Gleanings.

White Ribbon, Issue 1, 1 July 1895, Page 4

Gleanings.

Jn the Woman at Heme for May, Lady Laura Ridding, wife olthe Bithop of Southwell, affirms that married women should engage in public work. She says, ** The home life gains by its mistr service in a broader sphere. Feminine Bin* of morbidness, friv lity, self-concentration, narrowiuss disappear urdei the friction of public work Service on philanthropic committees imparts valuable lessons in the duty of weighing both a6j| I of a question and in se'f-rcstiaint. s> i\ice on the School Hoard teaches a mother important lessons in the responsibility of training children. S I on the Board of Guardians illustrates b ' pitiful examples the awful meaning of failure in life, and the importance of many apparently tr vial causes of those failures. She must 1 - i 1 at-< yed woman if the insight into the mysteries of pain and sin given her by her public work does I >i R ml to her a new conception of justice, pity, brotherly love, and fill her with an overwhelming sense of her own unworthiness. And this nobler view of life will penmate e\« ry detail of her home life.

To the majority of people who have no: to regard the German woman as the simp.e hum jrdUy whose interests are centred within the somewhat narrow limit? of the home, it will come as a great surprise t.; re.id of fou: mass meetings in Berlin to dew am I woman's suffrage, both for the German Rei. hstag and tin

Prussian Diet. There is, hewever, but little likelihood of any change being made for some conrable tipie in the suffrage laws of Germany. Woman* Signal.

PtAU LtLV von GIIYCHI recently delivered I lecture in the Berlin School tor the Education of the Working Classes >n " The Position of Women in the Present Pay." This is the first Occasion on which I German woman of the middle class has spoken in a working man's club.— Woman's

In a recent number of an English magazine Burmetl women arc described Si naving absolute fa '-dom, and entire command, of their lives and property. They are on an absolute eqo/dity with nun as regards laws, religion, and customs. None am more womanly, none possess gr< strength. Almost every woman from the age of sixteen or seventeen, mairied or unmarried, has some occupation beside her home dut All are open to them, though, strangely enough, Pring and embroidery are regarded as distinctively male occupations, while the women are the great shopkeepers. The bazaar lasts out three hours, so there is ample for hDiiK duties.

mason Kwn.i., Dean of tor Kent La>v School, with refi n m e to WOUM D as law students, that "he has newi set r. any difference in point of ability to learn the law between men and women." Women are rc< I ived in his school on a perfect equality wit) men. 1 !ly, in the past, owing to his op nion that women hare not had a fui chain e with the men, and bad ha\e ranch to discourage them, he has lent them a helpping hand, and favoured them more than he would a man undei similar conditions. He is glad to say, however, thai t'lis is no loOfCf necessary. He believes thai women ha\ od influence in a c lass c oniposed mainly of young men.