WOMEN AS OFFICIALS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 15

WOMEN AS OFFICIALS.

The employment of women officials in America is evidently attended with some disadvantages. Already the policewomen have been, pronounced a failure in Chicago because of the rooted objection entertained by women offenders to be arrested by one of their own sex, and a disposition on tho part of the delight ed crowd to regard these assertions of tho majesty of the law in the light of a glorified dog-fight. Now it seems that the women assessors have , fallen from grace through a constitutional inability to hold their tongues. , Not satisfied with the natural delights of appraising the value of other women's furniture and personal belongings, they proceeded to communicate the valuations and their general reasons therefore to all and sundry. The woman assessor must certainly feel herself to be in a difficult position. Her desire to make things uncomfortable for another woman would naturally lead her to assess the value of tho other woman's personal property as high as possible. On the other hand, she would feel a temperamental contempt for the other woman's furniture as being mere ''sticks," and fit only for tho junk heap. An American exchange thinks that perhaps it was the conflict of these two opposing forces that-in-duced the acidulated disclosures that have now been the subject of official reproof.