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WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") A NEW PROFESSION WOMAN LOCOMOTIVE SUPERINTENDENT. Probably there is- but one woman in the world whose business it is to handle and dispatch trains. This arduous duty is performed by Mrs Jennie Connor, of Melrose Highlands, a suburb of Boston, Mass. She is employed by the Boston and Maine Railway, "and is well known to the thousands of railway servants who are engaged in carrying on the traffic over the four States in which the road operates. Something like four hundred indivi--1 duals engaged on the line .have to report to her regularly, and in their opinion Mrs Connor knows more about the construction and working of the big engines than do most of the men who have assisted in building them. She has chtrge of all the engines driven on the northern division of the railway, and it was in consequence of the responsibility thus placed upon her that she was first led to take up the study of the "steam moguls," as the giant engines, which draw the Transcontintal expresses are called.

RELEASED AT LAST „ 1 MISS MALECKA IN LONDON. SAVED FROM A RUSSIAN PRISON. London, June 13. By granting a "pardon" to Miss Kate Malecka, the English girl who was sentenced by a Russian Court to exile in Siberia, the Czar lias closed a remarkable incident in a gracious way. Miss Malecka, it will be remembered, is the daughter of a Polish exile, who was a naturalised' British subject, and of an English mother. She paid a visit to Russia after spending a large part of her life on British soil, and was arrested on a charge of being a revolutionary. :The evidence produced was of the flim--1 siest character, but it sufficed to secure | Miss Malecka a severe sentence. Happily, her case was taken up vigorously in London, the Daily Chronicle in particular sparing no effort. Miss Malecka was clearly a British subject, though the Russian police would not admit the • fact. Tho outcome is a pardon, with a (stipulation that she must never return > to Russia.

"My sufferings have been great," said Miss Malecka, "but they appear as nothing in my eyes, for.l have been all along so overjoyed by the noble way my case was taken up in England. That really was worth all I have gone through I may have been somewhat of a scapegoat, it is true; but nevertheless, I have done a little towards. proving the solidarity of the English people and showing | to the whole world, that even the least of her subjects is care* for 1 and watched over." . -> .-

A LEAGUE OF MOTHERS A league of mothers- of famiTi'es exists in Illinois. Its- object is the mutual instruction of members as to "natural history!'-of possible fcultoft} for the hands of their unmarried daughters., As soon as a young man begins 'to' show any attention to one of'the marriageable maidens at Illinois, or makes any indication in that direction, the .mother of the girl —so at least says,a .Paris .newspaper—sends round to alt/the'members of the' league a scries of questions drawn up by the executive i.cojnmittee. From the answers depend whetHer or not the suitor will be encouraged. - Here are some of the he drink ? Is he steady? 'Does he-smoke?—pipe, cigarette or cigar? " Does 'he go to church on the Sabbath? ' Does he go out at night? What: is his .manner towards his mother, his sisters, his aunts, or his nieces? .What know of his financial position?' There are something like a hundred questions scheduled-. It has ben asked whether these severe "mammas" .would haye married themselves had their own mothers exercised the same kind of caution.

ANTI-HATPIN CAMPAIGN Chicago policemen ate too bashful to enforce the regulation-which provides that women's hatpins shall-not protrude more than half an 'inch-.from their hats, and the Chief of Police there stated recently that he proposed to avail himself of the offers of assistance of young women who are Arm believers in the hatpin regulation, and who'had volunteered their services. "J will call the new force," said the chiefs-he beauty squad, and within a week I will have' enough help to suppress, ftft'itlegaUiatpins." The chief's announcement (wrote a New York correspondent at the timeO s .is opportune, because twice during the last few days cases of the-.partial.".destruction of eyeby women's ornamental weapons are reported. Chicago's "beauty squad" is without .■parallel, but New' York and several other 'big citiesi' have enrolled volunteers called f'The Sanitary Squad," whose mission : is:tosuppress spitting on tramcars, train.?, stations and other public places. The' result-has been most encouraging. Spittings-is-still much more prevalent hert than:in Europe, but the campaign headed toy the, municipal authorities lately.l:carried'"itli6.war into the ranks of the -expectorants,'- with the result that spitting..to-diiy in public places is 50 per ceniL less popular than was the case live years' ago 1 . ''The' authorities, stimulated by. ; tho report of the Tuberculosis Oomriiission, have issued placards broadcast, expounding'the danger of the practice, and in all public conveyances appear warnings, printed in English, German. Italian and Yiddish, declaring that offenders are liable to a fine of £IOO, or a year in prison, or both.

TRADES POR WOMEN

According lo a statement by the president of the Master Builders' Association of New York, a. school of women to learn the trades of plumbing, carpentering, building, etc., will be opened on October 10, and already thirty-six women have joined. The'school will have 100 pupils and a staff of six teachers, and already the .promoters have obtained the £IO,OOO necessary to build the establishment and start the enterprise. The Master Builders' Association will take up the organisation. Eight contractors in New York have moved in the matter of the, (raining of women for the trades mentioned by the receipt of numerous communications from women desirous of entering them. It was found on investigation that there was no way for women to fit themselves for the work of these supposedly masculine, vocations in the United States, and that the only other woman's trade school was in Berlin. The teachers in the new school for women in Xew York, while showing the rudiments of bricklaying, plastering, carpentry, steam fitting, steel construction, and so forth to their fair pupil*, will aim principally at teaching them how to employ id hers In do manual work while they (•online themselves to (lie necessary headwork. It is believed that the school will be vei'v successful, with the result that others will spring up in the United States, and the few remaining trades formerly considered sacred to men will be subjected to a feminine invasion.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 64, 2 August 1912, Page 6

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WOMAN'S WORLD Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 64, 2 August 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 64, 2 August 1912, Page 6

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