NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 145, 18 June 1912, Page 2

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

(From Onr Lady Correspondent.) A WOMAN SCOUTMASTER The newly-appointed Scoutmaster of the Pcnruddock Boy Scouts is Miss Mildred Uowther, the only daughter of the Right Hon. J. W. Lowther. Speaker of the House of Commons. Most of the members of the troop live in villages round about Hutton John, Mr Lowther's Cumberland home. TO PROTECT WOMEN PRISONERS AND WITNESSES. At San Francisco a special Police Court in which women offenders only will -be tried is about to be established. There is to be a woman .bailiff in attendance. This innovation is considered advisable in order to afford protection to women prisoners and witnesses from the crowds of people who throng the Police Courts. The regular Police Court judges will take turus iv presiding over it. MARRIED WOMEN NOT ELIGIBLE TO TEACH. At Zurich, in Switzerland, the Grand Council of the Canton have decided by 124 votes to 40 that married women should not be teachers in the suhools of the Canton, and that when a teacher married she must be dismissed. In the course of the debate a deputy, speaking for the women, 'pleaded that in trade many of the .best and most reliable workers were women, and that in some professions husband and wife worked together to keep up their home. But the opinion of the house was against him on the ground that a woman has enough to do in bringing up her own children without helping to educate other people's. This view is not held in other parte of Switzerland, for in several of the Cantons married women arc Wieners an<? their work meets with much appreciation. LATIY MEDICAL MISSIONARIES. ■In the annual report of the Baptist Medical Missions it was -stated recently that there were twenty-seven missionary doctors working under the society, and that one-third of them were women. THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT IN SPAIN. In £*pain at the present moment women have no voting power at all, the feminist movement being in a very backward condition. A proposal is under consideration in the Spanish Chamber for allowing women who are heads of families in villages to vote for the Mayor and Council. Should this measure become law it will be the only form of women's suffrage in the country. It is only quite recently that the right was granted them to compete for universitj- degrees and to enter the learned (professions for which those degrees qualified them.

A CHIVALROUS JUDGE. Judge Kentoul. K.C., of the Oity of London Court, refused the other day -bo commit a woman for non-payment of debt. The application was against a Miss Fowler who nwod US 15/4 in respect of a typewriting machine. The judge said that committal orders could not be made against married women, and that he thought those who were not married should-be treated in the same way* -He had never committed a woman for payment of debt.

THE B!-:cr.\T OF BHOPAI/S ADVICE TO ILER WOMEN SUBJECTS. The Begum of Bho pal, perhaps the most distinguished native lady in tbe whole of India, lias been making? a tour round the -world, and has not long been back in her own dominions. There is a Women's Oub, it .seems, in Bhopal. which iis a little sunprising. as one did not imagine that Indian ladies went in for that sort of thing much. The Begum recently visited the club nnd delivered an address on her travels, in the course of which she urged the ladies present to make tho education and liberty of their sex the chief object, of their lives. She further said that nothiug liad impressed her in her travels so much as the educational and other opportunities offered in other countries which made litem qualified to give their children the training that fitted them for the part they might have to play later iv life.

NO COQUI'JTRY ALd-OWED.

A Swiss girl has just all unwittingly put herself within the clutches of the law. .She was going to be married, and gave out her ,ige as three years younger than she really is. It Ls necessary in Switzerland for the contracting parties to show their birth certificates, and when the -bride presented hers it came out that she had altered the figures of tho year ot" her birth, ISS3 to ISS6. That, of roiirse, constituted tampering with an official document, and the. younsr lady, who is of good famiiv, had to appear 3>cforo the magistrates." who smilingly fined her £1 4/, with costs. HOLIDAY TASK.S CONDEMNED. Dr. Clive Riviere, the physician to the Khadwell Hospital for Children, has an interesting article on holidays in "The Child,'' in which he strongly' deprecates holiday tasks, asserting that- if a child has worked well during the term, surely he is onti-tl-od to complete freedom during the vacation, aud should be saved the anxiety which a holiday task entails. If he has not worked dtrring the term, the doctor claims it is fairly certain that the holiday task also will bo neglected. DUTCHWOMEN'S rETITTOX. No less than 6,'),000 housewives of Holland have signed a petition against the proposal to increase the price of food stuffs now before Parliament. IMPLAXTINC TASTE. The New York Board of Education is extraordinarily thorough in its teaching of domestic science in its girls' schools, and is now instructing its teachers to train their scholars in the knowledge of how to combine coloura -.md materials in honsn decoru-tion. how to choose furniture, pictures, curtains, draperies, carpets, etc.: more than this, how to make rngs and carpets and to furnish a room strictly according to-one period. A STARTLING FACT. A recent investigation made in Now York by a well-known paper reveals the fact .that two-fifths of the married men among the working classes -are absolutely unable to provide for oven one' child unless the mother sws out to work and augments ilie. iucomc. lIONOCIUNC JANE AUSTEN. j A memorial to .lane Austen, the celebrated novelist, is shortly to be set up in the famous Pump Room at Bath. It wili be a- bronze bust on a richlydecorated pedestal of jasper, the inscription setting forth that this tribute was to corrunemora-te her vivid pictures of the old Bath life and manners in "Permaaicn" and. "iforthanger; Abbgr."-