WOMEN AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12315, 9 December 1925, Page 5

WOMEN AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Paragraph three of the Covenant of the League of Nations reads: “All positions under or in connection with the League, including the secretariat, shall be open equally to > men and women.” Yet it cannot bo stated that women are taking any great advantage of tho opportunities opened to them under this paragraph, for only six sat in the recent Assembly at Geneva (records “The Christian Science Monitor”). Six countries sent women as alternate delegates, which amounts to the same thing as being 1 a full delegate. The most notable was the Duchess of Atholl, Parliamentary secretary of the Board of Education, a. member of the British delegation. Australia sent Mrs R. R. S. MacKinnon,, listed! as a-member qf tbe Senate and of the council of the Australian Red Cross. Denmark sent Miss Renni Forchhammer, president of the National. Council of Danish Women, who was a delegate at the Washington Convention of the International Council of Women this spring. Norway sent Mrs /Marthe Larsen Jahn, and Rumania sent Mile. Helene Vacaresco, who has been alternate delegate at every Assembly of the League. Sweden sent Mrs Anna ■ Bugge-Wicksell, who was one of the vice-prseidetfts of the International Women Suffrage Association, of which the National League of Women yoters is the United States branch. Mrs Bugge-Wicksell also is a member of the permanent Mandates Commission of the League, which has supervision of the League’s mandates. All these women sat in the Assembly with their delegations; but, more important,. they were members of the commission into which the Assembly is divided at each 1 of its annual sessions. On the fifth commission, nil the women were 1 members. Each country had ,one. representative on the commission, making about 60 in all. The United State* had delegates or observers at all these meetings, but its delegation withdrew from the opium conference, thus leaving the agreements concluded very much in the air.

Soarves to protect tho neck from sunburn are indispensable in sunny weather. The scarf of the same material as the frock, if the frock he of cotton or silk, ! is often the only wrap worn by the well-dressed woman, now that so many of our thin gowns have long sleeves. Even a cotton voile frock will have a scarf made of its own material, double, with hemstitched ends. This will not he attached to tha dress, but will be worn with it, either tied around the throat with ends hanging down the back or crossed in front and held in place with a brooch.