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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 45, 21 July 1885, Page 4

The stronger sex are threatened with being crowded out of another of , their occupations by their eager gisters. . A new movement has \>een set on foot m England for employing women, as commeicial travellers.. If it once gets under weigh, a premium will pjertainly bo pnt* upon personal attrac tions, ; alid susceptible traders \vi 1 1 run a risk of finding their premises over stocked. Those who . -indignant! v deciy the movement as mM'taken have one or two -awkward facts to contend '.with. Ay female couriers travelling cotn|ianion|i, and agents, wpnipn have achieved a decided success, and think nothing ;! of; passing and repassing between India or the colonies and tlie mot her conn try. There are signs moreover, that their services will be mow and move m demand as their utility becomes known. From these employments to that of the commercial traveler is but a short step. Before long we may have women soliciting orders m half-explored countries, or gauging the requirements of a mining district* store. For the more adventurous among them the 'career will have ihaivv inducements. To people ofhumble means there-is no. such oppor- . (iunity. as .the bagman's lot affords of" : seeing the world " an'<| picking up knowledge. Parents arid guardians, , howe.ver, may make strong objections at first. - - -I . ; ; : ; . : ; I Ife is stated: that Professor E. F. ftitchie, of Bridport, Conn., ia m correspondence with A d mi ral Jouesj pf the British navy, with reference to the m trod uof ion of a poisonous airbomb he. has invented, and which he, claims will" revolutionise all modern warfare. The-- gsiases before being - introduced into the bombs are several times compressed and impregnated with poisons, which make them •Quickly fatal to any, living creature hreat'iing'*\siem. When exploded the gas' ji&s' clofce. to: the around. Th roWn-into -an : ai'niy,-. . 'the inventor^ t';hus descrjb.es the effects of what he calls his W mane system of warfare. — The bomb explodes, and the air witaiin a radius of IQO feet becomes ■ijhsjrged with silent death. "You cann"o| figh^ it, 'y.ou cannot destroy this sileh^'lif^dcsrroying- enemy. What is the. j'eiuil ? Why, the men can stay anfl 'asphyxiate,but you will find they wqn't. They will run aw.iy m a beaten and demoralised condition, and- this is one of the be*t points about the device."