The Woman's Trial in the United States

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6637, 30 March 1893, Page 4

The Woman's Trial in the United States

That both men and women need rest very badly a glance at the crowded hotel tables makes plain— so plain, indeed, that the foreigner who has not been taught that fuss amd worry are in themselves honorable wishes sometimes he could put the whole unrestful crowd to sleep for 17 hours a day, says Mr Rudyard Kipling in the London Times. I have inquired of not less than 500 men and women iv various parts of the State why they broke down and looked so gash. And the men said : "If you don't keep up with the procession in America you are left ;" and tho women smiled an evil smile and answered that no outsider hadyetdiscovered tho real cause of their worry and strain, or why their lives were arranged to work with the largest amounfc of friction in tho shortest given time. Now, the men can be loft to their own folly, but the cause of the women* trouble has been revealed to me. Il is the thing called *' Help," which is no help. In the multitude of presents that the American man has given to the American woman (for details see daily papers) he has furgotten, or is unable, to giro her good serTants, and that sordid trouble runs equally through the household of the millionaire or che flat of the small city man. " Yes, it's easy enough to laugh," said one woman passionately ; ** we are worn out, and our children are worn out, too, and we're always worrying; I know it. What can we do? If you stay here you'll know that this is the land of all the luxuries, if you can pay for them, and none of the necessities. Pou'll know, and then you won't laugh. You'll know why women are said to take their husbands to boardinghouses and never have homes. You'll know what an Irish Catholic means. The men won't got up and attend to these things, but we would. If we had female suffrage, we'd Bhut the door to all the Irish and throw it open to all the Chinese, tad let the women have a little protection." It was the cry of a soul warn thin with exasperation, but it was truth, Today I do not laugh any more at the race that depends on inefficient helot races for its inefficient service. When next you, housekeeping in England, differ with the respectful, amiable, industrious 16-pound maid, who wears a cap and says " Ma'am, " remember the pauper labor cf America — the wives of the sixty million kings who have no iubjects.

The little black spots at the ends of the snail's horns are the animal's eyes. He can see very little with them, but they serve to distinguish for him light from darkness, and enable him to observe objects at a distance of an inch or two. The number of coolies in Fiji is increasing. Another shipment of coolies from Calcutta for the sugar plantations in Fiji is expected to arrive at Suva early in May next by the British ship May. A farmer in the Kyneton district, Victoria, has been successful in raising a very heavy crop of Algerian oats. From 12 acres he has had a return of 210 bags, or between 90 and 100 bushels per acre, which is the heaviest crop grown in the district this year. The extraordinary report is published in several Continental papers that the Czir of Russia intends to resume the title of ' Emperor of Asia. This step, it is said, was decided on during the stay of the Emir of Bokhara at Sr. Petersburg. It is added thrit if it is realised the Czar will next summer make a journey through Central Asia. St. Peter's, Hatton Garden, will have \ the honor of being the first Catholic Church in London to be iluminated by the electric light. The order for the installation has been given. It has been found that the valuable frescoes with which the interior is decorated have been injured by the use of gas. From its dingy and uninviting exterior no one would imagine that internally this church is one of the most artistically decorated in London. The " Italian Church," as it is commonly called, was built thirty years ago with money collected all over Europe, but chiefly in Italy. The scheme of decoration, however, has only been recently completed. The clergy attached to it are decidedly cosmopolitan. The languages they speak comprise English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Lithuanian, Polish, and Croatian. The Italian Church is now one of the few Catholic places of worship that employs professional vocalists and instrumentalists from the London theatres for the rendering of its musical services. The stern and ascetic Manning, observes a London paper, very nearly suppressed that sort of thing: A little tune ago, in Melbourne, a young girl died suddenly— at least she was supposed to be dead —two days prior to her wedding. The body was placed in the coffin and the lid screwed down a few hours before the time fixed for burial. Her grief stricken lover was permitted to remain alone awhile with the dead. Presently he was heard to shriek for help and tho girl's father and brother entering the room found the lover prizing open the cottin with a poker. In a few minutes the very much alive and hysterical corpse ■was clasped in the iover's arms, and the clergyman invited to read the burial service performed the marriage ceremony in-t stead A contemporary writes :— lt does no seem improbable that bachelors who are (supporting the woman's suffrage movement may be weaving a rope with which to hang themselves or future generations of their order. The enfranchisement of women will mean the disinfranchisement of the bachelor. This has recently been made plain in that country beyond the Atlantic whence emanate the more progressive ideas held by the fair sex. Senator Hill, of New York, is a well known politician in America, and represents the Empire State, in the United States Senate. If female suffrage do not prevail he may some day be president. But, although advanced in years, he has hitherto never had the good taste to take to himself a wife, and for this daring disregard of women's rights he has been denounced by the •'Woman's Franchise League" of the Empire City, and the following resolution has been approved by that body : — '• Bachelors know nothing of woman and their wants, and are therefore unfit to legishte for them " This resolution willno doubt be adopted by all the female leagues in the States, &ud wilj eventually