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DISCOVERY IN PERSIA LINKS
PENDANT IN NEW YORK.
NOW IN BRITISH MUSEUM.
London, Nov. 14.
the Russian museùms,
Some were of opinion that TREASURED RELIC. those qualifications were rather high. It was possible to make them lower and include a larger number of women. She, however, APPEAL TO CONGRESS. thought it might be wiser in the first instance to limit the fran- Representatives from practical-chise to the better educated and
A remarkable Scythic gold orna- ly all the communities in the better qualified women and later Island were present at a meeting broaden it out to include others, ment of the second or third century Mrs. Rutnam concluded by de- has come into the possession of the of Ceylon women in the G. F. S.
claring: We want the power to British Museum, and it is treasured Hall to discuss the ques
vote and to be elected members all the more because almost all the tion of female franchise.
of local boards and municipalities, objects of this Scythic and Sarma- Lady Bandaranaike presided. and even of the Legislature in tian art from the province between Mrs. E. R. Tambimuttu pro days to come." (Loud applause). Europe and the Far East pass into posed "That the women of Cey lon unite together to ensure the
This object, with a repousse eagle franchise being granted to them under the forthcoming Mrs. (Dr.) Sathiawagiswara holding a quadruped. In its claws, Wee discovered by Professor reforma; and that this' union be Iyer said that some fallacies ap called the "Ceylon Women's peared to have crept into the Herzfeld at Nihavend, in N.W. Franchise Union."
minds of the people of the coun-Persia, during excavations from a Mrs. George E. de Silva second-try, as regards the question of tumulus, and is said to have been
franchise. for
found with Roman Imperial coins. ed the resolution, which was car- the
Both the contral subject and the ried.
It had been stated that the The following office-bearers women of Ceylon had just begun border were once insot with rich to ask for the franchise. She turquoise inlays, but few of these were elected:-
President: Lady Dias Band-wished to point out that as early remain.
A curious fact is that the orna- jarannike.
as 1919, when the National Con-
association with a Vice-Presidents:-Mrs. W. A. gress was started under the Pre-meat has an de Silva and Mrs. E. R. Tambi-sidency of Sir P. Arunachalam, a pendant acquired by the late Mr. J. now in the muttu.
man of vision and wisdom, the Pierpont Morgan, Committee:-(Dr.) Mrs. Rut-question of women's franchise Metropolitan Museum at New York. nam, (Dr,) Mrs. Nallamma was brought forward and she had Sathiavagiswara, Mrs. S. W. the pleasure of proposing a resolu- It was Illangakoon, Mrs. C. H. Joliffe, tion. at that Congress. Miss Hornby, Mrs. E. O passed with great enthusiasm, Felsinger, Mrs. R. Grenier, Miss and similar resolutions had been Violet Bawa, Mrs. M. A. Arlun-passed at every session of Con- andan, Mrs. C. H. Z. Fernando,gress. It might be that in recent Mrs. R. S. S. Gunewardene, Mrs. years the Congress had changed T. H. Vethevanam, Mrs. I. David, its policy in many ways and she Mrs. A. E. Goonesinghe, Mrs. did not agree with their policy, Copleston Dias Bandaranayeke, but on this question she was Mrs. Lionel Fonseka, Mrs. Lionci glad to find that the Congress Įde Silva.
was still ready to give them a
Two sabre duels,' already fought, Hon. Treasurer:-Mrs. A, C. G. helping hand.
one of seven and the other of eleven Wijeyekoon.
Mr. G. A. Wille, the other day, rounds, ended in the victory in one Hon. .. Secretaries: Dr. had said that the women of Cey-case of the Jewish and in the other| Nallamma Sathiavagiswara, Mrs. lon did not deserve the franchise of the Christian champion, one Geo, E. de Silva, Mrs. D. M. because they had not asked for it student being severely wounded. Gunasekera.
and were not asking for it even Two pistol duels will be fought: now.' She did not know whether to-morrow.
!
PISTOL DUELS.
FORTY FIGHTS AFTER ANTI-
JEWISH RIOTS.
Vienna, Nov. 6. More than forty duels will be! fought between Jewish and Chris- tian students in consequence of recent anti-Jewish disturbances in Budapest University.
She
Women's Interests. Mrs. Rutnam declared that the Mr. Wille wanted the women of women of Ceylon of all nationali-Ceylon-the Eastern women.... ties had now organised and unit-Hindus and Mohammedans-to ed for the purpose of gaining the go about amashing windows and ferred to "throwing pearls before franchise. She urged that all breaking chairs. They had put swine," but he seemed to forget should pull together for a com-their trust in the chivalry of the that in that instance the swine mon object. The time had come men of the East and they now were men. Good pearls could not when the women of Ceylon had asked Congress to keep their probe crushed even by men. begun to take an interest in pub-mise and help them, to get that thought, after all, that men re- lic affairs.
privilege, which was really their garded them as their household goods and chattels, They were All the world over women were right. coming forward into public When Ceylon was asking for not so ignorant of the political the women life of the country as people seem- affairs, not because they did not self-Government,
They could help feel that home was the first place, asked to join hands with the men ed to think. but because they felt that home and to help them manage their men in 101 problems of daily life, and they knew how to choose came first. They had to broaden own affairs. their interests. Those who had At the Tamil conference held the best men. Large numbers of voters spoilt their ballot children had to look after their recently there was a resolution male children, not only at home, but asking that the franchise be papers at elections because they they had also to send them to granted to women, and it would were illiterates.
