From Our Own Correspondent London, June 10.
In the old days Man legislated for the Woman, nowadays Woman legislates for the Man—or tries to do so. I take up this week a publication of the London Society for Woman's Service, one of the many organizations "which have come into existence in recent times to tell us what woman wants or doesn't want and to warn us that she is going to get it whether we can have a thirst quencher at the}! ike it or not and I read the fol-end of the round, but golf cannot lowing: it is elicited by the re-survive: sarsaparilla or lime juice. commendation of the League of It_is a "Scotch" game.
Nations Congress at Washington There may be greater significance! in favour of the abolition of night than is generally realized in the work for women, fact that Mr. Gardner lost at the "Li it is for the good of the com. isth hole of the second round. munity that night work is prohibited Probably he approached it with! for women, wa submit that the com-the feeling, ''This is where we munity would equally benefit by the Americans never get anything abolition of night work for mem, the worth having." And so he went disturbances in family and social habits, under, and the resultant evils similar.
"Li on the other hand it is forthe jonGs or THE Rings." sake of the individual's health that the We quote the following, not as measure is advocated, we submit that poetry, but as a horrible example this reason applies equally strongly in of what may be perpetrated by the case of men, Women as a whole sre already subject to constant and golfing enthusiast when seized by necessary night work. The cate of the the poetic frenzy aged and young children, and the pr. To loco the golfing championship Might well have been our fate; eminently tasks, involve confession of g which are pre.
Had we not had a man who that stant. and essential night work, which Would never Tolleyrate! would be futile to prohibit by'Act of Parliament, and we believe that ¢xperience shows that women are no more While there may be temporary injured in such work than men are, For both sexes night work is an undoubt-tallies in silver owing to passing} ed evil, and for both it should be, influences, says the " Glasgow far.as possible, avoided.
Herald," the official view does not favour' a marked upward move-Woes THe Hanpicaprep. ment in the near future, and a "For the other reason which concerns little concern is naturally being women mainly, we urge the equalization felt as to the ultimate effects of of the positions of man and woman in heavy @ fall on the commercial this respect. As the law now stands, erations which are based on industrial women suffer a handicap in straggle to earn a living in additional silver prices. It is evident that to these they already bear by nature very decided change has_ taken and by custom. The prohibition of place in regard to the Eastern night work for women only makes them trading position. The balance is less desirable employees in the eyes of heavily against Indix, and exports those employers who habitually or even from China have been sharply frequently resort to this practice. They checked in consequence of the ex-say, with great justice, that the i cess of stocks of certain of the ability to employ women at night in the times of rush makes them less use-more important commodities which fu! than men. If this inability e: China has to sell, such as silk andj tended to men also, as we believe i tea. The fall in silver has natural-' should on humanitarian grounds, the ly been accompanied by a collapse, handicap would be removed, and indus-in the Shanghai exchange, and the trial women would have a better chance exchange on India has' likewise of finding jallen heavily, Commodities bought!
This is, of course, the application and paid for on the basis of ver; of the fable of the fox who lost much higher rates must now in-his tail. Women may be too frail volve the importers in serious for night work—we deny it, but losses owing to the decline in sell-assuming that she is so, then men ing prices, and the fact that the ought not to claim an unfair ad-silver market is not likely to have vantage, let us all start level in the sustaining influence which was the Great Breadwinning Stakes expected from purchases by the} United States Government under; No Dirrerentration. the Pittman Act must necessarily'
Or is the action on the part of increase anxieties. There are com-the L.S.F.W.S. an isolated outpensations in the form of cheaper burst? Woman has for some time remittance to those who have to been showing not a little uneas*- transfer funds eastward, such as ness that in the war of competition the tea and rubber planting com- she may start with a handicap. panies, but the fall has been so She admits none, physical or in severe and ravid that the balance tellectual. In the Civil Service must be considerably on the wrong she claims a capacity aqua! to that of man in everything even down, work in the Customs. Her papers contend that there should be no @: ffcrentiation in opportunity. Her friends all work to that end. in Parliament by the new. bill equalizing the age at which the franchise can be exercised, business life in the contention that feminine ability demands recognition. Once upon a_ time we were told that there should be equality of opportunity so that woman could by degrees avail herself of it; that contention has assumed the newer form that woman is ready to fill the posts if only they are thrown open; there is no question of preliminary training or graduated equipment.
Tae Qurey oF PartiaMENT.
In almost everything woman is laying down the law for the community as a whole. At all events those who claim to speak for her, are, though 1 doubt whether they possess a mandate. In Parliament, though but one of her sex is present, she prescribes to M, P.s what they should do with the confidence of a Grand Inquisitor, based on Papal Infallability. This is why the Legislature is wrestling with divorce, care of children, the consumption of alcohol, bastardy, and the innumerable aspects of family life. "We the Women"—this is their mode of address on many an occasion, lay down the law on prices, on profiteering, on housing, with 'a confidence and assurance which no mere male would dare to show unless he could really pose as an expert. Female modesty is not ther strong point. Never have I seen any publication "in which the female exponent of any set of views expressed the slightest diffidence about anything however recondite,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.