NOTES FOR WOMAN

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9096, 15 July 1915, Page 5

NOTES FOR WOMAN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss E. A. Hyde, daughter of Captain James Hyde, late of Nelson, and her niece. Miss M. G. Hyde, eldest daughter of Mr E. G. Hyde, of the Education Department, are passengers by the Remuera to-day eu route to England, where tney intend to serve under the Red Cross Hospital Association. Miss E. A. Hyde, who is an officer of the Tax Department, has obtained leave of absence while away on her new career. Miss M. G. Hyde holds high certificates -'from the local Red Cross Association. Mrs' Seymour Thorno-Gcorge and Miss Thorne-Georgo left Auckland by the Niagara en route to Vancouver. They will probably return by the same steamer. Mrs G. D. Delprat and her daughter, Dr Mary Delprat, mother and sister respectively of Lady Mawson, were through passengers by the Niagara when she arrived at Auckland, en rout© to Vancouver. Nurse Brown, of Timaru, will bo a passenger by the Remuera on route to Prance, where she intends offering her services for the war. Mr and Mrs Knight, and the Misses Knight, of Racecourse Hill, Christchurch, are spending a few days in Wellington. A big staff of women and girls are engaged washing and mending the clothes at each of the big field baths at the front, and they recently gave an opportunity tor a pretty and characteristic display of'French democracy. A prominent French general on a visit to the lines was taken to see one of the baths, and .passing through the great washhouses ho stopped and made a graceful little speech to the washerwomen. Blood-red poppies, white daisies and Hue-bells have been sent from Gallipoli by Private Carl Rowland Hensen to his father, Mr Carl Hensen, of Ballendella, Melbourne. The flowers were gathered on the battlefields, and seeds from the blooms are to be planted to keep in memory the gallant charge of the Australians. Captain A. G. B. Price, adjutant of the Auckland Infantry Battalion, was to he married to, Miss Elsie Score, of Dorset, in England, yesterday. ’ Captain Price, who is a son of Mrs Price. "Rowalyn,” of Abbot’s road. Mount Eden, was a member of the main expeditionary force, and was slightly wounded at the Dardanelles early in May. He is at present in England, and will have two months’ furlougn before returning to the firing line. ' The secretary of the Wellington South nursing division of St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas desires to acknowledge the following:—Parcel from Mrs Kelsey, Eketahuna. Miss Lodge, Marton patriotic workers,, Bulls Red Cross workers. Girls’ Guild, Foxton, per Mrs Eraser. The monthly meeting of the Levin Memorial Homo was held on July 13th. The matron reported that there were two cases of whooping-qough in the home, but both were progressing favour ably. Two children were admitted during the past month. The committee desire to thank Mrs Whitelaw, Mrs James Hisl’op, Miss Greenwood, Miss Eagle, Mrs Finlayson, for gifts, and Messrs Hurcombe and Sons for their weekly supply of fish. Visitors to town staying at the New_ Commercial Hotel include: —Mr and .Mrs Tozart (Sydney), Mr and Mrs Lloyd (Auckland), Mr and Mrs Windell (Picton), Mr and Mrs Flueford (Nelson), Messrs Johnston (Napier). Mr Cairo (Sydney), Mrs Young (Auckland), Mr and Mrs Stevens (Christchurch), and Mr McCailum (Blenheim). At the monthly meeting of the committee of the Alexandra Home for Women held on Monday, July 12th, a resolution was passed expressing the regret of the committee at the resignation of Mrs C. O. Harper, consequent on her early departure for England, and placing on record their deep appreciation of her services on the committee. A quiet wedding took place at Levin on Monday, the contracting parties being Mr Daniel Cole, eldest son of Mr and Mrs H. Cole, of Levin, and formerly of Masterton, and Mrs Chambers, of Levin. A correspondent, writing on May 28th last, stated that Mrs Malcolm Ross, who left Wellington with her husband, who was en route for the Dardanelles, had arrived in London. A wedding of New Zealand