The Washington herald., 1912-10-12
Court Gossip That IS Read
BY Those Who Do Not Gossip

sisters IN Business who stood In nee0 OF
aid IN . financial crisis.
In this way the plan ID promotins
cameradsrie among women OF all classes
and STRENGTHENING the bonds Of sisteriy
feeling. II 10 satisfactory to learn that
the spirit IN which the women's bank
10 conducteo has not been abused. Many
women who have been helped by the
hank to start or to enlarge businesses
are now valusc investors in the concern
The bank also serves another useful
purpose by advising clients on legal
points affecting business and money mat
tiers, and the free consultation hour ID
. privilege Of which numbers OF women
avail themselves. 1t 10 frequently hap
pens that women ignorant OF legal mat
tiers and not In q position to pay iaW-
yer's fee drift into the hands Of un-
scrupulous persons and get swindled. To
women thus placed the bank stands ~
adviser and friend In need.
The mere fact that a bank exists from
which women. under business conditions.
can obtain financial support and advice
In having the useful effect In Germany
Of encouraging women to enter upon IN
dependent careers. Many. who other
wise might have been dependent upon
relations or the victims Of inadequately
paid work. are launching a prontaoie
little business. The Fatheriand is 10
be congratulated on having taken tne
lead in this practical way OF helping
those OF its women who are ooiised 10
start out on an independent career
The results OF the venture give en-
courasement for the future. The balance
for 1911 was 3sa,2CS marks and out OF
this 1000 marks were devoted to the
furnishing account.
The bank has received 80 marks oy
beauests. which sum has been placed
in>the relief reserve fund.
HE business done for the frst half OF
the current year has been so Satisfactory
that the managers hope to pay DIVIDENDS
for the year 1912 without retarding the
DEVELOPMENT of the undertaking.
Until the womens bank was started
IL was not possible for married woman
in Germany to open a banking account
without having obtained her HUSBAND
permission. No bank would admit ner
on any other terms. This TOLD haroiy
on married women whom unfortunate
domestic circumstances had rorceo into
business careers Independently OF their
husbands.
The enterprise has also a further ad-
vantage by opening a. new career Tor
women as bank employees. for which tney
are proving themselves well fitted IN
deed, as women have in our own couh-
try done all the work In the chief omces
Of the post-ofiice savings bank Tor many
years, there In no reason why they
should not be equally successful In the
banking world.
Ulster aCounty just now MANAGES 10
keen in the Iimelight on the question OF
Irish home rule, which II opposes strong
" and emphatically. The warlike threats
there recall the fact that when tne
Order OF Baronets was Instituted by
lanes I the ostensible object was to
raise a body OF troops for the amer-
grafton Of that province" and to pre-
vent rebellions Each Of the 90 bar
onets thus created had to maintain
thirty soldiers for the purpose. and II
would be of interest to ascertain from
the British crown Officers whether this
obligation still attaches to British bar
onets.
Londonderry, where the new Ulster
covenant was FIRST read. was made
city corporation 800 years ago. But even
before that time the place had lived
through glorious, historic and crowded
day., After St. COLUMBIA had built there
his church in the gray and distant Ione
ago, the abbot OF the Augustiniin Mon
astery. in the twelfth century. had con-
trived n wonder in the form OF Great
Church" one of the finest in Ireland.
In 1900. when Londonderry needed pro-
tection. IL used the stones OF the Great
Church to build the wall which to this
day encircles the city. A Dominican
monastery contributed to the result. SO
that Londonderry may be said to have
resisted the forces Of James ii. in lsSs.
with material drawn from the religious
side which he favored. That memorable
siege Of los days would have found no
place in history but for the action OF
six apprentices in taking the law into
their own hands and shutting the gates
.'in the face Of the Irish.
FT.NNEI'R
tCcryrirht. 1877, By Court Gossip Syndicate)