EDUCATING WOMEN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17215, 18 January 1918, Page 6

EDUCATING WOMEN

AN INTERESTING VISITOR.

An interesting woman now in Christchurch (says tho Press of Wednesday), on her way to Lake Wakaiipu, where she will spend a month's holiday, is Miss M. Chave Collisson, 8.A., of Sydney. Miss Oollisson holds tho post of assistant to the director of tutorial classes at the University of Sydney, her honours including the holding of tho Frazer Scholarship in history. In other activities sho is a member of the Board of Directors of Sydney University Women's Union—a body composed of graduates and undergraduates controlling the new University Women's Club—and is joint hon. eecretary to the now women's section of the Workers' Educational Association.

As her activities would indicate, Mihb Collisson is an enthusiast in the cause of women. Their uplift, mental, physical and social, is of supreme moment -with her. Henco she speaks -with rare enthusiasm and a compelling eloquence of what the W.E.A. is doing for the women of New South Wales. The women's section of thfe body was only recently formed in Sydney, its principal aim being the teaching of women to handle life sanely and without hysteria, and the section's first work, just about to bo carried into effect, is an. eminently sane and helpful one. February will see the inception by the section of a series of weekend camps for women, and it is considered that tho idea will be enthcsrastically taken up, and that the camps will be well attended. Here the women will be encouraged in the wearing , of a simple outdoor dress, and in the leading of healthy outdoor lives. A feature of the proceedings will bo afternoon rambles or walks, while in the hours of the evening there will bo educational talks. The campers will be encouraged to invite their men friends to visit them. "For," Miss Collisson says, " the aim of the association has always been to encourage the healthy co-operation of men and women."

Further work meditated! by (he women's section will be the sending of women trained in domestic science into the workers' homes to teach tho women tho simplest and best methods of home-keeping; the formation of " After Care" Committees, which will look after children between the times of their leaving school and taking np a» trade or profession; and the encouragement of a greater interest among women in local and municipal affairs, and in the larger politics of the country.