ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Patea Mail, Volume L, 7 August 1929, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

jMiss Xessie MoncrictT, of Palmerston North, formerly of Carl er! cm, is leaking shortly on a visil lo China lo study the conditions under which women work there. The visit is being made under the V.W.C.A. scheme ol; exchange, and a young Japanese lady, .Miss Kirinni San, will visit Xew Zealand on a similar mission and remain here six months, studying local conditions. While in China Miss Moncrieli’s headquarters will be Shanghai, where a great number of girls work iu the woollen and silk mills.

England’s prettiest tennis player, Eileen Bennett, has become engaged to Edmund Whittingstall, a portrait painter, who hail a picture in this year’s 1 Academy exhibition. He does not play lonnis. They saw each other at a dance two years ago. but did not meet until a few mouths back. Miss Bennett will continue to play tennis, but not seriously. She probably will not play at Wimbledon again.

“Xever use a dummy of comforter. Their use brings adenoids and other nasal diseases, etc.’’ Bo advises thi Blanket Society in all its literature published for the benefit of mothers ami the future generations of New Zealenders. Sir Truby King missed something by not being a passenger on an Eastbourne bus the other day (says the “Dominion.”). A mother with a baby in arms got in, and after a while the infant became fretful and cried. "Mother produced a stick-look-ing dummy from a pocket and put it into baby’s month. "Whatever the Plnnket opinions may be, it produced the desired effect, silencing the cries. Presently the dummy fell out of babv’s mouth on to the floor of the bus. After being retrie.ved from the feet of other passengers, it was again stuck into baby’s month after a preliminary wipe on mother’s sleeve. The silence iu that bus was eloquent.