Woman in the World

Woman in the World

Among the news from Lake Success: Mrs. Roosevelt is following with the keenest interest the women's movements now underway in the countries of the Middle East, aimed at women obtaining their political rights. She holds it necessary for woman to take part in the administration of the country, since she is the one in charge of the basic social affairs and of the first profession of all — the home and the children.

Mrs. Roosevelt also believes that granting woman the right to vote in elections tempts men and makes them take an interest in politics... for they are exceedingly eager to win the votes of the lady electors!..

Now paying a visit to the East is the beauty queen of the world, Miss Nancy Daskaska, sister of the well-known actress Yvonne De Carlo.
She was elected beauty queen from among 6,000 beauty queens in Hollywood, and she will hold this title until the year 1952. Her father is Hungarian and her mother Italian.

The strangest thing in her life is that she married three times in the space of four months — once in America, another time in Paris, and a third in London.
She neither smokes nor drinks wine; she has insured her eyes for the sum of one million dollars; and she speaks 12 languages fluently?
There was recently founded in California a club considered the first of its kind, called "the Club of the Slender." Contrary to its name, it admits among its members none but ladies who are wanting in slenderness...
This club was founded by Mrs. Bornella Shiak, who drew up for it a list of instructions, foremost among them that the ladies observe moderation in eating, refrain from taking too much starchy and fatty food, and perform certain exercises that limber the muscles.
Every year a festival is held at the club at which a Queen of the Figure is elected — and she is usually the one who has taken its counsels to heart and carried out the club's rules to the letter!

"Edda," Mussolini's daughter, and the wife of Count Ciano, whom his father-in-law, the Italian dictator, put to death.
Hardly had Ciano fallen dead by the bullets when Edda fled with her children to Switzerland and took refuge in silence...

At last "Edda" has broken her silence and begun to recount to one of the Italian journalists many of the outstanding events of her life.
Edda today is tormented; pain overflows upon her hard face with a kind of sweetness and gentleness.
Nothing remains of her famous face but two round black eyes, gleaming, which remind you always that she is of the stock of the Duce, that hard man...

Among the news from Egypt: the literary lady Mrs. Amina al-Said has submitted her resignation from the Egyptian Women's Union, owing to a dispute that arose between her and certain of the lady members. We are sorry to hear this news, for in Mrs. Amina al-Said's withdrawal from the atmosphere of the Union there is a great loss for that institution.

Also from Cairo: the governing board of the Reform League in Egypt met under the chairmanship of Dr. Haykal Pasha. Among the subjects discussed was the Egyptian woman's demand for her political rights, and for the enactment of laws to protect her as wife and mother.
The board reviewed the wave of activity prevailing among the women's associations and the demands each of them is pressing to achieve. Finally it was decided to hold a congress of the Egyptian woman in November, in which all the women's associations and organizations will take part, to draw up a unified resolution to serve as a charter of the Egyptian woman's demands: political, social, and cultural.
From a statement by the Honorable al-Ashmawi Pasha, he said:
"If the coming legislative session should be without women representatives, he is confident that in the session that follows woman will take her place in Parliament side by side with man."

... At last the Duchess of Windsor has been permitted to reside in England, something that had formerly been forbidden her.
The Duchess of Windsor is counted among the most elegant ladies in the world, and the beauty experts of America say that the beauty of her brow is matched by no beauty in the world.
For the sake of that beautiful brow, the King of England, Edward VIII, removed the crown from his own.
Princess Margaret Rose, the second daughter of King George VI, was the target of a violent attack by certain English newspapers for traveling alone to Italy!
These papers said the Princess ought to have traveled incognito, so that she might learn from her journey and profit by it.
The Ministry of Finance allowed the Princess no more than fifty pounds, on a par with ordinary members of the public, and the Italian government is exerting efforts to make this small sum suffice the Princess.
She is intelligent, she hates formalities, and she has been proposed in marriage to fifty young men.
The Italian papers say that Her Highness the Princess drinks thirty glasses of lemonade every day, and it is feared this may affect her figure.
Miss Jocelyn May Woollcombe is the first woman to be appointed a member of the British Privy Council. She is 51 years old, and was formerly director of the women's units in the naval fleet.
After the events of the last World War, British public opinion was not long in becoming convinced that woman is no less than man in her capacity to bear responsibilities — even the military ones, which people had formerly coupled with man alone.
Perhaps this rapid development in the position of the British woman is for the good, since it allows her to occupy the posts of direction and to stamp the policy of the state with a mother's feeling and her tenderness — which means making the policies of states more subject to human considerations.

Madame Möller, wife of the Minister of Social Affairs in Sweden, is the possessor of a fiery, vehement pen. In 1939 she was sentenced to two months' imprisonment following the publication of a book of hers which she called "The Green Island," in which the writer relates several scandals of the Swedish prisons.
When the minister's wife came out of prison she redoubled her activity and her campaign for the reform of the prisons, until a decision was issued appointing her a member of the prisons commission.
She was able to present her husband with a file of the violations she had recorded against the prison physician.
The physician brought suit against the minister, accusing him of libel. And the court gave judgment against the minister himself. In his own defense the minister did not mention the part his wife had played in this case, lest he expose her to prison a second time.
The five-member committee for the Nobel Prize has nominated Mrs. "Eva Perón," wife of the President of the Argentine Republic, to receive this great prize. The award of the prize will be celebrated next December.
And that day is the anniversary of the death of the man who created this world prize.

From a conversation of the editorial secretary with Mrs. Ruth Woodsmall, who is at present working in Germany as head of women's affairs in the American zone, she said:
"Woman in Germany today suffers from a problem unique of its kind: for every 100 men there are 172 girls. This means the occurrence of a severe crisis in marriage, and so those responsible are working to direct and prepare the young women for the free professions and for economic occupations that will divert them from marriage.
Woman in Germany today is the majority, and the word in the elections is hers... and the result is always as she wills... Her road is hard and long, and her responsibility is great, but she is courageous and ready to work and to take a serious part in the rebuilding of the new Germany."