Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 234, 22 December 1927, Page 5

Women the World Over

A WOMAN PROSECUTOR The English law courts now have a woman prosecutor. Miss Elsie Bowerman having frequently appeared of late to conduct criminal prosecutions for the Treasury. She is only 29. and one judge recently stated that her manner of presenting evidence against an accused person could be taken as a model, having in it neither bias nor feeling of any kind. COLOURED PRINTS We all collect—stamps, china, furniture, crests, mottoes, jugs. Even Queen Mary is not exempt from the common weakness of mankind. Her hobby is collecting old coloured prints of cottages and cottage gardens. Her Majesty is said to be something of an expert in the particular line she has chosen, and perhaps, in the splendour of a palace, even the modified edition prevailing in these democratic days, the Vision of cottages nestling among roses is consoling. DEPUTY GOVERNOR

Miss Mary Size has the distinction of being the only woman deputygovernor of a prison in England. She was recently appointed to Holloway in place of Miss Cronin, M.8.E., who has been superannuated. Miss Size lias had wide experience in prison work and was previously woman superintendent at Liverpool Prison. Holloway is for “women only,” and serves 20 counties. Two women doctors, Dr. M. M. Walker and Dr. M. Roucie, are in charge of the prisoners’ health, and there are 120 women officers in the establishment.

A SITWELL BY MARRIAGE A recent photograph of Mrs. Sacheverell Sitwell, wife of the distinguished writer and poet who is the youngest member of the famous Sitwell trio.

Before her marriage in 1925, Mrs. Sitwell was Miss Georgia Hoble, and like her actress sister, Frances Hoble, has both beauty and personality. RESEARCH WORK The first woman scientist to gain a permanent post in the famed Pasteur Institute in Paris is Mdlle. Helene Stein, of Lyons, who was recently given a position in one of the laboratories in recognition of her original research work. Her speciality is the pneumococcus germ, and not long ago she published a paper on this organism which attracted widespread interest in scientific circles. Although Mdlle. Stein is quite young she has gained a number of important degrees, besides various prizes and distinctions.