WOMEN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 274, 11 April 1913, Page 6

WOMEN'S WORLD

BACKWARD LONDON. Women dentists, whatever their qualifications, are not admitted at the dental schools at Guy's or the London Hospital. A LABOUR IDEAL. At the next meeting of the Glasgow Town Council the Labour Party lias given notice that it will move "That 110 female employees of 20 years of age and upwards in the corporation, shall be paid a less wage than lGs per week of 48 hours or over." SERENADING PRISONERS. Such festivities as arc allowed prisoners are being offered through prison bars to those suffragettes who spent their Christmas in Ilolloway. for, wet or fine, each night lately, bands of sympathisers have serenaded the incarcerated ones with Christmas carols and suffrage war songs.

A WOM4N: CONTRACTOR. An unusual state of things -was reveal- j ed in one of the fashionable suburbs of Berlin a few days ago, when the public authorities made an inquiry into a flourishing building and contracting business, and found that, for several years, a German lady had run this entirely, he v husband being employed by her as iL.tster of the works! BEAUTY COMMERCIALISED. According to a well-known portrait painter, beautv was never worth more—qua beauty—than to-day, when,* by going on the musical comedv stage, and selling to some photographer the exclusive right to photograph her. a really pretty woman could make £2.000 to 43,00 a year. The fact that she would have to first make a name, this expert •does not mention, though he does add, one surmises cvnipa-l'M'; 'that 'she 'would' liave a rood chance of marrying into tlw nobility! ' NOT ONLY LIVING, BUT COMFORT.' The Public Service Corporation of Newi Jersey has done a remarkable tliincr in a remarkable spirit this New Year. Not, only has it decided that no girl or wo-, man in its employ is to get less than ; 36s a week (more than doubling some of, the wages now paid), but all are, the Chairman made it known, not to con-, sirler this a New Year's gift, but a New Year's right. The splendid innovation is .the result of investigations made bv a specially appointed .conipii'ttee, which found that, not only a living wage, but something beyond v that, be, paid tfl^ensure freedom from temptation for wofk'mg girls.

itousewiv,es ANn'FREE trade. An association that .is known as the National of. Jlousewivea of Austria called,important meeting regates. not' only.. i ijfr(|jn- other- women's societies, hyit ( of' medical men and rmerchants', ~'l,o.,consider the verv serioiiS|- effect';(pf r th»- Nearness of foodstuffs oi| t]ie.. ]©\vcr middle class people who have to keep up. It was (pointed" "out _ tliat "the infant mortality in boiuwois circles of Vienna isincreasing K'lelitisCfind',bounds, and has already reached 27.4 per cent., and that consumption is also spreading; a resolution be'n<' at last put praying for a total aVolftio'til ofl'/tVdKKit'ies oil corn and all commodities.

BEDROOM CURTAINS. In making..curtains.,for the bedroom windows in material the" width of-it^.-jyin^mv,- :.-Kp\V measure off the iiJio!i?wrtains and'.cut the rr\site»iftJ. ; !{rftjti ißwner. to corner on the bijiß. vTi) r oth&s,\V:or.ds cut from "the lower, left-hancl: corner . to the upper right-hand corner. To this'])ias. ed?e apply a ruffle, of the material,Qr pf ,fo;yr<ve lace.

Finish the ; joining seam neatlv hv stitohinaf a strip of. foather-stitched braid or a narrow bias folded over the ruffle 9n.d.scani..fdgft-j: .• Now finis.l| tiio.bvpad straiarht the ton with fi hem and narrow pasta?, tljrousr.lj whifjh is.,run a tape the length of_ tlie' w.iathrjof the window. The curtains are. ihpn jli.ivre,'d over the tape or smalj brass.' rods., a.nd. attached to the windows., .1

Drane them to' »«« 1 » side of the w.mdp.w with ril)bons or cr"--iTi cords, and to" will -have -a v.— <rood 100k 1 - I ** curtains, mr>d'> from the onantitv of •" !- terial in makir"? one curtain. I

