Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 102, 21 July 1927, Page 5

Women the World Over

FOR STUDENTS Lady Henry, daughter of the late Mr. Leonard Lewishon. a United States copper magnate, and widow of Sir Charles Henry, an English M.P., has bequeathed £150.000 to found scholarships. These are to be on similar lines to Rhodes scholarships, but those of her own sex are to benefit by her munificence. University scholarships are to be open to United States students at Oxford and Cambridge, and to British scholars at United States universities. HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER A new portrait of Patricia, the 19-year-old daughter of the famous author, Edgar Wallace, whose ambition

it is to follow in her father’s footsteps. She is at present at work on her first long novel, and is gaining invaluable practical experience by doing secretarial work for her father. Her career in the world of letters will be watched with interest. WIDELY TRAVELLED Stella Benson is one of the most travelled of English women writers. She was born in England, but spent most of her teens in Switzerland, South Germany, and France. In 1918, when she was 25, she decided to set out to see the world. She went first to the United States, and, after spending what money she had, she found work there, travelling about nearly all the time. Later she spent 12 months working her way through Japan and China. India was next visited, and then she married J. C. O’Gorman Anderson, of the Chinese Customs Service. The wedding trip through the United States lasted four months, after which she made her home in Yunnan, China, where she wrote “Pipers and a Dancer.” Since 1925 she and her husband have lived in Manchuria.

MACHINE-GUNNERS In the army of General Diaz, the successful leader of the Nicaraguan rebels, there is a unit of women machine-gunners raised and commanded by Colonel Angela Guido. Senorita Guido, who was at the university of Nicaragua when the revolution broke out, volunteered for service, and, so valuable were her efforts that she was given a commission as a major, and was later permitted to raise a machine-gun force from among the women students. Colonel Guido, who is of Italian descent, is admitted also to army councils. A VOYAGER The call of the sea comes to women as well as men. Miss Alice Dale, for 40 years Government matron on migrant ships between London and New Zealand, retired early in the year, but she was unable to resist the call. Recently she joined the lonic for another trip. She has already travelled 1,500,000 miles. FOLK DANCING Since September last Miss A. C. Gloyn, of the teaching staff of the British Folk Dance Society of London, has been conducting folk dance classes in Adelaide. With the co-operation of Mr. Clive Carey, of the Adelaide Conservatorium, she has established a South Australian Folk Song and Dance Society, with a constitution similar to the British body. Teachers of music and physical culture, together with State school teachers and private individuals to the number of over 500, attended her classes. IN COMMAND Sydney’s youngest cafe proprietress is surely Miss Marjorie Inder, the 17-year-old girl who manages the cafe on the Manly ferry steamer Burrabra. Until a few months ago she was bookkeeping, but the opportunity presented itself, and she launched forth upon her new career.