WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 224, 20 March 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") A REMARKABLE WOMAN. ■ One of tlu> most remarkable women in J Europe is Madame Sorgue, a Frenchwoman of independent means, who during the last ten years has taken part in some fifty strikes in different parts of the world. A London paper says she is regarded as a comrade by millions of workers, and it has been suggested that not a little of the labor conflict which disturbed Great Britain during the summer of 1911 was due to the visit she paid there the year previous. On that occasion this "stormy petrel of strikes," as Madame Sorgue has been termed, visited England on behalf of the French railway strikers, and during her stay her efforts were directed to appealing to the British railway and transport workers for financial help for their French colleagues. Madame Sorgue has assisted in strike agitations all over Europe, purely for the love of the cause. Many times she has been arrested, and at j Milan the Public Prosecutor demanded that she should be sent to solitary confinement for five years, but public agitation against this terrible sentence—' which usual!' drives prisoners to madness or suicide—was so strong that Madame Sorgue escaped with two months' imprisonment. In personal appearance Madame Sorgue is quite unlike the conventional agitator, being a wo- . man of charming manner, youthful appearance, and attractive personality. She often wears a large red bow over her heart, in token of her devotion to the cause of Socialism. She speaks perfect English, which is a rare accomplishment for a Frenchwoman.

A WOMEN'S HOTEL Women workers who has no home with parents or friends often have a hard struggle to make ends meet. According to a writer in the New York Sun, there is a woman's hotel, where a girl can live comfortably for about 17s a week. But these terms are limited to those who are earning less than £2 ..a week. Special facilities are, besides, granted, by means of which each boarder may save her income still further, and lessen the minor expenses which are not covered by the charge for board and lodging. A laundry in the house is open for the use of the boarders three days a week. In addition, the girls may claim the privileges of the ironing-room, which is at their disposal from 7 in the morning till 10 at night. For this sum three meals a day are provided and as the hotel is situated within a mile of the business centre of the city, most of the girl boarders walk, economising fares, and it is said that girls earning £2 are able to save. Those who are in receipt of a higher salary can indulge in a higher living, and extra comforts. As much as tix dollars weekly is paid by those who «*e*ge a room, which is fitted with its •wm private bath.

I TEMPTATIONS OF YOUTH. EXPERT ON BRAIN AND MORAL PROBLEMS. London, February 7. t Sir Thomas S. Clouston, the eminent i authority on mental diseases, delivered an interesting address on "Brain and Morals" at Holborn Hall last night in connection with the National Council of Public Morals. The consideration of the subject, he said, involved continual reference to what was known scientifically as inhibition or »elf-control. This was l a crux of practical moral conduct. On selfcontrol depended in the past the developi ment of human society and the power of | civilisation. : Self-control did not exist in the newlyborn child, in the idiot, or in any practical degree in the mentally diseased.. It ! might be steadily diminished by brain I exhaustion, brain poisoning, or brain I injury. Hunger might destroy it in any ! man, danger might abolish it, 'intense religious feeling might weaken it almost to extinction. Even strong inbred conventionalities could not always be independent of self-control; what man or woman would have the self-control to walkthrough London in the dre'ss of a harlequin? Was not the self-control of Lady Godiva so rare as to make her remarkable in history? J The conscience was to a certain extent an hereditary brain quality, and not a mer«; mental or moral quality only. He had see a boy actually miserable, crying half the night because he'had imagined that he had taken more than his share of the jain! The aim of education in such children should be to make the conscience a little more callous. In most healthy boys the moral sense of conscience rather tended to become too slack than too acute. There was also a form of defect. No amount of teaching of example could create it. Decadence and ultimate extinction came to the race which was sexually depraved or perverted. "The wages of sin is death," translated into scientific language, meant, "If you break the laws of your being you will suffer and die before your time."

- One might be physically perfect at 20 years of age, yet with 'weakened selfcontrol. The aesthetic exhibition was the most dangerous form of temptation to the adolescent. The scientific reason was that the sense of right was the most educated and dominant in life,,and the' right solution of the problem demanded the utmost thought and effort of the best men and women the world could produce. Ordinary crime took place for the first time during adolescence. All the worst drinkers began drinking before 25; usually (before 20. It was then that self-con-control was to the greatest extent lost; it was then that the effects of drink as the greatest destroyer of self-control came on, and left men and women dypsomaniacs.

MUSINGS OF A MUCH-MARRIED MAN.

QUAINT AND INTERESTING. A pretty good example of superrogation is teaching a girl baby to talk. A fellow who's intoxicated with love doesn't take long to sober up after marriage. The English language contains no feminine form for the word sage. The reason is obvious. It is a wonder than when a fellow forgets the date he was married his mind wanders intuitively to April I. The kindest-hearted father would hardly refuse an offer to exchange a baby for a well-bred fox terrier during teething time. 'When a fellow's wife kisses him nowadays he cannot be .sure whether it is to show her love or to find out what he's been Inking. It's always a question with the originators of fashions for women whether \to make the sleeves too light or too loose, or the hats too large or too small. Few men who take a better half pre- / pare for the worst. V One never knows that any other creature than man wears a wig until he gets married. * Science says kissing causes disease. It ha< been known to'cause palpitation of the heart.