NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9720, 24 July 1917, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. A number of schools have contributed to the Christmas puddings, being prepared by the Countess or Liverpool and Citizens’ Gift Funds, to be included in the Christmas parcels being f>ont to tlio Tnen in "fh© trenches. Ten thousand parcels "’ill go fro™ Wellington, so that number of puddings must be made, ;ind, indeed, are nearly finished, the mixing having been clone by the workers of these two funds at the Wellington Meat Export Company’s works at Ngahauranga. Each pudding will he tinned, and on the labels will he the name of the school and the child who sends one. Is being reckoned as supplying one pudding. Up to the present, on this computation 4697 puddings have been promised by the school children of Wellington district, including the boys of Wellington College, who sent £2O to the fund, which is equivalent to 400 puddings.

The monthly afternoon _ tea to mothers of soldiers and sailors will ho held by the honorary division of the Women’s National Reserve, m the Town Hall on Wednesday. . Mrs Berry and Mrs Hall, of Seatoun, will be in charge of the Woodward street Red Cross Shop to-mor-row.

Mrs Frank Hume, wife of Major Humoi R.N.Z.A., has . now left the New Zealand War Contingent Association, at Southampton Row, and has joined her husband at the Chadderton Camp, Royston, Lancs., where he commands the N.Z.F.A.

Staff Nurse D. E. Moore, 22/375, of Brockemhurst staff, has enteritis. Staff Nurse A. M. Rose, 22/363, has returned to duty from Sandwich, said a London correspondent on June Ist. For the monthly parcels sent to the soldiers in the trenches the Countess of Liverpool Fund has received from Patea £B, and Martpn £5. The Mayoress, Mrs J. P. Luke, acknowledges the following donations to ■the nurses’ motor-car B. Newling, Orrcondville, 7s; EketOr hima,’ £5; Mrs - Jacob Joseph, £2; Miss R- Joseph, £2; Foxtfcm, £5; Foxton Guild, £5; Shannon Guild, 16s.

Mr E. V. Lucas tells this fine incident:—“A blinded officer with both eyes bandaged wag being led along Sloane street. Blinded men are, alas! not rare, and it was, not the officer himself that attracted ray notice, but /two ftno, upstanding young soldiers who, as they passed him, saluted with as much punctilio as though he could see them. Of this salute he was, of course," wholly unconscious, but- the precision with which it was given, and, indeed, the fact that it was given at all, could not but make an impression on the observer. It seemed to comprise so thoroughly both the spirit and the letter of discipline.” Teachers’ salaries used to be supplemented- - in mediaeval times by rather queer methods- On Candlemas Day the master sat at his desk to receive the children’s offerings, which varied between sixpence and a shilling, though some tendered half or even a whole crown, the highest boy and girl contributors being dubbed respectively king and queen. Then there was the annual 5s charged to each boy for rods, and "potation pence,” which one worthy foundress decreed should only be expended and imbibed twice a year. And these were all very necessary, for the salary was. but £l6 a year.

The hon. secretary of- the Red Cross Committee (Miss S. Nathan) acknowledges'goods from the following;—Mrs Mestayer, eye bandages; Mrs Hassell, fapo washers. Dannevirke Red Cross Committee, 2 cases hospital goods; Rakaunui Red Cross', 1 parcel; Foxton Ladies’ Patriotic Guild, 1 parcel; Waipukurau arid District Red' Cross Society, I case’ and! hospital comforts; Mrs Pownall and Mrs Kinvig, treasure bags; Mrs Joseph, old linen Kaponga Red Cross- Society, ,2 cases; Napier Centro British - Bed Cross, 1 large case; Lower Hutt PatrioticGuild, garments; Elsthorpe (Hawke’s Bay), pyjamas,’ etc; G.P.O. Garage, petrol cases.

