NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 303, 19 December 1912, Page 8

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

• (From our London Lady Coxrespondent.) PBO3t_N_NT WOMAN LAWi_R. (Considering that it is only eight years ' since women were frst alloweid to pract_e as advocates in Norway, feminists j have every reason to be proud of the achievements of Fri. Elise Scan, who has • been appointed to the eminent position . of counsel tor the defence in the Higb Court of Justice—the first of her sei to hold such, a post. WOMEN IN POLITICS. It is an interesting fact to women in connection with the great fight for White House, that terminated this week, that all three candidates appointed won—a as their official score-keepers. These are scouts in charge of the maps that record, from various sources of information, the exact political position in each State. WOMEN AND HEALTH. There are now not far short of IS,OOO members of the Women's National Health Association of Great Britain —a magnificent total, since all these are pledged to active service. Numbers of babies' clubs, pasteurised milk depots, and convalescent homes for women workers and delicate children owe their existence to the earnestness of this body. WOMAN FARM ADVISE—, A lady, Miss lima Matthews, occupies a unique post under the State Board oi Agriculture in Oklahoma. She acts as agricultural adviser to no less than 20,000 farm women in the State —that is to say, she gives lectures in dairy and poultry-faxming, domestic science, and general farm work. In addition to this, this remarkable woman has organised and is continuing several agricultural cluhs for young people. SCHOOL CLINICS. At last it se»ems as if the next great step in the instituting of medical inspection of school (iuidren, and the absolutely necessary adjunct to that fine work —nameily, the opening of echoed clinics, that have been agitated for so long, is to be an established fact in at least some large districts. Monmouth is founding 14 school clinics. Surrey 12 to increase to 24, aud Kent preparing to follow. This step will mean that the advice given by the school doctors will be now immediately followed by treatment instead of the red tape methods that have prevailed too often, so far, that made the patients pass through some live departments belore the treatment was begun. In addition to nurses and physicians, opthalmk surgeons and dentists will attend on School days to treat the cases sent in to them. In Kent it is proposed that where the parents' united income (if both work) is under 24/ a, week, treatment shall be free. If it is over that fees ranging from 2d to 6d will be charged. X-ray treatment will also be given. THE WOMAN JOURNALIST. At the annual dinner of the Society of Women Journalists Lord JNorthcliffe, the head of the manifold Harmsworth publications, made a long and interesting speee_ about women journalists and the in——nee they have had on the Fleet Street atmosphere. And since there are now some 300 women working for the Hanneworth Press, and have been hundreds in the past, Lord Northcliffe mu6t be regarded as one who knows something of a subject—namely, women's journalism, in which he has Gather specialised. Women are ideal journalists, he thinks, and that principally because their powers Of observation gTeatly excel mems. Then he considers, too, that much of the grea.t attention that is now being paid to the housing and general condition of the poor has been aroused largely by the pens of women—professional journalists and other-. With regard to the <»r_mercial side, Lord Northediffe opines that if woman's work were suddenly removed from the newspapeia and kindred publications, the recent giant growth of such reading would revert very much to its original position, in short, that the output would be reduced by 50 or 60 per cent. "The coming of the woman writer in her hundreds," he said, " has brought the woman reader in her millions, and the coming of the woman reader has developed the advertiser, upon whom all of us depend for existence. That immensely expensive prodact, the modern newspaper, could not possibly exist without the woman reader." Perhaps no better tribute has ever been accorded women writers than this•To the woman reader v»ho has been created by the woman writer. I attribute not a little of the elimination of crime uniecency, puffery, and mournful accounts of the ]__t meals of the condemned, which adorned the leading papers until very very recently." househouj hots ■Plain Food.-T_e normal sense of hunger nakw the simplest food tasty ° f for ? ™ "- to S* Ifc «• "-tar __^_^ fi n - ""Pfc-t-* and surfeiting that artific-U hunger must be cre_ted by tafaag vanous condiments, spices nch sauces and savouries, and stimulating articles A raxge part o{ __. sickness and disease of this life would disappear if everyone made it a rule to eat only when hungry, and then to take no more- food than the body required. To Renovate Blue Serge.—The -"shone" that inhows a serge skirt or coat to be no longer new can be removed by sponging the garmem with blueing water, —u_ as is used in the laundry. While stall damp, press the goods under a thin cloth, but do not rub the iron backwards and forwards more than nesOB_s_ry. Patch, nejt Dam.—Do not dam garments that are very much worn. It is _teer waste of time. If they must oe mended for a little longer wear, add patches. , A High Polish.—lt is not generally known that wringing out a doth in hot water and wiping the furniture ; before putting on furniture cream will result in a very high polish that will not finger-mark. A Home-made Scouring Powder.—Mix a pennyworth of 'h-thbrick, 2oz of dry soap po - rder, and two tablespoorrfuls of whiting well together on a sheet of newspaper. Get an old cocoa tin, or , something sunOsr, and with a stout nail - punch snail holes in the top. Fill the tin with the mixture, and use for scouring all greasy things. Wet the flannel i or —rush, sprinkle a little powder on the a-t—— to 'be cleaned, briskly .with the flannel or brush.