The herald., 1894-08-30
HERE is TIE LATEST ADVANCE.
Lady Florence Dixie Would Have Com
panics of ssYomen Volunteers"

Lady Florence Dixie Would Have Com
panics of "Women Volunteers"
Lady Florence Dixie finds matter for
an article of considerable length in a
London paper advocating the organize
ton Of corps of women volunteers
She begins by saying that the pro-
posal has met with many women's ap.
proval (?) and then proceeds to outline
her scheme. She advocates the estab-
Hshment Of institutions where would be
Volunteers" could be physically train
ed into good gymnasts aud be able to
swim, ride, run, march, shoot and en-
dure fatigue. Hand i'll hand with these
subjects should go instructions in cook.
ing, nursing, ambulance work and man.
ual skill i'll tailoring and bootmaking
o knowledge, however rude, of these
two lasbnamed accomplishments being
at Tinnes most serviceable and useful.
"Isam Totally opposed, continues the
palRrYA 'tofthe formation of a volunteer
corps for women either merely as q
medical one a fighting one or an am
bulaace, one. My idea of a volunteer
corps tof women is one whose members
in tin,eiof national need could volun-
teer fcrSall and every kind of service
and perfG rzn the same efficiently whethor
it be f ghsing, medical work, ambulance
work, running or anything else, and the
unity ON ads volunteer corps should be
firm and strong knitted by the indissoln-
bic tie of esprit de corps, which would
build it into powerful organization
''It sho,ulS be the great national
school for working class girls and wom-
en- who could depend upon receiving q
technical eduaation if desired therein
1t should be ,thG national club for wom-
en- of ell cl;tsses;; it should be able to
furnish in case Of need skilled work
women in EVERY ayrade; it should have
its branches in every town or outside
every town, and il should have its great
central institution. its hall of liberty,
in London.
'"The corps might be known as the
United Corps Of Women Volunteers,
and it could be classified in companies
under different names, certain duties
being apportioneca to each. These com
panies could furnish whatever the ma
tional need repaired trained and dis.
ciplined bodies of women being forth
coming in any emergency to supply the
service sought
Before Lady yDiEietannounces her uni
form she paves the way with an anath-
ema against modern dress, and then
introduces her meat Norfolk shaped
tunic, reaching to+just above the knees;
knickerbooszers and CATERS to match,
the CATERS to be substituted for brown
tanned top boots, lacing up the en- bire
front to the knee, where much ri6Eng
is necessary.
''For head dress would recommend
a colored cap, Tam O. Shanter or C;hrl-
ist in shape, plain round straw ha,Hin
hot weather or helmet if deemed more
suitable. And to harmonic with siuch
a costume woman 'srappalling head gear
must be abandoned. No head can be
truly comfortable or neat which is doom
ed to wear the present day erectielAs and
combinations Of false and read hair,
frizzes and fads all canned together in
bewildering confusion"
Having thus annihilated the present
coiffures, a woman is s4urged %either to
cut her hair short or wear st in the
King Charles fashion adopted by the
cavaliers, or if she prefers to keep it
very long wind it in neat coil behind
her head"
Lady Dixie admits that the move
ment is radical, and that ''there are
difficulties to be encountered sneers ana
jeers to be lived down, satites to lie re-
futed, converts to be made" but she is
sanguine of ultimate success and con-
meets the arrival of the women volun.
teers with great national reforms and
all the rest of it.
Kaffirs Suing for Peace,