WOMEN’S WORLD

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16800, 19 May 1926, Page 5

WOMEN’S WORLD

Miss A. Barrett was at Slonehurst, Auckland, during llic week-end. Miss 0. ltunnerslrum left Wanganui on Friday for a visit to Hamilton. Mrs Phil Smith, of Taumarunui, is the guest of Mrs Bruce, Wanganui. Mrs A. 11. Wilson, of Thames, is among recent guests at Slonehurst, Auckland. • * m * Lady Mar,V>ric Dalrymplc was welcomed lo Palmerston North at a public meeting on Friday afternoon. Mr and Mrs W. 1,. Rarkman and family, of To Arolia, have been spending a holiday in Wanganui. Although tlie question of women in the, pulpit as ordained ministers lias rarely been discussed seriously or at all widely in this part of the world it is very live in (treat Britain. The most recent appointment lo rouse interest is that of Miss Violet Hedger, 8.D., ns pastor of the Litlleover Baplist Church in Derbyshire. Although she is not, the first woman pastor in the Baptist ministry Miss Hedger is Hie first lo compirda the regular course at a Baptist theological college alongside the men. She is S 3 years of age, and lias achieved considerable repulalion as a preacher. » • * •

Amongst (he various organisations operating in Ihe community fur the public good probably none is more desereing of consideration Ilian Ihe St. .lolin Ambulance Brigade, which carries on its work quietly hut efficiently. The report, on Ihe operations of this body within the Dominion of New /.calami during Ihe past year lias .just been issued. It contains some inleresling particulars with regard lo the aclivi- \ lies of the members. H is mentioned that there has boon an increase in all branches of the work undertaken. The report shows that while attending public gatherings—such as race and sports meetings, etc.- —members have attended to 1177 cases of first aid. as against 382-1 for tile previous year. Tlie number of cases of transport of the sick and injured undertaken by members was JJGI, against 92.'1 for the year preceding. Members of the Brigade when not engaged on public duly attended to 3(103 cases of first aid, an advance of over ,70 on tlie former figures. Members of nursing divisions gave their services in nursing privately in 2Gi cases. The report refers lo tlie increased interest which is being taken in Hie work of tlie. Brigade, and which is manifested by the formation or a number of new divisions in different parts of New Zealand. If Ihe modern girl ever wished or could find Ihe. time to attempt lo confide. some of Hie charges that arc laid against her of imperilling Hie future of the race and of doing, a lot of other tilings that her mother or grandmother would not. have dreamed of doing she would find the fashion for memoirs and reminiscences in the literacy world playing right into her hands. “Priceless," for instance, is tlie. only word to apply to ihe “Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion,” which reveals that tlie “flapper" of to-day is a mild rebel jr. comparison with the “minx" of a few yesterdays ago, and in no sense tlie pioneer that she would often like tc consider herself. Then there are ihe memoirs of Mrs Susan Sibl>alT, who was born in 1783, and died in IBBG, and commenced to write her memoirs of the first 23 years of her life when she was 70. Mrs Sihhald, for instance, writes of fashions in her day, and remarks that in 1801 “Hie dresses were so scant Iliat it was difficult to walk in them, and lo make them lighter still invisible petticoats were worn. They were woven in the stocking loom, and were like straight waistcoats, at least sucli as I supposed, but only drawn over tlie legs instead ot over the arms, so that when walking you were obliged to take short and mincing steps.” And again, speaking of that period, she says: “I must mention that to rouge was then all Hie rage, and without your cheeks - were the colour of tlie peony you were not a la mode.”

(By “Gip,y")