Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 749, 23 August 1929, Page 5

Women the World Over

GENIUS The case of Miss Betty Ford, aged 17, who was graduated from Stanford

University after only six years of schooling, is quoted as “an extraordinary example of genius.” At nine months old she talked and knew the alphabet, and is now at work on a novel. SERVICE Miss Grace M. Wilson, R.I-i.C., M.8.E., Matron-in-chief of the Australian Army Nursing Service in London. has been awarded the Florence Nightingale medal by the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva. The award is made to nursing sisters who have distinguished themselves on the battlefield or in civil life. Miss Wilson, who served at Mudros, and in England, France and Egypt, is the second Australian to receive this distinction. A FAIRY GODMOTHER The poor people of Bromley-by-Bow, London, have a white-haired benefactress, who although 92, still works energetically to bring happiness into destitute homes. She is Mrs. Grant, who in 1900 began helping the families in the fifteen poorest streets of the Bow Common Area. Libraries, secondhand clothing stores, a cradle club, a Christmas parcel club, a medical club and that package of useful gifts known as the “Farthing Bundle” are only a few of the ventures flourishing under her supervision.- Always her fingers are busy making articles for tlie different homes. v A STRANGE AMBITION Miss Mary West, of Leicester, who lost her legs in a motor accident several years ago, is carrying out her ambition tg travel across Europe in her hand-propelled chair. So strong have the muscles in her arms and wrists become since her accident that she can travel in her chair about thirty miles a day without tiring. By selling hand-embroidered articles she hopes to make sufficient on her tour to cover expenses. IN POLAND Poland now has a woman judge—the first of her sex to be appointed in that country. She is Mile. Wanda Grabinska. of Warsaw, and her swearing-in was carried out with much ceremony. ,