WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 80, 25 September 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

(Conducted toy *" ifJilccii"). | A UNIQUE SCHOOL. One of the most unique schools in the United States is that in Cincinatti, known as the N'ight High School for Working People. There is no age limit at this Night High School, and the scholars are married men and women, and little boys and girls, all anxious to begin an education. Some of these scholars are following a general course of study, others arc specialising for some particular work they are employed at during the day. But all in this unusual school are striving at one point—their advancement in life; determination marks the expression upon their faces, for these people, unlike the average scholar who occupies the same desks during the daytime at the regular day school, have realised that education is the bread of life. There are more than five hundred scholars who come to 'this school three times a week after a hard day's work to study from seven o'clock in the evening to nine-thirty o'clock, and many of them spend another night in the big gymnasium of the school, after which a plunge is indulged in in the school's big bathing-pool adjoining the gymnasium. - Of all the classes in the school the one most unique is the cooking class, where married women with families at home stand alongside of little girls —all learning how to cook. They are learning how t.o prepare food in the most nourishing ways, at the same time in the most economical ways. Nearly everv woman and girl who attends the Night High School wants to know how to trim hats. All of them spend one night in the millinery class. Women who work in the millinery department of stores during the day, and also the little girls who run the errands for them when required, hoping some day to be milliners too, are all there in | the same class after the same precious | knowledge. Some of these scholars in this Xight High School have fond hopes of becoming merchants in far-oIT Cuba ; and Philippine Islands. Thev are studying Spanish with this end in view. Their ages in both sexes range from fourteen years to foty-five years. They are dissatisfied with their present conditions ,and long to enter the far-off fields which to them seem so bright. The most interesting part of the whole school is I the big gymnasium. There one finds all sorts of life condtions. among young and old. Some attend the exercises hoping to overcome some physical ailment. One. grey-haired woman, fifty-two years old, wants to get rid of her rheumatism. Alongside of her stands a girlish factory worker, not much more than sixteen years old. She attends because she and [ several other girl friends like the exercise for the sport of it, with a plunge into the big swimming-pool after the class exercises. Old and young mingle side by side and all have a cause for being there. This Night School for Working People is a school full of deter ; mined scholars, who know that the hours formerly spent in pleasure must now be spent to regain lost opportunities, and they enter into their task with a will and determination that makes I teaching them a pleasure.

THE REVOLT AGAINST MARRIAGE. Our dramatic critic remarked that there Is 110 more "shop-soiled" topic on the,stage of the moment than the revolt against marriage (says the London Times). Wo also hear a great deal' about the revolt off the stage. It is not merely that people desire the marriage laws to be altered in certain particulars; they are also apt to complain of marriage altogether, and in doing so they often betray a great confusion of thought. They attack marriage as if it were entirely a human institution, made and maintained by the law, as if by altering the law you could alter the whole nature of the thing. But the laws concerned with marriage, like the laws concerned with most other tilings, only express certain facts of life, and are directed against the few who will not acknowledge those facts. Marriage, in fact, is not an institution that has been imposed upon us by some exterior force, and against which most of us secretly fret. Rather, it is something which happens to the great mass of mankind, and would happen if there were no laws at all concerning it. When we ask, "Is marriage a failure?" we might as well ask. "Is life a failure?" for marriage partakes of the imperfection of life, and, no more than life, is to be condemned for its imperfections. It is quite true that no marriages are perfectly happy, lint those who attack marriage for this reason assume that it is an institution designed to produce perfect happiness —that is to say, they assume an absurdity. And in this case, as in many others, the sentimentalists are responsible for the cynical reaction. We are tired of novels and plays ill which marriage is represented as the goal of all effort, and the earthly paradise to which the hero and heroine attain after all their troubles. So there is a vogue for novels and plays in which it is represented as a hell upon earth.

