WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 249, 18 September 1940, Page 11

WOMEN'S WORLD

Mrs O. Palmer, sister.of Mcsdamcs B. J. Jacobs and J. A. Grant, of Palmerston North, is expected to arrive in New Zealand shortly from England arid will make her home hero for the duration of the war. :Mrs A. Hamilton, a former New Zealander who has been living in Glasgow, has returned to New Zealand for the duration of the war and is at present staying with Mr and Mrs J. A. Grant, of North Street.

The demand for girls from the schools for business positions was very keen, said the principal of the Girls’ High School (Miss E. E. Stephens) at a meeting of the Board of Governors last evening. So far all the girls taking positions were ready for them, and no girls had left from tho third' or fourth forms.

The imperturbability of tho British character is well illustrated by an incident recorded in a letter received by a Wellington resident from a resident of an English city, not far from the coast, to the north of London. A German bomber in swooping over the place dropped a bomb which destroyed all but one of a row of six small houses. Next morning people who visited the scenp of destruction were surprised to see an old woman laboriously whitewashing the front step of tho one house left in tho row'. When someone asked her why she was doing such w'ork, she replied that she had been white-wash-ing that particular step for 40 years, and there was no reason why she should not do so as long as she was able, even if tho place were to lie bombed again. When it was suggested that she should allow herself to lie evacuated to somo inland town she scorned the very idea, saying that she would be just as safe where she was as anywhere else.

(By “Nanette.”)