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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 655, 5 September 1891, Page 3

A widow has been fined in Bristol for selling newspapers in her shop on Sunday. A young widow at Billyconnell, Ireland, is Charged with concealment nt death. She i» Mid to have buried the dead body of her father in the garden of her house so that she Sight continue to draw his pension. Mr H: 0. Field writes to the Wangann Chronicle deploring the dosing of the Churton College as one of the greatest misfortunes that ever befell the colony. He Concludes:—l bava had greet experience of Maori and half-caste girls, and as a result, I can say that with proper treatment their tendencies are very decidedly upward. In fact, some of the very nicest women I know are half-castes. While the unmarried women of the year 2000, whether young or old, will enjoy the dignity and independence of the brohe'or of to day («iys Mr Edward Bellamy in the Ladies’ Home Journal for February), the in jolent prosperity at present enjoyed by the latter will have passed into salutary, if sad eclipse. No longer profiting by the effect of the pressure of economic necessity upon women, to make him indispensable, but dependent exclusively upon his Intrinsic attractions, instead of being able to assume the fastidious airs of a sultan surrounded by languishing beauties, he will be fortunate if he can secure by his merits the smiles of one. In the year 2000 no man, whether lover or husband, may hope to win the favor of mild or wife eave by desert. While the poet, justly apprehending the ideal proprities. has always persisted in representing man at the feet of woman, woman has been, in faot, the dependent and pensioner of man. For all that, we can never usurp the maternal functions of a woman, and when all the !’ women " are turned into parsons, politicians, lawyers, merchants, clerks, 'bus drivers, and all kinds of workers, what is to become of us men f Are we going to stop at home and perform the usual duties of domesticity ’ Would it not be a great metamorphosis ? Fancy a man staying In the house on a race day, affording the necessary maternal nourishment to his 5 days' o'd baby. Read what D. Martin, Esq , 1?, Ferry road, Glebe N S,W., says lam deeply grateful for immediate and unexpected cure of neu ralgia by Clements Tonic. I suffered severely for two years or more and tried many remedies, but nona gave such marvellous relief as Clements Lonic. I shall recommend it to all my friends, for It is the only effectual temrdv for neuralgia,” and MrW, Dingawin JUnmore road, Sydney, NSW., writes: "I have been a great sufferer lor upwards of twenty five years from of fever and ague, contracted while serving in the United State. Army during the civil war, and have been under the care of several prominent physicians end used every kind of patent medicine. Two years ago I commenced taking Clements tonic and have derived more benefit from its use than from all other ysmcd'ps, aqd cun confidently reoommend it to all similarly afflicted,” Insist on having the genuine Clements Tonic, on sale at every patent medicine vendor in Australasia, Ceylon, India and the Hawaiian Islands, Laboratoriis, Sydney, N.S.W,;