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MORE HONORS FOR WOMEN. January 6. The King has awarded the "Kaiser-i-Hind Medal for Public Service in India' of the first class to three distinguishes women as well as to tlu'ee men—Lady Therese Muir-Mackenzie, wife of Sir J. Muir-Mackenzie, late senior member of tlit? Council of the Governor of Bombay; Mrs. Edwin Davies,. (Chief Lady Superintendent of the Lady Minto Indian Nursing Association; and. (tor addition of a bar) to Mrs. Amelia Firth, of San Thome, Madras.

WOMAN AS MINISTER. The Rev. Gertrude von Petzold, the first woman to be entrusted with the charge of a. pulpit in this country, commenced her ministry this week iu connection with the Waverley-road Church, Small Heath, one of. the smaller churches of the City associated with the Unitarian body. Miss von. Petzold, who has just returned from a two years' preaching engagement in America,, was for four years previously minister to the Free Christian Church, Leicester. She took an M.A. degree at Edinburgh. University, and subseq.en.ly studied theology for three yeu.s at Manchester College, Oxford.

!■ LADY "MASTER." Mrs, Hobart, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Hobart, commanding Princess Beatrice's Isle of Wight Rides, is the first master of the Isle of Wight Harriers which has hunted for many generations past. The new mastership was successfully inaugurated on Saturday last at luncheon to the island farmers, who promised Mrs. Hobart their cordial support. ICE CREAM DANGERS. The London County Council and the City Corporation, in the Bills they are promoting in the first session of the new Parliament, have a set of clauses which is intended to strengthen the powers of the Council in dealing with ice cream barrows and stalls. It will subject to a penalty any manufacturer or dealer who makes or stores ice cream or the materials used in making it "in a place likely to render them injurious to health, .or exposes such commodity or materials to infection." CHILDREN AND SWEETS.

The League of Swiss Women Against Alcohol are organising a crusade against giving sweets containing spirituous liquors such as absinthe, brandy and rum to children. It is interesting to note that in this country it is illegal to sell sweets containing a liquid in which there is more than 2 per cent, of alcohol without a spirit license. ENTERPRISING GIRLS. Girls who have been secretly trained during the past few months at Helsingfors, in Finland, arc now working lino type machines in the n. .v-paper offices. A strike of printers is in r . ..gross, and but for the help of the gin» the machines would have been idle. MILITARY HONORS FOR WOMEN. The first instance under the new Territorial regime of a woman being buried with military honors occurred at the I funeral a few days ago of Miss Alice Woodham, who was a member of the , Red Cross Society, and so officially connected with the Territorial Force.