Evening star., 1928-12-21

| eleCJlOnS more IIldu lz0 WOIIldH CdLlul-
dates we're returned in the Borough of
London alone.
Women Force in Politics.
Among the distinguished women who
| have undertaken to teach the British
| "f1apper" how to use her vote is Lady
! Astor. The woman with vote, says
Lady Astor, is a species of elector new
to politicians. -.
"She will remake the machine of all
| the parties to her own design, for all
her 'unpolitical past, says Lady Astorr;
And what then? Perhaps that will
be the Golden Age for every one. But
here there will be many masculine
doubts, I fear!
| Anyway, the EngliShwoman is en-
croaching more and more upon what
were once looked upon as mans spheres.
| Perhaps we may see a change in the
order of things altogether. Why not,
after all, a wage-earning wife and a
domesticated husband? For DR.. Eph-
rain Mulford proclaimed to the Medi-
cal Association in Atlantic City that
physically, women are becoming the
stronger sex, partly because they wear
| lighter clothes, allowing the health
giving ultra violet sun rays to penetrate,
and partly because they know how tn
| relax
Equality at Exhibition.
Was it not significant that at the
recent exhibitions of inventions in Lon
don. prizes were not given separately
| for inventions by women, as heretofore
Their work in that direction, It would
seem, ranks high enough to appear in
open competition with that of the men.
Here it was discovered that one wom-
an had devised a non-slip horseshoe,
another a folding dressing room with
allow and another a collapSible kitch-
en-. complete even to details.
The Womens Engineering Society
| sent 35 delegates to its sixth annual
! conference this Fall The president,
Miss l.. A. Wilson, who started work in
mill at 10, is now director of firm
of lath-makers at Halifax England
I'VE are beginning The Golden Age
for women" she said. Life is full of
possibilities for us. and we must launch
out for ourselves"
And they are launching out for them
selves for recently there sailed for India
Miss Victoria Drummond, the first wom-
an to take her Board of Trade certif-
icate as a sea-going engineer. Miss
Drummond hates people to imagine
that by working in the engine room
she Is doing anything at all clever or
unusual. and in private life she is still
woman enough to carry parasol!
Bobbed Haired Scientists.
The British association, too, distin-
guished gathering that it is, had more
bobbed heads and pretty frocks in its
audiences this year than ever before.
Dame Helen Gwynne Vaughn, preSi-
1f tlaa k4t0 xv,t1r~
the war was controller of the w. A. A
c. F.. and commandant of the w. r. A.
F., said that there is no difference Or
separate place for women. What is re-
quired in science Is capable mind.
am not going to say anything about
women as If they were separate kind
of creature. Why should clever women
be talked about and singled out as II
they were performing dogs or some-
thing?"
To village near Exeter, Devonshire
two women, virtually unaided, have
brought and maintained electric light
for every one. Six women in the last
three years have hired labor and built
power stations, taken electric light and
power to cottage homes and revolution
lied the life of the villagers in most
parts of Devon.
Motor Salesw0men.
Again, on the stands at the last motor
show, some fitting. dainty forms were
to be seen explaining highly technical
details. Real motor saleswomen, these
were, and there are hints of many more
TO come next year.
With all these signs, then, one begins
to ponder the capabilities of man in
the domestic field
Ava 10 SNN, a.
own handkerchiefs?" demanded the
woman who bears the title of parlia-
mentary secretary of the National
Union of Societies for Equal Citizen
ship. She gave it as her own opinion
that they are.
She is in favor of husbands and
wives running the house between them,
while going on with their own particu-
lar professions.
Men are not so helpless in domestic
things as they make themselves out to
be-" she said.
Possibly she did not know about the
Bishop of Bradford, DR.. Perowne, who
can knit and sew and do the herring
bone stitch. Or about Ernest Thesiger,
the actor, who is an accomplished
needleman, and has taught the fine
crafts of the needle to good many dis
abled ex-service men.
In distributing prizes this Fall at
girls school, the bishop discovered that
the students did not even know what
a herringbone stitch was. He himself,
he was able to tell them, once won a
prize for knitting pair of mittens. He
modestly admits that he has even
reached such heights as purling, and
that he can sew on button.
The bishops hoboy is now his flower
garden Even hpra he ic not Ovor
masculine, for it has been discovered
by womap gardener that woman
gardeners date from the time of Henry
VIII. who paid them I'd a centsl. a