Saturday mirror, 1 février 1913, samedi 1 février 1913

[" a 2e EIRE Age EEE \u2014\u2014 TT Na Sg, ~~.Ade LA Texte détériore - \u2014; M No.1.DBY= TT» VWAAY THE illustrated weekly journal is now an established is bought and paid for before the wheels of the presses feature of the periodical output of practically have begun to turn out the number.They hope that every important civilised city on the globe.On this those who entered into the competition are equally continent in particular it has developed a strength and satisfied with the result and that these friends, so easily an influence, together with a circulation, more aston- gained, will not desert them either soon or later.The ishing even than those of the daily press.People excellencies which you fail to note in this initial issue buy a daily newspaper because it is necessary; they will surely appear in later ones if you will but give us the cannot afford to be without the news of the day.But encourgement of your sustained support.they buy a weekly because they like it.On the whole, _\u2014 it seems to us, it is better to be liked than to be necessary.\"T'HE news that Mr.Brenton A.Macnab, late of the Montreal is now\u2014or rather was last week\u2014the only Montreal Daily Star, is suing Colonel the city of its size on the continent to be entirely lacking in, Honorable Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia, for defa- any periodical of the kind to which we allude.Efforts mation of character in connection with the Star's have been made at various times in the last few years to crusade against the Ross rifle of a few years ago, is place such a periodical on a successful basis, but they extremely interesting.The Stars campaign, it have failed\u2014the reason for failure being evident in will be recalled, was one of the most bitter ever waged every case in some detect of organization or misconcep- \u2018 by that newspaper.It would have done credit to a tion of aim in the paper itself.That Montreal is willing weightier cause.Unfortunately for the Star, the Ross and able to support a weekly illustrated journal of merit ' rifle, which it so bitterly attacked, turned out to be a we have not the slightest doubt.We shall endeavor, very superior weapon when tried out.It enabled the to the best of our ability, to supply the merit.Canadian marksmen who used it in competitions to A striking example of what may be achieved in the carry off the bulk of the honors.At the time of the field of weekly journalism is afforded by the pioneer! crusade there were numerous rumors afloat concerning paper built pry Mr.5 E.Sheppart of Toronto under | the attacks.Perhaps if Mr.Macnab\u2019s suit is brought e name of \u201cToronto Saturday Night.\u201d e general to trial the truth will come out.style of that paper has been followed and developed in a : score of large American and Canadian cities with re- A LAS, another much-worshipped ido.is discovered to markable success.We have no apology to make for the | have feet of clay.\u201cFra Elbertus,\u201d\u201d otherwise fact that our readers will find in this paper some of the | Elbert Hubbard, leader of the Philistine cult at East characteristics of some of these journals, with modi- Aurora, N.Y., who comes to Canada on occasions and fications due to the difference between Montreal and ' gets us to pay a dollar a head to listen to him advertise other places and also to the fact that we are starting : his business, has pleaded guilty in the United States fresh to the task in the year 1913, instead of inheriting district court at Buffalo to sending immoral literature a tradition and a policy founded years ago.We have through the mals, paid a fine of $100 and promised not à large sense of the freedom of youth, and we propose to do it again.e marvel is that the Fast Aurora to revel in it while we are young; and we herewith warn ; \u2018\u2018fra\u2019\u201d\u2019 got away with it for so long.our readers to expect a lot of things that have \u2018not or TTT been done\u201d in Montreal journalism hitherto.WE note by the Washington dispatches that the We should prefer to allow the policy of this paper to American savants are not only getting ready speak for itself; but for many reasons the first issue to celebrate the hundred years of peace with Canada, of a periodical such as this can hardly be a fair sample but that they are also increasing their armament of of the average product, and a word of explanation may | the Great Lakesbe needed.In a few weeks we expect to get into our | \u2014_\u2014 et xb fre THE Mon fd deri he tt .y, this is & jou C .e long-suffering street railway patrons of thi It will comment upon the passing show of life, and espe- | city for its fight to obtain better conditions from the cially of Montreal life, in & manner that will seek to be | Tramways company.If ever a public utilities corpora- armas entertaining and Sometimes informing.ihe tion set at defiance public opinion and ignored the duty ily newspaper presen 6 passing show, bu which it owes the people, on Tramways com- not annotate or illuminate or, to any adequate extent, pany is that corporation.It is common knowledge, 2s Hiustrate it.In our columns the best artista of pen and, the Herald asserts, that the immediate effect of the it, and we ourselves shall annotate it.We shall devote | of Montreal was the exploitation of the property and of particular space and attention to the social and personal | the public for the benefit of the company\u2019s shareholders.phases of Montreal and Canadian life.oe shall | Every one is also aware that little or no attempt has burden our readers with dissertations on the magnitude | gince been made to make the service adequate to the of Canada\u2019s resources or the growth of her trade, that | people\u2019s demands or to keep the property up to a rea- being a task which is more than sufficiently attended sonable state of efficiency.From start to finish it has to already.On the other hand we shall endeavor t0 been a case of \u201cthe public be d\u2014d.\u201d We are not so sure pay more attention than usual to the intellectual, | that the remedy proposed by the Herald is the right aesthetic, moral and spiritual strivings of our fellow- one.Instead of giving the company more streets we Canadians, believing that if Canada is to be a nationshe should say, if it were possible, take away from them, must have a mind and a soul as well as a large revenue.those which they have and which they use so badly.MONTREAL, FEBRUARY 1, 1913.TEN CENTS.\u201c Stop only at taking Human Life.\u201d pre rt \u2014 Following the withdrawal of the Franchise Bill from the British House of Commons, thereby destroying the hopes of the British Suffragettes for the franchise at this sitting of Parliament, the word has gone out from the Suffragette headquarters in London to resume active militancy and to \u201cstop only at taking human life.\u201d\u2019 As a result the London police have been kept busy frustrating the efforts of the women to destroy property and to attack the English political leaders.Arrests have been numerous.A reign of terror prevails in the British capital.Our picture shows Mrs.Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the Suffragettes, and a firm believer in the efficacy of militant tactics.consideration.What Montreal needs in dealing gation by the authorities, however, brought out that with this and other similar problems is a large measure the teacher had been the guest of his former pupil's of Home Rule.She does not seem likely to obtain while parents at a dinner given in an entirely respectable the present powers that be control things at Quebec.club; that the parents were present; that neither the teacher nor the pupil had drank anything intoxicati A CLERGYMAN in a Western city denounced, 4,4 that no one vas disgracefully, > otherwise.dune from his pulpit, a teacher in a high school for The preacher has since been too busy pursuing his holy taking part in drunken New Year s revels in the compa- calling to have time for apology.Perhaps many of We shall cherish the profoundest contempt for party The search for a prod to bring the Tramways Company (ny of one of his former girl pupils.The charge Was those awful stories about New Year's orgies which politics\u2014a contempt which we believe is shared by more to time must go still farther than has been suggested.It Canadians than most people think.We shall seek no should go back to Quebec and should seek out the scandals for the sake of scandal-mongering, but when & Provincial Administration which is forever blocking the head seems to need hitting for the public good we shall way to civic improvement in Montreal, especially when | behind the claim that he was a servant of God and res- the tender feelings of the Tramways crowd are under ponsible to no one else for his pulpit utterances.Investihit it freely.made that both teac her and pupil were disgracefully find their way into publicity through the moral reform- intoxicated in a public place.Asked to produce evidence ere have as little foundation as this one.Let us hope soto prove his charge, the preacher sheltered himself Y burning the only copy of \u201cTom Jones\u201d in the BE public library at Doncaster, England, the civic THE birth of this paper was not without travail.ff Perhaps it would be more correct to say that its christening was the occasion of unusual excitement.Orrics or THR MAYOR, The City Hall, Montreal, Jan.29, 1913.To the Montreal Publishing Co.Limited: Gentlemen: We, the undersigned com- mitee, have examined the names submitted for the New Paper and decide that the most suitable suggestion is the \u2018\u2018SaTuRDAY Mirror.\u201d (Signed), Ansene LAVALLEE, Mayor of Montreal.L.R.GREEN, Pres.Montreal Publicity Assn.T.Krurr DickiNson, Editor \u2018\u2018F.MANCIAL TiMEs.\u201d selves, determin- decide for them- \u2014 > B= , lic name the new od to let the pub- paper they hard- ly counted upon the tremendous response that would follow their invitation.From the time the first an- ren nouncement was made up to the closing hour of the contest, suggestions rained in upon the editor by the thousands.Since each suggestion was accompanied by the required price of the first issue the task of examining and classifying the offerings was somewhat mitigated.The pile of names was offset by the pile of dimes.The result of the competition will be found elsewhere in this ijesue\u2014that is, if the judges arrive at any decision.At in this issue.be given in next week's issue.tisme te consider the best design for a title.ing a suitable title for this paper, usin The Winning Name Owing to the great number of suggestions received \u2014there being upwards of 10,000 rsons taking part in the Competition\u2014it has been found impossible to present a complete report The full list of Prise-winners, together with a complete report of the Contest, will TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS FOR THR BEST DESIGN.\"9 Owing te the late hour at which the name of this paper was selected, there was ne The design appearing at the top of this page is a temperary ene.To stimulate Mentreal artists, both professional and library committee of that town have probably started more immature readers to perusing Fielding than previously knew of Tom Jones\u2019 existence.Perhaps Doncaster is the place where the donkeys come from.¢¢ THERE are some people who are unteachable, incapacitated by nature from seeing that white is white and black is black by a perverseness begotten of prejudice and a species of monomania which makes them think that their own opinion is not only the sole opinion which the country will follow, but the sole opinion it can follow.\u201d \u2014The Montreal Star.To readers of the Star the truth of this is self-evident.Messrs.MONTREAL PUBLISHING Co.LimirEp: Gentlemen: We have examined the coupons submitted to us in your name competition and we find the person entitled to the Five Hundred Dollar First Prize is MRS.PAT KELLY, 2478 Waverley Street, Montreal.VEN Toronto has never gone to the length of forbidding tights on the stage,\u201d says Manager Judge of the Princess Theatre in discussing the attempt of the Montreal Moralty Squad to ban these delectable garments from the local stage.What stronger reason 7 could Chief Campeau ask for over-ruling his Morality Squad.Yours very truly, MACINTOSH & HYDE, Chartered Accountants.NOT the least of President Taft's compensations, upon his return to private life on March 4th, will be his ability to resume his summer outings at Murray Bay.And he will be welcome, too, notwithstandiag bis \u2018\u2018parting of the ways\u2019 and \u201cthe tie that binds\u2019 breaks.amateur, in de- he words, \u201cSaturday Mirror,\u201d the publish.the time this is being written the jury is still out.In any ol er a prise of Twenty-five Dollars for the tt design submitted on or before Tuondar, ; IN the matter of this Naval question the Liberals, event, the publishers are well-satisfied with their experiment.They have produced a new phenomenon in February 11.Designs should be ready for the engraver, and may eccupy any reassna space.Address, Saturday Mirrer, 276 Craig Street Westboth ia and out of Parliament, seen to be all at sea.CADILLAC.aewspaperdom\u2014namely, 3 periodical whose first issue \\\\ a \u2014 \u2014 PE ne et \u2014\u2014 A+.Canada rejoices over the news that H.R.H.the Duchess of Connaught, who has been seriously ill in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal for several weeks, is now convalescent.Sympathy for the Duchess : and for H.R.H.the Duke and H.R.H.| the Princess Patricia is widespread and | the hope is everywhere entertained ' that the restoration of the Duchess to | complete and lasting health will be speedy.22 2 , .The Charity Ball for the benefit of the Montreal Maternity Hospital, which was held at the Windsor hotel on Tuesday evening, was, like its predecessors, a most successful and enjuy- able function.An extended account of the event will be found elsewhere in this issue.| .* .LS .; A great number of guests were nt at the tea given by Mr.and .Chase C ain at the Ritz Carlton on Saturday afternoon.The classic scheme of decoration of the beautiful ball-room formed a most desirable back-ground for the number of recherche toilettes that were to be seen, and to this the bank of pink flowers across the buffet lent an added effect .There was excellent opportunity for noting the \u2018last ery\u2019 in smart afternoon gowns.The very becoming deep urple dress worn by the hostess had a Sraped tunic of velvet and the skirt, of satin, was arran with horizontal folds to the height of the knee.The bodies was relieved with artistio touches of cherry colour and a cape fichu of embroidery and shadow lace was worn across the shoulders.A le hat with a \u2018\u2019couronne\u201d of ostrich feathers completed the attire.Mrs.A.Chase Casgrain wore black with handsome oriental embroidery in different shades of blue.Mrs.Martin, who is organizing the \u201cAt Home\u2019 for the Montreal Day Nursery, was one of the ladies who helped with the tea.Her exquisite dress of pale grey crepe de Chine was noticeable even in a roomful of lovely ! gowns, the tunic of shadow lace lend- | ing an especially elegant effect.Mrs.\u2018 Greenshiclds also assisted.She, too, | was handsomely attired in grey.Mrs.C.A.Harwood and Mra.Archer were also pouring tes.i .The galaxy of charming Is who dispensed refreshments included Miss T.Elaine Casgrain, Miss Tinsonnault, Miss Guerin, Miss La Coste, Miss Phillippe McMaster, the Misses de Beaujeu, and Miss de Varennes.! The pretty afternoon frock worn by \u201cMiss T nsonnault afforded an excellent example of the rising popularity of k blue, that delightful shade too ong neglected.A well-known leader of French Canadian society was also gowned in this colour; in her case the material chosen was a rich satin and the skirt was adorned with beautiful florai panels in natural tints.Miss Philippe McMaster, who, since her arrival from England has been having à perfectly royal time, was the guest of honor at the bright dinner- party given by Mrs.Farquhar Robertson on January 25th.Lady Aitken is staying with Mrs.Stephen Heward of Strathcona Ave.Amongst Mrs.Heward's other guests are Mrs.C.W.Drury, Mrs.Drury ot ; Halifax who is a widow of the ate General Drury and Miss Arabelle y.Miss Pardey has her two nieces stay- with her, Miss Adele and Miss Charlotte Dupuy.