Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 30, 28 April 1927, Page 5

Women the World Over

SUZANNE The latest portrait of the famous Suzanne. Reports from London, by the way, state that Mile. Lenglen will try to eclipse the next Wimbledon tourney by staging a rival tourney at

the same time. She believes that her power as a drawing card on the courts will ruin the attendance at the famous fixture, and she is said to have been contemplating this move ever since the rumpus at Wimbledon last year.

A BRISTOL WOMAN A Bristol woman, Miss Lily Baker, has gained a unique honour by being appointed to the honorary staff of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, in charge of the ante-natal department. This is the first time a woman has been made a member of the full staff of a teaching hospital in the British Isles, except the Royal Free Hospital, London. A NEW ZEALANDER'S SUCCESS A New Zealand woman who has entered a most interesting form of employment in London is Mrs. A. Loftus Tottenham, who was Miss Gladys Nation, of Hastings. Though having lived in many towns, Mrs. Tottenham found that she had learned nothing which would earn her an adequate livelihood in a war-worn community until by chance a great French dressmaker discovered her flair for clothes designing. She was offered a minor position in an Oxford Street showroom, where her exquisite taste and original conceptions have brought their own reward. Mrs. Tottenham, by virtue of her talent and artistry, is now in charge of this world-renowned French woman’s salon, and does the greater part of the buying of the exquisite materials that are used in madame’s creations. A PERILOUS VOYAGE Recently two women made a remarkable journey in a canoe—2oo miles on the sea with only a half-wild Papuan native to paddle and with one of themselves delirious! Mrs. Chance, wife of a Government ranger at Ivikori (he was away at the time), in attempting to separate a dog and cat that were fighting was badly scratched on the , hand and the wounds turned septic. The only other white woman was miles away; she was sent for, but when she came Mrs. Chance was too ill to respond to her nursing. So, bribing and threatening a semi-wild native into accompanying them, they started on their perilous trip. It took them three days to reach Port Moresby, where Mrs. Chance recovered after treatment. DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICER The Guardians of Edmonton, Middlesex, for the first time have appointed a woman as a district medical officer. She is Miss Fanny Cattle, and her age is only 35. All the unsuccessful candidates interviewed were men, but Miss Cattle was selected by 22 votes to 12. OF COMMON INTEREST That women “from China to Peru" should ever meet together to discuss one question of common interest would, 50 years ago, have been considered as impossible as a flight to Mars. If the interest of the women of the countries involved can be sufficiently arrested the Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference, which will be held in June or July, 1928, at Honolulu, should be one of the most interesting happenings in recent years. Women from all countries with water frontages on the Pacific have been asked by the American Pan-Pacific Union to send delegates to the conference.

The common ground on which women of this diversity of races, creeds and ideas are asked to meet is the matter of women’s welfare, the five suggested divisions being education, health, women in industry, women in Government, and social work. As can be well imagined the machinery for this project is preponderous to set in motion. Suggestions have already been received from China, Japan, Korea, Formosa and Latin American and English speaking countries, disclosing their favourable attention to the scheme. Representatives are now travelling in the Philippines, Java, Siam, IndoChina, the Straits Settlements, and the Federated Malay States, to stimulate the women’s interest.