For Women Folk

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11504, 28 September 1915, Page 7

For Women Folk

By " CHRYSSA."

Miss "Ella Mercer, ci Siratford, has imtereri tho Christ-church Hospital as & probationer. * ♦ K » Miw Kelly, of Wellington, arrived in Christchnrch this morning, and is staving at tho C'larend'on- » * « * • Miss E. M. W ebb, of Dunedin. who Jias been visiting friends iu the North Island, arrived in Christeiuuvh this morning, and will remain a few days at tbo Clarendon before going south. » * * Mr and "Mrs H arpev, of Gera Idipe, are at present iu staying at the United Service. • • * • * Mrs Cooke, of Christchnrch, is visiting New Plymouth as the guest of "Mrs !M pye». * • • • • A verv pretty wedding was celebrated at Whitelev Memorial New Plvmouth. on September 9, 1010, between ?.fiss Edith May Bransgrove, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Bransgrwc. New Plymouth, aiid An* Robert G. Brabyn. third son of Mr and Mrs J. Brabyn, Clarendon, Otago. Tho ceremony was performed by the Rev A. B. Cliappell, M.A. • » » • * The engagement is Announced of Miss May Price, third daughter of Air H. G. Price. Commissioner of Cfown Blenheim, and previously of Napier, to Air Frederick C. Burgess, only son of Mr and Mrs F. A. BurNapier- # # Miss Rena Firth, Late of the Paul Stanhope Revuo Company, is at present in Gisborne, whero her marriage to Mr Hacketf, of that town, takes place shortly. 1 w • * • The wedding took place in St Tliomas's Church, Newt<jwu, Wellington, on September 21. of Miss Dorothv Prescott, eldest daughter of and Mrs Prescott, oi Otago, to Air W alter Packer, eldest son of Air ana Alls Packer, of Napier. The ceremony was performed bv the Rev Mr Fancourt. A pretty wedding was at St Patrick's Church, Napier, last Wednesday by the Rev Fatfior O'Sullivan, assisted by the Rev Father Duigan, when Miss Margaret O'Douoghue, eldest daughter of Mrs O'Donoghue, of Shakespeare Road, Napier, was united to Mr David Barry, second son of Mr and Mrs Patrick Barry. Napier. Tho lionevmoon is being spent in- the south. h * » • • The engagement is announced of Private A. S. Trower, recently returned by the Tahiti, to Miss d. Scott, Rintoul Street, "Wellington. • » • • • A woman writing to an exchange it is remarkable how many Ger-mau-mado articles wo are unconsciously using, because ire do not look tor the tell-tale label or mark "Made in Germany." Our enemies us© considerable cunning in making the labels unobtrusive, and many housekeepers who order their goods by telephone are still supplied with German-made goods. The writer remarked that she is just an ordinary woman with a house to manage and not too much money to spend, but she can and does keep the enemy out of her house. _ I>abel-hnntr-Sng has become an obsession with her. Scissors, knives, vacuum flasks, soap, gelatine, pencils, Lisle gloves and stockings, children's toy books, and many other things have been condemned. She remarks sensibly that as wo have been at wai- with Germany for considerably over a year, that it is quite time the stock purchased before the war should fcav« come,to an end, and now no more German-mad© goods should be offered for sale in any part, of the Empire. • » » « • Airs Chudley, wife of Captain Chud]ey, marine superintendent