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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 6

Women' seem to care nothing .at' all. for work as work. \Yhile a -few /complaiu that they . are shut-out -of -public? life by . moil, | everyone.knows that the social; And public, positions which have been optmtid to women are not filled. ■ Womcn^thomsnlves, aro the chief . hindrance"-.; to 1 -" "woipoii's- . progress.'-^-"Lady." . v.A littlo ..humour,.' was -.- instilledfinto'-'' thoproceedings at'Lancaster;.Park;(reports .(/Tho Press") by tho the; inclusion '.'in - the' programme of a raco. Cyclo Handicap." The distance was!ono lap, and the prizo "a picco- of. plate." .-Entry.*',.was', free, -arid this, combinedwith' what. was. thought tb -bo v; a • hanusamo., picco -.of.-. plated • wA'ro as a-prize,: att ; ra6t<xl' a- fairly good Geld. An- official' aimouhoed. that the- pWiseritafcionwould bp made invfrp;it 'of :tho . stand,: and,' simultaneously the>;■ competitors 'wore despatched 'on'-.their ibui-iicy'. . After a,clrtso rawS'a'youth'won by-,ia , fow- inches. . .'Ho smiled proudly .as.' ho , liis: -feet' .front- tho pedals, ami put; lon ;his. coat's .y Mr. W. • Power called' him ovor, the-while prch eccding to unroll'a riia-t'brown paper, parcel. Ho congratulated t.bo .winner,- and "after .discoursing with great eloquence oil the merits of tho particular • competitor's performance, presented him—tfiiioh' to his disgust—with half an ordinary dinner, plate: Tho true meaning of the title,; "Mugs' Race" then dawned onHhe competitors' and spectators.