"IF I WERE QUEEN."

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1908, Page 2

"IF I WERE QUEEN."

WOMEN TELL HOW' THEY WOULD KULE. The Berlin journal "Lokal Anseiner" published recently a series of replies firm leading women of the world to its question, "What will Avoinen do Avhen they rule?" - J "Carmen Sylva," Queen of Roinnania, says ■; "I think Semiramis, Catherine the Great, Queen Elizabeth, the Empress Maria Theresa, and others have sfioAvn that women can rule." Mme. Snrah Bernhardt : "When Aromen rule they will retain all their good and bad qudities just as men rulers have done, do, and -will do." Lady Alma-Tadema : "Wottftn«^)6ss«ss all poAver and always have done so. it cannot, therefore, understand your question or discuss it further." Mme. Suzanne Despros, the Parisian tragedienne : Avill Avomen do Avhen they rule? Nonsensical things." Lady Henry Somerset : "The intentions of Avomen rulers will not differ much from those of tho best men rulers. Ido not boliero in tho superiority of one sex over the other. The Avorld is made forj&bth. They together will gAvay its destinies, and the struggle for unity must prevail." Mmc, YVetto Guilbert : "I hope that Aromen will, in the first place, abolish Avar, and afford better protection to the right of motherhood, and that they Avill also have undisputed jpoAver to assist in my lifework— supplying costumes to needy actresses. Yon see, I am. already a 'candidate for the Chancellorship of tlie Exchequer under tho new order of things. Mme. Eilen Key, the Scandinavian Avriter on marriage and maternity : "If I acceded to power I Avouldj wis a feAV exceptions, destroy all schools, and alloiv au entire generation of absolutely unfettered children to run. 'around, "who Avould be freed front the traditions of modern wretchedness. I would, raise a new generation of parents and 'teachers, so Drought up that they \yould. for their part croate a new hununily. Until the creation of a neAv humanity, all reforms must bo merely on the surface. I would elevate motherhood "to the Tank of supreme artistic achievement/and the State's most important function " ■ ' ' Mr3 v -Belva A. Lockwood, tv/ice candi- ' date for tho Presidcncv of -the United States, for the 'Equal" Rights Party; "Like men, Are would restlessly seek office ; but Aye Avouid not spend a .fortune in sending warships to the Paoiik Ocean for the jnirprae of terrifying our neighbours. V/e Arould devote tlio money to building roads and uanah, thus strengthening industry j>nd employing' men in productive labour. We Avould c/;e the church become more popular than'Hhe theatre, and that men went to church. We n-culd also enforce total abstinence, and open <\\[ schools to women."" 'Mrs. Dcspard, the Suffragette, writes : "Society must" be sunken and . life unharmonious while society is built on an unjust foundation. Woman's accession to power Avill cause the i construction of eocioty on a firmer basis. Women will demand justioe, Avill fight compromises and promote unity betAY-een the peoples and rulers of all nationi."

Lord Plunicel, accompanied by Captains G&thorne Hardy, A.D.C>, and A. Whitney, and Messrs. Waterfield (private secretary) and DaA'is, spent Mftnday shooting on, the touth-Avostern arms of Manukau harßour. Sport was f^ivly *" good, the bag consisting of forty-seven, i ffodwitt