MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 January 1926, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES.

At the Brooklands - Automobile Raping Club dinner, held at the Royal Automobile Clitb, 'iT’all-malk S.W., there were 200 guests—l 99 men and one woman. The Earl of Birkenhead was the guest of honour. The only woman diner was Miss V. Corderey, a skilled racing driver. According to the rules, members were permitted to” take to the dinner one man guest ,aiid Miss Corderey availed herself of this privilege.

At an inquest on Mrs Margaret Weston. -47, of Gravel Road, Twickenham, the husband said he was awakened by his wife making a peculiar noise. She said: “William, I am going to die. Before I die 1 am going to get out ; of bed and see my dear children.” His wife then got up and went to the room . where the children were sleeping and wakener them. They followed her back to her own room and she died soon, afterwards. Death was due to heart disease.

When Arthur Burchett ,aged 15, was summoned at Hurst Green, Sussex, for assaulting a man named Benjamin Beeney, the magistrate asked him if he would withdraw his pfei of guilty. Burchett refused, because, he said,' he struck Bt.wiey for saying that his mother was a fool for marrying a man . old enough to be uer grandfather. The chairman said the magistrates would have dismissed tne case if the boy had pleaded not guilty. Instead Burchett would oe fined one penny. A policeman in court handed the boy a penny to pay. the fine, ® A nurse left a fourteen-months-old child in a perambulator outside a London shop while she went inside to make a purchase. When she returned the chili had disappeared. She called the doorkeeper and a policeman and together they searched the neighbourhood for the missing child. Then the nurse, in a state of great anxiety, rang up the child’s father, more police were notified, and a wider search was begun. It was assumed that the child had been stolen by a woman passer-by. Some hours later the nurse and the child’s father returned home and found, to their astonishment, that the child was in the house. The explanation was that the

mother, when passing the shop,' saw her child, and took it to an adjoining shop to buy some sweets. When she came back the nurse, wheeling the empty perambulator, was search’ing the adjoining streets. Two women competed l in the races jit the Speedway, Sydney, recently, one of them just trying her hand, and ». the other a keen enthusiast, who has already many succeses to her credit. Marie Jenkins, from Melbourne, whose scarlet Bugatti shone in a tantalising manner, is a slip of a girl—

keen as can be on racing, states the “Sun” “At first I didn’t like it, but since I have got used to it I think its great,” she said ,as she slipped the helmet off her tumbled shingled head, after coming in second in the third heat of the five-mile scratch race.. That portion of the track above the red danger line has no terrors for her, and she has proved that she has

brain, nerve, and courage equal t her men competitors, Her hand wu quite steady after the race ,and smil just as sure. She gaily gambles witl speed on the race track as most othe women pour out a second cup of tea Miss Jenkins wore a short orangi cotton frock, which buttoned dowi each side of the waist to the hem When in her car the unbuttoned skir gives her plenty of freedom fos manipulating gears' and controls. Once upon a,.time funerals wen made the occasion for' elaborate dis play of trappings of woe and drear, festivities. In these days anything al all ostentatious is not considered ii good taste, unless, of course, it is ir connection with the obsequies of t public prsonage. Extreme simplicity aiid privacy have more and more - come to distinguish funeral ceremonial, 'even to the extent of “Wc flowers, by request.” Present custom decrees that women should seldom be present at the fin'al graveside scene, even in the case of then

nearest relative, the male members of the family only entering the cemetery. Many people send their empty cars to follow the funeral procession as a mark of their sympathy. Women show their respect for the living and the dead, however, by attending any funeral service which may be held beforehand. Complete mourning is the orthodox wear on such an occasion, and of the quietest description. Only under specially favourable circumstances would one approach any of the bereaved family <m the day of the funeral, all sympathetic expressions of sorrow being reserved for the letter of condolence dispatched immediately upon hearing of the decease. The rules for mourning apparel have been relaxed so much the last few years that only the nearest relatives are called upon to don black for the death of a member of the family. Children are no longer weighed down by mourning garnients, and are left in ignorance, as far as possible of 'the sorrow that has fallen' upon the “grown ups.”—The Daily Chronicle.