WOMAN’S WORLD

Southland Times, Issue 19184, 1 March 1924, Page 15

WOMAN’S WORLD

WOMAN CENTENARIAN. HER LIFE IN BELGIUM. LONDON February 14. Mrs Baldwin, an Englishwoman, one of the beet-known residents of Brussels and the oldest, celebrated her hundred and fourth birthday yesterday. The Brussels correspnodent of the Daily Chronicle states that M. Max, the famous burgomaster of Brussels, and many other distinguished people visited Mrs Baldwin in order to congratulate her upon her birthday. Mrs Baldwin was born in Bath, and when her husband died in Australia she went to Brussels to “begin life afresh” at the age of 76, with the responsibility of maintaining and educating two young grandsons. Though she was in a foreign land and did not know a word of the language, she made

a living by sewing, occupying a little room at the top of three fights of stairt. There she has lived for nearly 30 years, and she refuses to move, although she has received many offers of a home. Mrs Baldwin, who now receives assistance from a British charitable fund in Brussels, remained in Brussels throughout the war. She says she enjoys fresh air and exercise—that was why she was there at 104 years of age, though she had a hard battle all her life. MISS M. DYER. INSPECTOR OF DOMESTIC SUBJECTS, LONDON, January 3. Miss Margaret Dyer, who has been appointed to the position of Inspector of Domestic Subjects in the Secondary and Technical Schools in New Zealand, is a student of Cambridge University, where she passed the natural science examination (botany, chemistry and psychology) in 1908. In those days no degrees were granted to women at Cambridge, but last year’s concessions act retrospectively, and before she leaves for New Zealand she will have the M.A. degree conferred upon her. In 1909 she obtained the Board of Education Diploma for Cookery. In 1908 the London University started a course of domestic science, and this was carried on in a small way until, in 1911, Miss Dyer was appointed to organise the Department of Household Work. It was not till 1915, however, that proper premises were built for what is now known as the King’s CoUege for Women, in South Kensington. Here the department is housed, and there are laboratories for chemistry, physics, psychology, biology, and hygiene, and there is a residential hostel for the students. Miss Dyer has been Lectur-er-in-Charge of the Household Science Department up to the present time. The London University is the only one in England which grants degrees in domestic science to its students, though several other universities have been considering the matter for some years. —Post correspondent. HAIR BEAUTY. THE ART OF WATER WAVING. It is frequently necessary for a girl to wave her hair at home, especially when she lives at some distance from a hairdressers. However straight and lank the hair is, it can be successfully waved and kept wavy for at least a couple of days by means of water-waving; hair that is treated in this way regularly eventually takes on a pretty natural “kink.” First damp the hair either with a little curling fluid or, if none be available, dissolve a lump of sugar in half a pint of hot water and use it to moisten the hair. The best way to do this is to dip a comb with rather large teeth into the liquid and pass it through the hair, dipping it in again when necessary. The hair should be damp but not wet. Now comb the hair straight back from the forehead and slip a comb rate it from the front at the roots so that the teeth point towards the back. Then place another comb just behind the first with its teeth pointing towards those of the former one so that the teeth of the two combs meet like scissors, the hair being drawn into a loop standing up between them. Fix two or three pairs of combs in this way across the bead, then pinch the loops of hair between them and pin them, with invisible pins, to the head, arranging one loop towards the back and one towards the front. Allow the hair to become quite dry, then remove the hairpins and comb the hair out with a perfectly dry comb. A most natural-looking wave will be the result. The combs suitable for water-waving are the email round combs used in the nursery for keeping a child’s hair back from the forehead. ______________