NOTES FOR WOMENS

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9041, 12 May 1915, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMENS

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mrs Preston, superintendent, and Mrs Barltrop. secretary of the South Wellington Nursing Division of St: John, acknowledge the receipt of the following:—Mr*, Miss and Mrs H. Duncan, £8; W. 8., £1; Mr FJilis 11 iikinsoK, £1; Mrs W. Warded, £5; also gifts of articles and garments from Misses Hugo, Botham, Clark, Mesdames Flint, Bird, Smith, Low, Bramvvell, F. Smith, “Towels,” Bulls Bed Cross Society, and Mr Vickery. They also acknowledge with thanks the many offers to make up material. As soon as the work is ready it is hoped to be able to supply garments to all who have kindly offered to assist. Lady Ward has gone to Christchurch to stay with her- daughter, Mrs Bernard Wood.

Mrs Hempton has received donations from Vcitch and Allan, Archers Drapery Store, Messrs V• Denticc, 11. W. Annit, J. Nathan, Dominion Tobacco Company,. J. Morris, H. Hyman, H. Sim, E. H. Knowsley, W. and G. Turnbull, M. Walsh,' Jaowo and Sowman, G. and C. Aldous, British Empire Trading Company, Mr J. Carr, and Miss N. Ton'ka. Any donations should be sent to Mrs Hempton, 37, Thompson street, after 6 p.m. Mrs Fred Nathan, of Palmerston North, is visiting her mother, Mrs Jacob Joseph, in Hobson street. She returns-home at the end of the week. Mr and Mrs R. Bunby, of Christchurch, are visiting Wellington. Staving at the New Commercial Hotel are Mr and Mrs Webb (England), Mr and Mrs Allah (Sydney), Mr and Mrs Ward (Christchurch), Mr Gillman (Greymouth), Mr Cullen (Carterton). Mr and Mrs Zenmanek (Dunedin), Mr Pryk© (Greytown), Mrs Campbell (Picton). Nurse Jessie Pope, younger daughter of Mr .Langley Pope, headmaster of St. Clair School, Dunedin, has decided not to be deterred by- the decision of the New Zealand Government not to send any more nurses to the front, and is accordingly undertaking the journey to the Old Land at her own expense, says the “Otago Daily Times.” She has taken a passage to London on the Ruapehu, which is due to leave Wellington on the 27th inst., and’, on arrival, she will offer her services to the Imperial -Government. Nurse Pope received her training in the Wellington Hospital. She has a brother, Mr Ley Pope, with the New Zealand main expeditionary force.

The wide circle of friends of the late Mrs Annio L. Meeking, relict of the late T. H. Meeking, will bo sorry to hear of her demise, which took place on Thursday last, at the residence ~of her daughter-in-law, Mrs D. Andrew, Wingatui. Accompanied by .her husband, Mrs Meeking came from Victoria to New Zealand in 1859, and landed in Dunedin somewhere near Pelichet Bay, says a Dunedin exchange.

Mother Mary Joseph Aubert is still in Rome. Writing to the Sisters at the Home of Compassion in Wellington, sho says that she does not see much chance of leaving Italy at present. , Mother Aubert, who will, he 80 years of age next month, has been busy nursing among the victims of theAvezzano earthqualce. She. says that the horrors of that disaster are, almost indescribable. Many of the victims completely lost their reason, in several cases whole families were destroyed, and most pitiable of all hundreds of sole survivors are searching vainly for the remains of their departed relatives.

The Nurses’ Journal of Victoria says that appointments have been made bv the Defence authorities (of Australia) of a reserve of hospital staff to replace those who are sent back from general and other hospitals .in charge of invalids. This reserve will bo stationed at the overseas depot of the Australian Imperial Forces, and it will leave Australia for service as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. The list of nurses contains forty names, including the nurses who went from New Zealand to join the Australian quota. The journal adds that “in addition to the nurses who have' already loft these shores” (which bv now must number considerably over 300),-a further batch of 40 for Australian service and 50 for the Royal Army Medical Corps will leave in due course.

