BUSIEST WOMAN
"I have just retired a little breathlessly from my first talk with London's busiest business woman," writes a correspondent. "She is the wife of Mr. Sidney G.. Brown, inventor of talking'iiim apparatus, gyroscopic compasses, and other Ingenious instruments, and she is in'charge of the factories which produce his inventions. Our talk took place in a room at the works of the firm, and I was rot prepared to find a director of'two." companies, an architect, editor of a magazine, an amateur zoologist, pig farmer', and welfare organiser in the person of the quiet-mannered, white-haired, friendly woman who sat behind the desk.
"When I remarked on her versatility, .Mrs.'Brown said: 'Not a moment of my day is wasted. I have so many conferences with chemists, engineers, and heads of shipping lines interested in my husband's marine instruments' that when I need a new dress 1 only allow myself half aii hour of my lunchtime in which to buy it. My house at Sheppertou (Middlesex), which I- designed aud built myself, has a zoological garden of 120 acres, in which I have collected llamas, monkeys, zebras, kangaroos, ostriches, and hundreds of other birds and !>casts. In addition, I havo started a pig farm, where I have nearly 500 enormous baepnpigs. Then thereraro my winter gardens in which I grow bananas, pineapples, passion flowers, sugar-cane, and tobacco.'
'' Mrs.- Brown - also said that other moments of her spare time were taken up in .editing a Magazine and running a. . welfaro centie. which she had started."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 7
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253BUSIEST WOMAN Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 7
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