MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1922, Page 6

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES. At the Ideal Homo Exhibition at Olympia, various contrivances for use in the house were shown, and they Lad been invented by women. Mrs E. J. F. Lockyer showed a container, called the “Hotlock and Coldlock,” that would keep a meal cither hot for three hours or icy cold for 24 hours —useful for theatre-goers, for instance. It isj also being adapted for use on aircraft. The “Spirette,” the invention of another woman, Mrs Flora Spiers, was a machine which scrubs, mops up, and wrings the mop into an ordinary pail, obviating the necessity of putting the hands into the water which can consequently be boiling Kot and contain strong disinfectants.

Princess Mary is not likely ever to lead, fashion, but she is always influuicing it, say s an English writer, 'unco she started on her honeymoon, irrying a sofe suede handbag, ihere has been quite a revival of this ’•/nd of reticule, not only in the bands of the women in the West End thoroughfares, but in the shops as well. The suede bag is taking the prominence so long enjoyed by the handbag of brocade and silk, and that •jewelled affair of gold coat-of-mail chain, which had become the hallmark of well-to-do brides when ahoneymooning.

The emancipation of women in China. gradually following the jirogress of the western world, is manifesting itself in a revision of tLe laws that affect its women. The following facts, received from Miss Lee Lien, of Canton. regarding the modern Chinese women, are therefore noteworthy: (1) There has not been any. written law eo'-eruing marriage—and the old parental arranged marriage has been broken down. Engagements are initiated by the young people concerned, but they must gain the consent of their parents. (2) There is no law to assure not to declare against a woman holding or inheriting property. But it has been customary that a widow who has no children holds no property, and a girl inherits a part of her father’s property. (3) No woman has ever been legally guardian of her children. (4) The woman has a riirht to her own oarniiurs. (5) Tho divorce law is equal for both sexes.

It seems that kitchen utensils of unbreakable and fireproof glass will soon be at. the disposal of the housewife. A process for making practically indestructible class has been invented by a Dr.Horak. of Bohemia. Lately he gave an exhibition, andean eye-witness relates : “He threw glass nlates and dishes to the floor from a height of 12ft without damaging them ; drove nails into wood with a piece of glass without breaking it ; roasted a joint of beef on a thin slab of glass over .an open fire without harming the glass ; reduced wood to ashes in a glass tumbler placed in a fierce oven, the tumbler afterwards being plunged into cold water and remaining intact throughout. The inventor has furnished his own kitchen with glass pots and pans in place of the usual metal ones.”

Several new appointments of women to important public appointments are announced. Miy Anne Bugge-Wis-kell, one of the Swedish representatives at the Geneva League of Nations Conference, has been nominated by the Swedish Department of Justice to servo one a preparatory Board of 'lnquiry into the laws affecting Swedish women. In America Miss Nellie Roche has been made comptroller of her city. Miss Roche is the first member of her sex to hold such a position, but she has had much experience of financial affairs, and can be trusted to fill it adequately. A final “first woman” in recent appointments is Dr. Ruth Edmiston, who takes tho situation of home surgeon to an Irish infirmary. She is a graduate of Belfast, and has worked for some time both in that city and in Dublin.

A correspondent supplied the Auckland “Star” with a clipping from an old scrap book that dealt Muth the use of yeast as a preventive as typhoid. The experiences related in the paragraph are Australian. The writer says : “A member of my family was seized with typhoid, and yeast was admin'stored with splendid results. At the same time it was given to every < ther member of the household as a preventive, and successfully so. For : ome years the epidemics of diptheria, rcarlet fever, typhoid, black measles, < tc., occux'red first in the capital, Melbourne, thence spreading to the country districts. Upon the outbreak of these diseases as much sulphur as could be held on a threepenny piece was given to each member of the family in the morning, and a wineglass of yeast (new) each day at midday, half doses to the children. Two silk bags containing camphor were placer! on the chest and back of each and by the time the epidemic arrived we were readv for it. In diphtheria on the left of us, eight children had died and were buried in one week; on the other side, five. We escaped. In typhoid one only wa 9 attacked. In black measles hundreds died in the district. We again escaped; and so on. We carefully kept to vegetarian diet, and boiled all fcftilk before using.”