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SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1920.

NOTICES

PROTESTANT GIRL WHO BECAME NUN.

UNEQUAL

PAY FOR EQUAL | WORK.

MR.. LLOYD GEORGE AND

AMERICA.

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WOMEN WANT AS MUCHI AS MEN.

PROPERTY LEFT

TO ENGLISH CONVENT.

RESULT OF NON-INTER- VENTION.

The will of a young lady who | The new salaries for teachers Paris, July 9-Through the laft the whole of her property to in the Burnham Committee's courtesy of the Paris correspon the convent in which she had recommendations and the new dont of the Saw and New York taken the veil was contested in London County Council scales Herak!, I am abla (says the the Probate Division recently, based thereon have raised a storm Times representative) to send the Miss Violet Chevalliar Cobof protest in two camps, says aftext of a brief but significant in- bold, belonging to a well-known lady writer. On the one hand, terview Mr. Lloyd George bad Ipswich family, was in 1911, the women teachers are solid for with the special correspondent when she was 18, sent to finish equal pay which has not been of the journal at Spa. The her education at St Anthony's granted in this scheme, and on message will be read by thou- of American readers the other the London School-Isands Content School, at Gbent.

She returned home in 1913, but masters' Association is up in to-morrow, who will doubtless went back to Ghant, saying that arms because the difference in appreciate to the full the Prime she had quarrelled with her step-salary of a man and a woman in Minister's courteous reference to mother and could not live at home the same kind of post has been to our Ally and relative. any more. At that time she was reduced.

The correspondent says: -1 a Protestant, bus in 1914 she be

The opposition to equal pay for met Mr. Lloyd George in the came a Roman Catholic while at the same job is based on the garden of the hotel this morning, the convent.

assumption that all men have a land upon telling him that I When war broke out she with Family household to keep up. thought the American people other refugees, came to England, while all women workers are would think the Allies were and she then entered the Sher- either homeless outcasts without giving way considerably before barna branch of the St. Anthony's responsibilities or are kept by the Germans, the Prime Minister Convent. The Mother Superior their parents. This argument, became very much alarmed. took a great interest in the girl, always unfounded, is reduced to Turning quickly, he said ——— and though she was anxious absurdity in the Burnham report 400 the by the very pancity of the differ Mother Superior thought it wise ence. The diñerence between the that her intentions should be salary of a man and a woman tested. Accordingly, in Decem-teacher is to be £12 109. a year ber 1914, she was sent away as a throughout the age of marriage governess, and afterwards took and the resting of a family. A up secretarial work at the War handsome maintenance for a Office.

wife and children, indeed! The fart is, of course, that this slight- Fourteen months later she ly bigher scale is merely offered returned to the convent and as a sop to the vanity of the became ร novitiate, and in marcoline section" of the pro- January

she took the fession. religions habit as a nun. Up to that time she had an annuity of £18 a year, and had entered the school without fees, and therefore felt indebted to the institu- tion.

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"Perhaps they will talk in that way in America, hut I want you to tell your people this from me. If the Americans were with us, things might be entirely different. But they have left us. They are out of i. They are not giving us any help at all now to solve the problem. If they were they would have some right to talk."

With the criticism of America's the Prime non-participation Minister abruptly terminated the interview. Comment is surely superfluous.

PREMER EXPLAINS.

... WOMEN'S NEEDS How excessively sensitive that vanity is can be seen from the inne of a circular issued by the London Schoolmasters' Associa Spa. July 10-Mr. Lloydlieorge tion, in which the complaint that is particularly anxious to have it Late in 1917 her father died, the new scale does not meet the known that in speaking to the and she became entitled to £3,100 increased cost of living for a man correspondent of the New York She bough: two houses which is supported by nothing but com-Herald on Friday morning he was were trade use of by the convent.parisons with the women referring solely to the question of She had made a will on a printed teachers scales.

disarmament, and that no thought form, leaving everything to the Equal pay is characterised in of reparations entered his mind, convent, and when she contracted this circular as a "disaster toner were reparations referred to tuberculosis in 1918 de was the nation."" As the State throws during the conversation. The. anxious for it to be pat into the burden of providing for Prime Minister was apparently proper form.

mothers and children upon men,

taken uuawares by the enterpris 10. She was perfectly sane and gays, paragraph

equal

fing American journalist, to whom rational at the time, said couusel. nominal pay means unequal real e expressed frankly his surprise and executed a will in proper pay. and hepce masters of that any American shouldcriticize form leaving everything to the ferior type as compared with the Allied arrangements for the convent. Her sister, who went mistressca." A young oomardisarmament of Germany, seeing to see her was told what she ha risd schoolmast, I of my acquaint-that the United States was taking done, and was not in the least ance is very fond of drawing up no part in the active execution of surprised. There was no sort of such circulars as this one, but the Peace Treaty. pressure to get the testatrix strange to say, he shows himself leave her money to the convent. perfectly ready to take the same nominal pay as the married man,

a lowert

DREW UP THE WILL.

