SLAVES IN PETTICOATS.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 230, 7 February 1885, Page 12

SLAVES IN PETTICOATS.

In Germany women do most ot the menial! out-of-door work. Switzerland is the only country in continental Europe where peasant women are not obliged to do all the hard work. A woman was seen recently in Naples^carrying a coffin on her head, chatting gaily with a man who walked empty-handed ather side. • • Not infrequently a woman and a cow are--seen together pulling a coal-cart through, thejjstreets of a North German city, a man touching them up, gently to be sure, with a. whip as he walks beside them. In Denmark it is not usual to see a woman high up in a cherry tree picking the fruit, while a man lies at the foot waiting to»---place the ladder when she shall be ready to come down with her burden. "In upper Austria," writes a correspondent, "I saw a slight and very pretty " young girl carrying the mortar up to thesecond story of a building, while a mam waited there to put it in when she arrived."'" The Murder of O'Donovan Rossa has set theworld in a blaze. The populace everywhere areexcited, and the cry is that retributive justicahas overtaken the arch - conspirator. 1 It vrtrc?; O'Donovon Rossa's mission — or his. .fancied one-v- . to stir up strife between England, and, Ireland:. But this kind -of mistaken "patriotism;" < never-". • • leads to good or beneficial results. .What a con-ti-asb to^ O'Donovan 'Rossa is Eaton, 1 of the' Co--operative Stores, Hobson'-street. Instead o£\ seeking' to destroy what, is valuable in life and' ! property, Eaton's " object in life is' to save the- ■ people from the payment of extortionate pricos^ for the necessaries of life by going, direct' to the^B i growers and manufacturers, purchasing for cashJH j and retailing only at one profit, and that, a, vervW small one. Much poverty and distress have been;, oiVviated since Eaton set up business in Auck— ' land. The people everywhere speak in his praise.. One gentleman told us this week that he earned away more groceries and provisions one evening than he. could procure, for a, pound 1 in-tha, ordinary ' way "of shopping' The people shouiu take this=hint, and lay out their,iaoney to ; the -best, advantage. ' jNText Criterion Hotel.