LADIES’ GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 3488, 18 January 1921, Page 50

LADIES’ GOSSIP.

A LADY LECTURER S WORLD TOUR. Having recently studied conditions in British factories, Miss Crossley Batt, D.iSc., 8.A., is leaving England alone on a 20,000 mile tour, embracing Canada, the United States, New Zealand, China, anl Japan, and lasting two years. She is to lecture in all these countries on British trade, and British people. Educated at Oxford and London, Miss Batt speaks seven languages. For her two years’ tour she is taking a very small wardrobe. Sho will wear an ordinary thick short skirt and jumper, top boots to the knee, and a helmet-shaped hat. WIDOW S £SOO TO THE ABBEY. In memory of her late husband, author of “Life and Labour of the People in London,” Mrs Charles Booth has sent £SOO to the fund for the restoration and maintenance of Westminster Abbey. Among many other gifts appears £2O for “An Old Nightingale Nurse.” The total sum urgently needed is a quarter of a million sterling, about half of which was lately reported as subscribed. BEQUEST TO MADAME OLGA NOVSKOFF. Among the bequests made by Mr Henry Francis Brown, Regent’s Park, a London merchant, who left £86,423, was one .of £2OOO to Madame Olga Xovikoff, the wellknown Russian political writer, who was a friend of Gladstone, and who won from W. T. Stead the soubriquet of 'M.P. for Russia.” Mme. Novikoff was born in 1848. and lives in London. She first heard of her legacy from a Daily Mail reporter. “Mr Brown always much admired my work,” she said, “and he always said that I ought to be rewarded by every Englishman and every Russian for it. Ho did not tell me that he was going to leave me any money.”