WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 226, 22 March 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") NOTES FROM LONDON OFFICIAL KITCHEN INSPECTOR. London, February 2. The title of "Official Kitchen Inspector" has been bestowed on an American woman functionary who has been en ' gaged 1)y the Health Department of Ohio to inspect the kitchen departments of all hotels, inns, restaurants, etc., of the State. A woman food inspector, whose duty it is to see that the law, which forbids dealers to display food uncovered, is not violated, has also been appointed in Tacoma, a large, town in Washington. THE CENSOR SETTLED. It has remained for women to discover a way of outwitting the Censor—that inconsistent individual who last week distinguished himself by prohibiting thn;e plays within seven days, though later he rescinded his verdict with regard to one. "The Coronation," a comedy, based on an imaginary king, in a mythical country and a mythical period, and with, so far as any critics since its production have been able to find, nothing offensive, destructive or dangerous in its whole composition, was to have been given a -few days ago in aid of the International Suffrage Shop, an establishment • that stocks suffrage pamphlets, pictures, etc. The writers were Aliss Christopher St John and Mr. Charles Thursby, and all was going well at rehearsals and in the box office, where hundreds of seats had been disposed of, till the Censor stepped in and banned the performance. Matters looked very black, when a brilliant idea suddenly presented itself to the suffragettes. Rather than accept the Lord Chamberlain's ban, the promoters decided to make every subscriber for seats a member of the Coronation Society. This society will be able now to produce any play in future as the performance of a private society. iWOMEN IN NORWAY. Norwegian legislation appears to be one of the worthiest in the world, since a. law has just been passed by the Storthing which admits women to almost all public offices in the State, and—this is specially worthy of note—on exactly the same terms as men. No women, how- , i ever, may sit in the Cabinet, or under- . take ecclesiastical appointments or military or diplomatic duties. The new law, however, throws open to women the judiciary and the whole of the legal profession, the police and fire departments, all v&WWprt appointments, the medical ser- . vice, and such posts among the clergy as • are not directly under the State. °The Storthing being Norway's single Cham- ■< ber, this law cannot be'reversed by any :; 'superior authority. HOLIDAY HOME. The Holiday Home for working girls, purchased by the Queen out of the "Mary fund," subscribed to Her Majesty by the Marys of the Empire as a Coronation gift, is to be ready for its first inmates in April, Queen Mary has herself mapped out its management, and is expected to inspect it in person before her guests arrive. The girls, it has been decided, -will be selected from amongst the poorest members of the girls' clubs affiliated to the London Union. Each party will consist of 14 girls, and each girl will enjoy three weeks' rest in the home. There will be facilities for indoor amusements, and the big picturesque garden will be theirs for games and re- ' "Creation. It is intended that the house, if possible, shall be kept open throughout the year. ' " FOR WOMEN ONLY." i A proposal is before the London i "ounty Council asking them to approve :he following new by-law:—"No male •erson, unless duly authorised by the J London County Council, shall mount or I attempt to mount any tramcar' which is run and reserved by the London) County Council on its tramways for fe- j male persons only, and on which a notice j to that effect is conspicuously exhibited." J THE FOREWOMEN'S SOCIETY. I This is a body which, as its title suggests, has been set going with the object of making co-operation possible between forewomen and the factory girls ■under .them. The society are taking practical interest in the social conditions which modify factory women's work, especially in the evils of drinking and gambling, and in the lack of proper recreation and good reading in the factory community. THE LATEST. Women hall porters are now employed in large hotels in Sweden. A CRIMEAN HEROINE. News from Berne early this week stated that there has just died there Mrs. Rodney Morgan, of Dover, at the advanced age of !)4. She was the last survivor of the little band of nurses who went through the Crimean War with Florence Nightingale. FAME FOR A WOMAN. A new star has arisen among playwrights, and that a woman, and a young and charming one, we are told, whose first play, "Rutherford and Son," produced this week, has aroused every critic ■ to admiration. The play, which is a study of "the parental machine," has been done, the authoress explains, simply "at odd times," and Miss Sowerby has had no previous experience of stage technique.

THE PRICE OF BUTTER WHAT IT HAS MEANT TO HOUSEWIVES. London, January 20. It is estimated by an expert that owing to the manipulations of the butter "ring" British housewives have had to pay nearly £1,000,000 in increased butter prices during the past three months. Therefore, it is hardly surprising that many' housewives, threatened with the prospects of still higher prices, have resolved to fight the "ring" 6Vdoing without butter altogether, using in its stead margarine, jam or other substitutes, which may be obtained at a reasonable price. The manner in which the British public has suffered, thanks to the manipulations of the "ring," was indicated by Mr. John Wood, of Tooley street, in a striking statement which* he made to an Express representative. "On the most conservative estimates," he said, "the British public consumes oO.OOOcwts. of butter every week. Now, the price they have had to pay for best butter every week during the past three months has been on an average Is 3'/od a pound. This is I'/.d more than thev would have been asked to pav had butter Ipriccs been permitted to" follow the natural laws of supply and demand. Tn other words, they have had to pay 14s more than they' should have done fur every hundredweight—that is .05.000 more a week, or .£455,000 more during thirteen weeks." Indications are already forthcoming \ that the exposures of the manner in which the ring of wealthy biillrr linns has cornered this commodity, with the object of forcing up prices.' are having' their effect. "v The position of Hie •'ring," in fact, is daily becoming more difficult. In a fewweeks Irish supplies will be coming in •he market, and the --nriu',' arrivals from Denmark, Sweden Siberia and England

will follow suit. Also, Tjetween taria* and February 21, twenty vessels, catajj*, i»g nearly 500,000 boxes of butter, should arrive from Australia and New Zealand. The members of the "ring" now realise that if they cannot unload on the public at the present exorbitant prices, anr before the end of March, the supplies they have been holding in cold stor--1 aga aid elsewhere, the price will tumble j heavily, and the "cornerers" will be hoisted by their own petard.