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PITIFUL PLIGHT OF DOMESTIC SERVANT

By LEONORA GREGORY

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The Very Idea!

OUR ILL-FATED EXPEDITION

By Horatio Bogg, Explorer

WI

WITH this rush by oun

For the first time since the U.S.B.R, became a Member of the League of Nations, she has ro gistered a number of treaties with the League. It will be recalled "IF the domestic servants of career for good. The result was England could raise an she stayed four months, and con- motorist desiring States are required OPTREX Tooth med ostractive used that rrembers of the Covenant articuinte voico auch a story would tracted plgurlay.

car at low cost we offer for to register any treaties they make bo told as 'would shake this land immediate possession the follow with other States, it being de- from end to end." When that re-

rivals for undiscovered clared "No such treaty or intermark was made to me recently I' Too many people running service! 'ing:"

flats and hotels seem to think it lands, it is becoming harder engagement shall be bind- ing until 80 registered". All opened my eyes and stared. 1932 AUSTIN ROADSTER with treaties registered in this way have visited employment agencies. I is all right to put four girls to and harder for us to keep up Dicky Seat, 13.9 h.p.-6 Cylin- to be published by the Lengue as discussed the problem with women sleep together in a dark basement our reputation as an ever-

room. The commonest complaint der Engine. In excellent

as possible. The treaties who had been in touch with domes- Condition

$1,150.00. which Russia has just registered are tie service for years. The truth regarding living conditions is green explorer.

nine-In number, and extend over

A Norwegian the other 1932 VAUXHALL

that I discovered drives one to about food. Most agencies have COUPE with Dicky

Seat, though all the States with whom the conclusion that there are still on their books one or two homes 27 h.p.-6 Cylinder Engine. the treaties were concluded were, many mistresses who are not it where girls noticeably pot on cou-day beat us to the South Almost New ....

$,1650.00. with two exceptions, members of to have charge over human beings. dition. us, soon as they go there. Pole and by the process of The fact that there are also thou-This alone is a significant com- planting a flag has laid claim to 1931 HUPMOBILE Sedan, full the League at the time they were concluded, it is significant that none 5 Seater Body in Perfect Con- of the treaties had been previously sands of humane and even gener-ment on the feeding they receive un incalculable extent of terri-

clsewhere. dition throughout. $850.00. registered by the other party cen-ous mistresses has been blinding

Mistresses who do no work at

That this territory will prob- 1931 ESSEX ROADSTER with cerned. The States with whom the us to the existence of these others.Į

be settled upon, Dicky Seat. A very Attractive trenties have been concluded are. A mald has no means of knowing all expect maids doing physical Car in Sound Condition.

respectively, Turkey: Afghanistan, to what kind of home she is being work from as early as six in the ably never Germany, Finland, France and sent. A preliminary interview morning to do without anything makes not a farthing of differ- $600.00. Poland. The earllest of the trea-tells the average giri exactly noth- further after their midday mealence, beside the point that there

ties is that with Turkey which was ing. The occasional suggestion There are well-to-do homes in the Inspection and trial invited.

aigned in 1926. In view of the that mistresses as well as malds West End of London where girls had still remained something for present negotiations regarding the should produce references of good who work 14 hours a day are given an explorer to discover, proposed regional pacts, special character has been met by hoots of a light midday, meal, somatimes We had thought we had reached HONGKONG HOTEL

interest attaches to the treaties derision. I do not think the pro- as little as a herring without rege-the limit when we paid our inst with Germany, France and Poland.posal will sound quite eo fantastic tables, and then nothing till the GARAGE

Two treaties with Germany have when you read some of the things been registered. One of these is that still happen to maids. SHOWROOM

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FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1935.

THE POWERS AND THE FAR EAST Britain's keen interest in the Far East and her anxiety to con-

WOMEN IN WAR

Take first of all the matter of wages. Recently there was a crac

tory.

following morning except cheego visit to the South Pole. An ex- and cocon. A girl left a job re-pedition fraught with the direst cently because she was given one perils it was, and that we have kipper to see her over the week-lived to tell the story was due. end.

purely to our valuable training os

Oli, the utter loneliness of those

Oh, the utter desolation of thore, Anturette nights, when everything

•

How much longer we might have

lates to Procedure for Conciliation. Roth were signed in Moscow in 1929. The French treatles are the in the paper of a little girl work ture of all. What are the statis