| Colonel and Mrs.Molson Crawford | have returned from St.Catharines to their bome on Sherbrooke street.Miss Eva Rolston is entertaining Miss Hildred Williams, who has arrived in town from Riviere du Loup.Colonel the Hon.Samuel Hughes has returned to Ottawa after spending a few days in Montreal.In the Ritz Carlton on Saturdayafternoon | noticed Mrs.Forbes S8uth- erland in a picture dress of pale apricot satin, the skirt drapery raised to show a flounce of white lace.There were bands of narrow black velvet secured by diamond brooches at the neck and a big black hat set off the effective \u2018\u2018ensemble.\u201d\u2019 Mrs.John MeKaye was there too, at the tea hour, delightfully attired in violet chiffon over white with bands of periwinkle blue satin on the bodice and a violet hat.Another pretty dress was Mrs.Roddick's faience biue satin relieved with yellowish lace.Madame de Haan, wife of the Austrian Consul, was most graceful in a superbly draped navy satin.The toilette worn by Mrs.Boyer of royal purple was specially noteworthy for the artistic arrangement of black maltese lace over white on the hodire.Several of the ladies were wearing black, amongst others Mrs.Jarvis, in a velvet suit with sables, Mrs.Prentiss and Mrs.Pillow.The hotel was so fuil of guests that afternoon that the revolving door was never still a second.Amongst them were Bir Alexandre and Lady Lacoste, Mrs.Johnson.Madame and Mile.Lajoie, M.and Mme.Duchatel, the pronch gone and M me.Bonnin, Fr.on rs.ergne, Mr.Languedes, the German Consul Herr Leoug.| ° ° .° | f The afternoon party given by her , Mrs.M.Moffatt, fer that sttrastive debutante.Mise Ethel Mofiatt, weat off admirably.Mrs.Moflat's pink eatin dress was veiled with goid brosaded ninon, which gives | every rich effect.Mies Moflait wore allovely white froek from Paris eover- od wh loos, which had an em breidery H.R.H.THE DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT.The sympathy of every Vioe-Re, ing | severe illness, and the rejoicing over true-hearted Canadian was freely given to the ousehold during the time of the Duchess of Connaught's recent her recovery is general in every city and hamlet throughout the length and breadth of the Dominioni of tulle roses in delicate shades, a most \u2018and Mr.Colonel Nelles, who gave the bride charming ingenue frock.Mrs.T.Hodgson and Mrs.J.Grimm poured tea and coffee, whilst Mrs.H.Birks served the ice cream.Narcissi and tulips formed the; spring-like floral decorations at the.fonsent dance given by Mrs A.Crathern McArthur at her house on MeGregor street on Friday.The party was given in honour of Miss Alexandrina MeArthur who was much admired in a very becoming dance frock.LS * » .* At the tea given by Mrs.James H.Webb.Clandeboye avenue for Mrs.J.KE.Knox of Toronto, pink carnations and daffodils were used for decoration.Mrs.Webb wore a pretty green silk dress and Mrs.J.E.Knox was in grey.Mr.and Mrs.Reuben Brainin, 2588 Park Avenue, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miriam, 10 Dr.Samuel Ortenberg, sun of Mr.and Mrs.D.Ortenberg.Miss Ida F.Croft, daughter of the late Richard Boulby Croft and of Mrs.Croft, Cobourg,will marry Mr.Charles A.Munson, M.P.of Cobourg, early in February.Sir Lomer Gouin addressed the Women's Canadian Club of Quebec on January 24th, taking for his subject the \u2018Canadian West.\u201d The speaker divided the history of the west into two periods, befure and after the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.He rendered a tribute to the splendid courage of the pioneers who had watered the virgin prairies with their blood and sweat, and concluded by eulogizing the woman of Canada as one of the principal factors in the prosperity of the country.2e = Sir Lomer and Lady Gouin have been spending a few days in Montreal on their way to New York and thence to Europe.There was a vivid note of originality about the Japanese dinner given at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on January 26th.The scheme of decoration included fans, pools of gold-fish, parasols and those delightful Japanese lanterns that always give an air of mystery to any entertainment which they adorn.The newly arrived prime donna, Miss Clara Butt and her husband, Mr.Kennerley Rumford, were present and thoroughly appreciated the artistic effect, which was due to the skill of the clever specialist, Mr.Ettore Pasquale, who has just arrived from the south of France.Among the guests were Sir Montagu and Lady Allan and party, Mr.H.V.Meredith and party, Mr.B.Hosmer and pasty, Mr.McKay and party and Countess de Bar le Duc and Countess Boisyday who are on their way to the south of France.* News of a smart military wedding comes from Toronto.On January 25th Miss Marie Rutherford, daughter of Mrs.Percy Rutheriord.was married to Captain Douglas Bowie, R.C.D., at fit.James Cathedral! in that city.The Rev.J.Russell Mclean, chaplain of Stanley Barracks, performed the ceremony.The material chosen for the lovely bridal gown was ivory charmeuse, softly draped, trimmed with pear: menterie and further adorned with a Brussels point lace veil.Miss Rutherford carried a bouquet of white orchids.The three bridesmaids we e Miss Somerville, Miss Brown of Montresi and Miss Jones of Quebec.Their white cloth dresses were relieved by Wattier blue girdies and they wore k velvet bats with paradise plumes.Each bore a bouquet of Ameriean Beauty roses and an enamel vanity box on a long chain.gifta of the bride- m.Captain Bowie's gift to his waa 8 gold mesh bag.Mr.Clifford Darling was best man and the ushers were Mr.Gerald Haasom and Mr.Saxe Brown of Montreal, Norman Nelles, C away and the ushers and bridegroom all wore full dress uniform.The bridal reception was held by Colonel and Mrs.Nelles at the Prince George.Late in the afternoon Captain and Mrs.Bowie left for New York, en route to Bermuda.The bride's travelling dress was a black cloth suit with a black and white hat and chinchilla urs.As Captain Bowie is stationed at St.John's, Quebec, the newly married couple intend to reside there.+ ° + * ° The dance at Victoria Hall, Westmount, given by the members of the Mount Royal Tennis Club on Jan.23, was a bright affair, everything going with a swing from first to last.Fhere must have been quite a hundred and forty people present.The band was good and so was the floor, likewise the supper.There were quite a number of pretty frocks.Very effective was the silver tunic on Mrs.Gault's satin dress of blush rose colour.Mrs.A.D.Anderson had on a white satin veiled with jonquil colored ninon.The other hostesses were Mrs.J.L.McCullough and Mrs.Guy Dobbin, both very handsomely gowned.Miss Ethel Hurlbatt, principal of Victoria College and former principal of Queen's ollege, Baker Street, London, is indisposed and is taking a short holiday at Lake Placid to recruit her strength.» e .* * That charming woman snd brilliant speaker, Mrs.Henshaw of Vancouver, interested a cultured and numerous audience at the Art Association the other evening with her enthusiastic and fascinating account of the Far West.Thelecture was called **Mountain Trails in the Rockies\u2019 and such was Mrs.Henshaw's choice of language and contagious ardour that the listener could only long for an air ship or any other method of rapid flight to visit the scenes of beauty so graphically described.Mrs.Henshaw lived for more than two decades in the West.She is a dering climber, a keen sportswoman and an excellent shot, also a botanist of renown.Quite a bevy of good-looking girls helped to dispense tea at the alter- noon party given by Mrs.W.Robertson Ross on Friday last for her daughter.Miss Monica Ross.Among them were Miss Muriel Craven, Miss Marion Rendell, Miss Edith Shuter, Miss Jeanne de Crevecoeur, and Miss Marjorie Lindsay.* ° * * * Mrs.H.J.Fisk has bad a pleasant visit to Toronto, where she stayed with her brother, Mr.U.Beardmore.Mrs.Anderson of Point Ledif, Quebec is visiting her son, Dr.Anderson of Park avanue., Miss Young of Westmount is leaving shortly for Winni to meet her aunt, Mrs.Stevens.From there they will go on to Santa Barbara, where they expect to remain until the spring.he tea given by Miss Lee of 318 Grosvenor avenue on Friday, Jan.24, was a very pleasant function.Mrs.Willie Robertson of Toronto and Mrs.Garnett Dickson assisted the hostess who looked extremely nice in a mauve drees of a becoming shade.The tea table was decorated with white and green, narcissi being largely used.The Keramie Department of the Art Association and also the Sketch Club are contributing some very interesting specimens of their work to the Women's Suffrage Exhibition.Colonel Burland has consented to address the Women's Canadian Club at Toronto on Feb.8th.on \u2018\u2018Some As of Imperial Defense.\u201d Bad] Blackwood, who hae besa guest ab the Rita-Ceriton dus- ing the last week is a son of the celebrated Ambassador of the Victorian era, the Earl of Dufferin and the grandson of the authoress of the world famous poem \u2018\u2018The Irish Emigrant.\u201d The Lady Dufferin who composed these verses was one of the beautiful trio of Sheridan sisters.The great popularity of the Ritz- Carlton Hotel was specially attested on Jan.23rd.when so many guests came to supper after the opera and other social engagements that an impromptu dance was organized.Among those present were Sir Hugh and Lady Graham, Miss Alice Graham, Mr.and Mrs.Forbes Sutherland, Mayor Grant, Mrs.Walter Long, the Hon.Francis Scott, Miss Martha Allan, the Hon.Angus Mac Donnell, Mr.and Mrs.C.R.Hosmer, W.Beauclerk, Mr.and Mrs.de Hann, Miss Shaughnessy and Miss Edith Shaughnessy, Miss Holland, Miss Helen Robertson, Miss Miss Thomson, Mr.and Mrs.Grant Morden, Mr.and Mrs.Chas.Henshaw, Messrs.E.B.Hosmer, Chas.Christie, R.Redford, Essol Hall, Hickson, Swing, Gordon and Mackinnon.Maemaster Furlong, .Eschewing the conventional bridal white Miss Agnes Fitzgerald chose to be married in a travelling costume of navy blue velvet and very seasonable and becoming was her attire.We: wonder that more brides do not | adopt this plan.Mr.Henry Heoklinger was witness for the bridegroom, | Mr.Gordon Hecklinger.Mr.Jas.Fitzgerald of Quebec, the brides brother gave her away.i Several Montreal brides received for the first time since their marriage during the last few days of January.Mrs.John Heffernan\u2019s rooms were | quite crowded at 245 Mance street | on Tuesday.I Mrs.Victor Elliott Dawson (Miss: Linda Selwyn) received for the second time at her flat in King George's Apartments on Jan.23rd.Some verychic toilettes were to be seen.Eva Harrington and Mrs.Leslie Skelton helped to dispense the delicacies of the buffet, whilst Mrs.Spencer Dale Harris and Miss Claire arrington looked after the tea.It was a pleasure to note the artistic scheme of color decoration pursued in the arrangement of the flowers.\u2019 Malmaison arnations, tulips and Chinese lilies adorned the refresh ment room but the hue predominating in the drawing room was yellow, in varied tones, flowers, lamp and candle shades alike.Mrs.Dawson wore the bridal gown with its trimming of priceless lace.Her mother, Mrs.Selwyn of Ottawa, who assisted her daughter to receive had selected a costume of grey charmeuse, veiled with marquisette and having touches of mauve.On the following day Mrs.Thos.Dennison received her girlhood's friends at 143 de L'Epee street Outremont.The reception lasted during the afternoon and evening and there was a constant stream of guests.We wish every success to the enter- | tainment to be held at the Ritz-Carl- ton on Feb.17 in aid of the Montreal Day Nursery.This kindly institution (the equivalent of the creche of other countries) makes it possible for poor women (charwomen and others), who go out to work by the day, to have their children properly looked after during the mother\u2019s absence.It is & boon not only to the poor women themselves but to their employers Many charwomen and dress makers who go out for the day lose work because of the child that they bring along with them to their employers house.The poor child doesn't know what to do with itself, probably gets into mischief and as a consequence the mother Joses the job.Miss Miller of Frankfort, Toronto, has been staying with her aunt, Mrs.Martin, in Park Avenue.This popu- iar young lady\u2019s friends have been delighted to welcome her and she has been the guest of honor at many delightful reunions.Mrs.Birts invited a large company to meet Miss Miller a few days ago.That popular hostess, Mrs.Raoul de Lorimier gave an enjoyable card party on Jan.23rd.The Misses Laeur and FE.la Coste of Ottawa were amongst the guests, so was Mile.Lajoie, who, as our readers will remember was amongst the first of Montreal girls to take the B.A.de- ES, Other guests were Misses C.Violette, M.Chauvin, H.Gervais G.Moncel, 8.Brisset, B.Labelle and M.Vantelet.Mrs.de Lorimier wore à difficult shade of ultra marine blue with perfect success and her daughter was wearing a quite bewitching frock of pale turquoise with a disphonous over dress with wes pink rosebuds.A most interesting wedding of the early part of the month of February will be that of Miss Ruth Chambers, daughter of Canon and Mrs.Chambers, with Mr.N.W.Marshall, son of Mrs.John Marshall.The function takes place on Monday next, Feb.3rd.at Christ Church Cathedral at 4.30 p.m.The charming personality of the bride-eleet makes her the beloved of a wide circle of admirers.As most of our readers know, Canon Chambers edits the Weekly Star.In his early.days Canon Chambers worked among the Indians, where he had some interesting and even amazing adventures.Mrs.Henry Kavanagh gave a most ' suocessful bridge party at her house on Lorne avenue on Jan 23rd.The ar- tisio gown worn by the hostes- was of cream silk viole with a paisler border skilfully arranged in the \u2019oru of a tunie.ringe of à soft tore of blue eompleted the costumers.Purcell, wife of Judge Pureell, gore.an afternoon part ot Prinee ; + Apartments on Wednesday, : an.20.i occasions.\u2014Evening wear and Guaranteed.Best French and American PARIS KID GLOVE STORE GLOVES Ladies\u2019, Gentlemen's and Childrens\u2019 Gloves for all PERRIN GLOVES A SPECIALTY 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was married to Mr.William Arthur Mattinson.Miss Steel is the niece and adopted daughter of Mrand Mra.James Baillie, whose family has furnished more than one charming bride of late.The bride was given away by her uncle, Mr.James Baillie, and the bridegroom was attended by Mr.Gordon Campbell as best man Very attractive was the bridal dress of white satin with its soft veiling of whipeord chiffon.The bride wore a simple coronet of orange blossoms and oarried a bouquet of lilies of the valley.The maid of honour, Miss Gertride Mattinson, was effectivel attired in pale yellow veiled wit i he dainty frocks worn by the two bridesmaids, Miss Cora and Miss Ruth Baillie, bad à Dresden Chinr effect.Pale blue dominated and black velvet bats.were worn.Mrs.Baillie wore a handsome gown of black satin, adorned with a rich design in paillettes.Mrs.| \u201c Mattinson, the bridegroom'e mother, was wearing grey etriped silk.Amongst the guests I noticed Miss Eleanor Perry.the clever artist, whoee | work was oa exhibition a little while o.Her graceful frock of white chiffon was inset with Irish point and a white beaver hat with black feathers and a crimson rose completed an attractive ensemble.Mr.and Mrs.Baillie held a reception for the you couple after the oeremony.Mr.an Mrs.W.A.Mattinson left by the 6 o'clock train for New York.The bride's travelling dress was dark brown and she wore a handsome set of mink fur snd a pretty brown hat.Lady Garneau gave a brilliant ball at the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, on Jan.25th.in honor of her daughter, Miss Jeanne Garneau.Madame Mantel, wife of the Minister of Inland Revenue, han ret to Ottawa afetr a lengthy visit to St.Jerome, where her country house is situated.Lt.Col.Lowther has been the guest of T.H.R.the Duke and Duchess of Connaught for à few days.He has ! now returned to Ottawa.Mr.and Mrs.Benning, who have been staying at the Ritz-Carlton but have now returned to New York, were entertained at the Forest & Stream Club last week by Mr.and Mre.I.F.