Fairly Feminine.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 11, 19 May 1911, Page 5

Fairly Feminine.

Tho Norwegian Parliament now includes a lady member, Miss K-agstad, schoolmistress, and her male colleagues, it is said, paid her marked attention, on her first appearance in the House. Miss Ragstad has the reputation of being extremely eloquent, and is highly cultured. * * * Tho Cradley Heath chainmaking women of England, over whom many have shed tears, can now make, after two years of learnership (for every hour of which they are paid) 11s., 12s. 13s. or 14s. a week. "O England, while thy female slaves, have to live and die like these." * •■ * * A sub-enumerator who called upon a Masterton household asked if there were any live stock. "What do you mean, sir?" asked tho offended mistress. "Do you think I neglect my children. ;, * -x- * There aro still living some contemporaries of Noah. Witness this "Tom Cat" in Waihi "Daily Telegraph" : "According to Sir J. G. Ward and others it the high cost of living that accounts for oiir prosperity—high prices for butter, wool, frozen meat, etc. : ,but, like Sandy I've got ma doubts about Maggie. I, think that the women kind have a lot to do with the increased cost of living. They aro waited on hand and foot, don't make their own breadj knit their own hose, dress flasher (not better), look for better houses, have votes, and go to mora entertainments. In fact the white woman is becoming an expensive luxury. She sets the pace; men only follow hor fashions, content to do any kind of work to be able to support and sport one white woman. I commend this problem to Mr. Semple and his Federation, of Labour." Evidently "Tom Cat" thinks that the better drudge she is made the better woman. Alaa! * * * Since her visit to America, Elinor Glyn, the author of "Three Weeks," to the amusement of her friends, has adopted the simple life pose. Her hair is now a rich auburn, instead of the iiaming red of last season. She protested in the drawing-room that she had positively no appetite. "When in the throes of composition, I cannot bring myself to eat," she said as she glided to be bedroom, where she wished to meditate alone over an apple and a glass of milk. An intimate friend, who rushed through her dinner in order to be with the poor fragile Elinor, discovered the authoress smoking a cigarette after partaking of an excellent meal which had been sent up on a tray. Harem versus Hobble. The much-discussed jupe-culotte, or harem skirte were in evidence at Katoomba, N.S.W., lately, when three fair visitors decided! to don the new garments, and give them a trial for mountain climbing. As may be imagined, the young ladies attracted a great deal of attention. A large crowd of mountain visitors followed close on their heels. After ascending and descending they unanimously voted the harem just the thing for mountaineering. At the top of the falls a large number of sight-seers were being amused by a young lady wearing the harem's forerunner—the vainly endeavouring to step up into a vehicle. After many attempts Miss Hobble had to be lifted bodily into the vehicle. So the harem, skirt has gained one point in its favour on the Blue Mountains. Olive Schreiner's Latest. Olive Sehreiner, whose "Story of an African Farm' , will reach into the Everlasting, has recently written a new book entitled "Women and Labor." It promises to be a book of the times. We shall deal with it in due course. Meanwhile, one of many brave and brilliant gems of thought: "The conception which again and again" appears to have haunted successive societies, that it is a possibility for man to advance in physical power and intellectual vigour, while his companion became stationary and inactive, taking no share in tJbe labors of society beyond the passive fulfilment of sexual functions, has always been negated. It has ended, as would end the experiment of a man seeking to i raise a breed of winning racehorses I out of unexercised, short-winded, knock-kneed, mares." The receipt of this paper is an invitation to subscribe. Twelve months for five shillings.