WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 133, 23 October 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") NOTES FROM LONDON WOMEN LIBRARIAN'S. It is estimated, so popular, is the occupation 'becoming for women, that in a few years American libraries -will employ them .solely. WOMAN BANK PRESIDENT. A Japanese lady, Mrs. Seno Kin, was, not long ago, elected president of a bank in Tokio. AN AUSTRIAN INNOVATION. Business schools for girls of over fourteen, who want to be trained for commercial life, are to be established iu Austria. CHILDREN'S CURFEW. News from British Columbia recently stated that'there' is rung there at nine o'clock each night, "by the fire brigide, a curfew bell for all children under sixteen, unaccompanied by grown-ups or with no specific reason for being in the streets, to retire indoors. The prohibited hours are from !) p.m. to C a.m.

A HAPPY VENTURE. There has just sprung into being in Salisbury Square, one of the avenues of historic Fleet Street, a unftiue publishing firm, entirely controlled by women. It is known as the Happy Publishing Company, and will only bring out works iby women and only books calculated to make the world happier. ANOTHER PURE MILK CAMPAIGN. Harsh measures, but well deserved, are to be very shortly taken by the Health Department, 'urged by numbers of women's organisations in Chicago, where funds are now being collected for the circulation, in public vehicles—tram cars, etc—of black' lists showing the numbers j of' dealers proved to be selling impure milk.

WIFE FOR A SHILLING. An extraordinary case came before the ' Bench, at Bradford Police Court the other week, when a wife, praying for a separation from her husband, stated that he sold her, ten years ago, to another man for la, and put her into a train •which took, her three hundred mils away. She, hdwev'er, returned to her own husband subsequently, and the authorities refused tq grant an order. '• ' COLORED WOMEN.

Some idea of the -whole-hearted way in, which American negresses are seeking to, institute better conditions for themselves and their descendants may be 1 gathered from the fact that at the eighth convention of the National Association of Colored Women no fewer than 400 delegates \verVpresent. The Association is trying to promote a ibetter system of and to put a atop to child labor, among other much-called-fof reforms. ' ■, WOMEN SANITARY INSPECTORS. At''the conference' of the. Sanitary Inspectors' Association on Wednesday, statistics were presented-by the chief womin inspector "in Sheffield which showed that since the introduction of women sanitary-ririspetftprs infantile' "Mortality, dujring ten years, fell from 200 per 1000 t0|127 per 100.0. One of -the men speakI ci'i from London declared that without increasing help from women'public health wqrk CO uld not go on. He urged that ithe annual!sfcilasy-.paid;'t° ft.wonian in* on/her, appointment,, should not be| less'than :£.150w; :.: ■ -. . ]■ .

fcDTOAT& T G; EASTERN WOMEN. A eotifefrehce ; is ' now ■ being; held at Magdaleiv College; Oxford, onthe subject of jthe Christkn education of- Women in the Eastland in speaking on:'this impor: tapt'inatter, Siisß Richardson,.:principal of j Westfidld ■ College, London, drew attention t : o ; the Wry gre'ait impoirtance of seiiding competent missionaries :-r- the truest educators, because they aim at training the whole character and personality of pupils—out to Eastern womdn who, in this time-of great change, should be specially''helped. .-■ The-con.-; fetence was called, the speaker pointed out, to bring the crisis in the East as it: wa|s affecting ■ Eastern ;girls, and women :before.the staffs of some of the leading girls' schools ,'■ in England, and to ask university women in' England, in the all their own comparative difficulties, to study the present'conditions of! Eastern women and »to realise the critical nature 1 of .the [extraordinary changes affecting them, unparalleled in their rapidity, and, in. the opportunity they offer to the Christian Church. The conference' is still-proceeding. •: ; ;

! ;LODGINGHOUSES AND WOMEN, , ; Women clubs in Montreal have begun * campaign-, against .lodginghouse-keepers. for refusing to let rooms to women. The landladies defend themselves by retorting thit women are more "troublesome" than mejn. One .pretty, little stenographer, says the Montreal Star,, stated that the Jaitdkdips of. five houses out of six either denied .having a",room -to let ior-cls'e re-' jiusjed 'ppiilt-blaiifc/to 1 -' take 1 in a woman. Onfe of them'told; lier t'o her iace that.one . .wojmitn .in" a liouse waa 1 twice as inutih trouble as two' men; ' One lodginghbuse-, peeper has'written a letter :ia; which:she■ are r s. that t\vfilye : men in a month Will not ask for as' : 'm'any -favors •■■outside ;■ of ■ .jihi rooiri'that : %ey 'occupy lis-.a single j>'.m. eh Saturday ftp: 9' if .ni. ; .Qp : Monday ,cup of. tea,'use'a >fcapo'ty ciip, plaie ; ;and : fknife; Bi| .of butteT, drop of milk: . Sheet.-'off pap£r, ; 'yeix 'and ink.;::. Lfoan _of,, 'Jietvß.j)a : pers % 'MOre butter arid milk. Ppn-, ! icnjife ; . ! ' r ifair: of Scissors'; 'Useiiof: sieving. rnrfcliihri. 1 To'wash toiit a'fewwhanclkpr-j, chiefs;.', ••"And:airtliis," says the.lamt; l'a<|.y, "not to Apeak of .occupying,,tW balthrobnr for'an 'hour on' several occasicjns,' to 'the great.inconvenience.; -of 'others,' ; :or ; of'..coining. '- out, of her rppm asjcihgquestioni'regarding : the .lpcatiby 'of atreetsj. times wE trains leaving,,and various-other things. I. A man gpes ;i out in the"' morning, ihardly ■ :ever. returning ,'iii.til night..: Ho .keeps in;.his Topm-, ami., ncvet asks for- anything, beypnda xea-'! scn.aMe use of- the*bathroom. _ 'Herpays,' nipre' for his offers' 'to.' do- so in a'dvance.".,.;.- ~,- ,-;;.:..-;;/