The women's league that demands freedom has drawn up a scheme permitting British mothers to take a fuller share in public life without its affecting the course of their home life, and the scheme is expected to be put into effect shortly in London.
As a result, mothers will be able to take part in public life and attend discussions and meetings. Informal clubs known as "Mothers' Centers" will be formed, in which women will gather to confer on various matters; and every one of the main streets, and every small group of roads, will have one of these centers.
Women will be given the opportunity to attend meetings and take part in local government — especially now that the world has recognized the important role that mothers and housewives must play.
In addition, a body known as the Special Service will be formed to help the members and supply them with all the information needed to understand government schemes and proposals and the contents of the White Papers and official reports, and likewise to give them a clear and complete picture of the course of events.
Those responsible affirm that this Special Service has nothing whatever to do with politics; it is
It is said that a woman's age can be known from what she eats, with no need to ask her about it — for that question is unseemly in certain situations.
Among the things mentioned on this subject: if a woman is seen eating freely of ices, chocolate, and sweets, she is under twenty; if she takes much to spices and salty things rather than fruit, she is around thirty; if she eats the wing of the fowl or its breast, she is over thirty; and if she eats a great deal of fowl, she is over thirty-five.
And if she eats everything, and cannot be marked by any particular habit, then she is 'without age' — as the French say — that is, she is in the age of despair; and this last is perhaps the truest of all, for a woman — indeed any human being — once she has despaired of her youth, has no ambition left but food.
merely a body supplying the members with the necessary information. And this new scheme will answer the need felt by British women — their desire to use their experience and their ability in the field of public life without colliding with what every British woman considers a sacred right: the care of her home and her family.
Those struck by the missiles and radiations of the atomic bomb suffer pains, most likely incurable, in the blood and in the bones; and women in particular have been afflicted with sterility. So declare the Japanese doctors at the Imperial University in Tokyo. These doctors are carrying out chemical researches on the blood and bones of the victims of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Divorce cases have so multiplied in England that the number of them brought before the courts in the current judicial session has reached 4,019 cases. The British government has formed a committee to inquire into the causes of this new social malady, and it found that those causes come down to the following:
1 - The husband's long stay as a conscript on the fields of battle made him like a stranger to his wife.
2 - While the husband was engaged with the army, he made the acquaintance of a woman friend and grew intimate with her.
3 - Thanks to his conscription, the husband grew used to being away from family cares and financial responsibilities, and he does not wish to return to them. And the committee attributed no cause or fault to the wives.
1 - Trees. 2 - The jellyfish. 3 - The ant. 4 - An acre of forest. 5 - No. 6 - No; for it is the custom of the flock that one of the sheep remains awake while the rest sleep. 7 - The tortoise, which may live 200 or 300 years, and even longer. 8 - The cuckoo. 9 - Because the conditions of life upon dry land are more varied. 10 - No, for deposits of silt form there under the pressure of the great depth. 11 - Because they have a natural immunity. 12 - Four, one for each leg. 13 - The beating of the wings. 14 - Ten tons. 15 - Thinner of skin, for their fur serves them as a protection. 16 - Rats. 17 - So that they may reach their food without bending their knees. 18 - No. 19 - The animals that live in the trees. 20 - The salt present in the water.