for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Compauy, and her two children, arrived at Wellington by the Arawa from London on Saturday. • * » * • A northern engagement of interest Just announced is that of Air Groeme Watson, of "Logie," Shannon, son of Mr and Airs W. Watson; the Terrace, Wellington. and Miss Kathleen Murray, daughter of Air and Airs G. T. W. Murray, "Tartness," Manly, Sydney. * ■'& -v 4 The engagement .is announced of Miss Effie Tuckwell, second daughter of Air and Airs A. E. Tnekwell, of "Hamua, to Mr W. E. Cook, of Foxton, North Island. * • * * « On the eventide of life,Afr and Airs James Fitzgerald (nee Al isx Ellen Doyle), of Auckland, celebrated, last Wednesday, the diamond jubilee of their wedding sixty years ago. Although the husband is eighty-two years of age, and the wife eighty, they are "both wonderfully well preserved, physically, while mentally they are as alert a,s if they were forty years vuunger. They were born in Waterrord. Ireland and came to Auckland in the ship Forfarshire in 1875. Tlioy were married vt tho Roman Catholic Church, Dowlais. by the Rev Father Malay, on September l.' - -!. There sro forty pra-ndehildren and forty-one great grandchildren. Two grandsons are in the service, one" being at the Dardanelles and the other reported iO at Alalia. * ' # ir * * PREVAILING MO.DES. Plea for tb-'* PJsid. —Vrnthfully it cannot be iitsei fed that materials in plaid effects have gained any uf Ihe popularity that the manufacturers' agents strove ,so hard to gain. They thought that plaid- would be certain to come into its ot. a «*>*•(• the gallant f>chiex*emenis of the Scottish troops on the western frontier. However, although. Ih<- f-Jlntijrarry cap was ta,ken up to a certain ex tout, women drew tho line at, costumes of the clans. They complained that tarlans were nnhcr-ornin::: ?;<-> they are. ii' allowed to corno too near ihe fare. but. the plaid jkirt nit it a pretty blouse, either of ori'.undie or mi f.ouie sofi sill; to harmonise with the colours o| ihe tartan, offers the siini-ttgum! woman p chance to get avyy Irojn i fio common pi ace when deciding ntma nn --at jhome " froclv. Concerning Skirls.--lo accentuate tho Victorian era modes in wiiieli i ,re arc now inclining h-n-i;.-! hoop ha_nd.-> are being added io skirt-, u-. a. (nriimni^. Srvmetimes ene will uoto a ."Ivir! handed in this unv at - hi.rf intervals from hem to hip witii black veh-ei. This is a. stylo v«ry vruv.-mv-nni ot family alburn fasbioni. an.-1 yo: \«cr_i' bv the modern maid if. lake- t o nr. a:r which suggests .little <■■> Ihe simpiieiiy thai v; ■ raei-r- J-r o! unriner? in her - s tim.-'. W« 'tnl wear roche.- ab.,iui our h'tl' i'O'V i e : I*' - j' - i l , e 10 trim the bottom oi e.iir o i-. Crescent Pocl.ct---; '' y"i p-e! Iha t *-r»rt would like ;• r.- 'k' - "• - ' i r ..>i at p,-e tnOiJlf for 'o'ir t;c-" fade;- !vn-i 11 r-f^-cen' "hr'oc. r-ou r ~e. n vji.iist not- be eon-idere.i a pro.-.-pre-t'.ve, but theli-;'f-liir-on dc. ; !gn:, arc i lui latest thing'.; in I worry about u a-;:.d - r r* ier . t here >• one *<entivaent :b'i' -heuH 'omid 1b" d.-oth-Vru-ll e ,: ih" '-re-v-cui poek. t. and thnt is i*s a -''.eiatioii wiih tihpacilMPS nur ;.;allant are fiehling at GaiHpo'i. T,eghoru Mais Popular.--Small LcgIV YOU WANT

