WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 202, 23 February 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileem"). ( NOTES FROM LONDON. . A PLUCK AVIATRESS. Again Mile. Dutrieu, who last year won the Femina Cup, awarded for the longest non-stop flight by a woman, has become possessor of the trophy for a year. On New Year's Day, at Etampes, the aviatress accomplished a splendid flight of ICO miles, which was only brought to an end by the carburettor of the motor becoming frozen.. Her time was 2 hours 'sßmin. At the same time another young Frenchwoman, Mile. Jane Hervenu, covered aft Compeigne 154 miles in 2 hours 41min, another capital performance. Austria has now produced a lady aviator, in the person of Fraulien Lily Steinschneider, who is the first woman in the Empire to fly. On Saturday she made a most successful flight, reaching an altitude of over 1000 ft and remaining in the air considerably over an hour.. This intrepid lady is only 20 years of :i«e. SCHOOL FOR MOTHERS. Another school for mothers has been opened within the last few days. It is in Dublin, and is known as the St. Andrew's Babies' Club. Here classes have been arranged to teach the mothers cooking, sewing, laundry work, etc., in addition to practical lessons on how to look after and feed their babies. Provision : is made, too, for the infants to be each week examined by a doctor. The nurse attached to 1 the club visits tho members in their own houses, and sees that the directions of tM doctor are carried out. The women of New Zealand will very probably, it is anticipated, «ontribute a civic department, demonstrating what; woman's participation in public life has . meant to the Dominion, at the British ! Imperial Exhibition, to be held in London in 1915.'

A UMyua APPOINTMENT. A unique appointment, surely, is that just mode in Boston, where an official story-teller for children has been" engaged—* Mrs. Cronan. The announcement needs less explanation when it is said that the post was created specially for its holder on account of her authority on elfin lore, fairy romance and knightly and piratical adventure in general. In a room in the Boston Public Library, hung with colored pictures of castles and dragons and brave' knights, and with real trophies of mediaeval combat, Mrs. Cronan relates to awe struck delegations of Boston's school children tales from the "Faere Queene," the "Red Cross Knight," "Beowulf," "Peter Fibber" and the "Jungle Tales." This method of deliberately fostering in children, in this workaday world, a love of ! romance and golden dreams and all kinds | of sweet unrealities in this kingdom of i hard realities will come in, very probably, for scathing criticism at the hands of some of the mother's of to-day, with their foolish insistence on an absolutely practical scheme of education and play.

VEILED MUSICIANS. J An orchestra of women, who are all | veiled, is the latest novelty in a smart I restaurant in Constantinople. A HEROINE INDEED. | The very mention or thought of lep- | rosy, 'that most revolting and dreaded | of scourges, near at hand, is calculated to ' throw the most sane of us into ecstasies of horror, and there is none so apathetic 1 as not to calculate the enormity of selfsacrifice that must induce a "perfectly healthy person to deliberately take up as a life-work a mission to a colony of ! death-marked victims of this terrible I disease. It may be news to many to learn that the leper colony of Rama•handrapuran, a town about 400 miles ■J from Madras, which enters this month ; into the sixteenth year of its ministra- \ tions, was founded by an Englishwoman !— Miss F. Isabelle Hatch. Miss Hatch has been in residence and in active charge of the colony during its whole existence, j A notable feature of the accommodation is a commodious building erected espeI oiallv for the women.

MRS. MARRIOTT-WATSON. There died last Friday Mrs. MarriottWatson, wife of the novplist, Mr. H. B. Marriott-Watson (wftose father was for some time incumbent of St. John's, Christchurch), and herself a poetess of no mean renown, and the author also of a book of "Nursery tales Retold," of a volume on "The Art of the House," and of a garden book of the literary class, in which her sensitiveness to aspects of nature showed to advantage, called "The Heart of a Garden." MEMORIAL TO GRACE DARLTNG. A tribute to Grace Darling is shortly to be erected in Liverpool, where, in the new cathedral, there will be, in a Lady Chapel window being specially designed, a memorial pane, to Grace Darling, whose exploits need no advertisement at this date.

UNUSUAL FAIRNESS. Miss Violet Oakley, a Philadelphia artist, who has been chosen to complete the late Mr. Edwdn Abbey's work for the Capitol ait Pennsylvania/is to receive the same remuneration as Mr. Abbey—viz., 50dol. a foot. Miss Oakley painted the Pennsylvania series in the rural decorations in the Governor's reception room of the Capitol. A CAPABLE WOMA.N. A capable woman manager has just passed away in the person of Miss Emily Jarrett, who died at her residence, Camerton Court, near Bath, last Sunday. Misg Jarrett had for the past 10 years been the sole owner of the estate, and not only carried on the Camerton collieries, but herself directed the management of an estate in Jamaica, consisting largely of sugar and fruit plantations.

PETTICOAT POLICE. The experiment of having a special force of women police for deputy sheriffs is being tried in New York. Their duties include inspection of dancing halls and attendance at any meeting likely to be attended by suffragettes. A WOMAN SKIPPER. Lady Clifford, a very well-known sportswoman an this country, is one of the few women who can boast a Board of Trade certificate, under which she toured the Mediterranean in a 350-ton yacht some time ago. THE USE OF EGG-SKIN. A remarkablo. discotery, emanating from New York, was made public in London this week . Tt comes from a doctor in a Philadelphia hospital, Max Staller. who claims that the lining of eggshells, which Fs really the skin of embryonic chickens, can be used to replace human skin lost by burns or scalds, instead of the only method known in this country, that of skin-grafting, an operation that calls for suoh pain and self-sacrifice on the part of the one whose skin is offered. Experiments with egg membrane have been proceeding at this particular American hospital for three months, ani every case treated has been successful. The egg skin, it is found, contains cells similar'to the human skin, and when placed on a burned surface the cell multiply, the membrane becoming larger and larger until it joins with other pieces placed on the wound at a distance of an eighth to a quarter of an inch. In the course of weeks the surface is covered with new skin. After the pieces of skin are placed on the burns a wet dressing is applied, and very little scar should be left. The new skin is a trifle finer than the human 6kin, but appears strong and healthy.

WOMEN INVENTORS. Patent statistics for last year show that although the number of applications for patents shows a considerable decrease, the number of women inventors is on the increase.