Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 108, 30 September 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

LADY FARMERS. Sedgewick, a community in that district of the Western Canadian prairies known as Central .Alberta, is 6000 miles distant from Great Britain, but it it location of a colony of settlers from the Old Country, who were attracted to the ready-made farm=, prepared here b\ the Canadian-Pacific railway. Most of the farmer.- under this scheme ire married men, 1..t on one of the farms on this colon,; are two bachelor girls (they arc too young to be referred to as spinsters). To tins larm Air 11. A. Kennedy, a well known writer, rc•ently paid a visit. "Two young ladies," lie says, ''arc working in partnership. They find no dillicu'.ty in the arrangement, though tiie average farmer out tnere assures you that partnerships are unworkablo in tilth a business. Each member is responsible for her own department, but is inlays to help the other. 'Miss Wittriek oo!;s alter the dairy and the house,' >aid her partner, Miss Jack May, 'and she is a beautiful butter-maker, and an excellent cook/ but she takes a hand in Jie field work whenever there's need of extra help. Miss May was up on top of an oat stack when I first saw her, out slid down into a waggon alongside 'ind greeted me most heartily.

"A little woman, clad for work in a dark blue canvas jacket and serge ridini oiecchc-s, I did not wonder that she bad often ibeen taken for a boy. But, unconventional as her attire may be, she evidently commands the respect of her neighbors both for her sex and her enterprise. She. does not pay at farming. There is a distinctive and delicate design in her rustic garden fence, and even in her construction of the pig-stye, but she'is eminently prae. ,al and up-to-date in her agricultural methods.

''Her hobby is live stock; her crops

1 so.d '<.u t'.e hoof.' Slir has

ho.'!' bull, tinc.. y<ar:; ]: g heifer:, six ■ti.-'j U' i-i.lt of iV.tlvned pigs iii lo mouths hilt >'■'<■ rejects I lie temptation to sell her eh"-. 'iVvp'e v.'i.l sei!,' she reti!;:r'. cl. 'i .vu w ii-.-n they can alVord to l;ei;-.. If 1 toi'l.'.u't feed my cattle t'.uo.i;.ii t'ii- winter. 1 would rat'a.T not have tin hi at a!..' ". lie :ci::|' her erea: - i. gradin" as-high

a; .".■•' p; r cent, butti r-f:::, to the creamery, and f.e.ls the .- .im milk, tu the '.i'i.s. f'!:e lion- inli i:.i iu cjmi atrl ; i:!:le

lur mvii lleei'. 'llav-' yi.'a :"•.;-■ i.'.h.r s;.. cial lineV I ii-ked. "i 'ur special line,- she answered, 'is work; She works for others as well as for icrself; work of all sorts in all weathers; hauling grain, hauling hay, hauling coal from the near-e-t mine where it can be got- for (is 3d per ton. ,She has been out in the bush cutting saplings until 10 o'clock at night. Work certainly agi'ei s with her, as it does with most people if they give it an honest trial and take reasonable care (f themselves. T have never been half a day in the house since coming here,' she told me, 'except one Sunday, when there was a bit of a blizzard.' "—From the Irish Homestead.

WOMEN AND THE WAR

Ladies both on tile Continent anil in England are liable to very much embarrassing experieiuis just now. According to the Englie.h papers, quite a number of pretended women have proved to be men spies, and real women fashionably attired have proved to be spies a.so. Some at any tune quite innuirnt u t men may come under suspicion either way and be subjected to arrest, and the most unceremonious handling. Here are two instance:', I noticed among many. One a telegram from mussels lxfore tiie Germans got there, and one from Ciiristiania. A prominent Belgian who had just returned from Lydtkuhncn (Fast Prussia) tells a thrilling story of a Russian spy's attempt ta blow up tht' railway bridge over tiie Vistula at Thorn (West Prussia). The train was crowded with German ofiicers, and my informant suddenly saw two of them throw themselves on a fellow passenger, since found to be a Russian, and wiem-h away a hug which ho was about to hurl out of the window. The hag was found to contain a powerful bomb. Earlier in the day, it is said, two Russians disguised as women had tried tu approaeh the bridge in a motor car through the woods on the left bank o'l the river. When the train reached l!erl,er.th:il, on the Belgian frontier, the German Customs Officials- searched all the passengers for arms and conlis : fated any cameras thev found.