(Additional Society Nowe oa Page 13.) Montreal, Saturday, February 1, THE writer of this column is perhaps better known lo Montreal tReatre-goers under the pen name of \u201cMunday Knight,\u201d with which for nearly twelve years he has signed the dramatic column and the reviews of current shows in the Montreal Herald.Mr.Sandwell has had a longer continuous experience of dramatic criticism in Canada than any other writer with one exception; and he is one of the three Canadian critics who have been honor- ered by selection to act as judge in the Earl Grey Trophy Competitions.In Montreal his pronouncements have long been recognized as exceptionally sllum- inating, just and authorative.LAPY Gregory's Irish Pizyers are not, às players, quite so astounding as we were led to expect.It is, of course, a good many years since they began to play together, and the origi- nal strength of the company may have been impaired by some of the losses that are inevitable when a stock som- | pany begins to attract attention and its members begin to receive bids from : commercial managers.The present | article is written, owing to the ext gencies of printing, after attendance | at the first performance only; and while we have to admit the great power, beauty and lucidity of Sars | Allgood\u2019s \u2018\u2018Kathleen-ni-Houlihan™ : and the poetic force of Fred.O'Dono- | van's \u2018Christopher Mahon\u2019\u2019, the rest of the company has not so far given any indications of genius.Generally speaking, moreover, their manner of utterance is recitational rather than conversational, a method that may be : thoroughly suited to the fine-spun allegories of Yeats but does not seem | to be the Lest style for that delicious piece of peasant naturalism, \u2018The The \u2018\u201c\u2018Pegeen Mike\u2019 of Miss Eithne | MaGee was almost wholly lacking in the more elusive qualities\u2014wistfull- ness, poetic imagination and the sense of fatality\u2014and the consequent loss to the play on its poetic side can scarcely be conjectured.The interest of the performances | thus far has lain, therefore, in the | lays presented.\u2018Kathleen - ni-Hou- ihan' is & mere flash of allegory, of ' tremendous depth and beauty and, great patriotic feeling, but almost without action.It has been done in, Canada, though not in Montreal, by, the Margaret Eaton School of Elocution at Toronto, and depends almost ' wholly on the voice declamatory power and symbolic expression of the eading actress.| \u201cThe Playboy of the Western: World,\u201d the first play of the late J.M.| Synge to be presented in Montreal, made an instant appeal by the rich ' and racy vigor of its comedy; the! marvelous besuty of its language was probably noted little except by those who had read it or witnessed it before.As for the hostility that has raged against the piece, the reaons for it, and their weakness, were both equally apparent.À young man of peotio temperament, who thinks he has killed his father but never had any intention | of doing so, wanders into the cabin of Pegeen Mike and her father after an eleven days\u2019 flight from justice, and | tells of his crime\u2014less from a desire to confess than from vainglory, because all around him think that he is a fugitive for some much less notable deed.For two acts the entire population of Pegeen's little world is lost in admiration of \u2018the man who killed his | dad\u2019 and during those two acts the reason for their admiration are obs- | cure to themselves and possibly to the audience.If there were nothing but those two acts, there might be basis for the charge that Synge painted the | Irish peasantry as lovers of parricide.| The third act makes every thing perfectly clear.; the father, badly amaged but not killed, comes in | pursuit of his wayward son, and ano- other fight follows, in which the father is again left for dead, and this time there is no doubt about the feelings of the peasants concerning such a ori- me, for they all unite in the effort to hand the oriminal over to justice.It was not, we sse therefore, the crime which fascinated them in the first two acts, but the \u2018\u2018story\u2019\u2019, the dramatic situation, for which thier irrepressible imaginations readily supplied ail sorts of extenuating motives and elements of heroism.It is not in the least surprising that zealots for the good name of Ireland should have \u2018\u2018seen a head and hit it\u2019 when this play was uced, for zealotry is always care- ess; but it is quite certain that the play has only to be known for all such ostility to disap .There may have n some hostilit to the piece on other grounds, whic took refuge under the general charge of misrepresentation Irish morals.In both anguage and action the piece ie a rich and racy portrait of peasant life in all its primitiveness; at various stages of its performance on Monday evening a number of persons left the theatre probably on account of the vigor of the language rather than of the ethical contents.The same oc- eurence took place, it will be remembered, at the first performance here of Shaw's \u2018Man and Buperman\u201d, which has had no difficuity in establishing iteelf as a part of our regular re ire.The language in question might be objected to on the ground of irreverence, if it were not so perfectly evident, that there is no irreverence in + | - MISS JULIE HERNE.Daughter of the famous American actor and play wright: she will appear Playboy of the Western World.\u201d at the Princess during the week of February 10 in the leading role in \u2018\u2018Bought and Paid For\u2019.utfer it.MONTREAL has never had a better example of the importance of \u2018\u2018working over\u201d in the production of a musical piece than was afforded last week in \u2018\u2018The Merry Countess\u2019.lt was not only the title that was brought up-to-date (that change was effected in New York), but the whole piece which had been absolutely renovated in London.Apparently hardly any of those who attended it realised that this was in its origin identically the same piece as had been presented here under its proper title of \u201cThe Night-Birds\" a short season ago, and had then, in spite of the presence of Fritzi Scheff and à very strong singing cast, registered an absolute and lamentable failure\u2014being in fact the most atrocious bore of the entire season.The Fritzi Scheff company did nothing but learn by rote the words and notes of a piece produced in 1874, of which hardly even a tradition is extant.Nothing could have been more soulless or perfunctory, and there was not a breath of life about the whole performance.For the English revival, of whicht he present production is & close goby containing several of the original players, the work of Strauss and more especially of his librettist was so completely overhauled that only the main outline of the action remains.I do not wish to suggest - that all that was imported into it was matter of the highest art, but the net result of it was to distract attention from the thin places of the plot and produce a uniform effect of light amusement.Musically there was little left but the tunes, for everything was transposed and re-arran so as to lighten the demands made by Strauss upon his singers.The role of the lady's-maid, which in the original is a high soprano, was scaled down for Miss von Busing, the consequence being that niither that charming actress nor the music itself got a chance to show much brilliance; and both solos and ensembles were heavily eut in order to make time for specialties and comedy.EXT WEEK\u2019s booki at the Prinoess is \u201cMutt and Jeff\u201d, a musical extravaganza of the more popular order which has been seen ere before.It will be followed by a series of bookings of much interest.\u201cBought and Paid For\u2019 is perhaps the most famous of the American dramas of the full-blooded order which followed hard upon the success of \u201cPaid in Full\", and contains some extremely sensational and daring scenes.\u2018The Bird of Paradise\u2019 is another somewhat elemental drama which had a substantial suocess in New York, and which deals with the ion of a civilised American man or a Kanaka girl of the Hawaiian Islands.These will be foliowed by the Gilbert and Suliivan company, practically the same in personnel as that which bas already been heard here with such favor upon two past occasions, presenting this time not a single opera but a repertoire of three or Tour of the most enduring masterpieces of the great English collobora- tors; in a musical sense at least this will probably be the most notable event of the Princess season.The week after next will witness the opeaing of the second Mon season of the Manchester Playnrs \u2018the minds of the characters which | from the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester.This company, which consists for the larger part of the same personnel as last year, will epend five weeks in Montreal, and will during that time present eight plays, in which the modern English drama will be much less extensively represented than it was last season.hat this change is due to the peculiarities of Montreal taste rather than to any desire on the part of the players or of Miss Horniman to side-track the modern dramatists, may be taken as certain.Of the plays announced\u2014all of which are of sufficient length to provide an entire though rather abbreviated evening's entertainment\u2014four are classic and four are the work of this generation; last season there was one classic against a dozen or so of moderns, of which several however were curtain-raisers only.The classic of last season, \u2018\u2018She Stoops to Conquer,\u2019 will of course be repeated, as it was the most emphatic hit of the engagement.But the other three classics announced for this year are fortunately of considerably greater artistic interest.One of them, \u201cTwelfth Night\", is likely to give us an entirely new insight into the possibilities of Shakespearian acting without the assistance (and interference) of elaborate scenery and over-dressing.The two Sheridan comedies, \u201cThe Rivals\u2019' and ** The 8chool for Scandal\u201d are both of a kind to bring out all the finesse and subtlety of which the company is capable.Of the modern pieces, three are repititions from last year, but they are distinctly the most important \u2018of the 1912 modern repertoire: Mase- \u2018fleld\u2019s \u201cNan\u201d, Galworthy's \u2018\u2018The Silver Box\u201d, and Shaw's Candida\u201d.The fourth is the work of an author who has been much read here but has not yet been seen on the stage.Arnold Bennett's \u2018\u2018What the Public Wants\u2019 is certainly one of the most readable works that the modern English dramatic movement has produce and its keen and gentle satire should be particularly brilliant when presented by a well-balanced company of clever people.The personnel of the company is interesting.One of course knows nothing, as one always does know nothing, about the qualifications of those Manchester players whom one has not seen; the absence of personal publicity is so delightful that we shall certainly not complain because we are not provided with a biographical record of the newcomers.Such changes as there are in the company are mainly accounted for by the tremendous success of \u2018\u2018 Hindle Wakes \"', which, originally produced in London as o part of the regular Horniman repertoire, has now been handed over to the business charge of Mr.Edwin T.Heys, manager of the Manchester Players here last year, and which still, I believe, engages the services of Miss Goodall, Misa Ada King, Mr.Charles Bibby and Mr.Herbert Lomas.We shall still have with us that very fine and imaginative artist, Milton Rosmer, and the profoundly emotional Irene Rooke; and we shall still have Edward Lander, Frank Darch, Cecil Brooking, Ernest Haines, Muriel Pratt and Doris Bainplaces of the absentees will be filled y half-a-dozen new lasers.who wiil have had plenty of time to acquire the Gaiety Theatre method.It ould not be forgotten that it ie mot any supernatural ability on the pert | of one or all of the Manchester Players | that makes that company so supreme- \"ly effective, but the spirit of the whole presentation and perfect balance of all parts.\"ance does not seem to be accounted for by the \u2018\u2018 Hindle Wakes\u2019 bookings, and who may be rather seriously: missed., The \u2018\u2018Tweifth Night\u201d production is a thing to be anticipate with un- , mitigated joy.It is, according to all English accounts, a thing of the richest and most Elizabethan humor.Mr.Stanley Drewitt, who had small i chance to show his special merits here last year, prsents a Malvolio which has been spoken of in the bighest terms, {and I think that we may look forward to an evening of rollicking fun in the | company of artists who are not afraid to unbend because they are utterin \u2018the lines of the \u2018\u2018Bard of Avon\u201d.| Reverence for a great dramatist is an .admirable quality, but on this conti- nant it too often goes the length of as solemnly as a priest intones the religious formulae.HE occupation of His Majesty's Theutre by the Opera is by no means such an unmixed benefit this season as it was 8 year or two ago.When it was first founded, the Opera rescued that very pleasant theatre from the hands of a booking agency which was utterly unable to provide decent attractions for half its houses.Today that same booking agenoy has control of probably one-half of the really interesting plays undergoing pre- rentation on this continent.While it is improbable that we should have seen anyt ing like all of them had the theatre be for the leading producers of this group have long exhibited a profound Montreal,\u2014it seems to be beyond doubt that we are doomed to miss several attractions of much merit which have already played in Toronto and Ottawa.onspicuous amon these is Otis Skinner's production o \u201cKismet\u2019\u2019 with its extensive borrowings from the rich pictorial symbolism of the Orient that has been placed at the disposal of the modern stage by Russian and German producers.We have as yet seen no example of that Oriental influence\u2014the influence of Leon Bakst and of Max Reinhardtin Montreal, except in & portion of the entertainment provided by Gertrude Hoffman's company of Russian dancers; though we have seen several New York burlesques in which the purely mechanical devices employed in its are parodied without the slightest indication of the spirit.THE good old English word \u2018\u2018playhouse\u201d soems to have passed into desuetude.Nor is it wholly surprising, for there is no longer an object left to which it can be applied.e have theatres galore.A new one has been built in Montreal, on the average, every pour during the last ten years, though it must be admitted that a few have been torn down or converted to base uses in the same period.But we have no playhouses.Auy building in which the public gather for the purpose of attendin entertainments requiring the sense o sight can be qualified as a theatre.The claim made by a certain class of houses to a monopoly of this title is absurd.A building does not become a theatre because you are required to es into it at 8.15 and remain until 10.- 5, instead of dropping in when you like and leaving when you have had enough.It does not become a theatre because the persous engaged in the performance appear and re-appear throughout the evening instead of doing all they know in twenty minutes and then going home to supper and leaving the stage to somebody else.Above all, it dous not become a theatre by reason of charging one dollar and fifty cents of Canadian currency.These distinctions are accidental.A theatre is purely and simply a place for the exhibition of spectacles.Now a playhouse is something considerably more than this.Obviously it is a house for plays.8inoe soy play has necessarily its spectacle side, » playhouse is a place for the exhibition of a certain kind of spectacle, and henoe is a kind of theatre.But it is seldom indeed that our theatres of the present day are used for the performance of plays; almost as seldom as the \u2018opera houses\u2019 of the last generation (which still survive in most of our Canadian villages) were used for the performance of operas.The modern play is as a matter of fact the last kind of entertainment for which the modein theatre is constructed; and one reason why the modern play is not more popular is that it fits so badly in its surroundings.Eugene Walter is still working over the same old ground on which he made his first success in \u2018\u2018Paid in Full,\u201d a second and even greater success in \u2018The Easiest Way,'' and a fine and growing collection of failures.When he succeeds in gettin, a breath of buinanity and person observation of life into his plays they succeed in spite of their thesis; when they are thesis they inevitably fail.