NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10508, 9 February 1920, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool inspected the Girl Peace Scouts in Christchurch on Saturday afternoon. The Boy Scouts formed a guard of honour. After the inspection Lady Liverpool was presented with the G.P.S. emblem on behalf of the girls of the association.

Mr and Mrs A. D. Crawford, of Miramar, are visiting the South island. Dr and Mrs Hnrcourt .Arthur are also visitors to the South Island. Mrs Lomax, Mrs and Miss Durrant, and Mr and Mrs E. J 4 Smith arc Wellington visitors to Christchurch. Miss R. Nurse has been appointed matron of the Masterton hospital. Miss Nurse has served the whole period of the war on active service. She left with the Samoan force as matron, and rfterwarda wont to Egypt as matron of ‘.he first contingent of New Zealand aurses sent abroad, being matron of Pont do IToubbeli hospital. Later she was transferred to Brockonhurst, England, and since her return has been matron at Trentham and Rotorua-

Tho -wedding of Miss Rose Healy, daugh. ter of Mrs E. Hoaly, of Kelburn, to Mr B. C. Jeffreys, of Waimca, Hawke’s Bay, took place on Saturday morning at, the’ Basilica, Hill street, the Rev, Rather Smyth officiating. The bride who was given away by her brother, Mr Joseph Healy, was attended by her sister, Miss Margaret Hoaly, ns bridesmaid. Mr C. H. J. Joplin acted in the capacity of best man. After the ceremony ihe wedding breakfast -was served at the Cecil. Later the happy couple left by train for the north, where they are spending their honeymoon. » Miss I’oljambe is the guest of their Excellencies the Governor-General and the Countess of Liverpool.

Miss Connie Bain is to leave Christchurch for Sydney, on hor- way to England, where her marriage is to take place. Mrs Bain is accompanying her as far es Sydney. Th > marriage of -Miss Ileone Green, only daughter of Mrs J. F. Green. Colombo street, Christchurch, to Mr Cyril Stringer, son of Mr Justice and Mrs Stringer, has been arranged to take place at St. Mary’s Church, Merrivale, on February 25th. The Misses Hjorns, of Wanganui, left by the Ruahine for London. Lady Tree is writing a memoir of her late husband. Sir Herbert Tree, in conjunction with Mr Max Beerbohm. Mrs Curtis Moffat, w-ho is one of the younger daughters of tihe late actor. Sir Herbert Tree, and who has several clever poems to her credit, went to America with Sir Herbert, married an artist, and ;s now on her £rst visit to England since her marriage, a sudden affair which, so gossip states, was announced to the unsuspecting family by a characteristic cablegram from Sir Herbert, "Having delightful 'weather. Iris married this morning.'’ is slight, with a clever face and fair hair cut Jack of Spades fashion. The council of the Royal Society lor the Welfare of Mothers and Babies in New South Wales has asked Dr Margaret Harper to go to .New Zealand on behalf of the society, to study the methods of child welfare in vogue there, with a view to adopting such as are suitable. Dr Harper, who is a graduate of the Sydney University, and daughter of Professor Harper, of St. Andrew’s College, will probably be accompanied by a nurse, who will also be initiated into the most up-to-date treatments. The addition of the nurse has been made possible by the generosity of Airs Hugh Dixon, who has offered to be responsible for the additional expense. In Japan many more women than men work in factories. The figures for 19.299 factories are: Male labour 42 per cent., female labour 53 per cent.; of the total number of child labourers under fifteen years of ago 18 per cent, only are boys, and 83 per cent, girls. More than onehalf of all the female workers in the country' are under twenty years old. Four-fifths of these women work at the textile trades —spinning, weaving and dyeing. As the factories all work night shifts the girls have alternate night and day work. According to one writer the living conditions of the workers are so intolerable/ that 'four-fifths of the girls leave at the end of their year’s employment, many of them completely broken in health. There is always sufficient supply of new workers to take the place of the old, so that the employers have not been forced to improve the conditions in their factories. Many of the officers and "other ranks’’ who recently returned to England from North Russia managed to bring homo soma beautiful souvenirs of their visit. In the shape of furs, and in some cases “ren pearls. These could be bought from the Inhabitants at very advantageous prices, owing to the state of the exchange and the bad sta'te of trade generally. . One remarkable purchase was that of a silver fox, bought for less than a fiver. It was sold to a London dealer for 300 guineas. At the present moment the Americans in Paris are the only people who can pay enormous sums for clothes that the big dressmakers are asking, or the wages of servants or the rents of houses and apartments (states the Paris correspondent of the "Sunday Observer”). Gradually the Parisians are moving towards the country and the little piece of land they nearly, all posses somewhere or other, .There they look forward to living on the produce pf the ground, to the raising of ducks and rabbits, pocketing the substantial amounts paid for the hire of their own town houses or rooms, waiting for more normal times when they can return to their former mode of life.

