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THE 1916 WOMAN,

HER PLACE IN THE STATE.

HYROM A CORRESPONDENT TO THE TIMES."]

Du Maurier liked to depict the new worn as a being with short skirts, man's coat and hat, and a love for tobacco.

A RUSIAN BOY POET.

WHO MIRRORS THE FEELINGS OF

THE PEASANTRY.

Mr. Harold Williams writes in the lady Chronicle

SELFISH MEN AND VÄIN WOMEN.

GOLDEN WORDS OF THE POLICE

PRESIDENT OF MUNICH."

Much attention is being directed in the The village schoolmistress had strug- gied back to work after a long illness. German Press to the Golden Words of She was melancholy, restless, discontent the Police President of Munich." It will ed, full of vague plans unrealised-per- The new woman of 1815-10 is not Dulaps never to be realised, because of the be remembered it was, in the Bavar Maurier's; she is still womanly She bas weakness of her heart. The fifty child-ian capital that the police arrested a lady. ren, murmurous, fidgety, with tousled hair for appearing on the street in a costume kept lier softer qualities for all that she

that the suunner's sun had bleached, gra has stepped into pan's place.

dually regaining colour during the which they regarded as extravagant, and as not in harmony with the seriousness The gendual absorption of feminine winter months, were as unruly as ever. fabour has been accepted by the world. still unwilling to be guided in the trodden of the times. It was said that the lady. ways that led to the inspector's favour. Where once we spoke of incursion we

There were three classes of them, and it was liberated after she had consented to now speak of "snbstitution, for such

was hard to manage them all at once in wipe the powder off her face and to don it is now. The new woman has kept her the big, sunlit room. The senior class more sober apparel. womanliness whilst acquiring a hard would fawn over its exercise-books and head and a sound business judgment. whisper and giggle while the teacher All this was evident some months ago.

tried hard to fix the wandering atten but new phase is making itself felt.tion of the younger boys and girls on an Hitherto wonun filled positions of no object-lesson. But when the hour was particular weight, and without much pre over one of the senior boys declared that paration or training Now they are call the exercise-books were full. This meant ed upon to face more serious things. It that new exercise-books had to be found was easy enough for a domestic servant for next day. But the stock in the cup to become a lift giel or ticket collector board was exhausted. There was paper but not every woman will be able to fill enough; but how make books of it1 If some of the places which must be emptied any of you have old exercise-books at you can pull by the coming of compulsion. The call home." said the teacher,

out the wire-fasteners, and we can make ing up of conscripts means that women

new books of our own," bave another burden to bear. They will have lots of tercise-books," said have no probationary and instructional

one quiet boy, period before they are wanted but will

Why have you so many?" asked the bave to take the places at very short

teacher, notice. There is not a doubt that our

He's always, writing, He writes 1916 women can and will do it. In a

poetry, teacher cried half a dozen northern town a womzt a running her teasing, jeering voices. The boy blushed husband's dairy business. While he is

to the roots of his hair, but could not crawling laboriously towards a German deny the charge. sophead, festooned with "grenades, band, Marke VIL.." she is conducting s business in which are employed 200 men and girls, and over 100 milk carts mostly Fdriven by women.

The woman army-cook has come to stay, and there is no reason why women should not replace many men employed in clerical work at Army depots, training camps, military rest camps, and convales emit homies. It has always seemed farci cal that fit men should be employed as urderly room clerks in permanent depots. Women do the work at the War Office, and they could as easily do it in smaller military institutions.

Even now one hears complaints which suggest that woman should keep to her separate sphere. She has no separate sphere in wartimie "The more she branches out in new directions, the botter.

NOT TOO OLD AT FORTY.

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That was how the little poet was dis- covered.

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But the police president, Baum von Grundherr, is anxious to breathe a new spirit into the somewhat frivolous citi- zens, and convened recently a public meet- ingat which he recounted their short- comings and their sins against the Father- land. A vast crowd assembled to hear the Baron. He began by reminding his audi- once that that side would win the war

owned the clearest conscience and culti- which showed the greatest tenucity, which vated the highest ideals. They were askedł to remember that the home life of the people reacts with tremendous puwer on the troops at the front, and that if this life is not worthy and dignified in every sense of the term the effect on the army will be ruinous. Is life in Munich," he asked, the life-that will help us to win?"

Ho quoted a soldier on leave, who said to him: I cannot stop any longer in Munich. I cannot stand this dissipation in view of all that we are" suffering at the front.",

A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD VISIONARY.

