Show I I the w world do women in ia country 1 N Nuo nO th than ihan n power p posse o greater grater political constitution constitution L pin 10 in I Iceland Under the new of oc that the people to y- y anted anted 1 their over gB land in iu 1003 1903 by Tote of Ik mad Den women may 1 lord tic the Bing or of tic the the for mein eUl l rs n and andt as men terms the tb tamo o on Iceland rs o 0 t that sod body Y t bo elected l t. t ago O t they la ey may ay Several havo C Cred sines e a red nd as local 1 1 during the p pst t five fire y errs t teats teats' in the AUbin the rho de debates dad and have hae conE cons i or of that ass za legislation such ae a u ad and Ind live in in EuroP ope Pro no P people cople the fhe 11 1 0 the as 3 condition d e ded being use the seen came into restitution cu COIl 0 I T TEU jf OF 01 TIce CLAW responsible for Ol the country's government had bad made a ghastly mess of things In place of enjoying en en- enjoying complete home homo rule role as tS heretofore the made directly responsible to the th was King of Denmark through a resident Minister nister for Iceland And nd the Danish Parliament thought fit at the same game time to give the colony a 3 chance to produce if ii it could not net produce statesmen The women have shown a a. keen interest in politics but they do not appe appear r to seek always to elect their own sex tes They Bract pl pledges d u from m male mJe e candidates to support their favorite favorito schemes of social reform reform especially especially those thos dealing deal deal- d dealing lin l- l in ing with the drink traffic Drunkenness V u v one of the greatest curses of Iceland l Most of the people live on lonely Until recent ut years the farmer went to Rc ik the capital onto once a I. I year in early carly summer to bell sell wool Ho Hu had a drunken bout there thero lasting lasting last last- in ing tome some days or weeks end and then came home hom to keep sober until he lie came again next nen year But now th people go o to the towns and villages vil viI lags lages much often oftener r and they brin bring liquor back to the farms farm The consumption of spirits per bead head of the population is enormous The women politicians have tare secured the pats pals ing fag of several sc very dr drastic ic laws law for the restriction restriction restriction tion of the liquor traffic but it is doubtful whether these measures measure have really decreased the sum sura total of the national drunkenness The be moral woral suction suasion applied by the Salvation Army Army- 1 which is very strong and popular in Iceland- Iceland has certainly done more in that direction Some women reformers iu in beaded d dby by a 3 well known lady ladr doctor have tried hard bard to euro cur the habits habits which are are the peculiar and aDd unenviable characteristic of the Icelanders Many sanitary laws and regulations but cut it is still a a. common have been passed thing hing at the Hot which Springs Springs which form a tort sort of public open air wash h house houS for fortha the tha people ople o oi of calmly t tilling h bar T Pl to ek j to avik-to to see ee a I. I woman coffee pot from a n. small mall pool in which the tie dirty clothes of several families a are are- c. c steeping ne Re Ile Reformers formers in Iceland like reformers have Nava di discovered th that t it it itis is o one c thing thing i to pass pass passa a a- a late la and quite another thing to enforce cn it itin in the teeth of de rooted deep rooted p-rooted ignorance and ond ancient prejudice ic The women members of oi the thc l hin have shown themselves mu much h abler in ic debate and much more businesslike than th the men In theold the tile theold old days the speeches hero cro interminably Dably long and filled with ith turgid bombast without the glimmer of a r real l idea Whatever the subject under und discussion ioD no member r could get upon his bis feet without dilating on the ancient nt glories gories of Iceland how Iceland how she taught Columbus to discover discover dis dis- cover coer America how hw her li literature was liner th than thIl an an anything thin Greece or Rome ever CV l' l knew her Vikings the greatest heroes es the tLe W world ever saw lW and aud BO so on But the Yow women n are aN brief and oud to the point When they are t tall about i t the f t f I h I city sewers sewera sewerage they don dont don't t fi find d it necessary sary to togo to go So back to Columbus They have certainly i iM a common sense tone tODe into the de Q- debates bates cates which winch was wast sadly lacking lading before But the women om reformers have Lave much to do before they can cau bring the Icelanders up to to the general le level lel l of the Europeans whom they i ignorantly d despise phe Iceland does docs not belong to Europe in their opinion On the farms the tho ho house and lIld field whose whole name is ie legion sleep asleep iu in a 3 squalid dorn dormitory tory reeking with nth dirt There Them is is hardly a farmhouse in which the windows will ill open of fresh air must If you want a 1 br breath th you pull a wooden plug pIlI about the size size of or a beer beel bottle cork out of the centre cl of one of the tho 1 t |