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THE CHINA
MAIL,
WOMEN'S
SATURDAY, JUNA 1, 1929.
FANCIES
XXX
Frills of Yesterday.
For the Bridge Fiend
SICK GARDENS
A PLANT PATHOLOGIST'S
JOR
WOMAN SCIENTISTS WORK
I remember a well-known botan-
ist begging me some years ago not to refer to botany eminently a woman's subject.
That it should be so dignified
in the days of
the first women
scientists was perhaps beenuse old-fashioned people could
This
gown
is
simply Fashion-
noor
take aeriously
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the fact
that
wonten students of botany were doing more than going out with and baskets, collecting trowels specimens to bring home for identi Beation.
Botany still is and will be a woman's far urite subject at the Universities. The modern woman student and botanist is doing in mensely important work, which
the
of the trowel-and-basket
days would have dreamed of as even a remote possibility.
are conferring grout
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There are woman scientists to- day who benefits on horticulture and agri- culture by fighting such pests as clover sickness, by delving into
plots to make the very most of the secrets of fungus menace. | Qeir resources.
to do in Mrs. N. L. Alcock, Plant Patholo velling gardeners what
diagnos-kist to the Department of Agricul cases of plant disease,
ture for Scotland, Royal Botanie Garden, Edinburgh, spends her time thing this kind of work. is at the beck and call of any who She visits big seck her services. plantations that have fallen "sick," and even small gardens with plant troubles.
ed, ·f Juscious hartreuse anding the ravages of tree illnesses. extende almost tra the on both sides, creating a very smart, and working at further discoverier
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ENTHUSIASM FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION
their
THE WEST-END
MARRIAGE MERELY A SOCIAL EVENT
come
"SUBLIME TRAGEDY"
"Think of what marriage has be
In the West end--almost en- tirely a social, superficial thing."
Father Vernon, of the Society of Divine Compassion, made this criticism in the second of his recent Lenten discourses at Christ Church, Lancaster-gate.
The preacher occupied the pulpit for the whole of the service, and spoke for at least an hour and a quarter. The doctrinal instruction with which the opened
went into the priestly powers bestowed in ordination, and con- tained a remarkably vivid personal experience.
Why, he asked, was a representa- tive of the religion of the State laughed at in the streets, in the pages of "Punch," and on the stage? It was a tragedy.
Thrills of To-dy.
Textile Queen
"Laat Wednesday," Father Ver- non went on, "I was in a third-class carriage with two working men. At the next station two City men eagerly pressed in and rushed back when they saw me. When the door closed I said to the two work- men; 'Let's get down to it. Why did those men draw back when they saw me?" The men made different replies, but the chief one was that thase City men felt they could not talk frankly and freely with a
L the carriage. Sir Leonard is standing for re- clergyman in
If it is election, and Lady Violet is pre-wonder what this means. paring for an energetic campaign the real reason, there is something Mias Thorndike has come back to help him, for she is a good plat-"] in it.
"Does it mean that people like full of enthusiasm for the younger form speaker and works during an generation. both British and Dutch, election almost as hard as if she this do not understand the clergy of She
South Africa. "They are so were herself a prospective can- and they know we do not under- stand them? Does it mean that eager to learn about the rest of the didate.
Apethorpe world," she said, "and their keen-
Hall
lovely chey fee they have got to be care- ness on every subject under the sun Northamptonshire home, the one- ful in the presence of a priest?
The company time seat of is most refreshing."
the Earls of West-If so, the reasons to a great extent had heard rumours that pays of a morland, will remain closed for some lie in the Church of the past. But I wonder if the There was a time when the priest "light" order would be preferred. months.
still in residence-Lady was the third son of the family, But "Saint Joan," "Jane Clegg" ghost is
Grace Mildmay, A 17th-century and tended to represent the point of and "The Silver Cord" favourites.
chatelaine of the place, who, it is view of a class. He became an said, scatters silver pennies as she example of the fine English gentle | walks!
man, living in his own level of he came for." society and, as it were, the head- system cemented this relationship, piece of the village. In this way, and constituted the priest a super I am afraid, we have loss the vision natural guide, guard, and shepherd of the supernatural vocation."
for each precious and eternal soul. Greatest Gift on Earth
Problem of Life to preacher turned
In his sermon, which dealt with of matrimony, and spiritual blindness and the Light of the World, Father Vernon said "Think of what marriage has that the usual course of things after become in the West-end! Go any the enthusiasms of youth had passed where and see the sublime tragedy away and disillusions arrived was --almost entirely a social
that we "ceased to go for the superficial thing in the estimation bowling." We tried to play the de- time. of almost everybody there. But feusive game and take our
When in 1915 plant pathology was started in Kew Gardens, Mrs. Alcock specialised on the subject, proceeding to her post from 31. Mary's Hospital Medical School, to which she had come from Montreal. At Kew her four little children had the freedom of the gardens, which, of course, they loved. There was one occasion when they fell to the lake and were rescued thersirom by kindly gardeners,
Mrs. Alcock is busily engaged now in plant pathology for the De partment of Agriculture for Scot- land, whose chief, Sir Robert Creig
culture
always
were first
In the smaller towns, such as Bulawayo-which Miss Thorndike described as having a distinctly English
almosphere- different play had to be given each night be- cause everyone expected to go to the theatre for all the performances of the week's "season."
