JOTTINGS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11217, 24 October 1914, Page 3

JOTTINGS

The first ftoyal " war baby " was tho son born to Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught' last August. Tho -advent of a direct heir to the Dukedom of Fife displeaces Princess Maud of Fife from her position as the only living heiress-prosumptivo to a dukedom.

Among tho French ladies of noto taking part in the Red Cross movement for tho front are the daughter-in-law of the murdered President Carnot, and Countess Lunzi. Tho Countess won her experience in tho Ballurn war tho other year.

One of tho most noted of " war brides " is Miss Margaret Robertson, organiser of the National Union Election Fighting Fund, who, two. days after war was declared, married Dr H. W. Hills, who left with the first expeditionary lorce, while Mas Hills stayed at home to organise relief for women and children.

Miss Nina Boylo, of the Women's Freedom League, has been busy enrolling a corps of women constables for duty in London. Eeforo these were officially recognised, however, the town of Sandgato had already enrolled two women constables, anrl they, were taking their turn with the rest in guarding l telegraph wires, water supplies and bo forth.

Miss Rhodn, Broughton (Mrs Maxwell) is &aid to bo the oldest novelist now writing! in England. It is forty-seven years since her first novel, "Cometh Up As a Flower," was published with great success. •• The veteran author now collaborates with her son, Mr W. H. Maxwell, who has also found farno in the literary field.

Miss Thekla Bowser, well-known as a writer of religious articles, is the founder of tho King's Daughters' Guild for busy girl 3 in London. This is a friendship leacue, enabling the members to ho!p each other to enjoy their leisure in ways, and. also to increase their opportunities by selfeducation.

Madame Rosika Schwimmer, the much loved Hungarian feminist, whose' 1 ' work has been conducted from England during the past yea,r or more, has ■ sorrowfully to quit a, country .of which she is officially counted an enemy. It seems likely that Madame Schwimmer will go to America for a time, as feministic work may still proceed there.

The Suffrage Society in Shetland is doing ; a noble work. In these remote islands, so directly in the danger-line of the north, there nad been no Red Cross organisation. The Suffrage Society earned the hearty gratitude of tho military authorities by taking up this, work wit/h the Deep Sea Fishermen's Depot for a base. Only two steamers a weok were running to Shetland vn and they were fearfully overcrowded on leaving.

The women, who met the trains of wounded soldier' at Frankfort, early in the war, with hot. coffee, cakes and cigars, distributed these impartially among friend ami foe alike,_ tho injured Frouch. soldier Gritting his share with the German. Tin's .human'- view of thing's, says "Votes'for Women, does not sesm to have met with the approval tho makers of war, and the women who behave thus unworthily " werc_ threatened by a German military order with immediate arrest.

The unavailing efforts made by British and Australian women to have the nationality of British wives .married to foreign husbands preserved, are more than ev.ci regretted now bv those 1 hapless " citizens; of no country. Scarcely was the ink Aiy on the British Naturalisation Bill, wliich . confirmed their outlawry, than the. war broke out, and the plight of such wives in England became pitiable in' the extreme when the husband chanced to be German or. Austrian.