Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 375, 8 June 1928, Page 5

Women the World Over

A ROOF GARDEN

Mr«s. Somerset Maugham’s roof garden is one the sights of London, for the wife of the author devotes her time to the art of decorating, and has not, by any means, forgotten her own home. Her favourite colour scheme is chalk white and apple green, and the white marble seats, deep green leaves of the f\g tree, and the statues of white couchant lions, carry out her scheme on the roof. She has built a pavilion in her roof garden where her husband, on his very rare visits to London, can. write. ROYAL SERVICE The story of Cinderella is familiar to ns all. hut Princess Alla D. Mestchersky, a member of the old Russian aristocracy, has reversed the theme of the fairy tale. At present she is working as a housemaid at Hampstead, London, and has written a book on her adventures. Since her arrival in England, nine years ago, she has worked as nursemaid, housemaid, hotel maid and hospital nurse. NERVE Ths woman signwriter and gilder ha* now matfe her appearance in England, in the person of Miss D. Dicks, of Portsmouth, who assists her father in his business. She works on the scaffoldings of the highest buildings with the assurance of any man and, apparently, is quite impervious to the glances of pedestrians passing many feet below. FROM AUSTRALIA Mrs. Frederick Spencer, wife of the Rev. Frederick Spencer, a brilliant exstudent of the Melbourne University, has been appointed to the position of lecturer In French at Keble College, Oxford.

IN PERU A recent photograph of Lady Jean Hervey, wife of Lord Herbert Hervey,

British Minister to Lima, Peru. Before her marriage in 1914, she was Lady Jean Cochrane, daughter of the twelfth Earl of Dundonald. FIRST SPECIALIST Miss Alice Barrows has been appointed first specialist in school buildings by the Bureau of Education at Washington. Formerly she was a specialist in city school systems and has devoted much time to the study of school organisations. If a knob of a bed is loose, take it off and fit over the sere wa piece of chamois leather in which a small hole has been made. When the knob is screwed on again, it will fit tightly and give no further bother. Snip away any visible edges of the chamois from the sides.

MASTERING MOODS It is surprising how soon we can learn to master our moods if we have a mind to; if consistently we exercise the necessary effort. Even the mood that engenders genuine inspiration can be sometimes deliberately created, if we set about it in the right way. That is to. say, courageously and persistently, and with intent to conquer listlessness and lethargy. What we call spontaneity—the urge of our more swiftly creative moods—has its roots in soil that has been well-nourished long before creative energies express themselves “spontaneously.” It is still a moot question whether the finest inspiration is invariably “spontaneous,” or is not infrequently the outcome of the very struggles attendant on a momentarily sterile mood, whose ultimate florescence is a forced but vivid growth.