Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 5

Women the World Over

A BUSY CHAIRMAN

Dr. Florence Barrie Lambert, a member of the London County Council, has been elected chairman of the committee which has replaced the old London Board of Guardians. It will be her task to superintend the work of 13 ambulance stations, with 170 vehicles, 75,000 hospital beds, 100 hospitals, and other institutions, staffs numbering thousands and expenditure totalling millions annually—a colossal undertaking for any woman.

MINIATURE TOYS

Since her earliest childhood, Queen Mary has collected miniature furniture and china for dolls’ houses, and both at Windsor and at Buckingham Palace there are numbers of these tiny treasures. Recently she presented a miniature butcher’s shop to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The window ha.s a display of rows and rows of tiny joints—legs and shoulders of lamb and wonderfully realistic sirloins of beef. Inside there are tables and knives and three figures representing butchers in blue overalls and blue-and-wliite aprons.

A FOSTER MOTHER Miss Jenny Dolly, one of the dancing Dolly Sisters, who is said to own the most wonderful collection of

antique jewels m Europe and £600,000 worth of pearls, has adopted 50 orphans. She proposes to educate them, open a shop in Paris to help in paying for their upkeep, and settle down as a woman with a mission.