The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-21
AUSTRALIA NEEDS
 WOMAN SERVANTS
 MORE THAN WIVES
Wireless Used to Engage Cooks Aboard Incoming
 Steamers.

London, Eeb. 21.-The long cher ished theory that the worlds surplus feminine population could be married
 off if it could be persuaded to migrate to the Antipodes is not borne out in a report of the Dominion's Royal Commission upon the demand for women in Australia Women are wanted badly in the great island conti- nent, but not so much for marriage as for domestic servants.
 So great is the demand, according to the report, that many of the girls sailing from England have been en- gagged by wireless as cooks and ser wants inyAustra1ian Households before their steamer reached port. In some cases, men have been so hard up for cooks that they have gone out in tugs to meet incoming vessels to make sure that they have the first pick of girls seeking employment
 The first few days following the landing of the immigrants resembles an old hiring fair The employers be- siege the labor bureau in hundreds and in a short time every newcomer
 desiring domestic work is pretty cer-= tain to have secured situation at wages more than double the sum
 which she could command in England.
 The commission learned of com
 plaints that the scarcity of servants in Australia, involves such aszburden on
 
 iously their health and even acting as a check upon the much desired in crease of the population.
 Berling Feb 21.-The number of women students at German universi- ties has been nearly quadrup1ed dur | ing the past six years according to fig ures just announced. In the winter ] of 1908, when the doors of German
 universities were first fully thrown | I n O men students enrolled; to-day there are 3,686 women taking regular courses and as many more who are at tending lectures.
 More than six per cent. of the to- tai number of students at the Ger man universities are women. More
 than half of all the women are study ] ing medicine and more than one-ffth
 natural sciences
 l Nearly 400 of the women students are foreigners. Russia sends the 1 largest number and America the next. The women have for three years been going more to the non-Prussian uni versailles. Leipzig and Munich es- peciaIly have had large gains in that time; and the smaller institutions like 1 Jena, Duerzburg and F'refberg have also made relatively large gains Paris, Feb. 21.-The Infante Eula- ] 1ia, aunt of King Alfonso of Spain 1 is sdefying the aconv nventionality which usually surrounds the presence of wo- men of royalty in Paris. The Infanta recently learned from a member of her suite that a highly spiced Partisan vaudeville entertainment included an operetta, the scene of which, was laid. in Spain and Biaritz, a resort which she frequented often.
 She immediately engaged three
 stage boxes for that evening and with a party of friends enjoyed herself to the utmost, as did the audience, 1 which quickly recognized the royal guest and derived great amusement from the fact that the Kings aunt smoked Throughout the performance, seated conspicuously in the front of l one of, the boxes. She lighted eiga- rette after cigarette, laughed heartily and commended loudly each phase of
 the production.
 In the last act, one of the most pop ular Parisian comedians dressed in the
 familiar captain generals uniform
 and with features made up to resem-
 ble those of King Alfonso appeared in
 Ia box directly opposite the Infanta.
 The likeness of her nephew was so ex- ce1lent that Sthe Kings aunt could
 hardly control her laughter
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