Yesterday afternoon a very successful sale was held at Mrs Walter Hislop’s house, an Willis • street. Mrs Hislop's little daughter Bettie had conceived the idea of having a small' bazaar in aid of the Belgian fund, and with a number of her girl friends had organised the whole affair. There were beautiful flowers for sale, pot-plants, cakes and sweets, as well as -work done by the children themselves. Mrs Hiilop had herself made many of the sweets, which were very beautiful -and appetising, and she had also made the delicious cakes which were for sale and were served for afternoon tea. Tea was provided by her also as her contribution to the children’s efforts. So energetic were the children in their organ--ising and selling that they realised the sum of £SO by ■ the afternoon’s sale. The result has been so good that they are considering the question of dividing the profits with another fund. A cake competition was held during the afternoon, and was won by Mrs \V. Turnbull. There were a large number of ladies present, and all bought freely of the delectable goods for sale.

Hairwork is now brought to a pitch of perfection. Miss Milsom and staff of skilled workwomen are engaged in making tho latest Transformations. Toupees, Wigs Switches, Plaits. Pads (latest Natural Hair), and Curls. If you reside at a distance, post pattern of hair and describe what you require. Reply and quotation will be immediately sent, and advice as to what should be worn. A regular supply of hair arrives from London with the newest fashions in hairdressing ©o that Miss Milsom can now make any woman look smart for the new season’s millinery—-whether she has much hair or little. All complexion preparations and toilet requisites stocked. Visitors to Wellington should call on Miss Milsom and see, for themselves the latest in boudoir specialities. Miss Milsom. 94 Willis street (4 doors above “Evening Post”). Telephone 814. *

Fragrant violets, large supplies arriving daily. Send your friends an artistic. posie of violets or one of our popular violet boxes, packed and posted to any address in the Dominion. Obtainable at Miss Murray’s, Vice-Regal Ploriste, 36, Willis street., *•

Tho Hnntly Disaster was predicted by Ithuriel 8 days before eventuating. Send birth date. Is stamps. Scientific Astrology Offices, Boulcott Chambers.

Mr and Mrs B. J. Dolan, of Lapier, are visiting Wellington. Mr and Mrs Triugliam, of Pigeon Bush, are staying at the Grand Hotel. Miss Ella Potham, of Havelock, Hawke’s Bay, is visiting her aunt, Mrs Matthews, in "Wellington.

Mrs S. Hempton, of 37, Thompson street. Wellington, is in charge of the tobacco stall at the forthcoming carnival. She will he assisted by the Misses Thompson, Cox, Gibb, Sangotor, Pearce, Wagstaffe, Robinson, Morris, Basiro, Jackson, Sellars, Collins, Lewis, and George. The stall is to be called the Canadian Stall. The Australasian women’s War Club, including New Zealanders as well as Australians, is doing good work for the wives and mothers of soldiers and sailors. The headquarters arc located at Somcr’s Town, London. Among its recent activities has been the organising of holidays for convalescent soldiers. A novel idea for raising funds for the Red Cross Society has been originated in Gisborne, Victoria, -by Mrs Ross Watt. A scarf is being knitted for Queen Mary, and any woman wishing for the honour of knitting a row may do so after paying Is. Mrs Ross Watt hopes to raise £2OO in this way, that is provided some woman is not carried away by her zeal into knitting the whole scarf for Is. Lady Stanley did the first row, and the article is well on its way to completion, says an Australian paper.. The present is a time of the keenest anxietv for all the women of New Zealand and Australia, who have relatives with the expeditionary forces, whether they see their names among, the lone lists of wounded or not, for while fighting lasts there is always the chance of luck or ill-luck. The women of Australia, however, have one consolation which we New Zealanders lack, thev know that their sons will have the comfort of being nursed by thenown nurses. The Australians have sent nurses with each of their contingents. who are now nursing the wounded in the base hospitals, at Cairo and Alexandria- New Zealand has sent away fifty nurses, but w© have no guarantee that any of those nurses will be anywhere near our own men. Twelve of our, nurses have gone with the Australians, and some of these' may be in the hospitals where the New Zealanders are, ' but even of -that wo can not be certain. Wo have sent and. are sending the best of medical men, to attend to the wounded, but everyone (every woman at any rate) knows what a difference the nurse ; makes in the sick ward, and how much the comfort, or otherwise, of the invalid depends upon her. -We: have only to refer -to the encomiums of those who have returned from Samoa, as to the work of tho nurses there, where every man, officer, and doctor was at one in declaring that it was entirely owing to the’ nurses’ unremitting attentions that the expeditionary force came off without a single death. We.all know, too, how good it' is -to find someone from one’s own land near, when laid aside in a strange; country; and yet wo have allowed our own boys to be sent away to fight without this great comfort and consolation for their hours of pain and sickness, for all the kindness and attention of strangely will not be quite like having someone from home near one’s bedside. Surely when the New. Zealand women realise this—and how can we help realising it with the casualty lists growing longer every day ?—they will wake up from their apathy and demand, firmly and insistently, that nurses as well as doctors be-sent, with the next troopships leaving for tho front.

