Mention of Tudorian architecture reminds one that architecture is becoming increasingly popular as Career with girls. It needs a long training, five years at the Architects Association, which occupies throe beautiful oid houses side-by side in Bedford Square. The fees are not} unduly high, at 24 guineas a term, but of course the student must have private means, or a family to keep for during the five years. The training is as thorough as it can well ber including steel construction, materials, history, colour, life draw-ug, acoustics, hygiene and surveying. When a girl has got her A. A. dip-Jama (or, for that matter a man also) she must do a year's office work Uefore she is qualified for an assoclateship of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
"Tu the planning of a house women. certainly should do as well, if not] better than men, for they know by instinct what a housewife needs. Recently T went over a newly built, quite expensive house, lovely to look, St from. outside, but to a woman's} eye needing all sorts of adjustments inside to make it really convenient, the climax being reached in the best bedroom, which had all sorts of odd niles and projections that would make the disposal of furniture quite 'a' problem.
Apropos of the speculative builder: a young couple T know (he is in the Air Force) have lately been transferred to a station in the north where the aerodrome is miles from a town. 'A'solitary row of bungalows, how-fever, offered accommodation and the husband applied to the builder. "No, haven't got one vacant." the latter replied, "but could build you one." "How long would that twice?" "Oh, a matter of three weeks," was the answer.
"Glamorous" Undesirables We are passing through a period of spy mania and what is still more exciting, of woman spy mania, It started in America with a story of remember. the produced a "glamorous blonde," a hairdresser by trade but arrested on suspicion of spying, and of being part of a spy organization spread. Over most of the east of Scotland. She is a Mrs. Jessie Jordan, and it is stated that numerous documents including foreign. correspondence have been impounded in her shop. A further tit bit is that a 14-year-old girl who worked for her has been cross examined for five hours by the police and that the child's home has been ransacked by the police in ease she should innocently have been carrying incriminatingletters for her employer.
What interests me in the story is the novelly of the technique. bygone times the spy was a svelte Git meant the same as glamorous) foreign countess, with a silent mysterious lady's maid, moving among ambassadors in most expensive clothes. Now the master mind is hairdresser, assisted by an immature shop-child.
But is It not time that the epithet glamorous" was given a rest? You simply cannot escape it now. Side by side with the tale of the glamor ous spy Is the report of the trial of "glamorous" dressmaker, who" Swindled a wealthy Indy of Reigate out of £14,000, spread. over a period of three years, during which she Bought large motor-cars, rented two large houses In Have and generally hada high old time, Besides the money she also: got a quantity of plate and jewellery from her victim.
How on earth did she do itt Women are usually singularly unsusceptible to glamour in another woman, yet this unhappy Jady at Reigate is by no means the first and will certainly not be the last to fall under the spell of an adventure The only explanation is that the quality which makes an adventurer gives him or her the necessary magnetirm to play the part. Most of us are so perpetually anxious about the future that there is something rather enviable in the indifference with which this glamorous blonde, Euntce Rose, made all the hay she could while the sun shone, knowing that she was bound to be caught sooner for later, Now she "goes down" for three years, one for each of the Joyous times, "Stil she has lived, and will no doubt live again, 1 do hope, however, that before she statis her next term of adventuring, some other adjective than Rlamorous will, have, come in, The Marrying Age The omeial reports of births, sents ands marriages. ave always worth studying. Those. now com:
ered for 090 contain the sailing Eynouneement. that. in that veer 32 boys. and. 179 gifs of 10. wore fourtieds Further reading shows that isis hot a revelation of a revival potyuamy, but a comment fnereasingyouthutnest of, beider rooms and brides. the Murs for 16. Seer eld marriages inthe, previous Year being 10. eye and ce gle int of the marsiger in 199, both idegroom and ride: were aged 16, some insaneee ails of 18: mar Hed men of 85, ich, soams sri: Eulaeiy"pitibie" The boys "mostly thorned fits of about 21 or 22, which fein weeping wile the. gavoral that! at boys at Tave fe some one much" older than bimself—witness David Copperfield and the eldest Miss Larkins, One may imagine that these early marriages are the natural outcome of the customs of the day, the invite able boy friend and irl friend, and the freedom with which the sexes mingle, Whether they will turn out well oF badly seems to depend entively on the individuals. A couple were discovered recently in a Suffolk. village who had been married for 70 years, having been respective-18 and 16 at the beginning, and they reported that, like Chevatier's fold Dutch, "it didn't seem a day too much." So let us hope for the best.
American Women's Club The Home Economies Department thas arranged a fashion show 10 held on Tuesday. April 5, at 445 pin. The following ladies are acting as models: Mmes Pasha, R. P. Buttick, 'A.C. Cornish, Geo, Hf. Greene, C. W. Lacks, G. M. Ross, the "Misses Limoure, Cans Lewis, Margaret Me-Donald, "Barbara "Weber. Tea will be served.
The first meeting of the Gardening Department will take place on Wed: nesday, April 6, at 10 am. at the lyome of Mrs. M. C. Guss, 17 Route Winting.
'The Civics Department will hold a rummage sale at the club rooms, on Friday, April, 8. Donations' of Jelothing and household articles will ibe gratefully received. Will all club members please keep the date of this sale in mind, and send any [donations to the club rooms not later than April 7, marked "for rummage sale"
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