AMONG OURSELVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 52, 2 March 1929, Page 15

AMONG OURSELVES.

A WEEKLY BUDGET. (By CONSTANCE CLYDE.) Other States beside our own have to consider the problem of employment as it affects the young, and to lament the growing number of boys and girls who drift into blind-alley occupations. An Australian authority gives the figures for the year 1927 in New South Wales: 6552 boys left certain schools for the world, and the occupations of 8945 have been traced. Mining took 136 and the factories 587: 297 entered the public service, and rather fewer became messenger boys, while 1050 took up careers .hop assistants. Other openings ac,canted for some, bat of the 8945 tha, 2947, or .boat 39 per cent, swelled t t unskilled labour. The inmuch difference. OEFMAH WOMEH S FREEDOM. r.wled between moinin o Fortunes exploded « ami evening- P® through generanursed and increased of r ions, turned into a te]ephonc ca ll banknotes which ' l ffe degenerated from the Stock intone*. Thus a Gerinto a matter o I ,e influenced the man writer mo( lernity. Poverty Herman woman mt . at tlie hearts .sudden and dramatic oIJ y eu . of the middle classes. -The nunitoiiic sentiment dependent upon l,er of wives who a ■ have tQ put their husbands t jj as markedly up with their ill-hug ' g vast j n . decreased. There ' ree Hl ,j o ns. crease in the num *'_ women have <f» ,i « , r le l Ssw« i«. *;• pune down. « ne . t ] ie middle 11 acted by bourgeois • p, o hemia." girl throws herself .nto^ H..ie i- the a<l V IC A'.Ha\e nothing tu do \n uin a n to anotbei.

with men that dominate von. Sex ] docility may create a short and stormy jov. but it' will be at the expense u: vour personality. Never delude yourself with the dream of 10U per cent happiness. That is criminal -peculation. Content yourself with from 20 to 70 per cent. Tliat is permissible."

A WOMAN'S STATUE. It was a favourite remark at suffragette time long ago: "There's only one statue to a woman, Royalty, of course, excepted, in London, and that to Boadicea. standing outside Westminster, to which a wag responded: "\es. and the M.P.ls strike their matches upon it. Mrs.* Pankburst little thought that one to her«elf would almost be the nextfor such tributes to Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell have since softened the fact that great women are little represented in the London statue world. It seems that this statue, seven feet high, is to be erected in Westminster. It will be in bronze, on a Portland stone base, and is to be the work or Mr. A. G. Walker A.R.A.. who designed the statue for the' famous Crimean nurse "A statue is the highest and most las ,ng honour that humanity has evei beu able to pav to those who have lendeied wreat services to civilisation Men a headstone for the grave ,n Bron.pton Cemetery, and . If ' TO. ted to the National Art cilery. is the work of a woman aiu*t. Ml. G. Brackenbury.

WOMEN MOTORISTS. SA woman. He nee „ StatiswouU folio*y ,een. to tics taken in o W oman driver prove, howeje . brot her. instead ",7™" -nm «« eigL. time, », 0 qc women licensed to opeiau many men a. Connecticut last year, motor vehicle-- » ,_ .. anJ the male savs one. -Mi- • -i i. f or ]5 times operator, were r - scribed to - man i" ri ;r r i Tut of It-o-Vj accident,. women dim' •

1.'5,086 were caused by men and 873 I>\ women. Only nine women were involved in fatal accidents, as compared with 178 men." In other districts, such aMassachusetts, the same difference irecorded. So, in order to minimise accidents still more, we have only to make all women drivers, and exclude men! Were the differentiation against women. I many people would seriously be proposing certainly to bar them out altogether!

LET WOMEN RULE. William Gerhardi, in the "London Daily Mirror." puts ideas that, are not necessarily endorsed by women. "She is <« 1m in a way that no man is calm. She can dream as no man can dream. She is a repository of true values. Because her beauty fades more quickly and disastrously than man's, she clings instinctively to the other things which are lasting. For all these reasons I should like to see women rule the world. I should like to see a women's Cabinet, conducted along the lines of a mothers' meeting. I should like to see the Horse Guards recruit their officers from women. I should like to see the next war (if such is unavoidable! fought entirely between women and women."