WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 295, 8 May 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted Dy "Eileen - '). NEWS AND NOTES. London, March 17. The following is culled from an interesting leader on marriage and health in the Evening Times of Wednesday:—"lt is an indisputable fact that the illness amongst unmarried adults is out of all proportion to the sickness amongst the married people of their own age. A I fact like tins should be borne in mind by I those who deprecate 'improvident marriages,' for the lesson to be learnt from' such statistics on the subject as we haveis that an improvident marriage is much better for humanity than no marriage at all. The worst form of improvidence is for people to avoid marriage on the ground of expense." The Queen, witli whom the choice of lier Coronation flower was left, has chosen carnations. The final selection of the narticular variety of flower to be used has been left with the Worshipful Company of Gardeners, and as Queen Marv's favorite color is pink, her Coronation boquet will probably be of that color. "A Modern Father," writing to a daily paper this week, complains that mast governesses have a narrowing and onesided influence on a young girl's life, and advocates the employment of tutors, on the contention that iheir outlook on life is broader and sounder in every way, and their influence therefore likely to be of more value to their pupils. It is improbable that the.majority of parents will, though agreeing, perhaps, with the last theory, agree with the plan of substituting men for women teachers for their girls, and it would he interesting to compare the view of mothers as against those of fathers on this important matter. A woman may perhaps be forgiven for thinking, that one of the child's own sex is likely to understand and sympathise with it as a teacher of the other sex is hardly in a position t'do. In America it is proposed to start •■ married wemen's union, whereby a vvif can claim as a right one-half her hu ; band's income. Equal rights and a equality contract are among the rulennd the feeling that a man should not regard her as his chattel is very strong. A residential club for women engaged in the profession of music, art, and the drama is to be opened in the Marylebone road in .September. The club premises are within easy reach of the new Royal Academy of Music, the Slade School, the Dramatic College, and kindred institutions. In addition to the usual club rooms, dining room, concert hall, reading, writing and drawing rooms, bathrooms and laundry, there will be accommodation for 100 residents. According to the preliminary tariff, partial board (breakfast and dinner) and the use of cubicle will be available at 15s per week, full board and separate cubicle at ISs fid, and single bedrooms from 25s upwards. The Norwegian Parliament now includes a lady member, Miss Ragstad, a. school mistress, and her male colleagues, it is said, pn'd her marked attention on her first npi-.'aranee in the House. Miss Ragstad lias the reputation of being extremely eloquent, and is highly cultured. A public meeting is to be held at the Mansion House on Fridav, 31st March.' in support of a memorial to Miss Florence Nightingale. It is proposed to erect a statue in the metropolis, and to establish an annuity fund for the relief of trained nurses who have been unable to provide for their old age or infirmity, and are in a state of destitution. From Vienna comes the news that a weekly journal called the Servants' Review has commenced its career. The newjournal calls upon all domestics to organise themselves and obtain a weapon by which wages can be raised and conditions of work improved. All ill-treated and oppressed servants are invited to pour their woes into the ears of the editor, who offers them the consolation of printing the names and addresses of hard-hearted masters and mistresses. Some of the cases of alleged injustice thus revealed seem hardly credible. Sub-! scribers to the journal are allowed to] advertise for situations free of charge, and notices of footmen's balls and concerts for maids-of-all-*work are features of the publication. Tt is perhaps hardly necessary to add that Vienna employers are not overjoyed at the appearance of the novel newspaper. One side of the request so often made now at funerals, "No flowers," has perhaps not been thought of, and that is the florists. So serious is the state of the flower trade in Paris that a great protest meeting is being held there to-mor-row night. It all seems to come from a circular message sent out by a priest of great influence in 1902, when father Hippolyte Leroy begged the faithful not to bring flowers or -wreaths to funerals, but to spend their money instead on masses for the repose of the soul of the departed. The innovation has certainly become immensely popular, with the result that the livelihood of some 50,000 workers throughout France as seriously threatened. No fewer than 50 florists in Paris alone have already been compelled to close their shutters. Says the Tatler: "No one now, of course, waltzes. The old trois temps is as dead as dead. A strange shuffle, in which your shoulders shuffle too—you cling, sardine-fashion to your partner, who pushes yon along like a perambulator, and never lift your feet off the ground, with a sort of apache-cum-eoster-cum-half-seas-over action—is the 'dance,' if you please, of the moment.'-' The increase of drunkenness amongst women having become very marked in Liverpool, the Liverpool Licensing Bench have sent a letter to members of the trade suggesting that written instructions should be given to licensees setj ting forth the following conditions:—(l) The necessity for exercising the strictest vigilance in serving women at all. (2) That any woman of known bad character or of drunken habits, or whose appearance is not respectable, should be refused altogether. (3) That when women arc served they should only be served once, and should not be allowed to treat each other to drinks. (4) That women should not be allowed to remain an undue length of time upon the premises.

Aalborg is the first Dutch city where a female constal)le will soon appear in the streets. She ha.? permission to wear ordinary dress instead of uniform, and

her special duty will be to keep an eye on persons of her own sex who may be suspected of being engaged in the white slave traffic.

Mdlle Chevalicr-Marchal, whose death was announced on Tuesday, was responsible for a strangely daring act at the end of the war of 1870-71. It -was March, and the newly-crowned German Emperor, being at Nancj', paid a formal visit to the Church of Bon-Secours to see the tombs of Stanislas and Marie Leczinska. The citizens closed their windows and drew their blinds to express their contempt for him; hut one window was i thrown wide open as he passed. Mdlle. IChevalier-Marchal appeared at it. She leant out, placed her thumb to her nose, and extended her fingers in a derisory ' gesture. Soldiers were, sent into the I house to arrest her. She was imprisoned for several days and then fined £4O.

A somewhat extraordinary state of affairs was drawn attention to recently by the chairman of the Incorporated So-, ciety of Musicians. The Hiles gold medal and prize (Incorporated Society of Musicians) to the candidate gaining the highest marks in honors in grade V of ■the society's December examinations at the Manchester centre have this year been won by Mr. John Carlton, who is the livst of the male sex to obtain this i honor.