\u201cFine Feathers,\u201d which was oduced at the Astor Theatre in ew York last week, is a study of the difficulty experienced by a young man with $25 a week in keeping 8 wife with expensive tastes.lan Dale says of it : \u2018\u2019Once again the eternal irremediable squalor of the lightly \u2018salaried man,\u2019 the rebellion the fret little fading wife with a taste or millinery, the dreadful \u2018home\u2019 with the struggle to keep in the warm 1 Mr.Lewis Casson, by the ; | way, is an absentee whose disappear- | making players intone their language en available for bookings\u2014 .and possibly excusable antipathy for 1 | a \u201cay losin ee?ns + Ph ES WILLIAM FAVERSHAM AS ANTONY IN \u201cJULIUS CAESAR\" William Faversham's impersonation of Antony in \u201cJulius Caesar,\u201d along with his direction of the performance of the whole work by a singularly powerful cast, constituted the finest piece of Shakespearian impersonation that Montreal has seen for several years.The company was only in its third week when it played here, and no photographs of the players in character were then available.ruled the world but for his lo The above Faversham is fitted by nature, by his gifts of physique, intellect and m ism, to impersonate that impelling young Roman senator who might have ve of ease and luxury.ortrait shows how supremely Mrnet- \u201cJulius Caesar\u2019\u2019 has been an immense success in New York, Boston and elsewhere.this sorry Eden of the Serpent, and\u2014 final discords.ugly, sinister and ill- omened.These small materials are made up into a play of seven characters (each with à talking velocity of at least seventeen thousand word a piece) [It was a miniature peninsula, which was surrounded on nearly all its sides by stars, who acted it, over-acted it, super-acted it, and hyper-soted it.It strongly suggested (Paid in Full) without that drama\u2019s \u2018human note, though shorn of its \" dissertations, it was at times striking and interesting.\u201d The leading role-\u2014one of the strongest and most emotional in modern American dramas\u2014in \u2018\u2018Bought and Paid for.\u2019 which will be presented at the Princess the week after next, is being taken by Miss Julie Herne.Miss Herne is a fine example of the Open next B A very ® miniature ballet.This is value of heredity in acting.few real old-timers in Montreal may , P possibly remember that famous old play, \u201cHearts of Oak\u201d in which James A.Herne and his wife, Catherine, ; were the stars, and almost everyone that can go back a generation in his memory remembers Mr.Herne\u2019s wonderfully artistie \u201cUncle Nat\u201d in \u201cShore Acres.\u201d\u2019 Then there was a play that came between these two called air in winter and keep out the mos- | brilliant young Canadian, Miss Alice uitoes in summer; the entrance into | Yorke.| Others are Cecil Lean, 8Sophye Barnard, Dolly Caaties, Char otte Greenwood, orothy Webb, Ida Jeanne, Cleo Mayfield, Robert G.Pitkin, Leslie Kenyon, Stewart Baird Arthur Geary, Sydney Grant and Harold Robe.The Messrs.Shubert have instruct ed Mr.Granville Barker to eng: |two English companies to tour the | | | | \u201cThe Minute Men,\u201d a transcript of Revolutionary times which was not a t financial success, but in which Julie Herne's mother gave a most wonderful performance of the patriotic .maiden of '76, and Herne\u2019s own psy re , of \u2018Margaret Fleming,\u201d in which Herne created a furore in New York and which many critics have declared to be the finest piece of dramatic writing done up to that time in Amerios.Julie is one of the four children left to perpetuate the Herne school.\u2014 Chrystal, the elder, a well-known ne- tress, Dorothy, now retired and tho .wife of Montrose J.Moses, the critic, John T., the youngest and only son, who is just beginning with \u201cThe Man from Home,\u201d and Julie herself.Miss Herne's performance of \u2018Virginia Elaine\u201d is surely a verification of the .old saying, \u201cBlood will tell.\u201d The latest Lehar operette, \u2018The Man With Three Wives,\u2019 seems to have mad a considerable hit at Weber & Fields\u2019 Theatre.The Shuberts announoe that this organisation will form the basis of à company to be known as the \u2018International Light Opera Company\u201d, which they will ,endeavor to make into a repertoire light opera organization of the highest standard.The continued fortune of the Gilbert & Sullivan Opers Company, which is now on tour has proved conclusively that the public takes a special and affectionate interest in permanent organisations.The new company will offer only modern i works.It will be run as à \u2018\u2019Non-Star\u2019\u2019 organisation, and one of the leading artiste ie the | | i { country next season in \u2018Fanny's First Play\u201d, the new Bernard Shaw comedy which is now nearing ite 200th consecutive New York performance at Wm.Collier's Comedy Theatre.It is apparently to be presented in Montreal in the near future.One of the special features of \u2018\u2018 The Honeymoon Express\u2019, the new Winter Garden production which is to onday evening, will be ing pre- by Theodore Kosloff, who was stage director for the histone \u2018\u2018 Saison des Ballets Russes\u201d.PRINCESS NEXT MONDAY Pricos.tes and $1.00 BUD FISHE Popular - ER\u2019S cis.MUSICAL COMEDY THAT LAUGHRING RIOT MUTT : JEFF The Funniest.Best Droased, Mest Cheles Girled SHOW IN THE WORLD Nits The Buller of The Laugh Target Tobe Ha Nea'e Good Young or Old Childrem WEEK FEBRUARY 10h WM.A.BRADY Presents \u201cBOUGHT AND PAID FOR\" Direct from 0 (omeseuntive Performances at Wm.Brady's Poyhouss, Now York.Le\" A CC GR ES sr AE - 2 Montreal, Saturday, February 1, 1913.The Charity Ball + + + + + + + * TUESDAY night was clear and fine.' Had the weather been inclement it would hardly have lessened the numbers that attended the Charity Ball, so great is the interest inspired by that popular function.Windsor Hall was brilliantly illuminated and\u2019 by half-past eight sleighs were speeding through the frosty streets and dis- oharging their passengers at the entrance.By nine o'clock the corridors were fast filling with a handsomely dressed expectant crowd.all eagerly looking for the coming of the royal party to open the Ball.A bugle blast sounded atintervals and kept interest on tip toe.The idea obtained at first that Their Royal Highnesses and Suite would pass between the rows of guests in the corridor.Gradually, however, à move was made to the large ballroom and an extra was dsnoed pending the arrival of the distinguished patrons.e band played enchantingly.The floor was perfeet.Tall oealed the whereabouts of the musicians and tall white spires and vivid crimson Zinerarias made a gay floral parterre at the edge of the platform.LADY LACOSTE Patroness of the Charity Bail.Red velvet seats had been placed for the royal party at one side of the room.The brilliant chandeliers glowed like yellow tulips; banks of tall daisies were arranged between tho pillars and garlands of green entwined with scarlet pointsettis festooned the entire room, giving it the semblance of a bower.Suddenly the whisper spread, \u2018\u2018 They have come!\u201d A cordon was formed, making a charmed circle, within which the Quadrill of Honor was to be danced and without which clustered an eager throng of gazers, As \u2018God Save the King | was played by the band H.R.H.the Duke entered with the lst Directress, Mrs.Reford on his arm, H.R.H.Princess Patricia entering with Principal Peterson of McGill and followed by the members of the Ball Committee.\u201cAfter T.H.R.had greeted friends the Quadrille was dancod.The Princess atricia looked beautiful in a robe of artistic and original design.An under dress of satin was shaded from mulberry to deep coral, with a double overdress of black chiffun worked with silver and having scalloped borders.A folded sash of mulbe satin completed the attire.H.R.Hwore two orders.Miss Adam, who was in attendance, wore a handsome dress of white brocade with a border of fur at the hem and a cluster of pink roses at the waist.The Royal Quadrille made a noteworthy study in exquisite gowns, effective in contrast, yet blending harmoniously.Lady Allan's gorgeous tomato red brocaded velvet, with the pleated basque bodice and draped skirt, the whole relieved with goid tissue was a feast of rich color.his gown, more than any other, served to bring out the exquisite strong emerald of Mrs.Miller's dress whic was embroidered in heavy black and steel and worn over a subtle shade of blue.Mrs.Reford was magnificent in a eloth of silver, adorned with silver flowers and trails.A tiara of dia monds was worn and a collar of pearls, while a large cluster of diamonds adorned the front of the hodice.The eostume worn by Mrs.Holt of black shadow lace over white satin, the black lace again veiled by white and covering bands of delicate blue, was a creation of perfest taste and exquisite in finish for all the lace was in shaped panels.Mrs.E.Cains was in à t-me-not blue satin with à short white chiffon tunie adorned with trellis work of and lace drapery on the bodice.re.Chipman's gown of shot mauve aad pink silk was delicately pretty im color.Mrs.Peterson's of Alies blue satin had a tunie of blask net shadow lace adorned with dia mante embroidery and there were touches of pale pink.The general effect wae à kaleidoscope of colour.On the whole there were very few white dresses worn save by debutantes, and evea amongst this interesting and charming band there were those who had selected their pet colour to make their appearance ia Montreal society.Amon debutantes in white were Mies E thel Perrigo, Miss Dorothy Philips and Miss C Pratt.Mise Ethel Perrigo ferns con-.LADY DRUMMOND Patroness of the Charity Ball.adorned with crystal and 1 trimming.Miss Dorothy Philips was in white charmeuse, that material that always drapes 80 gracefully and lends itself most charmingly to arrangements of folds.Miss C.Pratt was also wearing white charmeuse, her dancing frock being veiled with ninon.The bright rose tinted % worn b the Misses Edna and Winnifred Perrigo formed a most effective contrast to the debutante attire of their younger sister.Deep pink in a variety of shades was one of the most popular colours of Tuesday evening.Bright cyclamen pink was to be seen, generally expressed in satin or charmeuse, also a vivid rose that suggested the hue of a particularly good strawberry ice.That reminds one that, in their anxiety lest the rooms should become inconveniently heated, the management had erred a trifle on the side of chilliness.Wraps were in great request during the evening and the pretty fashion of uwathing the shoulders in tulle, that obtains at the moment, was very advantageous.Several of the ladies carried bou- uets, pink roses being much in evi- ence, but to my mind none of the flower adornments were so attractive as the big bunches of violets that, with their quiet hue, struck an effective note in some of the dresses.Swansdown was to be seen on, - many frooks, especially those worn by quite young girls and very soft and ming it is.The draped tunics and skirts lend themselves to original effects.Nothing could have been prettier than a tunio of gathered white tulle with a straight border of crimson roses that looped delightfully over the under- dress as the wearer danced.Brocades were in favour, several quite youn irls wearing this rich | material and often a very vivid shade.A tall fair girl looked very well in one of vivid emerald patterned with silk flowers.The gown was cut straight and narrow to under the arm pits and lace formed the draped upper bodice.Very distinguished was the exceptionally lovely toilette worn by Mrs.C.Ernest Gault.Black net pailletted with oxydize and silver covered à cerise under-drers, the oxydize and silver forming & yoke design.Gold shoes were worn and a large white sigrette worn in the hair.Mrs.Victor Buchanan, who came with Mrs.Gault looked very well in a simply cut pale blue satin.Mrs.J.G.Ross wore a lovely gown of coral satin veiled with black shadow lace, embroidered with diamond trimming and had a black aigrette in her hair.Lady Lacoste wore a dress of black velvet with rare old lace on the bodice.We append a list of other noticeable gowns, Miss Artenwrieth was in pale turquoise with a long stole of pailletted net.Mrs.Bryce Allan wore a very handsome dress of very pale grey brocade.Miss Hagel Allan was wearing a handsome wn of white.heavily trimmed with silver Mrs.Berghern wore a dress of pale blue and silver.Mrs.Jeffrey H.Burland wore a gown of white satin hegutifully embroidered with gold.Miss Buckley's dress of paie blue satin was adorned with pink satin roses back aad front and had a long panel of Brussels lace.A very inn Margery Brouse of Toronto wore à beautifully cut incees dress of biack charmeuse led with biack chiffon and edged with silver braid.Mrs.Wilfred Bovey had on a white satin wn, with an over-dress of draped ninon caving hand-painted roses and diamante mm .wis Cahan was wearing à beautiful gown of American Beauty charmeuse satin, with corsage of shadow and net overdress, with heavy pear! trimmings.Mrs Chadwick.of Ottawa, #nre an attractive gown of vivid violet that became her ie Bea Miss trice (\u2018averhill's dress of taffeta had tiny touches of biue, beautifully trimmed with garlands of roses.Miss Frances C'averhili (debuntante) was wearing a white satin gown with trimminge of te and chiffon re.ftaniey Coristine was handsomely attired in yellow charmeuse satia with ermine brilliant trimmines.de re.J.J.Creriman wore pink crepe chine trimmed with cream lace with aa over- of dew chiffon.if: Mrs.Huntley mmoad was wearing a gown of white satin with a pretty over-dress oars, Teatifuily embroidered vith goid sad From Mrs.T J.Drummond was in a handsome | Godfrey { swathed sash of vieux rose velvet and diamante trimming.Miss Cornelia Kohl was wearing a very handsome gown of white satin.Miss Christine Somerville was attired in pale pink satin with panniers of purple, Miss Spencer had on a very striking black and silver dress, the black satin material being draped with silver lace.iiss Kathleen Sweeny of Toronto looked well in a gown of white satin with trimmings of silver and marabout.Mrs.8.B.Townsend was attired in a cream lace gown draped with pink.Miss Marjorie Townsend was wearing a pretty gown of pink satin heavily trimmed with brilliants and American Beauty velvet, Miss G.Wanklyn's pink satin was veiled with ninon with silver trimming.Miss Walker looked well in emerald chiffon over white satin.Miss Weir's dress of pale emerald charmeuse had a kimono bodice adorned with white bugles.A shaded paradise plume was worn in the hair.Mrs.White was gowned in vieux rose charmeuse with a collar of beautiful pointe de Venice lace, Mrs.David Wigmore's graceful dress of blue taffeta silk was draped with spangled net and blue chiffon.Miss Learmonth of Quebec wore pale blue tucked silk with a collar of Irlandaise.Mrs.P.H.Levin was in grey satin with a long tunic embroidered in steel.A bouquet of mauve orchids was worn.Mrs.W.D.Lighthail's dress of white crepe de chine was veiled in bl Chantilly lace.Miss Alice Lighthall was in pale pink charmeuse veiled with diaphanons vieux rose.Miss Sybil Lighthall wore light pink veiled with white and having silver trimmings.Miss Irene Lyonnette of Edmonston, N.B., was wearing a Grecian gown of flesh-colored satin, draped with Greclan embroidery, and heavily mmed with brilliants and pearls.MRS.T.J.DRUMMOND Patroness of the Charity Ball.ms - \u2014\u2014 a \u2014 +.- | Miss Mills of Toronto was in rich white satin with a draped over-dress having a panel | with festouns of pearls.Bright red rose proved very effective.Mrs.E.H.Patterson in black satin b her \" Dlece, Mine Dorothy Patterson who she n crimson satin wit bodi lace velled in red chiffon.