AMONG OURSELVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1928, Page 12

AMONG OURSELVES.

A WEEKLY WtoQtfclrf (By CONSTANCE CLUfcf ' woman coxmouot. Fran Olga Kudel-Zeyaek k jyy of the Federal Council of A— is the second chanbw of the la£^' Parliament. The appointment wil.!!!? her in December and it am* ifj mitted that she was not «-*** positions come to one heading tie fcTj federal councillor!, aad, merely, not objected to on accoaat of W2T She has attended many MBmaia 5 helped in pasting bills for tion of the sale of alcohol to hmSb the care of forsaken wives and other measures. She k SifcS woman to preside over a Parti**—?_ body. MAN IN DAHGES. "Women will lead the conntry, tionally or unintentionally jait a* in America women wen qpsible for prohibition. 9 * Sneh it of certain British men who have fail what they call a Fifty-Fifty lata* this to ensure that even whaaeS franchise is passed, women win jS dominate the country. "Fifty-fifty" the laconic answer of Rebew Wtt when asked whether married mt m spinsters were the happier, tad dtfMv "fifty-fifty" is the answer if caewS to know whether men or wMMi Ttf| most. Says the "Women's Uadw". "Such exaggerated wails from tkottNt sessed of the Turk complex? Mm welcome light relief to our trok fir a fifty-fifty citizenship, but now tadtpfc we get a nasty knock when we *2 up against anti-feminism in a more Id.' ful form. Speaking of an tatoMfe and unexpected defeat of a woataaS didate at the recent municipal ekeUtt a corresponddent writes: Trow wWt| have learnt since November, a ml tafr woman prejudice had a great detl to do with the defeat. We hav« a 10% wtw still to so.'" lam afraid toae of sir New Zealand lady candidates for Mb ment., anyway, could, if they'chML speak also of an anti-woman [—]■*< but, alas it is often ia oar set — than the other. IS GEKMANY GOING AHIAM We have heard in New Zealand M rumours of Germany's complete reawi and even advance. Has the new Mt tion of woman anything to do witkSt Before the war, woman there wa i hausfrau, though even then there were advanced ladies. An instance of this was told me.by a Qa. many lady here, spinster sister <• aa who held an official position It (Hi country until the trouble broke oat fc describes her young frieuds coaiv is wake her up on her thirtiethtrahy with a song that had the "efttia, "Sm She Has Thirty Years. 91 What WMtt be considered among the old-fuJriMi a decided sign of "cattiaess" wit n. ceived by her with quite genuine jiwsure. Now with forty members it tk Reichstag, while in two GnnNl Departments women act at Cotaeßia to the Minister, with .equal taadkl at twenty years of age, a prffOnt ifc ourously used by the women—'~ltk;tl this, there can be still less regret win thirty or even forty years art attthH Social service is said to be eidudHty in the hands of women, but tUsh Mt necessarily a good thing. After 4it is the fifty-fifty basis we want, m( dominion. WOKEN M.P.'S ON THE BUtL We read about the candidate!* d i Lady Clare in the English eleetkM,ni nothing more of her except that sit a a member of the Labour Party, far si that she will "still be Ltdy Otis," fli the peeress of' the ballad who wm M willing to give up her inheritance. TttU women seem to have a penchtnt for ill Labourites in England, Lady Clan by«» means being the first in this rapA English women members, in vrj tm, seem to have more varied interests tfcfl their male colleagues. Thus Mrs. HDJas Philipson (Miss Mabel flstki stage) went back to her other oeenp tion after Parliament rose, pkjif "Blanquette" in Lock's "Beloved %• bond. Previously she has acted i|p Lynch in "Within the Law." Most feminist papers defended Mrs. the controversy that followed, isstaseing the useful Parable of the TsksSt Nevertheless, it is difficult to iflS|hl Mr. Asquith doing Hamlet, or Usfi George going through a turn at ttsi» deville during recess. SARTORIAL KESTKICTHWI "Let the feminine world obey." This is the last phrase dat f-v i set ftirials in P*kin| tobidding short skirts, short hsir, sai decollette dresses. "If the polks any women in extravagant co«l»lj* they are to arrest them at they will be severely punished." ws> temberg, in Prussia, as we know, jtfl» <•.( i.;iir in women, the t»m 'oiihled if the person is a woman, evidently on the grounds u* the husband is more to blame faF mitting the enormity, and should I* a double penalty.