Wairarapa Daily Times. ESTABLISHED 1878.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1894. WOMEN'S DUTY TO WOMEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4639, 3 February 1894, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. ESTABLISHED 1878.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1894. WOMEN'S DUTY TO WOMEN.

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'Tkutii,' happy Obristohiireh 'Truth,' ha? takpn under its wiug barmaids and v,ery properly calls upon the feminize reformers of the Cplony to look upon t|io fonptepo lioup $ dny or more during which thesp publio servants are on duly. " A large number of women," writes our con[.empprarv, 11 and, perhaps very properly, giayely poncern thomselves above those \yiio, judicjously or injudiciously, consume intoxicating liquors. How many of these female rplofflier?, however, haye concerned theu)pp}vL-s about the condition of the young women iyho pajnfulfy. earn their livelihood by serving the ponBurners of liquor j What have wflmen done or what do they intend to do for barmaids 1" There is perhaps a slight tendency on the part of women reformers to undertake tlie.very necessary subjugation of roan and his vioes hut the fiild of labour indicated by ' Truth ' is probably, one in which they might do more honorable spryice. Tho only objection. we see to tiio argument of our Ohri6tchurch cfliiteinporfry p that tlje scope of duty which he wou|i) impose on women is too restricted. We do not know that barmaids are speoial obj'Ote for oommiseratiou. They are higher wages and live in greater comfort thano:hef feirulp servants,and their lioyrs ars»o joigtriban tjipse of tljcftveiagedoniestipsprvpt, Wopoen's duly to vyOfrteo gl>ou}d cover the wjiolo fold of domestic etjjployipent, There was a time in the history of s[ew Zealand wh«n domestic servants were few and far between, when household duties s?prg "almost exclusively discharged by motlwrs npd daughters. This was not altogether an .unsatisfactory time, In those earlier days there wag Ipsp time for gossip and for afternoon teas, but fhere wepe fewer idle people in the compjuuity, J3uch woman in the population mstt working woman, and was probably happier than are the drones of 10-day" wjio depend upon hired labour. If, however, the special lot of barmaids requites amelioration, do we need to top associations for their protection, 's,o ffyisy n/jt j jn this, as in all other labour trpujblee, sejf-liolp js the lest remedy. A smart," capable forjaaid, pan, within reasonable limits, make hef owtipoD(i;tions with her employers, This self-protecjio}) is infinitely more: valuable than outside help, of gven State interferpnpe, Splf reliance is not a popular remedy nowra-d.ays, but it is the only one that is wprthy of cqn-1 sideration in a young colony like this.