interest took place on May 19th at St. George’s, Hanover square, when Lieut— Colonel G. Gore Gillon, F.R.C.S.T., R.A.M.O. (temp.), late New Zealand M. 0., was married to Mrs Jean Frances Hutchinson, widow of Joseph Hutchison, of Woodside,' Lanarkshire. Dr and Mrs Ely Roe and their son leave by the Remuera to-day for England. Dr Roe’s services have been accepted by the R.A.M.C. for work in connection with the war. Mrs Roe and her son will stay with relatives at Roscrae, Tipperary, Ireland, during Dr Roe’s absence at the front. The first lady ’bus conductor has been appointed m London, in the person of Miss Lowe, a well-known Chester suffragist, who registered herself for war service, and has been appointed in place of a man who wanted to enlist. One face, and one only, is given by Nature to each individual to last a lifetime. Therefore why not make the best of it and keep young, fresh and healthylooking for all time. Ago counts not nowadays. Consult Miss Milsom, the qualified Face Specialist, who teaches the correct massage and treats with the proper preparations, and shows you how to combat the. wrinkles, dry skin and dreaded "crow's feet"; how to preserve and restore the roundness and firmness of the cheeks, and particularly the neck. A few special treatments first to cleanse and soften the skin and free it from large pores, blackheads and prtnpies. then lessons in treatment for the care of the skin (done at home for ten minutes daily) will show extraordinary results. All hair treatments, hairwork stocked and made from combingsMiss Milsom, Barnett’s Buildings, 91, \Villis street (1 doors past “Evening Post”). ’Rhone 811. * ■ Fragrant violets, large supplies arriving daily. Send yonr 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 Floriste, 86, Willis street. -■ “SYDAL’’ (Wilton's Hand Emollient). “I’ve got such -a tender skin, I think I will grow a beard." "I'll get a divorce if you do, why don’t you use a little ‘SYDAL’ before shaving? You men are such stupids."

Mrs Curtis; of Foxton, who is leaving the district, was on Sunday evening the recipient of a presentation from the choir of St. Mary’s Church, as a mark of -esteem for her long and valued services in the choir. Dr Martin, in a lecture at Palmerston North on Tuesday, stated that today France is being run by women. Fathers, sons, and brothers were all at the front. A Gisborne engagement of interest just announced is that of Miss Carmen ’Winter, daughter of Colonel and Mrs .Winter, Mangapapa, to Mr Oakden, one time of Tokomaru Bay, but now on his way to join the expeditionary force. i Miss Margaret Basil Jones, a, member of “Tbs Mascots” Company, was entertained at Napier on Monday night by Mrs A. Ellingham, Mr A. L. D. Fraser, and “The Mascots” Company on the eve of her marriage to Mr T. Williams, of Napier. Mr A. L. D. Fraser was the chairman of the evening, and presented Miss Jones, on behalf of “The Mascots,” with a silver rose bowl, suitably inscribed in English and Maori, also, on behalf of Mr H. M. Campbell, with a cheque. Miss Brown, of Napier, accompanied Mr J. Vigor Brown, M.P.. to Wellington this week. Mr and Mrs Bathgate and Dr Winifred Bathgate, of Dunedin, are on a visit to Napier. Nurse Lyne, of Feilding, leave® for Sydney to-day to join the next detachment of Australian nurses lor the front. Mrs F. Dillon, of Blenheim, is staying in Wellington. Lieutenant Sydney Coot, eon of Mr Joseph Cook, of Sydney, recently met his bride (formerly Miss Elsie Sheppard), while in hospital at Alexandria. Lieutenant Cook married Nurse Sheppard a few days before he left for the front, and Mrs Cook, who was a nurse in Prince Alfred Hospital, left Sydney for England. The Kyarra, however, landed the nurses in Egypt, where Mrs Cook resumed her nursing duties. Lieutenant Cook, wounded, was in, bed m hospital at Alexandria, when, to his amazement and delight, he saw his wife walking down the centre of the ward. He put up hia hand and called her name. The meeting was quite unexpected. The committee of ladies who were busy instituting a rest room for soldiers in Wellington, when the, camp was