NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN WORKERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1909, Page 9

NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN WORKERS.

Lady Laura Ridding is elected presi- | dent lor next, year of the Council of the National Union of Women Workers, reports the London Times. At the annual meeting held at Portsmouth in October it wus stated that arrangements were being considered for taking over •to England fifty German women, chiefly of the industrial classes, so that they might see something of England and obtain the, educational advantage of travel. Mrs. Routledge, lately resident in British East Africa, objected to single men only being required for government and other positions in. the colonies. Mrs. Creighton suggested that the best thing to interest both boys and girls in the Empire was geography adequately taught. She deplored the lamentable ignorance prevalent among English people of Oriental thought, languages, and customs. One would have thought that an English girl going to India* as the bride of an officer would take the trouble to obtain a knowledge of the vernacular. A girl going to South Africa would learn the Tael. She wondered sometimes whether we ought to have the responsibilities of such an Empire when we were so horribly stuckup, proud and self-centred. The curious thing was, when women had large sums 'Of money with which to do something for education, they usually benefited the boys only. She hoped that some day "a Mrs. Rhodes" would institute a scheme for the education of girls.