* ce of white \u201cMrs.Hal Pangman was in sky blue nl with a lovely tunic of gold tissus.a nf non Mrs.J.A.Mann looked well in & gown of | blue charmeuse satin.Mre.H.V.Meredith was attired 1 satin having à chiffon over-dress of the ime trimmed with sequins and with diamond ornaments.Miss Edith Mcintyre wore a gown of white satin.with an embroidered net over-dress adorned with diamante and crystal.Mrs.M.Moffat had on a handsome gown of pink Duchess satin, with à pink and goid over-drees of Broche ninouû, with bodice of lace and diamante trimmings.Miss Moffat was attirod Iz a gown of coral satin, with bodice of embroidered net, and over-dress of coral Broche velvet, with trimmings of diamante, Misa Muriel Moffatt wore a gown of flesh- colored satin with a green Broche ninon over-drees, with silver lace and diamante trimming.Miss Ethel Moffatt (debutante) was wearing a Paris gown of white Duchesse satin, with a handsome over-dress of lace embroidered in tulle roses in pastel shades, and diamante trimmings.Mrs.Hanford McKee was wearing a heau- tiful gown of pale blue satin, with over-dress d of ninon and diamante trimmings.Miss E.Power O'lirien, was wearing à pink crepe de chine gown over pink charmeuse with lace and pearl trimimngs.Mies Robertson had on sn effective gown of pale cerise satin, the bodice being of cerise chiffon draped over white.Mrs.Farquhar Robertson was attired in a sown of green satin veiled in green and balck, with crystal and fear! embroidery.Miss Monica Roes was atiirod in white satin with swansdown and brilliant trimmings.Mies Scott was attired in a restful and becoming shade of mauve satin.There was an over-drens of ninon and violets were worn Mrs, Edward Rheppard was gowned in flesh colored charmeuse satin, trimmed with crystal and rhinestones, with touches of black veivet.CANADIANS IN PARIS.[ The mild winter is attracting many visitors to Paris.To Canadians, ao- ocustomed to the rigors of 20° below, it must seem somethi of a down South winter resort.mong those enjoying the winter gaieties are Lieut- Col.and Mrs.William A.Grant of Montreal (Hotel James and Albany) Mr.and Mrs.W.Morton of Montreal (Hotel Continental), Mr.A.M.Duckott and Mr.A.W, Birnie of Montreal Grand Hotel), Mr.and Mrs.H.'roft and Mr.and Mrs.L.H.Matson (Fi see Palace), Misses H.and Mker, and Miss M.Reddy of Montreal (Hotel Marlboro), Miss A.Maeclean and Miss L.Cote of Montreal (Hotel de Calais).Toronto folk in the gay sity on the Seine include Mr.F.Kenyon (Hotel Continental) Mr.end Mrs.Dunesa O.Bull (Grand Hotel), Mr.Jeffrey Bull (Hotel de Louvre) uebes some Mr.and Mrshodes and Miss R ucéss blue, with lace trimmings | Mr.Tinson (Hotel Continental) an Foster was in a Dhue rman | Mryma Lamotte-Piquet) and visitors from J.KE.Tanguay (38 Avenue de satin dress dra with embroidered ninon.| Edmonton include Mr.and Mrs.G.Harrison, Mr.A.Brunie and C aad Mrs.V.C.Mulvey.PARAPOXICAL.\u201cI'm cure I should not aet tonight The show's somedian maintaine 1.\u201cI don't know what it ie, but Î Am fociing funay!\u201d he explained.- 7 \u2014 Lippiaceit\u2019s ' peculiarly resonant quality of | fuperb voice and among other so | || Clara Butt Clara Butt, foremost of living contraltos, with her glorious vaice and marvellously vivid personality sang i to an immense and most enthusiastic audience at the Princess Theatre on Monday night.| The concert began on the arrival iof T.R.H.the Duke of Connaught and the Princess Patricia and their suite who occupied a box bearing the \u2018Royal Arms and draped with flags.i The entrance of the royal party was : greeted by the playing of \u2018\u2018God Save | The King.\u201d Mr.Kennerly Rumford, Madame Butt's husband, received a hearty reception and his pleasant personality and musical baritone gained the good | opinion of the audience.He gave .Strauss\u2019s mysterious \u2018\u2018Allerseeten\u2019\u2019 \"and \u201cTraum ducch die Dammerung\u201d with much taste; and then sang Wolf's *\u2018 Der Gartner\u2019 and a delightful song oycle of Grieg\u2019s with an in- - herent musical instinct, : The entrance of Clara Butt was the signal for a burst of cheering.\"Apart from the phenomenal reputa-' \u2018tion that had preceded her, Clara | Butt's is a personality that fills the house.Attired in a magnificent garment of vieux rose crepe brocaded in i velvet and sparkling with gorgeous | diamonds, the stately singer courtsey- ling deeply, first made her obeisance to the occupants of the royal box and then, radiantly smiling, acknowledged , the deafening plaudits that thundered {from all sides.i It is some 3 or 4 years since I last | had the pleasure of hearing the great | contralto, and it was a delight to note how much she has gained in | purity of production and in flexibility.here is an added sweetness, too, in the wonderful, resonant notes of the upper register and more softness in the rich, deep chest notes.No finer exponent could be conceived for the wonderful solidity and depth of Handel's music than Madame Butt in her rendering of \u2018\u2018Rend\u2019l Sereno (Sosarme) and \u2018\u2018Lusinghe piu Care\u201d (Allessandra).In Schumann's enchanting \u2018\u2018 Mussbaum\u2019\u2019 she showed a quality of imagination which must have been precisely what the composer intended, whilst her singing of Schubert's \u2018Die Allmacht™ was perfect in impressive simplicity.\u2019 Ken- The next cycle given by Mrnerley Rumford formed an effective contrast and included such fascinating numbers as \u2018The Gentle Maiden\" (old Irish air) \u2018\u201cMolleen Oge\u201d, and that rousing ballad \u2018King Charles\u201d, all of which delighted the audience.Then the two \u2018\u2018Sweet Singers\u2019 ave Thomas's \u2018Night Hymn At a\u2019\u2019 which so mysteriously recalls the fall of evening as a ship passes on its way.The duet served to show how perfectly the voices blended.Madame Butt\u2019s last cycle included | \u2018L'Angelus\u2019\u2019, which brought out the | her | ngs, : he Lost Chord,\u201d confess to! being rather tired of \u2018The Lost Chord\u2019\u2019 but as Madame Butt has a: voice like an organ her singing of it is unique.We were all charmed to see how: heartily T.R.H.the Governor-Gen- | eral led the applause.Madame Butt and her husband received the con- | gratulations of the royal party during | the performance.| HOWLERS English schon] children are credited with having given these answers in examinations: \u201cThe seven great powers of Europe are gravity, electricity, steam, gas, flywheels, and motors, and Mr.Lloyd- Georges.\u2019 \u201cDuring the interdict in John\u2019s reign, births, marriages and deaths were not allowed to take place.\u201d à \u201cA kelt is part of à Scotchman\u2019s ress.\u201d A SECRET OF SUCCESS Charles Frohman waa talking to a Philadeiphia reporter about the importance of e \u2018\u2019T'hose who work for me,\" he said, \u2018follow my direction down to the very smallest item.To go wrong in detail, you know, is often to fe altogether wrong \u2014 like the dissipated ushan A dissipated hushand, as he stood before his house in the small hours searching for his 'atchkey, muttered over and over to himself: \u201cNow, which did my wife say \u2014hic\u2014have two whiskies an\u2019 get me by twelve, or\u2014 hio\u2014he ve twelve whiskies an\u2019 get bome by wo?\u201d N\\ ! ! ! \u2014and | | TIL 07 SN .A / M A perfume of rare and Sz \u201c 1] subtle delicacy \u2014 fleeting, 1 elusive, yet strangety persistent and A wonderfully true \u2014 \u201cLa Caresse.\u201d A composite flower odor, daintily suggestive of all that is lovely in Nature and Music and Art.«I a Caresse\u2019\u2019 ranks among perfumes as diamonds among jewels or gold among ores.If you appreciate highest quality you will never lire _ of \u201cLa Caresse.\u201d $2.50 an ounce at your Druggist's De ® Cr | à YG / - of 7 LS né N _ .\\ ine 2 \u201cÀ \u201c > \u201c24 < worth it.Send for sample to \" NATIONAL DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO.of Canada, Limited, 40 St, Gabriel St, Montreal DO YOU KNOW THEM?I know a man who's always got A quick and certain cure : For every ill or ailment that A mortal can endure He always wants to try it out Whene'er his friends are sick.But when he\u2019s feeling punk himself, He calls a doctor quick.I know a man who knows just how To fix your touring car; He stands upon the curb and tells You what a chump you are.But when his lawnmower starts to squeak He knows just where to drop The oil to make it run again, And sends it to the shop.I know a man who tells you how You should invest your dough: How you should place your bankroll so \"That it will thrive and grow.| But still this frenzied financier Has never got à cent: ; His wife takes in plain sewing su | That they can pay the rent., Whenever I encounter one Who blows and blows and blows, I have my opinion on .How much he really knows.The conversational gazabo Has got the head of wood The quiet party is the one Who's certain to make good.pd Journal.A BALLADE OF BARREN ROSES (By Gertrude Bartlett, in the Atlantic Monthly.) There sounds his step receding on the stair, The bridegroom's, that my love could not detain, For whose captivity the woman's snare Of veiled brows, was woven all in vain.A rose | held he keeps with tender care Tell him, dear Jesu, that no blossom blows, For ita own beauty, howsoever rare.The Lord of Life loves not a barren rose.The destiny of roses is to bear Their scarlet fruit through dread autumnal | rain And hold upon the crystal drift alr or winter days, the cups that ne, again New springlime loveliness for earth to wear When the verdure now her bounds fnclose Is gone furever, ltly with the tare.or this our Lord loves not a barren rose.What thought of his is left for me to share, Aroused from that rapt dream in which we twain Lighted our little lamps of joy.to flare long a single path to Love's domain?Will he, in that mysterious region where The ruby chalice on his vislon glows, Exceeding all the stars, remembrance spare To one his Lord loves not, a barren rose?IF WE UNDERSTOOD Could we judge all deeds by motives, Bee the guud and bad within, Often we should love the sinner All the while we loathe the sin; Could we know the powers working To o'erthrow integrity, We should judge each other's errors With more patient charity.Mr.and Mrs.Wechsler of New York announce the engagement of their daughter, Augusta, to Mr.Chas.H.Kandestin of Montreal.Miss Reine Archambault, daughter of the well-known K.C., Mr.Y.L.Archambault, is engaged to Mr.1.A, The Victorian Order Financial Campaign in Montreal.' A.M.Robertson, second vice-president.Belisle, notary of St.Eustache, P.Q.\u2014Rudyard Kpling : COMPLIMENTS.Said a certain eminent actor, who at the age of 59 looks no more than \u201cI try to keep my hair on and my stomach off \u2014that is the true secret of perennial youth.\u201d _ Then he told one of his famous stor- jes illustrative of the horrors of corpulence.\u201cA fat man,\u201d he said, \u2018could not help laughing one day at the ludicrous appearance of a very bow-legged chap\u2014one of those arch-looking chaps you know, \u201cThough a total stranger to him the fat man slapped the bow-legged chap ou the back and said: \u201c By jingo, brother, you look as if you'd been riding a barrel.\u2019 \u201cThe bow-legged man smiled and ked his forefingers deep into the at man's soft, loose stomach.* \u2018And you look as if you 'd been swallowing one,\u2019 he said.\u201d \u2014Washing- ton Star.GRAND OPRY | Grand Opry, as à form of entertainment \u2018+ ba heat, \u2019 can I love to cough up ten good bones and buy myself a seat, To hear some howling tenor from some low- browed forel land Come forth and yell a lot of stuff that I can't understand.1 simply dote on listenin\u2019 for sev'ral mortal ours, While them high-priced sopranners exercise their vocal powers.I think I get my money's worth, oh, yes, of se, ! do: course, And 1 am always sorry when the jambores is through.There's nothing I like half so well, and for » chance to go.I'd walk five miles in my bare fest right through the ice and snow; I know what you are thi , I've got your thought wave quite.You're th nking \u2018Im a liar, and I guess you're thinking right.\u2014Chicago Journal.SLAYERS \u201cYet each man kills tha thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitte look, \"Some with a fiattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, i The brave man with a sword! : \u2018Bome kill their love when they are young, , .And some when they are old: Some strangle with the ds of Lust, + Some with the bands of Gold: | The kindest use a knife, use | The dead so soon grow cold.\u201d ~\u2014\u2014Oscar Wilde.A LONG REIGN | The king of Montenegrio, who is figuring | so much in the news of t ay, has had one of the longest reigns of any contem | sovereign, having occupied his throne for 4 i years.In length of reign he Is only exceeded ; the Austrian emperor and the king of | Greece, and by Prince John of Liechtenstein, ; who has ruled over this little principality L.: for 54 years, two years longer than the ki \u2018of Greece.By a peculiar coincidence i these four rulers succeeded at the same age | \u201418 years.\u2014 London Globe.The picture shows: Sitting\u2014Mrs.T.Fessenden, vice-president, on the left; and beside ber, in the order named, Mrs.J.R.Dobson, treasurer; Mrs.T.Ludington, president, and Mrs The ladics are counting the day\u2019s receipts.a Ae A CWE SEA.WEEE AREAS PIETER UN Montreal, Saturday, February 1, 1913.What's the Matter With Montreal ?SCENES LIKE THESE SHOULD AROUSE MONTREAL TO ACTION./ MONTREAL'S SLUM QUESTION.\u2014A Stable converted into a Four Tenement Building situated in the rear of the buildings on one of our main streets.underground tenement in which three deaths from tuberculosis occurred within eighteen months in the families of three consecutive occupants.By Geo.HaMBLETON.| HAT'S the matter with Montreal?i \u2018\u2018She\u2019s all ri\u2014,\" you were no doubt about to reply with that easy-going insouciance which characterizes tho | Montrealer.But is it?(if I may already drop the petulant feminine.) Have you ever met a Montrealer, knowing anything of Montreal, who was really willing to challenge com- : parison with his city?He will\u2019 properly praise the mountain, but the mountain was there be- ' fore Montreal and successive civic administrations have only surrounded it with dirty streets.He may extol the beauties of the island, but the ferries he cannot praise.Depend upon it, it is only the young and inexperienced Montrealer who has the courage to assert that in this or that important particular, Montreal is far in advance of New York or Paris, Berlin or Vienna.The trouble îs that the Montrealer takes little interest in the affair of his city.Let :ne endeavor to sketch a little scene I saw à short time ago: The street is narrow and filthy with accumulations of dirt and refuse.The roadway between the side-walks (you can only call them side-walks by courtesy, for they are scarcely fit to be walked upon) is heaped with slushy snow which looks as though it will lie there till the warm days of Spring.The ribbon of blue sky is veiled with a tangle of wires.In the shack on the other side of the way some poor family have their home, The tiles seem to be madly racing over one another in an endeavour to bury themselves in the slush below; and the roof bends and billows as thongh it were riding on some turbulent tide.Thero is a chimney -stack nearby which strives to emulate the leaning tuwer, and a neighbouring row of houses are all quarrelling with the atreet-line.Children are playing in the street in spite of the filth\u2014-indeed the filth has become to them almost as a laymate.They have the heavy, opeless, dispirited look of the slum- child innured to despair and want.Where, think you, is this\u2014the East End of London or the slums of New York?Notatall.Itis merely what may be seen in a score of Montreal's by-streets and lanes.lt is St.Maurice street to be precise, as the writer saw it \u20148 little east of McGill near Notre Dame.But let me give a few instances of slum-dwelling in Montreal, as related to me by a nurse of the Victorian Order of Nurses.They represent cases which have actually received the assistance of the Order: We had a case in 8t.Felix street not long ago.There was a famil of four living in two rooms whic were mainly underground.only light they had was from a very small window.They paid $9 per month in reat.Here is another, from near Mance street this time: The water-pipes had burst and there had been no water in the house for two weeks.The only water the had was obtained from neighbours.The man, his wife and four children were all sick and living in one room.Upstairs lived another family of nine.Complaints had to the landlord about the pipes, but he said the repairs would cost too much.Take this from Delisle street: The and was built against a shed.There was one little window to the front room but none to the back.The only entrance to the back room was by a door-way leading f h front.There was a coal -oil lamp in the beck room with no means ventilation except through the front.The been made : ities.place eonsisted of two rooms | point out that Montreal is sadly be- people.S \u201cEverybody agrees that Montreal is the worst administered city on the continent.