WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 7 January 1915, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

WOMEN AND WAR. A BRAVE AMAZON. A wounded Russian officer relates that one of the soldiers in liis regiment performed an act of great bravery in rescuing a wounded comrade, going out and bringing the man back ou horseback underlie enemy's fire. After tlie retirement of the Russians from that spot, the "soldier' was discovered by the commander to be a young woman, [who had joined as a volunteer. She | was afterwards wounded and sent to a hospital at Kiev.

WOMEN TELEGRAPHISTS. A large number of former wimen telegraphists at the post office who have left the department in recent years to get married are resuming their old work in London, in order to fill the gap left by the many men who have gone to the front, cither as combatants or on special service. When, the girls bade farewell to the sounder and tape they were asked as a matter of form whether they would return to work in a national emergency, and the authorities are now communicating with those who replied in the affirmative. A very satisfactory response is understood to have been received.

FEMALE WARRIORS. There lias been scarcely a war in history in which members of the fair sex have not played a part in the fighting line. During tho Balkan War, women of all classes in Sorvia, Montenegro, and Bulgaria, who can handle a rifle as well< as they can a saucepan, fought for their, respective countries. A notable case was that of Miss Sophie Yovanovvitcli, a voung Servian girl, who obtained per- j mission from King Peter to fight like an ordinary soldier, and dressed in military uniform, accounted for several Turks. A Belgrade schoolgirl, Milena Manditch, was also found among the volunteer forces raised by the Servian Committee for National Defence. She was only seventeen years of age, and went from the high school at Belgrade to take her place in the fighting line, wearing an ordinary soldier's uniform.

THE SOLDIER'S WIFE. She's every inch a lady, Though she wears no costly furs; A patriotic mother— The title's truly hers. Few strive for Britain's glory Mure w.-.rthy of applause— A brave and fond heart bleeding In freedom's holy cause. Chorus— Still raise your cap when passing her 'Mongst noblest creatures classing her, Think of the cares harassing her— We've patriots on every hand, Who love the dear old Motherland, But foremost of the noble band, I rank the soldier's wife. When hushed the world and weary, When rapt in silent sleep, Iler nights are long and wakeful, 'Tis hers to watch and weep, Or soothe the dreaming baby That murmurs daddy's name, Or kiss the soldier's image, And (Jod's protection claim. Oil. there are deeds heroL', When Britons bravely go, With splendid dash ur.d during To front the ruthless foe, They strike for home and beauty, No laggards in the fray, While those they leave behind them Their parts vith courage play.

MOTHERS TIIEIII SOLDIER SONS. It Ims ever been the fate of women tft suffer most for others. From the birth of their children till their starting forth in the world there is tragedy. Every day has its anxieties, every tomorrow its fears. There is nothing 011 earth so strong, so enduring, so faithful as mother-love. A boy conies into the world. The mother guides and protects him through babyhood, through childhood, through young manhood, 'and brings him to the age when she looks for his larger work and his greater happiness in tin.' opportunities of lift?. Thore is a call to arms. He enlists for war. The long separation begins, and every niinuti- to her heroines a time of prayer, and apprehension. Waking or sleeping, she is with him in thought and soul. She sees a thousand battles whieh she never kn.jWs; she walks through 11< 1-11 ita 1 tents and fields strewn v. iih dead and dying, while lie may tie ; s.!-l j laying with his comrades. : '<■ deaths she lives, and her vii't i. the miraeie.

vsmivMv iiaud tasks Old soldiers will Ml you that the '■ thin- » to stand ami bo fired u without bcinj; allowed to fire back. Women** task is harder. She is in the fijrht without being present, and all ■' 1 1 ' 1 "ii s ;»i!<t horrors and torments ■ li.-r- v. i11..ml the stimulus or satisliletiiiu of return. an* (oimiit mostv by men who are seareely more than boys. Keep that fact, in mind, i hen \ou see what wo mean when we -ay that it ha~ been the tair of woinun ■ > -Miller nio>t fur others and through <»tiier>. !1 needs no word of oura In (ell the mother heart that war strikes ■ tman in her dearest and tcudercst passion—her hiiy. And yet what do we liiidy in ];a>fc years and in our present war the supreme tiling has been the suMinn* of our women. Here | i-iii with i;u j)lay r-uldier in it. !- Mir iniraele of the spirit that ;■ u■ ■- ;i ti.itinii .-it :Ie at death and fijjhfc for what it heliews to he the boy goes, the mother goes—you cannot separate thciu.