TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 1, 20 July 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Books to Read. FIOSE who love the "year at the spring," and the spring-time of life with its enchantment and fragility, its mysterious awakening and blind obedience to instinct, its inevitable urge towards the untried and unknown, its beautiful promise and its great, wide hope, will delight in Gerald Bullett’?s volume of short stories, "The ‘World in Bud." Myr. Bullett is at his best when handling the idyllic romance of opening life. | "Thistledown and Thunder," by Hector Bolithe, is a tale of his own travels and adventures most attractively told. Born in New Zealand, Mr, Bolithe experienced the faniiliar "difficulties of a colonial boy struggling towards taste and discrimination and knowledge, without any of tlie contacts which make these things easy in England and France." But there came 2 great day when he was able to embark.on a steamer for England and discover the "Old World.’ His attitude of mind is somewhat refreshing. His great longing for personal "contacts" with noted artistic and literary people, his eager curiosity and keen delight and great zest for life savour of the colonial schoolboy. In South Africa he edited a weekly paper. but found his happiness finally tn England.

Schoolboy Howlers, Hi) following howlers are given exactly as the boys in his elass wrote them originally: Stipend: "When you are in 2 room full of smoke you are stipend." "What a parson preaches his sermon on." Rector: "Something worked by electricity.’ "Something in parts to be put together." Somnambulist: "A man who writes a novel." "A man who writes a poem, but is frightened to send it up because they might say nasty things about it." "A very clever person." Strathspey: "A battle with spades." "An empty whisky bottle." Are Women Revolutionaries? RECENT statistics reveal the fact that there are 5,000,000 more wo-. men than men in Soviet Russia, and that of 71,000,000 voters only 24,000,000 are men. Can if be true that women are more revolutionary than men?

CD The Mahila Samitis. PHE Women's Institutes of England, which work for improving and deyeloping the conditions of rural life by providing centres for educational activities and social intercourse, are now recognised as a great national institution for good. But it is not so generally known that‘an almost similar organisation exists in India, with flourishing headquarters in Bengal. The Mahila Samitis (which, being translated, mean Women Associations) were started as far back as 1913 by Sarej Natmi Dutt, the wife of Mr. G. S. Dutt, a member of the Indian Civil ‘Service. : |. Mrs. Dutt, having travelled much with her husband, was a woman of broad views and outlook. Realising the hard lot of India women under the purdah system, she strove at all times to foster a spirit of social intercourse among women, and, coming to the conclusion that this could best be done by forming women's societies, she founded these Institutes or Mahila Samitis. which have proved an even greater boon to the women of Bengal than to their sisters in England. They have opened. up such a wide field of interests, hitherto quife undreamt of by these women and girls. Although Mrs. Dutt passed away in 1925, her work lives on, growing and spreading more wonderfully from year to year, because her countrymen, recoguising the importance of what she. had accomplished in so short a period, lost no time in organising as a memorial to her name, the Asseciation which to-day carries out her ideals and aspirations. Women Engineers. "THE old belief that a "mechanical brain" was an unknown quantity so far as Women were concerned, got its first solid refutation during the war, when the woman motor driver pesneaee Hanae

showed she could prove as good a mechanic as her brother. | Since then women have travelled far in this branch of industry; the woman engineer is very much of an established fact, and there is now a yery flourishing Women's Engineering Society in England. The Well-eut Glove. LOVES are nearly all washable Chamois for the country, suede for the town, and in pale colours which run through all the biscuit shades, all the beiges, all the whites. Some have fancy stitchings, some have little gauntlets piped, stitched, imcrusted, and embroidered with the Aubusson stitch in delicate Aubusson col+ ours. It is not easy to get gloves which fit perfectly when they are of the washing kind, but it is getting easier, since the glove-makers are cutting theixgloves to allow for stretching and shrinking, according to the material used to make them. It is usually wise to have your gloves a size too large when they are for hard wear and bavé to be washed frequently. It is -wise, too, to measure the fingers and thumb yery carefully, because after washing, the glove which is too short in the fingers looks clumsy and is not com» fortable. ‘The well-gloved hand is @ sign of good dressing once more. The negligence which marked this detai} during a short period has passed, ani the well-cut, well-worn glove has returned to fashion and its old signifi+ cance of gentle breeding.

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Musie is in all growing things And underneath the silky wings Of smatlest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Barth's silence lives. and throbs, and ~

sings."

Lathrop