the Governor-General and Lady Jellitoe were the guests o£ Sir Andrew " and Lady Russell, Tunanui, during their visit to Hastings. Miss Cecil Hall, who has been in "Palmerston North, acting els judge in the dancing section of the Competitions Festival,, returned to Auckland on Saturday. Tho first woman passenger an tho CairoBa<'dad air route wa s Miss Gertrude Lothian Bell, who flew from Bagdad to Amman on her way to Palestine. She occupies a unioue f>osition, beinc assistant, political adviser to King Feisul s Government. She thoroughly understands the Arabs, and the;? in return have a very wholesome respect for her abilities.

Tlhe first of the half-hour luncheon talks, an innovation instituted bv the Women's Clnh, is to take place on Tuesday at the club, when Rev. W. G. Monckton -will give an address on the League of Nations, touching principally on its aspect with regard to women. From the number of seat« already hooked it i$ anticipated that the luncheon will be well attended.

There is a rumour that Princess Mary •will be running her own horses shortly; it h;»» been known for some titna that she is keenly interested in racing, and knows a good deai more thjin most people about a horse. Lord Luiscelles already owna several racers, and it will be interesting if Prinoees Mary's colours are seen, too, at the various nicotines, and if it comes to pass she will doabtiiMin sport her favourite bine.

The Rev. R. L. Walker, who reoently returned from a trip to Britain, waa maiT ed on Monday morning to Miss Mary Waite, of View Rosd, Mount Eden. The ccrcmony, which took placn at St. James' Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Walker was; formerly pastor, was performed by the Rev. George Paterson, of St. James'. Mr. and Mn>. Walker left by the Rotorua express on Monday, en Toute to their new home at Ravensboume, Dunedin, to which charge Mr. Walker haa received a Gill.

A piece of old Chelsea porcelain discovered reoently by Mr. JYank Sooner, the art dealer, was «old in London for a considerable sum, believed to run into several thousands of pounds. Probably made about 1752, tho iporoe'ain is considered by the experts who have seen it to he the most wonderful piece of old English poroelain ever produced, and a unique relic of the most notable period in the manufacture of English porcelain. That such it valuable piece should come to light now hits surprised the experts.

" Women operators arc indispensable on the telephone exchanges:," said Senator Marconi, the gn«ist of bononr at a wireless dinner at the Lyceum Club, London, "and when these become wirelefis, as they will in tinx>, women operators will do the work." No instrument which was in nee at the present time, he said, could have prevented the disaster to the P. and O. liner Egypt, but thero was a certain apparatus now coming into use which coivld have averted the catastrophe. Senator Marconi declared that when the who'e history of wireless was written it would be found that the original inspiration for this discovery came from a woman.

The Countess of Onslow is a piomeer among .peerjssefl, inasmuch as she is announced as having embarked on retail trading as a " purveyor " of milk. A good deal of milk is produced at Cflandon Park, «arid Lady Onslow has now, with the aid o?' a motor lorry, started to supply it to residents in the district, running nearly into Guilford itself Lady Onslow has always been interested in stock, and recently visited Jeraey for the purpose of adding on the spot to her herd of cows by local • purchases. Lord Onslow's model dairy at Ctandon was always an object of interest, to New Zealand visitors who, in the past, used to go down to K;he delightful warden parties given by the late Earl and the Dowarer Countess of Onslow.

