WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 107, 26 October 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

(Conducted by " Eileen"). NOTES FOR WOMEN. London, September 2S. School Heroine.—A striking not of bravery oil the part of a girl named Frances Powell, of North Finchley. luw been reported to the Fincliley Council by the chairman of the local Education Committee. An elderly man lying asleep 011 the beach at Hastings was carried out to sea by the tide, when he was espied by the young schoolgirl, who "•floated"' him back to the beach and safety. For Women Musicians. —An item of news that will interest women musicians is that '"L'Union des Femmes Artistes Musicicnncs," which Jias been in existence in Paris for some time, is -now founding a branch in London. Its founder is Mine. Tassart. who is well known in Paris, and the society is under the patronage of the .Minister of Fine Arts (M. Dnjardin Beaumetz) and nearly every f'rench composer of note, and a great many well-known artists are oil the committee. The object of the society is to give assistance of every kind, including legal advice, to female musicians, irrespective of nationality. Women Medical Inspector.—Glamorgan Education Committee on Tuesday of this week appointed a lady medical inspector at a salary of £250 a year. Alarming Infant Mortality.—The mothers of Xciv Zealand, the country that, I think I am right in saying, boasts the second lowest death rate among infants in the world, will be shocked at the statistics to hand concerning the enormous infant mortality in London in the past week. Last week there were no less than 537 deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis of children under two years of age. These figures compare with ">47, f>2o and 035 in the proceedings three weeks.

Learning in Iceland, —Iceland opens its first university next week. It. is intended for both men and women studdents. Children and Education.—From Stockholm conies news of some interesting experiments which have lasted several years, and which have just formed the subject of a report which is being discussed in a lively fashion in the educational world. It is a question of testing the employment of electricity for the physical and moral development of children. For this purpose two groups of 25 children were selected. The children chosen resembled one another as far as possible in regard to weight, age and intellectual development. One of the groups received instruction in the ordinary school rooms, while the children forming the other group were constantly placed under the influence of electric currents. It is claimed that these experiments showed that the pupils thus electrified possessed an incontestably physical and intellectual superiority over those children who were not subject to electrification.

Distinguished Women.—Mrs. Sedgwick (sister of Mr. Balfour), for so many years principal of Newnham College, is, in recognition of her services to education, to receive an honorary degree at the coming celebrations at St. Andrew's University. A lady (Miss Jante M. Black, M.A., St. Andrew's, who for the past two years has been teacher of classics at Fraserburgh Academy) has been appointed lecturer in English at the University at Grenoble, in France, where there are about 500 students.

A Suffrage Bill has been passed bv the State of Illinois, in the United States, which provides that any town or city may, by referendum, allow women to vote for all offices save those of police magistrates and justices of peace. Fair Horse Trainers.—Of all the ladies who have taken up farming, and they are not a few, there are none who have been so persistent and successful as the Ladies Estella and Dorothea Hope, who are sisters of the first Governor-Oneral of Australia, the late Marquess of Linlithgow. Quite early in their careers they decided that Mayfair drawingrooms did not appeal to them. They wanted more scope, and so they set up "on their own" at Big Hollandcn Farin, near Sevcnoaks. and made a specialty of raising Shetland ponies. They are experts in the training of horses, and it is their great boast that a vicious or badly broken-in animal never leaves their stables.

Famous Composer in N'ew Zealand.— The Daily Chronicle in its causerie one morning this week gives the item that Vincent Wallace, the composer of "Maritann." went on a whaling voyage in the South Sea and nearly lost his life in a mutiny. Later on he was captured l>y wild Maoris in New Zealand, and was saved only by the opportune intervention of the chief's daughter.

CLERGY AND WOMEN'S FASHIONS Cardinal Prisco. Archbishop of Naples, recently forbade the priests in his diocese to condemn in their sermons some of the latest fashions of the ladies. The clergy thin admonished do not approvo of the fashions, however, and have decided to appeal to the Pope. They assert that the Pope himself has already exhorted all the clergy to denounce the immorality of certain of the recent summer styles of costume. THE BACHELOR GIRL. Xo matter how busy the bachelor g;rl is; no matter how many pleasant social diversions may fall to her lot, she should make it her unalterable rule to save one, or better still, two evenings a week entirely to herself. On these evenings she can do her >hampooing and. manicuring and look over her wardrobe, wash out collars, and jabots, put on shoe buttons, run in ribbons, do a little necessary pressing with an iron, and- this is also important—catch up with her reading. The little bachelor woman needs to keep her mind active, and well informed as well as her hair daintily shampooed and hands and complexion cared for.

DEGREES FOR DOMESTIC SERVANTS. Mary Jane will soon lie qualified to write tin' initial- UD.S.C. after her name -Licentiate the Domestic Science College. T\Tr. Ticeby. tin- Minister of Kdiicntion in Sydnev. has announced his intention to c-tabii-di thi- in-tit uti.m, with power.- to confer decrees and certificates to domestic servants, lie looks forward to the time when domestic servants will come lo the ]ion.-c, do their appointed eight hours, and then be free to leave. Employers who want extra service outside these hours must engage a ".second shift."

AN UNEQUAL BARGAIN. In his new slnrv. "The Common Law," now running through the pages of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, Mr. U. W. Chambers makes one of his heroines say: "Although a woman disobeys any law at' her peril—laws which a man may often ignore with impunity—there* is one law to which no woman should dare subscribe. And it is sometimes known as 'The Common Law of Marriage.' That is the only law. if it i.s truly a law. that a woman must igtior». All others it is beat for her to obaer-re.

And if the laws of marriage are merely I man-made or divine I do. not know. ) There is a din in the world to-day which / drowns the voices preaching old beliefs. And a girl is deafened by the clamor. And I don't know. But it seems to me that, back of the laws which men have made—if there be nothing divine in their inspiration—there is another foundation solid enough to carry them. Because it seems to me that the world's laws, even when unjust, are built on natural laws. And how can'a girl say that these natural laws are unjust, because they have fashioned her to bear children and feed them with her own body? And another thing. Kelly, if a man breaks a man-made law —founded, we believe, on a divine commandment—he suffers only in a spiritual and moral sense. With us it mav be more than that. For women, ac least, hell is on earth." Le stirred in his chair, and his sombre gaze rested on the door at her feet. : What are we to do?" he said dully. Rita shook her head. "I don't know. I am not instructing yon, Kelly, only recclling to your mind what you already know; what all men know, and find so convenient to forget. Love is not excuse enough; the peril is unequally divided. The chances are uneven; the odds are unfair. If a man really loves a woman, liow can he hazard her in a game of chance that is not square? llow can Ife let her ofTer more than he has at stakeeven if she is willing? How can he penri't her to risk more than he is even able to risk? How can ho accept a magnanimity which leaves him her debtor? But men have done it. men will continue to do it: Cod alone knows how they reconcile it with their manhood or find it in their hearts to deal so unfairly by us. But they do. Andstill we stake all; we proudly overlook the chances against us, and face the contemptible odds with a smile—dauntless and damned."