WOMEN THE WORLD OVER

Shannon News, 17 July 1928, Page 4

WOMEN THE WORLD OVER

BLAZING THE TRAIL. Two Melbourne girls, Miss J.- Richmond and Miss J. Austin, recently undertook an adventurous trip in a small car through the practically uninhabited Flynn’s Creek Valley in the Grampians. For nearly 60 .miles of their journey only a bush track led through the mountains. Few men have attempted the trip and- they • are the. first women, but they declare that th« wonderful scenery made the adventure well worth while. Last June / Miss Richmond drove her car /through Queensland , and Darwin and. back—a distance of over 3,000 miles. IN CALIFORNIA. f t, - Mi's. Meta J. Erickson : has accomplished that which big, railroad magnates have long declared to be impossible fpr any woman—she' is president of. the Amador Central of California. In 1903 the railroad was built/ by her husband, but he died soon after, and Mrs. Erickson lias been iii .command, ever since.

LITERARY. DAUGHTERS. \ Literary daughters, following in the footsteps of literary fathers, are a characteristic of present , day life. John Oxenham’s daughter writes,.popular books for girls: Harold .Begbie is the father, of a promising poetess: Pamela Frankau; the 20-year-old daughter of Gilbert Frankau, has written a novel of her‘own; Virginia Wolfe is a daughter of the late Sir Leslie Stephen, whose ‘Hours in a Library” has becovo a classic, and Maribcl Edwin, the author of a recently published nature book for children, is a daughter of Professor J. Arthur; Thomson, one of England’s foremost scientists and the author of many volumes on biology. r „• .GREATNESS. Mrs. Philip Snowdon is .an , able woman. Although the wife of an eminent English politician, she does, not gather her greatness from his shadow,, but possesses a very definito perspnallty, and a very, definite purpose in. life of her own. . Sho lias been, for tmany years one of the most prominent women in the feminist movement in England. In , 1920 she was a member of the party of investigators, which visited Russia,, and the result of her . observations has been embodied in a book, “Tiirdugli Bolshevik Russia.” ' She is 1 also the author of “A Political Pilgrim in Europe.” Lately she;has-been appointed a film censor, and .deals not only with British : and American, but also with foreign films .• coming .-.into England. . . < ' ■' ' ■