UNIQUE EXHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 78, 1 April 1936, Page 7

UNIQUE EXHIBITION

WOMEN IN INDUSTRY

WIDE FIELD OF ENDEAVOUR

(From "Th« Post's" Representative.) : LONDON,' March 7.

' An interesting exhibition now being held in London in aid of the Marie Curie,,. Hospital (for the treatment of cancer'in'.women) demonstrates the various fields of commercial and professional activity into which women have-entered. - The short title for the exhibition ,is J'Women at Work." The exhibitors are typical of many phases of women's.-business and occupations. A-certain, group of women of artistic "ability- found a paperhanger and decorator who agreed to.put them through their apprenticeship. They have, now business on their oyfn and: they ; train their own women apprentices.: ■■!■ They "do ■: the. ordinary plain work of paperhanging and painting, ' but" they; specialise ■ in•-, the more artistic .work .such .as the decoration bf nurseries and''women's own special rooms: ■';•;.";■ r •■•■•' Women inventors are not uncommon today. There is a .'new;device for an anti-dazzle mirror, a gadget for using a': telephone while having- both hands free,,andia new.and, excellent device for extracting the juice from oranges. ■One lady"'who is-an Oxford graduate specialises' in' advertising.! Women architects, the Electrical Association of ■Women, the .Women's International Film :Association, and "the 'Women's League of Health and Beauty are represented. The vwoman; income-tax expert reminds us of', the days when a married; woman; owned .no. property and had no rights in her own earnings. Then, there are the herb i farmers who grow acresI.of lavender, .rosemary, and other sweet • smelling herbs. An unusual • but- -sweet-smelling contrivance is. an orange .skin, stuffed/with cloves, arid there are 'the many essences made Jrora, a variety of'flowers.• . WQMEN GARPENERS. '.The Swa'nley Horticultural College has ari exhibit, -and; tellsMiow women may be trained in private garden work, jobbing gardening, 'garden planning, and landscape architecture, commercial horticulture, and; educational and investigation work. An economic .bureau: demonstrates that .brides .are. sometimes eager to learn more" about housekeeping, choosing arid' repairing furniture, and the choice' of china, and such like before they take over the duties of a home. A great firm which produces baby's food has carried the choice of nursery nurses', to a high art. They realise that if the-new' generation is to thrive -in >the earliest • stages . there must be harmony between the mothers and the nursery nurses, and they set themselves to bring the right employers, and the right nurses together. Women's Pioneer Housing; Limited, is;'a- co-operative: society-i formed in 191 with the .object, which it is more and mote ably fulfilling, of providing attractive flats for women who must make their own homes, and at a reasonable rent. ■ Another organisation which has a most praiseworthy aim. is the "Gvcr-thirty Association," for the purpose of helpin? the women who must find employment in their later year's. Among.'6lJ»sr things, the association :is raising funds for a hostel where women may Jive cheaply and be helped to regain employment. •