Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 338, 25 April 1928, Page 5

Women the World Over

GRACIOUS OLD AGE Dam© Ellen Terry, the bright star, whose light has never dimmed in the theatrical firmament, celebrated her eightieth birthday last month. It is just seventy-two years since her first appearance on a stage, but something more than that period since she first appeared in a theatre, using its back premises as a sort of creche while her parents earned the livelihood of nine children on the boards. Dame Ellen Terry is still an ardent theatregoer, and her kindly presence graces many first nights. NOW CIRCULATING The wistful face depicted here is likely to become widely known _£n

Germany. Its owner is Fraulein Elvira Maier, the Berlin society girl who, in peasant costume, posed for*the figure printed in the recent issue of banknotes for five Rentenmark. IN CHINESE TURKESTAN Miss Rachel Wingate, who lived formerly in Surrey, is said to be the only Englishwoman in Chinese Turkestan. She is attached to the Swedish Mission at Kashgar, where the white community has a total of three men and three women. AMONG THE LEPERS Twenty-three years is a long time to devote to nursing with no break of any kind, especially when the patients are lepers, but Sister Mary Agnes, who is in charge of the nursing staff at the Makogai Leper Settlement, recently visited Wellington after being stationed tii ere for that time. Makogai is the leper station for the whole of the British South Pacific, and there the patients are tended by devoted nuns who have given their lives to the cause. IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE A noble work is being carried out by Dr. Kathleen Bassett, whose father is a trader in the Hudson Bay Territory of North America. She graduated .from a Canadian medical school, returned to her home in the Arctic Circle, and, ever since, has carried out her business of healing the sick among the Esquimaux and Indians. AN ENGINEER The American Society of Civil Engineers hase broken new ground in accepting as a full member Miss Elsie Eaves, a graduate of Colorado University. Miss Eaves, who gained notability by her extensive and fine work in both indoor and outdoor engineering, is the first woman to be given voting privileges in the society. __