NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 28 May 1914, Page 8

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

•From Our London Udy Corrc^,^,

WOMEN c.O ITJUSTERg There are no less than .„-_ _ ladies on the council of the Association in Glasgow Eoy feeo «s

A MOM AN" SEXTON At the Easter Vestry at '_- , Abbey. Lincolnshire. M,-, «,, appointed sexto,,. The "„ hls _**« baa been in her family or ove-OO^"™

■WOMECIX NEW pl-buc pQ A number of new O o,ts v, , opened recently to women v i? service in .New- York r™ ™ ovil S ueb work as inspector newsdealer,., pedlars etc Loi for lunger print expert: cit',* !» j trade truant .*X i2T' |in bureau of fire prevention __..*. W * arboriculturist. "*

TRAIXLVCJ FARM FOR WOMEX Lady Gwendolen Ouinness dau____." _ <be late Lord Onslow, one lands most popular Governor*, has £__ her husband. Mr . Rupert Guinness,T« established,n .nrrey , f..rm _chool for women, lhe equipment is that of a, average Canadian farm, a Canadian lad! who knows all about poultry-ke C pi„_ butter-making, and the domestic round generally is in charge, and. at a very 1 0 ~ cost, educated women arc. trained tor the work which would be required nf them in the Dominion.

WOMAN'S IMPORTANT POST. For the first time the important'post of Commissioner of Corrections for I Greater New York has _rone to a woman Or. Katberine. Davis, who for a long time past has been principal of Bedford K e . formatory for Delinquent Girls, where she ha« done very remarkable work in advancing the study of the causes ot wrong doing. Dr. Davis will hay., of the famous (or infamous!) Tomba and the seven district, prisons, the city j prison of Brooklyn and the city prison of I Queen's, besides the workhouses, ani vR also have an important, voice ia rcfona I work ajnong boys and girls. HOSTEL FOR BALLET (.TR.,., i There has been recently opened in ; Paris a residential hostel in the Rue dv Faubourg, Montmartre, which has be|mtrje a central meeting place for all English dancers, of whom there ars several hnndredj. employed in cafes and music halls in and round about Montmartre, where they may find help in sickness, poverty and distress, and where they can obtain the best, advice in ths difficulties of their lite and work. Hitherto these young girls, who ars always very poor, have been obliged to rent one room and there cook their simple food with tho understandable result that offers to 'dine out' have presented very real temptations. FIRST DANISH WOMAN BARRISTER. There has been in England Teeerftlr, studying, with her busbaud, legal procedure, at Oxford and the London Law Courts, Madame .__g_.__._n. the Sift Danish woman to become a barrister An interesting fact about the administration of the law in Denmark is that, thoueh it will shortly he introtdticed-jti all courts, oral plcJintr has. hitherto only been permitted in lhe highest-Court of Appeal aud in the specia", court for I maritime and commercial cases—in which llast. by the way. Madame Magnussen hiI pleaded cases. In the past the majority iof defences have had to be made ill writing. Numbers of Danish women find positions as clerks in the Danish courts or ill the civil administration. ADVANCE OF KL'SsIAN WOMEN. I With the passing of the Russian Married Women's Property Act a new era starts for Russian women who, before, were unable, to bold property,, enter •basuiees, seek employment or obtain separate passports without ibeir lipsband's consent. Legal separation.which before was also denied them now is possible and it is ruled that the Courts bays no power to order restitution of conjugal right*. Under tbe head of -uffioienr causes lot separation came cruelty to t'ae ehUireO, rudeness, violence, dishonesty, jnmkffality. dangerous or loathsome tbe husband in such cases being compelled to provide alimony. Where tbett are children the injured party will _t allowed care of them. yOTES FOR SCOTTISH WOME__ AFPEOV7_DThe most; Tepresentativo expression ever grrai in Scotland in favour of vote* for women was recorded at f_c annual meeting of tbe Convention of Scottish Burghs in Edinburgh over which Lorf Prorosfc Inches, of __d_-___rg-, P-B__fcA Two hundred bnrghs sent four Innktroi representatives including the lady Pry vast, Mrs. Lavinia Malcolm, of Dollar, and Mrs. Councillor Annie Barlow, of Ca-Honder. The backbone of all discussion was Scottish. Home Rule and. on €at corranendation of Mrs. Barlow, the qoestion of votes for women in a proposed .Scottish Legislature was. after having ■been in the draft report, again brought forward with tbe above encouraging resort. The Lord Provost ol Glasgow was one of those among many others glad, to record that be WM strongly in favonr of votes for women. A motion was carried granting the vote to women on the present ni-nicigM basix?. ___^^^»