WOMAN'S WORK.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 282, 18 December 1918, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORK.

WOMAN FORESTER. Miss Mable Mctiain is to be employ, cd by the forest patrol service of the government. She is an experienced mountaineer, and is to live alone in a tent on the summit of Cleveland Mountains and keep watch on the country round for forest tires. FIRST WOMAN ON GOVERNMENT BOARD IN CANADA. Mrs IMmnptree has been appointed on the Board of Registration, the first woman to be on a Government Board in Canada. WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT. At a recent Danish election, four women were elected as members of the Lower House. Thr°e of the ladies have served as members of Municipal Councils, and one is the wife of the Minister for War and President of the Danish Woman's Suffrage Society. CANADA’S WOMAN JUDGE. A band of highly respectable women came into Court in Edmonton, Canada, and sat down to listen to the proceedings., The Magistrate asked them to withdraw. “Things take place here which are quite unfit for women to hear,” he said. “These girls hear them.’’ answered a matron. “Yes,’ - said the Magi'trate, “but they are fallen girls.” Th»* matron replied, “Even if they are fallen girls, we mean to stand by them.” “1., dies, you really must withdraw. It would he impossible for me to go on wuh the proceedings while you are here.” I'he ladies retired, but went to the Citv \uthoiities and declared that !he\ were not wiliing for girls of any kind to be dealt with in a way that was not fit for decent women to hear, and thus they secured the appointment of the first woman Judge.