PEACE OF EUROPE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 279, 31 October 1889, Page 4

PEACE OF EUROPE.

QUEEN VICTORIA A GERMAN COLONEL. By a recent cablegram I see that a new and highly Attractive employment for ladies has been discovered, and an owning made in one of the hitherto most exolusive professions for the gentler sex. Ladies within the last few years have been admitted to the practice of law and medicine, and are recog* nised as expert operators of the telegraph, the type-writer, the telephone^ the domestic mop, and a host of other scientific invention's of incalculable value. She may go on to the Stock Exchange, or the County Council, or into the gaol, the Post Office, the Divorce Court, or the nursery ; and if ever I meet an anxious father enquiring what he ahall let his daughter go into, I say, •• By all means let her go into matrimony." Women's rights have made great strides within the last lew years, and may be trusted to take care of themselves in future. When that strong-minded lady Bareness Burdett-Coutts, headed a deputation, numerously composed of herself and one oner lady, to the Londou manager of the Waterbury Watoh Company, and suggested with considerable force and the aid of a well-developed umbrella, that the correot time was as essential to ladies as to the other sex, that gentleman took the hint, and devolved the handsomest short-w\nding ladies' watch which has ever been seen, and samples of whioh are now on view. The opening to which attention is called is the army, Her G-racious Majesty Queen Vie. having just been eleoted Colonel of the Prussian First Dragoon Guards. That this intelligence will cause the battle-scarred old veterans of Jena and Austerlitz to blush right down to their spurs no one will doubt, but that is nothing to the effect that it will have upon the first hostile .French regiment who are called upon to meet them in mortal combat. Fancy the evolutions of the Prassian eraok corps led by a lady in the smart white uniform of the Dragoon Guards No frenchman would be able to stand such a sight for a moment, No doubt Her Majesty relies on " the divinity which doth •hedge a king" (extended by courtesy for this occasion) as an efficient protection from Maxim bullets, short rations, and the other thousand and one inconveniences of a protracted campaign. The same cablegram that advised the appointment also notifies that the Emperor of Germany, after reviewing the English troops, remarked to the Duke of Cambridge " that the English navy and the German army were without equal in the world." I wonder how the fine old duke— 7o years a soldier, man and boy, sir — writhed under this insult, or whether he flung his boot at the imperial head