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TUESDAYS DEC

WOMEN IN OUR WAR

tion,

WORKSHOPS.

AN INTERESTING LECTURES

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Faraday and hedge sent the laws thessage acrose, the "Owing to counter attractions, parti-remaine The manager of the works

college at Livery cularly the Art Chib Exhibition at Inat discovered the cause of the

showed more than 80 there was a very small attendance trouble and he would have no more rent bility and the acquisition of a valuable mechanical inventions and at the Helena May Institute: Just girl-tracre. However, if necessity knowledge of a certain branch of discovering have been produced evening when Professor Middleton the mother of invention, adapt engineering in exhes of apprentices Anglo-Saxons. Now it is probable that Sraith delivered a very interesting ability to new conditions in the sister trained in the same period, under pre- just a thera ara: IWO lecture on Women in our Way to success, Prejudice disappeared war conditions. This was mainly physical plane, so, thero, azo two soros Workshope. That the audience before the national menses, and due to the reason that apprentices of mind, and nits one lodividum, PORLEANI which numbered about 25 ladies and women were welcomed into the work- have to learn themwives, herene an entirely feminine or an entirely gentlemen were much impressed shops.

women workers were definitely taught masculine mind."-Perhaps the dreamers, with the lecture, was evinced by the It was only natural that employer the shop itself under actual pro the artists, the poeta dad these capable that enthusic applause which greeted should at first suppose that women suction conditions. Further, the of gross, sodantile imagination possess the speaker at the end. When Dr.were suitable only for the very light city of the time factor appeal the feminine minds and the people of British women have stood Jordan (presiding proposed a role work, but as the emergency grated to their patriotism for greater action, the Napoleon Bonapartes, the shoulder with men in the war of shanks to Professor Middleton greater women proved themselves

builders of railways the natural rulers | On pur matične coína, we place eforts.

chileTM Brita Smith, it was carried with acclama capable of doing many this in a Then were considemble diffeculo bave the masculine mind. Britannia, and we may

It is worth noting that our rules the waves hier most unexpected manner. The ties in the organisation of-workshops national hero, Nelson, asemed to shall be slaves. All that we THE LECTURE... showed more enterpres than men. for women fr. especially in the blend both types and all of the that our women will furnish u Profesor MIDDLETON SHITH :or else they were leak wat nied with supervision and direction of the work heroes of our forever though great ideale and feeping us to grat Although the phenomenon of the drudgery, for they offer volunteered in the factory. - Failures of several muscular in body, have some of the deeds. The Great War in fought for ro rush of women to the workshops has to take up more wrenuous duties were due to this reason when feminine traits of character, auch material gaina buatan abstract idea called amazed the remanation, it in tot Indeed, the country's shipping to-day they were forced to employ women. gentleness and a love of the beautiful. Freedom, and the shatract: Ideas. are new thing in history for women to is very much below what it might foreman, for instancey might be an | Parbapa Anglo Saxone bland happily in feroine in origin.. The women of help in warfare. A woman has often have been if the resources of women-able mum from the point of view of their minds the macaline and feminite Britain in the workshops gained not become the warrior chief of a tribe.

his technical qualification and at the and that accounts for their success; the only freedom for Europe but they simed The naine of Boadicea and Joan of

same time an unsuitable foreman for feminine portion of the mind supplies a blow at the shackles which bind the women As a rule, the men were the latter the will and energy necessary shall set them frees Just as the call of the imagination to conceive the plan women of other nations and their work either too lenient or too strict in their to carry it out. The bey-cote of national daty sent the British women into the treatment of women, and in order to efficiency is co-operation and a reasonable war workshops, so will it make them to overcome this difficulty in many works forewomen were used instead pride in our race. To obtain that there serve for all time only that which in That system proved to be the best Many people how realise the striking of car race

"must" ber's co-operation of the sexis beat an est in the great traditiona for unskilled and semi-skilled labour contrast between the German Kultur Ana large number of women were and the Anglo-Saxon conduct, in Egypt eniployed who were inexperienced in South Africa and India. If moth of the engineering work, it was only to be actual work has been done by the meri expected that there were frequent the inspiration has come from the troubles and difficulties in the main women...They, too, have borne the heat thing of factory discipline, to which and burden of the tropics. It was Queen in the aggregate, the most valuable, any of the women were not accus- Elizabeth who sent the firit Englishman It is inevitable that woman must and these ounen acted as machined. In this connection Mr. out to China by sex We can so leat Mrs. Maithand best Mia Moor either be a co-worker with man osta, tool-makers, gauge-makers and Charles Wicksteed once remarked remember the good results which the Mrs Crawford bent Mia Wilkinson tend to becorile a parasite. We must aircraft propeller-monkers; and they that he had find all sorts of troubles, prend of Anglo-Saxon Kieals all over 2ND ROUND have before us either the early Greek did accurate and delicate work which part from the troubles of the Gov- the world has brought about Mise J. Rodger beat Air Thursfield

