Our Near Future.
From tbe Star's Wellington notes we dip the following :— Parliament also discussed a Bill to make divorce easier ; another one dealing with separation between man and wife ; another to admit of women to the bar as lawyers ; and an awful measure making it legal for a widow to marry her deceased husband's brother. It does not appear by this bill that the brother can refuse if the widow wants him, in which case flight will be his only chance of escape. There have always been cranks who have prophesied that the Battle of Armageddon in the books of Revelations had reference to Napoleon, or Bismarck, or the Baasians. Evidently, they have all been astray. The coming doom is the political woman in Parliament. Speaking six at a time, with a chorus of children in the State nursery adjoining, to be" spanked or fed by State wet nurses on State pap, and the Barnard reporters will be endeavouring with '. v. State phonographs to catch the right woman's voice in the wrong machine. There will be no difficulty in the -- coming triumph of the advanced woman in answering the question, •'ls life worth living ?"
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Manawatu Herald, 20 August 1896, Page 3
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195Our Near Future. Manawatu Herald, 20 August 1896, Page 3
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