WOMEN'S WAYS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1813, 4 November 1931, Page 2

WOMEN'S WAYS.

Turkish women may soon be wearing the peaked and gold-braided caps of the Merchant Service. So many young girls have recently shown the desire to go to sea as captains and engineers that the Merchant Marine School of Stamboul has decided to open a branch to the women aspirants. Turkey watched with pride the first woman doctor, surgeon, lawyer and magistrate and wondered where she would draw the line. Hitherto, however, the Turkish woman had confined her attacks to the land, and had left the sea and air to the men.

Owing to an attack of influenza, Dr. Mario Stopes was not able to attend the International Congress for Studies on Birth Control, which opened in Koine last month". Instead, she sent her Secretary, who read her speech. The first report that Dr. Marie Stopes was to attend this meeting, presided over by Signor Mussolini, was described as "'ridiculous, in view of Italy's law prohibiting birth control." Later, it; was admitted that she had received and accepted an invitation from the representative of Signor Mussolini. In her paper, Dr. Marie Stopes says that a far greater number of deaths result from the physiological strain of motherhood than' is indicated by official statistics.

Five years ago Miss Jeaucttc Lewis superintended the kitchen of a small restaurant in Greenwich Village, New York's Bohemian quarter. Now she is reported as offering to lend the Newfoundland Government £21,000,000 to save Labrador from being auctioned. How Miss Lewis, who is recalled by her former customers as a strongly built, pleasant woman, rose from directing roast chickens and pork chops to the diz/.iest heights of international finance is puzzling New York. Her friends describe her as a wizard of finance, magnetic in personality and bold imagination, but they are rather hazy about that immense fortune out of which Miss Lewis has proposed financing Britain's oldest Dominion. In the days when she watched the soup bubbling on the hob of the village restaurant she would often gossip with old customers about her Canadian properties. "I have vast timber holdings there," she would say, "and some day I must really run up to Canada to'develop my mines." Her customers listened to her respectfully, for the puddings and pies that came out of her kitchen were undeniably excellent. Criticism of over-drinking among young people seems to be in the air. Tho apparent prevalence of the flask habit has both horrified and surprised an English visitor to Sydney, Mrs Marion Pickett. A well-kitown speaker in Conservative in political circles in London, she has gone to spend the summer months in Sydney with her

daughter, Mary, better known by her stage name of Mary Vane. "A man at the average young people's party in London would not dare to take too much alcohol," she declared. "The other men would put him out, the girls would refuse to dance with him, and the hostess, of course, would strike

him off her list. Hero, to my surprise, I find there's little or no disgrace attached to over-drinking." Mrs Pickett recommends to the consideration of Colonial politicians England's licensing hours—l 2-3 p.m. and 6-10 p.m. f-'They have proved a wonderful corrective to drunkenness," she said.

"A man, when he's had a good dinner, doesn't feel nearly so inclined to rush into a hotel and drink, and business men no longer discuss affairs over intormiiialdc glasses of whisky."