Notes for Women.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 19, 6 November 1912, Page 70

Notes for Women.

LAC Is WORKERS’ WAGES. Tin* minirniini w ige arranged by the Board <»f Trade for wonien lace workers in England h.i.-> been fixed at 2 fit. an hour. \\ \R ON lIAII’ISs. Stern laws eonc-onting hatpins are spreading. 'I he iTrfrel of the Department. of the Rhone, I he chief city of which i- Lyonr', ha.-» declared that- no woman in the department whose hatpin points are not protected and rendered .larmlesr* will be allowed to enter a 1 raiiicar or olhci public vehicle, or any 'dare of aniu.M*nieni. Similar action, it i> -ihl, is contem;dated ia Taris. SCHOOLS I UR MOTHERS 'I hosc in-lit ulion*, thal are doing more than anything else, probably, to -lent infant mortality in thw country, arc. fortunately, increa-ing. ami, in Ken sington (listriel alone no less than dinners (of specially nourishing food, supplied al a low pri<e» were partaken last year by nursing or expectant mothers. There are then* three schools, and a<; these infant consultation days are held mice a week, sewing classes uftencr, and (ecturir. on the rearing of babicri given. R\REAIS’ ADVISERS. The newest move of Hie Loiidoft f oiinty < otim il is an exceedingly intereating deewion to open (dlices in many part* of London known as Local JuvHMjde Advisory Committees (in eoiiiiectkO wuiUi Labour exchanges), where children

will be able to Im - entered, after special advice has been given, for work, and no longer need be rushed into the blind alley employments that have wrecked so many young people’s chances later. MRS. BRAMWELL BOOTH, SUFFRAGETTE. Mrs. Booth, wife of the new leade? of the Salvation Army, a woman whom the. writer heard described by the chaplain of the Chapel Royal, Savoy, recently, as one of God’s greatest saints on earth, is, it is interesting to note, not only ot the opinion that women ought to have a vote, in order that certain much needed reform* directly affecting women ami children could be quickly effected, but. think's that women should be able t**‘ serve as jurors and policemen the lattei, it is assumed, for their own sex. GIRLS' COMMERCIAL SCHOOLS. A great experiment is to be set afoot in Berlin in a few’ weeks, though from the details the writer is supplied with, it is not quite evident whether the new i-ystem of continuation schools means that t-he\ are compulsory —it would appear >o. At any rate, on the new plan every half-year 1,250 girls will he turned out fully trained in trade subjects, ].350 in commercial subjects, and l,!M)o unskilled worker* will be prepared for accepting better employment. Berlin is to be divided into ten districts, so arranged that unskilled working girls will be sent to the school that is°nearest to their dwellings, and skilled work girls to the school that is nearest their workshops. For sales girts there will be one school as near to the centre of the city as possible. Domestic teaching of a first-class description is to spread over the whole Lime. MAM MO il I FOCND!d NG 1106 ITT AL. The world’* largest foundling hospital 13 in Moscow. It houses every year an average of fourteen .thousand babies. The institution is kept up in extraordinarily' handsome style, its income b< ing derived mainly' from the duty levied on playing card*. Children arc never refused admittance, and mothers may claim their lilt Io ones again at any time, up to the age of ten years, by giving hack the receipt and number supplied when the baby L taken •in. As the majority of the hug • staff of nurses required are peasant women, there are always groups of poor mothers anxiojiis to become nurses, and there is no doubt that, if it lives, a peasant child has a much better chance lor the future in the hospital than out of il. for if a boy shows any special aptitude, he is later sent to a university, while girls

are trained as And if it girl marries before she has attained her majority, the hospital provide- her

trousseau. If a baby has not Wen baptized prior to its entry.' it is received into the Orthodox < hurch t hat day, and given the name of the Saint of the day.