NOTES FOR WOMEN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 26 April 1911, Page 70

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

THE WOMEN’S BILL. The two main clauses ot the Women’s Enfranchisement' Bill introduced in Parliament by Sir George Kemp are as follows:— 1. Every woman possessed of a household qualification, within the meaning of the Representation of the Peoples Aet, 1884, shall be entitled to be registered as a voter, and, when registered, to vote for the county or borough in which the qualifying premises are situated. 2. For the purpose of this Act, a woman shall not be disqualified-by marriage for being registered as a voter, provided that a husband and wife shall not both be registered as voters in the samd Parliamentary borough or county division. M. MAETERLINCK. It may not be generally known, practised for some time as a lawyer in Ghent, but, finding his profession uncongenial, he joined a literary clique in the Latm quarter in Paris, first “coming out” after reading a great article by Octave Mirbeau, the noted French publisher and man of letters. MARRIAGE AND HEALTH. News from the State of .Indiana last week said that a law has just been passed there by 51 votes to 33, which requires all male applicants for a marriage license to show a detelaration of good health, duly signed by a doctor.

And now the very latest vogue to find expression here is the bolero coatee, Fenwick offering the welcome revival in most delightful guise as the completing note to one of his renowned early winter tailor-made costumes. The actual model illustrated is fashioned of tabae hopsack, merely relieved by buttons with black cloth centres, a sable soiip.on that is inexpressibly teljing. , The charm of this •coatee lies in its perfect".sinip'licity, the sleeves modelled en Niagyar, wnde elither side the front comes a cilibe little pocket. The accompanying slprt, iiesides, exacts the closest attention as harbinger of what will be worn, a tunic effect being achieved through the medium of wide tucks. The ensemble is altogether delightful, and the success attained is apparently without effort, which, as wa all know, is the highest form of art.

MME. PADEREWSKI Wife of the famous pianist' (who accompanied her husband on his tour in New Zealand a few years ago), who livys at a beautiful country seat on the border ot Lake Leman, has been nominated by the French Ministry C'hevaliere du Merit* Agricole—an honour indeed. Mme. Paderewski’s passion is her poultry yard. She has over a thousand chickens and fowls of all kinds, and she has succeeded in creating some new species by cross-breeding. Her poultry are of great value, and recently she sold to an American purchaser a couple of white Orpingtons for £ 1,500. Paderewski’s farm is stocked with several presents from Sovereigns, including a flock of English sheep given him by the late King Edward. SPLENDID SCHOOL FOR MOTHERS. At Milwaukee, a millionaire’s mansion has been purchased and transformed into a palaee for babies. A hundred splendid rooms looking on a sunny and beautiful garden are now ready for the reception of newly-born infants of the poorest class. The mothers will also be allowed to enter, and a staff of skilled nurses will look after them and their offspring for a period. RECALCITRANT WIVES. The Paris Judges, in granting the application of a Paris doctor for restitution arrived at Auckland last week, states esting new departure by fixing a penalty of £4 for every day’s delay in complying with the order of the Court. They consider this the most practical means of bringing the recalcitrant wife to reason. THE QUEEN’S BOUQUET. The Worshipful Company of Gardeners, an ancient company from which the Queen had promised to accept a Coronation bouquet, has the distinction of being the only city Company which has admitted to its livery a lady—the Hon. ■Mrs.-Evelyn Cecil, who is the author of an exhaustive history- of English gardening. THE NORWEGIAN CABINET has resolved to place before the Storthing a proposal to extend to women the right of admission to all public offices except membership of the Cabinet, Military, Diplomatic and Consular posts, and benefices in the: State Church. -. ,