On Saturday evening an impromptu dance was held in the Day’s Bay pavilion in aid of the funds of the Ilona Bay Tennis Club, which, owing to so many of its members having been away at the war, is in need of funds to repair the courts; otc. There was a good attendance, and it is hoped that there will be a good profit from the function. Quite a number of young pbople wont out from town fon the occasion, and there was also a good attendance from the various bays, and a thorough enjoyable time was spent, although the weather was almost too hot for dancing. Among those present were Mrs Radcliffe, Mrs Coull, Mrs Jackson Missoa K. Muir, • iSlhephordi (Myers, 'Jlnjckson, Brunton, Pegg, Coull (2), Wilson, Kneeing, Turnbull, Isaacs, Brice, Messrs Charlton, Hamilton, Jackson, Myers, G. Wallace Lawless, etc. HAIR AND FACE TREATMENT.— Each Patient’s Case Diagnosed and Treated According to its Cause. Ladies taught their own special treatment, and proper massage for nerves and circulation, which, if practised from 5 to 10 minutes daily, result will astound you. The most un-to-date salon. Call or write. MISS MILSOM. 94, Willis street. Telephone 814.—Advt. MEDICAL MEN are unanimous in their recommendation of Electrical Baths for Rheumatism, Sciatica, Neuritis, and all skin troubles. Our course includes the famous High Frequency Violet Ray, which effects permanent cures, absolutely without pain. MRS HULLEN, 3a, Courtenay place, JWeilington. '■Fiona 22-070.

Air and Mrs A. Parfitt, of Greymouth, have arrived in Wellington, and) wall take up their residence here. Miss Bell returned from a visit to North Auckland and Rotorua on Saturday with her father. Sir Francis Hell. , Miss Hardy daughter of the Hon. C. A. C. Hardy, M.L.C., has accepted a position on the technical staff of the Dannevirko High School. Mrs Martin has returned. to New Plymouth after a-visit to Wellington. Airs 0. ’ Blundell, of New Plymouth, is visiting Wellington. Airs Peter Buck, after visiting her mother in Wellington, has returned to Greymouth. t

A pretty wedding took place at St. Banwdo’s Church, Opuuake, on February 4th, when .Miss Margery Chambers, elder daughter of Air and Mrs W. L. F. Chambers, was married to Mr Arthur Joseph MeEUfowney, son of Mr John McEldowney, of Wellington. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a hand-emibroidered dress of cream crepe' angiais. The veil of bbauciful lace was an heirloom lent hy Airs S. Feavcr. A shower bouquet of white flowers was carried. The bridesmaids, Aliss Isabel Chambers and Miss Eileen McEidoivney, wore periwinkle blue crepe do chine dresses, hats of burnt straw, trimmed with yellow daisies and blue .ribbon, and earned bouquets to tone. The best man was Air Donald Scott, of Wellington. ' and the groomsman Air Laurence Chambers. After the ceremony Airs Chambers entertained tbe guests at afternoon tea at hor home, To Namu road. A trifle that may prove of assistance to those who are launching forth into the task of making their' own evening frocks'is the service of an exceedingly deep petersham belting, measuring somewhere about live inches in depth and of the ordinary strong cotton quality. Silk petersham is not nearly firm enough, since the 'whole support of the fragile little nothings of bodices rest upon this. The belting is fitted to the figure with leunning little darts, and, because of the depth, it is frequently found advisable to introduce a bone Uo,wn centre front. And - that is one important secret accountable for the fit of a corsage. Another, consisting of -a. narrow elastic, deftly introduced just across the shoulders, prevents tbe transparency slipping.

