EVERY LADY’S JOURNAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4005, 11 August 1915, Page 3

EVERY LADY’S JOURNAL.

(BY “VIVIENNE.”)

Mrs Russell Duncan, who lias been the guest of Mrs G. J. Black has returned to Napier. Sister Hetley of Rostrevor Hospital is holiday visiting in Napier. Miss Effie Williamson, who lias been visiting Mrs E. H. Mann, is now the guest of Mrs F. B. Barker. Miss N. Davies is visiting in Palmerston .North. The Red Cross workers met again at Mrs Henry White’s residence last Thursday. Numbers of people met at Mrs F. B. Barker’s homo last Thursday to do patriotic doll dressing. Some most delightful and charming creations were the result of the afternoon’s work. Tho 'hostess provided a dainty al' 1 :.-moon tea. The hostesses at golf last !:'<i Lirday were Mcsdanies Jox-.LS!ake and W. B. WiSlock and Miss Maelaurin. T!ie Earl of Ben field (Oi ago and Canterbury) is serving at fho Front ns captain in the stli Battalion Cameron Highlanders, a regiment which he himself helped to raise. After trains ing at Aldershot the battalion recently left for France, and already lias taken its turn in tho trenches and has been under fire. Dr Roy Muir, son of Mr James Muir of "the dtaif of Messrs Joscpfi Nathan and Co.. Wellington, is now Senior tS'tafF Surgeon on tire Ret! Cross steamer Dongofa, at present engaged in the Mediterranean. Mr and Mrs Walter Barker has returned from their visit to Auckland. Mrs J. W. Nolan, Of-ipi, was recently hostess at a most successful and charmingly arranged Red Cross tea. Mr R. S. Flo ranee, S.M., has returned from the Coast. The Patriotic Carden Pete and Carnival which, is to ho held in Mrs Richard Barker’s tmngahny grounds mi November IS, is attracting the interest and enthusiasm of all classes oi the ‘•.immunity, '.t iso proceeds are to ho devoted to the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund. AH manner of charming schemes and plans for the success of the undertaking are belli g considered by the committee. ‘ Mrs K. B. Williams is tho guest of Mrs laid brook, senior, at Haiti. A number of Gisborne people left for Canterbury last week to be at the Grand National Race Meeting. Mrs W. f udbrook of Wuiorongomai, who hasj been on a short visit to Gisborne. has returned to tho Coast. Miss Eva Williams, East Coast, has been visiting in Napier. RED CROSS . WORK. The ink was not dry upon Britain's ultimatum before an army of women had sprung into being. 'I lie whole oi Europe is knit up in tho Red Cress Association, in which every fighting nation ! talcing part. This lire ot humane and patriotic activity has been dearly mirrored in the work oi New Zealand women during rise war. Lady Liverpool lias taken a viccre.ue's place in promoting the comfort of our own expeditions. Everywhere the sorrows of Belgium and tho distress of the British poor as- well as the future needs of our own people have moved women to work and sacrifice.'” Tito above paragraph, conned front one ot our New Zealand weeklies, will bo approved of. I'm sure, by everyone. Several skilled workers iunl organisers In Gisborne are doing v.dvit they can !assist Red Cross work. K< d Cross teas, as 1 have already mn:i.o:tcd in various social notes, have been taken up. For the benefit of those who inn) have mimed some, of my recent paragraphs I have much pleasure in re- : pouting the object of those teas. Tho idea, of course, is to assist a patriotic fund and tho New Zealand Fold.ion.;’ Relief Fluid is being adopted by th? Gisborne laches. A hostess invites as many people as rho likes; each guest, j i;-; asked to 'bring a shilling with her. j and also to give a tea of her. -own. j These ions hare boon made n great | success of by a few enthusiastic hostesses in this town ; in.ee the idea originated, but it is hoped that other ladies will take up the matter with I keenest and zest. DECj.AR.VTI ON i)A Y. Gisborne cmnniemoratcd the war ani rivers ary last Wednesday. The function was well organised, and the Gisborne citizens rolled up in vast numbers. Speeches were given from tho Trafalgar Rotunda, which was decorated with the flags of Britain and her Allies. It was a very impressive moment when the declaration was passed undertaking to carry to a victorious eml the campaigns in the maintenance of the ideals of liberty and justice which are the common and sacred cause of the Allies. A RED CROSS TEA. Mrs Jcx-Biake was hostess at a most successfully arranged Red Cross tea last week. Each guest was asked to bring a shilling for the Now Zealand Wounded Soldiers’ Relief Fund, but some gave more than the amount specified. The hostess, wlio.se one idea is to promote the interest of everyone in patriotic work, inspired others With her enthusiasm, the result of which is that several other ladies have now promised to give -teas. The' two big reception rooms were at the disposal of the large company present. A number of people brought- their knitting and clicked their needles right, well. A feature of the afternoon’s entertainment was tho bandage demonstration given, by two hospital nurses, Misses Barr and Cameron. The clover and exceedingly skilful way they went about their work was much admired by tho onlookers. . Miss Hookey verv kindly played the part of “patient” and submitted to the ordeal splendidly. The guests all took a very live interest in tho whole proceeding, anti one or two present who had won First Aid certificates in the past, were heard to confess that they had forgotten a good many mints and we.ro glad to have an opportunity of refreshing their memories. The capeline bandage, spirals for the ankle, spica for tho thumb, etc., etc., were all gone through with utmost dexfcoritv.' Afternoon tea was partaken of during a please.n t interra!. Some of those present wove: Mrs R. J. Reynolds, Mrs Richard Sherrntt, Mrs R. IT. Burke, Mrs Thornlev Shorratt, Mrs C. Thomas, Mrs H. M. .Porter, Mrs Arthur Rees, Mrs G. Stock,- Mrs Kennedy, Mrs A. b. Singer, 'Mrs Frank Barker, Mrs Horace Packc, Mrs J. R. Murphy, Mrs Richard Barker, Mrs Percy Barker, Mrs E. 11. Mann, Mrs Hume, Mrs Harry Ludbrook, Mrs ,T. W. Williams, Mrs Carlyle Wilson, Mrs Reeve, Mrs Hookey, Mrs A'. W. Murray, Mrs Runeiman, Mrs 'White. Mrs Margoliouth, Mrs Morgan, Mrs Pattullo, Mrs Huldsworth, Mrs R. Willock, Miss A. L. Rees, Miss Margo Rees, / Miss Doris Rees, Miss Muriel Stock, Miss Gwen Pyke, Miss Gietchen Kennedy, Miss Godfrey, Miss Hookey and others.

