Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 737, 9 August 1929, Page 5

Women the World Over

"THE FLYING FLAPPER” Slim and attractive is Miss Elinor smith, aged seventeen, who is known in the United States as “The Flying Flapper.” Sho holds the world’s record for a solo endurance flight by a woman, having remained in the air for ”6 hours 22 minutes. IN NEW ZEALAND At. the Church of the Good Shepherd ut Pliillipstown, Christchurch, there is it -woman church warden. She is Miss l-’ike, matron of the Essex Home, and she was nominated by the vicar, the Rev. C. A. Fracr, who declared her to be *'the best man amonc them ’’ MOTHER LOVE At Set-sale, in Calabria, Italy, a monument has been erected to a village mother who gave her life for her two small sons. She was taking her children home one evening last winter. when a severe snowstorm began. They managed to reach the shelte- of somo bushes, and huddled together, but the little ones grew colder and colder. Then their mother took off her clothes and wrapped them round the children. \\ hen the storm had abated, passing villagers were attracted to the spot, by a pitiful whimpering. The little ones wero alive and well, but their mother lay in a drift of snow frozen to death. Sersale is determined that her sacrifice shall not he forgotten. ROYALTY AND PEARL BUTTONS The working girls of Iloxton owe much to the generosity of the Queen. Needing a place for rest and recreation, they planned a fine hostel, and the Queen sent £IOO toward it. Later she forwarded £6,000 earned by the exhibition of the Queen’s Doll’s House at W embley. Further funds were needed, and the Queen opened her cheque book again and sent £2,000. It is small wonder that Hose Phillips, the Princess Hoxton, in a dress gleaming with 2,000 pearl buttons, had a bunch of flowers and a bright smile for her Majesty on the day that their benefactress opened the hostel.

THE GRAND OLD LADY England had her Grand Old Man in Thomas Hardy. Austria has her Grand Old Lady. She is Frau Mari-

ann© Ilainisch, mother of the former President of the Republic and leader of the feminist movement. This photograph was taken on her ninetieth birthday, which she celebrated in Vienna. WITH TREK CART A long walking tour was recently undertaken by two trained nurses on holiday, Miss Enid Murray and Miss Nancy Toung. In all they tramped 230 miles through Tasmania to Launceston, and via the east coast to Hobart. Behind them they dragged a small cart which contained all their kit and sleeping outfit.

TO BRIGHTEN GILT FRAMES Add sufficient flowers of sulphur to one and a-half pints of -water to give it a golden hue. In this, boil four or five bruised onions. Strain off the liquid and let it cool. Apply with a soft brush to any gilding which looks shabby and dull.