The Archive · 1939

Sweet Girl Graduates

Yo mark its 50th anniversary Somerville College, at. Oxford, has published q register of all its undergradueltes and what they have done, feom ite commencement with 12 girls, Sight of these have died but of the other four one is Miss Kate Downing, still a Journalist, and another is Miss M. E, Roberts, one of the founders of, the Madras Women's Christian College merville's record in novelists remarkable, Miss Dorothy Sayers Gio on "going down" was frst a teacher In @ Hull high school) is of course well renown as having been at Somerville, But both Miss Sylvia Thompson and Miss Rose Macaulay were Somerville girls. Other dis Ungulshed members of the college are Lady Bucknill, wife of the Judge; Dr. Rose Graham, vice-president of both the Royal Historical and the Royal Archmological Societies; and Miss Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman barrister in India and all her life a champion of Indian women's rights.

But in some ways the most remark able is Miss Florence Hayllar who, with one brief Interval, has been editor of that amazingly omniscient Journal "Notes " and Queries" since 1912. Most of her correspondents musi have thought she was a man.

Jean Berthault of Hattie Carnegie, famous New York dress specialist, thinks the bustle line ts most important for day and evening but soft fabrics must "be waed., He also, designs skysersper" hats for the blue being between [other taboos—no cocktail bar, for chosen to. show the Wedgwood and. special well in the artificial light of, the crypt, Her thoes are to be dye to match, but the choice of hat is still unrevealed, nstance—for the Alexandra to survive. Ils remainders will "be am Jgamated with the Empire Club across the street. Exclusiveness doesn't pay when it means boredom, Miss Cazalet will have one bridesmaid, Miss Megan Lloyd George. The two of them used to be known Jas "the Mapper MOPS" and why Miss [Lloyd George still wastes her charm single state must be known only to herself. She and Miss Cazalet are jon opposite sides of the House and the latter is marrying a Socialist journalist, 'This is the sort of thing which shows British political life a'! its best, It will not be surprising if! jwe see Mr. Gallagher, the Com-Jmunist, and Lady Astor dancing a. schotitgche at the wedding.

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