WOMEN’S WAYS

Southland Times, Issue 23228, 17 June 1937, Page 15

WOMEN’S WAYS

At Home And Abroad POLICEWOMAN’S LONG BEAT The police officer with the largest beat in England is a woman. Miss Helen Elizabeth Court, Dorsetshire’s first policewoman, is stationed at Poole, but she has to cover the whole of the county, which has an area of 622,843 acres and a population of 239,352. Miss Court is the only woman among the county’s 220 constables. DIRECTOR OF NURSING Miss Mary Lambie, Director of Nursing, who is at present in America, will leave on June 26 for England. On. her way to America she visited the hospitals at Suva and Honolulu. The itinerary arranged for her by the Rockefeller Foundation includes visits to the University of Washington, Seattle; Public Health Nurse Refresher Course at Vancouver; Minnesota, Minneapolis, Western Reserve, Cleveland, and Toronto University Hospitals, also at Albany, New York, Nashville, Tennessee, and Washington. PRINCESS PLAYS GOLF When the Princess Royal visited her dressmaker recently she chose a trim golfing outfit of blue-flecked tweed skirt worn with turquoise suede jacket and a little brimmed hat to match (says an English paper). The Princess has only just taken up golf, telling a friend she did so because her two schoolboy sons had become very keen, so she wants “to be able to give the boys a game when they are home during the

Rope knitting is one of the knitting patterns most in use at the present time. It is particularly popular for sports sweaters, where the broad cord has the most striking effect. For instance, just try the following: . Materials. Four-ply wool and thick knitting needles. Directions. Cast on 30 stitches. Row 1: purl 2, knit 12, purl 2, knit 12, purl 2. Row 2: knit 2, purl 12, knit 2, purl 12, knit 2. Alternate with these two rows until there are 6 in all. On tne 7th needle the 12 plain stitches are looped thus; the first 6 stitches are transferred to an auxiliary needle which is held behind the knitting; meanwhile the next 6 stitches are knitted, then knit the 6 stitches on the auxiliary needle. Looping takes place every 10 rows. Frequently rope knitting can be used to give knitted articles the required fit. For example, it is possible to give sleeves the fashionable breadth at the shoulders by merely letting a few rope-knitted ribs run up and down them, and then stopping the looping just before the shoulder is reached. Likewise, one can gather in the width of knitted gloves, which falls at the cuff portion, by making a couple of ropeknitted ridges on the back of the hand.