Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 10 February 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. A number of notable people were recently asked by the editor of Votes for Women. "What in your opinion, would be the most significant change likely to be brought about ill the political social, and intellectual world by the terms with men';'' Amongst other answers was the following from Professor Gilbert Murray; "I think that the enfranchisement of women is likely to have the following results: (1) To improve the general relations between men and women. (i>) to better the social and economic prospects of the most oppressed classes of working women. (:l) To help forward the temperance 1 movement. (4) Probably, after the first shock is over, to'steady and make more conscientious the political judgments of the ordinary voter." FASHIONS DENOUNCED. There wns :\ lively disenssimi at the conference of .the National Council ol Women »f Australia in Hobart on the which were severely denounced by the president, who said that women' were a disgrace to humanity for the way they went about. She urged the necessity for a bill lo protect men against women who wore transparent and slit skirls and low necked blouses. MWs Bisdee contended .that there was nothing to make an outcry about, and cited the women of ism, who wore tight dres'ses an.d damped them to' make them cling more effectively. Other speakers severely condemned what thoy termed the indecent models of the day, and one lady suggested social ostracism as a cure for the evil. the. Governor's wife to lake the initiative. NIGHT COURT FOR WOMEN.

America appears to be a country of /contradictions. '' Where laws for "women t are concerned especially at limes •the law is brutal, and again we read of the most humane innovations. One of . •the latest in the second list is the night. I court for women. This system has been inaugurated and worked with mii'si _ success and much sull'ering both for innocent and foolish women is avoided. If any woman is arrested after the day sitting of the court has ended the Jaw allows for her lo be taken to the / night court and her case immediately tried. The court sits all night and a woman ollicial interviews the prisoner, hears the. story .and .lays it before the judge. If the girl is in need she is taken care, of by tlie qflicjiais and later woi-k is : found for her. Often' she is liberated on parole by the judge or sent home willi a reprimand. Before this ■system was introduced innocent women may bave bad to spend a night in gaol. ■This court is never open to the public. BRIDAL GOWN AS SHROUD- . It is not often one hears of a bride being buried in her wedding dress, but such was'the pitiful fnte of the twenty-two-year-old bride of Wilbur T. Youngman,, of Illinois. Only a few hours after the ceremony the motor in which the couple were passing through In ; diana overturned. Mr. Youngman escaped unhurt, but his bride was killed. Her body was tnken back to the home •of her parents in Tlo'orio, the wedding decorations bojjag still in position. The priest who performed the marriage service also-performed tlie funeral ssrvice, and the .girls who bad been her bridesmaids acted as pall-bearers.