Jottings About Town

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 21

Jottings About Town

Political f Peaches ?, f WOMEN are afraid' of being political ; * or so declares the Auckland * branch of the National Council of ;> Women, which recently gathered to- * gether to explain why the hand that ■■ c rocks the cradle is not yet, ostensibly, * ruling the world. . ■.'■*-. The trouble, according' to Miss Jack- ;* son, deputy president. Is that women * do not stand by women. If they did, | male members would eftsoons be tak- * ing permanent rest-cures on the Par- T < liamentary scrap-heap. * Ills answer, so far from being a • lemon, is a peach. Has sufficient been J made, so far, of the personal aspect of * women who propose to stand for Par- ; r- r liament? .j . . - . ':■; Hospital boards, city councils and « welfare Institutions have been tlie kin- * dergarten at -which most of our bud- t ding Lady Astors have been trained. ,;. All very laudable; but m Ehg<- ' ;«• land, one notices that the lady member of Parliament may be a '1 ■ woman of title or a chorus girl, * but she 'most always strikes some ;»' note of color m the popular imagi- *; nation. _.„.. V. In other words, we should arrange' "'.'' that our would-be lady members shall: „ catch the eye and ear of -the public, as well as that far ; smaller part human .make-up, the '^^„ If. womeri:yote for .men, riot.iKetsa.iise of any f anct^ct masculiife? cle^i^s or capability, but simply b^eeause'thf y, ., are men, why not sharp§ii - : ;the; * lcnif ef.on both . sides arid'. persuade^ men^t^|vpte for women becaitse they are w^ien?;, -■-•" • • . * T ',-. ' ' Where Men Are Mpi ■■ - ; - ■ ■ ■ ■ - r ---- - W- ; A RECENT cable from England seems **•. to indicate that a man by^|the . name of Sir George McMunn has Tieen looping the loop, rather, m his Recounts of the superfluous husband^ to be found m I British' colonies. '--' -,:■ "Go yyest,, young girl,'^ he "says,r;in the best fatherly, i^ahiier, . v ,'out' jin Aussie and Canada, husbands grow like weeds by the roadside— but, of course, more' decoratively. /*• ..■■; "Don't mind. if you're not particularly apt at the; sordid thing called, jvork. . "Girls out back are wearing- iwed- ■ dins rings find pushing peVitmbulators before ever their employers have a chance to find out that" they can't boil eggs." ; A ;t . Little New Zealand seems -to ,jiave been left put -"m the cold whilst' this .spin&ters' paradise was being depicted. But we have heard the sanie o,ld tale ■l?eforel"iii.jelatip^..'tpVou"rrpT^n.tair iand._ Nevertheless, on arrival here, immi- » grant girls have usually found sturdy:, muscle, or the ability to click keys,", just as useful as matrimonial eligi- ', bility. ; , . ; Even Sir George McMunn can't get: away from the horrible fact that there : are unmarried, native-born girls m the : Overseas Dominions. - These girls are probably, m re- -*. spect of education, attractiveness • and good bShavior, quite the equals • of those sent out from the Mother- ; land. ■."'■- . ; I The immigrant girl" has ;.\a , chance, ; and no more than a chalice; of mar- : riag& m any one of the .Dominions. > • And to depict our lands, fdr the" benefit " of the simple-minded, as places where,* wool kings and rabbit emperors' are = simply hankering for wives, isj.ii the , : long run a very unkind way of getting v rid of surplus population.^ ■