FOR WOMEN FOLK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 298, 26 May 1915, Page 6

FOR WOMEN FOLK.

"BY EILEEN." ' ' c

" Eileen " will be glad to receive items of interast and value to \7omen for publication or reference in this column.

WAR NOTES FOR WOMEN. London, March 3. Tlie. German War Oi'iice lias recently appointed its first woman army uoetoi. Dv. Elizabeth Ucinecke, who hiis been given charge of it military hospital. No less than 000 women members of t!ie National Viiion of Suffrage Societies are known to be engaged in Red Cross work. A woman judge lias been appointed, in the person of .Miss Head A\ lutehcad, at Seattle, in Washington, before whom all criminal cases concerning women .will come. . A great deal ,of interest has been aroused in France by the arrival of a large mini her of .Japanese Red Cross doctors, nurses and chemists, who hope to luive their own ambulance in working order in a few days. The Women's Courts ill Xew York and Philadelphia sit both day and night, and all cases of minor offences' of girls are .brought befor" tlli'in, every rpse brought 'being examine:! both physically and mentally—a precaution found effective in the prevention of the spread of disease. A novel public house is being opened in Xorth London by the Women's Freedom League to be called "The Despard Anns." Games and. magazines -will be provided, and refreshments and cheap meals for both men and women, for whom facilities for rest will also be provided.

MARRYING HIS MOTHER. An extraordinary story comes from America where a youth was about to many his mother. It suggests the care that young men should take as to who they become engaged to without sullicient enquiry. According to the. account in the American papers, Clarence li. l'Vatlierstone, twenty-two, found his mother after a separation of years when he was about to marry her. Young Featherstone came from Richmond, Va., recently, and obtained employment in a restaurant. One of those, who daily visited the place was a ilrs. Henrietta Johnstone. They became acquainted and finally decided to wed. They visited, the marriage license bureau and in the course of.the examination it developed that Mrs. Johnstone and the young man. were mother and son.

"DOMESTIC MEN'S BILLETS. The London representative of the Sun discoursed amusingly 011 the advent of women and girls into ''domestic men's" billets. He says: "James, the butler, has gone. Ilenry, the footman, has gone. John, the valet, has gone. Our illustrated papers are filled with photographs of a dainty and demure maid, whom Lady Randoph Churchill has fitted out in what she calls the livery of a footwoman. The Athenaeum Club has two pretty and decorous waitresses Hitting about its tea room i,a the drawing-room floor. The world is utterly upside-down. "The war takes no-account of women." a man since'mentioned in despatches observed to me in August. In point of fact, woman is coming into her own, and some men say a little hit more, in ceiisc'iuenee of the war. The onward pressing of women into positions that have always been the purquisites of men is ■filling tlie sterner sex with perturbation. liven though the shy little debutante in the West End elubroom murmurs like the Steam iij the Ship that Found herself, "I'm only a poor puliy little Hutlerer," the ■man who aces his job endangered or who realises for the first time that he is not indispensable is apt to regard her with stern, critical and censorious eyes. There was a little army of men ready to fill the fat, luxurious jobs in the homes of the titled and the rich in the West End. James and Henry and John,, after reading the Times, deprecated the slackness of the rising generation, and marvelled at the absence of patriotism which men exhibited 'bv not enlisting. James and Henry and John would have, continued their scandalised conversations on this subject until the war was over if an advertisement had not appeared in the Press asking masters and mistresses whether James and Henry and John could not be spared to serve in the ranks. To-day, if you present yourself *t a door in Mayfair, you will iiot fmd big, healthy, beefy men, pompously doing nothing with a ileal of care. James and Henry and John have gone to the front, and they have no male successors. The same foot which kicked them out of palatial houses shut the door against the little who were waiting for them to be pensioned off in order to creep into their comfortable quarters."

