Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 839, 6 December 1929, Page 5

Women the World Over

NOMADS Throe Australians, the Misses Dora Wilson, Madge Henderson and Peggy Clark, recently carried out an interesting tour of Great Britain. In a hired rar Ihey journeyed up one side of England, from Land’s End to John tiroats. and returned down the other side, cooking roadside meals and staying at any spot they fancied. The trip occupied live and a-half months, „nly three weeks of that time being spent, under a house-roof. The remaining nights they spent in barns, and their expenses worked out at a week a head. A TITLED HAWKER Lady Sybil Grant, daughter of the late Karl of Rosebery and wife of Colonel Charles Grant, possesses a caravan and is a licensed hawker. • But,” remarked an English writer, “it may be doubted whether Lady Sybil is in the business for pure entertainment or profit, since the poor folk benefit most by her venture." A BRIDGE-BUILDER A story of a woman’s courage in the face of disaster comes from the Transvaal, where on the death of her husband, who held the contract for the reinforced concrete bridge over the Vaal River, near Klerksdorp, the work was carried on by Mrs. A. T. Mortensen and brought to completion. With the assistance of her daughter she organised and superintended the work and lived for eight months on the site. The bridge has eleven spans, four of which are sixty feet long. NEVER TOO OLD "Never too old to write,” might be the motto of Flavia Camp Fisher, the mother of Dorothy Canfield Fisher l Dorothy Canfield, the authoress). At the age of 65 she commenced writing and has now about a dozen volumes to her credit, the majority being written for children. At eighty she travelled alone round the world and, as a result, wrote a book on her tour dedicated to “All Octogenarians.”