JOTTINGS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11359, 10 April 1915, Page 3

JOTTINGS.

JYvhaust -if novelist in th« British Kmpire is Mrs K-'.lher::ie Ai acquoid. wbo has iust c«'ctr;ii.i\i nijwty-Sr*t birthday. T:jt'ro vre- nvo lonrnstis edited and hr rr~on throughout, jw Xer? 2o»iv.:,d. These m-o the " "Whit© Bibbon," organ of ib'v Wouipii'f Cbri'tian Temperanco Union,, •i'vi " Kai Tin!::." 'ouroal of trn K;irsf« of in \-f.i r„)u»Ucr airociio:: women ai« leading work In- XTcmoa's Aerial , Tvr.siaiid ha;-, founded a fv.ud for ')' r ' l ' ;ti t . -.-iUow :i.!.d orubaos of men '■ : ■ " - '' : ' i'i'lii j ( ' ' r l' '< ho u r»* k;Vd ''••• <•'<"»i>: th.-.v duty. ■ :«* Cviu"ioiu C-iiV'as.. .•« - - -Juries

working Tinder our own Army Medioal Serrfof arc not supposed to go neaxer to the firing line than tie dearing stations, but many English nurses have aerved under fire ia connection with the Belgian Medical Serriee, or totii sonM privately organised hospital unit. "L» FTanooise 1 ' records the dearth at p, hospital at Mans 0 f a girl of nineteen, Mi*# Bell, who had both her legs taken off by a abrtl.while pzckujy x-ouudsd at &» front.

SU ' ExMMtioU TC h • th e ttlf were puwlad , the title o. Miss Lilian Ch&uvel'e painting ot roses, which she cella " A Dedloation." a meaning of the name is clear to anybody v. ho rem ember a th*t the rose is the national .lower of England. The artist ha« written eome verses, vrhich oxe affixed to the picture, expreESine the belief that p«*ce will oe iron by the " Englidh rose."

' Z 56 ?? °L■^ e renc h Red Crocs in Enflw ■and is the Vicomtosw de 3a P&notwe, who» heMquarters at 25, Knight«brfdg», Hyde uk Corner, ig the scene of splendid work g-oiae dfuly "We are rot idle a moment, ea,d Mdm« 3a Vicomtesee to an interriewet. Work is conducted on the most bu«i-ncss.-liKe lines. ah departments of receiving, sorting, packing, sjsd so on bting allotted io 'J'eir oxen quarters.

' Jus Suffra-gi! " saveAn irrfer«rtin? experiment wis recently tried fa San iVutoieco when Gail and three" other women, trail known as social workers, xret« asked to preside in four of tho polioe court# of the city. The women actoo in an advisory oap&city, sitting hy the jndije. He expressed themselves as well plowed \ j ie fyy' B experiment, and stated that their attention wag called to nointß of view of whicji they had never thought.

Mifs Alfce Durlrfn f» an American master builder, who carrias through in & year mors than £300,000 vrorth of contracts in NW York city She personally superintends the business, and ie often called on to meie decisions fnvolvmff thousand® of pounds almost at a moment's notice. But ahe eita in hfr_ office, a- slight little figure, in a smart, pla.in. but very obviously Parisian frock, ana in a quiet., pleasant voice announces her decisions.

A younff Eusefan etncLemt. LeonDa WcMnina, took her brother'# came donned a pri« vate'a uniform and Joined a troop whica passed through Kiev. She took part in eom« of the battfe* in Galicla. and wae robaecnently vrounded bv _tho Austrians at OpatoT, She says she wae Vinnlv treated by the sur* peors and e'nS in the hospital. When Opatw wss cautured bacV by the Russians a month later she returned to the Russian ranks.

The first lady mayor of tie United Kiuj> dom waa Mrs Garrett Anderson, who was c-lected at, Aldeburgh In 1908, and re-olected in 1909. Miss Gwenillian E. F. Morgan, town councillor, was choeon as Maror of Breooa, 1910-1911. and her sister acted as mayoress. Mrs Richard Malcolm, the first women town, councillor in Sootland wu? elected over a jmx ago a# provost of the famous educational centre of Poller, and there are fully a dos«n women doinp excalleni work on municipal boards and fdiicatioral committees through' out -the kingdom.