WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1916, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

' NEW PLYMOUTH SOCIAL NEWS. ■ A WEDDING RECEPTION. Last Holiday afternoon Mrs. I'rooke held a wedding reception aftei the marriage of her daughter, which was of a very quiet nature, having been held in St. Mary's Church early that morning, the happy couple leaving a few 'hours later for Hawcra, en route to Wellington. The bride wore a smart navy gabardine costume, with close-fitting hat and veil. Mrs. Crooke received her guests in a gown of heliotrope crepe de •-•hine, lightly trimmed with cream lace and black velvet; Miss W. Crooke wore a saxe blue crepe de ehine, with ninon corsage; Miss I. Crooke, pretty ciel blue crepe de chine; Mrs. E. A. Walker, black glace costume, black tricorne hat; Mrs. D'Arcy Robertson, grey coat and skirt, "black feathered hat; Mrs. E. Grifliths, navy blue f&stume hat to correspond; Mrs. Sladden, brown coat and skirt, hat en-suite; Mrs. J. B. Hoy, grey costume, violet hat; Miss Boy, navy Tilue costume, smart scarlet hat; Mrs. G. Millar, navy blue costume, black fox furs, blue hat; Mrs. A. H. Colvile, navy blue coat and skirt, black feathered hat; Mrs. Hirst, black costume, hat to correspond; Mrs. Xewton King, dark navy costume, 'black hat trimmed with lancer plumes; Mrs. Dennv-Brown, cream costume with pleated skirt, black velvet hat; Mrs. Sumner, navy blue coat and skirt, small black hat; Miss Wilson, navy costume, hat to correspond; Miss Cutfield, rose-pink sliangtung costume, hat en suite; Miss I/ois Cutfield, pale blue crepe de ehine, hafe to correspond; .Miss Wade, navv blue coat and skirt, black hat relieved with pale pink roses; Mrs. R. A. Gray, dark navy costu.me, black hat; Miss .Matthews, mcrte-colored costume, saxe blue hat; Mrs. Bewley, grey coat and skirt, black hat; Mrs. 5. Quilliam, fawn gabardine costume, rosepirik crepe de chine blouse, black velvet hat; Miss Percy Smith, blue serge costume, saxe blue hat; Mrs. 'McCleland, black coat and skirt, black hat deftly trimmed with pink; Miss Marshall, dove-grey costume, black feathered hat; Mrs. -J. Wilson, black 'hat en suite; Mrs. Courtenas black costume, black hat wth lancer plumes.

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. E. A. Walker and Sister Campbell are holiday-making in Rotorua. Mrs. Sturtevant has gone on a visit to Masterton and Wellington. # * * • Hiss Bertha Matthews is the guest of Mrs. R. Davies, Tailiape. Miss R. Walker (Wellington) is the guest of Miss F. Sturtevant. Miss Joan Esse (Inglewood) is the guest of Mrs. A. H. Palmer, Fitzroy. Mrs. R. Cornwall, wlio has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Rogers, of Hawera. has returned to New Plymouth. Mrs. Boyd, who has been the guest of Mrs. H. Stoeker, has returned to Paliiatua. Mrs. C. Atkinson, -who has been the guest of Mrs. D. McAllum, Omata, has roinvned to Auckland. * Mrs. Gledhill, who has been on a short visit to New Plymouth, has returned to Auckland. Mrs. J. Glenn leaves for Wanganui next Wednesday, where she will be the guest of her mother, Mrs. Parsons. Mrs. Salmon, who has been on a short visit to New Plymouth, has returned to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, who have been visiting New Plymouth, have returned to Christchurch. 3lrs. Cooper has returned to Wellington after her pleasant stay in New Plymouth. Mrs. Potter has returned to Wellington after her short stay in New Plymouth.

Mr. and Mrs. Con. Nicholson (Wellington), during their short stay in New Plymouth, were the guests of Mrs. E. F. Blundoll. * * * • Mrs. Leo Horrocks (Feilding) will arrive to-nigbt by the mail train on a short visit to her mother, Mrs. Quilliam. » « • V, Miss Ellis, with her niece, Miss Christine Wylie, leaves New Zealand for England by .the Rotorua, which sails from Wellington about August 17. »«* . »

Mr. and Mrs. Stillburn (nee Miss Constance Seymour, formerly of South Taranaki), of the Wairarapa. have been on a flying visit to Taranaki. and left New Plymouth yesterday for the north. Mrs. Somerset Smith has been spending a few days in Wellington while on her way from to lier new home in Napier, where Mr. Smith takes up the duties of Public Trustee. Mrs. F. G. Bennett (Blenheim), who has been on a short visit to her mother (Mrs. J. Paul) left Auckland last Monday by the Niagara for Sydney. She was accompanied by Miss Jean Mackav, New Plymouth. '•♦ ♦ « Mr. and Mrs. George Pott and family have decided to leave Now Plymouth and make their home in South Africa, and will sail from Wellington by the Corinthic, which leaves early in September.

