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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 9 October 1933, Page 9

A “warden” of the Young Helpers’ League, Mrs Areutt, England, is at present m Wanganui.

The engagement is announced in an exchange of Margaret Wakefield, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs K. W. Heighten, of “Waimarie,” Marton, to Alexander William, eldest son of Mr and Mrs W. H. Aldworth, Silverhope. Miss Hulcie Cameron, who was injured with Mr Ray Hazelliurst, the Canterbury footballer, in a motor accident at Christchurch three weeks ago, still lies semi-conscious in hospital and is in a critical condition. _ Mr Hazelliurst is recovering from his injuries. A very charming and beautiful lady, who was in Auckland previously and addressed the members'of the Lyceum Club, is the wife of lit. Rev. G. S. Arundale, Bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church, London, who is returning from a leisurely trip to their home in India by the Mariposa. Scrimati Rukmini always wears the Indian dress, and demonstrated how very graceful and beautifnul the robes can be. She is a fluent and delightful public speaker, with a low and welltrained voice and a charm of manner which wins her friends everywhere (says an Auckland exchange).

For her excellent record of nursing service, both in war time and peace, Miss Edith Cornwell, R.R.C., of Melbourne, was presented by Lady Isaacs with the Florence Nightingale modal, one of the most coveted honours in the nursing profession. This medal is awarded by the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva to nurses who have given distinguished service on the battlefield or in time of emergency ; there are only 57 medallists in the world, and Miss Cornwell is the third Australian army nurse to receive this honour. The other two are Miss Grace Wilson, R.R.C., principal matron of the Army Medical Service, and Miss Evelyn Conyers, R.R.C., a former matron-in-chief.

The annual meeting of the New Zealand Ladies’ Golf Council will he held at Wanganui during the New Zealand ladies’ championships this week. Mrs L. Seifert and Mrs L. Cooper will represent the Manawatu Ladies’ Club at the meeting. A brief return visit to Auckland after an absence of 14 years was made a few days ago by a daughter of the late Hr. Martin Keller and his wife, Dr. Florence Keller, who practised, in Auckland between the years 1902 and 1919. Miss Keller is now Dr. Francis Harding, and with her husband, Dr. Warren Harding, a nephew of a former President of the United States, she was a. through passenger for Sydney on the Mariposa. Dr. Harding and his wife are to make Sydney their home, where Dr. Harding will take up a position as surgeon at the Sydney Sanitarium and Hospital, Wa.hroonga. Tlie claim of an English inventor, that lie has discovered a cheap, simple labour-saving bed-making device, will be of interest to housewives, and others who engage in this daily occupation. To many people a bed is a bed; it is either comfortable or otherwise. But there are other people—the millions to whom the domestic invention of the age will make an irresistible appeal—whose ideas of a bed are totally different. To them a bod is an object from which sheets and blankets are removed in order to become a whirlpool of bed-clothes. In this whirlpool" they struggle and flounder each morning. Eventually they unravel the tangle of bedclothes and replace them in an orderly design on the bed. The process is known as making a bed. There arc millions engaged in this daily ordeal, and it is to their rescue that the inventor has come with his cheap, simple, laboursaving bed-making device. The device consists of three rods. Bed-making proceeds by placing the sheets and blankets in alignment at the foot of the bed. The loose rod is placed across the bedclothes, which are then wrapped round it once, and over them there is placed a clip consisting, of two other rods held together by springs over the other rod so that it grips it firmly. The bedclothes are then hung over the mattress at the end of. the bed and retain their orderly position. As Mr Shakcspear put it,* the bedclothes are folded into one unit and brought back into one unit. Four or five minutes, he estimates, are saved in the making of each bed, so tliat a mother with five beds to make saves at least 20 minutes each morning.