OVER THE TEACUPS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 15

OVER THE TEACUPS.

" (By Our London Lady Correspondent) •WOMEN" DENTISTS IX BULGARIA. Though there are not many openings for educated women in Bulgaria, it is curious to leara that quite a, number of lady dentists, who have studied in Germany, Russia, and Austria, and are usually very skilful, flourish there. TWO *_*mt-_-*ID WOMEN. Last week, in QrSerfro, an order to pose for a "cinematograph -film, MdHe. Destinn, the celebrated prima donna, sang the aria from "Mignon" in a cage of fourteen lions under the eye of -their trainer, who was a young woman. One large lion lay on tbe top of tbe piano for tbe performance. WOMEN AS SOCIETY ORGANISERS. A new, and to many, interesting occupation for women » the organisation of big Society functions, and it is interesting to note that numbers of big public fancy dress bails- and dancing clubs held at the big hotels, etc., are managed by women. THE LOAN OP A BABY. i The committee that controls the 'domestic training centre for girls at •Mitoha-m in Surrey is experiencing great tribulation in its efforts to borrow a baby for a few hours a day, for the purpose of teaching the girl students bow properly to look after young children, since 'mothers who have lent their babies complain that every girl wants to wash them—a state of things by no means good for those little people. GIRLS AND TRADE CLASSES. The London County Council is offering next Easter something like 300 trade scholarships, which will be available for girl 6 who want to prepare themselves to enter 6neh skilled trades as dressmaking, trade embroidery, ladles' tailoring, waistcoat-making, upholstery, millinery, corset and lingerie-making, cookery, domestic service, laundry work, and photography. By means of the scholarships girls may secure free education on these lines (with a 'maintenance grant) to prepare them on leaving school to take up employment in skilled trades. The scholarships, other than those for domestic service, will be tenable for two years, and will provide free tuitioij and a. maintenance grant of £8 for the finst year, and £12 for the second. EXCURSIONISTS' NURSERIES, have existed for some time at several of the popular -watering places, and are being augmented next season by others. They at once serve the purpose of forming nurseries for the small children of excursionists down for the day, and as a training ground for motherhood as, in Southport, for instance, pupils from a school of house craft nurse the babies with a view to their gaining experience in the care of children. Financially the ventures have proved themselves undoubted successes. A SUFFRAGE SCHOOL •is being organised for the Christmas holidays by one of the woman's suffrage bodies, the first week of the 6e.is.ou lo be spent in the East, and the second in the West End. Lectures will be delivered on the legal position of British wives and mothers, wages and conditions of women workers. hoiißing conditions in 1-onclon, the Poor Law. the 'Hvbite slave" traffic, etc.. etc., and there will be classes in elocution, speaking at openair meetings, and practical details of organisation. Investigation parties are also to bo arranged to visit factories, workhouses, and other institutions. FIRST WOMAN PROVOST. Much exciiement has .been rife in Scotland this week as a result of the appointment of a woman -as Provost (or Mayor) of Dollar, the town in Scotland justly noted for its splendid academy. The honour has fallen to Mrs Malcolm, who. only 6ix years ago, had the distinction of being the first woman town councillor in Scotland. She is the first woman Provost, and is a Liberal, and staunch supporter of the appeal for woman's suffrage. JUSTICE FOR A WOMAN. A storm of protest followed an announcement made at a meeting of the Central Unemployed Body for London last week that the application of a very-well-known social worker (Miss Giles) for the post of general assistant was refused on accoount f her sex. The Classification Committee, who made the recommendation, was fortunately, however, annulled by an overwhelming majority, which carried an- amendment that the lady be appointed, as has happened. MOUNTED WOMEN NURSES. No lees extraordinarily enthusiastic than rmen over the Ulster business are women, a corps of .whom, mounted and trained in riding stretcher drill and **eneral field hospital work, bave actually gone over to Ireland under orders from their chief, one Colonel 'E'cardo. All ride astride and wear khaki uniforms and habits. MEDICATED WINE ABUSED. ■At the conference of the National British Women's Temperance Association held recently, amongst many other tilings tbe fraud of medicated -wine was usefully discussed. It was pointed out that conscientious doctors mainly abused these concoctions roundly, while a sims■ter sidelight on their rmportajnee as intoxicants was *he hiOßtility of the liquor traffic. Speaking recently at a Trade protection meeting. Lord Willoughby de Broke advised the brewers to have the sale of such wines put a stop to, unless their ingredients and the amount of alcohol they contained were declared, and expressed the opinion that those who sold them were doing a great deal to produce alcoholism, and to ruin the nation's health. NEW OFFICIAL CHILD DEPARTMENT. A new division of the Home Office has just been organised to deal with questions relating to children, particularly reformatory and industrial schools, children's courts, probation officers, erueltv to children, and street trading and is to be under the charge of the late Principal Clerk of the Home Office (Mr. George Achertou Aitken), who for some years has been closely concerned with reformatory and industrial school work, having acted as either secretary or a member of various Home Office committees on the subject, while in .1910 he was British delegate at the International Conference on the White Slave Traffic. It is at present * oosed that the State should bear the t .ater portion of the cost resulting from requirements imposed by the State.