suddenly moved from Trentham, have not abandoned their idea. A good sum of money is in hand, and regular monthly donations promised, which amount to a good deal. The committee are already taking steps. to establish, with the aid of the residents in each district, such rooms near the different camps. Some of the Wellington committee may even go up to establish the rooms, and will send their funds. At Palmerston, such a room will doubtless soon be an accomplished fact, for the townspeople there will see that the soldiers want for nothing that they can give them. Already the Mayor of Palmerston is collecting reading matter and fruit for the men at the camps near by. The scheme started in London a few weeks go by Lady Lawrence of providing canteens for munition-workers in or near their works is proving a great success. In at least two of the Government works it is going strongly. The Women’s Volunteer Reserve have a cart canteen from which they supply the workers at the Arsenal with tea, while at Enfield Lock members of the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage are busy with a toa and coffee canteen for the night-shift, whose “tea time” is at three o’clock in the morning. Some 9000 men are now working on the night shift, and as night work is so much .more trying than the same amount of work by day it has been found necessary to change the shifts every fortnight. Thus in course of time all the workers will come into contact. with the canteen workers, and it is hoped that the sympathy and goodfellowship which prompt them to undertake this rather trying piece of work will cheer and encourage men and be even more valuable than the merely physical effect of the food and drink. WORK AMONGVTHB WOUNDED. A British nurse, writing to her association of her work in France, says: “ Everything here is French except the three American doctors, six British trained nurses, and eight American chauffeurs for the ambulances. We are about ten miles from the German trenches, and four or five miles from the big French guns. The larger ones shake the house and rattle, the windows each time they fire. Our patients are all French, and braver, pluckier men you could not find, and so grateful for all wo do for them. It is a privilege and pleasure to nurse them, and some are so terribly wounded. This is just a mobile ambulance of thirty beds. The wounded are brought straight from the trenches, and we keep them till they are fit to travel to a base hospital. We hate to see them go, for many are still very ill- I often wish we had the luxuries, such as socks, mufflers, and sweaters, that are sent in such abundance to our own men. I have just come back from ..our nearest town, where the artillery had, just come in. The men are all so nice, and the officers never pass without saluting. Of course, they know we are English, and nursing their xnonThe little children in the streets- stop and say, ‘les Anglaises," and expect to be taken notice of. . . . The work out hero is hard and rough, the chateau is damp and inconvenient, there are no luxuries and few necessaries; but one is more than repaid by the gratitude of these poor woimded men.”

WEDDING AT WANGANUI. Last week the wedding was celebrated at “ Brookfield,” Waverley, the residence of the bride’s mother, of Miss Ruby Stella Johnston, youngest daughter of Mrs Robert Johnston, to Mr Frederick Newman, youngest son of Mr C. Newman, of Pahiatua. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr Robert Johnston, wore cream silk with silk insertions, with wreath and veil, and carried a beautiful bouquet. She was attended . by Miss May Newman (sister of the bridegroom) and Miss Lucy “Whittington (niece of the bride). Both wore whit© silk dresses and mob caps, and carried posies of violets and maidenhair fern. Two small nieces of the bride, Misses Ivy Menhennet and Albert Young, were flower-girls, wearing pale blue frocks, and carried crooks tied with ribbon and flowers, and Misses Edna Young and Mabel Beer were dressed in pale pink, and carried baskets of flowers. Mr Alfred Forsberg (cousin of the bridegroom) was best man, and