Two great events for the women of Great Britain are due to take place next month. The first, which actual-where.
Miss Dickens explored a number of houses, including one whose owner stayed in bed most of the day "with his finger on (he bell push" and ex-we toiled along three-quarters of a mile of esplanade before we found a tea-shop open. It advertised "Homemade cakes" as a speciality. But 1 have long discovered that the professional brand is a safer bid.
Elsewhere the Island has suffered out little, and at Ventnor in particular one is back in the unruflled calm of the great Exhibition of 1851—with, however, all modern conveniences. Indeed our hotel was one of ihe most comfortable and best run I have ever been in, possibly because it has the perfect head waiter, who has been there for 20 years and holds ihe management (and guests) in the hollow of his kindly and capable hands. The only people with whom he could not cope were three charming old ladies, the youngest of whom, certainly well over 60, drove their car up and down break-neck hills at a pace which made the islanders' blood run cold. But you cannot kill these old ladies who are letting loose nowadays with all the greater exuberance for the restrictions of A "Real" Hat Again In New York a new hat mode is getting under way.
It is called the the advance guard of "Fall" fashions and has a big comfortable crown that fits.
It is an effort to make a change from the little "sillies"—though no one seems quite sure if it is im answer to a demand or simply for a change. ly begins on May 30, is the triennial conference of the Associated Coun-women of the World, and women are coming to it from parts of the Empire and most countries, even including Germany. From America alone 300 women are due.
This conference lasts till June 10. immediately after which comes the huge annual Conference of Women's Institutes in London. Most of the visitors from overseas will join in that, and then they are invited to visit Women's Institutes in many of the most beautiful spots in Great Britain.
What the agenda of these conferences is to be I do not yet know But the imagination naturally dwells on what might be done for the peace and better fellowship of the nations if the women of all countries agreed to use their power in common. Future historians will probably dwell upon the amazing advancement in the position of women an over the world, as one of the most striking phenomena of the early 20th century Yet it must be confessed shat hitherto women have made very little use of their newly-acquired rights in a comminal or national sense. Are we still bound by the curse of individualism laid on us by Mother Eve when she asserted self against the universe by eating the apple?
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