LADY WITH A CAMERA

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 142, 12 December 1935, Page 27

LADY WITH A CAMERA

MAID AND BUTLER ASSIST

The latest accomplishment for a lady's maid is taking photographs says a London writer. Lady Swaythling, who brought over 1000 photographs from Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, told the Electrical Association for Women during a talk on her travels that her maid took them. Lady Swaythling does not like taking photographs, but such records are very useful when off the beaten track, and so her maid does the photographing for her. The amateur photographic cloudefEects in New Zealand are a matter of pride in the Swaythling household. The butler helps to show the photographs on a screen and Lady Swaythling's secretary classifies them. Together with Lady Swaythling's diary—which she has kept for forty years—those records give a pictorial and personal picture of wonderful countries.

cent and goodly house," of which, unfortunately, successive fires have left but little remaining. The tapestry and armoury rooms are part of the original building, the remainder having been reconstructed or added to by Christopher Wren, and subsequently by William Kent. TO VISIT IRELAND. At the end of this month the Duke and Duchess will return to London to spend two or three days at Bucking- ' ham Palace before going to Ulster for I a ghooting yisit to Sir Basil Brooke.

"We feel that in many districts there are girls who would be interested in this type of ctub—and invite co-opera-tion in helping to find the most suitable localities in which to launch the first of these clubs. If in your district you know of at least nine girls or young women whom you think might be interested and would attend monthly meetings, would you please advise us? Furthermore, if there is any older woman in your district whom you think would be willing to spare some of her time to interest herself in the younger women, we would be very glad indeed to know of her. We would, of course, regard your communication as confidential and extremely valuable.

"From the replies received from you and from others whom we are circularising, we hope to select the districts in which to hold preliminary meetings to explain the objects, aims, organisation, and programme of the club. In order that we may begin the work at the soonest possible moment, we would appreciate an early reply from you." This service is spreading widely in the south, and there is no reason why it should not be equally useful and successful in the north. Letters addressed to Miss Macmillan at Otago University will find her satisfactorily