Men Mustn't Work.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8016, 30 December 1905, Page 4

Men Mustn't Work.

(From Loxdoh Tucth.) " Some remarkable figures published by the United States Census Bureau prove that women are now* crowding men hard in numberless fields ot industrial activity. Many women, it is stilted, are employed as carpenters, maiona, painters, 4c." Westminster Gazette. 'Tis the voice ot the workman. I hear him complain. " Here is Woman, confound her! she's gone it again! So long as she stuck to the learned professions, I didn't care much for her freqi'mt aggressions. As a lawyer or doctor I said ' Let her be 1' She could not, as a dentist, much harm do fame ; But now things are looking more risky, I TOW, Right into the Workshop she's followed me now! " She jibs at a brush, and she shies at a basin ; She wont be a cook, but she will be a mason 1 A housemaid ? Not she 1 Mops she fancies, would taint her, Bat she's ready enough to become a housepainter I The thought of a parlor maid's place makes her blench, But she's found her way up to the carpenter'! bench; And clearly—for who, pray, can limit, her tricks ? She will soon run me hard as a layer of bricks 1 '• How then will it end ? At this rate, without doubt, We poor Workmen ere long shall be wholly squeezed out. Must we then, be content to go loafing around. Whilst the Women pervading our Workshops are found? Or shall we—whilst they bang their hats on our hooksTake their places as housemaids, and nurses, and cooks? And meekly allow, to our infinite cost, That as' Lords' of Creation our titles we've lost!"