MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 July 1925, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES. Mrs Thacker, of Spilsbury, Lincolnshire, "whose four .sons recently celebrated their golden wedding, has become a great-great-grandmother by the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs William Brown, of Payne Hill farm, Slaidburn, Yorks.

Miss E. Mitchel], an English , girl typist, defeated all the entrants in a five minute.s’ copying test in Esperanto, and afterwards won the international memorised sentence championship at the Soire de Paris. Beating her previous record she registered 835 taps per minute. Miss J. Mitchell, aged 15, won fourth prize in the memorised sentence competition. The title Dame has been bestowed upon Miss Louisa Innes Lumsden, LL.D., who has had a long and noncurable career in regard to the higher education of women. She was one of the first students at Girton College, Cambridge, and later the first schoolmistress to abolish the old inane system of girl management, as symbolised by th® "crocodile’’ walk instead of the modern games. Dame Louisa Lumsden did other original work in the field of education, and worked a good deal for the suffrage during the agitation some twenty years ago, though in respect to this she did not appear much before the public. A mob of 200 men .stormed the gaol at Garden City, Dakota, but failed to lynch William Meek,- aged 20, after he had confessed to killing a 17-year-oid girl named Beryl Healy, the daughter of one of the leading families in the community. They loved indiscreetly, and Beryl begged him to kill her, says Meek, who explained that the girl’s pleadings unnerved him. She .said: “Father will kill you if you don’t kill me,” so he struck her on the head with a hammer and choked her to death. Meek says that he hid the body in a straw .stack and then drove home and •ok another girl to a picture theatre. Finally, he returned, and set the straw on fire. Meek has been sentenced to imprisonment for life.

Miss Mary Jay, a Press delegate to 1 the Women’s International Council at Washington, mentions, among other ; things, that the delegate from Ice- j land, Miss, Homfridur Arnadottu, on ; some special occasions wore her national costume. It was not unlike a < mediaeval one, the full skirt billow- • ed beneath a tight bodice, with a ( large vandyke in the centre.' With ' this was worn a short coat, trimmed ( with ermine and finished with gold clasps. The headdress was extremely high. The French delegate, Madame de Sainte-Croix, was said to be work- , ing very hard to get the vote for her . fellow countrywomen, Princess Cou- , tacuzene of Rumania was distinguish- , ed by being chief of the Girl Guides • in her own country, and was saluted by Guides in America wherever she ; went. Green trousers are among the most < ■amazing fashions for men in the sartorial programme for the forthcoming c.uuimel', which promises to provide tlfe nicWt freakish examples of men’s ' costume known for many years,- says « a London correspondent. But evening dress will offer even greater scope to the young men who desire to out- 1 shine their "fellows, and among the most singular “creations” about to be i launched is a dress bow at least twice as large as the single-ended “butter- : fly” bow now in vogue. This will , be made both for dinner jackets and for “tails.” In white it will be composed of heavily stamped pique, and jn black of various materials, ranging ; from satin to the (stiffest* poplin silk. 1 But whatever the material the effect j is invariably ridiculous, especially - •when itXs affected by small men. The teaching of cooking is making ; great strides especially in those ■ classes where the instruction has more : individual scope, says a writer in an English exchange. Last year one public school made .special tests of . oven thermometers, using, among ; others, the very up-to-date set, one of ( which was accepted by the Queen to show her interest in household economics. Anlother large school is adopt- , ing them, and will make tests for the ' use of its students. They are now ' testing the boiling of water in differ- ' ent types of kettles, and all this ' work is being done to help the housewife to run her household more economically and avoid waste. She will then have more money to spend or - invest. Those who take lessons where these up-to-date methods are taught, ..will find that .simple research work adds to the interest of housekeeping. At the Civic Hall, Wembley, in June, a reception was held in connec- : tion with the proposed memorial to overseas nurses, who fell in the war Invitations were issued by the Dow- ■ ager Marchioness of Dufferin anti i Ava, the chairman and members of i the Memorial Committee. In the un- j avoidable absence of Princess Louise, < Duchess of Argyll, Lady Patricia Ram- i say attended. Lady Jellicoe said she j felt very proud at being asked to ( speak for the Memorial for Overseas j Nurses, especially for the New Zea- j land nurses. She felt that no woras ; of hers could ever do them justice. ■ It was difficult to try and make a distinction between nurses who vol- | unteered for the war. The only real ( distinction, perhaps, was that the New Zealand nurses came from the ] furthest part of the Empire to the < warfields, and, therefore, they had ‘ not so many friends, and they suffered j perhaps more from home-sickness, which they never showed. “Nothing,’ . said Lady Jellicoe, in conclusion, j “can be done to make the '’ nurses’ , memorial too beautiful, and to ensure ( that their'memory shall remain in the - hearts of the generations to come.”