NOTES FOR WOMEN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 18, 3 May 1911, Page 70

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

London March 17. MARRIAGE AND HEALTH. The following is culled from an niieresting leader on the above subject in the “Evening Times" of Wednesday: “It is an indisputable fact that the illness amongst unmarried adults is out of all proportion to the sickness amongst the married people of their own age. A fact like this should be borne in mind by those who deprecate “improvident marriages." for the lesson to be learnt from such statistics on the subject as we have is that an improvident marriage is much better for humanity than no mariarge at all. The worst form of improvidence is for people to avoid marriage on the grounds of expense.” THE QUEEN with whom the choice of her Coronation flower was left, has chosen carnations. The final selection of the particular variety of flower to l>e used has been left with the Worshipful Company of Gardeners, and as Queen Mary's favourite colour is pink, her Coronation bouquet will probably be of that colour. MARRIED WOMEN'S UNION. In America it is proposed to start a married women’s union, whereby a wife can claim as a right one-half of her husband's income. Equal rights and an equality contract are among the rules, and the feeling that a man should not regard her as his chattel is very st roug. WOMEN DRUNKARDS. The increase of drunkenness amongst women having become very marked in Liverpool. the Liverpool Licensing Bench has sent a letter to members of the Trade suggesting that written instructions should lie given to licensees setting forth the following conditions: (1) The necessity for exercising the strictest vigilance in serving women at all. (21 That any woman of known bad character or of drunken habits, or whose appearance is not respectable, should be

refused altogether. (3) That vteem wamen are served they should only be iwrved once, and tiionld- not -be allowed to treat each other to drinks. (4) That women should not be allowed to remaim an undue length of time upon the premises. A LADY M.P. The Norwegian Parliament now includes a lady member. Miss Ragstad. a schoolmistress, and her male colleagues, it is said, paid her marked attention on her first appearance in the House. Miss Ragstad has the reputation of being extremely eloquent, and is highly cultured. SERVANTS' NEWSPAPER. From Vienna conies the news that a weekly journal, called the “Servants’ Review” has commenced its career. The new journal calls upon all domestics to organise themselves and obtain a weapon by which wages can be raised and conditions of work improved. All ill-treated and oppressed servants are invited to pour their woes into the ears of the editor, who offers them consolation of printing the names and addresses of hard-hearted masters and mistresses. Some of the cases of injustice thus revealed seem barely credible. Subscribers to the journal are allowed to advertise for situations free of charge, and notices of footmen’s balls and concerts for maids-of-all-work are features oi the publication. It is perhaps hardly necessary to add that Vienna employers are not overjoyed at the appearance of the novel newspaper! “NO FLOWERS, BY REQUEST.” One side of the request so often made now at funerals “no flowers” has. perhaps, not been thought of, and that is the florists. So serious is the state of the flower trade in Paris that a great protest meeting is being held there tomorrow night. It all seems to date from a circulat message sent out by a priest of great influence in 1902. when Father llippolteh Leroy begged the faithful not to bring flowers or wreaths to funerals* but to spend their money instead on masses for the repose of the soul of the departed. The innovation has certainly become immensely popular, with the result that the livelihood of some 50,000 workers throughout France is seriously threatened. No fewer than fifty florists in Paris alone have already been compelled to close their shutters.