WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 198, 19 February 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") NOTES FEOM LONDON. A THRIFT DEPARTMENT. London, December 29. There is, in connection with the Central Bureau for Employment of Women, what is known as the Thrift Department ■—a sort of man of business to the woman who has had no training in managing business or money affairs. Here a woman can get expert advice on investments, can learn how to manage her money herself, be guided in the methods of finding out all that should be known about any shop, school, or house she intends to purchase; buy an annuity, insure herself against sickness, etc., borrow money, and procure advice in a time of need as to where she can best obtain help.

OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS,

From April 4 next year till October 27 the Education Committee of the L.C.C. has decided that a number of extra openair schools—an experiment that, so far, has proved thoroughly satisfactory—shall be opened. The idea emanated from Germany, where it was found that out of every 101) children sent 00 showed improvement from the scheme. Three years ago several schools were opened in suburbs of London. School work took up 3y, hours each day, and, in addition, there were games and three good meals provided. Six months ago a special school for tubercular children was opened in Regent's Park where the band stand has been utilised as a school. Next year several-other parks are to be put to the same use. That at Regent's Park has. it is interesting to note, just closed foi its Christmas holidays. It is under the supervision of the St. Marylebone Dispensary. The children go to the dispensary at 9 o'clock each morning, where their temperatures are taken, by the nurse; They then proceed to the band stand, taking with them hot dinners provided by their parents in tins specially arranged to retain the heat. The school lasts from 9.30 till 4.30, with an interval for dinner. The ordinary work is relieved, however, by frequent rests.

THE PERFECT BABY.

Babies are taken very seriously nowadays, as of course they should be, if the solemnity bears lasting good in its train. A certain Dr Margaret Clark, an American lady, is now on a tour of Europe for no other purpose than to find how the perfect baby is arrived at. It will be interesting to follow her methods of investigation and her resulting conclusions. Asked recently fo* an opinion as to the essentials in the production of a really thoroughly healthy chil#, an official of one of the hospitals thinks: Perfectly healthy parents, grandparents, and greatgrandparents. Parents neither too poor nor too rich. Natural feeding, or scientifically prepared artificial feeding. Country air and plenty of sun. Warm clothing. Uninterrupted sleep, and commonsens® treatment. WOMEN ADVERTISING EXPERTS, j It is somewhat astonishing, in these days of progressive feminism, that there are still lew women engaged in the wellpaid profession of advertisement writer*. One there is in London, however, who makes a good income as a specialist ii financial advertising, and who has been elected to serve on the board of the Incorporated Society of Advertising Consultants—an honor which implies high qualifications and experience in publicity methods. GERMAN WOMAN'S ENTERPRISE. '

An extraordinary healthy concern is the Union of Women Mercantile Employees of Breslau, a body consistiij* of German women which not only runs a la-ge employment bureau, an Induso.'il s.liool with an average attendance of over 350 girls, but several clubs and loardinghouses especially for the benefit of woiking wimen. ' WOMEN AND PROHIBITION.

There appeared, from the pen t>£ an editor of a Kansas paper recently, the following:—"We do not .believe anybody will question in Kansas but that the gain which has been made in making prohibition effective and respected is to be very largely attributed to the fact, not that woman's general influence has been for it, but that where it has been opposed, in the larger towns of the Stata, women have had the bill lot. There has never been a time when Prohibition was not supported in the country. The opposition has been in the cities. Here the women's vote has turned the scale." WOMEN DOCTORS IN INDIA. Attention has been drawn this week by thp ex-Inspectress of Schools in the Bombay Presidency and others to the many improvements that are called for before English women doctors can be ex-' pected to take up work in India. At present there is no organised service for medical women under Government, and the conditions of work are anything but alluring, as, unless attached to a missionary society, women doctors live under precarious conditions. As a rule they leave England to take charge of one of the hospitals for women supported by the DufTerin fund. The pay of these appointments is small and stationary, there is no provision for pension, and furlough is in some cases not granted. For various reasons the tenure of these appointments is insecure, and frequently the women doctor's find themselves, from no fault of their own, suddenly thrown on their own resources. Women doctors only are allowed to minister to purdah women, of whom their are in India not thousands only, but millons; and it is impossible not to draw a contrast between the lot of the man medico (with probably no greater qualifications than a woman doctor) who in the Government service has not only assured work and furlough, but good pay and a guaranteed pension, and i the woman, who has none 'of these things. |

TAILORESSES' PROTEST. The new minimum scale of wages issued recently by the Tailoring Trade B»ard has given rise to the greatest dissatisfaction among members of the trade, and the tailoresses of the East End have entered an emphatic protest. A resolution is being widely circulated among them demanding a 50 hours' maximum

week and a minimum wage of at least 255. Men and women are working together, and a number of meetings have already been held, and others are planned A WOMAN CONDUCTOR. A remarkable peal of 5,056 superlative surprise major was accomplished on ehureh bells in Leicester on Wednesday, the conductress being Miss Edith Larker of Edmonton. The peal occupied several hours, and was the first to be conducted by a lady in Leicester.

II'ERFUMED NONSENSE. "It has been said that it is sufficient for a woman to be beautiful and a mother This is perfumed nonsense. A woman has as much right to the complete derelopment of her faculties as a man has" —is a quotation from the new book, which has caused such grave trouble in the Spanish Royal Family, by the Infanta Eutalia. PAPER TOWELS.

Being infinitely more cleanly than linen J or cotton one for use in railway carriages, restaurants, etc., paper towels have, in America and Canada, already been introduced into many of the schools, clubs, hotels, and public lavatories. In Sacramento towels made of paper are introduced by order of the High School, while the School Board of Ottawa have put paper towels and cups, such as a,re used by the St. John Ambulance Brigade here,into all public buildings. At a congress

of the German Public Bath Association the matter is also receiving attention, a prize being offered by that body for a good paper towel, which will be introduced into railway stations, schools, restaurants, etc. In New York it has been found that a soft, absorbent towel can bo made at a cost of one-eighth, of a penny.