LADIES' GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 3414, 20 August 1919, Page 58

LADIES' GOSSIP.

A recent wedding in Auckland is of" lome interest to wireless men. The bride was a certificated operator, while the bridegroom is chief instructor at the Dominion College of Wireless in Auckland. The two - groomsmen were wireless men, •while the officiating clergyman is himself a qualified operator. Ail the signatories to the marriage register were, therefore, connected in some way or another with the profession of wireless telegraphy. Here is a busy woman for you ! She has given birth to nine children in four years : triplets in 1915, twins in 1917, and quadruplets in 1919. Women were not quite a success as tramway conductors,. it is stated. They were slack in collecting fares, less efficient in making reports, and less courteous than the men. —A woman wearing man's clothes can do a distinct service. Dr Mary Walker did such a service when, in donning man's clothes, she invented the inside neckband on shirts, which protects the skin from being rubbed by the collar button. There is much rejoicing in Clubland over the decision of the King to do away with evening Courts this year and to substitute garden parties instead, at which the ladies are to wear morning dress, observes "The Man About Town" in the London Evening News. There were many .fathers and husbands who were ruefully counting the cost of a regular Court dress at present prices? and who saw—or professed to see— Bankruptcy staring them in the face. But., as is now pointed out on all hands, the dresses that are worn at these garden parties will be available on other occasions, i so that the extra expense is likely to be I comparatively slight. Lady Marconi, who has now returned to her own country, is 'a great favourite \ with the Queen of Italy, and one of her j ]adies-in-waitin.g. She is not, however, an Italian by birth, being a daughter of j the late Lord Tnchiquin, half-sister of the j E resent peer and a descendant of Irish j ings of long ago. Indeed the Inchiquin j family is entitled still to wear the Royal 1 scarlet. A committee was recently appointed in Sweden to find out how many hours ! children of various ages should sleep, in j order that they might be at their best daring school hours. According to their report children who are four years old should sleep twelve hours, children who are seven years old should sleep eleven j hours, children who are nine years old from nine to ten hours, and all persons under the age of 20 ought to have from eight to nine hours sleep. Sleep, it is said, is a mystery. No one can explain why it is that some constitutions require more than others, but there is no doubt that lack of sleep lies at the bottom of many of our modern ills. In their report the Swedish committee pointed out that a great deal of anaemia in children is due to lack of sufficient sleep. When opening the Royal Amateur Art Society's annual exhibition recently, Princess Marie Louise remarked that her favourite hobby was enamelling. Competent judges say that if she entered the ranks of the professionals she could make a good income from this form of art. There are other Royal ladies who could earn their living at a pinch. Queen Mary is an expert at painting on China, as sfie proved some years ago when ftiaking a tour of the Potteries. The Queen of the Belgians has taken a medical degree at Leipzig, and before her marriage assisted her father, Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria, in his practice as an oculist. Queen Elizabeth would also make a firstrate chaffeuse, for she can repair cars as ridlfully as she drives them. Another versatile sovereign is the Queen of Norway, who paints admirably, and trims hats in

a style that would secure a large wage from any high-class milliner. She is also a bookbinder of more than average skill.