Fairly Feminine.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 20, 21 July 1911, Page 4

Fairly Feminine.

Dear Editor, —May your shade of red never be less. Cutting from "Evening Post".: WANTED, kind motherly person to take entire charge of Infant m own home. Apply, stating terms, to Infant, Post Agency, Newtown. With the dim perceptions of a mere nan I seem to hear the infant's terms vs: "Nothing short of my own mammy!" And, ten to one I—under»socialism it could get them. j«- *■ * British women appear to bo determined to hold their own in the matter of physical culture. Of the 2000 entries for the massed display of ph.sical cuiturists in the football arena during the .festival of Empire, x~ were by women and girls. * * * The "womanly woman who knows her place' 3 is a creature domineered by the spirit of slavery. The militant suffragette is an inspiring vision in the desert of Custom. * * * Governments always legislate to give to the strongest even greater concessions. The more helpless any section of the people, the more they are ignored. That is why we find the unfortunate domestic servant outside the provisions of our industrial legislation. Particularly glaring is the Government's refusal to apply the provisions of the Compensation Act to domestic workers. * * * When we consider how womankind has been treated by society for ages past, looked upon always as an inferior being, hemmed in by a different social and moral code to that of man, we must admit that these acts of repression have been a greater obstacle to progress than any other in mankind's onward march towards its goal. * « «• # # "The man who teaches any child on earth that it is not as good as an 3 other child is a blasphemer and a liar."—W. T. Mills. * * * •* ■ Man's inhumanity to woman is the curse of modern society. True progress will begin only when the other half of the human family are recognised and treated as being the equal of their brothers. * * * * Tho woman who puts in her spare time reading sentimental novelettes and studying fashion plates is about as- useless to society as the man who has the pedigree of every race horse at his tongue's end. *• * * In the midst of all the pomp and show and squandering of vast wealth in connection with the Coronation, did any of those women of the useless class give a thought to their 100,000 London sisters —daughters of working men and women—forced to the lowest depths of degradation by a social code which makes Kings, Queens and Coronations possible. * * * All women have theories about men. Both the theories and the women are apt to be Avrong. No woman has a soui until she loves.—"The Woman in the Firelight," by Oliver Sandys. * ■* * "I can understand most tilings, ' said Eliza, "as iong as you don't try to explain them. That's what sews anybody up."—''Eliza Getting On," by Barry Pain. * * * Love is moro than the finest writer has ever said, and not quite so much as the humblest lover has ever thought it.—"Mr. Pei-riii and Mr. Traill,' 7 by Hugh Walpole. •j;- * * "Then this," asked the rejected suitor "is absolutely final?" "Quite," was the calm reply. "Shall I return your letters?" "Yes. please," answered the young man. "There's some very good material in them I can use again." * # * A little town in Kansas, U.S.A., is in tho hands of the suffragettes. The Mayor m Mrs. Wilson, and she has appointed as chief of police another lady friend of hers. The-jnale members of tho town Council are up in arms against the lady mayor and are endeavouring to prevent tho -whole of tho official positions passing into the hands of the suffragettes. A deadlock exists at present, the Council refusing to grant supplies and the deadlock exist- at present, the Coimlady mayor refusing to bow to the dictates of the Council.