FOR WOMEN FOLK.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1915, Page 6

FOR WOMEN FOLK.

" BY EILEEN."

f" " ®^ eßn " be glad to receive items of interest and j | value to women for publication or reference in this column. |

where a number of clever anil skilled artists work daily at some novel work which Ueiy < rrwe has introduced into l'.n;;!aii(l. and its success iiaah'r'uiy proved most marked. This consists Jf the manufacture of intricate liamls of flittering gems for the coill'ure, etc., simulating the -finest French jeweller's work. 'J'!:e Queen and (princess Marv, Queen .Alexandra and .Princess Victoria, have lieen. among the many visitors. Owing t<> tin* energy of Mrs. James do llothschiid much work lias already been sold privately. Shampooing, Hairdresslng, and Twisting. Electrolysis for the permanent re. moval of superfluous hair. Switches, Toupees, etc. Ladies' combings made lit to any rlesiim. Mrs. MKVIILE. Rgmon: loilet Parlors. (irJliilss 1 Kiiikiings, ru*a' Carnegia lib^rv

WOMEN AND THE WAR ' HKIIOINES (IF FRANCE. ''They arc wonderful, tlieso French women."' Mr. Phillip Gibbs, the famous war c-nrresj>oml(?>it of the Daily Chronicle. who talks of some French heroines lie has met. One of his most striking stories concerns Mile. Nicollc, wlio, fur twelve days preceding the German occupation of Mcycnnioutier, in the Vosges, tended with the greatest devotion ,'!lh) ]"rci:ill wounded, without the help ei' a single doetor, and during the German occupation looked after (>OO French and German wounded, besides obtaining the liberty of sixty hostages, including the mayor, nut of a list of HiO demanded by the enemy. France is justly pi'und of such v;omc;i. ITATS OFF TO ,SISTER GABRIELLE. Another of Mr. Phillip fiibbs' stories of fein'iiiinc heroism concerns Sister (•'ahrielip, a 111111 of St. Vincent de Paul, whu, with three other nuns, remained in the convent at Clermont-en-Argonne with forty-two old people who could not be removed, after all the other inhabitants had fled before the enemy. The town became a (laming torch about her, and when the Germans entered they pillaged her convent, and terrified the helpless old creatures, until the resolution of Sister Gabrielle, and the utter fearlessness' of her spirit won the respect of a German ollieer, who saved the house from the fire and from the soldiers. These are valiant women on whom the French Government is bestowing public honor. . FACTORY GIRLS ON THE LAND. The London factory gifl working on the land, by that I mean doing actual physical work, such as digging, sounds to a good many people an impossibility. [ "They will never stand the outdoor life,'' is what nine out of ten people say to me when I tell tlieni about it. Hut it is ail actual fact that London factory girl's out of employment through the war. are being employed on the land near Radlett, Herts. At present there are 20 of them, the -number to he made up to 35 as soon as.possible, including two forewomen, all untrained at present in the mysteries of market gardening, fruit growing ami poultry-keeping.—Agricul-tural Economist and Horticultural Review. AMAZONS. The part that the women are playing in this war is the subject of a fascinating article in the current issue of "T.P.'s Journal of Great Deeds of the Great ■War," and the writer savs:—"Xot to men alone go the glories and the honors of this war. not for men alone, are the trials and the wounds, the dangers, the deaths and the grinding fatigues of tlie marching column, the rain-drendhed camp and the shell-scarred. firing line. The women are demanding their sliar« of battles, the women are taking up the rilld, the women, too, are out to war. In the fighting lino they are fighting, under the beat of shell fire, they a.ra risking their lives with the high, strong courage of the bravest soldiers; 'behind the firing line they arc serving their homeland with a valor that smiles at death, with an endurance that scorns fatigue. They are taking their places in the long and tortured wards of the wounded as of old, but they arc doing more than that. They are taking their ; stand shoulder to shoulder with fighting men. The Amazon spirit has re-awaken-ed. Through the smoike of the fighting Roa<lieea drives her chariot again against the massed ranks of her foes." women doctors. Women doctors 'are .finding a quickened demand for their services. Before the war there was steadily increasing scope for them as panel doctors (five million women are insured under the National Insurance Act), in medical missinary work, in the service organised by the Colonial Office, and in tile expanding Public Health service. Since the outbreak of war many doctors have been engaged in the military and naval services, and a largo number of students have joined the ranks. Every day the hospitals w;heve women doctors ar» trained receive letters asking for women practitioners and dispensers. It is for the next, few years the demand for women doctors will continue to increase. During the five or six years of training a woman medical student needs an income of about £l3O a year, and where it is sought to build up" a private practice a sum ranging up to £SOO is needed for support until such time as the income covers the cost of living. SPIES IX GARB OF NORSES. In its current issue the Nursing 'Mirror states that there have been persistent rumors of female spies masquerading as nurses, both abroad and at home. Lord 'Kitchener, it appears, was afraid that the reports were not groundless, and earlier in the war, when he was at Southampton, he. discovered that there was a leakage of news going on, and made enquiries, with the result that four women were found to be the culprits. Two of these were nurses, and they were at once requested to go inland, not because they were suspected of wilfully giving information to the enemy, but because they had been lacking in discretion. On the opposite side of the Channel matters have been more serious. Two nurses were proved to have aeted as spies. They were, of course, effectually dealt with, and it was good to know that they were not of English nationality, but 'Americans with German sympathies. DIiSTRESS AMONG ARTISTIC WOMEN A notable endeavor to relieve distress caused by the war among artistic work- ! ers is caiTied out by a well-planned Mchinie devised bv the Marchioness of Grewe. Having organised, in the early days, a bureau for finding employment for profesional women, Lady Crewe discovered suoh variety of talent among them that she decided to open a studio when* particular arts and crafts might be exploited, the workers being paid a regular salary and orders taken. James de Rothschild placed her house in Park street at Lady Crewe's disposal,