PEACE OF EUROPE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8667, 2 January 1890, Page 4

PEACE OF EU ROPE.

QUEEN VIOTORIA A GERMAN COLONEL. By * tecent cablegram I see that a new and highly attractive employment for ladies has been discovered, and an opening made in one of tbe hitherto most exclusive professions for tht gentler sex. Ludies witbin the last few years have been admitted to the practioo of law and med'eine, and are recognised as expert operators of tbe telegraph, the type writer, tbe telephone, tbe domestic mop, and a host of other scientific inventions of incalculable value. She may go on to the Stock Exchange, or tbe Oounty Council, or into the gaol, the Post Office, the Divorce Court, or the anrsery ; and if ever I meet an anxious father inquiring what he stall let his daughter go into, I say, '• By all means let her go into matrimony." Women's rights have made great strides within the last few years, and may be trusted to take care of themselves in future. When that strongminded lady, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, headed a deputation, numerously composed of harself and one other lady, to the London manager of the Waterbury Watch Company, and suggested with considerable force and the aid of a welldeveloped umbrella, that the correct time was just as essential to ladies as to the other Bex, that gentleman took the hint, and devolved the handsomest short-wind-ing laiiieß* watch which has ever been seen acd samples of which are now on view at Mr John Avery's warehouse id Devonstreet. This, however, is a digression. The opening to which attention is called is the army, Her Graoious Majesty Queen Vie. having jnst been elected Colonal of tbe Prussian First Dragooa Guards. That this intelligence will cause the battlesoarred old veterans of Jena and Aueterlitz to blush right down to their spurs no one will doubt, bnt that is nothing to the effect that it will have upon the first hostile French regiment who are called upon to meet them iv mortal combat. Fancy the evolutions of the Prussian crack corps led by a lady in the smart white uniform of tbe Dragoon Guardß. No Frenchman would be able to stand such a sight for a moment. No debt Her Majesty relies on " the divinity which doth hedge a king " (extended by courtesy for this occasion) as an efficient protection from Maxim bullets, short rations, and the* other thousand and one inconveniences of a protracted campaign. The same cablegram that advised the appointment also notifies that the Emperor of Germany, after reviewing the English troops, remarked to the Duke of Cambridge " that the English navy and the German army were without equal in the world." I | wonder how the fine old duks — 70 years a soldier, mau and boy, sir — writhed under this insult, or whether he flung his boot i at the Imperial head ? JOHN AVERT, New Plymouth.