WOMAN’S WORLD

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2339, 8 January 1926, Page 4

WOMAN’S WORLD

Regret wll' be expressed at the death of Miss Elizabeth Hamlin, of Rangitikei line, which occurred yesterday following upon a fall in which she injured her knee about two months ago. The deceased lady was 77 years of age ,and was born m England. She came to New Zealand along with her parents and brother, Mr J. W. Hamlin, of Rangitikei line, about 20 years ago, and since then resided at Rongotea .and Newbury,, The funeral takes place to-day at the Rongotea cemetery.

Mild. Odette Piau, secretary to M. Albert Thomas, director of the International Labour Bureau, attached to the League of Nations at Geneva, won her third European typewriting championship in Paris recently. Mile. Piau struck the keys of her type, writer 4078 times in five minutes, or ISi times a second, states the Paris correspondent of an English exchange An English girl, Miss E. Mitchell, who beat Mile. Piau in the speed test because she made fewer mistakes, struck the keys 4060 times in five minutes, Miss Mitchell wrote many more words than her French rival, because she chose a sentence composed of the shortest words possible, namely, “It is the duty of a man to do me a turn, and, if he can, he is to do one."

,'M the bedside of the dying bridegroom a joyless wedding ceremnnv has been performed at Glasgow. Mr William Richmond, the bridegroom, is a marine engineer, and returned home to Maryhill from a voyage some time ago. He was seized with sudden illness. After an operation and a temporary improvement, the doctors told Mr Richmond .there was little hope of his recovery. He then expressed a wish to marry his fiancee, Miss Agnes Dickson Smith. Church formalities wore impossible, and Mr Richmond was too ill to go to the Sheriff. There were legal difficulties in the way of marriage by declaration, An appeal was made to Sheriff Harvey, and, after the business of the court was over, he and his clerk hired a taxi cab and sped with the register to Mr Richmond’s home. The bedside ceremony lasted two minutes. In accordance with the Scottish law, two friends swore they had witnessed the couple take one another as man and wife and the register was signed. The bridegroom was gradually growing weaker.