"They're Jolly Good Sports"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 211, 6 September 1941, Page 13 (Supplement)

"They're Jolly Good Sports"

r London Correspondent

"Our bosses are two Canadian girls. They are fine to work with, and jolly good sports." This comment in a letter from a young R.A.M.C. private was the first indication I had received that trained Canadian women are passing on to our medical corps men some of their knowledge of orthopaedic treatment for injured limbs and muscles. Under British commandants they are working as instructors in our military hospitals, taking entire charge of the short courses of remedial exercises through which the R.A.M.C. masseurs are now encouraged to pass.

Now a Sideline Though the drapers still show trepidation about the effect of rationing on their trade their fears do not seem to extend to purveyors of men's clothes. My own tailor told me today that he was" so busy that he had hardly given a thought to the matter. He was full up with orders for service uniforms and had come to regard his civilian trade as almost a sideline of his business. Judging by shop windows his experience would seem to be more or less common. You no longer see a display of double-breasted jackets, plus fours, or sports suits. They have given place to khaki or air force blue, with a plentiful display of service dresses for women intermingled with the uniforms for -men.

Inter-Allied Czechoslovaks and their British friends owe a lot to Miss BoysSmith, the charming secretary at the Czechoslovak Institute in Grosvenor Place. Something interesting in the social or cultural sphere happens practically every day; the Sundav evening concerts are attracting more and more attention, and the interAllied tea dances are becoming extremely popular. Lecturers recently have included M. Jan Masaryk and Mr. H. G. Wells, and I hear that several other well-known personalities are to help in the same way. Through all activities in the handsome, well-equipped rooms. Miss Boys-Smith moves very gracefully, introducing strangers, seeing that everything works smoothly, acting as friend, philosopher and guide to Czechoslovakia so'diers and airmen on ieave in London. *■ —