WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10236, 19 August 1911, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD.

Mrs Charles E. M'Donald is said* to be the only certified women guide in tho Maine mountains. She is a native of Maine, and is said to have shot as many black bears as my man in her State. Miss Clara Smith has just been elected a fellow oi tho American Association for the Advancement of Science, partly because she has solved a problem in mathematics which has puzzled college professors for more than a century. Miss Smith is an instructor of mathematics in Wellesley College. A carious old custom in Ireland is to endeavour to procure for the young bride a sprig of hawthorn or an old twig of mistletoe ; both are used as a primitive fibula to hold the bridal veil in place. A German bride is not content unless her wreath is of red and white rosea, mixed with myrtle loaves. Milwaukee boasts of something new—two girl elevator operators, duly licensed by the municipal inspector and certified to be competent "not only to run lifts, but to make ordinary repairs to them. They are employed by the Young Women's Christian Association, which will not hire men for any service that can be performed by women. They give every satisfaction in their work. In speaking of the Royal Academy exhibition, a writer in the "Queen" says:—"Nino out of ten of the women whose portraits are on view are fair, with light hair and bine eyes; the Anglo-Saxon type is to the fore, and as a rule they are dressed in black or white, with a touch of bright colour .in draperies or back-ground.' And most of them wear few jewels—an upward trend in the way of simplicity. New South "Wales is to be congratulated upon the departure of the first " bush nurse " for the scene of her labours. Victoria already has four bush nurses in the field, and the results of their labours have been absolutely satisfactory. It is to be regretted that Lady Dudley was not there to witness the start of her favourite scheme. Although it is a small beginning, there are probably excellent results in prospect. Sculpture attracts several of the European royalties, more especially the women. Of these certainly the cleverest is the Countess of Gleichen, who waa a cousin of our Queen Victoria, and of whose Bplendid carving there has been formed more than once a whole exhibition in London galleries. Queen Margherita of Italy has won wide renown on account of her fine pieces of sculpture in marble and bronse, some of which decorate the Roman palaces. Miss Eliiabeth Hobins was among the speakers at the meeting of. the Women Writers' Suffrage League which was held recently in London. Mi 3» Robins begged women writers to be more charitable in their estimate of other women. Mrs Sarah Toowho followed Miss Robins, exhorted women writers not to forget what they owed to the pioneers of the suffrage movement, mentioning Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Mrs Mill, Julia Ward Howe and William Lloyd Garrison.

A rest-house for tired gentlewomen has just been established in Gloucestershire, England. The name given this new home is Goddard's, and though it is a charity, neither those who gave the home nor those who support it are known. It is an old-fashioned English country homo, to which has been added all the comforts and conveniences of present-day inventions. Gentlewomen who are out of work or in need of rest are admitted with as little red tape as possible and are not to be permitted to find out to whom they owe thanks for their zest.

Mrs Dinah Watts Pace is the founder and head of the Reed Industrial School in Georgia. Mrs Pace 19 a coloured woman. Her work for the children of her own race began in 1883, when she was less than twenty-one years old, when she took two motherless children to care for. She supported these two children and herself by teaching school, picking and hoeing cotton, taking in washing and anything that came to her to be done. Other motherless negro children drifted to her until finally her oneroomed cabin could hold no more. Then ehe set to work, and with the assistance of her neighbours and friends built the present institution. Five hundred dollars toward this building was sent to her by a Northern woman named Reed. Mrs Pace named the institution in honour of this generous friend, and since then every nameless child that comes under her care gets the surname of Reed.