Mrs. F. D. Holdsworth (wife of Major F. D. Holdswortli, Director of Military Postal Services, N.Z. Expeditionary Forces) and Sirs. C, C. Murpliv (wife of Dr. Murphy), both of Auckland, are leaving for Vancouver, New York, and England shortly. WEDDING BELLS. A very pretty wedding was solemnised it the Catholic Church, Pnngarehu, on Wednesday, July 26, when Miss Bridget ,Aylward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Ayh\ard, of Warea, was married to Mr. lames Doyle, of Okato, the officiating linister being the Rev. Dr. Kelly. The tide, who was given away by her fath,looked very handsome in a dress of Vhite satin draped with beautiful lace. she wore the orthodox veil and orange lossoms, and carried a bouquet of white reesias, daphne, and asparagus fern, flie bridesmaids (Miss Jessie Aylward

dresses of white crepe de chine ami lace and white chiffon hats with touches of pink. Their bouquets were of pink camellias and maiden hair fern. Mr. •I. Aylward carried out, the duties of best nun. The bridegroom's yift to the bride was a gold bangle set with diamonds and to bridesmaids A T ellie Stewart bangles. After the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of the bride's parents. Mrs. Aylward received the guests in a costume of navy blue with hat and black velvet relieved with white. Mrs; T. Doyle, sister of the bride, wore a smart navy costume, and black ehifion hat with pink roses. Miss Aylward wore a lovely frock of rose pink taffeta with hat to match. Later in the day, Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Soft for the north by motor, the bride wearing a smart navy costume and black velvet hat with white ostrich feathers.

NOTES. '•'A very interesting function was held at the Lyceum Club in London recently," writes a AVellington girl to a friend in this city, "when a dinner was jjiven at the club to one of the women doctors from Serbia. Dr. Agnes Bennett and Dr. Jessie Scott wore also present, as were several other doctors who had been working in Serbia, as well as wel)' known London doctors." The following New Zealand nurses have been appointed for duty at the New Zealand Hospital at Walton, under the new arrangement of the medical services in England, states a London correspondent of June 10:—Sister: M. G. Atkinson, Auckland. Staff nurses: Edith M. Pascoe, Auckland; Ruby J. Kelly, Auckland; E. P. Stanton, Auckland; M. Montgomery, Auckland; S. Nicholas, Wellington; E. I. Sellaw, Taranaki; Jessie Walker, Napier; Efiie Williams, Auckland; N.,E. Mandena, Te Awanuitu; Jean Maepherson, Auckland; Agnes Kenny, Auckland; M. Miller, Dunedin; Mrs. M'Ara, Gore; Jean Clennie, Waikato; Alice B. Finlayson, Hamilton; A. Hamann, Dunedin; C. Walker, Hawke's Bay; J. M. Mercer, Dunedin; J. B. Porteous, Southland; I. J. Scott. Southland; A. P. Don, Dunedin; L. J. Campbell, Dunedin; and J. P. Arnold. Sister G Sisley, of New Plymouth, lias resigned from the staff of the hospital at Walton-on-Thames and is returning to New Zealand by the Corinthic. The wedding of Tpr. T. M'Alpine, Otago .Mounted Risles, Woodcote Camp, Epsom, and Miss Lillian Irwin, Garratt Lane, Tooting was celebrated on Empire Day, states the British Australasian. The comradeship of the Anzaes expressed itself in the shape of useful presents to the bride and bridegroom (travelling bag and lady's workcase). The presentation was made in camp, Sergt.—Major Hadfield and Quartermaster Pvobinson presiding, and the gifts being presented by Pte. Cecil Duke, A.T.F. Another wedding was celebrated at Wa!ton-on : Thaines last week, when Pte. Peter I'oi-Poi, N.Z.E.F., a Maori soldier, who was wounded at Gallipoli, was married to an English girl. Miss Winifred Alderton. Pte. Poi-Poi came to England eight weeks ago, and was admitted to the Felix Hospital at Walton, where he lias been ever since. He expects to return to New Zealand for home service. A cablegram has been received in Wellington from Mrs. Pioyd Garlick, stating that she is now stationed at No. 19 General Hospital, Alexandria, v

THE PROBLEM OF ORPHAN t CHILDREN. <. Paris, May 10. Eight hundred thousand French children have been made fatherless by the war, according to a statement made by Senator Jeuevrier, in a debate in the Senate. This number exceeds by ten pelcent. the average toftil births in France. Half the childhood of France, he estimates, will be brought up without a paternal guide. The Government ana the Senate are considering how these half-orphans shall be eared for. A bill, prepared by the Government, and somewhat modified by the Public Instruction Committee of the Senate, declares in principle that the State shall assume the expense of bringing up and Educating every child whose father lias either been killed or disabled by the war. The "wards of the Nation," they are to be called, and special guardians are to be provided for them under the provisions of the bill under discussion. The special guardians are to be appointed by committee. A mother who accepts the patronage of the State for her child or children must accept the guardianship of a person outside her family. This provision has encountered the opposition of the Conservative and Catholic members of the Senate, who see in it a rupture of the "scare union" of parties, and a measure destined to a.-political end through'the laical education of children of Catholic parents. Under the law of separation of Church and State the Government could not give a child religious instruction. Moreovar, it is pointed out, the child's bringing up under the patronage of the Senate would be largely supervised and controlled by the Prefects, who are the recognised political agents of the Govern ment. The Conservatives demand for mothers the aid of the State, and, at the same time, the right and the facilities for. giving their children such religious instruction as they see fit. Under the present laws, -half-orphans .vould have no relief whatever, if the mother refused the conditions offered by the State, since pensions are allowed to full orphans only. It has been proposed to remedy this deficiency by a special 1 aV.pow under consideration in the Chamber of Deputies. If a compromise is not reached by the Senate during the war, it is deemed certain that the contention will revive the struggle between the Catholics and the other elements of Parliament-after -hostilities have ceased.