Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-21
Facts About Women Of Europe

more becoming and less expensive than
the hat.
LONDON, Feb. 2O.-Mrs Sophie Ell
liott-Lynn, Eng1and's first woman air
pilot. is advocating an international
aviation meet for women only where
there would be races, stunting and
light aeroplane competitions. Mrs.
Lynn thinks the light aeroplane is
the machine for women, and visualizes
the time when women will be using
it as enthusiastically as they now
use motorcars.
Cinderella's nimble feet were cited
as examples to English girl students,
who were urged to spend more time
in the gymnasium by the head mis-
tress of Grey Coat School, West
Minister.
IF you girls are inclined to think
of physical training as the Cinder-
ella. of the school curriculum, remem-
Der. that Cinderella must have made
her ugly sisters comfortable at home
or she would not have been kept
there Remember also that she mar
ried the prince because her feet were
adaptable, and which seems to me to
be tn position of physical training
in the school,"
LONDON, Feb 2O.-Tails of animals
fur are the only ornaments worn
by married women in Kismu, Kenya
colony, British East Africa, and these
are regarded as the equivalent of
wedding rings, Mrs. Patrick Ness,
traveller and writer, told members Of
the Victoria league here. These wom-
en- were proud of their tails, and in
sisted upon wearing them at all
times, even when bathing in the rivers.
CANNES, Feb. 2O-Helen Wills, de
spite her extreme youth, is SO aus
tere and calm on the tennis court,
that she affords a marked contrast
to the. temperamental Suzanne with
all her French mannerisms, and very
mannerisms many of them
are.
Cabaret performers the length of
the Riviera are giving limitations of
the two women tennis players which
meet with great favor and will doubt |
less soon spread to the music halls of
European capitals.
Movie stars, opera singers and ac-
tresses have no chance in competi-
ton with the famous tennis players.
Suzanne and Helen set the fashions
and they predominant society circles. |
The colors they wear are all the rage,
DARTC Fab 20--Thn first evening
that Carlotta Zambe11i appeared ut
the Legion of honor, she was cheered
so long and Justify that the orchestra
had to stop for some minutes The |
roseN to honor the "first
dancer and stood to cheer their
favorite ballet queen.
The new knight of the Legion of !!
Honor, is the first dancer to receive !
hat distinction.
LLINGSBOROUGH, England, Feb. ,
20.-Under the same roof in this VIII |
lage are five women, all related, !
whose combined ages total 465-an
average of SO. They are all active. /
Two of them earn a living by knit |
ing and dressmaking, while the
other three do housework.
The patriarch of the household is
", but still gets out to do the shop
ping, while the flapper Of 81 spends
most of her time doing the kitchen
work and chores. The others are
aged 8S, 81 and 90.
NICE, Feb. 20,-In little villa
buried under flowers and made mys-
erious by wisteria vines Emma Calve,
,nce applauded by thousands in Amer
ca and Europe, has taken her retreat.
among French girls another great
singer who will fill Calves place on
he worlds operate stage.
Two hours each day she works at
Ter Memoirs which she is now writ
ng in French, having first written
hem in English. But her main pur-
pose is to bring glory to France by
and bringing out another
great opera singer.
Speaking of her young pupils some
ime ago-Madame Calve never looks
Lfter more than six or seven young
girls at the same time-she said:
Look at my family. They are
eally my daughters. My voice has
lad little ones"
PARIS, Feb. 2O-"Because I am in
crested in women, not because I want
O make money! Lima Cavalieri re-
,lied when asked why, with her large
evenue enabling the former singer
0 live in luxury for the rest of her
ife, she had decided to open Paris
beauty parlor.'
Had I wanted to make money I
ould easily have amassed large
ortune in the United States, where
or nine years I wrote articles deal
ng with the beauty of women and
he best methods of preserving it,
Madame Cavalieri's beauty parlor
S situated in one of the most fash
enable districts in Paris, employs 20
20 manicurists and 20
ace ''masseurs."