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Ladies' Mirror, Volume I, Issue 5, 1 November 1922, Page 12

FROM HERE AND THERE

IVTISS Ruth Loch has taken up her duties as Woman Establishment Officer at the Post Office in London, where she will supervise the work of some 70,000 women. The position carries with it a salary of £BOO per year. She has served in the Post Office for many years, and has proved

being ducked as a common scold, under a pleasant old law of the period. WHITE-HAIRED, one-legged, 77 " years of age, the indomitable Sarah Bernhardt is considering an American tour. "Good Heavens!"

ONE of the foremost big game ~: hunters in the world is a twenty-three-year-old girl. Miss -Martha Miller. As a member of the Akeley party of the American Museum of Natural History .to the jungles of Central Africa, Miss Miller carried off the hunting honours in competition with v two experienced men. The only elephant bagged on the expedition was brought down by Miss Miller, who also has a lion or two to her credit. 11/TRS. Francis King has been ■*■"- awarded the George R. White - Medal for eminent service to horticulture by the trustees of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. This is the. highest horticultural honour in the United States, and .Mrs. King is the first woman to receive it. Mrs. King is the author of several books on gardening. LILY Elsie, England's most beautiful actress of a decade ago, who retired from the stage on her marriage to lan Bullough, will reappear at Daly's, London, for the benefit of the deaf and dumb. APROPOS of Lady Rhondda's claim to sit in the House of Lords, it is interesting to recall the fact that in the reign of Edward I the Abbess of Shaftesbury, the Abbess of Barking, the Abbess of St. Mary of Winchester, and the Abbess of Wilton were summoned to parliament, as were, in the reign of Edward 111, the Countess of Norfolk, the Countess of Ormonde, the Countess of Pembroke, and the Countess of Oxford. GLENNA Collett is the infant phenomenon of the golf world. Though only nineteen, she has already won scores of important American golf titles. Miss Collett, who is from Providence, Rhode Island, recently won the Eastern golf championship for women. MISS Charlotte Sharman. at the age of ninety, still actively manages the home for girl orphans she established in Southwark, London, some sixty year's ago. Miss Sharman is far from old-fashioned. She personally types all her own letters and participates in the instruction of her two hundred wards. ST. Pancras Borough Council has appointed Dr. Stella Churchill, a widow, to fill the post of assistant medical officer of health, rendered vacant by the dismissal of Dr. Gladys Miles Smith under the council's resolution not to employ married women whose husbands have salaries sufficient to support them. LORD Plymouth is president, and Sir As'ton Webb vice-president of a fund for a memorial to Lady Feodora Gleichen. They and a small committee of architects, sculptors, and others hope to build and endow a number of studios in London for the use of women sculptors, who, on completion of their studentship, may thus enter their profession equipped with the necessary facilities for the execution of large work. Hitherto women students of sculpture, who are generally of small means, have found their only opening in London among jewellers and silversmiths, and after taking up that small work seldom return to true sculpture, but after a time lose their ability, and arc forgotten. •■■-.... "JVfRS. Anne Royal was the first ■J-Y-V. woman journalist. She was declared to be "a great nuisance round Washington," and narrowly . escaped

says someone. "Why doesn't the poor thing give up and retire in peace?" Principally, one would suppose, because she wants the money.. But it is not difficult to realise that a person who has always been such a driving worker as Mme. Bernhardt is not willing to give up as long as there is still a public that wants her. It is, of course, her name and past fame that she can still conjure with. There is always a young public that will run to see a famous name that has ceased to be merely a name and become an entity. Bernhardt, no doubt, believes that she will be proving her artistic value to the public if she goes, but one questions very much if the flame in the artist's soul survives to the age of seventy-seven. The technique is there, the trained voice of an artist of the stage has wonderful longevity, but the imagination, the magnetism of youth that reaches well into middle agecan even the divine Sarah retain this to the end? MISS Violet Drummond, daughter of the Hon.. Mrs. • Drummond of Megginch Castle, Forfarshire, having finished her apprenticeship'as an engineer-in Dundee, has accepted an * appointment on the engineering staff of one of the Holt line steamers - trading uctween t : „„„i and CIS lidUillg IJCIWCCII cliiu Australia. , Miss Drummond is the first .woman to qualify thus. ""■ \

