SOCIETY IN BUSINESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19675, 29 June 1927, Page 7

SOCIETY IN BUSINESS.

Pessimists are fond of declaring that | England is becoming work shy. Yet there | has never been a time when the young and educated woman was so determined to have a career, says a writer in an English exchange. Debutantes to be presented at the coming court have almost without exception been thoroughly well educated; there are few of them who could not go out into tho world and earn their own living if necessary. And the girls who have already been presented are, in many cases, hard at work. "Business attracts a great many society girls to-day. They love organising. I think this is largely because so many of them have had. a taste of power as girls by being captains in girl guides, but the desire for money and plenty of it has something to do with it." Lord Burgh's sister, Miss Eveleigh Leith, is learning shorthand and typing with a view to taking up the organising side of politics. Miss Astor, who is not to be presented until next year, is studying history and literature in Paris, and is not. -likely to lead an idle life. Miss Gladys Cohen, Sir Robert Waley Cohen's cousin, has already had her own compositions played by Dan Godfrey's band and by the pianist CernikoS, although she is only 20. She is one of the Royal Academy of Music's best pupils and is now studying conducting. The cases of Field-Marshal Robertson's daughter and of Lord Ashfield's daughter, who are both working on the Underground Railway organisation, are well known. Lord Carnock's daughter, the Hon. Mrs. St. Aubyn, works daily in a celebrated advertising firm, where she is psychological adviser. And the girls who study art seriously are making great progress. Miss Molly le Bas, for instance, has just had a piece of sculpture accepted by tho Paris Salon. The Dowager Viscountess Falmouth's daughter, Pamela Boscawen, has been steadily working on the stage for three years. One of Lady Angela Forbes, daughters has been working in a shop for some time, as did two of the nieces of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava until they married. "Work is an excellent thing for any girl," a Harley Street woman doctor said. "We hear a great deal about the nervous strain of modern life, but the woman of to-day is, on the whole, a great deal healthier than her mother was, less given to nervous crises, and so on. "It may be that when a girl has a steadv job she takes more care of herself •and consults her doctor .jarlier if she is run down."