WOMEN THE WOULD OVER.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3045, 29 August 1933, Page 6

WOMEN THE WOULD OVER.

The number of onc-cliild marriages in Britain has increased by twenty-five per cent in the last twelve months.

A woman mayor has been elected in the university town of Cambridge. She is Airs Keynes, a former president of the British National Council of AYo-nic-n, and the mother of Professor J. M. Keynes, the economist.

The Dowager Countess Jersey, one of the most prominent women in the Conservative Party, disclosed recently that one of her cherished memories as a very young child is that of shaking hands with the great Duke of AArcllington. ’ She is now S 3.

Joan Hudson, aged eight, of Baltimore, United States, is said to be the world’s youngest licensed wireless operator. She can transmit messages in Morse code at 20 words a minute, and she obtained 80 marks out of 100 in the official efficiency test. •

One of Sweden’s most representative women is Aliss Kerstin Hesselgren, who was the first woman to be elected to the Senate or Upper House of the Swedish Parliament, where she is still the only woman member. She is also Sweden’s chief woman factory inspector, and her knowledge of factory life, trade and industry has been of immense value in her work on the industrial side of the League of Nations.

Aliss Elizabeth AV. Higgins, a student of Atiddlebury, U.S.A., was announced recently by the National AA roman’s Party as the winner of the 500 dollar first prize for an assey contest on equal rights. The prize was the gift of the late Airs Oliver H. P. Belmont, former president of the AA Oman’s Partv. Undergraduate women in colleges and normal schools competed and among the judges was Fanny Hurst, novelist.

An inquiry into the reason for the absence of Cilly Ausscm, famous German woman lawn tennis player, from the entrants for the recent AA’imbledon tournament, uncovered what is probably the reason ft>r her rather poor form in tournaments on the Riviera earlier in the year. Fraulcin Ausscm won -the women ’s-singlos championship at AVimblcdon in 1931, when Helen AVills -did not compete. Last year she underwent an operation for appendicitis, and it is feared that she began to play again before she had recovered fully. She liad to scratch ftom AVimblcdon last year. Her health has boon bad again lately, and she may have to retire altogether from lawn tennis. * * * Girls who are good at needlework are the best operatives for the finer processes of radio manufacture. Up to a few weeks ago the factories of the Gramophone Company at Hayes, Aliddlesex, had difficulty in obtaining girls with fine enough eyesight to see the wire as it was being wound in the production of receivers. One of the staff, however, devised a machine in which the wire is passed through spring pullevs which fly back as soon as a breakage occurs. The girls employed by the company on coil-winding miles of wire are used each day—consider their Angers of the utmost importance. Long thin ones are essential, and the girls keep their nails tapered in order to grasp the flue wire.