PROFESSIONAL CLUBS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 170, 19 July 1924, Page 22

PROFESSIONAL CLUBS.

So great is the increase in women in professions that a new form of club has been started in London. All the members must be women who hare some trade or business, and only one representative of each particular occupation can be admitted. Representing horticulture is Kathleen, Viscountess Falmouth. Then, as a Government speaker. Lady Mackinnon holds her own, and gives many others useful "wrinkles" on how to speak in public. Sybil Thorndyke is the representative of the stage, but .Mrs. Philipson, M.P. (Mabel Russell) says she joined as a "Member of Parliament." The Countess of Clonmell comes under the heading of "laundry," while Lady Honeywood runs hotels, which all goes to prove what a very work-a-day world it ia in this 1924. Once a week the members meet at lunch, taking turns to make a speech relating to their own particular occupation. I must add one thing that struck mc (states the writer) when I looked at Commandant Allen, 0.8. E., and iliss Helen Mayo, L.D.S., F.R.C.S., and that is how very smart and businesslike an eyeglass can look when worn by a woman who knows just how to wear it, as 'both these well-known folk do. '■