I find most children are very interested in the food economies, and many women have told me that nowadays they have no trouble with their children leaving food on their plates. It is only necessary to talk of patriotism in pniner language and the nourishing food is taken “so I’ll grow to be a soldier,” says a writer in an English paper. The' matron of a boys’ school saya that any boy who leaves a piece of bread at dinner or breaks hia bread or crumbles it gets the piece of bread, the broken hits, or the crumbs for supper. He does not like a little pile of crumbs or broken bits at his plate, so now if ho really does not want hia piece of bread .at dinner he does not touch it and sees it intact in front of him at 'supper. Not a bad idea this; for it is the bits and pieces which constitute waste. You remem-' her what a great mustard magnate replied when someone asked him ho.w money could be made out of mustard when people ate so. little. "‘lt is not what they eat of it, but what they leave on their plates which make us rich.” We have always in our years of plenty been wasteful with our bread or roll. If we did not eat it wo toyed with it till it was no good for any other purpos?.

Those wishing to have their own hair at its best and at its best colour can do so. This is now absolutely certain. If you use a tried and trusty set of preparations such as Miss Milsom daily, sends forth to sill parts of the country you can treat your own hair. You want remedy, you do not want to read a long treatise on the hair —telling of its composition, why ’it does or does rot grow, or why it falls off or turns grey before it,, should. ' Remember! Preparations which suit one case will be harmful to another. There can never be n universal hair tonic. In all cases < f hair trouble the scalp is the cause. t lt was given you to grow hair. Nature intended it to dp nothing else. Complete outfits for home treatment for dry and Perished Greasy and Rancid. Grey. Faded and Falling Hair. All face and skin cremes, lotions and tonics. Miss Milsom. Barnett’s Buddings, 94, Willi.--street. ’Phone 814. —Advt,

Flowers rf steamers. Dainty "Hu.. Voyage” Posiee, baskets, artistic norai boxes filled with the choicest flowers. Suitable gifts for your friends leaving rail or steamers, at Miss Murray s, Vice-Regal Florists. 36. Willis street. •

Donnelly’s Hair Restorer-A real tonic. Cures dandruff, stops hair falling. Chemists, stores.. hairdressers. 2s 6d. Donnelly’s. 65. Vivian street.

The following donations have been received by the Mayoress for the soldiers’ Christmas pudding fund:—Airs Grady, 10s; Sydney Varlow, Is; Mr W. Rountree, £1; Airs E. M. Pleasant. £1 Is; Mrs Coria, 6s; Sydney Din. £2 2s; Newtown School, £ls; Mount Cook Girls’ School, £1; Miss V. Woodhouse, £1; H. Cook, £1 Is; Mrs Gilmer, Otane, £1; Arthur HHancock, £5 ss; Air W. Stringer, Nelson, £1 Is; Petone High School, £4 os; Mrs J. J. Boye, £1 Is; Mrs J. Castles, 10s fid; Karori School, £8; Paekakariki School, £1 14s; Air K.Ugour, £3. The following sums have been collected by cards: —-Miss Gunn, 13s; Mrs Nicholson, £1; Airs Alulhane, 12s; Air S. H. Alyers, £1; A. Jolly, 10s; Airs Godber, ss; cards collected, £2 6s 6d; Airs A. G. Baggett, 12s; Alias Wadsworth, 14s 6d; Miss Townsend, 0s; Airs Hendry, 12s; collected by Airs Baker, £5 6s 9d; Airs bcamraell, 12s; Airs Ashenden, 12s; Airs Weber, 12s; Aliss Jacobsen, £lO ss; Ekotaguna School, £5 12s; Mrs Moag Levy, 6s. The craze for zoological decorations in our millinery seems to be increasing. During the last week I have met the following embroidered heasties careering over the hats of my feUoivwomen (says a writer in the British Australasian”).: —One cat with its hick up; one duck and family, swimming on a pond of pink ribbon ; one wild elepharit ferociously' waving a yellow trunk; and one emerald-green chicken with a purple eye. Here is a chance for us to he purely Australasian in our headgear. A _ pale-blue kangaroo or a heliotrope kiwi "*eu a he quite as decorative as any northern beast, and why shouldn’t we help to advertise our native fauna? A decoration that was related to both nsn and beast pleased me greatly, and also suggested new ideas. It w as a polished oyster-dhell. bordered with fur Crab claws, with a trimming ot canary feathers would surely he chic, or squirrels’ tails set about with winkle shells.

