FRILLS ADS & FOIBLRS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 162, 29 September 1927, Page 5

FRILLS ADS & FOIBLRS

ROYAL WARES Princess Mary created a stir at South Kensington, Bngjand, recently when she put on an apron and acted as saleswoman at a fancy stall at the School of Art Needlework. She proved an immense “draw.” It is at this school, by the way, that all the lingerie of the Royal Family is mad' : from it came the most delicate need'.. work for Princess Mary's trousseau. . REPRESENTING; BRITAIN This was the first woman chosen to represent Britain on the League of

Nations at Geneva. Slie is Dame a Caroline Bridgefnan, wife of the. First r Lord of the Admiralty, and is one of « the pillars of the National Union of t Conservative and Unionist associa- a tions. 1: a A POET'S MOTHER » " ' £ George Gordon McCrae, the veteran f poet who died in Melbourne recently, c inherited his art from his mother, Mrs * Andrew Mauri son McCrae, who, with * her eight-year-old boy. arrived in the * Victorian capital in 1841. She studied * landscape painting under John Varley, 1 and her work was shown at the first 1 exhibition of the Victorian Society of 1 Fine Arts in 1857. Mrs. McCrae was •, a Gordon, and Mennell describes her as “a woman of remarkable general j ability and culture and an admirable artist.” She died at Hawthorn in 1890. WATERCRESS The largest watercress farm in England is owned* by a woman, Mrs. Eliza James, who has attended Covent Garden Market. London, as a dealer in cress and other garden produce for '< over 30 years. She has built up quite a large business almost unaided. 1 VIA LAPLAND 1 Mrs. Victor Bruce, a well-known English motorist, accompanied by her husband and another man, recently left for a motor trip to Lapland with the intention of penetrating as far as possible into the Arctic circle. They intend to traverse Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark and Finland, completing the journey in five weeks. A COVETED MEDAL Dame Sydney Browne, G.8.E., R.R.C., D.N., who was matron-in-chief of the Territorial Force Nursing Service during the war, has been awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal by the International Red Cro3s Committee at Geneva. This medal is awarded to distinguished members of the nursing profession in different countries who have rendered conspicuous service. Dame Sydney, who secured her Diploma of Nursing (Honoris Causa) at Leeds University in 1925, is an expresident and also ex-treasurer of the College of Nursing. IN ITALY Margherita Sarfatti must be one of the most interesting women in Italy. She is a critic on art and literature of nc mean standing, but is, besides, the foremost woman Fascist, being editor of Mussolini’s magazine 11 Gerachi. She has written a biography of the great man, Dux, which has been widely read. CONCERNING CORNERS Some time ago it occurred to a woman that if only pails were made square in shape, instead of round, it would be far easier to pour away the contents without splashing. She patented the idea, and a four-sided pail, with the handle fitted diagonally, is now on the market. Any one of the corners makes a useful lip, directing the flow of water evenly and without mess. Similarly to be commended are the saucepans with square corners. Not only will four of them, fitted together, simmer over a single gas ring, but their contents can be poured out with extreme ease. It is much easier to secure absolute cleanliness in a room with rounded ' corners than in one with the old- ! fashioned square corners. Where | there are no angles, there can be no j dust to remain in hiding after the mop ! has been passed over the floor, j In the small bedroom, the bedstead I with square ends often means scratches . J and bruises when the room is s being “turned out”; here again ■ rounded ends are to be preferred. Nursery furniture especially should follow the rounded rule, so that the ; little folk may be saved as much tribulation as possible. What is easier than I for a child at the toddling stage to bring l his eye into dangerous collision with % a table corner? ( If our architects could be persuaded to give us rounded doors, and, someL times, rounded window frames, what £ g.n improvement they would effect on a our present angular houses!