Lady Dudley as an Orator.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 399, 26 February 1909, Page 2

Lady Dudley as an Orator.

That the Coan Cobb of Dudley, wife of the Governor-General of Außtndaala, * a « rwh, fashionable, agreeable and<ood-toekinv. th® society papers have told us ofhm enough ; it has been left to The New Idea to show that she is alto an orator of no mean order On® of the apecial articles in the February iwue of that journal is a speech printed by special permission that Her Excellency amd* at Government Rouse to the leadeie nf the Women’s Exhibition. The unbject it Tho Scope of Womanhood, and lady Dudley d:«played a remarkable insight into hnmwn nature, and an exceptionally fine choice of language in expressing ir. In another part of the same issue there is au interesting sketch of the Dudley’s English home at Witley Park, end the account of an interview wi h her Ladyship, by an Australian girl, written before sh* came over to this p rt of the world.

Side by side with this feature is a very readable criticism of the four pictures th.-1 were entered for ths travelling scholarehip of the Melbourne Gallery a-:d excellent reproductions of the pictures themselves Ab this scholarship is open to art students in any part of Arstraba or New Zealand who are willing to comply with the conditions, the article bdouJu be of special interest- Mr CLarks Barter: contribute another of hie charming Natore- a’t», t.te topic th? companionship of ? io--.-e-1 spirit? who are pepar-teJ from Yi n by distance or death, but b ought closer by in-* media of their books and letter-. The t. : k w accompanied by 3 noniUsr cf ntereaiia* photograph-, sent to Mr 1 arret*, by -uh wjrld-famad writers a; •»Barr Getting away from such special arti-Jeiae three, there sr« some w features worthy of note ia The New Idei. First is a eerito of hair-drawing artist**, in which, by tr.eens of ph tngraphi and directions, it is proposed to keen country people in touch uith the very latest modes of dressing th, hair. Then th=re is begun a new tet of co Aery articles, a fresh series of lessons for needleworkers of al' gr <fo«, an 1 a chain «»f serious talks of a v*ry fine ch*raxtcr by Henrietta i*. Serjeant, A-together The New tde.i is a won-lerful sixpenny mag azin *.