A London correspondent says:—-The Y.M.C.A. Hut in France, endowed 1 by Airs Lowry, Napier, is a centre of great attraction fc/d the New Zealand .men, who patronise it in large numbers. Ine canteen workers are not now able to give the men bread, because the French Government has commandeered all supplies of flour, hut biscuits are obtainable, and when fresh batches of men are expected huge puddings are prepared for them, also a caudron of rhubarb (at this season), hard-boiled eggs are to be had, as well as lettuce and lemonade. The hut was recently visited by General Sir A. H. Russell, who lunched there. He considers it necessary that the hut should he supplied 1 with a motor car, so this will doubtless arrive in due course. Several of tho girls at the canteen are capable drivers. A sum of £IOOO has recently arrived from Airs Lowry, and this is to be spent in building a concert room the size of the present hut, as well as bath-houses for the men, and in establishing a library. Mrs Grogan (late of Napier) is choosing 700 books this week,; and they will bo sent across soon.

The following have sent gifts to the Countess of Liverpool Fund. at .the Town Hall:—Wairoa Patriotic Society, 12 pairs socks; per Airs- Barltrop, bala-clavas;-Mrs Horsburgh, Mrs Hall, Mrs Eokford, clothing, old linen and books; St. John’s Church ‘Women’s Association Misses Duff, Feilding Red. Cross, balaclavas, socks, etc.; Airs Fitchett, 17 pairs mflllens; Aliss Smallhono, Wellesley dub, books and -papers; Mrs. Al. Bell, Alataroa, 12 pairs sticks; Waitntara Ladies’ Guild, 18 pairs sooka, 5 scarves.

Announcement has been made ,by Robert E. Peary, U.S-N-, retired, and Airs Peary, of the engagement of their daughter, Miss Marie Ahuigfiito Peary, to Air Edward Stafford. Air Stafford is the son of Justice Wendell P. Stafford, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Miss Peary, who was horn cm September 12th, 1893, in the Arctic in the course of one of her father’s explorations, has made several, trips to tho Far,-North since that time. ’ She is known among ■ the Eskimo people as tho ‘‘snow baby,” Her exact birthplace has no-name, but is geographically stated as latitude 77deg 44min and west’ longitude 76deg, the most northerly birthplace of a whit© child on record. She is interested in aviation, and- has learned to fly under the tutelage of heti father, who is president of the Aero Club of America. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. By arrangement with Mrs Rolleeton, Hair Physician and Pace Specialist, Qualified London and Paris. “F.MoL.”— I Combings are made up by a specially hygienic process whereby every hair can be utilised. They make very good switches and braidings, but ore not suitable for toupees or transformations. Cost of making up 2s 6d per ounce. Please do not wash or try to clean them in any way. “T.P-” —To maintain a youthful appearance and to keep the skin pure, healthy and free from blackheads take a guinea course of face message occasionally, say every six months. You also learn how to care for your complexion and keep the skin in a good condition. “Hopeless.”—All depilatories or preparations have the same effect as those you have tried —they increase the growth of superfluous hair with alarming rapidity. Electrolysis is the only permanent cure. For this it is necessary to book an appointment. Fes, 10s per hour. Mrs Rolieston, 256, Lambton quay.— Arivt.