Why should the only blot on school, and they should take a have been carried unanimously if deep interest in the education not for the presence of the the Island be the unintelligent system in the Island. They youth who burst out of his shell and illiterate women? should also take into considera- and opposed it; and then also the their duty to wipe out that blot, tion the health and sanitary con- venerable knight of three score Co-operation was the great cry ditions of the city in which they years and ten thought that the of the country and the Govern- lived. There were many pro-purity, the nobility, the wisdom ment: what stronger co-operation blems that related to women and and the modesty of womenkind could there be than between man on an intellectual their homes and their children, would be marred if they were and woman
Evidently basis? There would have been a There were the children of others given the franchise.
It was
as well-In the alums and in the that youth and that venerable larger gathering of women pre- city and they could not help knight were very jealous hus-sent but for the fact that there stretching out a hand to those bands.
who were less fortunate
themselves.
than
She thought that the wonderful way in which child welfare worki
Womanhood Insulted.
were too many obedient wives who would not go against the wishes of their masters.
the wage-earner's qualification Rs. 50 and simple literacy; the educational qualifications of the E.S.L.C. or V.L.S.C. as the minimum (or their equiva- lent);
and the property qualification. RB. 5,000, combined with simple liferacy.
In the course of the discussion
The Qualifications. Mrs. Geo. E. de Silva said that It was decided after consider-
"illiterate woman" she able discussion that had taken a hold of the women as an of the world and of the women in wished to say a few words. They the age qualification should be
25; Colombo showed that women did not intend to emulate Mrs. were awake to the broader in-Jellaby in Dicken's novel and re- terests which were definitely serve their homes for the god of women's interests. Many laws in politics. What they wanted was the country related to women and the right to exercise the vote children, and it was only right once in three or five years. Why that they should have some say in should Ceylon be one of the few countries in the world which those laws.
When she came to Ceylon about insulted its womanhood by deny- thirty years ago there were ing her the privilege which every hardly any organisations for civilised country had accorded to women. It had been very inter- its women. Women had proved Miss Sylvia Pieris said that if a esting to see the manner in which that they were the equal of men. person of 14 was married and be women had broadened their inter-Why should they be silent while came entitled to vote, an unmar- ests, and she believed that the some narrow-minded and selfish fried girl of 21 should have a vote. Mrs. Vethavanam and Mrs. time had come when they should men said that they were illitet- have some voice in matters of jate. The Tamil Knight had re-Aiyar objected to the property qualification, which did not exist public interest. They would, of
in India. Mrs. Aiyar referred to course, be novices at the start and
the hundreds of girls in Jaffna they would probably have heaps
who would be shut out by the to learn. Much of the proceed-
property qualification. ings even of the present meeting could no doubt be criticised, but everybody made mistakes at the beginning,
GIRLS WHO GET HUSBANDS.
Miss Parmelee said that most Many mothers of pretty girls who girls with whom she had discuss- have arrived at a marriageable ago ed that matter thought that Rs. wonder how It is that other girls less 100, would not be too high They wanted an expression of prepossessing find husbands with
Mrs. Sri Pathmanathan said: opinion from the women assem- greater facility than their own daugh
that the educational qualifications bled there in regard to the ques-ters do.
The girl who remains by her mother's should include the qualifications
tion of electoral qualifications. side seeing her plaines but more win- obtainable in other countries. That would enable them to draft orne friends led to the altar is as
Miss Cissy Cooray said that la resolution to be placed before often as not the girl who pays no at Government and the Special Com-tention to the hobbles and diversions if they made the wage-earner's mission. They also wished to ap- that absorb the interest of others qualification Rs, 50 the ayahs in point a small Committee to meet around her, she le generally langud, Colombo would have votes, while
listless, pale-lipped and pallid. the Commissioners, if requested in the back and limbs assail her at a girl who had passed the 8th to do so. She moved that they frequent moments; whilst faintness, standard would not have a vote, Mrs. Dlangakoon maintained should submit for the considera- lack of appetite, and irregularities of the functions frequently make her life
tion of the Special Commission wretched. A man does not want to that the standard of education in and Government the extension of and delicate health to his responsibili- vernacular schools was lower than Cabin English schools. What we the franchise to women on the ties
It
I sad fact that numbers of want is not quantity franchise, following bases-age, property the spiritless, sasily exhausted girls but a quadranchise for a be- and wage-earning and educational
are met with everywhere in the Far qualifications.
East Yet all that they need is the ginning, she declared,
years,
It had been suggested that the rich, red, abundant blood which Dr. The Committee were empower- age qualification should be 25 Williams Pink: Pills have created for ed to prepare a memorandum to countless drooping anemic girls in be forwarded to Government and every part of the World, wpisan The property qualification If your daughter Jacks vitality and the Reform Commission and to which was auggested was Rs. verve, it slid his developing Anaemia appoint representatives to give 10,000 in a woman's right with a Nervousness, Debility or the aliments evidence before the Commission, peculiar to her sex, boxin her sure to if called upon to do so! simple standard of literacy!
day with Dr. Williams Pink Pill Wage-earners should be in re- Then watch how rayldly her appetite A vote of thanks was accorded ceipt of a monthly salary of Rs. will increase, how she will desire to to the Times of Ceylon for an Join In the pastimes of her friends, and editorial which appeared on the ||100.
Bubject; and which gave us how this pleasing transformation will
The other qualifications propos ed were for graduates in any add joy, to your own life as well much food for thought a remar university in the British Empire, Dr. Willams Pink Pilla Are obtained Mrs. Geo. E. de Silva graduates in the Ceylon, Medical able everywhere throughout the Fac. A vote of thanks was also and Law Colleges, and those hold East, lo direct from, the Dr. ing first-class trained teachers hal bottle for $154, 0 bot
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