WOMAN'S WORK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 146, 17 July 1909, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORK.

THE QUEEN'S MESSAGE. London, May 1.2 Princess Louise, accompanied by the Duke of Argyll, opened live Jubilee Con gress of District Nursing in the Centra Hall, Liverpool. Her Royal Iliglme.v \v<n-s' accorded an enthusiastic welcome which she acknowledged in a liapp;. speech, in which she said: "I have a message for you from Queei Alexandra. She has the fullest sym pathy with you in your work. She i> sorry that she cannot bt present, bill she -will hear all about the congress She feels that this is' a work whicl women can do. 'Some women nowaday; try to be like men, but this is a thin} that men cannot do, and it is therefore hero that -we feel superior to anybod;, else." ller Royal Highness remained whih several papers were read, and prior t< .her departure she was presented with x finely-bound copy of the "Progress o the Congress'. It is appropriate to recall that thlate Queen Victoria referred tu the tru avocation of woman in several of he letters. Writing to the King of tli iJcljiians in 1852, she said: ' "We women are not made for goverr fag—ami if we are good women mu.« dislike these masculine occupations." A few days later she wrote to him: "I am every day more convinced tha we women, if we an; to be good womet. feminine and amiable and domestic, ar aot fitted to reign: at least, it is eontv gre that they drive l.lienisel to tli work which it entails." in a letter to Sir Theodore Martin ii 1870 she was even more emphatic:

"The Queen is most anxious to cnlis: everyone who can speak or write to joi: in checking this mad, wicked folly 0 •Woman's Rights," with all its attendant norrors, on which her poor feeble so is bent, forgetting every sense oi ' womanly propriety. Lady ought to get a good whipping. "It is a subject 'which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain her self. God created men and women dif fercnt—then let them remain each ii their own position. . . . Womar would ibecomc the most hateful, heart icss. and disgusting of human beingt were she allowed to unsex herself; ami where would be the protection whicl man was intended to give the weakci sex?"