HER HARDEST TASK.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20648, 24 June 1935, Page 5

HER HARDEST TASK.

Woman Explorer Seeks Name for Baby. A FAMILY PROBLEM. (Special to the "Star.’*) LONDON, May IS. Mrs Frank Fisher, formerly Mrs Cres'sy-Marcks, is an explorer who has visited every country in the world. She has known adventure in the jungle swamps of the Amazon; she has endured the icy’’ cold of the Arctic Circle; she knows what it is to cut out a piece of her flesh after a snake bite; she knows what it is to drive a reindeer sledge across a frozen river with a pack of wolves at her heels. But one day last month she overcame what she regards as the greatest problem in her career. She has at last found a name for her four-months-old baby son, who is to be christened shortly. The boy is to be called Forest. His brother, born just over two years ago. is called Ocean. “ Not An Expedition.” She has just returned from her latest trip, this tirrte to Abyssinia. “ Really, this last trip has not been an expedition of any. kind,” she told the “ Evening News.!’ “ For me it has been just a holiday, although for my husband, who accompanied me, it was quite an adventure. “ The idea that so many English people have about Abyssinia is entirely wrong,” she said. “ The Emperor’s palace is the last word in modern comfort. When we dined with the Emeror we had champagne and caviare. We ate from gold plates. Abyssinia is the most beautiful of all the countries I have ever seen. I should say that it is the most charming and delightful country in the world. “ Naturally, it’ is not well developed in the modern sense. The roads are not good, and during our journey there were days when we were unable to cover more than 30 to 40 kilometres in our motor lorries. , “ When it rained the roads became impassable, but the Emperor was kind,

otherwise we could not have travelled as fast as we did, for he lent us 200 soldiers to go ahead and clear the way for us. “ The one thing that I have maintained throughout my travelling experiences has been not to have any views politically,” she told me. “ When I first went to Russia and met Litvinoff and other prominent members of the Soviet, I resolutely refrained from talking politics. The result is that I am friendly with the leaders of practically every country in the world. The previous trip which my husband and I made together was to India and across the frontier into Russia. “ But my mind is not occupied at the moment with exploring,” she said. “ I am up to the eyebrows in domesticity. When our next trip will be I cannot say. “ The thing that pleases me most at the moment is that we have decided on a name for our baby boy. Our first boy was called Ocean because I have travelled the ocean so much. “ Our difficulty was to find a name for the baby which would not give him an inferiority complex so far as his brother is concerned. And we decided on Forest.”