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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1955.
VOTES
FOR WOMEN
VOTE
FOR MEN
EMMA DOD
'I say their march to freedom
has proved
a long march to NOWHERE'
by ROBERT PITMAN
ARE
A
WOMEN A WASH-OUT?
RE women n wash-bution; the mauve and given Yet this stands for woman's only advaneca in obstetric tech-
falling: the effort in the miss, Turn now to nique have been made by menu nui in publle life? taperies begin
policemen bhom Dame Ethol's the leaders,
IN THE HOME men have is their proper place temnest chords; und. to
In 1931, 10 women were beams left to invent almost all in the home? Is the murmur of Awo the bronze elected to Parlament. Twenty the household gadgets which
of Mrs. Pankhurst years later this tota; had nonred women now use. best service they can render figure the community
of Suffragette, agliator, and late gloriously-to 17.
Conservativo candidate for Feminists blame prejudice for sticking to the task of being Whitechapel - standa mutely this. But they fat to say what good wives and mothers?
revealed on its plinth.
mit wonen politiclana have It is ATI
Elke such pre- appropriate to consider these moment questions.
that
Tum back the clock just 25 years-lo a cold March day in Stanley Baldwin's time.
The
THE MINISTERS
-
SIMPLE comparison is in-
The year is 1930. The date, achieved to
judice. March 0. The occasion? The celebration of Mrs Pankhurst's victory for womanhood. The ceremony, 16
may be structive. In 1020 Britain noted, is
Tho apt.
musical halls its first woman Minister of for example, policemen,
are the Crown, Miss Margaret Bond- inst stroke of noon- drawn from a body which once field. In 1951 Florence Horsbrugh and by the Thames the sound of dragged to goot not only Mas becomes her latest successor, the
In the crowd Pankhurst to traffle is hushed.
whose stabue first Tory woman to win such There the similarity ends, ed gardens below Parliament they now pull homage but also status. rists on agitated figure in robes
their temporary conductor and For, whereas
Ramsay
msay MacDonald of rege and creman. It is Dame half their audience too.
strengthened his Goverment by Putting Miss Bondfeld in, Sir Winston immensely strengthened his 1954 Government by booting Miss Horabrugh out.
baton;
Of
the
El Smyth, the composer.
the twitches She
herMarch and--te Wemmen comes rumbling from
of the Metro the instruments politan Police Banda stately roop of women, led by Stanley Baldwin
Bishop Barking.
10 the platform.
the and
on pares
TRUMPETS
of
ON AND ON
MR BALDWIN, equally apt,
attends as leader
SOON Mr Baldwin himself is hurst began
speaking: say with no fear of contradiction....a nicho in the temple of fame.
liches fall freshly through the quiet air.
His
Suddenly trumpets ring out; Mr Baldwin touches an electric
William Hickey
IN THE
(false)
TURNS TO A
FANCY FASHION
SPRING MY BYGONE
Dow
that
famous
London, who was sitting the other alle vital as a girl in her twenties
... There was Christina Foyle, HAVE had a rather in- of the room, was looking.
She was dressed in something who is so important in the world spiring clav Ita Lok
ór books rather flowing. The colour was don.
brown. But I was a soft and authors rehearse their conversa- It was partly the weather, lovely colour that "brown" tion in front of a mirror before The sun shone. The air doesn't do justice lo. She looked meeting her. WILS warn Suits looked as if she had taken trouble about shabby. It. spring.
WILM
false 2
dressing for lunch.
srid She
How Enid
agreed
Women
round me famous warten, rich, successful Chanelle, women, And then she The motto for this year should I decided that the phrase added: "You
woman's world," know, London be: "It's u
От
it also 1s
"un foux better sound
in women don't dress up for an
occasion nearly n
na much na they printemps"? do in the provinces,"
She is preoccupied with the
would
French
temps.
[3] faux prin It would make
A
wonderful title for a suite provinces and knows what she
woman,
is blonde, with a smile that makes want to smile too. And she is
successful
A
ful
women,
the
very business,
She a rority among sueross- She still has the of making kift
she men that meets think they are terribly important.
She can also make them talk.
Changing taste
丸
the
wall
IN FASHION from Harincil still set to Hardy Amies men the only pattern in England,
IN MUSIC women's upper- tunity has always been para- mount. In England a thousand women performers, from Myra Hess to Winifred Atwell, rattle and down the profitably up
No
egajnst prejudice госу.
Yet women have created nothing.
Ethel Smyth complained when orchestras shunted her works. or thing stood bre- But only
ween Ethel Smyth and famb... her music.
WRITION
There is not a woman's name
Britten ót
to place beside Ivor Novelle, let Vaughan alon Williams. And the death ot
פין
of
Annette Mills robbed olmost the only woman who
IT'S NIL
The ladies' rqund paraded by Mr Attico is scarcely richer in Torics, who resisted votes for women from the beginning. Yet political genius. For in politics could write even a popular song.
himself had recently Mendames Summers, Castle, Baldwin brought in the Anal instalment, Braddock are scarcely giants.