The sum of £4OO was collected in Napier on Saturday for the equipment fund.

An Australian paper, speaking of Dr Isabel Ormiston, who. was recently'mentioned in dispatches for conspicuous bravery, says that she was on leave of absence from Tasmania, where she was Medical Inspector of Schools, when the war broke out. After doing some work in London she was offered the post of medical superintendent at the Ostend Kursaai, and here she and her : colleagues were in such demand that they several times tended the wounded for twenty consecutive hours without any respite. Dr Ormiston, with the matron (Madame, Patton-Bethiine, of the Clayton Priory, Burgess l HUI, Sussex) and Dr Emile van de Watte, were the only three left to tend the - wounded during the entry of the Germans into Ostend, and it was for this devotion to duty that they were reported to the Belgian Government. They watched the entry into Ostend of 70,000 of the enemy, and were treated with all consideration. and respect, even when a British warship opened fire on the Ostend Hotel. After returning, to London via Holland, Dr Ormiston collected funds, motor-cars, and anything she could lay her hands on, and returned to Europe to take up duties at the Queen of the Belgians’ Hospital, five miles from the firing line. This hospital held the wounded of all nations, and their gratitude for the care given them has been touching. .Many of them still write to Dr Ormiston from the trenches. The latest news announced that 1 sho was being sent by the wounded Allies’ relief committee to one of their hospitals-in Montenegro.

The engagement was lately announced of Mr Ralph Bingham Higginson, second son of Mrs Higginson and the late Mr Harry Pasley Higginson, of Wellington, New Zealand, with Miss Mary Beatrice Hague, elder daughter of the late Mr Ernest Hague, of Castle Dyke, Sheffield. The marriage has been arranged to take place in Sydney next month. '

Electrolysis marks the skin! Electrolysis is really painful! Electrolysis causes other hair to grow! Call on Mrs Hullen and she will give vou practical and scientific reasons for the ' ..baleful effect of electrolysis. Mrs Hullen will also demonstrate the wonderful effect of her Busina treatment for the removal of superfluous hair. Rusma is painless, leaves no mark, removes the disfiguring hair at once and eventually destroys the growth—a cure is absolutely guaranteed. Surely you are prompted to call or write? Do so to-day. Mrs Hullen, Beauty Specialist, Boulcott street. Wellington. Dept. 4. ’Phone 1047. —Advt.

Boys’ overcoats in covert cloths with caps to match, 18s to 255. An overcoat Tflhich looks diistinctlv smart on the little chaps. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manned street.

Mr and Mrs , T. H. Lowry, of Hawke’s Bay, leave by the Niagara this month for Vancouver. Miss Cara Denhard, of Wellington, has been engaged to , sing at the Hastings Orchestral Society’s concert on June Ist. The Sydney “Sun” says that Miss May Palmer, of Wellington, after spending some months in a military hospital at Marseilles, has just gone to Mentone to a Bed Cross' hospital which has been opened there. Miss Palmer is a cousin of Lieutenant Maclean, of New Zealand, on whom the military cross for valour was recently bestowed. Another New Zealand girl, Miss Mary A. Sheridan, of Napier, is in one of the military hospitals in France.,