GENERAL.

Evening Star, Issue 17922, 18 March 1922, Page 3

GENERAL.

“Why on earth do yon take in washing?” This is the question many of Lady Clonmells friends are asking her, for the Counlo.ss has started a laundry (says a London paper). “At the beginning of the war 1 began to feci it was time I was doing something,” she said, “ Several activities of various kinds have always occupied my time, and during the war I was interested in many organisations. 'I hemfore recently 1 have found plenty of time on my hands. T mentioned the matter to (’Jordon iSelfridgc, and said ‘ I wish I had something to do.’ ‘Well,’ he replied, ‘why not start a laundry?’ That was about six .months ago. To-day my business is patronised by people not only in London, but in the provinces, in Scotland, and even in Ireland. We all know how careless laundries are. [ have had every sympathy for the thin-necked gentleman who receives irom- V>c laundry twelve 16in collar’s. That is one thing that is ruled out in the ‘ White Elephant, as I call my laundry—there are no mistakes.”

In spite of the 2,0C0.000 extra women in England, one essentially feminine profession is overcrowded with men and deserted by women. A woman in the West End of London, after seeking in vain for a parlormaid and getting scarcely a single bona fide answer to her advertisement, decided to substitute a man. Her advertisement drew scores of answers from men seeking the office of “ parlorman,” and they came from many ranks of life, including men of considerable educational accomplishments. This experience is the general one, and, if it is not surprising a’t a. time of unemployment that men should clamor for such a post, it is hard to discover what the 2,000,000 extra women are doing. December and May.—ln the village church of West Thurrock, Essex, recently, 3Tr W. Beaumont, seventy, married the belle of the village, Miss Queenio Seaton, who is twenty. Precautions had been .taken to prevent the news of the wedding from leaking out, but the fact that the couple were to be married became known at the last minute. Determined to have the wedding in secret they altered the time of the ceremony, mid arrived at the church accompanied only by the driver of the car and verger, who agreed to act as witness, and the vicar married them. They left at once for London, whore the honeymoon was spent. On the same day Mr Edward Armstrong, a pro-provost of Queen’s College, Oxford, who is seventyfour, was married to Miss Geraldine P. Harris, the twentr-threo-year okl daughter of a former Oxford vicar at Oxford.