TO T' T * r ' T -TKT(c "C don't'want'my g. : ris lo trr Hr-oii"!] v'i'-.t. J did,",they. sav. f'.-ni -•«. 1 free to <ro % ancf come as they will; r v. if they .marry, Nicy -"„=<■ ..nt rich I'"-'nhds and have ; no cFMien. Thev slv'l not be drudges."' I have heard movers—wealthy] educated and socalled ,f good"' mothers—say this very thing. And I . have felt' like crvin" aloud -from J he housetops that thev were wrong— 11 wrong! There is im planted in evet-y Woman's heart, if il is not crowded out bv selfishness and tlx love of money or dress or show, the holv desire to fee]--a''little'form nestlino- oi lier: breast;.to.-see-yoiinsr-eves looking uii to her as an angel of light, to feel littll clinging hands, to be- called by the beaul tiful name of "Mother." Does not evennormal sirl child show this from he first doll time? P.ut, ; s s j, o no too often tauoht in conceal it. to ac as though this impulse. God given, in a crime, to he ashamed of it? Small wonder if, wkrin sh# has finished school she parsuades herself that life for luf must be perfectly independent, that shl> nmsi carve her own way, that she rMi-if: oon.tl'»l .kw- own. future - ! For tli" fir*! l ' nine yews of my business life T h:UI to ieal with men.: for the rest o-uj pJ. pociaJly iiio last 1.5 veaiv. T 1,..v/wl." intimately associated with woaien ' 1 d aware unhesitatingly that men n v'e f,l r mere satisfactory in their l nl sj. l( , si lat.ons. They are broader, more cious, more tolerant, more just Tinid more capable of judging without prejudice. Women are more tactful, more agreeable, more taken up with details.

more critical, more von wfli fcav, owinn- to centuries of training awl inheritance. True; l,„t most business women, K ivpi, ihoir choice. will «„ i n ( o •a mans office to earn their dailv bread lather than a woman's. Not because the sexes are op„osito,\ hut Area, thev know they will find better wasjos. more independence. fewer exactions, and water leiiiencv of treatment evprv win*. It ou<rht not to be so. but it is; and until tlm fcininino business manner crows .broader and binder, mentally and mora v, ,t will continue to bo so.' And vet the yonnpr woman who oops into a man s office runs a risk of losin- someIhtiur of that peculiar womanliness 0 f hoar), and mind that is at once h»r veal-,-ess and stremrth-and certainly her highest cha rm.—.lanet Litchfield i,i l r T '"l'%°"'!,' P: '' >Pl, nnd WomenN Alai;a.ane for hchruarv.

PfiLLTXC; a WTFK. Tlie "Annual Ueffister" for 1832 j»avo an account of a singular sale which tool; pine? on April 7 of that vear. A farmer named Joseph Thomson , had been marJ ol ' real's with out findinrr |,U .vyinmess advmccd. n,,.] i 1 (, decided lo sell his wife l>y imbl>c auction, it bein Q commonly believed anion" uneducated people at the time Kv.-.t a marriage could be dissolved by this moans. Thoiii-

son took his wife to Carlisle, and after a bellman had announced the sale he j placed her in a chair in the market place, with a halter round her neck, anrl addressed the assembled crowd. "I took j her for my comfort and the Rood of mv j home," he' said", "but she became my tormentor, domestic curse, a night invasion and a daily devil. Gentlemen, I speak truth from my heart when I say, may God deliver us from troublesome wives and frolicsome women! Avoid them as you would a'mad dog, a roaring lion, a loaded pistol, cholera morbus. Mount Etna. or any other pestilential thine; in Nature." Lest prospective buvers should be dismayed, Thomson added that the woman coul'l read novels, milk cows, make butter, mvl seold the maid. Bidding was not brisk, but finallv the lot was knocked down to one Henry Mean for twenty shillings and a Newfoundland do?, and Thomson we" 1- , home alone. A sale of this kind took ilaee at Dudley as late as IRT>9, when p. man sold his I wife for sixpence under * ,,n belief that I she would have no further claim upon him for support.