But, the the Flappers' Vote.
goes up, Nineteen-thirty and the
have "women
less opportunity
mediocre trumpet sound-only a quarter Prejudice will pick & of a century after Mrs Pank- man before a brilliant woman,
the great march. This boot, however, neatly fits Now, in 1955, another quarter the other foot, Consider century has limped by and the present women MPs torn march of the women dil sweeps men. Most of them, with their
Latents, would onwards, almost of the double. present
never theory of it cannot be have reached even their present worlds The Justice deniCKI, Yet unavoidably the undizzy heights.
Even from the thin record of What has it all question arians: to?
en M.Ps there are several amounted
There is only women one aiswar: "Almost nothing." who were helped to Westminster
Take fret
Item,
the by single
family tics. number of women working out- side their homes.
Qur
X3
BSTETRICS, Fashion, Music -trere woman's opportunity has been unrivalled: Where the Englishwomad's opportunity has merely
thon's equalled
her achievement shrinks to nil.
She has added not e new
to tho Or
technique of business << throw gets women own more shares men) or philosophy or or mathematics or or film production.
than physics architecture
Only in wovel writing has sho Lady Astor dropped into Lord approached mule standards. And Actor's coat. In the present Par- here, significantly, past-Park-
are dwarfed by From feminist writers we hear lament Mrs Ford succeeded her continual
of n reports
huge father, Mrs Jeger succeeded her female army marching Lo husband, Cyrden niso ask how far Britain's old. An ariny of women Lady Tweedsmuir as plain Mrs
engineers. One feminist has even Tweedsmule could have thumb stled out examples of women ed a lift along the primrose path, plumbers and suvediggers.
MEN FIRST
burst women Goorge Eliot, the Brontes, Jane
Austen,
So much for the New Eve, for
into Q man's Eve marching world.
What of the Old Eve? What of the Old Eve-charming, scatter-brand-who lived for dress and the home, who cared the serious world
outside?
What are the facts? How many able-bodied women hus INDEED someone else's Utle this army mustered?
often a handicap to men-is a Turn to the census returns gült-edged gift for women, MRS. nothing for for 1931, We find that 34.2 per- Isobel Barnett? MRS. Violet then Bonham Carter? Would they cent of all women were "gainfully occupied."
have found it as easy to achieve Guess the great advance today, their present fame without their la 1953 just on 34.5 percent of titics? all women
were gainfully oc- cupied. A brave march this-ia MEDICINE
Lack
ut
She was a by-product of male tyranny, the feminists used to assure us. She would vanish with cmancipation, they pro "OBSESSION FOR FINERY?
opportunity? IN mhod.
Women
have
Vera
20 years a gain of a third of monopolised the held in mid- The Victorian wife do
wifery one percent.
for centuries. Yet the Brittain, the professional femi- nist, tells us was often richly drissed and bejewelled, con- veniently advertising her hus- band's affluence to customers and
neighbours,"
IN LITTLE FAITH
FAITH HEALING
So sad SAD business looking She started A through the 1st of ballets
A
DOCTOR
A smarter look formance
out for a meat or a drink they There were so many ideas took far more care about their fawing over the lunch-able appearance
casual that we forgot to eat our food, Landoers. and the waters kept on trying
than the
By A. W. JARVIE
nbout
her, but her doctor
Very
of the
Freed from this cruel burden, In women reacted?
how have 1948 à survey showed that a £20-a-week family spent 20s. weekly on women's and giris' clothing, against only Bs, weekly on men's and boys'. And there aro twice as many shops scilling women's wear as selling men's wear.
SCANDAL
.
AFFAIRS? A recent invesli- pation observes: "Women men- on their enjoyment of newe- paper gossip and acantial com siderably more than men, und from this they are less interested in the news of every sort of newspaper."
In 1947 One wornan in every eight had never heard of the United Nations.
of music.
is talking about, But the major inspiration of as a window-dresser in Bourge that Covent Garden will be put- the day wan
Her mouth.
And
hns gradually ting on for the next six weeks,
with little visited by the healer and who name was Enid Chanelle She expanded a chain of shops in The same old ballets.
"Lac
faith in faith healing is now a comparatively healthy "Facade" very good-looking. Winchester, Oxford, and on the des Cygnes"
Now Coust
She denies taking drugs dur- Dr Louis Rose, psychiatrist woman hoping to be married. *The Firebird." that her "Girelle" you South
Knightsbridge shop is going well Perhaps that is the reason in St Bartholomew's Hos- ing the time the healer War TGNORANCE OF WORLD
inves- "healing" วก dress she is going to break into the why ballet, after a tremendous pital, London. He
reported that from the very Midlands vogue, now seems to be losing tigated 95 cases, and what beginning of a course rich Northern and markoct.
ground Still,
did he find? there is a first per-
latest TB drug INAH, the made end of the B1 the
"No single case revealed a gradual and continuo I'm sure she is right about the month. It is "Madame Chry- conclusively
monu
that the covery.
the What's more, so-called "provincial women."
a Madam Butter- santheme,
young healer'a intervention alone
woman herself "fully acknow When I was in Manchester flylsh sort of story based on a and Liverpool last month I novel by Pierre
Loti.
resulted in improvement or ledged the effiency of the tablets Elsino Fifield, 23, dances the cure of a measurable organic and was noticed that when women came
conscientious leading role. She is one of the disability."
taking them. Australians who have helped to
Ho adda In the British THE HOARSE MAN
THE PEACE-LOVING SEX? give her country the reputation Medical Journal that three cases
Mother-in-law, divorce Judges of "the artistic Dominion."
