MISCELLANEOUS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11975, 12 May 1914, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

To many mothers, especially in districts where homes are small and money is scarce, even the little habits of cleanliness and daintiness learnt by children when they first attend kindergartens are a revelation, and only gradually do they understand that such ways, when persisted in each day, slowly but surely increase the health and comfort of a home and its occupants, says a writer in the Kindergarten Magazine. Careless mothers learn from the loving training given to their by a big-hearted, enthusiastic director, that care in little things mean tae establishment of good habits for lit'u instead oi bad ones. Tooth-brush drill, clean faces, clean hands, and clean handkerchiefs, are daily object lessons of the better way, which helps so largely towards self respect and the respect of others.

At the recent municipal elections ifl England women councillors wore ele i ed in 11 towns, and in seven of the 11 the women were re-elected, a proof that they had gh'on satisfaction. All the women elected were cither widows ov unmarried, for outside London married women, have not the municipal ™tc,. and are not eligibb for office. Tor years past both the suffrage and the anti-suffrage societies have pvottfted against this discrimination, for it is a point on which both sides arc agreed. They say that women's services have proved so valuable in municipal positions that the field ought to bo widened by including married wolweni

Social workers in New Jersey (where women do not vote) have been trying ii. vain for years to get a law whereby irrt of me earnings of prisoners may be applied to the support of their fairily. In California the first Legislature after women got the ballot pas^d tbe law. # * * * At examinations held in Chicago for women candidates for the municipal rclicc force there were over 300 applicants for the 10 vacancies.