Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1039, 1 August 1930, Page 5

Women the World Over

A STUDY OF BUILDING the Loudon County Council School of Building there are two women students and 1.300 men. One. 0 f the women, Miss Margaret Mercer. a London girl, has passed the internal examination of the school. She has attended as an evening student for three years, working during the day in a builder’s office. Her father and grandfather were builders, and she has decided to follow in their footsteps. PRACTISING IN SHANGHAI The French woman lawyer, Miss flora Rosemberg, was recently granted a licence to practise in the Khingsu High Court and the 'Shanghai Special Provincial Court. She is a graduate of the University of Rennes, was admitted to the bar in France, and in 1921 to the practice of law before the French mixed court and the International Mixed Court in Shanghai, being the first and only woman lawyer to receive this distinction. Two years later, Miss Soume Tcheng, a Chinese woman lawyer, was registered, hut Miss Rosemberg remains the only foreign woman lawyer in Shanghai.

AN INTERESTING FIGURE

This is the Empress Menen, of Ethiopia, wife of the Emperor Ras

Tafari, who. following the death of the Empress Judith, is now a ruler in bis own right. For a considerable time he ruled the country jointly with the Empress Judith. LADY MAYORESS After being without a municipal council for nearly throe years, tjie city of Sydney has elected a new one, and as the new Loi'd Mayor, Alderman 30. S. Marks, is a bachelor, his sister. Miss Hilda Marks, has become Lady Mayoress. She has travelled extern sively and, during the past ten years, has visited almost every capital in Europe. She is also a Shaltesperean scholar and a keen welfare worker.

IDEAL WOMANHOOD

Marcelle Perrenoud, who worked in close collaboration with Olemenceau as his private secretary, writing ot the “real man inside the Tiger,” says that his mother was his ideal of feminine virtue, for she possessed simplicity and common sense, the qualities he admired most in a woman. “She never had more than two dresses,” he would say, “and that did not prevent her raising a brood of children.” A bobbed or shingled head was to him heresy, and he considered that jewellery worn by women was a survival of slavery FROM JAPAN The Parliament of Nippon chose four pretty Japanese maidens to carry the thanks of the country to the United States for aid given after the earth quake and fire of 1923. These dainty ambassadors, wlio liave recently com pleted their tour of gratitude through the United States, arc . Miss Kim. Ashino, daughter of a former professor at the Tokyo Naval College; Miss Sumilco Tokuda, one of the winners ot the Lincoln Essay Prize of 1929; Miss Yoshiko Sato, graduate of the Peeresses’ School in Tokyo, and Miss Yoshiko Matsudaira, a cousin of the sister-in-law of the Emperor of Japan