ITEMS FOR WOMEN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 October 1913, Page 2

ITEMS FOR WOMEN.

The Sterlings of Glorafc, a Scottish family dating from the days of Bruce, have a curious name which has been borne by countless daughters of the house. This is Glorianah, which is generally believed to 'come from the word GloraS.

Thirty-nine States and the district of Cohrnbia now have a. general four-teen-year limit elow which children may not be employed in any industry. In thirty-two States night work is forbidden for persctas under sixteen.

One of the oldest of Roygl hobbies is that followed by Queen Maud, who for years has made* ivory her hobby. Not only has she a collection of ivory statues and other art objects, but she oollects ivory in the tusk as well, and ha» a large collection of trophies of the elephant chase.

A popular , woman journalist of America ihas just passed away in Chicago. i .Miss Mary Eleanor O'Donnell was;editor of,the woman's page iiy tfee Chicago Tribune, and had greatly helped on good works and higher thought in the city by her writing. She had a bright and winsome personality, and her loss is deeply felt by a very w ide circle. >

Considerable interest was taken in a motor race between two ladies in Pennsylvania recently. The curious feature of the contest was that one of the competitors ~ was ninety-three years of age, while the other was twenty-five. The balance of nearly seventy years did/hot, however, prevent the older lkdy from winning the .race in first-class style.

Mi',g J. Bordon Harrisan, a wellknown New York suffragist, and a . noted social leader, has been the means of. averting a great railway strike. She is a member of the Industrial Oo amission, and persuaded the Civic Federation, an organisation of proiminent representatives of capital, labour and the public, to approach both sides of the question and to bring about a conference between President Wilson, the railway companies and the men. Owing to her tact and business ability, the greater danger; is oyer.

In Buda Pesth one sees walking abolut the city, waiting at the railway Stations, and driving in carriages, many Hungarian women wearing ribbons of various colours, f Some have two or three ribbons, others have four, five or six. One woman had nine ribbotas. That means that she spoke or at least .understood nine languages, each colour lepiesenting one language. Bright red represents, English, a heliotrope or lavender is German, a brilliant yellow means French, a. pale blue is Italian, a brown meaiis Danish, Dutch is Nile : green, .and so on. ______ . i Mrs Freda Vidietsky, probably the last women who had a personal re- j collection of Napoleon Bonaparte, has j died at her home in Philiidelji'!!.. the age of 109. The aged wo'r.Jin was born in Northern Russia. On the retrofit from Moscow the French Army passed through the vtliage where she was then living, and fis Napoileon rode by his horse reared up and nearly Jcnocked her down. Mr,s Vidietsky went t(j the United States' six years ago. There were, counting the living and those dead, 300* descendants of the woman, of whom 74' are now living in the States. She was married four times, outliving every- husband, the oldest dying at the age of seventyfive.

The Princess Royal has decided that the whole of the trousseau for

the Duchess of Fife shall be of British manufacture, even to her boots and shoes. Her Royal Highness is thus following the example set by the Queen ppon her marriage, when everything she wore was manufactured in the United Kingdom. The wedding dress for ihe youthful Duchess will probably be composed of Irish lace, as has been the case with ©very British Princess who has been married for the last half-century and more. It is hoped to manufacture the wedding ring of Welsh gold, so that every portion of the United Kingdom is likely to be represented on the person or ihe wardrobe of the Duchess of Fife when the eventful day arrives. f '