The history of C'e'estial actresses is very pnfertaining Under the Yuan Emptors ftho Mongol Dynasty, 1280-1368) women aeted on the Chinese stage, hut. afterwards they were banned until 1900! Now that China is becoming "modernised" mixed companies are permitted, but it is amnsinj* to know that there Is an allwomen theatre in Shanghai, called the I ?? I ,, Ti' h^ or ,rbftatre of whl( * was! fouTided ap years ago, and is the only! v" nf) ar,r€Sß ni! e of pre-1900 iavs Young men Mill p l ay feminine parts in many cast* ln China, though It must j ' Uki. for unless the lady they I represent is a w >m, c character the actor = must mimir ".he bound feet of the Chinese ' woman Fin does this by having tiny I the only woman at Who 2 ?i e th,S year u MiM A - M - Coote' ; ho is 21. won a scholarship in 1913 / i Four years later she became possessed of I SmhTV ?°"- n , ty . Coi ' nf- il Scholarship. Rh« . was the first ,nr in the Senior Cambridge Local examination. After that she won the Cambridge Higher Wal with fi rs t in mathematics and second in French. Then versitv S, r R '' h ° !arShi P for th « Urnr l, Coote R career ib claimed to be one of tno romances of the Salvation Amy because she has been associated with the mcverrent ever nince a child, and M'hile at pollccre at .he took a fffchiwSffSf? She will probably take up teaching if a profession Popular among her school swimming f °" d ° f Sport ' of Protestant E P i a . copal Church, which corresponds to the Church of hneland. will not be required to promise either to serve or to obey their husbands if the recommendation adopted by a Comtniiision for the Revision of the Prayer Rook is confirmed by the Ceneral :- °C V . Cbllrch - proposed • Xhe StatUS of women. Thus, ■while the man ia no longer viewed

as his wife's lord and master, on the other hsicd the commission proposes to absolve the bridegroom from the promise to endow his wife with all his worldly goodsBoth parties, it is suggested, should be asked the same question, promising to love, honour, and comfort each other, and to forsake all others so long as either lives. Another change suggested is the insertion of a prayer for blessing the ring, which reads : " Bless, 0 Lord, this ring, that she who wears it may abide in Thy peace and continue in Thy favour unto her life's end.'' A windfall of £100,000 is coming to the law students of Grey's Inn. Sir Lewis Coward, K.C., for many years an active member of the Council of Legal Education, made the announcement recently, and added that the money will be devoted to legal education. It is believed that the bequest was made by the widow of Lord Justice Hcjker, himself an old bencher of Grey's Inn, on one condition. Lady Hojkers, in 1894, married as her second husband, Mr. Henry Beaufort Tnglefield, the polar explorer. She laid it down in her will that the bequest would be subject only to tho life interests of Mr. Inglefield, who still survives her, Mr. Inglefield married two years ago as his second wife Mrs. Alexandra Gcraldine Gould, a cousin of Lord Dunbovne. ''I was invited to make tho announcement," said Sir Lewis Coward, " as the students have shown a somewhat remarkable reluctance to enter for the valuable scholarships and prizes for reading in Chambers that Grey s Inn has to offer." The question of credit and the married woman is engaging the attention of the various organisations of women in England very closely just now, and is being discussed by them with hardly less warmth j than they d.splayed towards the idea of I " coverture," as manifested in the recent ! Peel case. At the National Union of the Societies for Equal Citizenship these views have been summed up in a statement that has been issued to the various branches, and the opinion is expressed that " it. is important to point out that the most vital of the grievances still suffered by a married woman is that by which a wife, unless she has private means or a profession, is still economically dependent on her husband. It is little use giving political equality to women unless this economic dependence by some means or other can be brought to an end. This could, no doubt, be done by some measure which allows to a wife without means or with inadequate means of her own the right to a certain proportion of her husband's income, which amount should he in proportion to his means, and should be laid down by law, and not left to the casual generosity, or otherwise, of her husband. A more "far-reaching reform would be one which has already become law in Sweden, by which each partner to <i marriage has a* share of half their joint income." In view of the possible dismissal of the Women's Patrol in England, as a result of the suggestion in the Geddes report that their employment is unjustifiable, on the grounds of economy, and that their utility from a police point of view is negligible, the Medical Women's Federation has issued a protest. As a body of women greatly concerned in questions or national health and sobriety, the federation desires to urge th© Prime Minister to take the matter into serious consideration, ! before any steps leading to the <i isinissai of tho Women's Patrols are authorised by him. In reply to the assertion that the utility of Women Patrols is negligible, certain figures are quoted. The tot;il number of persons assisted by the Metropolitan Women Patrols- during 1921 was 49,813. In this total the following are included : —Women prisoners searched, 1089; women prisoners escorted, 322; attempted suicides watched at hospitals, 58. Presumably the greater number of the persons " assisted" were women and children, and it i.<» known that 6465 girls had shelter and beds found for them by the Women Patrols. In addition, a large amount of useful preventive work has been done by the Women Patrols. In their Welfare Department 1131 girls and women were placed in voluntary homes and hospitals, thus relieving the State of a heavy charge for their maintenance by the rates or in prison. The presence of the patrols in nublic parks and open spaces is known to be a great protection to children. Parents have expressed their feeling of satisfaction at the safety of their children*, who are und<sr the observation of womert police, and their keen regret in cafes where their services have been withdrawn. Lady Muriel Paget, who recently returned to London, gives an interesting account of her work in the Baltic Provinces. The mission which she established in 1920 has special interest to New Zealand. In the first place 'it was some €s°oo contributed bv the Dominion that enabled her to establish the children's clinics at Riga, Reval, and Dvinsk. All that money, of course, has been used, but something more permanent from New Zealand is to day influencing the people of those towns, and that influence is spread ing over the country. It is Dr. Trub\ King's methods for the care and feedin; of babies. To go back still further. Ir ICT9 Lady Muriel Paget went out U Czecho-Slovakia to help in the relief work there. To begin with, '120 kitchens were established for the relief of the starving population. When the condition!* eased, children's welfare work was started, and | jTadually the responsibility was handed lover to the people themselves. Experienced English nurses acquainted with the Truby King methods inaugurated the work and taught the local nurses. To-day there are 19 clinics and a hospital for children in Czecho-Slovakia. all being run on up-to-date lines by the local medical men and nurses, and supported by the people and the Government of the country. Enelish nurses are still acting as inspectors for these clinics, however, unt'l it is ielt that those who have taken over the work may be relied on to maintain the standard. A National Baby Council has been formed, and there is shortly to be celebrated what is known in London as " Baby Week," Lady Muriel herself will be croing over to Czecho-Slovakia in a fortnight's time to take part in the proceedings. Underlying all this wo r k are the methods taught by Dr. Trobv King at the Mo there raft Training Society in London.