A woman’s crowning beauty is her hair, but when hair commences to grow on the face it Is, indeed, a cause of much anxiety- Every lady suffering from hairy growths will be pleased to learn that these can be removed for ever by using “RUSMA.” It is an inexpensive treatment within everyone's reach, and does not put you to anv inconvenience. All you have to do can he done in the privacy of your own apartment. We specially want those sufferers who have tried other methods to write us, and let us prove that RUSSIA will <k, all we claim for it. Yon will be delight, ed to learn how eaeilv and surely superfluous -hair can be p* ■ neutly and painlessly removed. \, ...y to jar.. Hullcn, Toilet Spec ~ . Plunket Nurses’ Depot), 3a. ’ ->>.■ place. They say "beauty is oniy skin deep,” so how important it is that we take care of the skin! Apply a little Sydal to tho face, neck, and arms each evening, and the skin will be soft, white and attractive even in the most trying weather. Sydal is a fragrant emollient —only 2s a jar at chemists and stores. •

The Mayoress, Airs J. P. Luke, left yesterday afternoon for Waikanae, where she will speak about the Christmas parcels to be sent to soldiers iu the trenches by the Countess of Liverpool Fund. She will make a tour of the country districts, returning early next month to Wellington. Miss Alona Mackay, formerly of Auckland, has accepted the position of , lady editor on the Christchurch “Press,” where she took up her duties at the commencement of last iveek, says an exchange. Aliss Alina Caldow Is visiting Gisborne, where she is appearing with the Orpheus Society to-night.

At the matinee musicale to-day, arranged by Airs Arthur Myers and Airs P. J. Nathan, in aid -of St. Alary’s Homes, some pretty dances will be given by pupils of Miss Beere. All will be of classic type, on© by three little girls being a “Dance of Joy,” and a Spring Dance will also bo given. On Wednesday afternoon last a very pretty wedding wa s celebrated at the Methodist Church, Hastings, the contracting parties being Air Edwin John Wilkes, son of Mrs Wilkes, Wolverhampton, England, and Aliss Edith B. Aliller, only daughter of Air and Airs Thos. Miller, of Hastings. The Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt was the officiating minister. At the Palmerston North Baptist Church last Wednesday, Miss Rubina Adeline Ayson, "eldest daughter of Air D. F. Ayson, of Bryant street, Palmerston North, was married to Air George Lelliot Snelling, late of Surrey, England. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. D. B. Ford Carlisle.

A correspondent writing to friends tn New Zealand describes life in a Gorman prison camp. “The camp is in a large park, hub the prisoners do not exercise themselves too much, as they get too hungry. They have two meals; noon-day dinner consisting of mashed turnips and potatoes, and at 6 o’clock a howl of soup and a piece of bread ( a loaf between six), and nothing till noon next day. Relatives can send six shillings a month ’ to Berne, and the British Society there arranges to have bread sent. It amounts to two loaves a week, and ' a tin of condensed milk. The officers are in wooden barracks, well-made and heated, and have mattresses to he on, and an orderly (a French prisoner) to wait on them.’’ Miss 0. Swinfen, Miss J. W. Harvey, and Alisa Mabel Bcott, a party of ■English visitors, who spent twelve months in mission work in Indi.n, passed through Auckland last week. They have just completed a tour of New Zealand, and • are leaving for /the South Sea Islands, whence they will eventually return to India. Aliss Scott hoped to obtain a passport through to England, as she received an urgent call to the Homeland. The founder of “Liberty’s’’ is dead. That fact will made a sad appeal to many women, for he was the pioneer of tho revival of taste in dress fabrics, and interior decoration. He made' the name of Liberty synonymous all over the world with all that is artistic in these respects. Early in his business . career he came into touch with the artistic, schools of Whistler, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, William Alorris, Albert Aloore, and Leighton. Women owo a great debt to Sir Arthur Liberty, for he did more than any other single person to emancipate them from the stiff and starched Victorian tradition in dress, and it is common knowledge how dress and manners react on one another. Tho “robe Liberty” inspired many great modistes, both in Paris and London, to value beauty of colour, richness of texture, and simplicity ot line before mere smartness. Sir Arthur Liberty got his early and most original designs not from the workroom, but from the artists who gathered round him. navyTeague WORK. A letter has been received from London by the Auckland Navy League saying that of the Jutland Fund £9OOO has been paid out in relief. The rest is invested, and the interest is used 1 to relieve cases of distress amongst naval men which come before the committee, says the “Star.” The Navy League Executive have done wisely, it is considered, in investing the money, for they feel sure that there will be another naval engagement, perhaps more than one, before the conclusion of the war. The money would then be needed* for relief. Tho Auckland Ladies’ Emergency Committee money has nothing whatever to do with this fund. It goes to the Ladies’ Emergency Committee in London, and is used in the interests of the sailors of the Na vy and naval prisoners of war in enemy countries. The ladies of the local branch have written to England inquiring if the work has been acceptable, and bow long it is thought at Home supplies will he needed. In reply, the secretary of the Navy League in London writes: “The articles which you are forwarding are very much appreciated indeed, aiid if it does not impose too much upon the abounding good nature of your lady workers, we shall, o; course, be most grateful, for ’ sdmilm articles even after the close of thr war. You will easily understand that there will be an immense number ot ships kept in commission for a long time after the war is over, and the personnel of these ships will be able to make use of the ‘comforts’ whiclr you most generously provide. His Grace the Duke of Bnccleugh, Kt., directs me to convey through you to all your patriotic lady workers, his personal i thanks for your continued devotion and loyalty to all our splendid Fleet.” I

