"THE DAILY BRITISH NEWS AND VIEWS FOR WOMEN READERS LIFE'S SOCIAL SIDE Woman's Page Editor Phone 2018 : Private Phone 887w. . * . The Whig will be glad to have the "mames of visitors in town and ac- " gounts of various social events. for | publication in the social column. 'Such communications should be éd and the address of the sender Eve Write or telephone to the itor of the Woman's Page, Tele- 'phone No. 2613. \ . » . * Governinent House, Toronto, Was 'sn fete Thursday evening for one 'of the mbat brilliant halls of the sea- 'son.abdut A575 guests were present. rs, Casksbutt, wearing an ex- quisits gown of blue brocade and "silver, and diamond jewels, received } 'in the drawing-room, beautiful with is decora- azaleas, cyclemans, lilies and spring flowers, Miss Margaret Cockshutt was gowned in a graceful orchid gedrgette, the periwinkle colored girdle being trimmed with rhinestonés and jade green orna- . ments, and a long periwinkle and white tassel hanging from the girdle. iMisg_ Isabelle Cockshutt was lovely in a frock of malze georgette, the 'tiers of the skirt being heavily bead« ed with pearls, Dancing took place in the ballroom and also in the palm room, where ferns, foliage and' palms 'were banked at one end. Supper was {served in ihe State dining-room, the Aarge table being placed in the aleove 'and decked with roses, lily of the * valley, white azaleas and freisla. ~ Daffodils, narcissi and marigolds 'were used on the smaller tables. oo The first venture of the C.W.L. in the way of a big bridge was most 'successful, as was seen by those who 'were present at the Roman Catholie mbly Hall on Friday evening. guests were received by Miss es Doolan, Mrs. C. J. Corrigan, . T. O'Connor and Mrs. F. A. Pil- 1h de Supeiy 1 Ch Br 4 jEnnk Poured ---- Lay | at their beautiful ley. Nineteen tables were in play and the ladies' prize, a handsome bridge set, donated to the president for this purpose, was won by Miss Eileen Funnell. The men's prize, a gold eversharp peéncil, was won by Dr. D. Kennedy, Bruno, Sask. The other prize winners were Mrs. F. A, |r Pilley and Mr. J.'J. Barrett. Most delicious refreshments were served by Mrs. F. Briceland, Mrs. A. Carey, Mrs. J. Wickham, Mrs. BE. O'Neill and Miss Bedard. During the even- ing Misé Anna Corrigan sang several times, accompanied by Miss Mamie Tierney, "Annie Laurie" being the especial favorite and loudly ap- plauded. . % The annual New Year's dance of the staff and nurses of Rockwood Hospital was one of the galeties of Friday eveming. The Christmas de- corations are still in place and the recreation hall and the nurses' din- ing-foom, where supper was served, were gay with evergreens and col- ored streamers. The guests were re- ceived by Mrs, Neil Black, Mrs. George Kidd, Mrs. A. Kilgour, Mrs. Caldback and Miss Kennedy. Danc- ing went oh in the recreation hall to the Imapiring music of Sid Fox and his" Serenaders. A large party of guests from the city enjoyed this delightful party. . At thé ceremonies in connection with the opening of Parliament at Ottawa on Friday afternoon, Mrs. Russell Derry of Kingston wore a prétty Paris model of apricot crepe, effectively beaded. rs. Ira D. Cot- man, wife of the ber for Ren- frew North, was in a Mainty gown of oyster white ecrépe, trimmed with crystal beads, Mrs. J. W. Bdwards, wife of the member for Frontenac- Addington, wore a colorful gown of violet georgette with metal brocade trimming. Mrs. Austin Gillies, Otta- wa, wore a strikingly handsome gown of blue combined with silver and beads. . * * Rey. T. W, Savary and Mrs. Sav- ary, St. James' Rectory, gave an exceedingly pleasant tea on Friday afternoon for the members of the Ministerial Association and their wives, Flowers were about the rooms and a bright fire biased cheerily in the grate. guests were recelv- ed by Mr. and Mrs, Savary and in the ted room where: pik roses were the flowers chosen for decoration, Mrs. Francis King and Mrs. P. H, tea assisted by Miss Mr. and Mrs. John Millious, Pitts- ferry, entertained at a dinner party home, on New Year's night. Among the guests predant were Mf. and Mrs. Robeft Brash, Mr. and Mrs. Blake Sliter, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Brash, Mr. E. Reid, Mrs. Lake (Hamilton), Mr. and Mrs. George Millious, and Mr. and Mrs, George Brash. During the evening Mr. and Mrs. John Millious were presented with a beautiful sil ver platter. os 0 Arts '26 gave a jolly dance in ; ; Grant Hall on Friday evening. Every- 'Make the goming year an enjoyable one hy reading the new Books at moderate oats (Lo