WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 29 January 1915, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

NOTES FROM LONDON. A DOUBLE CHARITY. London, December 3. An order for S«awu bony writs destined as a gift to the French Army lias been received by one of Queen Mary's workrooms. I'ATROIj WOMEN. Hull Watch Committee has decided to appoint four salaried patrol women to loo!; after the interests of young girls. A MILITANT ON WAR. Miss Cliristabel l'ankliurst is at present in America, lecturing on the European War. AN HEROIC QUEEN. The special correspondent at Ostend for Le Journal, pays enthusiastic tribute to tile calm heroism and devotion of the Queen of the Belgians, who refused to go on board her yacht to leave Ostend during the bombardment until the last wounded had been got away.

UXIOX THROUGH DISUXSOX. There is to be held at the Queen's Ifall one day next month a special day of confession, intercession and conference with regard to the war, when tin; Bishop of London and other prominent representatives of the Church of England and the Free Churches will preside. lUX<; AND FIIKXCH XUiJSK. The first oHicial recognition of a woman's services during the present war has been given by the King in bestowing the Decoration of the Royal Red Cross on a Frenchwoman Mademoiselle Euginie Antoine, in recognition of her courageous and devoted services to the British wounded in hospital at Vailly-sur-Aisne, whilst tile village was under shell lire.

| LADY AXOLERS' HELP. I ■ Large quantity of fish have been I J caught within the past few days by the I members of the Lowestoft Ladies' Sea I Angling Society, who have augmented j tile kitchen of the Territorials in camp • near by. | COMFORTS FOE XI'RSES. j It has been suggested in the Times J this week that attention might well be | turned, at a time more strenuous for them than fur most people, to the providing of weekly bumpers of greater delicacies than regulations provide, for the nurses doing lied Cross work with ! the British Expeditionary Force abroad. I Hiscuits, chocolates and colfee are amongst the gifts suggested.

WOMEN" GOLFERS' FUM). A woman golfers' fund was started at the beginning of the war with the sole object of providing work, or fund* to enable others to provide, work, for gentlewomen out of worl; to the war •RED CROSS BARGES. To the Union of the Women of France is due the happy idea of converting some of the barges to be seen in such hundreds on tiie Seine into floating hospitals for conveying the wounded down the river. In these experienced surgeons will be able to give prompt attention where this is necessary; and there will be staffs of nurses. Each barge will accommodate forty wounded, so that they will be of very real value to tho authorities.

AUSTRIAN AND GERMAN lIATS. It will astonish many people to hear that Great Britain imports vast quantities of hat sliapes from Austria, and a goodly number—£2o,soo worth last year—from Germany. From Austria last year the United Kingdom took no less than £243,700 worth of women's and girls' felt and wool untrimmed hat shapes alone.

OUT-OF-WORK WOMEN". ' > Some notion of the disastrous extent of unemployment still rife amongst women, in spite of the many measures adopted to try and stem this, may be gathered from the figures of July to Oetober as against July to November last year. Tor that period last year 507 women asked for work from the Central 'Unemployed Body for London. This year, for a period a fortnight less than the other, no fewer than S3lO women have begged for employment.

CHILD WORKERS K WAR. It was stated last week by the president of thy Half-time Couneil tliat at tlie present time no fewer tlian 100,000 children under 13 years of age aiv in employment and in competition with adults in the labor market, the majority of these being engaged in mills ill Lancashire and Yorkshire. At twelve a child may begin work, but a movement is afoot by the above Council to persuade the necessary authorities to insist that all children about leaving should be kept at school at least until the end of the war relieves the stress of adult unemployment.

.SUFFRAGE WORK OF IIEKCY. Tlie Women's IJall, at I>o\v, in the East End —Miss Sylvia l'ankhurst's anil her supporters' headquarters—lias now been organised as a centre for administering relief to the poor of that very poor district. At present the authorities are catering specially for babies, who are in danger of dying oil' by hundreds, as their mothers can't afford milk for them. A nurse is in attendance every day, and the suffragists are canvassing for milk, cgirs and harlcv for their guests. They" hope, in the near future, to open other depots in orher districts where distress is very i.'iich in evidence.

A UNIT 01'' EXPERT WOMEN". Within a week of the win- the Woman's National Service! League, which. as the Women's Sick and Wornded Convoy Corps, iliil such splendid work in the IJalkan War, had collided a unit of women surgeons, doctin <. nuives and orderlies for foreign service, \\ slll two railway vans full of stnns, ami was aide to "place itself at the disposal of the St. John Anilmlance Association. Throii;.'h the i,'ci)iTosity of women friends the League has every necessary for surgical and medical treatment of tin! wounded, including a magnificent X-ray apparatus, and numberless comforts for patients. One lady lias promised a donation of ,C,50 a week for three mouths to lielp in the upkeep of tlio unit, j