Jotting's.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 20 February 1914, Page 1

Jotting's.

DIDN’T EXPFCT MUCH. Well, my little man, what can Ido for you ? ” asked the grocer as he rubbed his hands genially together. “ Please, sir, mother says these matches she bought this morning ain’t no good. ” '' No good ! ” exclaimed the grocer, now looking almost as worried as the boy. What’s the matter with them ? This is the first, complaint I’ve had. ” ■‘ Can’t help that, ” said the small boy. “ Mother says' they ain’t no good. ’’ Nonsense ” ! replied the grocer. Then taking a match from one of the boxes, he gave it a smart rub, which ignited it immediately, and turned to the boy again. “Well,” he inquired, “ what have you got to say now ? ’’ The small complainant returned, the disdainful look undaunted. “ That’s orl right, guv’nor ”, he remarked, “ but do you fink my muvver’s coming ’ere to strike matches on your boots every time she wants a light ? Another case is reported of a woman seeking to pass as a man because of the difficulty which women have to face in finding well paid employment ! A young woman has appealed to President Wilson to give her permission to wear men’s clothes, because “ as a man I am more respected and better paid. ” As a woman she could, she says, only earn 24s a week. In men’s attire she obtained employment as a bookbinder at a salary of £3 a week. President Wilson has made no , reply to the appeal, yet to issue a sxiecial permit allowing a woman to dress as a man would not be without precedent. Madame Diculapy, (he French explorer, has been granted the privilege by the French Government. It is interesting to recall that when a play dealing with the subject was produced in London not long ago the critics all complained that the incident of a woman wearing men’s clothes for the sake of obtaining better wages j was extremely improbable. | Lancashire educational authorij ties are thinking about the ques- ! tion of introducing the cinema j into the day schools. They j have received the circular drawn up by fjSir Albert Kaye Rollitt, the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Littleton, and Mr Alfred Perceval Graves, chairmen of the representative managers of the London County Council elementary schools, and this has set considerable machinery in motion. County boroughs Jalso have the matter seriously before them. The circular draws attention to two | aspects of the question—the j urgent need of utilising the invention of moving pictures for educational purposes, and the ! purpose of control over the attendance of children at public ex- | hibitions. A county borough j chairman says he recognises the j educational value of the cinema, j and as an instance refers to a j picture of a “ live” volcano. “No J amount of reading or description j taken from books could repre- | sent to the imagination what was shown in the picture.”