Mr. John A. Mare, a solicit. r. and does not advocate The AT

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Mr. W. O. Willis informet the Court that the family, after the evidence that had been given, were satisfied that the will was properly executed and did not สาish to press the Case any further.

salary for bachelors.

Even if a woman, teacher is fortunate enough to get promo- tion to a headship in her seven- teenth year of service, she will then receive £50 a year less than

assistant master below her in the same school and a year her junior in the profession,

HOW THE MONET GOES,

DESTRUCTION OF 190,000 ARMY UNIFORMS. The Dewsburg "corresponden: of the Daily News writes:

I have been learning to-day the interesting story of what hap- pens when the War Minister de WOMEN CIVIL SERVANTS. In the Civil Serisce the women rides to put the British Army are king the same claim as into new clothes. A story that Mr. Justice Hill accordingly as the teachers. Their case is most disgust the taxpayer is told pronounced for the will..

WAS ADAM A “*BANTAM ?

STATURE OF OUR FIRST PARENTS.

equally clear. They enter by as one of the men appointed by similar competitive examination the War Office to receive the old and perform similar work for the uniforms, sort them, and pass same number of hours per week them on a rags, to be torn up and as their men colleagues, yet remade into shoddy.

He states that not less thanj throughout their whole term of service they are paid at a lower 100,000 of these old uniforms were race. The maximum is lower seat in to the Dewsbury depot and they are roet with bars to from the Army Stores. It was a There were their promotion to the higher gay army once. Was Adam a pigny or a giant grade post of the Service

green uniforms with smart fac- The conjecture arises from a

In either of these professions.ings: blue uniformas set off with statement that the Stawiangioft recruitment for which is by open white red uniforms, relieved by furniture collection now on sale examination, can it be averred yellow; blue uniforras. in London auction room contains that the women attain a lower sorgeous by splashes of yellow- "a pair of life-size figures in lead.standard of efficiency.

But in and so on. of Adam and Eve."

industry as a whole this excuse

sad women

made

They presented a gaudy show A Daily Nors representative for exploiting the women is freelyben piled up in colour masses who consulted the authorities used. It is useless to argue as for inspection. A proportion of found that the Biblical fare was to the relative eficiency of men them had suffered from exposure Ito the sun, and had lost their bril- strangely silent regarding the

in industry.

liance. Others had been seized statora of the first parents of the obviously depends upon

the It is upon by moths and dropped to race. But an Arabic commentator indi duals and the trade.

The places, but for the most part they proved more helpful.

wholly beside the point According to him, Adam.stand- fact that the average wages of were in good condition, with the ing up-right, reached from earth

a woman in any industry is buttons done up in tissue paper This to the throne of Heaven.

o-thirds that of a man on the exactly as delivered from the beigbi. bowever. gradually

same process results in her poder-lactory.

"Very good cloth, too," said wy diminished, partly as a punish cutting him and tending to oust ment for his sin and partly hiss from his job. Any relative informant, "fine faced with beaver through grieving at the death of rise in her wage is to his advant finish and worth in those days 8. As for Eve, one may gain an age in that it removes to some 51. per yard. There were linings to hit of white serge that cannot-now extent the incentive impression of her dimensions employer to put a woman in his be bought for less that las. per the holy place of Jidds, said to place. If the men workers were Fard, and decorative Eraids. that wise they would advocate equst only the wealthy can buy to-day." All this material was sent bere represent the measurements of

by truck loads to be torn to tatters her body, is 200 paces long and Pay for equal work in their own

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"The Daily News represent IMPORTS FROM WHERE? atire hastened to the bale Examining three pairs of be sold, rooms expecting to see some scissors found on a man in the minst be tom up. Some brass thing like & corner in lead.docks, and alleged to have been buttons, gilt ornamente, and The satu had been sold unlawfully obtained. Mr. Booth thousands of yards of gold braid when he arrived, but one of the the magistrale a Thames Police were saved, but the rest went staff informed him that it stood Court, observed that they bore nu into the tearing machines, et Citarały) hare 4 feet 6KBERT'S DAIM or mass of ongin, cept a small number of suits and asked the police officer if which were sent to the dyers to inches.

If the auctioneers can produce they were made in Germany, be turned brown for west by adequate date to, support their The officer replied that it was German prisoners-- Thésé oEMC statement that the figures are very likely. The Magistrato: 1 back from the drehouse, so fe size then Dean Inge may suppose that how they are strunk that they were of no use have to revise his view that the one to fo

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