We now come to the worst fea- a Boy Scout. Pact of Non-Aggression, and the

ing for years without wages. ! Convention relating to Le Pro-

This has aroused a certain amount tics of the births of illegitimate eedure for Conciliation, both

of public indignation, but actually children to domestic servanta as which were signed in Paris in that kind of thing goes on all the compared with the rest of the com- Antarctic days, when everything 19:32. The Polish trenty WIS time. A woman who went to munity? It Is commonly agreed aigned less than # Year Aassist with sewing at a certain that the percentage amongst maids was cold to the touch! Even the .. Moscow. It takes the form of a house found a little maid doing is far higher. The figures simply lee was cold to the touch. We Protocol renewing until December.all the work in a houachold that cannot be swept aside as a reflec-rubbed noses with a Pantagoniaus 1945, the Pact of Non-Aggression contained three aduils and three tion on the girls themselves. A wench to keep ourself warm in

girl who has advances made to between Poland and the U.S.S.R. of children. She was receiving food her by a man of the household that part, but our beard, which we

(in the withcas's words) "sufficient!

had grown for additional chest July, 1932.

in a particularly awkward pre- only for a mouse" and an inclu- dicament. She fears to complain protection, ĥud frosted into leicies. sive wage of eight shillings, to her mistress in case she finds and after a time she objected. week. After wagen come living herself dismissed without a re- conditions. Like wages, these ference. She knows what will Women are supposed, at least by have in many homes Improved en happen if she stays. She is caught tribute to a peaceful adjustment the admirers of the Soviet system, ormously; but there is also as between two fires. Men applying was ao dendly quiet and still as i have attained a larger measure other side. Not long ago a little for housekeepers often make no of an unsettled situation were of equality in Russin than in any girl came into a certain agency secret of the nature of their re to drive one to melancholia! We clearly attested in the course of, other country. Rot liberty brings obviously in pain and not able to

with us.

They suggested the full-dress debate in the responsibility, and apparently the speak above a whisper. She was quirements. I was shown a letter consulted a coupla Boy Scouts why

feminine section of the Russian sent back to her room to bed seri. recently in which the house- werd House of Lords on Oriental

populace is expected to play a part ously with pleurisy. This is keeper's duties were sot out with camp fire songs, but there did not engaging frankness. At the end strike as as being potent enough affairs. There was, however, ain the country's defensive system the girl's story:"

her prospective employer added for one in our desperate condition. sharp division of opinion as to proportionate to its recently won

She obtained employment in a that he hoped she would also join freedom. Nor have the Russian how this end could best be

It was then we thought of our respond. home only to find that her mis- him in his favourite hobby, which women been slow to served, although the goodwill of Some two or three million of them tress drank heavily, She remalu- was playing and singing hymns! radio set and of Z.B.W. We tuned

ed six months and then could not These are not fantastic stories.

in and that started pandemonium. all the speakers was apparent. the work of defence against air stand it any longer. As a result! They happen every day. One wo- The bears barked, or whatever it

have associated themselves with The idea of Britain intervening raids. Hundreds have become ex-

of her insistence on leaving they man confessed to me that she was as mediator between China and pert pilots and parachute jumpers, refused to give her a good refer- haunted by the thought of the is they do to show their morti- Japan did not find a great dea! Nearly half a million have acquired ence, (a common enough form of decently reared girls whom she fication. Tho seals dived back into some skill in the handling of the vindictiveness, which can ruin a had sent unwittingly into homes the dark recesses of the deep, and of support; it would have been rifle, 200,000 of

maid's future). Consequently she where they came in contact with the penguins went crazy. being These surprising if it had. Unsatis described as sharpshooters. But was handicapped in finding un- foul language, violence, perver- the Soviet chiefs are not satisfied. other place. Finally she was, slon, drunkenness and open im- factory although the present Though they have such large re- forced to take work with a woman morality. situation is, there would appear serves of man-power at their com- whom she afterwards discovered to be no call for specific Inter-mill larger share in the protection business man. This woman was which ilustrates all too plainly frezen wastes It would be hard to mand, they want women-to-Lake a was living_as_the_mistress_of_n Let me finish with one story continued to hibernate on those vention by any one Power. If

of the country. The object of in the habit of entertaining other the need for some right of inquiryany, had something not happened the circumstances call for out their policy seems to be to make men friends on her free evenings, into the kind of home a girl is to cut it short. Through Z.B.W. A well-dressed, we were informed that, attendant the land and air forces of Soviet When the business man discovered going to enter. Russia to a larger extent a two-sex this he arrived in a drunken rage well-spoken woman walked into a tory method of procedure is a

en rumours that we had made an affair than has been attet:pted in and wrecked the flat. The maid West End agency and said that important discovery, an O.B.E. had joint conference between all the any other country in modern times, fled in panic. She was now faced she was looking for a general with real difficulty in getting a maid. The girl she finally en- interested Powers. It is perfect-

decent position. In fact she did gaged was sensitive, intelligent, ly true, as Lord Peel declared,

