WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 235, 2 April 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") NOTES FROM LONDON ! : A DKriXtIUIKIIED WOMAN. * London, February !). : There passed away, very suddenly, vis- c terday iiflernoou in her rooms at Uni- ; versify College, London, Miss Rosa Morison, a lady of 71, who dicdj as slie would have wished, in harness, and who for nearly 40 yearn had been superintendent \ to women students of the college. Miss Morison was one of the foremost pi on- ' eers of higher education for women, and ! was one of the founders of College Hill, j in Bingham Place—a hotel for women medical students. A CHILDREN'S BUREAU. { A children's bureau, organised for the purpose of regulating child employment in factories and mines, is to be created in the Department of Commerce and Labor in Washington. A TAX FOR BACHELORS. j Illinois is choosing a unique way of making both ends meet in a much dis- j cussed measure now before its senate.' This proposis that, in future, if bachelors over 3d cannot give satisfactory reasons | for their state (to whom is not whispered) they will lie heavily taxed towards a maternity benefit fund for necessitous mothers. WAR ON HATPINS. ; Switzerland has followed the lead of the police authorities in Berlin, and has determined war on women's hatpins, which have been responsible for a number of serious accidents recently. The standard of revolt was first raised at Zurich, the police of that town having issued a regulation by which all women and girls wearing hatpins will be compelled to protect the points. On the first day the ord; r came into force action for [ infringement was taken in no fewer than I 120 cases. j EDUCATION OF MEDICAL WOMEN. j The wonderful work done towards the ! education of women in medicine, local 1 government teaching, etc.. bv Miss Emily Davics, L.L.D., late of Girton College, member of the School Board of London Mr some years, and one of England's foremost women scholars, was approprij ately recognised this week, when a cheque for 701) guineas and an address were presented to her at the conclusion ■ of her 50 years' work on women's behalf by numbers of distinguished women' friends. J ••RESTORING" FLAGS. j Honorable needlework, indeed, is that J of which an American lady is mistress—j viz., flag preservation. The idea of "rc- [ storing'' emblems of victory savors some- | what perhaps of the sae'rilege implied I in renovating an ancient church falling into what sentimentalists call honorable ruin. Nevertheless, the thought cannot but have struck wanderers in the cathedrals and public buildings of Europe, that sentimenta'lism united to the forces of dust, moths and time has made sorry specimens of some of the great proof's of success in battle. Just as eloquent a tale is told, certainly, by rags and tatters, but in a few years' time and its | satellites of roofs and flagpoles will have i J eaten those, and then—what? Only cold ■ history books. The authorities at the Naval Academy, with its 150 flags captured in battle by the United States Navy, have, horrified at the rack and ruin of their treasures, now called in the aid of a Mrs. Fowler, an expert on flag preservation. This lady, with the help of some hundred helpers, whom she estimates must work for several months, employs the methods used in Bayeux a ;' thousand years ago. The American J trophies will be backed with an especially | fine-woven Irish linen, upon which they J will be sewn by expert seamstresses, j using silk thread" and taking very small stitches in order that the backing shall { not be apparent. Among the flags are : the British Royal Standard, captured at I York, Canada, by Commodore Chauneey j in 1813, the only Royal Standard taken j by the United States from Great Britain. Mrs. Fowler, it is told, lias .embroidered colors of every State regiment, and her work on flags is considered to be amongst the most beautiful in the world. A WOMEN'S ORCHESTRA. A women's orchestra has just been formed which will be greatly welcomed by all women musicians. This is the Orehestre Femina, which will he composed entirely of women instrumentalists, about 40 in all. under the directorship of Mr. Siegfried Wertheim, a member of - the Queen's Hall orchestra, and himself a viola player of some note. Almost all the members of the new orchestra, all of whom have had to pass a severe test, are soloists of the highest rank, and among these are women players on the oboe, bassoon, trombone, aiid even the heavier wind instruments. Moreover, only British subjects may be members of the band. A CONGRESS OF MOTHERS. American women, or those of them connected with the movement known as the National Congress of Mothers, are setting out on a remarkable experiment, the results of which, if successful, should be felt wherever Americans travel in the future. This is a campaign started with the purpose of arousing the whole country to a sense of duty and responsibility to childhood, and the president of the congress and her helpers hope to collect a million dollars to be devoted to the carrying out of their schemes. Exactly what these last arc is not yet evidently decided, but the general idea sets out from the theory that to surround the childhood of the whole world (that is, those not likely to be so provided for) with loving, wise care in the impressionable years of life will develop a higher type of citizenship in health, morals'aud efficiency. WOMEN IN SULPHUR MINES.

■ In reply to a will-known admiral, who ! recently rather jeered at women for demanding a vote when tliey seem to have no desire [o ,(o men's woi'k in mines, drew from a ladv tin following true anecdote.— i; M.v friend wa.s being shown over a chemical factory in a. large northern town. He came upon a deep pit. with clouds of sulphur fumes coming nut of it. There was a sound of knocking down below, and. shading his eyes and mouth from the sulphur fumes, lie peered info Hie pit. Through the clouds of mist he saw dim forms stripped to the, waist knocking oil' and collecting the sulphur crystals as they formed on the sides. He said to his guide, 'How can you get men to do such work?' The guide answered, "Good Lord, sir! No man would be fool enough to do it. They are women!'" \tOMKX AS COUNCILLORS. There arc now ]fj women councillors in England, the last of whom was elected for Greater Birmingham bv a majority of over 7flo. HONOR FOR A WOMAN. From Paris last week came the news lliaf a woman has been entrusted by (he French Coveniment with a unique! and hmiorabl: mission. This is Mine. Camilie dn Cast. who. it is said, probably knows Morocco belter than any other white woman, and rdie is being despatched to South Morocco to conduct researches in that little explored part into its economic and social conditions.

The expedition, which comprises a nir.nbtr of other experts, will be absent for many months. A CABINET OF WOMEN. California should be a very paradise for suffragists. The Mavor in Santa Monica has recently made the interesting departure of appointing seven women as a Municipal Advisory Cabinet, who will be called on. as their title indicates, for advice in all matters concerning municipal government, and who also will have a voice in all appointments made. WOMAN WRITER'S POST. A laily—.Mrs. Carutheis, and the first of her sex to occupy that position—has been dieted treasurer of the London Institute of Journalism. This body recently instituted an unemployment fund by which men and women journalists benefit on equal terms.