WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 85, 27 August 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.")

NOTES FROM LONDON

TRIUMPH FOR SUFFRAGE

The first applicant to frankly make woman suffrage his chief aim for election to the Paris Municipal Chamber has been returned—M. Bracke.

FRENCH WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE,

An announcement that gives pleasure to all those interested in women's development comes from France, where the Minister for Public Works, M. Leon Bourgeois, who not only allotted an important post in his department, usually held by a man, to a woman, but has also declared himself in favor of opening many other public posts to women.

A COLONIAL. GIFT.

The Australasian Hospital—the gift of Australasian children to the Barnardo Homes for girls at Barkingside—has been formally opened by Sir Thomas Buxton. Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, had laid the foundation stone previously. The hospital can accommodate 65 patients, and is very complete, with an operating theatre, a ward for tuberculosis sufferers, an oculist's and dental department.

WOMEN OFFICIALS WANTED.

A number of suffragettes who submitted to forcible feeding and its attendant horrors as a protest against being treated ordinary, instead of political, prisoners, are trying now, on their release, to induce the at Holloway Prison to appoint a lady doctor and lady commisaioner. 1 ■

Itjis worthy of note that only the ineignificant positions at the gaol are filled women.

I A WOMAN PIONEER. M»ss Margaret Bondfield, a name well in London ajj one of the Advisory. Comjmittee of the Women's Trade Union, League, has had a remarkable life. She l has 'been a, practical workei; since she 'frasithirteen, and soon ,after ! coming of, age Ishe commenced a special investigation, of the conditions of shop life, the. result of which wag published in ope .of.' the | leading' newspapers. . Four years ago j she decided to. devote herself entirely to Jecturitjg writing for Jabot and reform'movements,, and so resignM her secretaryship. She was adopted candidate for-, Woolwich.',foE the 1910 L.C.C. elections, where ; .she .a. r plucky fight. She ia still candidate far the |LX3.'C: itt* 'sat. -district;..,'.'.ser worjc at presen|. is. as-hon.'Secretarr of' .the League^. ,' r t .

PROTECTING MOTHERHOOD;'

: Iq an interesting'article in the May nun ber of Life and Lahor,: from the pen of the vice-president of the Women's Tra le Union League at Chicago, it ap- ! P. eai s by an international treaty i signfed at Basle, Switeerltrtifl, Germany, nalor g with France, Italy, Austria and Lspmp smaller nations, have agreed" to I prohibit night work for women on-the I groilnd ' that motherhood' possibilities' Wiust be protected., _ n • lij Wurtembur'g, there.is given to {he" wives of. insured Working ;men a benefit IfumJ for several weeks after Childbirth, ' Te3 to child-bearing work-"' Iwonlen a benefit froin'four taaii wefekg' aftep childfj.irtlj.. , 1 ' 1

j - j UNIFORMS FOR WOMEN.' Aft outcry has been raised at the suggestion, now beiny discussed' in' London and .country libraries, that women workers jand officials ;in libraries should be not j only asked to conform to certain styles in color and fashions in dress, but to. qo their hair according to some :law —-be drawn up it is not, vouchsafed:' by whom.. A [mutiny on a similar subject ia, ac-' cording to New York news,' taking plate there now; also, among the girls tff the : ' Western Union Telegraph Company who ha,TQ received orders prohibiting the. wearing of too summery garments duringl the hot summer weather—an' innova-! tion|oil the part of men officials that' is calling forth indignation from the telegraph girls and many other women.'

! WEDDING BOMBS

.BRIDE'S FATHER BLOWN TO PIECES AND BRIDEGROOM MANGLED.

A i pretty Neapolitan wedding was marned and several families thrown into nfourning by a shocking accident. Signor Meninno, a rich country squire living at Melito Valle Bonito, Hear Avenue,! started out for the parish church for the purpose bf marrying (iff his only daughter, a pretty maiden of riitieteen,' Instead of rice, Memrinno, according to an. old custom prevalent in the Neapolitan provinces, had filled his pockets with fireWorka, and carried in his hands three big! handkerchiefs full of bombs, which-' he intended to explode at th#-church' door on the exit of the bridal party.' " Whiie he was at the head of the merry procession of boys and girls, decked out for the occasion in all manner of..'f4n.costumes, the bombs suddenly exploded with terrific force. Meniniio himself was blown to pieces, the-bride-■ groojm and many others who had been bidden to tin; wedding feast were flung to the ground and fearfully mangled, and the adjacent dwellings were shaken t$ their foundations as br an earthquake. ; l i A MORMON SCANDAL

MOTHER ALLEGED TO HAVE SOLD • HER DAUGHTER FOR £2O.

AI mother's alleged attempt to'sell licr seventeen-year-old daughter to a Mormon, was described at the Liverpool Police .Court, when Lmily Doughty was remanded on a charge of attempting to involve the disposal of the girl to Samuel Dii vid Lee. < It was said that, although another daughter had gone to Salt Lake City with Lee—a man of about sixty—and six or seven years had committed suicide, and although last March accused heard that Lee had married another woman, she had endeavored for a monetary consideration to send her other daughter out to him at Salt Lake City. Laura Stern, a married woman, said that seven or eight years ago she became acquainted with Mrs. " Doughty'* daughter Alice, who, she believed, was then about nineteen or twenty years of age. Following a visit which' tiiey paid | one night to Lime Street Hotel, the witness and the man Lee were at Mrs. I Uonghty's house, and at his invitation j they had a drink. Lee stayed the nigkt J there, being locked in file kitchen, a pre- | ('tuition taken because he claimed that | he was in possession of a lot of money. I Lee told them that he had come over I for a wife, for his wife had died at sea | when he was bringing her from Africa, j Later Mrs. Doughty told the witness that her daughter and the man were going to Johannesburg, and the mother kad received ,C'2o for her. The hearing was adjourned.