WEDDING AT GREYTOWN. On Wednesday last, at St, Luke’s Church, Greytown, the "wedding took place of Miss Flora Lindsay, daughter of Mrs At. E. McKinnon, of Greytown, and the late Captain Lindsay, of Sydney, to Air Victor Wisneeky, eon of Mr and Mrs Wisnesky, of Auckland. The bride, who was given away by her brother-in-law, Mr J. JJ. Thompson, wore a' gown of white satin and georgette, with hand-embroidered lace. The train was of gold tissue, over which fell the long tulle veil, arranged coronet fashion ion her. {luvid, ■ with orange! 'blossoms.: .She carried a shower bouquet and wore diamond earrings, the gift of the bridegroom. The train-bearer was Aliss /Jean Lindsay, of Sydney ’(her niece), ■wearing white net over pale pink, and ithio ibwo bridesmaids Jwere Misses Vie Duff and Gladys Wail den, who were in.bluo and ipink ninon respectively. All wore reaps of gold lace and ribbon and carried posies. Air C. Adams, of Wellington, was best man, and Mr McAlister, of Greytown, groomsman. After the ceremony the’ wedding breakfast was held at the Club Hotel. The bride’s mother .wore a gown of white - georgette and gold sash, and the bridegroom’s mother jwo-s (in black satin and fact 1 , with a posv of pink roses. Air and Airs Wisneskv left later for Auckland, their ■future home. GARDEN PARTY. On Saturday afternoon Airs Buxton, president of the newly-formed Kelburn branch of the Women’s National Rc- ■ serve, held a garden party at- her homo at Kelburn, .in aid of the Residential Nursery, which the Reserve is establish-; ing at Newtown. It was a beautifully fine afternoon, and thqse present enjoyed the outing. Stalls were arranged on the lawn, in the shady corners, for the sim was very warm, and afternoon tea was served at small tables ’dotted about. In one corner bran tubs were placed, the servers having a large Japanese umbrella as shelter, which also made a picturesque spot of colour on the green. The fete was opened by Airs P. C. Corliss, Dominion president of the Reserve, who said a few words of explanation about the nursery. It was the outcome of many requests for help in looking after children whoso parents were ill or unable, the idea originating with Mrs Porter. A great need existed in Wellington for some place where children could be looked after if their mothers were ill or had to go away, and in order to supply this need the Reserve had determined to open a residential nursery. It was impossible to rent a house, so a generous friend had purchased one and was lotting it to the Reserve. The house secured was a roomy one in Owen street, getting plenty of sun, but it needed furnishing, and to supply this the branches of. the Reserve had given gift teas in many parts. To show the need of just such an establishment Mrs Corliss instanced the case of a family of four children, the , youngest five months, where the mother had been taken to the hospital and- the father was unable to' obtain any help in looking after the children. He had come to the Reserve and they had got places for the children to stay at, but a nursery was badly needed for such occasions. Mrs Corliss thanked all those who had come to assist this work” and formally opened the sale. Mrs Buxton thanked Mrs Corliss for attending and also thanked all those who had contributed to the afternoon’s' sale and helped in any way. Airs Corliss was presented with a beautiful bouquet of pink carnations and gypsophila. Mrs Porter, organiser of the Reserve, was present. ’ Those in charge of the stalls were:—Work stall, Mrs Phillips (secretary). Airs Blaxall, and Aliss- Linloy Richardson; produce, Mrs Evelyn Wright. Airs AlcNair; afternoon tea. Airs Evans, Misses Richmond, McDonald (2), Easterfiold (2), Clayton, Duthio (3), and l E. Smith : brantubs, Aliss Kelsey and Miss Milward.

Aliss Buxton was assisting her mother with the arrangements. The results of the sale totalled. .£3O, but there are a few donations to bo received, which will increase the total.