Men Mustn’t Work.

Opunake Times, Volume XXI, Issue 752, 30 June 1905, Page 4

Men Mustn’t Work.

* (From London Truth.) " Some remarkable figures published by I the United States Census Bureau prove that I women are now crowding men hard in numberless fields of industrial activity. Many women, it is stated, are employed as carpenters, masons, painters, &c.” — Westminster Gazette. •Tig the voice of the workman. I hear him complain, "Here is Woman, confound her! she’s gone it again ! So long as she stuck to the learned professions, I didn’t care much for her frequent aggressi§ns. As a lawyer or doctor I said ‘ Let her be 1 ’ She could not, as a dentist, much harm do to me; . _ But now things are looking more risky, I vow, Eight into the Workshop she’s followed me . now! *« She jibs at a brush, and she shies at a basin ; She wpnt be a cook, but she will be a mason I A housemaid ? Not she ! Mops she fancies, -i would taint her, Blit she’s ready enough to become a house-;,-vf - painter! The thought of a parlor maid’s place makes ,i her blench, But she’s found her way up to the carpenter s bench; And clearly—for who, pray, can limit, her tricks?— She will soon run mo hard as a layer of bricks I " How then will it end ? At this rate, without doubt, ■ We poor Workmen ere long shall be wholly squeezed out. Must wo then, be content to go loafing around. Whilst the Women pervading our Workshops are found ? Or shall we—whilst they hang their hats on our hooks — Take their places as housemaids, and nurses, and cooks ? And meekly allow, to our infinite cost, That as ‘ Lords’ of Creation our titles we’ve lost!”