\u201d\u2014Sir Lomer Gouin, | Prime Minister of the Province of Quebec.Our nurses frequently encounter shocking conditions in the course of their work.Not long ago, a nurse was called in to attend a Russian dying of tuberculosis.He was in a room without a window, and the door, the only means of ventilation, was not only closed but covered by a thick curtain.The atmosphere was so dreadful that the nurse fainted.Our Slums as Bad as Any in the World.If the plain truth is to be told, there are slums in Montreal as bad, in proportion to the size of the elty.as in most centres of population In Europe.And it stands to the discredit of the Montrealer that no serious endeavour has been made to solve the problem of the slum.The City Council is busy with its internal warfare; the ery of the Board of Control is that it has no money; the citizen apathetically pays his taxes, and vaguely wonders when drastic amendments to the City Charter will effect some definite and tangible reform.Meanwhile, the great city is throwing out its tentacles in a haphazard way which must result eventually in a widening of the slum- area.Rents are rapidly increasing.The average quality of housing im roves little if any.The poor family 1s called upon to pay $8 a month for a covered shack in the heart of the slum-area.Consider how Germany deals with her cities.Compare Montreal with Duesscldorf on the Rhine.Duesseldorf is primarily an industrial town.It stands on the border of the Black Country of Germany.Its growth had been rapid.It might have had the sylvan delights of Griffintown.But Dusseldorf encouraged manufactures by planning its city; trade is never permitied to be a disfigurement.Duessedlorf is under no pall of smoke for the simple reason that no factory is allowed to be built on the side of the city from which come the prevailing winds.The streets are wide, clean and planted with trees.The city is ringed with well-planned suburbs.It grows on a definite and well-order- ed scheme.So with Frankfurt, so with German cities generally.Nuremberg in Bavaris, which glories in its mediaeval buildin and its old-fashioned ways, could give lessons to Montreal on the - cleaning of the streets.Slums are Not Our only Disadvantages.But town-planning on the lines of the German cities is scarcely a possibility for Montreal.at any rate for years to come.It is an ideal, à thing to be discussed in the abstract.Hope of its realization may be deferred till \u2014 the Greek calends.The Montrealer has other, and perhaps more pressing disadvantages to overcome.Here are a few: (I) Inefficient transportation faeil- (2) Inefficient cleaning and lighting of the streets.(3) Heavy taxation.{ Pdor and costly water supply.t needs no clamorous eritie to nd the times in the matter of transportation.The street cars are large and comfortable.Some from the (ther are of the period before modern | Board of transportation plans were evolved.The city worker who hails from sub- urbis has little esuse to complain of : out the Boar hours, there is not the slightest doubt Control has its increased powers al- of his right to make a strong protest.\u2018 though, presumably, work might still The service at such times is totally inadequate.Jt scarcely meets half the demand made upon it.find the strap-hanger in most cities, but not in many is the genus so highlu developed as in Montreal.He stands by himsclf.You may recognize the Montreal strap-hanger by his sureness of foot, his unerring swing into a moving car, the ease and dexterity with which he wiil strap-hang without a strap, and maintain his equilibrium while reversing the laws of gravity.He is an equilibrist from necessity, an acrobat by force of habit, a contortionist from inability to be anything else.To see him at this best stand at the corner of Bleury and St-Catherine street.or at any of the important points of intersection.about six o'- clock in the evening.The crowd tramples through the slushy snow and invades the car.It ina whirlwind of passengers, sweeping past the eon- ductor and densely packing the vehicle even to the platform and the steps.As the car moves away, the loss skilled of the equilibrists cling to it like limpets.It would be amusing were it not so near to tragody.Such is the tramways service of the commercial metropolis of Canada.It was the defence of the Montreal Street Railway Co., and presumably it is that of the Montreal Tramways Company, that to place more cars on the present routes would only increase the congestion.And, so far as it goes, the defence is probably reasonable.But it leaves the strap-hanger only the bare consolation of his strap.The situation uas long passed the point of being tolerable.Our Streets a Source of Disgrace.\u2018The Street Cleaning Department\u201d, remarked the Montreal \u2018Star\u2019 recently,\u201d is like the Turk awaiting death.It cries \u201cKismet\u201d and bows its submissive head.\u201d The \u2018Star\u2019 added: In 1913, we are led to ex ters will be better because will be expended on roads instead $693,000 set apart in 1912.As thin now are, one is compelled to wade t, mat- through a sea of mud on to a car most probably overcrowded and reeking with the amell of sodden clothes.floors are wet and filthy because ple are forced to cross wet and filthy streets.Yet people wonder that tub- | erculosis is not stamped out! Under the old regime, the condition of the streets was attributed to patronage: Aldermen urged the demands of their respective wards and went the prize\u2019\u2019 (au plus fort, la poche) To-day.it is another story.The Board o rate oumplained before the The Aldermen retorted that no rt was returned with- of Control amending it in some important particular, ofte n an inaccuracy.The Legislature supported, in the main, the Controllers\u2019 contentions.The powers.Under an amendment important re creased of them.to the City Charter, every report of tho | \u2018ontrol \u2018 \u2018which has not beea _ rejected or amended within thirty days \"from its receipt by the Council, shall ' be deemed adopted and shall take of- | | laxity in administration?In this place lived a family of six.| the fares sithough he is occasionally | fest from the expiration of such delay.\u201d A final instance last annual report the Order: @ eme tv-atum =.ve va: i woted from the entitled to com {of the rush hours.in of the servies out And in the rush It now remains to be seea what cea | be done for the streote.Tae Board of You may ; Tl ?winter must have meant a consider- 1,347,000 | The | pictures- | uely declared a former chairman of | the Road Committee before the Cannon Commission, \u2018\u2018to the strongest ontrol complains (or at say | Quebec | .Legislature a few weeks ago) that the City Council is to blame in having eid up reports hy calling \u2018 \u2018next meet- | ng Board was granted in- | in 1908.as assessments and rentals have crept upwards.like $200,000 on t be seriously delayed by the Council holding up a report with amendments.The light snowfall during the present able saving to the city.Will 1913 mark a great step forward in the matter of streets?Without wishing to be unduly pessimistic, the writer ventures to predict that no great reform may be expected until, among other things, further radical changes have been made in the constitution of the city\u2019s government, Our Taxation is Higher Than in Most Cities.That the taxation in Montreal is heavy, the Montrealer knows only too well.But how heavy it is as compared with other municipalities, it is next to impossible to say.The lack of un - formity in the method of levying taxation makes comparisons misleading.Endeavours have been made hoth by publie officials and private individuals to draw up comparative tables, but they have all had to avow their inability to find a really reliahle guide through the maze.Till some uniformity among the different municipalities is established, accurate comparisons can not be drawn.But there is one tax\u2014 the water tax \u2014which permits of fairly accurate comparisons.It is a tax which hits the citizen particularly hard both because the rate of taxation is high, and because the citizen does not feel that he is getting an adequate return.The \u201cquality of Montreal water has improved somewhat since the day when, giving evidence before Commissioner Cannon, the Superintendent of the Water Works, described it as being, during part of Spring and Autumn, \u2018\u2018undoubtedly dangerous to publie health.\u201d Yet it is not now beyond reproach.Its appearance is against it.he supply is often erratic.And for this water, (obtained from the river) the citizen has to pay a heavy tax, yielding a profit to the city.In Montreal, the tax for dwellin houses is five per cent.on the assesse rental.How does this compare with the rate in other cities?Let me quote ; 8 local paper which recently discussed - the question in its columns: In Cleveland, (Ohio.,) the water rate for a dwelling house of 12 rooms amounts to $11.50\u2014bath, 82; lavatory, $2; rest of dwelling, 87.50.For such a dwelling in Montreal the charge would be fully twice as much.Ii.Cincinnati, (Ohio.,) the annual water-rate for a ten-roomed house, including bath is $13.For a similar house ia Montreal.the [ate would ave per cent.higher.In foonester, a dwelling assessed at a valuation of $3,000 has a water rate of $13; the rate in Montreal for a like dwelling would be over $17.In New York, rates are computed on a basis of frontage, width and height: thus, a three storey dwelling with a 25 feet fron has à water tax of $15.This is 25 per cent.less than what is charged in Montreal under like conditions.Is the Lack of Civic Spirit to Blame ?The Montreal water tax was reduced But revenue has increased The City is still able to profit of something sale of its water.And what is the remedy for this make an annual When, on September 20th, 1909, the citisens approved of the creation of » Board of Control, it was felt by many that reform was at hand.The day of - patronage was over.Ward influence would be stamped out.But three years have gone and the streets are still a disgrace to the city.The tramway service has not improved.The slums we have always with us.Has the new system failed in its purposes?There are many members of the City Council who would unhesitatingly support a return to the old order.ut theirs, at any rate, is a policy which leads nowhere.They would steer the harque safely past Scylla, merely to wreck it on Charybdis.On the other hand, the plea is raised for government by a small council elected by the citizens at large, instead of by wards.Again, there is the claim\u2014it In the direction pointed by the arrow is an MONTREAL\u2019S SLUM QUESTION.\u2014Interior view of a Two-room Slum Tenement which shelters five Each of these rooms is about eight feet square, the back one being dark.was voeiferously argued before the Legislature \u2014for more autonomy (indefinite term!) that Montreal shall rule in Montreal.Other suggestions and plans there have been almost without number.Whatever amendments may be made to the city charter, one thing is certain: there will never be any lasting good till the Montrealer rouses himself from his apathy Montreal might be one of the noblest, cities in the world.Its magnificent sweep of country, the majesty of its river and the beauty of its mountain are such as Duesseldorf and Frankfurt cannot equal.But they are as a squandered heritage.And for it the Montrealer has only to thank his lack of civic spirit.The Marriage Laws of Quebec Many English and other emigrants come to Canada to make their home here.It often happens that when they leave the Old Country they are engaged to be married.Circumstances may make it impossible for the man to go home to be married.The girl comes out to Canada and the marriage takes place as soon as it can be arranged.The couple are married according to the laws of the provinee of Quebee, which are peculiar and restricting and which are different to the marriage laws that obtain in other provinces of the Dominion.At the same time, such s British carelessness in these matters, many knots are tied even in the course of a single year without the couples having more than the haziest of notions that such disabilities exist.Canadians, having suffered much from the inadequate provisions of the Quebec marriage law in the past, are at length bestirring themselves to get it altered.Madame Uerin-Lajoie, a brilliant student of law and the wife of one of Montreal's leading advocates, compiled a treatise a few years ago a considerable part of which deals with this subject.Madame Lajoie gives courses on law in schools.She has many pupils in Montreal, especially in the convents, where her book is in use and where her young pupils follow the lesson with the keenest interest., 80, if the women of the present generation fail to get justice and equality of treatment, those who are now \u2018growing up will be able to seize the victory.We speak on this page to Englishwomen coming to Canada that they may know how they stand and use all their influence to get their position altered.Briefly, there is no Married Womans\u2019 Property Act in Canada.Thin here are even worse, very considerably worse than they were in early Vietorian England and the time before.Couples married without a marriage contract are governed by the common law, which is that community.That is to whatever property there 1s belongs to a common fund of which the husband becomes the proprietor and master.The rights of the two are very unequal because, though in theory the t wo share alike, there is nothing to prevent the husband from dissipating the common fund by reckless extravagance as he is the administer; whereas the wife cannot administer, so the husband never stands to lose.The consorts may possess personal property besides the common property, which is calied their private perty.this, however, does not inolude revenues and the husband alone administers the private property of himself and bis wife.it ard to the common property, he handles it mot only as adminis trator but as proprietor.It is possible, however, to make à marriage contract under whieh there is separation of property.Under this arrangement à wife aælministers her own property; she must.however, te contribu to Ler means, to the expenses of marriage and the support of the children.Many wives choose this arrangement as they think it makes their position more secure than under the legal communi- by They do not realize, however, that if the husband dies without a will, the wife's position remains exactly what it was under the marriage contract.He might have been a comparatively poor man at marriage and 8 millionaire at death, but the wife cannot lay claim to his millions.She can only claim the possibly very moderate sum assessed to her at the time of her marriage.Again, under both the \u201ccommunity\u201d and \u201cseparation\u201d contracts it is not possible for a man to enrich his wife during marriage, save by gifts of ewellery and other personal matters.o avoid the inconveniences of this arrangement the curious custom of \u201cdons d'avenir\u2019, gifts of the future, has long been practised.This means that at the time of marriage the man may give his wife an imaginary sum \u2018to come to her in the future.He can put this sum at any figure he likes although at the time the gift was made he nay bave actually owned very little or ven nothing.his gift is paid as he gains.Creditors have often been the loser by this law as the money that should be their's is set aside (sometimes fraudulently) as part of the \u2018don d\u2019svenir\u201d of the marriage oon- t.The marriage law of Quebec is founded on the old Roman Law and is an unworthy relic of the time when woman was in a ition of slaver and it was foared that.where hor personal influence was strong, she might despoil her husband! he system is full of contradictions and absurdities with which it is not possible to deal in a brief article but the few points on which we have touched will show our readers how insecure is the ition of women under this law and how necossary it is that it should be altered.HOW HE KNEW.Shericck Holmes, the great detective, looked oritically at the cigar that the Mite, thin.pale-faced man had just gives him.