For Women Folk

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12063, 19 July 1917, Page 7

For Women Folk

By " STELLA."

PERSONALIA.

Mr and Mrs A. E. G. Rhodes have returned from a visit, to South Canterbury-

Dr and Mrs Hardwicke-Smith, Wellington, arrived from the north this rrorning on a visit to Mr and Mrs W. H. Triggs, Cashmere. • • * • •

Mr and Mrs Marmaduke Betholl Trent Sack to Pah.au Pastures to-day, after a short, visit in town. • 4 * * » Mrs Whitton (Oamaru) is visiting Christchureh. * * • * *

Mrs Austin is staying _ with hfir parents, Mr and Mrs Walter Hill, Avonside.

Miss C War dell, Dunedin, is staying ■with her aunt, Mrs Warded, Durham Street.

Mr and Mrs W. Evans returned to Christchureh from the north this morntaS- .

Miss Madeline Jennings, Hereford Btreet, has returned from a holiday m Wellington. •#. • # *

Miss Colbec-k, .who has beii visiting her nephew, Mr Harold Atkinson, at Haamer, left, for Auckland last evening.

Mr and Mrs Henton (Wellington) arrived in Christchureh this morning, a-na are staying at Warner's. • * * » "

Miss Muriel Turton, formerly of Omata, has passed her nurse's examination, and has been appointed to \>al-ton-on-Thames Hospital. * # > * *

Mr and Mrs Todd and Miss Crowe, Balcairn, came, to Christchureh for Miss Fuller's wedding. • *#»'*

Mr and Mrs Robert Latter, Barry's Bav, are in town for a few days. ' '• • * * *

Miss Jeanette Rankin, to whom has fallen the lot of being tho first woman member of Congress, is essentially a womanly women. Fond of children, she was the official home-finder for homeless children in Seattle, and social legislation is her chief concern. Miss Rankin is thirty-five, makes her own nats and gowns, and is an adept at cookery. Her voice is low, far-reaching, and of sympathetic timbre, and she owns to being a veteran at the game of politics, having spoken in public on suffrage and prohibition for the last eight years. Sho has addressed miner* in the camps at California, spoken at meetings in New Zealand, and is not, at nil "nervy" about her work in Congress- • * * » * wedding. CAMERON—FULLERA military wedding t.eok place yesterday afternoon at- St Luke s Church, when Miss "Winifred Fuller, daughter of Mrs Frederick Fuller, Rugby Street, .was married to Sergeant-Major Cameron, Bon of Mrs J. Cameron, Peterborough Street. Tho church was decorated by the sisters of the bridegroom with arum lilies, mostly sent- from Auckland. The ceremony was a particularly beautiful one, several hymns hping Ming and a short address on the wonderful meaning of true marriage being giver: by the Rev F. N. Taylor. The Rev F. B. Redgrave was the officiating clergyman. The bride, who was given away by her mother, wore a simple- white crepe do ehino frock, with ninon bodico and pleeves, the corsage being daintly embroidered with true lovers' knots. Her veil was of beautiful Limerick lace., le-nt her by a friend, she being the fourteenth bride to wear it. The bridesmaids were Mies Bea Fuller, sister of the bride, and Miss Ruby Cameron, sister of the bridegroom, both of whom wore pale apricot crepe do chine frocks, with touches of black iiinon and black velvet, black picture hats with apricot flowers, and each carried a bouquet of violets. Little Edith Todd, dressed in white silk, made a sweet little flower girl, carrying a basket of violets. The attending groomsmen. Lieutenant H. 6. Hobbs and Sergeant "Walker, were both in khaki. The bridegroom ha* been a member of St Luke's choir ever pince he was a- boy, and Mrs Osmond Smith played the organ as a tribute to his services to the church. An At) Home was afterwards held at the residence of the bride s mother. The reception room was gay with flowers sent from relatives in Auckland. Mrs Fuller wore a smart stone grey costume, champagne Georgette hat, trimmed with clusters of grapes. Mrs C'ameron, mother of tho bride, wore a black silk costume, black bat with black butterfly bow. Amongst those present were Mr and Mrs B. A. Green, uncle und aunt of tho bride, the Misses Cameron, Mr and Mrs Todd, Miss Crowe, Mrs Leech, Mrs Ogilvio and Miss Elsie Ogilvie, Mrs Croxton, Mr a.nd Mrs "Walter Bridge and the Misses Bridge, Mrs England and Miss Evelyn England. Mr and Mrs Virtue, Mrs J. P. Evans, Mrs Drury and Miss Jessie Drury, Mrs Bola-m, Mrs Wigmore, Miss B. Procter, Mrs Francis, Miss Dolly Turner, Captain Osmond Smith and Mrs Smith, the Rev F. N. Taylor and Mrs Taylor, and the Rev F. B. Redgrave and Mrs Redgrave. The bride's travelling costume was an oyster grey cloth coat and skirt, silver grey pilk straw hat, lined with pale blue ninon. Sergeant-Major and Mrs Cameron left by motor for their honey-

