A GIRL EMBALMER

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11960, 15 October 1924, Page 5

A GIRL EMBALMER

TORONTO.—Miss Evelyn Giimonr has chosen an extraordinary profession for a woman —that of an embalqaqrShe graduated—the first woman to do so —from the Canadian School of .Embalming, and is now in business with a firm of undertaker*. Miss Gilmour was a typist in an ~ -undertaker’s office for three years, ana it waa her experience there, and the encouragement of her employer, that determined her to become an embalmer. “I think there is a great need for a feminine touch at funerals,” she says. “Embalming is an absorbing and satisfying occupation, a new one for women, and one for which they are eminently suitable.” Her training consisted or oourses in chemistry, physiology, and anatomy, followed by twelve months of practical experience. She does not lay out a body, but among the duties she undertakes at a funeral are the dressing ol the hair of the corpse, the light: _ ing of the room in’which the bodv lies, and the charge of the flowers. At Wit burial service, she locks after any details which might distress the mourners.