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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2952, 26 November 1900, Page 3

_ A New York city magnate says: “Yes, sir! we have a great many female doctors, female lawyers, female journalists, female preachers, and females in all classes and professions and trades; but what we want is more female women!” An Epidemic of Whooping Cough.—Last winter during an epidemic of whooping ■cough my children contracted the disease, having severe coughing spells. We had Used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy very successfully for croup, and naturally turned to it at that time, and found it relieved the cough and effected a complete cure.—John , E-Clifford, Proprietor Norwood House, Norwood, N.Y. This remedy is for sale by Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association (Li.). The “parish system” in London is in an anomalous condition. There is one parish without a single inhabitant. Another, with five inhabitants, returns a guardian to the City Union, so does a. third, with only twelve inhabitants. Some of these small parishes have all the legal machinery of a large one, and it has been ascertained that in 16 city churches within 500 yards of the Bank, the expenditure works out at £l2 10s for very man, woman, and J child in attendance on an average Sunday. A Jady canvasser working recently in a London borough was greeted with a torrent of ab. use by an indignant mother, who, on the ground of some fancied grievance against the School Board, declined to vote for either cartlhlate. “But,” said the canvasser mildly, »as soon as there was an opportunity, “ it is your husband who has the vote, not you.” ’‘Well, returned the other, with biting saorn, and do you suppose J should allow my ’usband to vote over my head ?” No wonder the women of England do not want the franchise. • I hey can control all the votes now. y had votes of their own, their nusbands would demand freedom in the exercise oi iheirs.