WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 289, 1 May 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by " Eileen NOTES FROM LONDON. London, March 10. THE WOMEN'S BILL. The two main clauses of the Women's Enfranchisement Bill introduced in Parliament by Sir George Kemp are as follows: — | 1. Every woman possessed of a household qualification, within the meaning of the Representation of the, People's Act, 1884, shall be entitled: to be registered as a voter, and,' when registered, to vote for the j county or borough, in which the i qualifying premises are situate. I 2. For the purpose of this Act, a woman shall not be disqualified byj marriage for being registered as a voter, provided that a husband and wife shall not be both registered as voters in the same parliamentary borough or county division. ; MARRIAGE AND HEALTH.

News from the State of Indiana last 1 week said that a law has just been passed by 51 votes to 33, which requires all male applicants for a marriage | license to show a declaration of good; health, duly signed by a doctor. i SPLENDID SCHOOL FOR MOTHERS. At Milwaukee, a millionaire's mansion! has been purchased and transformed | into a palace for babies. A hundred) splendid rooms looking on a sunny and beautiful garden are now ready for the reception of newly-born infants of the poorest class. The mothers will also be allowed to enter, and a staff of skilled nuFsea will look after them and. their offspring for a period. j

RECALCITRANT WIVES. 1 The Paris judges, in granting the application of a Paris doctor for restitution of congugal rights, have made an interesting new departure by fixing a penalty of £4 for every day's delay in complying wTEh the order of the Court. They consider this the most practical means of bringing the recalcitrant wife to reason. CRUEL WOMAN. j Mr. Frank E. Lemon, the honorary secretary of the Royal Society for tho Protection of Birds, drew attention at a meeting held this week to the callousness displayed by an actress at the Gaiety, whose display of ospreys in one hat is reputed to be worth £SO, and suggested that if this is true members of the society should make a protest to the management for permitting suclL a thing.

BRAVERY IN WOMEN. Said Miss Emily Wilding Davison, i graduate of London University, this week in a paper on women's bravery: 'lt will be found that in all casc( which demand presence of mind and coolness women nrp, if anything, braver than men. When we remember that in the Berlin riots women were put into the forefront of the attacks, and, again, when we remembrr that in a terrible story in the papers last week of a wedding parly who were journeying to Taskcnd and were attacked by a large pack of wolves the men of the party threw the women to the wolves first and when we remember that in the prairie fire a short while ago it was the men, maddened with horror, who tried to board the train first in front of the women, but were kept at bay by one woman with a loaded pistol while the women and children got on safely, we know that moral and physical courage are by no means the prerogative of the male sex." I

THE QUEEN'S BOUQUET. The Worshipful Company of Garden* era, an ancient company from which the Queen had promised to accept a Coronation bouquet, has the distinction of being the only city company which has admitted to its livery a lady—the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, who is the author of an exhaustive history of English gardening. J GIRL CADDIES. j

Writing of a girl caddy on the links at Guernsey, a player thus ends up:— "The unwashed boys that talk and sneer, and keep their eyes on anything but the bad player's vagrant ball, loitering surly when a match is at stake, might learn a thousand things from the little lady that carried for me. Once on a day when it was blowing half a gale three times I was on the beach in one round. The first time the ball was very easy to find, though I missed it. The second, though I was cross and ought to have been kicked for it—but I did not know the shore was there, and it might have meant the match—she brought it off a 5 to 1 chance; and the third was in a place, shingle and heavens knows what, where no man in fifty looks for a ball. And she found that. A tip—oh, such a little, little one —and it was taken so shyly, and as if I were conferring a favor. A new experience." FACTORY GIRLS' CLUBS.

A letter in the The Times this week draws attention to the good work being done not only by the many clubs that exist in London for factory girls, but, also, to the Federation of Working Girls' Clubs, formerly known as the Factory Helpers' Union, which was inaugurated twenty years ago, has now a membership of 120 clubs, and represents a large body of industrial workers in various parts of London and the provinces. The work undertaken has a religious basis, and endeavors to promote the social, physical, and moral welfare of girl-workers, to strengthen by co-operation and sympathy existing club efforts, and to centralise information for the benefit of helpers, etc., acting, in fact, as a sort of mother club itself.' The privileges of an affiliated club are! shared by members and organisers. All members have the opportunity of competing with sister club members in physical exercises, needlework, handicrafts, and other various educational subjects, elementary competitions for less experienced members being a special feature of the Federation's activity. To organisers are given facilities for the study of sociology. They have the use of a sociological library. Lectures, meetings, and conferences encourago among them the interchange of thought on social questions. The "Girls' Club

Journal," issued quarterly, informs them upon topics relative to their work. In the case of a newly-started or necessi-i tous club qualified teachers may be sup-, plied or financial grants made, while upon difficult matters of club administration expert advice i 3 to be had from the Advisory Council. GENERAL. Miss Joanna Redmond, daughter of Mr. John Redmond, the well-known politician, has joined the ranks of successful playwrights. Her little piece, "Falsely True," which was staged at the Palace this week, shows evidence of , a definite dramatic skill and a facility j in characterisation that should win for her fame.

The Norwegian Cabinet has resolved to place before the Storthing a proposal to extend to women the right of admission to all public offices except membership of the Cabinet, military, diplomatic, and consular posts, and benefices in the State Church.

M. Materlinck, it may not be generally known, practised for some time as a lawyer in Ghent, but, finding his profession uncongenial, he joined a literary clique in the Latin Quarter in Paris, first "coming out" after reading a great article by Octave Mirbeau, the noted French publisher and man of letters. Mme. Paderewski, wife of the famous pianist (who accompanied her husband on his tour in New Zealand a few years ago), who lives at a beautiful country seat on the border of Lake Leman, has been nominated by the French Ministry Chevaliere du Marite Agricole—an honor indeed. Mme. Paderewski's passion is her poultry yard. She has over a thousand chickens and fowls of all kinds, and she has succeeded in creating some new species by crossbreeding. Her poultry are of great value, and recently she sold to an! American purchaser a couple of White Orpingtons for £ISOO. Padereswki's farm is stocked with several presents from Sovereigns, including a flock of English sheep given him by the late King Edward.