\u201cYou're married, sir\u2019, he said, \u2018\u2018and you have a wife that is very fond of expensive gowns, fashionable hats, and lusuries?\u201cYen, that's indeed true.ut \u2014 =\" ou have four or five da ters that are very extravagant.s œ { sons thas spend just as freely ~~ upte o \u201cYou astound me.Butpou have > a on your hows very thing a8 you ç toll ms how you knoe Arm ut please CUMNNE IN THE BLACK BELT A traveler stopped fur luncheon at the emaël railway station esting-house in à M isste- spl Sowa.An old darkey shuffed up and # # tr rte isn AS.RÉ .-l.= dette idéal Al iil.+n aiiriisiiionnt-.i.> rl mili. & .# + ee NEW TAILORED WEAR ANYTHING BUT MANNISH | HE woman who has a leaning toward the mannish in tailored wear, Montreal, Saturday, worsted which is light, supple and very lustrous, have been used by the couturiers for many of the new coat and skirt costumes intended for wear in the Southern winter resorts.February 1, 1913.Acquire stains from muddy or wet pavements.Very smart are walking boots of this new tan leather in the new buttoned style with very low tops and heels as low as those on a man\u2019s boot.Simple tailored suits for early spring wear will be coat-sleeves and small revers in imitation of effects WOrD : and summer wear, and especially for travelling wear\u2014is ; larly feminine and dainty; but the less frilly collar of soft, by the sterner sex.will be very much out of it this season: especially favored.and most women will be glad to see a | fine embroidery and lawn will be preferred by most women and the only thing that can be done with a last-year! revival of these practical and satisfactory warm weather | for ordinary wear.tailored suit along utilitarian and masculine lines, will be to slash its skirt, bind every visible edge with silk braid, add cuffs, collar, and a belt of contrasting material, ' and strew ornate buttons with attending loops over the surface.Tailored wear is now a compromise between the trig, | conventional street costume long established as correct in the civilized West and the voluptuous draperies of the Far East.Harem styles have invaded Europe and even! the tailor must fall into line and make his skirts simulate baggy Oriental trousers or his custom will be lost.Everything tailored that has come out of Paris this spring shows the Oriental influence in more or less marked degree, though each couturier has put into his or her models those personal touches that give interest and individuality ! to the modes.Paquin sticks to the long coat which she insists is most becoming and graceful to all figures.Drecoll bides midway between the long and short lengths with cutaway models abbreviated at the front but sloping sharply downward at the back.Callot and Poiret, the daring ones, come out boldly with the most absurd little jackets scarvely reaching below the waistline.But in all these expressions of the mode there is one touch of kinship; seams are evidently under the ban and rare is the tailored ooat that does not disguise by some trick of cut or trimming, the ordinary back and side seams by which an ordinary tailored coat is fitted.Sometimes the back panel spreads out in tabs that reach around to the front; sometimes pocket motifs rise from the hip almost to the armhole; again the armhole will be carried down to the waist, the front and back sections of the garment lapping under a single button.A Poiret suit is built in this way.The short coat having a strong Chinese suggestion with its straight, unfitted lines, and its huge armholes.There are no sleeves in this Mandarin-garment, the full draped sleeves of the bodice protruding through the armholes of the coat.The Poiret suit, which is built of bottle green sicilienne, is unique and daring but it bids fair to influence spring fashions to a marked degree.Sicilienne, mohair and a mixture of mohair with THER SLASHED SKIRT A SPRING FEATURE.Everything in Paris in the skirt line: - ia slashed now aad many of the new American coat and suit models show the slashed suggestion in greater or leas degree, which means that the slash of the skirt may reveal the trim buttoned boot very framkiy or show it mow and thea in even more eoquettish manner.This Collet Soeurs suit eovidences the daring and individuality of this bouse which follows the mode yet makes nothing that is commonplace.The short cost siopes at ** back to the hip aad is very chée with ite single button just below the bust.suitings.A Drecoll suit of sage green mohair and worsted mixture with a corded ottoman weave was worn as a going away costume by a bride starting out for Palm Beach A SKILFUL USE OF STRIPED MATERIAL.Here again is noticeable the endeavor to cover up seams | in the coat.The cross arrangement of the material in hoth skirt and coat is well planned, and the pipings and collar of red silk give liveliness and individuality to the black and white serge suit.Patent leather buttoned boots, a black handbag and black and white hat add the finishing touches.last week.This sage green suit had a most interesting collar of a new zigzag woven cotton stuff with threads of black, pale yellow, and white, and the buttonholes, of which there are many on the coat, are embroidered in black, white.and sage green, the buttons being large white pearl balls.This Drecoll suit har a skirt draped in the \u201cArab\u201d style \u2014baggy about the knees but very close at the ankles\u2014and dainty boots of patent leather with French heels and buttoned tops of gray suede will accompsny the suit.Another familiar fabric revived this year is lansdowne, a mixture of silk with worsted which has inimitable draping qualities.Lansdowne is as soft and clinging as charmeuse and would be impossible for the eonventional type of tailored suit in mannish style, but used in the draped, Oriental effects of this season it is enchanting.A coat and skirt suit of faded rose lansdowne was worn at Palm Beach last week by a young matron whose costumes are the despair and envy of her feminine acquaintances.The skirt was caught up in but one place, but oh, the artfulness of that single drapery which made the whole garment fall in lines of grace and distinction.The coat, it coat it could be called, was a Russian blouse affair of brocaded velvet with raised gray velvet figures on a ground of faded rose silk.A girdle of crushed satin belted the Russian coat and the small hat of undulated black horsehair had a long, straight ostrich feather in the grayish rose tone of the costume.High heeled buttoned hoots peeped beneath the dragging, draped skirt.It is the exceptional skirt now that is not slashed, either in front or at one side, the slash at the back is not as often seen this season.Sometimes the lashed edges are bound with braid and they may lap far enough to hide the boot completely or they may have quite a frankly revealing cut.Of course all this publicity of the foot calls for very dainty footwear and boots are worn with the modern tailored gown that would have been considered out of place anywhere except in à drawing room a few seasons ago.The Fremchwoman affects Louis heels even with her walking hoot, but with tailored street costumes the smartly dressed American woman usually prefers a Cuban heel, as high as she fancies, but rather straight in line.Buttoned boots are the requirement with all formal and semi-formal street costumes and one may have dull ealf boots with tops of suede or patent leather boots with tops of dull ealf, suede or cloth.The faceted glass buttons are not favored for street wear, flat riveted buttons being the smarter sort.Tan boots are worn with outing and knockabout costumes and there is à new tan leather which may be wiped clean | with & damp sponge when soiled, and which does not i , When Eugenics Prevail | DON'T marry the clinging vine girl.In spite of her | bewitching beauty, what you interpret to be maid- i enly reserve and innocence may be only weak-mindedness, according to Dr.Victor C.Vaughan of the medical faculty | i of the University of Michigan, in a lecture on \u2018Eugenics | -and Race Betterment.\u201d | \u201cIt is à regrettable fact that the female moron, espe- i cially in early womanhood and when of high grade, is ver | attractive,\u201d said Dr.Vaughan.\u2018Her face has the doll- .like beauty so fatal to the callow youth.She appeals to her ' admirer, and he interprets her weak-mindedness to be maidenly reserve and innocence.Lo.\u201cMany a young man of excellent stock has fallen a victim to the bewitching moron girl.Her vine-like clinging will | : entwine her lover or any other post within her reach.Every | , family physician knows how dangerous such marriages are, how disastrously they end.I wish I could tell every young man to shun the frivolous but attractive girl.She is to be 'found in every community.The object of the eugenist i is not to multiply her kind, but to exterminate her.; \u201cSocial duty has compelled me more than once to wit- | ness the marriage of a young man of sterling worth to a moron girl, and always I have been tempted to cry out against the outrage.\u2019 Dr.Vaughan also made a direct appeal to the young women when he said: \u201cDo not marry a man of bad habits with the hope of | reforming him.Even if you succeed in this attempt, which most frequently fails, you will likely bear children who will repeat the faults of their father.Do not marry any man unless you wish your children to be like him.\u201d r.Vaughan deplored the conditions in this country that keep a decent young man, poor in purse, from loving and trying to marry a bright girl because she happens to be an heiress.The result is, according to Dr.Vaughan, that the rich girl is often compelled to marry a fool, be he a foreign one with a title or a native without, and in either case she seems doomed to hecome the mother of fools.\u201cThe eugenist does not propose that marriage selections shall be determined by statute,\u201d said Dr.Vaughan, \u201cbut it does propose to so educate the young that selections shall be made on more rational grounds than is now done.The eugenist will endeavor to induce the state to restrict the reproduction of the obviously undesirable, restrict reproduction in the weak-minded, insane, alcoholic and criminal and deny parenthood to those suffering with diseases that would cripple offspring, \u201cIn one county in Michigan is a group of families, all closely connected by intermarriage, only five per cent of the members of which are mentally normal.The total cost for the maintenance of defective members of these THE VEST APPEARS ON MANY NEW SUITS.Though all women cannot stand the broken-up effect produced by a vest of contrasting color at the coat front, there are figures to which thin style in particularly becoming.The spring suit illustrated here has a vest of black and white striped panne velvet, the vest rising to form a high collar band over which turns a Robespierre collar of black velvet.The suit is built of dark blue serge with trimmings of braid and fancy buttons.At one side are flatiy pressed pleats and the length is right for walking, the skirt hem falling to the instep of the buttoned boot.B =a sone em + brightened by coat collars of sheer machine embroidery\u2014 | now more fashionable than lace for such purpose.Callot | ; .; ; lis using frills of very fine St.Gall embroidery in lacy pat- ; who abides by straight, plain skirts, i The silks, light sicilienne\u2014an admirable fabric for spring | tern on her short, jaunty coats in an effect that is partiou- | | | | | | | r BRAID EDGES ARE THE CRAZE.A binding of narrow silk braid at all edges of this tailored costume gives an inestimable air of chic to the whole model, and most of the exclusive, custom tailored models show this braid binding.The suit pictured is an especially smart cutaway model of dark blue serge with a binding of black braid at all edges and a turnover black panne collar also bound with braid.The arrangement of the pleats in the skirt is graceful, and the little vest of red silk is admirable for wear over open-nccked blouses of embroidery or net.families in Michigan state institutions hus been over $86,- 000.From these families there are now 38 in the Home for the Feeble-Minded at Lapeer, 113 feeble-minded at large and 22 leading lives of shame.\" \u201cThe most distressing thing with which cugenists are at resent concerned is the inheritance of defective mentality,\u201d e said.\u2018The prevalence of feeble-mindedness in this country is becoming alarming, I do not want to be thought an alarmist or a pessimist, but the American people are threatened with the spread of mental and moral degeneracy, \u201cThere must be laws preventing the marriage and reproduction of the unfit,\u201d said Dr.Vaughan.\u201cIn an effort to determine who are unfit, surveys are now being made by men and women trained for this work.My plan would be that a health officer or commissioner should be located in every densely populated county in the country and his time should be given to the preservation of health.He should locate every case of inheritable defect, physical, mental or moral, and be ready to advise as to measures necessary to prevent the reproduction of the unfit; study the conditions under which the wayward children are being reared ; ascertain whether their homes are unfit for them, or they unfit for their home; whether their defects are due to nature or to nurture; become acquainted with the tendency toward degeneration, and thus stitle crime before it is born.\u201cCrime is a disease due to heredity or environment, and at present wo permit it to breed and come to maturity in ore midst.\u201d WHERE THE FIGHT BEGINS.AM ONG other good works, the Russell Sage Foundation is fighting loan sharks, says the Saturday Evensng Post.o that end it has prepared à motion-picture film portraying the experience of a clerk who fell into the hands of a cutthroat lender.In the Four.ion's circular des cribing this film the story begins as follows: \u201cA clerk, on account of the illness of his child, finds himself in great need of money.He happens to see in the morning paper the alluring advertisement of a loan company, offering confidential loans without security at low rates.He goes to the loan company\u2019 and so on.Of course he sees the alluring advertisement in the morning paper.In the same morning paper he might have found alluring advertisements of quack medicine, consisting mostly of whisky and opium, but guaranteed to cure the little patient at only a dollar and a half for the large bottle and a dollar for the small.If this clerk were convinced that his child's health required change of climate he could find in his morning paper alluring advertisements of fake land agents, offering à fine little farm at merely nominal figures on monthly payments.Or he could discover alluring advertisements of swindling investment concerns that would rob him much more thoroughly than the usurer.This stricture no longer applies to all morning\u2014 or even- ing\u2014papers.Some of them will no longer go into hand- and-glove partnership with daylight robbers of the and ignorant by selling advertiseing space to them; but a good many others still act as touts for awindlers.Glanoe over the advertisements in your own morning .If they include the hait of loan sharks, quacks and fake investments gauge its editorial pretensions accordingly.HOW TO DISPERSE A CROWD The day before Christmas » band of Salvation Army soldiers took station at Broad and Wall strects.A report- or ,who was listening to the remarks of the Salvation leader, said to a policeman: \u2018\u2018They ought to get a good collection today.