MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 June 1925, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES.

As many as 72 weddings took place at St. Aidhelm’s Churcn, Bedminister, Bristol, on Easter Monday. They were solemnised in batches of four.

A woman of 107 who died in Nova Scotia the other day, left 135 descendants, including 10 great-great grandchildren.

A transparent umbrella, which permits the user to see where she is going, and scissors with interchangeable blades, are two novel inventions recently patented by women.

Regarded as the finest maker <ff artificial eyes in the country, Miss MillaurOj a London girl, 21 years of age, can make a perfect specimen in 15 minutes-

Miss Ruby Roberts, the woman professional billiards champion, daughter of a champion, has just sailed from England for an Empire tour which will take in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Bought by a Rotheranr dealer for 2s, an emerald ring was later sold by auction in London for £1450. It is now believed t-hat this was one of the jewels belonging to the Russian Royal family..

Miss Kitty Kierman, who was engaged to be married, respectively, to Kelleher, of the Irish Constabulary, Harry Boland and Michael Collins. Republican leaders, all of whom, were killed, . has now . become affianced to the tree State general, Felix Cronin.

The Russell Sage Foundation has conducted an investigation into tile problem of child marriages’ in the United States, which reveals tne startling fact that 667,000 Americans were child brides less than 16 jears old at the time of marriage, or were bridegrooms married to brides unuer tnat age.

The story' of artificial silk manufacture is really told in four glass jars, sajs a correspondent of the •Manchester Guardian’ 'Hie first one contains spruce chips, the basis of most artificial silks; the second, strips of sulphite wood pulp; the third alkali cellulose, the wood pulp ground up ; the fourth, a brown viscous liquid of the consistency, of treacle, which, when spurted out through platinum nozzles, gives the single filament of artificial silk.

An outstanding figure in civic life

in the United States is Miss Margaret Wilson, eldest daughter of the J ate Mr ..Woodrow Wilson. She is the chairwoman of the Tenement House Commission in New York and devotes her life to the welfare of the slums.Close on her heels follows Sophie Irene Loeb, who has been instrumental in passing more laws for the betterment of conditions than any other woman in American, civic life. Among these bills are “The Child Labour Law.” “Pure Milk Regulations,” “Moderate Taxi Fares,” “Widows’ Bills,” and “Mothers’ Endowment Funds.” She is in close Association with Jane Adams, of Hujl’ House, Chicago, with Lillian

Wald, of the “Nunes’ Settlement,” New York, and with Grace King, of the “Russell Sage Foundation.” The latest notion in entertaining in America is to give coming-out parties on Atlantic liners. It is not everybody who can get one for the purpose ; wealth is no help, for instance. The debutante daughter of the,, president of the White Star Line, Mr Philip Franklin, has just given a ball on the Majestic, a feat which lias made her the envy of all -the other girlish members of fashionable “Four Hundred,” except Miss Eleanor Sparks, whose father, the president of the Cunard Line, is lending her the Berengaria for , her: party. When dancing on deck in the moonlight palled, the guests could tour the ship and have it all explained to them or sit in a sheltered spot, and, as the vessel was safely moored in port, there was no fear of shipwreck or mal de irier to mar the gaiety of the evening- A

The Table of Prohibited Degrees was drawn up by Archbishop Parker in the reign of Elizabeth. It is to be read in the Book of Common Prayer, although it is not part of that book, and cannot be found in its table of contents. Many people think, because it is there that this list of people one cannot marry applies only to the communicants of the Church of England. On the contrary, it is not church Jaw, but civil law, and therefore applicable to everybody. The law regards husband and w-ife literally and actually as one. Thus a man cannot marry his stepdaughter—that is, his wife’s daughter by a former marriage—because husband and wile are reckoned in law as one- For the same reason he cannot marry, his wile’s aunt. But a man may marry his step-sister, because she is onlv his father’s or mother’s stepdaughter, and he is not related to her at all. Of course, he cannot marry his half-sister, because they have a parent in common. Tie may marry his son’s mother-indaw or his deceased wife’s sister ; but he can marry neither his aunt by marriage nor his neice by marriage, let alone his wife’s mother.