DANOE AT BERHAMPORE. The Merlyn Social Club held a vory successful fancy dress and masked ball in the Masonic Hall, Berhampore, last Thursday, some very quaint and beautiful costumes being worn. The supper arrangements were in the capable hands of Mesdames Dewhurat and Charles, the tables being prettily decorated for the occasion. Messrs Keys,- Graham, and Oordor acted as 51.0. s. The music, provided by members of the Wellington South Orchestra, was exceptionally good. There were over 00 oouples present and dancing was continued till 1 o’clock. The pronp&ters* Messrs F. Dewhurst, A. Wright, A. Tricker, and H. Keys were coniiravuilaited on the success of their soound danco. They intend to hold big dance later on, in aid of a patriotic fund 1 . NEW ZEALAND GIRL’S WORK IN LONDON. Miss Phyllis Poll, of Nelson, writing from London, says:—“l worked last summer and the preceding winter at the New Zealand War Contingent Association rooms. Por a time we were in the funny old cramped quarters m Victoria street. There one's duties wore distinctly varied, from washing up the tea things to supplying Sir lan Hamilton with information, or charging up and down stairs with parcels for soldiers just out of hospital. Now things arc done on a much larger scale, the rooms are most attractive, and as many as a ■hundred men at a time can be found eating and chatting round the small tables. The, ladies in the commissariat do a colossal work, and the whole sociation is one of the best assets New Zealand has at this moment.' 'T also went two or three times a week to one of the big voluntarilysupported depots, where every necessity for the soldier in hospital is made. It was run entirely by women, and the smoothness with which the whole concern worked was a fine example of organisation. In our room wo made all kinds of bandages that required sewing; and also pneumonia jackets, hundreds of thousands of which were sent to the Serbs at the time of their great retreat. Nothing but the very best was passed out of the room, , and that applied to every room in the depot. On the wall there was always a notice which ran: ‘We are working to-day for the Russians,’ or whoever it chanced to

be. “When your letter reached me I was working all day m an office, with an hour’s journey to and fro, morning and evening, enveloped in the darkness of the winter and the fogs. My business lay in helping the engineers of a certain service to record and repau convevances. I became quite familiar with the look of certain parts of motors and cycles, tracing them or portions of them, day after day, as we did. It was most interesting to experience even the smallest corner of England’s share in the war., They say there are many people in England who have not felt the war yet. Perhaps Lord Devonport may be able to rouse tbem to something through their appetites and his regulations. It is great to have acquired such an appreciation of the potato that the advent of a I large floury one in a dish can cause you to stare, and automatically wonder what it can possibly bo I”