THE WORLD IS SMALL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14063, 22 November 1909, Page 2

THE WORLD IS SMALL.

\V EI j LIN GT O N INFLUENCES

SWEDEN

In I'JH7 a member of the "'New Zealand Titties'' stall' wrote a .scries u travel notes during ■' "'fi, | -,1 mi which were extensively repuMishid i the journals of the countries through which he travelled, lu connection wan one of these articles Mr Jugeihoiii, o Ekctahuna, tells an interesting suny. The writer gave a graphic description of the conditions of lite in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Incidentally lie referred to the treatment of the women waitresses ill the cafes ot Stockholm, with special reference to the biclv ' control by the lmmicipid authorities o those places of popular resort.'the result being that the cafes remained open the whole night, long, the " nl " r tunate women being 011 duty until the last customer had gone. Mr .Jagerhotu was verv interested in the article and lie sent'the "New Zealand Junes to a friend in Sweden, who ill turn sent it on to the newspapers. A controversy at once ensued, Parliament tooK the matter up. and one speaker on the side of reform said that if a \uitei from a "cannibal country" took siien rrrave objection to their methods t.ie sooner tliev reformed them the better. The long and the short of it was that legislation was placed 011 the statute book of Sweden limit-inn the period during which cafes could he kept. open, and forbidding the proprietors to cmolov women bevnod certain prescribed hours. This is one of the proven instances in which the pen has »< < u mightier and more far-reaching t.ian tlie sword.