WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR GIRLS?

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 833, 30 July 1881, Page 2

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR GIRLS?

" Civis" in the Witness thqs marolise? : —Tfie British cemua totals just pqlfc lishei} reyes] the djfttrpng {aot tlja.i there, are in the United Kingdom, ex? actly 1,000,001) rxjore wotnen than tnen. The figures aretf.Qpfj.OQQmales II.OOQ.QQO ' females, I 9 all seriousness and christian love, I call the faot that so enormous adfa' proportion exists between the sexes a distressing faot. There are a millicn women in Great Britain who cannot possibly ha, mated, Try to imagine the heartaohoi disapppintmest, and weariness of life represented by that statement. Call up the lament of "Mariana in the moated grange," waiting and watching for the laggard wooerShe only said " My life is dreary; He oometh not," the said; She said," lim aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead I" ...and picture a million Marianas, who hope against hope for the wooer wh,q never comes, and/in th,? nature of thin«s never pan corao, Ho never (fan cotne| for 1 the sufficient Make" every Jack • cho'psa' his there will regain an overplus, of a maidensall farlqrn, for wbom nature had provided no partneM, Now a million is. a very large number, It is more than twice the population of New Zealand. To bring the sexes,to an.equality England wouWhava to people two colonies as big as this entirely with women. To ke%. equality thus arrived aMhi would need to export 30,0OO.singU worhen a year—say a shipload of 600 « w«ek-for ever, whioh process, acoordingJo-; my, arithmetic, would=renjoVe jn the lifetime of ysr one gener'atioa.. :, (|nly thus could the embarrassing prodigality oi Nature in \U production of woinen be te,pt fn check! Failing this wholesale expatriation, whioh I imagine no British statesman will ever have-'the courage to propose, I foresee "rooks, ahead, The notion of "women's rights" is spreading,'arid what " women's rights" are is no obvious as awoman's right • to a husband \-Ms.-> That is, if she qart get prje). Lef'tlj feminine. b}ind*onog gresp thp fa§t that Qorernment statji'ti'p's. doom a million woqea to go and we. njay expect a formidable agitation against' tlje ffovertiment. When the Calendar was altered from Old to New ijityle, mobs assembled with the demand give as back our eleven days 1" Oonoeive the perplexity of an 4 English Ministry called upon to deal with a Lesgue'df Compulsory: Spinsters, formed to secure equality: of tht sexes by the abolition of the census t - Either that or polygamy would seem.to.bs on the cards, and perhaps, if we could direst ourselves of prejudice, Nature it hinting at the latter as the true.wmely. .

An action for. Blunder against & Jewish minister is oojnihg oil shortly at Mel- . . bourne. Damaged are laid at £2OOO. Dr ft W, Fr&neish&B added a lock of fte Duke of Wellington's hair to the collection of relict of the Newport Artillery. The censUß of the German empire shows that Alsace-Lorraine has increased in population in less proportion than any V p&er division, . ,; \, Colonel Charles Northam, of Hartford, recently made a gift to Trinity Colljge at Hartford, of £BOOO for the erection,of a new dormitory. • It is proposed to establish a rolling ■*. mill, nail factory, machine shops, and car Awheel factory in Staunton, Ya, with a of £IOO,OOO. i;' ' A Fact Worth Kiiowrao.-In thesetimes ' '' o! retrenchment and enforced economy, both public and private, it is consolatory to know that the " wind is generally tempered to t ho'shorn lamb," and that there are few ', misfortunes'without compensating advantages, With money in less abundance its purchasing power ig greater—a pound now will go as far as thirty shillings in the era of prosperity. As a proof of this, the readers of this paragraph need only pay a visit to the large salo of surplus stock at James Smith's, Tt Aro Houst, Wellington, A very full and elaborate catalogue of the many Urge reductions made in the prices of general drapery and clothing is enclosed with Satuday's (July 2nd) issue, and merits a oareful Serosal on the part of all stationolders, hotelkeepers, heads of families, and country residents generally. Special opportunities, like the one at present under consideration, occur but seldom ; and it 1b therefore of importance that the fullest advantage should be taken of it at the earliest period, Te Aro House has always stood Well with the public as to the undoubted veracity of its advertised prices, and no doubt many country residents have a lively recollection of the satisfactory bargains they secured in the past. Equal, if not superior advantages are now being offered. Owing to the unprccedently low rates at which the goods are marked ru discounts can be allowed during the sale, A3 an additional attraction, the sale will include a special presentation to each purchasor of £3 worth and upwards o{ a beautiful chromoljthographic picture, mounted on the best white cardboard, size 24 inches by 18 inches. iverv'early yisijitothesufpljis stoqk -sale |t s 'James (Jmi'fhtf $e |rp' House",' Web %gtbn.~[Ai>yr.J' ' "" ' .