WINSOME WOMAN

NZ Truth, Issue 234, 18 December 1909, Page 5

WINSOME WOMAN

Wants To Do AH the Work.

Who Witl Rock the Cradle?

II the women of this country have their own way there will very soon be no men who are wage-earners. It is a notorious fact that if wopien ate offered a job to nurse babies, to cook, to scrub, or even "respectable" jobs m shops ; and a job which is usually held by a .nian, they consistently take the job whvii heretofore has been looked on a peculiarly a man's. This fits m with the general run of logic m a woman, as, by doing as she does, she LOWERS THE WAGES OP MEN, and when her time comes to buckle to,and help to ensure there being some .posterity she generally finds tJiat her "bloke" is too poor to support her and that she can't earn enough for the two. .of them, not to mention the, possible ■posterity. In New Zealand there are •.enough lady doctors and solicitors, anil •m this connection it is woxtby of note that the London Royal College oi •Physicians and Suxgecms has decided to recognise the leading medical schools where women are trained. The English suffragettes keep on .malting a ttig row and reeectly two of them collected £2uoty m America to heip British women to get rotes ; and when they get votess they'll try to run the whole show generally. "That it is impossible to hold the pretty creatures down even before they arc old enough to make a lot of noise for a vote is proved by the facfc that a corps of girl scouts was recantly formed at Greytown. Our better halves can be excused on wanting to be doctors and solicitors and other nice, clean things, and can be let off wi^th a caution if they are taken with a fad like being a scout : but when they come to CUTTING MEN OUT of hard and dirty weak it is about the limit. Away down Sooth at Port Molyneux there is a woman who is a certified engineer, and now a woman at Riverton has been granted a license to run a launch carrying passengers. The woman stoker and fir era an should not be far off. There is no doubt that some men are better, fitted to be waitresses than seamen, and that some women would make better navvies than nursemaids ; but it gives a man a hard dig when he finds women taking on .hard work, thereby suggesting that the whole MALE RACE IS PLAYED OUT The question naturally arises '• "Who is to rock the cradle and rule the world 1" It loolcs very much as if men were going to be pushed into this and other domestic duties ; but there is hope for the coming generation m the fact that a lecturer m domestic economy has been appointed at Otago University. If the | gilded youth of the future cannot make j medicine, draw court fees, run ah engine, Jor drive a pick lie will be able to boll i potatoes, mix paregoric for his particular porting; vl posterity, and- scrub the