A man
with hoarseness was And, is still marriage hazard Pierre Loti
condition after told, after a small part of his cure of such
No. 1.
And
petty
tyranty by to take plates and glasses away more careful about their gloves captain in the French Navy who "the healer's case can be
He was а extraordinary man
out and the intervention of a healer, but tissue had been cut
អ national from us.
-and that I think is one of the
ex- examined, that he had cancer of women over women i
problem too. It accounts parkly career wrote We talked about changes in
throughout his
plaind
in terms
the larynx and needed a major for the nursing shortage. Every of the away novels about romantic, exolic
EL After tastes and ideas-Enid Chanelle most significant things about a
medical treatment." operation, orthodox
healing recent Health Minister, an up- interview his hoarseness im to date version of is intelligent enough to realise woman's dress.
Here are the three cases:
st, that to be successful in selling since the war there has been an
I think the main reason is that the East. He died just after the
First World War.
proved and his voice increased
has had lo THE DOCTOR Vinud. Hls real
against the in volume. fashion she
Cormous swing in prosperity. The women of the South Seas changes in public opinion when The
A few weeks later he was re- protect nurses against the bum- provinces-especially the
A doctor had a sudden pain name of Lot!- gave him his
and two specialists bledom of sisters and tatrons. they are just flying in on the
which North and the Midlands are Flower of the Pacific."
POSTSCRIPT: was diagnosed by a examined,
Professor wings of time.
surgeon and two other abctors reported there was "no cancer
Ashley Montague, richer than London.
od as being due to a small but now."
"The author definite hernia "which could not
admits: he
belleved that it was pure Even if from the very begin- be
After without operation."
four or five treatments coincidence that the piece healer the hernia dis- moved for examination con-ning meo and women had enjoy
*** tained all the cancerous tissue ad full and complete equallis, As usual in auction lists some
appeared permanently,
*****there, would still have been a
the executors of someone who at last to afford incontrovertible
calch must
the
women
are that
She finds that beginning to like clothes
aro morg romantic, more feminine
And that got us on to problem whether we
For one thing, they are far
Servants are employed outalde London far more than in the capital. Men have more money to spend on their wives, In are London, I am afraid, men tend,
Was
name was
В
rather
Here was pride
WAS looking through a list of silver to be sold at Christies later the month.
showed marked improvement or
by
Dragons,
One doctor told Dr Rose that superiority of Wome
to spend more money on them- of the items are being sold by "This," says Dr Rose, "seemed present in the larynx.
approaching a new Victorian solves than on their women. The
Ag
happorta repetition
R.N.
Well, these re
Tc-
Gourge
In the
the three velly larger number of men Of course, it won't be-it it dear “little woman" has to make has. died. In this cast, Cat-evidence in favour of the healer, cases (out of 5) that looked than women in almost all fields
of the do with an old dress and some- mander L. D. Fish
Where ther But spontaneous 'cure' la known most likely to substantiate the of accomplishment."
Tiest women's thing round the neck that has You can imagine the pride he by surgeons to
even healers claims. Do you won- occur of cost a few shillings at the stores, took in a replica of the ship when no treatment is given."
der that Dr Rose calls for a natural
superiority? bell of H.M.S. St Elvies, 1916-
very careful investigation of all miraculous fact says the pro- A new motto
claims, more particularly ninge for gravely that only women 10, engraved with
there are some illnesses in can produce babies,
play But, thien, do we have to thank was a young which suggestion, does. woman dying of TB who im- very large part in helping re- MTS
Pankhurst and Stanley Baldwin for that? proved immediately after being covory and rehabilitation?
numerous
19th century. But it may repeat the main currents opinion. The next generation prudish, reserved, din- be mined.
At this stage of the lunch we sigratures, including that of breath and had another King George V, A. J. Balfour, The girls
may even be coy, look
There the Duke of Connaught, ole." And they may look at their look round the room
Now it is just "Lot 20." the was Beatrice Lillio, looking as with outspoken parents same mixture of horror and 'sadness as that with which the
Victoria and Albert set f young regarded their coarse Regency forebears:
Books may be bawdierised by Bad language a new Bowdler. may be frowned 'on,
And to be serious--I have no doubt that it will be a moro religious age,
The Mrs Knights and their "morale without rellalon" will be looked on as unenlightened pagana, suffering from intellec- dual airogance and a shallow prychology.
Provincial tasto
By this time we had got a long way, Drom the fashion business Bowe tackled: the malayodlah când vinid - how "Margares Leighton,
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