RAILWAY CONVENIENCES FOR MOTHERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 166, 9 April 1920, Page 7

RAILWAY CONVENIENCES FOR MOTHERS

A PROTEST.. : ' . .Sir,—l woiiid. l'iko to trespass on your space for a short but indignant protest. It is just this: Are .women travelling for 12 hours on tlie railway with small chil-, dreu to be for ever condemned to the ; l>ublic, dirty, inconvient and insufficient ■ lavatory arrangements? "Why cannot theio be a carriage for mothers so that! they may attend to their infants a little away from the public gaze; or if this is too wild and unreasonable a suggestion, why is there not a separate lavatory, debarred from the men, who seem to have all their wants considered? Now, tho smoking proclivities of our menfolk are. evidently worthy of far greater: consideration than the baby-tear-ing done by the' womenfolk. That is 60 little considered by the general public that, mark my words, if it is made so inconvenient to travel with a bady, onr birthrate will stay at its alarming low ■rate, and our mothers take a turn at considering their own feelings. Tn conclude, I should like to ask, do not tho railway heads ever consider how perfectly outrageous it is Hint the sanitary arrangements are never larger and exclusively for women ? With many thanks in anticipation, and hoping that some abler writers and more influential persons will get this matter rectified—l am, etc., . OUEBN OF THE EARTH. April 5, 1920.