Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 6

Women the World Over

CONTROLLING HAPPINESS Welfare work attracts many women who willingly devote their lives to catering for the happiness of others, but perhaps the most colossal position of this kind is held by Miss Breezie Bingham, who is at the head of the United Dairies’ Social Committee in England. She is responsible for looking after the general happiness and amusement of 10,000 employees—dairymaids, roundsmen, clerks and shop assistants. DAUGHTER OF A' “GIPSY” Miss Isolde Grosvenor is the daughter of Lord and Lady Arthur Grosvenor, of Cheshire, and a cousin of

the Duke of Westminster. Her mother holds the distinction of being accepted by the Romanys as one of themselves. When she goes on her frequent caravanning expeditions she does so as a gipsy, and expects to be treated like her brethren of the road. HELPING THE ABORIGINES The Boomerang Club, which lias its headquarters at Sydney, has accomplished .much in helping the aborigines of Australia—perhaps the saddest and most backward race in the world. Founded by a Sydney woman, Mrs. J\ B. Smith, the little company has developed rapidly, and last Christmas parcels were dispatched to every available native camp in Australia. This philanthropic movement should come as a blessing to the children of darkness that civilisation has left so many centuries behind. RESPONSIBILITY An Englishwoman, Mrs. Barbara Wootton. is perhaps one of the most romantic figures of the day. She has been principal of a famous college for working men and women and research officer of a great political body. In 1924 she was a member of the committee on National Debt and Taxation and, during a varied career, has held some of the highest positions that have ever been allotted to a member of her sex. At present she is in charge of Morley College, with 1,800 students, the majority of whom are men. IN AUSTRIA Frau Olga Rudel-Zeynek became president of the Federal Council of Austria on the first of December. This council is the second chamber of the Austraian Parliament, and though it is not of such importance as the National Council, its proceedings influence politics and State administration. It is for the first time in the history of the women’s movement that a woman is presiding over a parliamentary body. A SINGER Descendant of a Gaelic family, famous for generations in Perthshire, on account of its devotion to music, Marjorie Kennedy Fraser has given freely of her talents, in benefit to concert singers. Her frequent visits to the New Hebrides have brought her in touch with the quaint songs of the isles, which, with enthusiasm and keen interest, she has arranged in four volumes. Mrs. Kennedy Fraser studied in Milan in 1879 and later became a pupil of Madame Marchesi. After her return to Scotland in 1882, she devoted herself to the songs of her own language, in which she has found a musical treasure-trove. THE OLD AND THE NEW Women in China are steadily progressing along lines of Western thought and evening classes at Government schools are now largely attended by housewives whose earlier education has been neglected. Those who have graduated obtain positions of no mean responsibility, and recently a woman, Sounmi Teheng, LL.D., was appointed to the post of Chief Judge of the Shanghai District Court.