Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 25, 21 April 1927, Page 5

Women the World Over

UNDER A PEN-NAME Mrs. J. A. Porteous, who writes under the name of Ethel Mannin, is a young: author with two novels to her credit and a third “Pilgrim” just

A TRAVELLED ARTIST Until Mrs. Alec Tweedie, the London artist, held an exhibition of her brilliant sketches in the Georges Petit Gallery in Paris, the great soldier Marshal Foch had never officiated at the opening of an art show. He performed the opening ceremony for Mrs. Tweedie’s exhibition as a tribute to her two sons, who served under him almost throughout the war and were killed towards its end. Mrs. Tweedie is one of the most travelled artists alive. She is always on the move and quite recently went round the world from East to West and then turned and went round it again from West to East. A BARGAIN HUNTER “Most of us, I suppose,” says an Australian writer, “occasionally return home from our shopping excursions with things that we did not go out to buy. But few, surely, would go as far as one woman I knew, who, setting out with £ 5 of her husband’s hard-earned cash to buy boots for her barefooted army of children, returned at night to tell her astounded family that she hadn’t bought any boots at all, but an armchair —such a bargain for £5! VERSATILE Educated at Dusseldorf, Lille, Brussels, Oxford, Edinburgh, Berlin and Copenhagen, the authoress, Miss Ida Lascelles, as one might expect, speaks a variety of languages—fourteen of them to be exact! As a freelance journalist she went to Canada soon after her student days, and after working in Winnipeg for a while accepted a position with Frank Munsey’s publishing house in New York. Three years later she was in London editing in turn “Drawing and Design,” “The Smart Set” and “Woman.” Her recently-published first novel, “The Silver Lullaby,” was so successful that a second edition was demanded before the first was off the press. THE KNEELING APRON There are many tasks in the daily household work that necessitate getitng upon one’s knees. For the prolonged tasks one takes the trouble to get the kneeling mat, but that would be impracticable for all the lesser occasions. How much more convenient therefore to take one kneeling mat around in the bottom of one’s apron. That is actually the case in a new kneeling apron just upon the market. The bottom of the apron is provided with a deep pocket hem, into which slips a light-weight kneeling mattress, so that whenever the wearer is upon her knees they are automatically protected. They are made in several kinds of material, including serge for gardeners’ wear. They are also made in a variety of sizes so that whatever the height of the worker the apron mat is in the right position.