GENERAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIII, Issue XVIII, 3 August 1912, Page 9

GENERAL NEWS.

AS EOITPTfAN REFORMER

Bn.hisat-al-Badhia is said to be the most popular native woman in Egyqt —and with some reason, an onlooker might judge. At a congress, some little time ago, she gave an address pleading the needs of Mohammedan women, and proposing an number of '-■(lucational reforms, no less than six of which were accepted:

That every girl should receive a common school education, that in every school there should be an educated woman to teach the girls good manners and the rudiments of religion, that as soon as practical a university should be established where _ girls should be ian and a nurse to aid women in childbirth should be maintained in every city and village, that special schools "be estabished where girls should be taught house-keeping and the care of children, and that the hiring of women to stand about a bier and beat their heads and faces at funerals be forbidden.

Two other reforms the men vetoed, one suggesting that women be allowed to attend the mosque; the other a discussion on polygamy!

BREVITY OF FAME. Sir William Treleoar, ex-Lord Mayor of London, speaking at a banquet given by the British Schools and Universities Club of New York, related an experience of his own in London showing the ephermeral nature of fame. "About three years after I was Lord Mayor,'' said Sir "William, "I was assisting some crippled children across Ludgate-hill into one of my shops during a procession. I took the children by the hand, and was leading them across, n hen a police sergeant came to ns. I asked him to :ielp me, and he replied: "'You can't cross this street here, you know.'' "But don't you know who I am?" I asked. "Yes," replied the officer, 'you are the schoolmaster of these kids.' "Perhaps it is a pood thing fame does not last longer than that," continued Sir William. "You remember, some time ago, you Mr Roosevelt came to the Guildhall to give us some advice about; Egypt. I was there at the time. I simply want to say that it would not do your Mr ■Roosevelt any harm if what happened to me should also happen to him."