We have seen how the wonen in Mrs. Maitland w/o Mrs. JW. Stawark ideal of physical and mental culture, was sometime ago considered to be crument inspection and the inespeci-| or that of the Shah of Persia the exclusively that of the highly-skilled eve of his staff and the frailties and Great Britain rushed into the workshops Mrs, Dresger beat Mrs. Crawford

frons The workshops are still din baduse pe ven woman too unintelligent to rebel worker. Here and there, again, complete inexperience of the girls to supply munitions for the meu st the Mr Adams best Mra Fateher The real difference between the Wes; foundry was to be seen to be employ. He hoped his foremen Lever swore, existence; they must be kept working SALE OF ROSES FOR THE The rha that has been the positioning women on moulding by hand and hat one of the card on as to provide employment and so to pay RED CROSS

machine. Work was done during the day, and said..." "If I had known as off the enormous debt, incnered by this

power had not been wet mose fully

There were three types of women Are remind us of women who have labour in general, that had been used fought in battle. The men who over to take the place of 1). The threw the Roman Empire were educated type; (2) the domestic type accompanied by their women on their (3) the ordinary factory type. The manth from the North. Pictures of braine of the first type of labour the renantic Anglo-Saxon settlers in were cultivated. Many possessed America, drawn

to entertain our mathematical knowledge and were youthful hours, show as the women educated in the modern Universities In the lophut loading and even firing in scientific work. They did most the muskats of husband are valuable research or professional But many thousands of years before work But they were comparatively that time primeval men and woman few in number wandered about and shared the perils and the pleasures of the nomadic life together.

of the women. "

tion about their work.

The domestic-type was probably,

GOLF

LADIES' CHAMPIONSHIP.

1ST ROUND

women of Britain justified the posì. made sacred to man who, had, served ried se I do now, I do not believe Those of us who are out here can the Hongkong Hotel, which - berna↑ In the great ordeal of the war the war, by women which tradition had much about weinen before I was margeneration on the part of humanity The sale of roses at the entrance to tion which they base always occulong apprenticeships But the extra that should ever have got married mind, the lathes or work the eletric pied. It is only in the last few ordinary workshop revolutions caused or in the early days especially, motors, but we can do our utmost to yesterday was a great success. The stall was well patronized and s sub- decades that there has been any quesby strtomatic machinery and new in sometimes the things the girls were create a demand for the goods belastanhal was realmed. The tin

Invention ventions had made it possible to capable of doing were incredible. made in Britain. We do not want to and knowledge changed agriculture bring about these changes. It is still This employer said that he often use bad methods for doing good But containing the proceeds will not be " and industry; manual labour was re true that neitlfer & run nor a woman could not possibly conceive how they the British women of this Colony and opened until the end of the week. placed by machinery. The spinning can become a fully skilled workshop managed to get wrong Trayers the Far East can foinence their men The stall presented a very pleasing wheel ur broken; in a thousand mechanic under a perial of (say) four were left in and lathes broken wholesale, folk as no other forces can influencs sight this morning when the sale began them. After all, verk, few of as man at 9.30 Mrs Barrington and Mrs. huge factorice, steam-driven looms years, and that long training is still until in bis aggravation he had said one would exert ourselves very much but Bird deserve great credit for the guided by a few hundreds of thou necessary for certain types of labour, day that although it was difficult to for the encouragement and spation unselfish energy they are displaying and sands of hands produce the clothing But great care was taken that highly make a thing" fool proof it was of the women. There: 19 pas na of half the world. The boes and the skilled labour was not employed an impossible to make it girl proof Mr. grind-stones are gone: steun plough work which can be doceerually well Wicksteed himself emphasised the very war against Germany; but there great improvements, which had taken the old fight against ehson and the land wil shapes our bread. The with the lowest grade of labour.

Women have generally been found and machinery adjustments had bear women can help in that fight the week ending December 14th: shows

place, and when once certain routine disorder against the forces.

Ignorance *saa 15-auperstition.” ~ The The "stulamentabi trafia rocipta fox; - 20sy mill-maids have passed away and are replaced by the mechanical to be accurate and conscientious made, and the more frivolous girls They worked out here during the war an increase of 21,245, over the atomupi workers. They acquired a higher wooded out, the results obtained from in the offices and in providing bandager for the corresponding week That year. We cannot reverse the wheels of degree of accuracy quicker than men the women were wonderful time, nor do we wish for the stream through possessing a finer sense of

In addition to the early objections by and comforts for the men at the front. The receipts were $13,607, The of life to dow backwards. Machinery touch. It has also been demon the employers who were prejudiced or They can work in the future with the aggregate receipts for fity weeks was and the captive motor forces of nature strated that women are responsible did not want troubles in their work object of maintaining the national $689,757, or $18,335 more than lat hove taken the place of human hand workers; that is, that they can be shops there were the trade unions. In Prestige and, of preserving the great year. and foot. There is no wrtaly reason, trusted with confidence to carry out the pre-war days many men did not like deals of the Anglo-Saxon, race which why woman shall not take her place finishing processes on large and costly the idea of the competition of have emerged purined from the furnace of the war. For just as I am thinking

cream-seperator.

