500 Years Custom Shattered by Feminine Invasion

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 230, 17 December 1927, Page 24 (Supplement)

500 Years Custom Shattered by Feminine Invasion

Male strongholds in London tltf* have been undisturbed by woman fc* nearly 500 years are now threate - by the invasion of “Miss Modern. Members of the ancient City Coffl panies are shaking their heads announcement that a woman h 3^ - • plied for admission to the Static Company. . _ ** In the worshipful c °m ponies company of woman is not sought, are among the strongest of tn remaining masculine strongholds. When a woman walks met vaulted halls the ghosts of I*' - of the past 500 years still seem peep aghast from the shadows. First Demand This is probably the pe for admission by a woman t startled the stationers’ Company it began, nearly 500 years ago. “Men only,” is the ofJU other companies approached* nn otx# traordinary records of roan centuries old were found. jjjc Ever since the year ' 4 ° n v ?”,J ip *' woman has applied for m ern hs* the Grocers’ Company, and f lol res-* been made a “freeman Two or three hundred flit there were feminine memoe . efC j« Haberdashers’ Company, bu j a y. not one woman among th em At all companies approacn occafound that though women wtf* sionally made “freemen. - n t]v no “liverymen.” and control*' woman had an active voice ing their affairs. ■ , “ " "TZm of &