celibates seem on stronger ground.
respect of missionaries the-pro-'There are still wild parts of the world into which one feels a woman should not go, especially with the prospect. fof bringing up a family in them. But even in this no hard and fast rule can be drawn. And judging by one reference of St. Paul's ("have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife" ele.) it would seem that the earllest missionaries were married men who took their wives with them.
What, 1 want to see in. this correspondente is something from a parson's wife. If ever ly family allow me to have anything to do with the running of our house, I am appalled at the endless attention to detail that it requires, Add to this the details of running a parish and you realize that very special qualities are needed by the girl who marries a parson.
"And such families as they do have, too, There is something to be said for a celibate clergy.
Alter being left to fend for themselves for generations nurses are in danger of being killed with too much Kindness, T wrote recently of the Commission which the Government Nad set up to inquire into the con~ ditions of their work. But the Trade Union Congress, at their annual conference decided that nurses must be unionized, and the idea was 30 eagerly taken up that there are now 10 different organizations offering to take nurses as members and guaranteeing to see thay they get their rights 'To. simplify matters the TU.C. is forming a Federation of Health Services which will cover most branches of the nursing profession. Among the reforms desired are that proba-loners' training should begin at 17 Gwith preliminary training from 15): that the minimum pay " of a star nurse should be £75 a year instead of £40-65, and of a ister £95 to £120 instead of £70 to £85; and that maximum amount of work' must not exceed 48 hours a week or 96 hours a fortnight, Actually in rather more than a quarter of our hospitals the nurses "work 10-11 hours dally and at very much lower pay than the scales" suggested, Meanwhile nothing presumably will be done until the Government Commission gots through its inquiry, Tt is im~ possible to imagine hospital nurses Being on strike, So they deserve the more consideration. But tt will mean thay the hospitals have to put up their charges.
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