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side by side with man in the new age work; and they can manipulate. High-womina labour" and they tried to that all that is best and noblest in those of the workshops; indeed; she has speed and heavy machinery such as exclude them from the shops. When desis originated in the feminine mind, driving large cranes ir which there these dificulties were overcome the so I am sure that only the preservation

tions of war.

and the enlargement of these ideals can elevate sufering humanity and win real freedom. The old writers tell ur khat your ancestresses were the women who barefooted and white-robed, led the Northern hosts on that long march to Italy, and who were male joyful by the thought of the bright sunshine of the with, the richer fruitage of the plairis You have in your veins the-blood of the womanhood of 20 casturies ago that

deserve our best support W.

HONGKONG TRAMWAY.

TO-DAYS ADVERTISEMENTS.

commencing at 11 am..

done so skendy,

Ministry of Munition irritated employers About me months ago a woman is a certain measure of risk.

For heavy enginesting werk women by insisting on good cloak-room accom read a paper before the Institution of

modation and generally insisting apos

PUBLIC AUCTION. Mechanical Engineers. She express safely handled pieces weighing up what is now known as "welfare work ed her appreciation of the compli 60. lbs., and although they have done That has been one of the great game of ment accorded to her, especially as heavier work with the help of special the war. Woman has elevated the

THE Undersigned, has received to the request preceded the passage lifting tackle and handling devices, atmosphere of the factory as she raised

structions to sell by Pablie through Parliament of the measure yet it was found that they often the tore of social life. In Britain at

Auction, would not take the trouble, to use the the ent et fat century druckungcas had

conso giving the franchise to women.

At this time (March 19th, 1918) tackle and so they overtaxed their disappeared since women dined with

WEDNESDAY, there were roughly speaking about strength. However, it was or repeti-men, and the men followed them to the

the 18th December, 1918, 1,000,000 women employed in Great tion work of a fairly light character drawing room. We re all of as Britain on the production of mun that the women workers broke all influenced by our surroundings. The marched through the dazk· Europese Punca va

forests towards the light, side by side at his Sales Rooms, Daddell Steant, Indeed, a large en- the records of outpuz. Some of this garish gin palace which is such a magn with its male companiods, that trudged ployer of labour, Mr. William Allen, repetition work deminded skilled to the slum dweller only attracts by the over hill add dale, with the Cimbri to A Quantity of French perfames said that 14 million women

who labour. For a 9.2 shef the boring contrast of light and warmth with the Italy with the Franks scross the and Lotions B had not been away from their involved three operations, and the dressiness, of the alum home. This Rhine, that provided the splendid On view from Tuesday the 17th homes befor... went into the work total time for complete boring by welfare work initiated chiefly by women heroines for the Legends of Scandinavia Lust shops. Practically all of these skilled men is 8.16 machine bou actually pays to have healthy worken, that have fashioned the new ideals of

inspectors has demonstrated that it that penetrated the on Britain, and Terms Osh on delivery women worked in engineering shopa Women were substituted for men on There is a great contrast between the this generation. You have in you the and the introduction of this new type the boring lithe, and after one week design and Arrangements of the new blood of the womanhood that was never of labour produced many new proof practice did the work in war shops with those of the preceding bought and never said, that were no bleme, which, after a time, were hap machine boure. In less than three decades. The man bare benefitted well, that tolerated as binding on the pily solved in the national interest. months the average time was reduced immensely by the new views about the

Although for some years woman to 1.25 hours, thus increasing the effects of surroundings upon work feet nor soal but who realised the ideal of ""marrage, that is, courpemonship have earned Wagca in factories, at the output 2 times The Ministry of It would be tedious to enumerate the with your men and, equal in the beginning of the war it was an excep. Muniticus, utter experience, included actual proceses carried out by women caties, the labours, the joys and the tional thing for women to be employ-in contracts for shells the following but as every one is more or less in

sorrows: of hie^~ You are, blazing the

ed as genersi machinists and fitters clause: It is a condition of this.terested in motor cara and serophages it trail of freedom and equality for weakór im engineering shops. But the decontract that not later than 81st may be mentioned that they were very sisters of other vation Impeace and mand for a greatly increased supply March, 1917, at least 80 per cent of good in machining the parts of the way those women of the Northstood of labour of all kinds for munitions the operatives employed in the execs engines. That class of work neerla grest,de by side with the man they loved, production, and at the same time the tion of this contract shall be women securacy and women rapidly got in inspiring the warriors to chivalry the necessity for conserving the roun- The expression operativen shall the habit of checking work to writein

nation the poets to the music of the power of the country to the fullestmelude all those employed in usload one ten thousandth part of an inchists to beauty, the inventors to im

The intricacies of fine mesuring Instru- extent, inade, i necessary for the ing and leading

mente were quickly understood. Government to turn to the largest The third type of women the ord women. The body-work source of supply of unskilled labour, aary factory type was found to be lorries, motor car, as well as upholster- namely women suitable for work of the nature of ing and trimming are not tho It is now zestly twenty-five years repetition. Their object was to make suitable for women, nor have the ago that my own acquaintance with as much money as they could, and employed on these for the engineering workaho

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