THE LIVERPOOL FUND IN WELLINGTON.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 174, 28 August 1914, Page 3

THE LIVERPOOL FUND IN WELLINGTON.

So great a response has been made to the appeal by her Excellency, p.nd so numerous the articles sent in, that it has been decided to keep a reserve stock in Wellington—there being a surplus after our forces are supplied, says the ' 'Post'' of yesterday's date. One little effect of tlie war has been the furbishing up by women of the almost-forgot-ten accomplishment of knitting. Crochet we have always with us, and the elaborate borders and motifs have been put aside for more practical caps, scarves, and mittens.. But many of us have done no knitting sice the days when very triumphantly we finished the garters, wrought vvii.li infinite pains, perhaps tears, and very sticky little fingers, and presented them to our mothers. One can recall now the delight with whieh they were received, as if .they were really the only thing desired. And now we are reviving the art and finding something soothing and absorbing in it. The question of summer frocks is at present in abeyance. Indeed, one feels almost shy of gazing into shop windows at. the latest chiffons, but many women are promising themselves a busy time after the troopships leave, when the flatness and loneliness will lie unbearable unless new interests are entered into. Rooks are almost as ineffective as chiffons at present to interest us, for the actual happenings of the world are more enthralling than any romance, and there are tragedies ail around us.