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moon. Sergeant-Major Cameron is a member of the Twonty-eighth Reinforcements, and shortly goes back to cauip. ***** ANZAC BALL. Invitations are being issued for the Returned Soldiers' Annual Ball, which is to be held in the Alexandra Hall on August 10. The members of the committee are Mrs George Rhodes, Mrs Chaffey, Mrs J. Evans and Miss Cocks, Messrs M. M'C'onnell, F. S. Dyer, E- Orchard, W. E. D. Bishop and J. M. Turnbull. The joint secretaries are Miss Elsie Cooper and Miss Tessa Reading, Mr C. W." Green is the secretary for the. Returned Soldiers' Association, and Mr N. B. M'Callum is tho treasurer. The ball was very popular last year, and everything promises for another success this year. * » * * * PATRIOTIC SCHOOL CHILDREN. The school children of Wellington are doing their bit towards providing Christmas puddings for the soldiers in the trenches. One shilling is reckoned as providing a pudding, and the child who pays for one can have her name enclosed in the parcel, so the soldier will know what the younger generation are. thinking of him". The children in Wellington are having a plain and fancy dress ball in aid of the Victoria League Fund for Red Cross Work. A charge will be made for the children performing, and a further charge for the onlookers- It is expected that the supper and all extras will bo contributed, and the money will bo cabled Home to the Victoria League in London ■**##* WOMEN PATROLS. Exactly what is meant by women patrols is not thoroughly understood by most people, but the following article, taken from tho " Australasian.'' will throw some light 011 the subject, and show what good work is being done in the. large cities in the United Kingdom : While Victoria has been "making up her mind " whether she will have policewomen—patrols is the word now used to describe them—they can bo numbered in thousands in all the, big cities of the world. There are <SOOO in London alone, the reason being because of their remarkable efficiency in the duties for which they were instituted. There is still some hazy idea that they wp.ro to do the work of tho ordinary policeman, capture burglars, arrest criminals, do duty in lawless portions of the city, and so on. This is not so; and was never intended- The work of women patrols is the prevention of crime ana the. protection of young girls and children; and, according to the latest, reports from Home, their success in doing this has been so remarkable that it is i.rged that thousands more be enrolled. Throughout- the Kingdom half a dozen are on duty at every large ammunition factory where there oro girl workers. They mis with them, go to their homes and the places where they get their meals, watch and warn them against, companions, if necessary, attend at their amusements, arid see that they are at their sleeping places betimesAll railway stations and wharves are patrolled for new arrivals from the country, who are taken charge of and directed to respectable lodging-houses. One of the. patrol's chief tasks is on Sundays, when they endeavour to get girls to attend church. Children aro cleared off the streets, and, if homeless, arc put up for the night-, with 0. good meal and clothes into the bargain, if needed. In fact, as the chiefs of police say, "thej- are invaluable, and how we did without them now makes us wonder.'' + *. • « ♦ LORD BERESFORD'S NAVAL COMFORTS FUND. The Women's Auxiliary Commit-too of the Canterbury (N.Z.) Branch of the, Navy League acknowledges with thanks gifts kind from the- following: Miss Ray Eld red. Miss I union, Mrs Inman, Mrs Pearson, Miss M. E. Beckett (Fcndalton), Miss A. M. Beckett (Fendalton), Mrs Quane, Anonymous, and Mr Ouano (one. packing case). These comforts aro for the men of tho Royal Navy, the blind and wounded sailors in naval hospitals, aud for naval prisoners of war in enemy countries. Gifts of balaclavas, cuffs, handkerchiefs, mittens, mufflers, chest and lun-; protectors, socks, stockings, hot water bags and waistcoats, also cigarettes, pipes, tobacco, tins of jam, cocoa, condensed milk, coffee, ten, treacle or golden syrup. Mellin's food, cheese, sardines, sweets, arrowroot, sago, sugar, books, writing paper, Christinas cakes and puddings will be. cravefully received by the. committee. These gifts may bo left at 1,1,9. Worcester Street, Christchurch, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 12 noon, and 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday of every week. * * • # tf • FISHER'S, FLORIST AND FRUITERER. COLOMBO AND GLOUCESTER STREETS. WREATHS and Bouqiiets made up and delivered on shortest notice. FRESH CUT FLOWERS DAILY. Nice Selection of Artificial Wro&ths afc Reasonable Prices. Open Daily from 5.30 a.m. till 10.30 p.m. XD ♦ # M * » liller Extension Hanging Lamps 52s 6d. Table Lamps 18s 6d. A. J. WHITE, LTD.