The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-01-12

OIL OUO,UOO WOTkerb Oh pOtu sexes, tQ6re
were in 1S48 10000 women. Now
there are only $4,000 women out of
100000 workers.
A very excellent plan has been put
into operation In some of the European
cities. 1t has been especially success
! full In Hamburg and Altoona. 1t is an
arrangement whereby passengers may
have parcels sent to the railway sta
lions and checked there until called
for. 1t Is great convenience for
stores and for suburban residents. For
instance, If you go to a department
store and make several purchases, you
| do not care to carry the bundles about
| with you while you are making other
calls or attending to other business.
OF course, department stores will de-
liver your purchases II you live inside
their delivery limits. 1t may be that
the purchaser lives outside the limits,
or it may be that the purchases were
| made at small store that does not de-
liver to the suburbs. There Is no
other way but to take the bundles
about the city, or have them expressed.
But the plan that has been tried in
Europe obviates all this difficulty and
Inconvenience. The purchaser is CIV
en- a check for his packages and
! duplicate check attached to them. The
bundles are then sent at once to the
| railway station, and the purchaser can
secure them by presenting his dupli-
cate check. 1t is probable that the ex-
pense Of this system falls upon the
stores.
There has just been a convention in
Toronto of the Household Economic
Association, at which the perennial
servant girl question was the chief
topic Of discussion. AS the convention
was made up of women delegates
from the United States and Canada,
oe course there were some enlivening
and Illuminating views on what is, is
not and ought to be in domestic SER
vice. One woman maintained that
there is surplus Of typewriters, book
keepers, clerks and school teachers be-
cause girls are educated and trained
to those occupations while the house
hold arts are neglected in the schools.
Another thought that household ser
vice needed to be elevated to higher
social plane, while the written opinions
of some man were obtruded upon the
convention to the effect that the whole
difficulty would be settled when wom-
en- managed their household affairs in
q systematic and business-like fash
ion after the manner Of men. 1t is
safe to say that the women may de-
sire and "resomte till the cows come
home on this subject, and it will be
kept practically just where it was, to be
wrought out by individual tact in each
case. The difficulties with the theories
lie in the application thereof.
No part of Great Britain is richer III
history and romance than Wales, and
yet it Is a curious fact that there is an
utter absence of memorials in that
country. Even Llewellyn, who put up
so good a fight against Edward Long
shanks, and who is the great national
hero of the race, so far as any memoir
ial Is concerned, has been totally neg
Iected. This is all the more curious
when the jealousy with which the
Welsh are guarding their language
and customs Is taken into account
They have fought hard in parliament,
and have succeeded in having Welsh
taught in their schools side by side
with English. They have won a great
concession in securing the use of the
Welsh language In the courts. And
they religiously keep up the Eistedd-
fod, not only in Wales, but wherever
the Welsh have settled, and with 1t
have maintained the old customs that
date back to the times Of the Drulds.
Recently, however, a movement was
started to correct this fault, and now
discussion is in progress as to the
kind of memorial they should erect
to the stout Llewellyn. Whatever the
decision is, a start has been made to
give recognition to men and to places
that have made Welsh history so rich |
in romance.