WOMAN'S TRADE PAGEANT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 534, 15 June 1909, Page 3

WOMAN'S TRADE PAGEANT.

/The' International 'Suffrage- Convention Veld in London at the end'of;April, was pre ceded by V gigantic pageant., .to,show ih foreign delegates 'tho many-sided activities.o English .women workers. : - ■.. .. ■: ■'" .. ■ ,; . '.•'•' Seventy trades and. professions 'we're repr'c sonted..'. Even, the scrubwomen want to vote and hadapart..hi.the pageant.- Their baane was insoribed .:■ .'.'Cleaniiiiess .is next to. Godl] ness;",'.; Parlourmaids and, housemaids' als< took, part'in the , -procession, and a delegation of ifish \fivee..from Scotland marched in'thci characteristic dress. ' : :, . ;' ',' Tho.stahTart' women who'work in the coalmines; of;.the North wero"represented, , ; and all '.tho, trade's, carried banners with appro-, priato''"mottoes//' Both in. .ingenuity . and variety the banners were notable..Tho women doctors carried a banner, with two serpents; tho banner of; tho women'.political speakers i bore a.winged hourglass;.that of tho wonien I .journalists, a-oarrier pigeon' with -'a' pen; women librarians,"'Minerva!s_ owl; milliners, | a' wreath" of roses;' women 'jewellers, official .hallmarks;.'-.toachers of/physical training, white ; statuettes.on poles; women printers,arms jof ;the. ; Caxten press]'..'cooks, a 'gokVui , ■gridiron; nurses, a Be<l Cross; women chainnmkbrs, anvil and ohairis;" women jam-makers,i! j Adani'.and Kvo on a; shield,.tho | ancient j emblem';of. the. fruiterer's. .; ; Moro.than,a thousand women .in costume took part. '.. ■ . :/.':•;■ .•.'.' / . ,■..;.' .•■ j