LADIES' GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Volume 06, Issue 2899, 6 October 1909, Page 72

LADIES' GOSSIP.

'—There is no better exeTtase for wometi than walking, none 'pleasanter or easier to I engage in. But to take a walk is not to | crawl or potter the length of the favourite shopping district, to promenade slowly n> - few yards of a park where gowns are shown to advantage, tc drag up and down a fashionable promenade at a. wateringplace. Walking must be done at a good> i reasonable pace, and a certain, distance should be covered daily, and when taking a walk there should be no halting here, there/ and everywhere. It has been said \ recently by an eminent surgeon'that it is wholly unnecessary to move the arms when waking. But the majority of doctors declare that these limbs should be allowed to move freely, as they give- freer play to the lungs when they swing, and also preserve the walker's balance. The movement; * should be easy, rhythmical, natural \ — The party of French medical men who have been making a round of the leading ' hospitals of Britain in order to obtain information respecting their methods have expressed themselves in appreciative .terms concerning the capacity of English nurses. They candidly confess, remarks the Nursing Mirror, that, except in the case of graduates of a few training schools, the French nurse cannot compare with her English sister, and it '6 interesting to learn that they attribute this tact chiefly to the inferior social position and lack of education of .French nurses. Fortunately,, however, the personnel of the "profession on the other side of the Channel is steadily improving. The advantages of higher social position and better education are generally found to go hand-in-hand with a deeper sense .of the nursing vocation, without which they are poor props to the probationer. — Lady Victoria ViUiers, to whom a daughter was recently born, is the second of the four handsome daughters of the Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe. Typical Churchills in appearance, general favourites, and a jn» every way charming, girls, ~ the Ladies "Innes-BJer liave, nevertheless, not been uniformly lucky in life. The eldest, Lady Margaret, married Major* James Orr-Ewing, and was , widowed by, - the .South -African. War when ; she was barely five-and-twenty. That was close on, 10 years ago, and she has not re-married. Lady .Victorias marriage to Captain Charles Vilfiera, in 1901, has to be postponed for ~ a time as the bride was laid up on what was to have been her wedding day with heat prostration, and her first child did not long survive • its r birth. Lady Isabel married Captain Guy Wilson, a son of the late Lord Nunburnholme, and died the following year after the birth of a stillborn daughter. Lady Evelyn Innes-Ker, the youngest of the four, is the wife of Major Collins, and her first child did not survive its birth a few months ago. — With the admittance of Miss Tvr Woodward, M.D., to the membership of the Royal College of Physicians, a professional disability long resented by intellectual Englishwomen has at last been finally, removed. Will the retreat of the high priests c 4 medicine from their old attitude if calm resistance be followed by a surrender at the inns of court? The benchers and judges say the} are made of stouter stuff than the doctors, and will refuse to admit women to their presence except as ' clients — they are often very profitable to the law in that ' capacity. Certain halfhysterical performances of Miss Christabel Pankhurst have increased their determination to prevent an incursion of barristers - in petticoats. ~ — Miss MaytSutton, the lawn tennis player, has created a sensation in California by her original way nil announcing that, her betrothal to Mi George Ham, the son of a Mexican banker,* is broken off because the is not old enough. , " Call t a ' jolly,' " Miss Sutton is quoted saying. '* At all events I, foot and fancy free, intend going to England to pTay the game of my life." "No woman," she atfds, " should marry before 25. I stand by that • statement. In. the first place, no woman before that age is sufficiently .natured. She does not know her own mind, and has not had experience enough. It does not seem to me right that a woman should have to learn her duties after -she is married. She should be ready to ate* into her -place in society as a full-fledged matron when she becomes a, wife." — Baroness yon Munchhausen, who has been arrested in Dresden, has had a career which can rank with that of her celebrated namesake (says the St. James's Budget). In 1864 she married a strolling musician. 23 years of age, who possessed the? title of Baron Konen yon Munchhausen.- Two years later madame prosed as the wife of a' rich Government official in Hanover Later on she emigrated to Berlin, cind during the summer seasons of 1904-1907 she was one of the most fashionable visitors of the German summer resorts at the Baltic watering places. Munchhausen had traded on

fcneir credulity, and owed'them a total sum of £20,000. Dresden commercial men, tailore from Paris, and a motor car manufacturer from Elberfeld appeared in weary succession to witness to "Baroness yon Mtinohhausen's successful attempts in maintaining her assumed position. Some- of her aristocratic acquaintances also appeared in court.