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horn tailor hats. with oval created longwise in the middle. are new • Sometimes the brims an* bound in black, and often a leather bolt encircles tln> crown. Tliev are useful lor wearing with knockabout costumes. Occa-donallv to relieve tlto maunishncss ui' appearance, posies ol variegated flowers are perched jft nut 1 1V 01) tho front of tho crown. Whatevfr th« future holds in store tor our heads, the wearer of scyue hat in tho Hat sailor variety may challenge tho fashion, critics. » * * * "WHITE KKATHER CRUELTY. Tlio conduct of women -who, without, inquiring into the eireuinstances, denounce men for not joining the -Ijmy, wat» .strongly cond'emned by All* Reginald Kemp! deputy-coroner for West Middlesex at, an inquist on Uichard ('barles Roberts, a taxicab driver, who com in it ted suicide by shooting himself. His widow slated that ho tried to ioin the Army in October, hut. waa rejected on account of a weak heart. That, depressed hint., and he was also worried because he thought he gnight loss his license owing to the state or his heart. , , A soldier relative said that Roberts s life had been made a perfect; misery by women taunting him and calling him a. coward because he did not join the Army. A few days his death two women in iUaida Vale insulted him ".something .shocking. ' Tho coroner said the conduct ot such women was perfectly abominable. ''lt is scandalous." he said, "that women who know nothing of the circumstances should bo allowed to go about making unbearable the lives of men who have tried to do their duty. It is a pity that they have nothing better to do. " Here is a man who has been driven to death, perhaps, by a pack of silly women. I hope something will soon be done to put a stop to such conduct. ' A young office! - in mufti, who came homo' from the front wounded, was recently stopped in the street by one of these women who handed to hi 111 a white feather, «■««•** THE PENALTY. I had a horrid dream. A Shape of Fear , . Approached my kn.ly couch, and m mine ear Hissed ou* the awful word. "Confess! How long Hast written rotrten rhyme and Billy fiong For daijy papers?" I, reduiced to tears. Was forced to answer truly—" Fourteen years!'' u How many poems in that length of time Hast thou committed? Speak, thou slave of rhyme!" I shrieked in very shame and consternation— " Forty-two hundred, by rough calculation." And then I shuddered: in the thickening gloom, Awaiting the pronouncement of my doom. u Forty-two hundred! More, than Browning wrote! And ho a poet was —and thou a pote I List to thy sentence, wretch, and vainly call For mercy: Thou must start and Head Them All!" He vanished with my wild, despairing scream, And I awoke. Thank God, it was a dream ! # * * # •» BRITISH LADIES FROM BELGIUM. After a. delay of several days, consequent on the Gorman authorities raising difficulties, seventy British women and a few children liberated from Belgium. arrived in London, The party included' fourteen nuns. Except for the nuns, who came from a convent near Namur, pra.ctioa.lly all the ladies in the party had been living i.u Brussels since the war. They were j all immensely pleased at getting away, but the main cause of complaint against life in Brussels under the German regime, was, curiously enough, its didn-ess. Said one: t; The only excitement wo have had was when the Allies made their raid on the Zeppelin sheds. That was splendid. Six or seven machines came along, and we knew they were our ! friends at once, because the Germans commenced firing at them from all directions. Then we heard an explosion, and a great cloud of smoke rose into the air from Evero. Afterwards tho Germans shut off all roads leading there, but we all knew very soon what had happened. Yes. the fliers destroyed the Zeppelin all right. The Germans tried to get. it out of the shed when the airmen, were first sighted, but. they did not have time. Lots of bombs were thrown, 'and the shed burned down. For days afterwards it was very unpleaaant in the city, because the Germans were wild about it. They accused the Belgian* of having given information," and officers went about tho streets scowling at everybody.'' Several of the ladies, who were questioned as to tho state of affairs in Belgium, testified to the good spirits and unquenched hopefulness of the Belgian. A delightful examine of irre- j prossiblo patriotism a.nd cleverness was 1 shown last week, one of the in- j illustration* sine* the German occupation. " Fivo days ago," said one lady, "the Germans issued: a. new order forbidding the wearing of any national badges or emblems, with a. fine of GOO marks in case of disobedience. "Hie. order was, of course, obeyed, but, 3o and behold. next day tbf Belgians appeared in the Creels wearing buttonholes of ivy leaves. In a very few hours, practicall.v every man and woman was snorting ivy leaves. Ntxt. d'ay there were actually arlificial ones selling i;i th« stiffs. Nobody &aid anything. but. nf couiK. -n-erybody know, that wearing 'ivv nnoant that they wero expressing th« sentiment - " I cling to r;iy count ry. 'J'hrne JndW said thai. « h*»n 1 hey called at the Kom ma una i or before leaving, tho German officer in charge said. "Mind you toll them in England how liim! wo have !>"en lo you here." Whoi i;Vi<•> party reached tho Belgian l frontier "Rw-Ivmi ti:oy a.nd i lien* belongings j were .Mihj"rtod lo a. -rigorous search, j Wii'ioiit. giviiiLC any on, the Ger--11;i;s look a way from Miss "YVe-ir a. I prayer-book ami Hiblo. and a-iso an or- • (iiiutrv aiMres.-, book foniainiug only I tli»> names and addresses, of fnouds. ; But, ihe vigilant follows did make one wonderful discovery ns the result l of ihe >.-' arch. t'no of M r.s iioldeo's ! lit rio daughters wa-s found iu posse* - i :-i(>n "f a piece of -ilk on srhieh uero .' strange do-. ic-.. "Ah ! Ah ! ' said the S German promptly look nor-M'ssion of it. It was • su'-h a pret( v vntreni f was going to iM!ibro;d«r- .A f'-iend had marked it in pencil for »nr>, and now Vyc forgotten ; the do;-ii',o. I j Snrdi Iter : " Sir. plea;.e. hsro yer i ; ;o! nr. i.fid littl" "<' 11 >■ "oldoj- yer | if.-M't vant'r" !'o!;.-r: " ,\nd what d > ■ vou want a. c'.garotto holrli'r for, my : I'm:'?'' Small Hoy : "'Cos lather .says i I ought, to smoke, when I v;rt a little older." TO GKT TITK BKST