SEARCH FOR A DAUGHTER FATHER'S WOlU.I) PURSUIT FOR EIGHT YEARS. A Jewish man made an application to] the magistrate sitting at WiHcsden Podice Court for permission to see liis child, : who was stolen from him, he alleged, in Johannesburg, South Africa, eight years agoAsked by the magistrate for some particulars, the applicant said he placed'-the child in an orphanage in Johannesburg on the death of lii.s wife eight years ago. When he went to take her out he found that one of the managers and founders of the home, a Mr. Ilardfe'.t, had stolen the child and taken her to Australia. He followed them there, then to England, then back to Australia, On each occasion the applicant said he just missed them, and tiien for some years lost sight of them, loiter he received information that they were in London and again came to England, and found that Hard felt, who was living in a large house in \\ illesden, had adopted his (applicant's) daughter, he having 110 children of his own. lie refused to give her up. The girl, the applicant also said, was now fifteen years of age, and he was commencing an action against Hard-J felt in the lligli Court, but it could not be heard until October, ami in the mean-, time he would like to see his child one hour a week. The magist rate said he was sorry for thi' applicant, but could no nothing for him. lie must wait until the case came on in the High Court. A FAMINE IN BABIES lilKTll-IiATK IN IIOMKS OF 'MILLIONAIRES. j Pasadena, the city of millionaires and muKi-iiiillionaires is faring a famine in baliies. With a. population of 4(1.0(10 only forty-eight births were recorded in July. According to a leading physician, the average for a eii.y of this size should not be less than liiiO babies a month and fj(M) would be about the right figure. Physicians have been studying the situa- : V- - CT

tiou and have gathered data which show that the birth-rate here is lower by far than in any city of similar size in America, though the proportion of marriages is fully up to the normal. One hundred and fifty births in a month—last December—is the largest ever known here. ' Children are most numerous on the outskirts, where the middleclasses live.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE. DIAGNOSIS BY NEW YORK JUDGE. WHAT A MAN MAY DO. According to a judgment just delivered in the Supreme Court of New York, it is no more difficult for an expert to diagnose a ease of love than for a doctor to diagnose a case of measles.

Mrs. Gaylord sued her husband for divorce, and declared that all the trouble had been brought about by a golden-lmired enchantress, Mrs. Ross. The judge, expounding the general principles of the philosophy of love, said:—

"Mr. Gaylord took no special care to conceal his visits to Mrs. Ross from the concierge of the house, yet he was cautioned when detectives followed him. I hold that there is 110 harm in a man dodging a detective who presumes to follow him, but lie need not take pains to throw the detective off the track if he is going, for instance, to church. "It is a case," continued the judge, ''in which Mrs. lioss sometimes was accompanied by a poodle, but more frequently by Mr. Oaylord. I ask the jury'" attention not so much to the individual symptoms characterising Mr. Gaylord's feelings for Mrs. Ross, but to thoso symptoms when considered as a group.

"Affection for a woman and inclination towards her is shown by a man's willingness to take trouble in her behalf, to do little services for her. to decora to her rooms, to spend money for her, to do with willing hands those things which, to a man not in love, would seem tiresome, troublesome and disgusting.

"Mrs. Gaylord did not look to me like a man who would carry meat and groceries home for anybody he did not love and cherish. It was the hand of Mr. Gaylord that set out rubbish-can No. 8 for the dustman to remove in a cart. Nobody will set out a woman's rubbishcan for her but a servant, her husband, or a sweetheart. The janitor of the apartment house thought it was the hand of the husband that set out the rubbish, and he took it for granted that Mr. Gaylord was Mr. Ross. "A man may go about with a woman to look at lodgings and not be her lover. He may haggle with her landford about the rent and not be her lover. He may be found time and again with her in her apartment and not be her lover. Tie may let her use his furniture in her apartment and not be her lover. He may make himself generally useful and agreeable about her house; he may even movo her rubbish for her, and not bo her lover. He may pass as her husband and not be her lover. But when all these circumstances and others of the same sort togethor combine to develop suspicion into presumption, judgment must go against the man in a court of law and in a court'of common-sense unless ho offers testimony to brush away the web of circumstances."

Judgment for Mrs. Gaylord according'y-