THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2712, 17 January 1910, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

' THE LONG, LONG ROAD

0 rowans hanging red On the long, long road>; And rippling leaves o’erhead, On the long, long road. A hawk wings far above, An eagle’s on the move; But fancy flics to Love On the long, long road. The shopherd guides his sheep On the long, long road; The fairies peep and peep On the long, long road; The golden sunlight dies. A full-moon rules the skies; And dreams of you arise Ou tho long, long road. —David Lowe “Ballads of a Great City.”

LORD KITCHENER AN']) THE LADIES. Many stories have been told of Lord Kitchener’s frostiness of manner towards members of what the Japanese schoolboy termed “the crosser sex.” “M.A.P” tells a good one of the great soldier’s fast visit to Cairo. He was introduced to an English countess, whose vivacity and charms in general might have been expected to captivate even him. Such, however, did not prove to he the case. Iv. of K., it is said, sat tugging awkwardly at his moustache. “Do you like Cairo?” he ventured at last. Whereupon, the lady, in her endeavor to interest the great man, rattled on for the space of ten minutes about her doings. When she had conic to the end there was another dreary pause, and then K. of K., with a mighty effort, pulled himself together, and remarked solemnly, “I’m glad of that.” A CURIOUS APPOINTMENT. Mrs. Zable, the wife of the Danish Premier (says the Copenhagen correspondent of the “Daily Mail”), is still continuing the work of Parliamentary reporting on which she '.has been engaged for several years. I met her in the lobby of the Folkething, as she was on her way to the Chamber, to take down her husband’s speech on the Budget. She was dressed plainly in dark grey, and looked very business-like. 1 I asked her if she intended to give up the stenographic work—she is one of the official Parliamentary reporting staff.

“Nothing of the kind,” she answered, smiling. “I am quite satisfied with ■my work, and like it very much, especially as it enables me to follow my husband’s career better.

“At first -there was great opposition against me, as I was the first lady who worked as shorthand-writer, and had to move about on the floor among the members of the House. The Upper House was especially hostile to my appointment, which took place in 1594, at the same time as my husband was elected a member of Parliamnt for Ringsted, Iceland. “Since then I have taken down my husband's speeches among the others. It disturbs me now and then to hear other members abusing him in any presence- I am by no means a Suffragette. My salary is the same as for the male shorthand-writers, £llO for the session (half-year), and I may add that I consider myself very well paid. Next vear mv salary will be increased by £15.” The President's bell here called the Premier’s wife to her daily duties.

Women generally commit suicide by drowning, men by shooting. A fine shearing performance was registered at Patoka by Sam Hawkins (says the Napier “Telegraph”). He put through 301 ewes and lambs which came off dirty country, a day’s work which, considering the conditions, approaches Reihania’s record of 312 in point of merit.