All the best novels worth while at your disposal for cents a day. one was home from the holidays and enjoyed telling each other of the fine time they had had. Mrs, H. G. Caldwell and Miss Hilda Laird re- ceived the guests; who danced gaily to' the splendid music provided by the Melody Kings orchestra. The committee in charge included Mr. Louis J. McCrea, Miss Marion Black- burn, Mr. Hugh T. Ewart and Mr. W. A. Anderson. . * . A very pleasant surprise party was held at the home of Mr. and Mis, H. J. Farrelly, "Cedar View," in honor of Mrs. Farrelly's birthday. The evening was spent in bridge. Refreshnients were served at mid- night and the party broke op wish- ing Mrs. Farrelly nmiany happy re- turns of the day. % ' a. i On Thursday evening, Mys. Gor- don Webster, George rom, goa Stanton, Rideau street, | scene of a jolly party on Wednesday a A B®: 3 evening. by who is with her mother, Mrs, H.-R. Duff, Princess street. . - Mrs. J. H. Sutherland, Gore street, is entertaining at bridge this evening for Miss Mabel Lemar, Nashville, Tenn. * * Mrs. W. J. Gibson, Alwington avenue, entertained at the tea hour on Friday. Mrs. John Carson, Albert street, eturned from Toronto and Oshawa on Friday. Mr. L. P. Wallace and Mr. W, G. Bews, Kingston, have left by motor for Miami, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Reid and their daughter, Doris, have returned from Guelph, Ont., where they were the guests of Dr. and Mrs. L. H. Leggett. . - - Mr. Barl and Mr. Wm. Briceland have returned to Rochester, N.Y, after spending the holidays at their home bn Wolfe Island. Miss Thelma Haffner came up from Montreal on Friday and will be with her parents for the week- end. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McKenty and their son Jack, who have been with Mrs. McKenty's mother, Mrs. Shana- han, Clergy street west, have return. ed to their home in Sandwich, Ont. Miss Frances Shanahan, who spent several months with her sister, Mrs. McKenty, in Sandwich, Ont., has re- turned home Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Young have returned to Deloro after spending a few days with Mr. and . Mrs. D. Young, Alfred street. Miss Betty -Angrbve, Princess street, is spending a few weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Grant Hutcheson, Oshawa. Mrs. George Irvine who has bea visiting her father Mr. MacBride, Princess street, will leave on Satur- day to visit friends in Tofonto, Galt, and Kitchener before returning to her home in Detroit, Mich. . - . Mr. BE. Dufour, Queens University, has returned from Ottawa. Miss Kathleen Whitton, Queen's Univerdity, has returned from Ren- trew where she spent the holidays. Mrs. C. Ml. Moore, Calgary, is visiting her father, My. C. C. Hod- gins, Clergy street. Mr. Norman Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Jones, Princess street, left on Friday for Miami, Fla., to spend the "winter. nq - » Miss Lois Osborne, Miss Helen Agnew, Miss Margaret Norris, Miss Margaret Farnham, Miss Nora! Me- Cready and Miss Kay Thompson have returned to Queen's University from Ottawa. Mrs. "St. Alban Smith, who. was with her cousins, the Misses 'Daly, Albert street, returned to To- ronto to-day. Miss Nora Williamson, who is with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. R. B. Williamson, King street, will re- turn to Bishop Strachan School, To- ronto, on Monday. Miss Esther Lewis, Smith's Falls, has-returned to Queen's University. Miss Winnifred Rorabeck and Miss Eleanor Begg, Queen's Univer gity, have returned from North Bay. * . * Miss Amey Lee and Miss Marion Macfarlane, who spent the holiday goason with Mr. and Mrs. G. W, Lee, North Bay, have returned to Queen's University. Miss Daisy Chown, University avenue, has returned from Toronto where she heard Paderewski, the great pianist play. He gave a Chopin programme. Alfred Chown, Trinity College School, Port Hope, accompanied his aunt to Toronto and returned with her to spend the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Percy Chown, Frontenac street. Miss Jean Easton, Miss Phyllis Brian and Miss Dorothy Harris who were in Renfrew for the holidays, have returned to Queen's University. Mr. Carl Trebileotk and Mr. Frank Spears have returned to Queen's University from Hamilton, - . . Mis. Gordon Steele is spending a few days with Mrs. William Burke, 60 King street. The Misses Cockshutt and the Messrs. Hendrie, of Toronto, will spend the week-end in Ottawa as guests at Government . House, Ot- tawa, of their excellencies, Lord and Lady Byng of Vimy. | COMING EVENTS ) The Editor