Mr Albert Johnston (brother of the bride) was groomsman- The ceremony was performed by the Rev. D. Mclvor. After the ceremony the wedding breakfast was served, the guests numbering about a hundred, and the health of the newly-married couple was enthusiastically honoured.,, Later Mr and Mrs Newman left on their honeymoon, the bride wearing a brown costume and black hat with white oflprey. During the evening a dance was field, and after supper cheers were given for the hostess and the bride and bridegroom. WANGANUI NOTES. (By “Eileen.”) July 14. Mr and Mrs T. B. Williams have returned from Wellington-' Mri and Mrs Leeds (Canterbury) are visiting friends in Wanganui. Rev. and Mrs Reeve have returned from Wellington. A pretty wedding took place on July 6th at Christ Church, Wanganui, the bride being Miss Maud ■ Beatrice Butcher, daughter of Mr and Mrs H. Butcher, of Wanganui (and formerly of Greymoutli),’- and the bridegroom Mr George Geoffrey, youngest son of Mr and Mrs B. Friend, of Okarito (South Westland). The bride Was given away by her father, and she wore a gown of soft white charmeuse, prettily draped, over dress of shadow lace, and yoke and sleeves of silk lace edged with seed pearls. The bridal veil was arranged in mob cap effect, with spray of orange blossoms, and she carried a shower bouquet of narcissus and freesias, with long tulle strings. - Her sister, Miss Lena Flynn, attended the bride, and she wore an embroidered gown of white voile, with draped bodice of shadow lace, and amethyst velvet hat, with cream ostrich plume. Her bouquet was of narcissus and violets. The best man was Mr V. Hardley, of Auckland. The bride’s gift to the bridegroom was a suit case, the bridegroom’s gift to the bride being a silver and ebony mirror and brush, *.nd to the bridesmaid a gold bangle. The best man received a gold ring, sot with a ruby. After the ceremony, the bridal party and guests were entertained at Messrs George and Kersley’s to afternoon tea. Later, Mr and Airs Friend left by train for New Plymouth, the bride going away in a navy costume with cream collar and vest, and black velvet hat. She also wore a set of black fox furs. The Orchestral Society gave their first concert of the season on Monday evening in the Opera House. There was a splendid audience present, and all thoroughly enjoyed , the musical treat. The soloists were Miss Hannah (Wellington), vocal, and Air Gordon Mcßeth (piano). The gem of the evening was undoubtedly the poem by Emile Oammaerts, “ Sing, Belgians, Sing.” The recitation was given by Air J. H. Keesing, and the martial and sad music was quite awe-inspiring. The whole poem had to be repeated, as did several of the society’s pieces, including the pretty and tuneful “Humoreske ” (Dvorak). Air Gordon Mcßeth gave Pianoforte Concerto, Op. 23 (Tsohaikowsky), and in the second half “Irish Tunes,” “Noel,” and “Pollchinelle.” Miss Hannah sang “How the Deep Slumber of the Floods” and “Soul of Aline,” both being encored. Air L. Cohen was conductor, and the society have a gentleman who is an artist to his finger-tips. Among those preseht were Air and Airs Neame, Air and Airs Babbage, Rev. and Airs AlcKcnzie, Mr and Mrs Brookfield, Mr and Airs Fairburn, Air and Airs Darsen, Air and Airs Howard Paul, Air and Airs H. Collier, Airs A. D. Willis, Airs Alf Willis, Air and Airs W. Willis, Mr and Airs L. Peck, Air and Airs J. Thorpe, Airs Kitchen, Air and Aliss Kaine, Air and Airs Gibbons, Air and Airs Alcorn, Aliases Spurdle, Comyns (2), Williams, Sampson, Cohen, Aland, Aliss Stevenson, Alisses Willis (2), Rackol, Gibbons, P. Jones, Air and Airs H. Price, and many others. Tlic Health of Women and Children Society held their monthly meeting on Tuesday afternoon in the Plunket room, there being present Alesdames Gibbons (in the chair), Spurdle, Powell, Sampson, Comyns, Bates. Izett, Liffiton, Cameron and Alisses J. Jones, Parsons, Cowper, and Aliss Cummins (secretary). It was decided to go cn with the sending of the baby clothes to England. A case has been sent from here on Saturday last containing 900 and odd garments, all most beautifully made.