SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 200, 23 August 1919, Page 20

SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Dean Inge, speaking at the Women's Institute. London, said the examination system had done more than anything to poison our education. Boys and girls would rather learn twenty facts than apidv uiie principle. "Most Knglishmcn an: incapable of understanding how any man's uiind may be his kingdom. Food, drink, amusement. dre*s. fashion, moneymakiug. religion, and philanthropy they .an understand, but a liberal education in itwlf is strange to most of them. T!ve- # learning is estimated by what it will ; in." According to the published statement of Mr. Loveridge. master builder, of Newcastle, New South Wales, there is. in Sydney harbour, a steamer built at i';ln.«" , ow hv woman labour. It is said ; that the .lumber of rivets driven by the j Glasgow women were not less than 1.000 a day. This ip in marked contrast to , ■the- work of the Cockatoo and Walsh : Islands dockyards riveters, who drive respectively 7:> and :!oO rivdjs a day. j The "land of the Never Nover" ha= ■ T>a:-?ed into our language, although the i iiian who penned the poem is rarely men- 1 lioned. Barcroft Boake. who found life ■ so sad that he hung himself with 'Ins i sT-ock-vrhip. has left a brilliant sifter To i carry on th-e literary fame. She i- > working in a Government job in South Africa, and spends her spare time writinjr picture plays. ' Mrs. Andrew Carnegie announces the ' of her only daughter. Mar irar-t. to Ensipn Roswell Miiler. U.S.N., son of. the late Koswell Miller, former chairman of directors of the Chicago Mahvankee and St. Taut Railroad (says an English paper*. Miss Carnegie will be one o; the world's richest young women upon the death of her father, reported to be worth 100 million dollars I £-20.000.000). In rhe coerce of an article on srso ,, -? in .i London paper, the writer says:—! 'The silk-stockinged female is probably. ;•;;• worse exjxinou: of snobbery T can t:»;rk of. She courting death. an.i passing on to the next generation r> heritage oj ailments or disease just becausei it is considered to Ik- emart or symbolical ~' gnod hreedinp t.i show the ankle and' pan o: the leg in a casing ot silk instead j ■ •f warm wool- Vet some of I'ifse. •■hprining dinners have shoes that leak, and lunch ou a inn. Pour iittie An English writer state- that between three and four million women would re- ■ main of England's army of women workers when the rest have withdrawn tn their home-. The magnificent power <>; production of these women is a potential sonTM of vast national wealth, j Meantime there are great professions j and occupations crying out for lack of ! women workers. No -cheme ot recon- I struotiou wills please women voter j which does not build a bridge between , the demobinised woman worker and a suitable career for her future. I

At a Republican Lincoln Day banquet hold in Idaho, Mrs. Emma £. F. Dr.iku, a member of the Lower House in that State, spoke on "What Women W ill Urina Into the Republican Party." SJie named loyalty, sympathy, fullness ai u=ion. diplomacy and optimism. ; People who see women waiting in West End restaurants need not. of necessity, imagine it is a feminine triumph I (cays a London paper). In one big restaurant they are talking about a. strike. "We have to work sixteen hours a day," one said. "We pet one Sunday off in three, and even then we are some.times asked on our .Sunday off to come | back to work from six o'clock in the | evening until eleven."' Many people have wondered why the making of lace so beautiful as that which appeared on the dress o£ figures in paintings by Ynn Dyck and his contemporaries and later aroused the admiration of Napoleon should ever have been discontinued. l-'or come years before the war Germans controlled the industry hi Plunder*, and little encouragement was given to artistic lace making. The ! American Commission for Keiief. with whom the British Foreign Oilier cooperated in letting thread into Belgium for the purpose, brought about during the tJeruian occupation a grent renaissance of the ancient art, giving employment to 50.000 women. Ueautifiil epeciments of the old Flemish point of tlie j lCith and 17th centuries and of Point J Malines have been copied and fresh rieVisns made. The proceeds go to benefit the worker-. Sir Dyee Duckworth, tl.e I'umou* doe-1 tor, is among those who condemn jazz I dancing. Speaking at the Aeolian Hall. I London, roi-ently. he said that in high | society there were many -iun> of care- | lessnoV.-. silliness. ar,,l ugly conduct. | When they heard of these wild dances I that went on anions: people who ought .to know better—dances to music good ! enough only for West African savage- — ' when they "saw that in London drawingI rooms. r.'sho.ved great degradation and demoralisation. He hoped such exhibitions of had taste would bo stopped. The State of Kansas lias a larger proportion of women office-holders thwn ; auy other of the United States. Onei half the county officers throughout tht- ; State are women. Kansas is now an I etjual suffrage State, but women could hold ofiice before the; were enfran--1 chised. and many did run and were elected l«-fore they were voters. At | present no women are members o! tile ! Legislature as they are in other States. and none are eerving as county eommis sioners. But in the last election they were candidates tor all other offices. In many cases women ran on th<- ticket* of both the large parties, and, with but j few exceptions, were elected. More I than two-thirds of the county superinI tendents of schools are women, nearly ! one-halt the county clerks, county I registers of deed?, clerks of the court I 1 p.re women, and one-third the county treasurers