Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 66, 22 November 1892, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

A young lady who was canvassing a portion of the Taieri district for the purpose of abtaining signatures in favour of women's suffrage, met with several rather stern rebuffs. One worthy old guid-wite, who has brought up a splendid family of sons and daughters, .gave the fair canvasser a bit of her mind in something after * the following fashion :— " Hoot awa, lassie ; diy ye no think shame o' yersel' gadding around wi' a paper like yon ? Can ye not find anything •better to tak 1 up yer time ? Can ye no get a laddie to take car* o' ye ? Gin I fashed masel' about sic stuff as women-folk votin', div ye think 1 could hae brocht up : sine sons and j dochters? Get married, women, and When ye ha'e twa or three bairns to look sifter yell leave sic trash as politics and votin' to the men folk." And the canvasser left, evidently pondering over the homely words of wisdom she had just listened to. Exchange. There's a fly in the ointment pot after all, says " Civis" in the Witness The Labor member gets £240 a year, paid monthly. So far so good, it's more than he could earn at his trade. But what about his trade ;f Is he to continue at it or leave it? The one course is- as perilous as .the other. If he abandons his bench /his constituents will say he has grown too big for his boots, No. longer working with his hands he loses the chief qualification of the labor mem- ■ ber, and will probably be tossed overboard at the next general election. If he sticks to his bench he keeps as good a man as himself out of a job and pockets two sets of pay, an offence the working man will never forgive. He* ought to content himself with his honorarium and let other people live.