NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 12

NOTES FOR WOMEN

FEOII OUE LADY COEEE3PONDENT. LONDON. June 14. WOMAN’S "MILITARY MERIT." The King of Spain has conferred on Mrs H. P. Parodi, an Englishwoman, living at Gibraltar, the cross of the jurat Class of the Order of Military ;Merit, in recognition of valuable services rendered by her to the Spanish sick; and wounded during the Melilla campaign. A JUVENILE COMPETITOR. At the International Horse Show at .Olympia nest week, for which extensive preparations are, now being made, one of ; tho most interesting personalities should ha a little girl of nine—Mona Dunn — a Canadian lassie, who is entered for no fewer than thirty-cue classes, some of them riding and jumping competitions. She is tho fortunate possessor of nearly thirty splendid horses.

DISTINGUISHED WOMAN LAWYER. A petition lias been sent to President il'aft asking that as, in the Juvenile Court, which is now being tried in Columbia, tho majority of tne cases relate 'to children under seventeen, a woman judge be appointed, and nominating for tnis part Mrs Hussey, who is a lawyer, a mother, and a woman of wide educational and legal experience. It was owing to Mrs Mussey that Kindergartens iwere established in public schools, and Uhat the law which constituted mothers kqnal guardians, with the fathers, of their (children was drafted. CHILDREN’S GARDENS.

Tho Tenants’Social Council, of HampIstead Garden Suburb, have decided to allot a strip of land for tho exclusive |use of children for gardens, and special 'gardening classes for children are now being held every Saturday morning. HONOURS FOR WOMEN GUARDIANS. At their annual meeting .last week the Wexford Board of Guardians, which consists of eighty members, elected three out of four ladv guardians on tho board, to the chair, 'vice-chair, and deputy vicechair! The three officers are Lady ice Fitzgerald, Mrs Healy, sister-in-law of Mr T. M. Healy, M.P., and Mrs Edith Cooper. WOMAN CHIEF INSPECTOR. For the first time a woman has been appointed to tho Chief Inspectorship of Factories in Switzerland. Owing to the great increase of women in the industrial life of the country, the desirability of a woman as chief inspector was unanimously agreed upon by a special commission which sat to inquire into factory conditions. A PATHETIC JOURNEY. A record of an immense and very 'pathetic journey undertaken by a, woman and her entire family comes from Moose Jaw, Canada. A Mrs Connor lost her husband and was left in a destitute condition, so, with her four children, tho eldest 11, the youngest a year and a half, she set out in a dilapidated single-seated buggy fur a relative’s in South Dakota—a journey of no loss than 900 miles! As all the worldly possessions of the little family were piled on the trap it was necessary for two, and sometimes three to walk, and at the end of the six weeks’ journey horses and humans were fearfully exhausted. AN EGYPTIAN WOMEN’S LEAGUE is a sign of the times, indeed. Its first object is to try and bring in compulsoryeducation for girls and a Western system of education. Later, it hopes to make it possible for women to become medical students, and its plans embrace a revision of the divorce laws and the prohibition of polygamy. WOMEN PREACHERS.

The Norwegian authorities have decidafter much controversy on the questio’n. that women may qualify as lay preachers on the same terms as men communicants. They may not, however, become fully qualified clergy. WOMEN DIPLOMEES. .An inquiry interesting to all professional women has just come to a conclusion at the Berlin University. It

sat to ascertain the progress and pros‘p;ct.s of women whose professions require that they shall be qualified by ciploma. As a result it is found that in medicine and dentistry, the outlook is eminently .satisfactory, numbers of women qualifying in both these courses and both the number and demand greatly increasing with years. On the contrary, the report concludes, there are few openings and unsatisfactory prospects for women taking jurist or national economic courses. Only twenty-three appear to be in positions where they are definitely utilising their diplomas.