WHAT SHE WANTED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 537, 18 June 1909, Page 3

WHAT SHE WANTED.

A few days ago a large negress. sauntered majestically into,a public library. Approaching one of the assistants at the desk inquired earnestly, "flab" you got Ellah W'heeleh Wilcox's Pomes of Passion?" ."No," said the assistant. "Hab you Ellah W'heeleh Wilcos's Pomes of Pk-asuh ?" Tho assistant shook -his head. "Den," said the negress impressively, "gib me Gibbon's Rome." V

The Association oL Shorthand Writers and Typists has recently issued (says the "Ladies' Pictorial") an admirable list of reasons why girls should not begin their training under tho age of sixteen. No public body or firstclass office employs girls under eighteen, especially whero there are no older women to look after them., -Their training also takes away from the hours they have for education, so that to train early moans stunted leamjng. and ends in mediocre ability as secretaries. Another reason is that girls undet seventeen get lower wages, thus' bringing down'a market already terribly depressed. These aro all tilings which do not ocsur to' tho''casual-thinker ;;one sees in such ways how valuable specialising societies are.

Mr. 11.I 1 . Marion Crawford, whoso reccnt death is mourned by thousands of novolroaders all over tho world, was a nephew of Mrs.' Julia Ward Howe, the veteran advocate for'woman's suffrage in America; arid writer of tho famous battlo song of tho Copenhagen does not believo in giving its women tho excuse of'having to mind tho baby as a reason for/not-voting. At'tho last election in. that city ample accommodation for perambulators was provided near the polling booths, so that womon could. Tccord their votes without having to. worry about tho welfare of their children while they did so.

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