Hears The annual meeting of the Red Cross Society will be held in the Y.W.C.A., Johnson street, on Monday, Janullry iith, at § o'clock. Rev. T. W. Savary will be in the chair and an address will be given by Dean Connell The public is invited to attend. ADVY. RATES, WOMAN'S PAGE: Conung events, not intended to False money, 3c. a word; minhnmum 50¢. If heid to raise money, 4 & word; minimum $1. Receptions, engagements, mars Hage onouncements, persons] no-~ ces, words or less, $1. per Imaertion, r : ntertalnments, concerts, meets ings. ete, 1Sc. per I'ne for readers; 10c. per line for display advts. Mini mum charge $1.00. ENTERTAINED LADIES OF W.M.8. SOCIETIES The Sydenham Street Church Ladies Were Hostesses on Friday Afternoon. That in Kingston, at any rate, the visible unity of the women of the United Church, who have pledged themselves to preach the gospel of Jésus Christ to all creatures, is an accomplished fact, was demonstrated in the large Sunday School hall of Sydenham street church, on Friday afternon, when the W. M. 8. of Sy- denham Street United Church enter- tained the members of the W. M, 8S. of Chalmers, Cooke's and Calvary churches. The meeting was called to hear the report of Mrs. R. O. Jol- liffe, the president of Sydenham street W.M.8., on the interim meet- which, as the speaker said, a full account had been given in the press, Mrs. W. B, Gordon, the district pre- gident was in the chair and Mrs. H. F. Woodsworth, Kobe, Japan, who is spending the winter in her old home was introduced. She will show some pictures of the college of which her husband is dean at a future gather- ing. Miss Daisy Chown' played a piano number delightfully and then Mrs. Jolliffe gave a graphic acccount of her impressions of the great meeting in Toronto. She spoke of the feeling of fellowship that prevailed and the noticeable effort on the part of the women present to give way to. each other "in honor preferring one an- other." The scene when the forty MPresbyterian, forty Methodist and ten Congregational women entered the hall singing "The Church One Foundation" as ey mingled ipto one stream was thrilling. The meet- ing, in which the presidents of the three W. M. 8. presided in turn, ending in the election of the presi- dent of the first W. M. 8. of the United » Kingston, the president of the Dom- inion. Board of the Methodist Church, was graphically described. Capada for Christ is the object of the United W. M. S. and the spéaker said that it was felt that the keaa capable and clear-headed women who went back to their branches inspiind with the great thrill of this first meeting were, with the assistance of the members of the society, capable of arousing an enthusiasm hitherto unknown, Grea! satisfaction was expressed at the points of similarity in the con- stitutions of the three W. M. 8. but there will be some changes. The dis- trict will be larger and will be term- ed a presbyterial. It will be fully of- ficered and a finance committee will assist the treasurer. Some of the branches will be known under new names and there will be other minor changes. The board' will continue as a separate ge rd but will be répresénted the general board. Miss Annie Tweddell sang before tea was served. At a table, centred by a silver vase of exquisite pink carnations, Mrs. W. T. Connell and Mrs. H. F. Woodsworth, pouring tea and coffee, assisted By the members of the W. M. S. and the Mission Cir- cle, Mrs, M. 8. Richmond was ¢onve- nor of the tea committee. Flowers were about the room, more pink car- nations beihg on the desk om the platform and the hig room was tilleu with women all interested in the same cause--that of sending the gos- pel into all lands. The meeting was most inspiring the Women's Missionary Societies is a very real one. ; ' urch, Mrs. H. A. Lavell' and there is no doubt the union of That the two men speakers at the annual 'meeting of the Victorian Order of Nurses, held in the Coun- cil Chamber this week, both spoke of the ignorance of the citizens of Kingston regarding the work of the order. They both had seén for them. selves what the society was doing: One had heen in close touch with it for fifteen years, being one of the well known medical men of the city, and' the other, as a curate of the parish in the city that has the larg- est percentage of those who depend entirely on the 'services of the V."O. N. in cases of iliness in their homes, had seen for himself what the nurses' work meant. Both men are members of the V.O.N. committee, and both, viewing the matter from their own standpoints, gave