Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 280, 29 April 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

•A HINDOO GIRL BAKU. London, Apri 10. Miss Clarothy JJonarjue, daughter of! an Indian barrister, has been appointed! Bard At .Aberystwyth University College. BAIJIUM OX HIRE. It has been suggested by thy board of the Leicester Royal Infirmary that, owing to the scarcity of radium, a small quantity of it should be hired for the use of the honorary s'alf. It is thought that an expenditure of £lO would be involved on each ease treated. l-lARSH SENTENCE ON PEACE LOVER. For declaring, "If we are ordered to use murderous weapons against Frenchmen and other foreign brothers we shou'd call out, 'We shall not do it,'" Mile, j Rose Luxemburg, a celebrated Social De- j mocrat leader, was, a few days ago, | sentenced at Frankfort-on-Main to a ! year's imprisonment. ! ANOTHER EVIDENCE OF PROGRESS. It is stated that the president of tlio Local Government Board (Mr. H. Samuel) is about to introduce a .bill to remove the bar to tue election of women to county and borough councils. Hitherto the law has excluded from candiditure for county and borough councils all men and women who are not tremselves electors. ' WOMAN Blu GAME HUNTER. Not many wftmen would consider big game minting attractive, but' a Mrs Claud Marks, who left England in October with her maid and a party of live gentlemen for East Africa for big game hunting, has just returned much impressed by her experiences. She has herself shot leopards and had exciting adventures with lions, and at least one rhinoceros. .Mrs Marks intends going again next autumn. NEED FOR PROTECTING BREAD. A medical man, spesikiftg at the annual genera] meeting oi ;ho Pure Food and Health Society last week, opined that the danger of infection from the handling of raw meat was small, a much more dangerous source i.j trouble being bread, especially imperfu-.:;,- cooked bread. An ideal method, he <<;nsiuered, would be to have the lo.if cow red with a gelatinous. substance, which could be peeled p.l' as required.

The lIOAIiY AKUUiIJiM*iiWSWERJJD

The l'aris correspondent oi the "Observer' tells a delightful story of how a woman claiming to be registered as a voter in Paris a few days ago was challenged to produce ■her certificate of military service. .She ]>i-:Mi:ptly pi'oduceq her orders, as an army mr.-e, to join a post on the frontier imnieuiately mobilisation began. vSiie had even been under tire. And the man who questioned her had to he excused service on the grounds of ph.y.sk'ul unfitness.

INTERESTING HOLIDAY SCHEME.

The London County Council Educatiot Committee lias recently come to an -r----rangement with the Ragged School Unij n by which scholars wlio are poor and delncate will be able to secure summer ho'idays and not; only a day or two during the busy holiday month of .august. Instead, it has now been arranged that frail scholars may leave school in order to secure holidays. The Council is approaching the Board of Education to recognise as attendances, lor the purposes of grant, the time the children spend for the benelit of tiieir health it the holidav homes.

PROPOSED WIDOWS' PENSIONS. England is far behind New Zealand in many of her laws that concern women and children, but if the suggestions made by the Bristol Board of Guardians come into effect, at least one step nearer the daughter dominion's progressive legislation will nave been taken. 'A repo'rt has been adopted by the Board in qiii-s tion to the effect that, though tli-y could not support the proposal to asi; the Government to provide national pensions for widows, they are of opinion that much more generous assistance should be given through the Poor Law authorities to widows with dependent children, and that a national subsidy should be given to boards of guardia.is for half of the relief given.

CHEATED A HAHO.NET ESS. Though something h.is been done to exclude women less rigorously than '.l' the last few reigns from enjoying honours in appointing that, in special cases they inherit their father's title, th« fajt that 110 woman figure on the 801 l n' Baronets—l,3o!) in all—published recently, denotes a retrograde movement in the Oidei. In Hi.).) Dame Mary Bolles was eieated a baronetess of Scotland, and received a grant of IS square miles of territory in Nova Scotia. Charles I oidained that Dame Mary was t<> rank on the same footing as' tile wives of baronets, fifty .years later the mother of Genera] Cornelius Spellman vms created by James 11. a baronetesi of I'ln"land. °

THE KuKKiIXO UAIIS/. Mrs Pcmber Hooves, of Now JC»nlaiid IS amongst the celebrated signatories of a protest forwarded to the J'rime Minister, through the jinmajii tarian l.oa"in\ to induce the (iovernment to extend st"l further thp infliction of the lash in convictions uder the Criminal Uiw Amendment (White \ave Traffic) Act. '"While we hold that all personal violence should be most rigorously s|ip . pressed, we desire to convey ( 0 you <ni>Strolls conviction, in the first place, that flogging is neither a proper nor effective method of punisnment; and, socoiiliv, tluit the sex distinction wiii-li ■n women from a. penalty to whL-h men are , subjected is less an lionor than an insult, inasmuch as it is not a j.rivibut equal justice, that women .1, -

"We trust, tuerefore, that Hie government, while maintaining the law secures to women entire immunitv from the. lash, will seek- rather to extend thi" immunity to men, than to impose still Tmthereupon one sex only a brutal and antiquated form of punishment which is degrading to men and women alike si:rs£.-°'