WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 29 May 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

* ,11 (Conducted by "Eileen.") JILTED FOR HER MOTHER A YOUXG GIRL'S REVEXGE. Budapest, April 2. A young girl named Marie Schulik was before the Court at Bechkerek yesterday on a charge of shooting at her stepfather, a shopkeeper named Ivan llarz. The girl pleaded that she had been engaged to Harz for two months and the day of the wedding fixed,, but while she, was in Budapest purchasing her trousseau her lover married her mother. She was filled with anger and sought to avenge herself. Harz declared that he was filled with admiration at the business qualities displayed by Frau Schulik while she was drawing up her daughter's marriage contract, and lie decided to marry the mo< tlier instead of the daughter. The Court discharged the girl on her promise to go home with "her stepfather and mother. NATIONALISTS AND WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE A lady correspondent (Mrs. Hansel), writing to the Standard, says:—ln an article appearing in the Daily Xe.ws it is stated that the Xationalists "defended their attitude" on the Conciliation Bill by reminding the suffragists' that for years Home Rule candidates have been violently opposed at by-elections in the supposed interests of women's suffrage, even when 'those candidates were quite sound on votes for women. Reference is also made to the complaints of alleged interference with the Belfast meeting. For the Irish party, which for the last 25 years has relied almost entirely on obstructionist tactics, both inside and outside the House, for forcing Home Rule on this country, to complain of an anti-Government policy and obstructionist methods as an excuse for voting against the Women's Bill has an element of humor in it for anyone with a political memory. The situation with regard to Ireland in 1885 will be remembered. At the general election of that year neither party would take up Home Rule. What were the Irish to do? How was their vote to be given? Were they to attempt to return individual sympathisers to the House of Commons? They adopted another course—they issued a manifesto calling upon Irish electors in ! England and Scotland to vote against the Liberal party and every Liberal candidate, irrespective of his personal convictions on Home Rule. It may be interesting to Tecall this manifesto:—"The Liberal party are making an. appeal to I the confidence of the electors at the | general election of 1885, as at the gen- [ eral election of 1880, on false pretences, i To Ireland more than any other country it bound itself by most solemn pledges, and these it most flagrantly violated. We feel bound to advise our countrymen to prevent the government of the Empire Radical party, and so far as in them lies to prevent the government of the Empire falling ipto the hands of a party so perfidious, treacherous and incompetent. We earnestly advise our countrymen to rote against the men who coerced Ireland, and promise to the country generally a repetition of the crimes and follies of the last Liberal Administration." Everyone knows the sequel, and that this move on the part of the Irish was immediately successful. *Mr. Gladstone capitulated to the irresistible argument of 85 votes held in pawn by the Irish party, and a Home Rule Bill as a i Government measure was immediately introduced. The naive surprise and tone of injured innocence "of ' the Irish and their present allies, theref6re, with regard to the anti-Govfirtimertt'policy, fails to be very impressive. Experieritia docet, and, as we know, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. GENERAL The Baroness Sidonie Schlechta, 76 years old, known to all people who visit the city park at Vienna as the "dove baroness," because of her fondness for the park birds, which flew ' about her daily for many years and ate the crumbs which sTie brought them great quantities, fell ill -while feeding her pets recently, and will probably never be seen in the park again. Some' time ago, when people accused lier of bringing about a "dove pest" -with her kindness, one critic said she was 1 following the example of an eccentric 'American— George 'Francis ' Trains—and •in defence she is said to have replied: "I inay err in feeding the birds, but to following the example of an American—never!"

The Swedish Parliament recently apponted a Commission ta investigate ■ the ■work of married women, with a view to granting maternity pensions to all mothers engaged in industrial occupations. The Commission ■ have* reported that the need for granting-State aid to working mothers has been conclusively proved, as the "birth-rate among women engaged in industrial .pursuits is:steadily on the increase. As the outcome of their investigations a Bill has!} been prepared and submitted to the Swedish Legislature. If it passes, a certaiit sum will be paid weekly to women workers during the period of their confinement, and an additional sum if they retrain in their homes and nurse their babißs themselves. The heroism of a woman, saved two lives recently in a fire that broke out in a tenement house at Dartmouth (England), causing the loss of four lives. One of the tenements was occupied by a Mrs. Ash and her aged mother. The latter was rendered unconscious hy the smoke, but Mrs. Ash carried her out safely. She then returned to the burning building and rescued a fellow lodger named Callard. When the fire was £otunder' the charred bodies of Mrs. Callard and her three children were found in the debris. Mftdame Curie, of radium fame, has invented a tube three millimetres in diameter and three centimetres in length, and the exact amount of radium contained in this tube will be fixed as the standard' weight, which in the ordinary terms of measurement would he about two centigrammes. 'The tube will be sealed at the ends, but a small platinum Wire will allow the constant passage of the electric current, which will prevent Ihe radium from breaking the glass. An important addition was made to the Bill just passed by the Swedish Parliament for the enfranchisement of Swedish women. Not only are they allowed to vote oil the same terms as men, hut they are likewise eligible for election. The Bill also contains a curious provision that married women whose husbands have not paid taxes ftjr three years shall not be allowed to vote.

Some months ago the Federation of ■English University Women offered a Fellowship -worth £l2O a year—open to all women who have been engaged during a number of years in research work. This prize has been awarded to Miss C. E. Spurgeon, Doctor of the University of Paris and Lecturer on English Literature at Bedford College, London. Miss Spurgeons' published work deals chiefly with systematism in poetry and with Chaucer criticisms.