it as their unqualified opinion that there was no society in Kingston that did as much for the citizens, through its ministrations to the mother and child. And yet they both agreed that the people generally do not know what is being done. That they do not realise that, to say nothing of the nurses visits, they have given their counsel and advice, have weighed the babies and instructed young mothers at the Well Baby Clinic at the Welfare Station 1,822 times during the year 1925. Why don't people know? Are the citizens of Kingston unusually stupid? Or do they evade the question just be- cause, unless they are in need of the services of the nurse, they don't care whether she is there to help their fellow citizens who are? There is no excuse for ignorance. There ing held in Toronto in November, ot42T¢ two weekly clinics, one on Mon- day and. _o on Friday afternoon, held at theSWelfare Station on the corner of York and Barrie sireets, and anyone can call and see what is going on. The press, realizing the benefit the V.O.N. 'is to the com- munity, gives its activities publicity, and handreds of citizens benefit yearly by the services of the nurse who. can be called in to any citizen of any class and condition at any time. ' -- That His Excellency the Governor- General of Canada, Baron Byng of Vimy, has sent a generous subscrip- tion to the Council for Social Ser- vice of the Church of England in Canada in appreciation of its work. The Council, in view especially of the development of its welcome and welfare work on behalf of the new- comer, needs a rapidly increasing income. That the world is moving on- ward and we hope upward. The wo- mén of to-day have more opportuni- ties than their grandmothers. We don't believe the majority of wo- men abuse their liberty, but we should all hear in mind that liberty brings responsibility, and that all of us, old and young, rich and poor, thé girls and women who spend mich of their time in amusement, the women who are in the social limelight, in the political arena, in the offices, shops and faotories and the mothers and daughters in 'the home, are being judged by the juds- ment of our peers according to Brit- ish justice. Do we or do we not show our superiority to the women of half a century ago? Are our actions) governed Ly a greater semse of re- sponsibility - sincé we have been given the franchise? Do we in our seveial walks of life help to make the world a better place, and do we individually, feel that we can face the judgment of our peers, our fel- low-citizens, unafraid of thelr con- demnation? S * Girls Now Wear Mudguards. Wool mudguards to protect silk hosiery in inclement weather and ifitroduced into Parls and London are findiig their way into the Am- erioan market for women's apparel. The mudguards slip on. over the shoes and stockings and while not particularly becoming are very ser- viceable in winter time and seem to be coming popular. T Bombs In The Nile. \ While dragging for the body of a man supposed to have been drowned. Cairo police found a number of bombs at the bottom of the Nile river. An investigation has been commenced to'determine whether or { not they were stored for future use. "I was goin' to have a roast, but after I seen the butcher's apron I got a can o' beans." . Coal Second in France. Coal is next after textile manu- facturing in France as an industry of major importance. There are five distinot and separate districts in France where coal is mined on a large scale. The number of men em- ployed drepped from over 200,000 in 1912 to 50.000 in 1915, due to the war. France, however, consumes more coal than it mines by 10,000,- 000 to 20,000,000 tons. Dangerous Toys. . Three little girls playing in the fields near Soissons found a small shell, overlooked by battlefield searchers afier the war. In playing with the shell they struck the de- tonator and the shell exploded. All three were killed. "Yardley Bath Salt," Gibson's, Present timber stand of the United States is estimated at $463,000, 000. One half million tons of waste apples are produced each year in the U. 8. ~ oe "All is vanity" Gives expert 184 Wellington (Over Watts, Florist) attention to all lines of Beauty Culture. For appointments phone 279. TAXI 25¢ SERVICE GALLAGHER'S 960 ANYWHERE IN OITY * DAY OR NIGHT ALL 7 PASSENGER SEDANS " Principle: The tect an appetite. alibl used to pro< o Ml dink' het hel in ay dy > BREAKFAST COCOA delicious GSTON Rr Sessa Rv ssa s rss aan USIC STUDIOS H. 8. Packer, ATOM. Res. 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