Jottings

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 October 1915, Page 2

Jottings

Many readers have admired the crisp storyettos of "T. O'Meara." This its the pen name of Miss Madge Meats, who has just brought) out her liist novel, "A Jealous Goddess," in London. The Foreign Office in London upon lecoiiimendation of the Minister ol AYar. has awarded a gold ineral to Mrs \Y. K. Vanderbilt, of New York, president of the American committee for clothing and caring for the -wounded. The woman rifle shots of Australia have (subscribed for a motor ambulance, for u.se in connection with Australian sick and wounded soldiers. This was recently handed over to Lady Helen Fergufion at Federal Government House in Sydney.

Lady Mack worth, of Wains, is one of many Aromen in the warring countries o' Europe who have stepped into tho business shoes of tho absent man of tho family. Lady Mackworth is managing her father's huge coal business at Cardiff.

In la>h Angeles rs Maud Crew Waters was elected to jtlie Board of Education. Mrs AVate-r.s is tlie president ol the Friday Morning Club, the lairgc«t woman's orgiinwafrfoif-ii: Los ■ Angola and said to powerful iu California.

Mrs Mary Roberts Rinehart is said Indian girl, who has long been an organiser for the Labour Party in New South Wales, means to try her luck as i) candidate for the Federal Parliament next election. Mr Fisher is quoted an having said over six yeans ago that he lioped to see a woman returned aa ;i Labour candidate as .speedily as might be.

Mre Mary Roberts Rinehart Is Bald to Ijc tlic most widely read woman fn the -world. She is the wife of aa American doctor, and lias achieved tame as a bhort story writer, dramatist and novelist her aeriaJ, "K," at .preseat running through "Everybody's Magazine." She is becoming noted as an interviewer of royalty, having had the good fortune to be received by Quoen Mary and the King and Queen of Belgium. ■ .) t