Where Women Lead.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 17 July 1914, Page 2

Where Women Lead.

The Tokio correspondent of ' The Daily Citizen ' states that a little village exists on the Cape df Shima in Japan, the name of wkich in Japanese means "the Settlement of Nymphs." Woman in this village is the predominant partner. The chief industry is pearl-fishing, and it is the women who are the fishers. The men stay at home and do the housework. From the age of four years girls are taught to dive, and the craft has always been jealously kept in the women's ha.ixls. Recently some of the mcii became discontented and started to practise diving with the idea of themselves becomingpearl fishers. The women, dreading the intensified competition, ordered the men to discontinue their diving, and as the men refused a boycott was declared against them. The sexes have been at war e\*er since, and finally the women expelled all the ruen from their homes, and undertook in their clumsy, inexpert fashion to do the housework themselves. The men have partitioned Parliament for their rights.