NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Southland Times, Issue 17304, 28 March 1913, Page 7

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

(From Our Lady Correspondent.) LONDON, February 7. THE SUFFRAGE WAR is war and no mistake and hostilities have something in them of a new quality. Not so much now do the militants appear to be merely desperate but determined, and nothing Is more surprising than the attitude of the public towards the "outrages” that form as regular a part of the day’s programme In the evening papers as Items concerning the Bulgarian war, the land and trades unions bills and the state of affairs In India and China. It might appear to be simply another instance of the nine-days wonder that fascinates and then bores London, but there is enclosed some genuine sympathy In it, without doubt, for the position in which the women have been placed through an action that appears to men of all parties to bo unparliamentary trickery. Behind the “outrages” a motive Is evident even to outsiders, though the wisdom of the methods used to further It axe bound to be questioned. Officials and politicians of the rank and file having, according to the militant section of the suffragists, lamentably failed in what they might have carried through had they but the courage and conscience, are still to be worried for all the militants are worth though their lives are to be held sacred, but not only these but all who have the power to put them In power must suffer now for the representatives’ sins. Therefore an unhappy time Is ahead, there Is no doubt, and friends and foes will he the strange position of being In the same box for one thing at least THE HEAVY MOTHERThere came out recently a capital little book called "Dont’s for Mothers” from which the following plums are taken. Don’t be too grave and solemn. Don’t play the “heavy mother" with your children; you dont want to take yourself too seriously. A heavy motor er in the home Is as ludicrous as a heavy father on the stage. Don’t let your children be snobbish. They ought not to know anything about “difference bf station”. Don’t "let” your child win at games because he cries when he loses. Teach him from the very beginning to “play the game" and you will save him from much unhappiness when his school days begin. Don’t be chary of showing your love for your children. You need have no fear of "spoiling" them by giving an extra cuddle. Don’t let the children feel that their home Is the only place where they can’t have some fun. Laugh and play with them. DOMESTIC SERVANTS’ UNION. Germany Is, of course, a hot bed of organisation, but it Is a little surprising, when one knows the difficulties experienced in England, to realise that, last year, there were oyer 7000 members of the Domestic Servants Organisation of Germany. WOMEN AND CHILDREN.. There exists, under the. Labour Council of San Francisco, a series of women’s clubs that might with advantage be inaugurated over the world since the members are women who have banded themselves together for the services and practical study of social legislation quite apart from party politics. The welfare of the children is a subject they specially set themselves to study. WOMAN RAILWAY DIRECTOR. There was re-elected to the Dlrect- ■ orate of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway Company, on Wednesday, the only woman director of a British railway. This Is the Hon. Elatlne Jenkins, a daughter of Lord Glantawe, who takes her part at all meetings of the Board. THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT has before it at the present time a ♦houghtful and unfortunately novel proposition, viz., that it should Increase the number of appointments of married men teachers with children giving In addition a special grant, where there are at least two, for each child until It Is 18. GIRLS’ EVENING STUDY. The National Organisation of Girls’ Clubs in London working In conjunction with that fine body, the National Union of Women Workers, Is conducting an Inquiry into the hours of work amongst girls. It has been found that evening classes for young people have not achieved the success hoped for, either In the case of boy's or girls because both are so tired -.and unfitted for study by their strenuous day’s work. It is interesting to note that It is not proposed to abolish' the classes, but to collect material with the object of taking action that may result in an alteration of the working hours. THE VALUE OF ORANGES. The Board of Guardians that controls the destiny of the Lambeth Schools, where there are six hundred children, - has decided to try to ward off the influenza that is attacking high and low, young and old, just now by giving each of the pupils an orange a day. In connection witth this luxury it may not be generally known that the orange has been said to be the most valuable of all fruits obtainable In England. The juice abounds In valuable vegetable acids, besides containing sugar in an easily digestible form and mineral salts which are Invaluable In building up bone. The aromatic principles in the orange also have a stimulating effect on digestive Juices. SWISS CHILD LABOUR. A deplorable state of affairs concerning the employment of school children in Switzerland has just been made public as a result of the researches of Dr Klara Wlrth. In the tobacco growing cantons there there Is proved to be a percentage never lower than twenty and as high as fifty-seven of children who go to school being employed also at work, while actually infants of under four are engaged in very badly ventilated rooms, in plucking tobacco leaves, with the result that 60 per. cent of youths are later found physically unfit for military service. The worst aspect of the matter is that the employment of the children goes on openly and with full knowledge and sanction of the education authorities, though this presumably will be altered as a result of Dr Wirth’s work.