RICH DIBSOLUTES. Next day the teacher brought his ex-

"Soldiers at the front die willingly for. ercise-books up to this house. ...I had

German simplicity, and temperance for heard of the poet, and thought the boy Germ modesty and idealism, but they had been scribbling clumsy, childish verse, perhaps in imitation of the village do not die willingly for usurers and topical songs. There were poems on the pleasure-seekers, for selfish, superficial war, I had heard, but these, I assumed, men, and vain, coquettish women." Tho must be mere imitative doggerel. But Folio Baron went on to speak of the when I looked through the exercise-books musical cafés where, during the after- I was amazed. Here was a little village noon, dressed up women, girls, and young boy twelve years old, living in a hovel children sat in pairs with immoral men, At the under the care of a struggling, hard drinking and eating the best. working aunt, but living a rich, full, other end of the city from 4,000 tó 5,000 interesting life, and expressing all his soldiers' wives daily nad nightly. Bome- It is true times all through the night, assembled and emotions in musical verse. that there are grammatical errors, that waited weary hours for a bit of meat or sense is occasionally sacrificed to rhyme:butter at prices which were intolerable. But these flaws only throw into relief Patient, never grumbling, waiting six the genuineness of the boy's inspiration. and eight hours, in all weathers insuf- Sergei Yegorow is the boy's name. He ficiently clothed, waiting until their turn began writing last summer. A copy of came. There is always a remnant of from" It seems that most employers fight shy the works of a pet named Nikitin foll400 to 500 who get nothing, but they turn

He read them

and of elderly women for clerical work. This into his hands. is not a fair attitude, for the woman of thought, "Why I could write like that." nurmuringly.

The Police President said there were 40 as a rule gives satisfaction. Her He immediately began writing, and in mature judgment is welcomed Many the exercise-books that he brought here rich faniilies for whom the war did not firms have women workers who have yesterday there are 350 separate lyrics. sem to exist; rich dissolutes, thinking of. reached that age and passed it in their All the variety of his emotional life nothing but their sport and pleasure. employ. They have admittedly proved seems to be poured out in these lyrins. Why cannot they be taken to the trenches? themselves invaluable. The difficulty has I wish there were some way of transfer He referred to the bars and wineshops bdon to place in positions elderly women ring them bodily into English, with their with waitresses, where the wildest urgies. who have been deprived of a livelihood sudden quaint turns of phrase, their were carried on. This extravagance, ho by the war. Without doubt they should vague hints of a boy's dreaming, their says, cries to heaven. He referred to the have a fair trial. Their cases are often swift grasp of fleeting impressions. food usurers as a shameless crowd of vam-

Translation here can be only a-para-pires. the most urgent and they should not us

here can be only a phrase.

Outside Munich it is the same. Up in condemned because they have passed what

First, the boy has a deep love of nature

the Bavarian highlands he saw fashion- There are used to be regarded as the "office age."

and a very observant eye! There are those who see in this great lyrics on all the seasons of the year, onable women whose dresses were an abomi social change something that will per snow and on spring time, on birds and nation. It is so bad that on the door of manently alter woman's position with re trees and fishes, on the night and the a certain church he saw the notice, En- gard to labour, and consequently alar stars and the happy light of the sun, trance to the church is only permitted to maa's position at the same time.. It has ok spring floods and on the song of the those who are not disreputably clad that is to say, whose dresses are neither too been said that women will be in these blackbird.

Most interesting are the more purely wide nor too short." And the "Demon same posts long after peace has been ar ranged. There, is good reason to think personal lyrics. Here, for instance, is Alcohol" still does his fell work. There that many positions they hold will never curious little poem with a wholly un- are crowds of Bavarians who still drink again be occupied by men, and that may expected turn of thought: "0-hand, Otheir eight or ten quarts of beer a day, b. m. It is

It is men row at the front will never settle hand, why must I carry thee? But thou and grudge a modest pint to the worker Tues.

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down to office routine again. While e Thou art dearer to me than those flowers art for me an object of dear beauty, 39

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you enough. Understand your life!

At the close of his oration Baron Grund- Taura, 29 m 7 57

7 1m 1 28 33 soldier on leave show the change Understand my verse, my beauty. There herr returned to the question of women's is no beauty, there is no beauty, and yet dress. Those women," he said, "whom 110 42

o attitude towards the office or shop The 32 men nave had to exercise initiative an

I am a little poet." The same feeling of July

2492 of the night thoughts on the old job in in some lines that describe the rings 1 m 9.4

11613 8 46104 Blighty" have usually culminated in a of the church bells, the gathering 2m 9'36 72 m 3 18 3 3 resolve for something with more inde congregation, and abruptly end in the

pendence and "go" in it. The evolution almost untranslatable expresion 1.53 3 3 he working woman still not stop with the war. Her period of " making good" is to be for all time, and parents will have to educate their daughters accord ingly.

