WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC LIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 137, 9 June 1917, Page 16

WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC LIFE.

The new Russian Minister for Justice, says our London correspondent, is in favour of equal rights for men and women. A woman in Sydney after the outbreak of war commenced making bathing costumes in competition with lapan. Her factory was a small spare bedroom of her home. She did so well that she went in for something more dainty, and now utilises several of her rooms. She employs a number of girls, and pays them 'half a crown more a week than other factories lor making blouses. She sets an average standard of work to be got through in a day. and if the girls are smart enough to be finished at :i or 4 in the afternoon they are allowed to depart. With these generous concessions she makes a weekly profit of £5. A member of the Australian Army Nursing Service has been visiting Wellington'recently, niul it *a« noticeable that she wears on her shoulder cape tbe star of her rank in the Army, nurses ranking as lieutenants. The Canadian nurses also wear stars. Mrs. A. 11. Waters, of Wellington, has been presented by Sir .lames Allen with file special service decoration awarded her by the London Navy League. The other members of the l.engne in Wellington who hold this decoration also are Mr. Cecil Palmer and Mr. Robert Darroch. Miss Stella Miles Franklin, the Australian writer, who made such a hit with her book "My Brilliant Career," is now in London, after a period spent in America. She is still keen on the women's movement, and proves her enthusiasm by cooking one. day a week at the Minerva Cafe. High Holborn. nnd waiting |at table on another day. As the cafe j practice.*, vegetarianism, the Women's j Movement should profit on London's J meatless days. I The pleasant Rounding title "Sister" (says a Christchurrh paper) is coming I quite into fashion among soldiers, and jA* more and more of them spend some of their time in hospital, it rises quite natnrallv to their lips when they address la lady whose name they do not know. I displacing the more formal "Madam," which, however, wns never very popular lin Australnptß. It is surely one of the jmost beautiful modi- of address, rosnectj fill and friendly at the same time. What n pity it is that the mnrtyyed Edith ' Caveli has not been always given this I title, to which she was entitled by her | profession, instead of being called, is • she so often is. by the commonplace j "Miss Caveli?' or really hideous "Nurse I Caveli." "Sister Edith Caveli would would be dignified and at the same time convey a suggestion of affevtionate regard.

A Willesden ( England) woman, given a month's grace t>; pay h-er rat-s. stated that she had spent £700 in research work and plant for the manufacture of the basis of aniline dyes.