BACK FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Lady Violet Brassey and her is & great enthusiast. Scottish agri-husband, Sir Lecnard Brassey, M.P, have just come back to town from a horticulture have and
in South short holiday
Africa by been characterised thoroughness and enterprise. What They went to pay a visit to their
than the
Bernard who gardens more beautiful
is farming in Natal. 50 Scottish, and what gardeners clever Great trouble is taken with Scottish exports, such as seed pota- toes, to keep them free from dis-
ease.
Seed-Borne Disease investigations into a seed-borne disease, clover-sickness, form an'in-i teresting part of Mrs. Alcock's! work, about which she has lectured before the British Association. That disease comes from imported clover seed brought from Central arable land is being
put back to pasture and 80 much pasture is being improved by sow- ing wild white clover that the sptedy elimination of the disease is most eagerly desired by farmers.
This woman botanist will pro- bably speak at a meeting of the British Association in South Africa this year.
She will deal with methods of fighting plant disease, with special reference to the pro- blem of disease-carrying exports.
Some time ago, during her re- searches on hill pastures, she was struck by the fact that all bracken and many ferna have a fungus that lives on their roots,
At the time she could not see exactly what practical purpose would be served by this line of inquiry..
War on Bracken
cou-
Now it has come up in. nection with one of the big lines of research in this Scottish: "De- partment. A great effort is being? made to control the growth of bracken, since it is causing great damage, especially in the West of Scotland. It is hoped therefore, that a disease that has in Tany districts attacked the foe will lessen the growth of this too. fourishing fern.
A thorough investigation is be ing made, and landowners are making great efforts to prevent bracken from getting the upper hand again on grazing grounds and plantations.
Work on behalf of the wonder- ful trees of the conifer family, for which Scotland is famous, also helps to fill Mra. Alcock's time. In addition, there are the numerous garden troubles of small pro- prietora.-M. H. In “Daily Tele- graph.
TO CELEBRATE A NEW BOOK
The Sacrament
An amusing party was that given. by Mr. Lance Sieveking to celebrate the theorning publication of a book he has written in collabora-said: tion with Mr. Prancis Bruguiere. The book, "Beyond This Point," has the intriguing sub-title "A Subati- tute for Gazing in the Fire," and has abstract photographs by Mr. Brugulers. Mr. Sieveking stater that the book deals with six ways of coping with some crisis in life.
Back to Nature With Backless Duds
Dorothy Sebastian, left, shown how a girl can get a gorgeous. tan without trekking all the way to a distant beach. You can even get it at your favourite swimmin hole at Repulse Bay or Lai-chi-kok, with one of these backless suits. Here in a very striking one, in black and white. Joan Grawford, on the right, says you can even accomplish the same thing on any old tennis court. The cute little trick she's wearing is a white washable "twish material. The Scotch plaid belt and red bere give a vivid touch of colour to the costume, and brings that licious brown skin right into rollef
Instead of a sacrament.
the
And
Wearing a checked sports dress of her own make from material manufac- lured by fellow students of North Carolina State College, at Raleigh, N.C., Miss Grace Jolly won the title of "Queen of the Textile Institute" ver a score of other contestants from ather schools.
The sacramental
Life
if it comes to a question of blame, But this afforded no real answer to it is we clergy who have been people who came to and asked us partly responsible. We have let to help them in selving the riddle you down.
or others who came Marriage we have of existence, allowed to become a social event and asked us to help them because
they were down and out. "We ought to take young people was an insoluble problem, and each and tell them what they have too of us had some form of shortcoming often learned in a wrong quarter, that left us, like blind Bartimeus, and tell them under the guidance by the wayside, begging and help. of the Holy Spirit, because it is part less. We had dropped Christianity, of our supernatural job. If the perhaps, but life had not dropped Church does not lift marriage into us. sb that we had life baffling us on the region of the supernatural then the one hand and only God-by- in the end it falls below the natural. hearsay on the other. Marriage is God's greatest gift on Politics, he said in conclusion, earth to men and women, but it was largely the cause why the comes to grief when the bigh mission of Christ in this world vision is lost. Put aside your came to a point where it was re- shyness, and go to some good clergy-garded by the worldly as a failure, man and let him be the shepherd but the survival of Christianity and guide of your married life." for 2,000 years as the greatest Similarly the preacher discussed force in history disposed of this baptism and confirmation, and said delusion. After all, the six feet of that clergy and laity could never earth that awaited each of us was drift apart if the former kept nothing. It was the open and in touch with the children empty grave in Palestine that mat- they had christened. They tered, and the resurrection lesson should continue to visit peo- that it taught was that Christ with ple's homes as part of their job, His ory of "Repeat" was the most and not in a manner which, through perfect sufferer, and therefore the leaving religion undiscussed, caused most perfect lover, for disappoluted, people to remark: "I wonder what failing, broken-hearted humanity.
Pamela
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