Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 208, 3 September 1943, Page 2

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mr. and. Mrs. Garvin, of New Plymouth, are visiting Wanganui and ace the guests of Mrs. G. Bergin, Maria Place Extension. Misses M. Dick and E. James were Wanganui delegates to the first Dominion Conference (North Island section) of the Student Nurses' Association which was held on Wednesday at Palmerston North. Members of the Wanagnul Y.W.C.A. are looking forward witn interest to the visit ol Miss Ethel M. Law, M.A., national general secretary of the Y.W.C.A., who is -expected to arrive on the 13th. of this month. Among the Wanganui delegates attending the Wellington central Provincial meeting of the Women's Division of the N2. Farmers' Union being held in residing to-day are Mrs. J. C. Wickham (provincial -president), Miss M. Polson (hon. .provincial secretary), Mrs. A. McPhail (president of Wanganui branch) and Miss Macdonald (provincial non. housekeeping secretary). HITHER AND THITHER. Card Afternoon. Mesdames G. Broadbead. Johnstone and McLean were the hostesses at the Gonville Croquet Club card party this week held in the Bowling Club pavilion. The winner of the card game was Mrs. C. Simmons, Mrs. Old second and Mrs. Drake, the consolation prize. Good business resulted from the wellstocked stall. The president, Mrs. Owles thanjeed the hostesses and those who attended the party. Navy League Women’s Auxiliary. At a committee meeting oi the Women’s Auxiliary of the Navy League reports were received from the various committees. It was reported that 21 libs. of spun wool was sent in by the spinning circle, 63 knitted articles were handed in and 2< were sent away. Five new names were added to the list, two of the boys leaving under Scheme B, and one lor the Fleet Air Arm. Christmas cakes for the Preston North End are ready for despatch overseas. A gift of fu from St. Alban's Preparatory School was acknowledged with thanks and a case of comforts will be provided with the money as a gift from the children to the North Sea trawlers. As Friday, September 3, had been fixed as the Day of Prayer, it being the anniversary of the declaration of war, it was decided to cancel lhe monthly meeting to be held on that date and members are asked to note that the next meeting will be held on the first Friday in October. Nurses’ Fancy Godmothers.

New Zealand nurses serving overseas with the Army Nursing Service have a group oi "fairy godmothers' working for them in Wellington. The women forming this circle have called themselves the Grey and Scarlet Club and since war began they have been busy making up parcels that are sent wherever there are New Zealand sisters. Travelling wardrobes, pocket hold-alls, gaiters and armlets are some of the gifts sent to the nurses. The hanging wardrobe is an ingenious article which can be folded and carried in a suitcase from place to place. A one-piece garment that can De worn under uniforms or as pyjamas in summer time is another idea of the club that has proved useful. Routine presentations are made to nurses and almost every transport receives a case of goods for the nurses’ use. America's Woman Leader.

The quickest way of growing old is to have persons to wait on one. This is the belief of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who is visiting New Zealand, and it given as the reason that she travels without a maid. Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt are distant cousins, she being the daughter of Elliott RooscTTT and the niece of the great President Theodore Roosevelt. She was married at 20. when she was a shy girl, and she had to learn painfully and with much self-discipline how to play hostess and make conversation and perform the social and political tricks which soon began to be required of her. She had a young family of four sons and one daughter when her husband was stricken with the illness which has left him partially crippled and which then threatened to end his career. None of the Roosevelts talk about the eight years of what she has called their "trial by tire," but her part in the rebuilding of Mr Roosevelt's career is not completely explained by her statement that she turned to politics and public affairs to keep her husband's interest alive. Mrs. Roosevelt is domesticated, a capable cook and needlewoman, and a competent housekeeper. .She walks quickly and travels generally by aeroplane. It is said that she is able to knit thousands of feet up in the air as by tier own fireside.