A l!iis»:an woman travelling tlinmgil Norway has been arrested as a >py at Ocstor.-'.'.ud. <m the Swedish horder. win had in her possession 201) maps ami piintnfjraplis of Norwegian fortresses. A jisan win) was a nested for making sketchc.- of tli" forts at qucenxlown said hi- was Francis .1. Clarke, a graduate of Oxford Cniversity. Ho was detained. There was a cahlcjjram recently about tin! Czar's sister actin;; an a nurse and caiutiiiiiidmj; a wounded ollker who relier to say nothing, ami address her simply as sister, dust liefore Hamad left this telegram was published from Ci>|>enliKjren:—--The Knsxian Ambassador at licrlin, M. rncrbciell', arrived nere to-day with the Grand Duchess Xeiiia's son-in-law, l'rim'c de Youssoni'oli'. who had been arrested in lierlin and afterwards released. Princess YoUssdur.oll was .seriously shocked Iby the Prince', unexpected arrest, and had to In carried to and from the train on a band .barrow. The Princess is now >yin? seriously ill at the Hotel d'An»leterre, where tin- Kmpress ilarie of Kussia to-night mused her for sevml hours.

lord ICitahenw's new armies in England are on householders. All who can afford to do so, charge nothing, but unofficial sale of payment has been issued which will interest many householders here. Here it ia— t "Orders were, issued last evening authorising general of field ollieers to issue bil.eting requisitions and requisitions of emergency for the provision of carriages, animals, vessels and aircraft." lAn Army Order gives the following special rates to be paid for billeting to an occupier other than the keeping of a victualling house:— Lodging and attendance for soldier where meals furnished, (Id per night. Breakfast, as specified in part 1, of Second Schedule to Army Act, 7 Y«A each. Dinner as so specified, Is T'/od each. Supper, as so specified, 4'/ 3 d each. Where no meals furnished, lodging and attendance, and candles, vinegar, salt, and use of fire, and necessary utensils for dressing and eating his meat, 9d per day. Stable room and 10. lis of oats, twelve lbs. of hay, and Slhs. of straw per day, for each horse, 2s TV-id per day. Stable room, without forage, Dd per day. Lodging and attendance for officer, 3s per night. " Note.—An officer must pay for his food.

The Premier (Mr Dcnliam), Governor of ..aeeiisland, is advised from London that his eider daughter Elsie, about whoso welfare he, has been much concerned, is safe in Berlin, and has money. Mrs Denham and her younger daughter escaped from the Continent at the heginning of the war.

'ihy Sydney Sun rays:—"A corps of Australian women volunteers is being organised in Sydney. The object of this corps is to assist in all patriotic movements. In addition to organising funds foi assistance of the armies in the front and of those who suffer at home, the members of the company will be drilled

the use of the rille and in the various

...nds of military work, the object of the latter instruction being for 'home protection. In vie\y of the recent devastation of I'.eigian homes by the invading Germans, and their outrages on he.pless women, the women of Australia think it is time that they-were taught lo protect themselves and to he ready I'm any emergency.

It is intended to make this corps a i housand strong. The assistance of four ix-miltary men has been secured,, and !' i-y will give instruction in military tacucs to twelve women whom it is intended to appoint as leaders, and who will afterwards take in hand the whole lattalicn. Mr Ailison, of tho American Daneing Academy, in Elizabeth street, has ient his room as headquarters. 'for the volunteer corps.