WHITE- FE A TREE S

A correspondent of a Sydney paper, wanting on tho subject of_ “White Feathers,” which also applies here, says:—“lt would appear that tho fowls have shed an unusual amount of white feathers lately, as ouch a. large number seem to be in circulation at the present time. Just now, when the price of things lias reached concert pitch, they come in very handy for smokers, owing to their extreme •■tightness and density of integument. They clean a pipe beautifully. Among the many to receive these- presents are a number of medical students from 'the 'University, who, being quick-witted, at once perceived their utility. The misguided iudividpnls who sent these feathers did. so no .doubt to justify their own lofty idea's, and to retain their noble devotion to duty. Not that they were cowards to send an unsigned insult to men debarred from -recruiting! Oh, no f These, students must be raven a white, feather, the , tame .students whom snob Popple will one day jH'av to snateis. from the iaws of death V riving son. or ' ‘ This, jn tfutb, jp devotfos

to duty.. Another class of person seems i to be sending out these emblems of I 'cowardice —a v class lately arisen, and now familiarly known as the flapper. The flapper seems to be a curious combination of old and young. It livps in a gilded world of romance, and has an unusually elastic imagination—d-o-vours in largo quantities, with studious care, the masterpieces of Charles Garvico, and gives weighty judgments whore the learned fear to tread. These two classes of individuals, send these things-—many of which fall-into the hands’ of people -who have been refused

at (•••>(> barracks, many of who caiuiot servo through no fault -of their own — more from ignorance than otherwise." Such a proceeding—that of striking at an unarmed person from the dark —- is tho ooncoiitriitod essenso of meanness and cowardice.

THE SOLDI F.BS’ ‘ ‘GLORY.’ ’

?>lr Leslie R. I'. Smith (son of the late Mr Robert Fergus Smith, of Dunedin) who has been following the profession of an artist, in London, and Ims been exhibiting for the last three years at tho Academy, writing on the 23 th December from "behind the trenches,” where ho Jins been with the First Company of the Strangers’ Legion, Franco, in which he enlisted, says : —-

"My dear, we, three of us. have just had a glorious feed from your parcel of foie, gras, lobster, onion, and oil, and cigarettes received this morning. "’Tis wonderful how men become children and animals. I myself last night had a nearly pure lyso! bath. To bo covered with sores and vermin at this early stage is awful, but weather and cantonment- have been against us; and it is nothing to go some-days without washing, and as. for bathing . Anyway, last nightI had a clean-up and a hunt. Tho Arabs-’ trouble is terrible. In health i am very, very much better, and even if we have to go back to the trchiches before being transferred 1 shall try and make the best of it and coma out alive and healthy. My Oars are a. little better, but- it is rheumatics and stomach-cramp that make life painful, and the sordid enslavement and dirtiness that make, with tho moral and mental environment, one feel so low and degraded. Door soldiers! Glory is for them, more or less (under tho circumstances), but imaginary, end then exists only in the minds of those afar. To think that in the trenches 1 shut; and was envied, and was proud of n:v habitation, which was a hole hi the mud when I would not put my dog Ren even with clean straw in it—and mine

was wot and filthy and lousy. And to think that I ont (having lost my spoon, which was stolen) with my hands, the filthy food, and feel hungry and love a half-cooked, or rather

raw, portion of fowl (Christmas Eve Supper), and pull it to bits with my teeth and hands! I might add that hundreds and thousands were doing the same, if they were lucky I Oh for peace ami tbs surroundings of good, hard-working peasants again. “1 think now that 1 have received every parcel that you and R have

sent, but up to now none of A h, with the exception of the belt and sox. Tel! everyone that their parcels have, and do give, relief ami pleasure to many borides myself.”