T.o fewer than forty Follows of Colleges iinil three hundred holdeas of Bcliolarsliips have gone to the war from Oxford University, while the. number of students at Cambridge, is now only 1227, as against 8181 'who would be there normally. , j » " *, •* There are good openings in England at : present for women-who have had training in plan-tracing for engineering j works, etc. Salaries aye, however, very poor, experienced workers being offered j only 25s to 30s a week, though extreme ; accuracy 3iid a great deal uf technical j knowledge are necessaryv j I The majority of the Rhodes' scholars j are now cither on active service or helping in some department of relief in connection with the war. These will, of course, be enabled to continue their studies later—such as are alive. Twenty scholars arc helping with the distribution find redistribution of food in Holland to the Belgian refugees there. # * # The death has occurred at Kragnjevatz in ;Servia of a distinguished English lady doctor, Miss Elizabeth Ness Ross, who was acting as a Servian military doctor, and contracted typhus fever, which proved fatal Miss Ross graduated only twelve years ago, and j had specialised in tropical diseases. She was a 'Fellow of the Society of Tropical Medicine, and held the certificate of the London School of Tropical Medicine. j Amongst the fine organisations set going by women, not the least is that undertaken by the women-of D Section (110 Company) of the British Red Cross Society, who have a room at Victoria station, where they every day dispense gratis to Belgian refugee arrivals tea, coffee, bread and butter and cake. Owing to complaints (lound to be true) from soldiers on leave who, on their way back to the front, have very often to spend cold and dreary hours in the early morning waiting about at Victoria, these ladies are now taking the soldiers under their wing. The work is entirely voluntary.. The King, the Queen and-the Prince of Wales are all showing,practical interest in the various schemes that are afoot for provision for those soJdiera and sailors blinded in the war. A hostel is being opened fn London almost aS once owing to the generosity of Mr. Otto Kahn, who has placed his beautiful house at Regent's Park at the disposal ; of the ioint committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. i John of Jerusalem, to whom a grant of i £SOOO has been made by the National ; Relief Fund. Tn the grounds will be installed an open-air club, where those of the blind men who wish to live in the I country will bo taught poultry culture, | garden and farm work, way-finding, marketing and sports and gajnes. In a temporary ho3tel a number of blind soldiers are already installed, and, with the aid of a number of. cheery blind folk and others, are adapting themselves to their new modes of life. . A fund has been .started for providing typewriters, writing frames, specially-devised games, and other apparatus, and those who have motor-cars or facilities for taking blind soldiers for drives are being asked to come forward.

EUGENIC WOOING. He was gotten up regardless, fia he walked into the private office of the leading woman sull'ragist. Bowing and placing his hand on his heart, he said, earnestly: "Madam, I have come to ask from you the hand of 'your fair daughter. She tells'me that she has the right to accept me without your consent, hut we both feel that as a matter of courtesy to , you your blessing should be obtained." "Hare you your eugenic certiliaate?" "Right here, madam. I think you vyill find it correct in every particular." "And your financial rating?" "These papers give a list of my holdings, together with my references from leading bankers." "All, yes. And your pedigree?" "18 in this chart. That red spot in the centre, about half-way along, is iriiere Adam fell." "Seems correct. Will yoti walk hack and forth, easily and naturally, for a few moments?" . "Certainly, madam." "Ah! That will do. 'And now, young man, you wish to have my decision?" "If you please." "My daughter has made the mistake of her life. 'She can never marry you." "But why, madam?" "Well, if you must know, I've decided to take you myself."—New York I Life.

THE WOMEN. (By Rev. M. T. Hainsellin, Chaplain, E.K.) Honors for some, and medals ' for all, after the war is ended, Praise for the living, and glorious fame for the brave at Test; What for those who deserve the most, the patient, the splendid Women—who suffered the most and ■bore it the best? You—whose laurelled brows are by modest memories shaded. Knowing how battle can fashion a hero against his will, Almost without his knowledge—could you have done as they did. Send their dearest away, their own task just to sit still! , Send you away, and hearten you up, aiming at one thing only, Just to keep back the tears and let you sec naught by a smile, Then live on. not knowin" whether the fate to be lonely Was to he theirs for ever; or but for a while. Oreat though' your heart may he, there is one that is always greater, Hid in the bosom of her who waits for the glad day when ith a long-drawn sigh of relief and praise to the great Creator She shall know that the war she, hates is over at last, and then Greet you with open arms, welcome and loving laughter, I'roud of her man, and reckoning nothing lier own long pain, Or, if need be. uncomplainingly wait for a glad hereafter, When her dear angel Death shall take her to you again.