WOMAN’S PLACE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 251, 27 February 1875, Page 3

WOMAN’S PLACE.

Ove of the vexed questions of the day, says the London Weehly Dispatch, is the fitness of women for certain occupations at present confined to the male animal. Clerkesses are rapidly elbowing clerks from our countinghouses ; doctoresses are getting large pract ices together; we have lady orchestras, lady preachers, and lady promoters of public companies. We are still, however, only approaching the pitch of feminine perfection which our ancestresses reached as far back as the year 1722. Here is a genuine advertisement copied from a paper of that period •‘Challenge. I, Elizabeth Wilkinson, of Clerkenwell, having had some words with Hannah Hyfield, and requiring satisfaction, do invite her to meet me upon the stage and box me for three guineas, each woman holding half-a-crown in each hand, and the first woman that drops the money is to lose the battle. Answer—l, Hannah Hyfield, of Newgate Market, hearing of the resoluteness of Elizabeth Wilkinson, will not fail, God willing, to give her more blows than words, desiring home blows and from her no favour 1 She may expect a good thumping.” “ Here’s a big chance for yon, ladies ! Discuss the question at the Dialectical, and see if you cannot wrest yet another profession from the greedy hands of your oppressors. You have evidently practised the “art" once, and “so you can again.”

What quadrupeds are admitted to balls, operas, dinner parties, &c. ? White kids.

“ Setting a Man-trap” is the title given to a picture of a pretty young lady arranging her curls at a mirror. A paper has this advertisement : “ Two sisters want washing.” We fear that millions of brothers are in the some predicament. “ Do you know why you are like the third term ?” said Susan Jane to her brother, who lingered to talk with her Adolphus after the old folks had retired. “ No, I don’t.” “Well,” replied his saccharine sister, “it’s because you’re one too many.” The difference between noted men and noted women is said to be that the men always like to see themselves in print, and that the women prefer to see themselves in silks and velvets. Ak Oshkosh woman gave birth to four children. When her husband protested she whimpered out, “ Shadrach, you know how

these reaper accidents are reducing the population of Wisconsin.”