Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 659, 10 May 1929, Page 5

Women the World Over

FOR THE CHILDREN In order that school life may not hamper children’s inborn instinct for play, Miss K. liirtwhistle has founded a games club in London for boys and girls under seven. The little ones wear a badge representing a playful lamb, and the weekly meetings are held in Hyde Park. WHERE STOCKWHIPS CRACK Women will stop at nothing these days, though once upon a time they sprang upon chairs and tables at the mere mention of a mouse. Miss Elsie Pearl Truskett devotes her attention to horned creatures, and is a saleswoman at the Kansas City stockyards. She also owns five cattle ranches in Texas, Missouri and Colorado. CHIEF ANAESTHETIST Dr. Cecilia Aerodian, a Greek woman physician, has been appointed chief anaesthetist at one of the most important hospitals in Paris, the post having been he: d previously only by men. Graduating from the University of Paris some years ago, she went to New York, where she took a number of post-graduate courses in surgery and physiology. Later she returned to France and carried off several of the higher degrees before securing her present appointment.

UNIQUE POSITIONS Mrs. M. Dunn and Mi*s. Greaves, of Yorkshire, hold positions that are surely unique. They control large quarries and are the only women members elected to the Institute of Quarrying. Mrs. Greaves is also a member of the English Council of Women Engineers. Mr*s. Dunn is her own technical adviser and engineer and controls a staff of 50 workmen besides supervising operations in the yard. NATIVE LORE Mrs. Daisy M. Bates has spent 14 years working among the aborigines of Australia, and her articles on native lore and legend are well known in Australian journals. She has collected 150 vocabularies of native names and words, and has carefully compiled lists of the words in 100 dialects. The tribes which spoke many of these dialects arc now extinct. The vocabulary of Central Australia contains 2,000 words, and includes delightful names for the birds of the region.

! THE FIRST OF HER SEX I The first Protestant woman minister jin Germany, Sophie Kunert, pictured

here, who was formerly assistant in the Religious Bureau of the Hamburg Prison for Women, has been called to the City Church in Jena.