NUTS TO CRACK.

Saturday Advertiser, Issue 52, 8 July 1876, Page 11

NUTS TO CRACK.

FOR COUNCILLOR ISAAC AND THE OTHER MALE MONOPOLISTS. What Women can Do? High Salaries for Teachers. —A London correspondent writes : —“ Few school mistresses have attained to a salary of £I,OOO a year, but it is a fact within my own knowledge that at least one lady teacher in London, Miss Buss, the well-known Principal of the Collegiate School at St. Pancras, is at present receiving that handsome salary. It is partly the reward of successful management, for the school is so popular with the upper middle-class iu London that vacancies for girls have to be bespoken some time in advance. The principal masters of some of the best middle-class schools in England, and not a few professors in Scotch Universities, would regard £I.OOO a year as an almost profligate remuneration.”

Lady Clerks in the Civil Service. —A London correspondent writes : —“ Her Majesty’s civil servants are somewhat jealous of the softer sex. Recently, Lord John Manners has taken on some fresh lady-clerks iu the Returned Letter-office Department, and the step has not been approved by the male clerks in the Civil Service. Perhaps there is ground for jealousy. It has been found that women can do most of the work nowdone by men clerks quite as well as they ; and, as the demand for female labour is at present far short of the supply, the women clerks do the work a good deal cheaper, so the males see a danger of having Heir salaries materially reduced by competition. Some of the advocates of women’s rights complain bitterly that women should be paid less than men. But such complaint is not wise, and shows that they do not see whereia their strength lies. At present they have to overcome the prejudice against employing women, and it is quite certain that if tho latter could offer no inducement to employers they would not be employed. When it becomes as common for women to have positions under the Crown as it is for men, thea it will be time enough to ask for equal pay. For the present the strength of the women’s position is in their weakness.”

At the recent great trial of sewing machines held in Dublin, the Wanzer Sewing Machines were selected by the Board of National Education to be used in the 7,000 National Schools throughout Ireland, iu preference to any other Sewing Machine manufactured. These machines are nowsold by Mr Sidford, 4, Royal Arcade, Dunedin, at London prices. We liad the pleasure of inspecting Mr Sidford’s stock a day or two ago, and we can recommend our ladyreaders to pay a visit to the establishment.