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finery in our streets are not worthy tế he called German women. The name is too good, too honourable, for them. They are female Apaches who are permitted to Ya idu, idu seliano, vo svovom poltie parade in German cities to the burning. (I walk decently dressed in my overcoat). Indignation of all decent folk. Observe- The feeling of the poor peasant boy in their flowing, extravagant puffed-out geing properly dressed to church mingles dresses, their high, stilt-like heels, the completely with his poetical worshipping suggestive cut of their jackets, the dis mood. But there are stranger, mystical play of neck and chest, the shameless verses that recall some moods of William paint on their faces, the straw-yellow Blake. The boy sees visions, apparitions dyed hair under a hat which fools used to. that bring him joy and sadness and un-wear at carnival. This is the German

rest.

FORME ON THE WAR

Out of the substitution of women for rien las come a new respect for labour,

fashion in the second year of wer "an The 1910 woman entered on her work in

It has come to the police president's ideal circumstances the bedrock was patriotism and keenness, which made her About half the poems deal with the knowledge that a woman, used every effort oblivious of difficulties often looked upon by a new hand as insuperable. By shear war. Some are purely descriptive, such and employed every artifice to procure a will power she has made herself what as those on a soldier's wife, on an officer tail card for her cat, and another had she is and she will grow in value. The leading a cavalry attack on ruined actually the effrontery to ask in a shop for Poland, on a murch in a deserted village nine pounds of oatmeal to make pozridge i als coming about & social levelling torn by shell. The boys sees the war in for her dog. What do those starving sol- confraternity of sisterhood. The titled his own way. He writes of the incidents diers wives think of this? asked the woman has been thrown into contract in the war that touch him, and there is Munich president of police. with the girl at the lathe, just as Tommy nothing conventional in his verse, except, has come into close and often affectionate perhaps, little tirade against the touch with bis officers. They find them- Kaiser which is reminiscent of cheap war

GRIMAULT'S selves on a new footing. Battle is a won-literature. Often he writes of the all He knows all kinds of datices, and is all

SYRUP

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FOR

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BRONCHITIS

WEAK LUNGS

CATARRH

CONSUMPTION

dorful levelor; so is labour.

war.

war laughter, But in battle he is steady s embracing terror of the

a rock, and he is always cheerful, even As yet the army of women workers has moves, and all the world's amazed. just begun its march. There will be vast Blood flows in streams, and over massed when he on trial (before a judge). ohanges on throughout the kingdom. It is terrible here, they threaten death, ok at the Englishman The boy must heads speare and bayonets are lifted Not such are the Germans, they are as ferce as savages, German take a lesson, Above all, womne are going to take a they fire from machine-guns, they new place in the affairs of the nation.

threaten with aeroplanes, and strike fear have got his notion of Englishmen from Hitherto their work has mostly called with guns All the world is perplexed, hearsay but it is good that this is the for no great mental effort. Now they all the world is amazed, there is no place kind of hearsay that is current in Rus will have to bear weightier burdens and where war is not lowering. Wilhelm has sign villages. { assume them at short notice. Very soon risen, Wilhelm the idol, and is knocking there will have to be a great deal of read the gates of our Petrograd. The war down upon men and takes justment Many women who rushed at comes grimly d the beginning of the war into unskilled them to itself, and throws them into the positions are wasted where they are and fire. The whole world trembles, and the could do more valuable work. Good thunderstorm of war is everywhere flash brain should not be wasted on erranding and rearing. tiahne boy's work; a woman with executive or And if there are organizing ability should not sit all day believe the legend that the Russian peop addressing envelopes. This is a matter is cold to us let them read these vers

of a peasant boy on "A Bold of for carefu, inquiry,

English Army "You Breuerry brave man, and ever bold. fierce battle you use your fists. If you have no rifle you fight to death with your fists against the red. Prussian. The Britain's not ferocious, never rages like a beast (Continued on next Colume);

The movement that has seemed sa vast is as yet only beginning. It began sud denly with the war, slackened down, gained new impetus with the spurcach of conscription. Its future must be left on the knees of the gods.

who stil

I made a point of seeing this extrar ordinary boy He is tall for his age, slight, with reddish bair, a long face with delicate features and big browJE dreamy eyes. He was very shy, and sat twirling, his cap and looking at the floor. About his visions he would say nothing whatever.

He will has to be educated, suppose;

though there is a danger that secondary education toy deaden his talent, I have written of him here not because I have any certainty that he will develop into a great Russian poet, but because in the sensitive nature of this solitary boy the feelings of the Russian peasantry at this time of crisis are very Unconsciously be exactly mirrored speaks for his people.