Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1075, 12 September 1930, Page 5

Women the World Over

THE DAUGHTER OF GREATNESS Miss Margot Einstein, daughter of the famous German professor, whose theory of relativity caused a sensation in scientific circles, has chosen sculpture as a study. Her designs are all imaginative, and curious little semi-symbolic figures, quaintly arresting, are her speciality. HARDY OLD AGE This is Mrs. Anna Van Skike, aged TO, of Venice, California, ready for

her annual birthday “aquatic mara* j tlion.” Although a grandmother she | believes in keeping pace with the j times. FUTURE CITIZENS Useful work is being done by Dr. j Alice Masaryk, daughter of the Pre- 1 sident of Czecho-Slovakia, who is j teaching citizenship to children of all | races in Bohemia. Moravia and Slo- j vakia. She is using the Junior Red Cross method and her aim is to teach j the children habits of good health and j self-control and to instruct them in the care of the sick. She is also placing them ill touch with children of other countries by means of letters and gifts. NEWSPAPER OWNER Miss Leonora J. Gregory, a young Victorian woman, now owns and runs “The Gulf News,” the only newspaper in an area of 150,000 square miles in the far north of Queensland. Her enterprise has been crow-lied with success, and her dual responsibility seems to rest lightly on her youthful : shoulders. ARABIAN WAYS Mrs. Clare Sheridan, file well-known j writer, artist and explorer, has an- j nounced her intention to adopt Arab ways and clothes and live at Biskra on the edge of the Sahara. She will observe all the Mohammedan feasts and fasts, including the Ramadan, a fast of forty days, during -which food and water are not permitted while the sun is above tlje horizon. WOMEN TAXI-DRIVERS Mrs. Hilda Booth, of Worthing, was the first woman to be granted a licence as a taxi-driver in England, though as early as 1916 Miss Louisa Mears, of Morningside, Edinburgh, was plying her own car for hire. In Cardiff, New South Wales, Miss Elsie Grant was taxi-driving in 1915, leaving her post as chauffeur for a doctor to link up with a garage. The first woman taxi-driver in the North i Island of New Zealand is said to be | Miss Mona Gillis, of Palmerston North, an eighteen-year-old girl who j has followed the calling of her taxidriving father.