MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1922, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

—■ ■ ' NEWS AND NOTES. (The Lady Editor will be plea’.el to receive for publication i.i this column items of social or personal news. Such items should be fully authenticated.! The “friendship border” is now a feature of very many gardens. Everything in it must have been given to you by a friend, or be a reminder of pleasant companionship in one form or another. Statements appeared in Paris newspapers last month that Miss Marguerite Nielka, a cousin of Lady Denham, has decided to stand for the British Parliament at (he next elections. Instead of repeating hackneyed arguments, she will sing to the voters. A unique wedding present sent to Princess Mary by the Glasgow Corpora tion consisted of an address enclosed in a cabinet fitted with cut crystal and silvergilt toilet articles, so designed that it may be used either as a table or folded up and locked for portable purposes. A Palmerston North baker called at a house to deliver bread, and left the door of the cart open for a few minutes. At the next stop he was startled to find that lie was carrying about twenty imprisoned sparrows, which were playing havoc with his hot bread. A curious custom prevails in Himia, one of the little islands of the Greek Archipelago. The girls of this tiny isle exercise the right to propose to the men The inhabitants of Himia are engaged almost entirely in sponge fishing. When a girl desires to marry, she waits until she has obtained the number of sponges from the •sea that corresponds with the number of years she has lived. These she places in a .silk net, which she presents to the man of her choice. Should he refuse his chances of obtaining another bride are remote, as usually the Himian maidens shun him as a punishment. Are frogs ami snails to become part of the Englishman’s fare, as of the French man's? There is such a positive demand in London to-day for both of these delicacies that the chef of the Savoy grill is to add them to the daily menu. Ex officers, to whom their first frogs and snails were a minor experience while serving in France, are said to cause the chief demand for these delicacies. A worn out theory that clever women do not often marry is utterly refuted by the marriage of probably the most learned woman in the British Isles, Dr Mary Wil Hants. to Dr G. Arbour Stephens, the South Wales specialist, of Swansea. Dr Alary Williams was in October last appointed professor of modern languages to Swansea University College, and it was there that she met her husband. She was also the first woman to be made a fellow of the University of Wales. “There is a little romaine attavbing I" this case,” said Constable Satheiiey, <>t Otaki, in the local Court house (he other day, when a, man was prosecuted for damaging a bicycle. "It appears that theie is a young girl in that district, and the defendant, who is elderly, and a young man are paying their attentions to her. It seems that on the day in question the voting man was visiting ttie girl when defendant i|*nie along and saw bis rival s bievele outside the bouse- lie took the machine away and smashed and hid it. The constable added that he went down and made iiupiiries about the matter. He taxed defendant with doing the damage. Defendant denied it at first, but all ei - wards admitted that he did it, and expressed regret for what he had done. “He can’t be allowed to do this sort of thing with impunity,” said his Worship. Defendant was lined £2 and costs 14/6. Alice, Brady, stage and screen star, ohtained in January last an interlocutory degree of divorce from James Crane, actorson of Dr Frank Crane, essayist. The. decree was granted by Justice Mullan on the recommendation of a referee. It holds for three months, at the end of which time Miss Brady will apply for a final decree. “Jimmie and Alice” were considered ideally mated at the time of their marriage two years ago. After the wedding Crane was starred in “Opportunity,” produced by his father-in law, AVililam A. Brady. Miss Brady has since completed a long series of engagements in which she is said to have netted £200,000. The break in the family occurred when Miss Brady heard of alleged “indiscretion” by her husband. When the two returned from a trip abroad, she left him at the dock and since then they have not been seen together. Several strong men have failed to lift a slim 7-stone girl at Anderton’s Hotel, London. Calling herself “Resista, ’ this young lady, who has been puzzling American professors, has visited England to tour the Moss Empires, and outdo Johnny Conlon. She has also a letter of introduction from professors of the Rockefeller Institute to Professor Nordman at Paris. When she wills, a “London Daily Daily Chronicle” representative found it quite, simple to life her oft the ground, but by her art and training she can resist ail normal attempts to raise her or even hold her perpendicularly in the air. She excels Johnny Conlon and Miss Annie Abbott (who astonished people about 15 years ago) in that during all the weightlifting trials she did not touch with her limbs the individual trying to lilt her. Three men with their hands round hetwaist failed to lift her off the ground. Another man, the strongest of the group, could not hold her off the ground when she increased her resistance power, and even two men, one on each side., failed to lift her up when she started to “think weight.”