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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 218, 14 September 1910, Page 10

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(From Our Lady Correspondent.) LONDON, July 29. CRUELTY TO DOGS. Fxoni Paris comes the news that the French Society for the Prevention ol Cruelty to Animals has grotesuxl against the deportation to the desert island of Oxia, at the entrance of the Gulf of Patras, of SO.OOO dogs from the, streets of Constantinople. The dogs are then left to perish from 'hunger, and in this way it is hoped to rid the Turkish capital of what has become an insufferable nuisance. Details of 'such revolting treatment make one wonder why the system that is in vogue in Ceylon—where thS -writer lived for some little time, and where, of course, the pariah pest was once a serious matter —cannot be carried out in other places. In Colombo a "dog cart" —the property of the Corporation—goes the rounds oi the fort and suburbs, and " arrests " every dog—no matter what its I value. The. animal is kept for a short time, and if not claimed is then painlessly killed in a lethal chamber. BRILLIANT WOMEN DOCTORS. - Three doctors —the first ladies to obtain these diplomas —have been granted the Diploma :of Public Health by the Royal College of Surgeons. ■ The names are: Miss Helen Norah Payne, Ji.D., 8.5., Lond., who is anaesthetist to the New Hospital for Women; Mrs. Alice M. Van Ingen, M.D., L.M. and S., Brussels, who' has held important appointments (medical) in India; Miss Hilda- K. Whittingha.m; M.8., 8.5., Lond., who is demonstrator of bacteriology at tie Middlesex Hospital Research. Labora, tories. A MASCULINE " MAKE-UP." Anent the Crippen murder case, which is engrossing a good deal of- our attention just now, Mr. Willie. Clarkson, the well-known theatrical disguiser, has given some interesting hints on " How to maJje up as a man. , ' The scanty news with which the papers have been so far able to provide us—while Inspector Dew is on the path of the fugitives, Crippen and Miss Le Neeve, now supposed to be on their way to Canada—does at least give us aai important clue in that it is known- t3iat a youth travelling as Master Robinson is a girl, and supposed, therefore, to be Miss Le Neve. " A woman who intends to disguise herself as a man, usually thinks that she has attained her object," Mr. Cla-rkson said, " if she merely puts on male attire, but that is only the very first step. "Unless she is correctly instructed, her walk always betrays her. A woman, owing to the high heels she wears, develops a mincing gait, and progresses on the balls of her feet, with her knees and ankles close together. " Then, again, she would wear boots to fit her, with the result that her feet, when she is trying to pass as -a man-, ■would seem absurdly small. " Also, she would use a powder pull as spontaneously as a man was-hes his face, and so her complexion, perfectly natural seeming to beTself, would betray her as beinsr not a youth's but a girl's. " Now I made up a woman to pass as a youth. Phe desired to penetrate into apart of London's very mixed society, •where the police were chary of entering, her reason bein? a literary one. "First. I fitted her with a man's Tvig, and cut Tier hair short at the sides. Then I padded her -waist so that it seemed to faill straight down to her hips as does a man's, and bronzed her complexion. "Her shoulders I padded, too, so that they -had the sturdy masculine outline, and not the gentle slope of a woman's. "After that I lent her a pair of my boots, which I stuffed with cotton-wool at the toes, and I instructed her how to walk, using the whole of her feet, instead of just the balls and toes. "She looked so like a youth when I had finished that she was able to pass as one for several hours, completely attaining her object. •To suggest that a razor has been recently used, the best thing to do is to put a little grey pigment on the upper lip and then rub it off. That leaves a suggestion of a shadow, and makes it appear th"at the face has been necessarily shaved."

DESCENDANT OF NAPOLEON. There died on Saturday night in a nursing home in Paris, at the age of 49, Princess Jeanne Bonaparte, a grandniece of Napoleon. The Princess, who married' the Marquis de "Villeneuve in 1882, at one time was a distinguished figure in Paris, and her receptions at her residence in the Rue de Prony were famous. ACTOR HONOURED. Mr F. R. Benson, who has been associated with Shakespeare dramatic festivals at Stratford for over 20 years, has been presented with the freedom of the borough, enclosed in a casket of 16th century Stratford oak. David Garrick was the last to be so honoured, and the presentation of the honorary freedom of the borough to him took place in 1769. A KEEN SUFFRAGIST. Lady Betty Balfour, who has been Dame President of the Woking Habitation of the Primrose League for some years, has resigned her office because she did not approve of the vote given by Mr D. Maemaster, M.P. for the Chertsey Division, against Mr Shackleton's bill. £300 PRIZE PLAY. "The Piper," the new play which won the £300 prize offered some, time since by the organisers of the Memorial Theatre ait Stratford, was performed this week. The lucky prize-winner, Mrs Lionel Marks (Josephine Preston Peabody), is, it may be remembered, an American. Reports state that the play 'is not a masterpiece, and, from a dramatic standpoint, has no great value, but was charmingly staged, and contains some beautiful scenes. "DIVINE SARAH" A GREAT-GRAND-MOTHER. Madame Sarah Bernhardt 'h-as become a great-grandmother. Her son Maurice's daughter, who is Mrs Edgar Gross, of Porchester Terrace, has just given birth to a daughter. BY MAN OR WOMAN? In school we learn the rale of three; in courtship, the rule of two; in marriage, the rule of one. —"Judge." HARD TO RESIST? A lamb belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, which was trained to visit houses and to bleat until someone opened the door, collected no less than £6 12s 6d in bags hung on its body, in aid of the Royal Berkshire Hospital. A PECULIAR OPERATION. An extraordinary operation—that of grafting on a new nose—was recently performed on a woman at the London Hospital. The operation, which was very successful, was rendered necessary on account of a rodent ulcer of many years growth, which had gradually eaten away all the tissues of the nose. HONOUR TO WOMEN TEACHERS. A special tribute to the good work done by women as educational administrators has been made by the Isle of Wight County Education Committee in appointing Miss Florence J; Monk, 8.A., as head teacher of the County Secondary School, Newport. The chairman, replying to criticism, said the successful administration under former women teachers had influenced the Board of Education to alter their policy of opposition to such appointments.