Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 725, 26 July 1929, Page 5

Women the World Over

IN RETIREMENT Madame -onneau, sister of the Lite 1 resident William McKinley, of the ~.T ] }t \ d . s , tatos . recently celebrated her 34th birthday. She lives in retirement " house near the Seine, and is one of the last of the many notable women who figured at the court of Napoleon 111. sixty years ago. She was one of the personal friends of 1 Impress Eugenie.. farthest south The honour of having been farther south than any other members of her SOX IS claimed by Mine. Aubert Larue, u,. y i° un ? -Parisienne, ' VTI ° joined her .u.*»buml, a. h rencli mining engineer, on a prospecting trip to Kerguelen and Heards Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean. For two months they camped in this desolate region—the only inhabitants—and returned to Capetown on a whaler.

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The latest photograph of Miss Ishbc MacDonald, daughter of Mr. Ramsa

MODELLED IN PLASTER An intimate study of snakes has been carried out by Miss Edith A. King, who makes plaster casts of the Australian varieties for the Sydney Museum. Four full-page illustrations in colour —two of snakes and two of Australian flora—are to be found in the Australian Encyclopaedia, and these are also the work of Miss King. PRIDE OF PLACE Skilled in the art of portraiture, Madame Mihri Basim is Turkey’s first woman artist and founder of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Constantinople. Her work has been exhibited as far away ns New York, and much praise has fallen to the lot of this talented lady.