NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2812, 18 November 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A directory of Metz has an asterisk attached to the name of every married man. This is to impart information to unmarried women.

Electricity for lighting costs 8d per unit in Oanmru. In Invercargill it costs only 2,?d. In Tijnaru, however, it costs 1/1 and the Manawa-tu-Oroua rate is Bd.

A resident of Gore recently wrote to a Melbourne, firm anent some engines in which, it dealt. He has now received a reply in which the following illuminating and frank passage occurs: “We regrt that we do practically no business with New Zealand and do not know the financial standing of any firms over there. As a. matter of fact we do not know where Gore is.”

The problem of bobbing and shingling hair by women workers continues to be discussed in the feminine pages of the English newspapers. Recently Lyons’ company decided that the teashop girls, who hitherto have not been allowed to bob, could do as they liked. Now the right to hospital nurses to bob and shingle is questioned. To-day the Romford Board of Guardians decided that no member of the nursing staff should he allowed to bob or shingle and that short-haired women must immediately allow their hair to grow. A woman member of the Board strongly urged that bobbed hair was hygenic and asked if patients wanted, hair in their food.* Other opponents of the Board’s order asked if it was proposed to forbid the use of face powder and high heels.

It has become the recognised thing in many families that mother is someone who should he the first to get up in the morning and the last to gij to bed at night, working and slaving all that time tor her children and husband —even' when the-e children are beyond their 'teens and “old enough to know better.” Take this instance (says an exchange). A woman teacher, who was nearer 00 than 50 went hack to school during the war. She had three daughters (Ilie youngest 22), all out earning their own living; it was an absolute impossibility to get a maid or help and that mother was obliged to go home from school every afternoon and do the hulk of the housework, besides preparing next day’s midciav lunch for herself and one daughter. All day Saturday she spent in cleaning up the house generally and shopping for the following week. Not one of those girls ever voluntarily gave one atom of assistance!