her ability by managing successfully the women in the Money Order Department for fifteen years. She is not a feminist in her views. There is only one other woman, the Hon. Maude Lawrence, holding a similar position in the Civil Service, but it is expected that further appointments placing women in charge of women workers will shortly be made. lyriSS Doris Fitt, who is the young--LY est woman councillor in England, is aged twenty-six. She has just been elected to the Norwich City Council, and is tall, with fair hair and blue eyes. Her presence will certainly brighten up the proceedings at council meetings. She is already well known in her native city, for she has for some time managed the Norwich Hippodrome and Theatre Royal. She is a fearless rider, and has won many prizes for horsemanship. Miss Fitt is not frightened at her new responsibilities. "I think that women of my age can be of great use in dealing with public problems," she said, "and I mean to work as hard as I can to help the women and children in Norwich." A T present there are 145 women out Oi a iuidi oi ixjuy serving on metropolitan borough councils in England. Since 1918 the number of women local government electors has increased from one million to over six millions.

TT|R. Amy Kaukonen was recently J -' elected Mayor of Fairport, Ohio, on a "dry" ticket. Dr. Kaukonen, who is a petite blonde of 25, is the youngest woman graduate of the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia, and probably the youngest Mayor in the United States. Mrs. Harding, the wife of the President, was among those who congratulated her. As a writer in. an American paper observes, a woman mayor in any place is a novelty. But a woman mayor who has never been a suffragette, who has never read law, never fought for any pet bill, never made a single street-corner speech of any kind, but has danced, played the piano, shopped for alluring feminine clothes and read story books, makes the novelty deepen until everybody within a thousand-mile radius simply has to say, "What's up?" Dr. Amy Kaukonen tells them in no uncertain terms just "What's up." "I'm out to clean up Fairport," she summarises the reform platform upon which she won. "I'm only one little woman, but this town is going to have its face, neck and ears washed before I get through with it." TVTINE women have now passed the ™ final examinations for the English bar, and one, Miss Ivy Williams, was among the candidates to be "called" on May 10. In the Easter term examinations twenty-one women passed various stages. Miss Helena Normanton is the only Englishwoman who has passed in Hindu and Mahommedan law. She petitioned the Lord Chancellor for the opening of the legal profession to women before the Sex Disqualification Removal Act became law. With regard to women barristers' costume, a committee of Judges and Benchers of the Inns of Court "expressed a wish" that the dress of women barristers should conform to the following rule:(1) Ordinary barristers' wigs should be worn and should completely cover and conceal the hair. (2) Ordinary barristers' gowns should be worn. (3) Dresses should be plain, black or very dark, high to the neck, with long sleeves, and not shorter than the gown, with high, plain white collar and barristers' bands ; or plain coats and skirts may be worn, black or very dark, not shorter than the gown, with plain white shirt blouses and high collars. The other women who have passed their finals have to complete their quota of dinners in hall before they can be "called." A WOMAN producer has been appointed by the Carl Rosa Opera Company. This lady is Madame Doris Woodall, a former leading prima donna, and she will be the first woman to produce grand opera in Great Britain. The directors have appointed her to the position of "artistic supervisor for the ensuing season." > "T)0 schoolgirls get enough playtime? *-* According to Dr. W. H. Hamer, medical officer of health to the London County Council, in his annual report, they do not. Dr. Hamer is opposed to the idea of the girl being brought indoors to do the odd jobs while the boys go on with their play. He combats the theory that it is wrong for the male to do household work. "Boys," he maintains, "should share necessary domestic tasks with the girls." He quotes some significant figures in support of his contention that the health of the. girls suffers as compared with that of the boys because they have less time in the open air. In the case of heart defects, for in- . s Lance, Liic ngurcs ior me uoys is 3 per cent., whereas for the girls it is 4 per cent. The figures in the case of anremia are 3.4 per cent, for boys and 4.2 per cent, for girls.