Show EFFECT OF WOMEN VOTING British Writer Tells of Conditions In New Zealand New Zealand was the first BrltUh colony to adopt womens suffrage as fur back as 1893 says a writer In the London Chronicle Tho New Zealand woman was given unIversal adult suffrage Though she had not bought it she Immedlatetly used It Out of 140000 women 109000 had placed themselves on the register In a few months and 90000 voted In the general election of November 1893 They voted peacefully and In order during the day while the men were ut work and loft the booths to the men In the evening They have voted with similar regularity and orderll less ever since How do the women ise their powers Very calmly by ill accounts Roughly women make very much the same use of the franchise fran-chise as do men The result has not iioduced either a new heaven or anew a-new hell Men have not been de irived of their rights There has been no disorder or unseemly behav lorno strange revolution In dress or manners Enfranchisement has led neither to divided households nor divided di-vided skirts Families as a matter mat-ter of fact generally vote on the sime side Hut on the other hand there Is n geneinl agreement that family fam-ily life has become brighter that husbands hus-bands and wives have more subjects In common to talk about and that women are really setting themselves to stuly and watch public affairs The effects in fact have been rath cr social than political Women seem to bo treated with inure leal respect and not merely at election times Them has ailsen between the sexes that sense of equality which Is perhaps per-haps the only permanent and enduring social basis Speaking generally they have simply become citizens whose part In public affairs Is not sharply distinguished roan that of men New Zealand women have nlmply stopped into equality And 14 years of polit teal life have shown them equal to that equality Working side by side with man woman still keeps her plucenot like to like but like Indifference In-difference The word pictures of which colonists colon-Ists used to have so many given them of domestic discord of chlldien forgotten Rotten husbands uncaied for dinners uncooked dress und appearances neg lected huve aheady almost passed from memory It Is the commonest Bight to see husband wife und grownup grown-up children walking or driving cheerfully cheer-fully to time polls together The head of the fiiinllj has become a more 1m pnitunt factor In politics than of old |