The question of defining the duties of si Plunket nurse in a household, and the ob'igations of the employer towards her had been found to be so difficult of decision that a spe.ial sub-committee was set up in connection with the Wellington Plunket Conference to draw up some guiding suggestions for both. In presenting the report of the conference Miss Patrick said that .the committee had done the best possible with a most difficult subject in the limited time at its disposal The following guiding suggestions were finally put foiward.—The nurse's duties should include the following : (1) To be responsible for the baby, and to do all possible on the lines indicated during her training to assure the highest standard of health for the baby, and be responsible for all direct duties pertaining to the baby's welfare (2) If the baby is naturally fed and normally healthy, by mutual arrangement between mother and nurse she should assist in the general routine of the home, nursery, and elder children proj vided such duties do not interfere with i the care of the baby (3) The nurse to be responsible for the care and cleanliness jof hei own room, the nursery, and the I baby s rlothing. It was asted that the . mother shomri observe the following suggestions : (11 The nurse requires some nf IVi u e w Xal,o T f / om ,lle constant care of the baby and should have at least n off! -Z P ?K WCek and ° nP dav P^ r m ""th off .also three evenings weeklv off duty or the equivalent, by mutual arrangement between mother and nurse. (2) That if the baby is fretful at nisrht the mother should arrange for the nurse to have a rest or respite from the baby durine the dav. in order to keep fit to carrv £ work efficiently. (3) It is requested that' the nurse will not be asked to violate he direct principles of the society regard in* the car e of babies (the use of dried n ,1k when fresh » obtainable, constant injudici"j ° a nervo,ls babv, the use of the dummy, etc ) f4\ • ? would like mothers to I,nderst-ind thTff' «' Xoni'b ,?/ shoVd 1 Z St,l ° s in , U ' e koiwS nursn t? ame aH that of a trained nurse. This report, from the sub-com-mittee, was adopted by the conference.