That was bad news indeed: The not get one. She had to go and fresh from good home. She that a new situation has arisen

work in a place where her base was told to present herself at four next day, without having yet done in the Far Easta situation

ment sleeping quarters were so the following afternoon. She did anytifing to justify those rumours, The capacity of Russian women damp that she described the walls so. At midnight she was found we struck camp and beat it bárk which has been created by for "roughing it" la well known,

38 running with water." She in the street by a policeman. She to Hongkong. Japan's unilateral action in and doubtless many of them are knew her health was being affected was half-dressed and crying Manchuria and by her known capable of ixcoming really efficient but she dared not leave this place hysterically. She had been frigh The next thing we heard of was

Amazons. The decision of the ambitions in this part of the Soviet leaders to "rope them in" is ference. Another precipitate de-advancen made by drunken guests made his discovery.

until she had earned good re-tened half out of her wits by that this Norwegian explorer had world. Those speakers who therefore a movement at the were disposed to acquit Japan of other nations of Europe will regard parture might have finished her at the home of her mistress.

seriously. If Russia mobilises her aggressive designa on China woman-power, her neighbours will must be singularly misinformed have to do the same. It may be regarding the realities of the that in course of time the wave of militarism that is now spreading situation; repeated declarations across the world will spare neither by Japanese statesmen leave no young or old of either sex. Al- shadow of doubt on this boint, recognition of this in Italy, where ready there seems to be a distinct Incidentally, it is not without even the youngest school-children training.. Alto- interest to note that the main receive warlike argument of those who see noth- with many neute observers besides gether it IR not a cheering outlook, Ing improper in Japan's policies Mr. H. G. Wells convinced that at was that she could not afford, no very distant date another great conflict of arms will sweep the for financial reasons, to embark world, and find all nations equipped on expansion at China's expense, to "annihilate civilisation." The point appears to be over- | -----

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looked that it is mainly with a based on good grounds or not, view to improving her economic the general Far Eastern situa- position that Japan continues to tion, including this point, calls envisage eventual control of for united, consideration by all Asia. There was an inclination the Powers concerned. on the part of certain of the circumstance clearly establishes speakers to admit Japan's need tween the signatories of the the necessity of consultation be- of expansion. That is a point Nine-Power Treaty, which makes which is very vital to an under-specific provision for such con- standing of Japanese ambitions, sultation in the event of matters admittedly; and it is not one arising of general concern to the Powers. The situation requires, which is easily disposed of.

in the words of Lord Lothian, a Lord Marley interjected a cogent frank, open discussion of all the remark under this heading when issues involved. This is the only he suggested that none of the satisfactory way in which to face Powers appeared disposed to up to the realities. China, we make any sacrifice to satisfy the imagine, would welcome such- a Japanese need. But, when all move it is difficult to

that Japan can have any con-

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is said and done, whether vincing reason for opposing the Japan's case for expansion is holding of such a conference.

"Let's pretend we're the only living souls in the whole wide

world.'

been recommended for us.

Stritebatt makes a Start "Mr. Stritebatt, in a maiden speech, gave a general endorsement to the Government's policy,"

That's what the papera said. But those of us who are following Stritebatt's earcer will-treasure. his Ернізвіта verba.

Mr. Speaker, Sir. Rising, us I. do, for the first-perhaps the last -Ume-anyway, Sir, for the first | time--and as one who in the past though no longer in the future has taken firat knock for his country (cheers)and who knows, Sir, what it is to stand up to fast bowl ing-I have pleasure in moving this vote of thanks (laughter) —Ï bog pardon, Ladies and gentlemen- ("order, order and laughter)—Sif Speaker, I mean-in rising for the first time. (Hear, hear)."

"I will not long detain you, Sir, after these few remarks (e voice: "Ge.on") only to say that I think. my constituency thinke--that hang- ing together team work-must, now as ever, be our watchword, if this great Empire-this glorious. family of nations-is to carry on, in the future, Sir, as in the past. Give us a show, Mr. Speaker. Don't barrack n batsman on a wicky sticket. A voice: "You stick and laughter.) Give us enough rope, Sir and we shall hang fo- gather all right.”

I'm told that Goo-goo Mauleverer, so soon to be Mra. Stritebatt, was listening in the gallery. Tears of happy pride shone in her oyas.