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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2331, 18 June 1887, Page 6 (Supplement)

When we have, learned to "avoid wasting time on the one hand and "crowding" it on the other; we begin to appreciate its* t'rue value.' ■' i According to the latesb accounts (says the Manchester Guardian) Mr J. A. Froude was at Kingston'; in Jamaica, having visited Barbadoes and several other of the We3t India Islands. 'He is said to have been very much impressed with all he saw, and to wonder and regret now that he delayed his visit so ! long. An . interesting supplement to "Oceana" may therefore be confidently expected soon after, the historian's return • to England. ' • There are 52,000 female tailors in' $ie , United States, and no fewer than 282,000 ( milliners, &c.' Public laundries are to be found in almost every' American town, v I There are in all 122,000 of these useful ' establishments, and out of this number t all but 16,000 are kept by women. The j Invasion by American ladies of the learned ; professions is also advancing by leaps ( and bounds. In IS7O, for example, there g were 525 lady surgeons and physicians; jj now, however, there are 2474, whilst the n 65 " clergy womenhave increased in the a same period to 165. Sixteen years ago r the lady lawyers of the United States 0 might have said with Wordsworth's a "Little Maid," "We are seven now, |, however, they can proudly answer, "We arc seventy-five."