79 WIDOWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 11

79 WIDOWS

“ALL VARIETIES” WOMEN ON THE MALOLO SYDNEY, Nov. 25. Officially there are 79 widows aboard the Maloio, but the passengers themselves say laughingly, 57 —“Like Heinz’s, all varieties.”

One of tho widows is Mrs. Onezina de Bouchel, from, Louisiana. Tall and slim, with a lovely complexion, Mrs. de Bouchel’s name lias come ahead of her, as she successfully sued Asa Candler, the American Coco-Kola King, for breach of promise. She is a keen club woman, interested in theosophy and history, and also writes on those subjects. And ot 1 the young girls there is Gtueita Jautzen.

Mrs. J. Maxwell Peyser, of San Francisco, says hare legs are a decided saving on the hosiery bill, so her husband naturally approves the fashion. “Doming through the tropics,” tie said, “nobody wore socks, and even the old ladies exhibited a bare calf to the world.”

The passenger list includes Miss Millicent Yackey, M.A., B.Se., and just ready to take her Pli.l). Until last July Miss Yaelcey was associate editor of the Ladies’ Homo Journal, on which she reorganised the homo-making department. Sydney is not the only city which has waged a potato warfare, and the 'ftiui Francisco Housewives’ Association with fewer than 200 members, accomplished in a month what 20,000 members in Svdnov worked for.

' Mrs" l!i. M. Wood, a vice-president of (lie ’Frisco association, says that the housewives there spend a good deal ot time visiting factories. An attractive voting woman, with a boyish head of brown hair and Spanish coloring is Miss Gwendolyn Strong, the youngest citrus grower on the Western Coast. She has 150 acres of oranges, lemons ariid walnuts at Santa Paula, California.