A Big Business.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1930, Page 22 (Supplement)

A Big Business.

Dr. Florence Barrie Lambert, a member of the London County Council, has been elected chairman of the committee which has replaced the old London Board of Guardians. It will be her task to superintend the work of 13 ambulance stations, with 170 vehicles, 75,000 hospital beds, 100 hospitals, and other institutions, etaffs, numbering thousands, and expenditure totalling millions annually—a colossal undertaking for any woman. The Sale of a "Smile.

A curious question of infringment of the “author’s rights” law has come before the Turin tribunal, says an English exchange. A big chocolate manufactured had commissioned a Milanese publisher to supply him with some series of small picture advertisements; of these the picture of a pretty, smiliim girl particularly attracted customers. But the other day in Rome a man rushed into a confectioner’s shop, seized hold of the chocolates adorned with the picture of the smiling girl, and . waving them in the faces of the bewildered shop assistants, called out in an angi'y voice, “She belongs to me!” He was neither mad, nor was he the girl’s husband or lover; he proved to be a wellknown Roman photographer, who had obtained the exclusive copyright of this particular photograph of Rina di Liguoro, the film star. He claimed damages, not only for infringement of copyright, but for possible damage done to his studio work, as many women would avoid coming to be photographed for fear of finding their likenesses affixed to slabs of chocolate. The ease, which is shortly to be tried, is complicated by the intervention of a Parisian photographer, who declares that he owns the copyright of the photograph in question. A commission of experts has been appointed. The affair may turn into an international conference.

“They Wear What They Like.” At the .interprovincial conference of the Farmers’ Union the influence of Dame Fashion, which made the fair sex of to-day buy less wool and more silk, was' heartily condemned, states a AVanganui paper. One AVairarapa delegate, called upon for an-item at the smoke concert on Thursday evening,.exhibited a placard displaying a woman’s figuie clothed in soft, silky lingerie. “Look at this,” he said. “Just look at it, and then east your eye over the garments _she should wear.'” Pasted in each corner were illustrations of similar articles of clothing to those the lady was wearing, only made from wool. “I got this .from one of the leading AVan- ' ganui drapers.” A voice: . “And you’re not game to show it to your wife."’ That fired the delegate's ire. “That s the trouble,” he declared. “AA T e’re all afraid of our wives. They’re running this country. They buy what they like, and wear what they like. AA’hy don’t they wear wool?” , •

“Not- much is known by the public about this Edith Cavell Fund, though it does excellent work,” says an Australian writer. “The money was collected during the war in memory of Edith Cavcll’s death. The fund stands at £27.000. and the interest ’is used to assist returned army nurses, in need of help. Naturally the manner of its use is not published abroad, but I know it has helped many a sick nurse and many a dispirited nurse on to her feet.”