SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT WOMEN.

Evening Star, Issue 18318, 4 July 1923, Page 3

SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT WOMEN.

A Brave Deed.—One for the Girl Scouts —they call the Guides “Scouts” in America —was scored' by a fifteen-year-old girl named Oressa. Anderson. At a place 'called Arverne last Juno there was an immense fire, which, destroyed two million dollars' worth of property. During the fire, in which 1,500 were made homeless, "Miss Anderson, despite burns and a sprained amkle, entered'two burning bungalows and saved seven people, five of whom were small children.

Mrs Jay Gould’s Jewels.—A magnificent collection of jewels was left by the late Mrs Edith Kingdon Gould, widow of the millionaire Jay Gould, bead: of the famous millionaire family of New York, United') Stales. Airs Gould was playing golf at Lakewood, New Jersey, in November. 1921, when she collapsed and died suddenly. When her estate was assessed it was shown to bci worth something like a, million and a-lialf dollars. Among tho principal items of the estate were Mrs Gould’s jewels, which included' a festoon of pearls and diamonds set with many small stones, and appraised l at £4,200; a pearl and diamond crown set in platinum, £4,400; a diamond tiara, £9,000; diamond necklace, £5,200; a diamond'and emerald corsage, £40,000; a diamond and emerald pendant with two unusually largo stones, £7,C00; a pearl necklace, £25,400; a rope of pearls, £17,000; and a pearl sautoir appraised at £6,400. Miss Mathilda Tommebt, of Milwaukee, hft a will the other day Bjft long, written in her own hand on sheets of paper pasted together. In it she bequeathed' to one relative “my beet, bedspread and l onehalf of my hast towel ” ; to another a highhacked chair, admonishing her executors to “ bo sure to take the one standing on the north side of tho sideboard”; to another her chickens and feed; while vegetables, fruit, pickles, a pail of lard, and “father’s old clock” go to another; and to . her dearest enemy a pair of old shoe strings. Airs Mabel Lee Hankey,.a famous painter of miniatures, was commissioned to paint a miniature of Lady Bowes-Lyon in evening dress, which Lady Strathmore made a gift to the Duke of York. The Duchess of Tort-land was a- AUss Dalilas-Yorke, daughter of a Lincolnshire farmer squire, whom the Duke fell in love with ns she stood 1 on a railway station platform. She drinks neither ten. nor wine, and is a strict vegetarian, though she could cook a chop for the Duke it necessary. Mrs Bertram. Romilly, sister to Airs Winston. Churchill, whom she greatly resembles. has a gift for millinery, and' at her hat shop in Davies street, London, docs a pood deal of the actual sowing herself. Ala'dame Boucc.t, a popular Parisian society beauty, has invented a new dance called ‘ Alilllerand,’ which has become all the rage in France. Airs Nicol, daughter of a farm worker at Btoneykirk. near Stranraer, came into a fortune of £25.000 under the will of her Into husband. David Nicol, of the Canadian Forestry' Corps, whom she married while working at Gretna munitions factory during the war. She was unacquainted, with her husband’s circumstances nr relations. It appears that ho was a son of the laite Sir Thomas Nicol, of Toronto.