Women Folk

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16329, 19 January 1921, Page 9

Women Folk

By

”STELLA"

“ Stella" will be glad to receive items of interest and value to Women for publication or reference in this column.

Mias Betty Cot ter ill has been pitying 1 vi. its in South Canterbury. Mi- and Mrs A. Reeves have returner] to Christchurch from Dunedin. Miss lL Cox ('’Wellington) is span d* ing a holiday in Christchurch. Tim lion W. Xosworthv and Mrs Nos w o. thy are staying at Warner’s. Or and Mrs Brown (Auckland) a-iis visi tmg ('hristchurch. Vrs 11. G. Martin (Crflverden) arrivoh in ( ! 1 ristchurch .yesterday and slaying at Warner’s. Miss Bethel (AVellington) arrived in ( iiristchurfh to-day, and is staying at the United Service. T. O. Guthrie and Miss I». GuthHe arc staying at the United Service for a few days. Or and Mrs If. D. Davenport (Coalgat") arrived in Christchurch yosto.rUav, and arc sinking at Warner's. Mr and Airs Noel Laver and their two little daughters arc at present in A lick hind. Airs K. T. Cowj'rtf. accompanied by her von and daughter, has gone to YAmaru. Airs Maurice Turrell lias returned to AN <lliqgtou alter a stay in Christchurch . Airs 10 V. Palmer, Miss Palmer and Miss Tabart arc the guests of Mrs Kill Mon Urbell. Dunedin. Miss Ethel Brice i-. spending her school vacation with Airs 1\ cay-Brown, . Wellington. Sister A. H. Caoksoii has been appointed matron of the Whnngarei District Hospital in succession to exmatron B. Keyte. .\ number of friends of Miss Alw*yn Fletcher, Bowen Strep r. gave a crystal party for her recently at her home. Mbs Fletcher is to he married shortly. Mrs K 1 worthy and Aliss El worthy have returned to Christchurch from it visit to Mrs Bond, ('laremont. They have decided to make their future home -Aliss Xooline Parker (Dunedin) r- turned from a trip to the Nuggets, Otago, :>nd is now staying in Uhrist*'imi- h ior a short time with her sister. -Airs A. Jl. Hancock. Miss Ethcldn W. BJeibtrey, the chainj .n woman swimmer of the world, is m-poTnpiirued by her mother. Mrs AT. K. 5 H* ibtrv.\, ami a friend, Miss Margaret Dead. They are staying at the Clarendon . Si'ter Kathleen Davies, R.R.U. (second-class), i\.Z.A-,N.i5., who has neon in charge of the Orthopaedic Hospital in Tnnaru lor the past six months, will leave Wellington l»y the Manu&u on rhuvsday for feydnev, there to couDiect with tJic s.s. Aeneas ior Bulawayo \ South Africa). Sister Davies is staying. in the meantime, with Airs WiJ~.m>u, Dellington (formerly Sister Curtis, <>i the N .Z.A.N.S.). Talking about tlie adoption of war orphans, tho “Australasian” says that many unmarried women in England adopted these. Among tho girls who «iid so was the Hou Joan Poyuder, naughter ot’ Lord and Lady IslingtonShe chose to place her little adopted one in a country cottage, under the care of a motherly woman with a family ot her own. " In this "use it just meant taking up the financial responsibility, but many women took ybe children into their own homes. Miss Maude Hoyden, tho woman preacher, is another who has adopted a child. Aliss .Roydon has been holding highly successful Sunday evening services at Kensington Town Hall, many people having to *.iayd„ during the service or sit on the floor. A request has been forwarded to the Bishop of Lou Jon to grant Aii.ss Hoy do 11 a church, hut so far this lias not been done. Beautiful voile jumpers have been redueed by the “ Economic 5 * from 21s 10 Its 6d. Just the thing for hot days on the boach. A very line line of georgette jumpers is being sold at 47s ml and satin jumpers at tho same price, v Inch is a considerable reduction on the usual iigure. ITie “ Economic,” 119, Manchester Street, opp. Ileywood’s. 1 When rou go for a dip in tho briny rou should secure one of the new rub- } her bathing eops being sold at. from ;2s 6d tr* 10s del by IC. (’amoron Smith, t Royal Exchange Buildings, 96. AVorces- ' icr Street. These caps, which are of the very latest design, reach Christchurch from America in small parcels through tho post in order to avoid perishing, and a parcel of tho very latest creations has just- arrived. 1