WOMEN OVER THE WORLD

Southland Times, Issue 23646, 22 October 1938, Page 16

WOMEN OVER THE WORLD

“Grocerettes” Aspire To Honours Many “grocerettes” will be among the 1000 entries of master grocers, assistant grocers and managers in the championship competitions at the forthcoming Grocers’ Exhibition in London. Miss J. R. Macfarlane, of St. Andrew’s, Fife, hopes to win the coffee blending and roasting challenge cup. She is the first woman to enter this competition. . Miss Elsie Price, an English gm, will again compete in the bacon handling competition. Against a stopwatch, she must cut up a side of bacon, weigh out the pieces, price them, and then slice, weigh, and wrap 41b of bacon and two gammon rashers. She must .also display the rest for retail sale. A side of bacon weighs about 601 b. Woman Photographer’s Novel Work LONDON, September 23. At the “Camera Portraits” exhibition, to be opened in town next week, it will be found that a woman photographer has supplied the most novel exhibits. Ursula Powys-Lybbe has

made composite portraits with surrealistic backgrounds. The sitter s head occupies the centre of the picture, and is surrounded by smaller superimposed photographs which- tell us a good deal about the lady’s tastes and habits. So we get sidelights on her faovurite sport, hobbies, flower, profession, or pearest and dearest relations. 'Hie actress, Peggy Wood, has chosen the facade of His Majesty’s Theatre, a typewriter, a novel she wrote herself, the scores of "Bitter Sweet” and “Operette,” and her husband and small son. Her portrait is surrounded by these reminders of her "private life.” Rosamund Lehman, the novelist, provides the subject of another such composite portrait. She has had her hand photographed holding a pen, near a shelf of her best-sellers. Costly Legacy Frances, Countess of Warwick, who died last July, left her housekeeper, Miss Nancy Galpin “for unfailing devotion and disinterested loyalty” , an annuity of £4OO and 500 pet birds. Miss Galpin found that looking after the birds was swallowing up the whole of the annuity. So she has sent over 200 budgerigars and canaries to the R.S.C.P.A. “flying school” at East Molesey, Surrey and is looking for good homes for another 200- s. “I fear the dear countess did not know it cost £8 a week to keep them,” I said Miss Gaplin this week. I “A thousand times I have asked myself, ‘Will her ladyship be annoyed with me?’ But I simply cannot keep all the birds. There is the cost of food and the man’s wages, and I am ’ moving to a little house on the estate where there is room for only a small aviary. “I am taking 100 of the birds—the ones her ladyship loved most—with me. “You see, I also have her ladyships 13 dogs to look after. “They cost me £2 a week and 25/wages for the widow woman who helps with them.”