\u201d \u2018The crowd won't last long when the hat starts,\u201d $1 aored the officer.The collection amounted to about \u201cDid you ever hear the story of the new recruit on the police force when Theodore velt was Police Commissioner?\u2019 asked the policeman.\u201cThe young officer had donned his uniform for the first time and Roosevelt sent for him.\u2018Pst, sup a crowd should colleet on Broadway and you were the only officer on the scene.How would you disperse it?\u2018Start a collection.\u2019 he replied.HIGH RURAL INTEREST RATES.It is figured that, counting commissions and renewal charges, the 12,000,000 farmers of the United States pay $510,000,000 of interest on borrowed capital at the rate of 814 per cent a year.This is because rach farmer insists on going it alone rather than working with his neighbor under the form of a co-operative credit aystem.such as enables the German farmer to borrow at 4 1g per cent.or less and the French farmer to do even better than that.Farm loans at 414 per cent would make it much easier to get people to stay on the land or even go back to it, especially if the loaa could be liquidated by a series of payments covering a period of twenty years.Some middle western states are doing this now and are eatirely satisfied with the results, 220 me en sama mw gr A \u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Ey wer nr Any - Montreal, Saturday, February 1, 1913.| Montreal\u2019s Beautiful Homes I\u2014The Palatial Residence of Sir Hugh Graham on Sherbrooke Street West I\u201d is only natural that Montreal, the ! metropolis of Canada, should eon- tain many of the finest homes in this country.It is a city of great wealth, : the home-city of many wealthy men, whose growing income has caused them | to increase home comforts and gather | around them objects in which they take pride.That is the reason why the older cities contain the most beau- | tiful homes, residences in which men who have done much toward progress delight to spend their hours of relaxa- | tion and, with cultivated taste, surround themselves with the beautiful things of this world.The home-loving : spirit combined with success in a grow- , ing and prosperous country has filled : this city with dwellings which are the | delight and pride of the owners.Not the least of these splendid residences is that of Sir Hugh and Lady Grabam, situated at the corner of | Sherbrooke and Stanley streets.There : are more pretentious dwellings within | the limits of the city, but it is doubtful if there is a better example of a refined and studiously selected home.The grey stone exterior is rather inclined toward severity, the few decorative | features being in the Gothic style of | architecture.It bears every evidence of studied design and careful workman- | ship in execution, and is absolutely in keeping with its surroundings.he | entrance follows the Colonial feeling, | which is heightened when one enters the house.The entrance hall is roomy and well proportioned.It is decorated in a panelled effect of ivory enameled ma- | ogany and dull red, executed after the Colonial style of interior decoration.The ivory and red of the mural | embellishments blend harmoninouly , with the dull red, hand-made Persian carpet.At the far end of the hall, | beyond a decorative feature consisting ! of fluted columns, is a magnificent Caen-stone carved mantle which is surmounted by an artistic stained window representing a pastoral scene.The beamed ceiling and wide, sweeping stairway oarry the Colonial idea up to the upper hall which is decorated in the same style executed in white snd dull red.The hall is furnished in beautiful and harmonious ctyle in fact, it has been said by an authority that it contains some of the finest examples of Rennaissance furniture in Canada.Much of this has been obtained by Sir Hugh and Lady Graham during their travels.At the foot of the stairway are two magnificent candelabra, the fluted columns of which are in perfect harmony with the mural decorations.These candelabra are really jewels.They are specimens of Italian workmanship of superb design, heavily gold plated and exquisitely hand chased.Among other notable articles are to be seen a beautifully carved walnut screen of Spanish workmanship, and a large carved walnut cabinet which comes from Italy.Placed upon this cabinet, and in various other parts of the hall, are a number of exquisite vases from the most noted potteries of Europe.: The decorations of the stately dining room are after Sheraton, a style much in vogue in Britain since the seventeenth century.The walls are paneled in mahogany inlaid with satinwood and ebony, The mantle is of dark green marble framed in carved mahogany, and furnishes a touch of color in the harmonious ensemble.The heavy Persian rug, designed specially to agree with the general effect, is of a soft green field through which is woven a self design and border.The furniture is made from the finest Spanish mahogany, the chairs being of .Chippendale design, exact copies of | some in the South Kensington Museum, Sir Hugh himself assisting in taking the measurements.The china cabinets and two buffets are fine examples of Sheraton furniture executed in mahogany in keeping with the general effect.Suspended from the center of the ceiling is & massive cut glass chandelier of French design and workmanship which casts a soft light throughout the room.Over the man- : style, and is a pleasing combination of \"specially for the room in order to en- \u2018in fact, blue, \u2018molu enrichments, * A] ® rag Ë THE LIBRARY IS FURNISHED AFTER CHIPPENDALE WITH CLASSIC BRONZES AND PICTURES.When a man can write big checks it never worries him not to be able to write poetry.\u2014New York Presstel hangs an excellent portrait, by Harris, of Lady Graham and daughter, ainted during the childhood of the Patter, while at the other end of the room, over the sideboard, is a portrait of Sir Hugh by the same artist.The drawing room is charmingly decorated in simplified Louis sixteent when he came back froma party he didn't had on.\u2014 Dallas New, blues and gold.The walls are paneled in silk striped tapestry of the period, making a most artistic combination with the white enamel woodwork.The mantel is of Carrara marble ornamented with ormolu and is a copy of one of the mantels at Fontainbleu, no expense having been spared to make it artistically perfect.decorative feature of this beautiful room is the plate glass panels in the doors which are ornamented with grillework of most artistic design.The rug is of Louis XV, Aubissonne design, in soft tones of blue with chintz border, made sure perfect harmony in the general color scheme.The furniture is probably the best example of the period in Canada, all executed in blue and gold, old and white are the only colors in the room.On the walls hang four large old French mirrors, perfect examples of this style of decoration.The writing table, which was obtained by Sir Hugh in Paris, is a beautiful example of Louis fifteenth style mounted with hand chased or- In selecting the ornaments in this room the greatest care has been exercised to eliminate the slightest sign of incongruity.The library is the room which com- letes the main floor of this residence.t is decorated and furnished after the Empire period in a pleasing combination of red and drab.The mahogany .furniture is after Chippendale and the bronzes and piciures are all of classic interest.In the bay window hang\u2019 A exquisite curtains of Empire design ; which are worth far more than their weight in golda NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS A gentleman who had acquired riches rather quickly purchased an estate on the banks of the River Clyde which adjoins those of Lord Blantyre and Sir Charles Binei Renshaw.Strolling through his place one day he chanced to go too far and was accosted by a burly Scotch gamekeeper, who in lan- suage more forcibly than polite ordered him off the grounds.Remonstrance only produced more language from the remonstrant.*8ir,\" said the pompous one, \u2018do you know who I am?| am the Fauls of Ardgeriff.\u2018\u2019 \u201cI don't care If you are the Falls of Niagara ' said the gamekeeper, *'ye're gaun oot o\u2019 this,\u201d HE HAD A NAME Patrick, lately over, was working in the | yards of a raliroad.One day he happened to be in the yard office when the force was out.The telephone rang vigorously several times and he at last decided it ought to be aswered.He walked over to the instrument, took down the receiver, and put his mouth to the transmitter, just us he had seen others do.*Hillo!\" he called.\"Hello!\" answered the voice at the other end of the line.*\u2018ls this eight-six-one-five- e a g'wan! Phwat d\u2019'ye tink Of am A boxes\u201d ca ft j THE ENTRANCE HALL OF COLONIAL DESIGN CARRIEL OUT IN IVORY AND RED PANKLLING.* Another advantage Adam had was that\u2019 Husband: \u2018Who's the smartest woman ! in your club?\u201d have to talk to Eve about what the women | fo 9 5 Wan 1 oT a\u2014 LI a Ne TR : Cl To | APN Sh moa , ews Spr - TC CRT mS a PES / Sir Hugh Graham\u2019s Residence Inquisitive Old Gentleman: \u2018\u2019And what are you digging for, my good man?\u2019 Knight of the Pick: \u201cMoney?\u201d 1.0.G.: \"You don\u2019t say! And when do you expe-t to find (t?\u201d .P.: \u201cSat y night.\" - , No yqur son an Optimist?! Bad sir, K.of 5 urday ne Judge eye doctors in this Sl v mer amily «more \u2018This Inn must be very old.\u2019\u2019 remarked the Americantourist.\"Would you li.ke to hear some of the legends connected with the place?\" \u201c \u201cTell me the legend of this curfous old mince The one you married four | pie.I notice it every time I come.\"'\u2014W ash- oung Bride: ngton Heraldmonths ago.\" vy 4 THE STATELY SHERATON DINING ROOM.MEETING THE EMERGENCY Leading Man in Traveling Company\u2014 We play Hamlet tonight, laddle, do we not?\u2019 uh- THEY WOULDN'T STAY In London the saloons are open on Sundays between the hours of three and five in the | \u201c afternoon.A couple of roughs were standing | manager! -\" Yes, Mr.Montgomery.\" in front of onc of these accommodations | Leading Man\u2014''Then | must borrow the , waiting for it to open when a Salvation Army | sum of two pence.\u201d captain who was passing said: Sub-manager- \u201cWhy?\u2018Men, don\u2019t you know that when you enter Leading Man\u2014'1 have four days\u2019 wth à saloon you enter hell?| upon my chin.One cannot play Hamlet \u201cThat's all right, old top,\u201d piped one of the : in a beard!\u201d roughs.\u201cthey'll throw us out in a couple of | S8uh-Manager \u2014Um-\u2014 Well-\u2014We\"'ll put on hours.\u201d à ; Macbeth!\" Punch.THE EXTERIOR IS OF STUDIED DESIGN AND CAREFUL EXECUTION.BUT HE GOT THE DISCOUNT There ix a very prominent Chicago busi- .ness man who always wears a very demure expression of countenance.although he is fond of a joke.One day he walked into Barnes\u2019 hat store and soberly in juired whether the house made discount to pastors.Mr, Narnes himself was on hand to assure him that they did, and would allow him the usual 20 per cent off.\u2018The solemn man then said he would like a hecoming hat.Several were shown him, and after a good deal of thought and inquiry he finally selected one marked $5.00, which Mr.Barnes said he would sell him for $4.The solemn man put it on and contemplated himself for some time in the mirror.as the hat becoming to a man in his profession\u2019?Mr.Barnes was confident it was.Would his congregation be likely to take any exceptions toit?Mr, Barnes was confident they could not.Then the solemn man looked at himself some more.and, after making another inquiry as to whether it would be sure to please his congregation produced his $4.Then he started out.At the duor he paused and inquired again: \u201cThey can't find any fault with it, can they?\u201cMost certainly not,\u201d said Mr.Barnes confidently.\u2018Because if they do,\u201d said the solemn man, as his hand was upon the door-lawh, \u2018\u2018they can go to h\u20141.\"\u201d DIDN'T WANT A ROOM Dan Sully, the former cotton kins.was talking on the piaszza of hiz hotal at Witch Hill, R.1., about matrimony.\u201cYou can easily tell,\u201d he said, \"whether or not a man is happily married.\u201d \u201cHow can you tell?\u201d a guest demanded.\u201cWell, for Instance, there was a chap who came up here from New York in June to engage a room for himself.I only want à small room,\u2019 he said.\u2018for the month of August, while my wife is travelling in Europe.\u201d ae I showed him a small room; but he sald: \u201cNo: my wife wouldn't care about this.A good view, you know, isn't essential.Haven't you something Cheaper?\u201cI showed him a smaller, cheaper room; but he shook his head.\u201c+My wife,\u2019 he explained, \u2018doesn\u2019t think I need to be nn one of the parlor floors.Haven't you got an attic room?\u2019 | showed him the cheapest, smallest room in the house.\u201cHow much is this room?\u2018 he asked.*] mentioned à ory low rate.\"Oh, dear!\u201d he said, frowning: \u2018my wife thinks | ought to get & room for half that.Then | looked the poor chap right in the \u2018Mee here,\u201d said I: \u2018you don\u2019t want a room.What you want is à divorce.\u2019\u2014 Louisville mes.SQUELCHED Lina Aharbanell, the light opera prima donna.tells of an amusi little incidents that occurred in a western town during her travels.She says: \u2018J strolled into a public library unaware of my surroundings and everything except my prearranged plan to get a book on the art of acting.Just as 1 was about to enter an innre room | was interrupted 2 an attendant, who tapping me on the shoulder and pointi to a most badraggled-looking, tramp cur t had followed me Into the edifice, sald coolly: \u2018Dogs are not admitted.\u2019 \u201cThat's not my dog\u2019, 1 replied.* But he followed you.\u2019 said the oi \u201cWell, so did you,\u201d I retorted.upon the attendant growled, the dog whined and then they hoth went out.\u2019\u2014 New York Telesrach.eset ui st ae UT 3 ~8 1 a » \u201ca LS 5 % LE 2 THE PRAWING BOOM.-A SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF LOU SIXTEENTH DESIGN. TRI xr SO OM EH.TE tap Eid OA vy wpm + ALT Blin PINE a - The New Paper.\u201d EDITED BY EDWARD BECK.The New Paper is published every Saturday at 275 Craig Street West, Montreal.Subseriptian Price: Three Dollars a year in Canada or Great Britain; in the United States and Foreign Countries, Fifty Cents addit\u2019onal.THE MONTREAL PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED.T.KELLY DICKINSON, - - - - EDWARD BECK, - - - Secretary-Treasurer.SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1913.\u201cAt the time this page was prepared for the press the name ef the now paper had not been chesen.: \u201cTo H with a Library.\u201d HE announcement 7 EE TIL that the Montreal Board of Control will ask for an appropriation of $500,000 to build a public library has awakened one citizen to a lively interest in publie % affairs.He writes to | À the Board, \u2018\u2018 To with a library till we get streets fit to walk in!\u201d He adds plaintively, \u2018\u2018Don\u2019t you think so?\" L This is the first positive and decided pref- i erence we have seen expressed in favour of any particular site for the library.A few suggestions \u201cave been timidly advanced by people suspected of having real estate to sell, but they have all been condemned by other people with properties of which to dispose.About the desirability of streets fit to walk in, there can be no two opinions.But why mix up two questions which have nothing to do with each other?Montreal is rich enough to afford both books and sidewalks and both are fair subjects for discussion.The great danger is not that the library will interfere with the improvement of the streets; but that the library will be about as unsatisfactory as the streets.It is sin.ply impossible to imagine a public library under the con\u2018rol of the powers that be in Montreal, being of much use to many people.The people need good reading, Heaven knows, and good books are so abundant and so cheap, that the people need to have their interest stimulated and guided, much more than they need a big literary dump with the inspirning legend over the door, \u2018\u2018 Rubbish may be shot here.\u201d Let there be no misunderstanding, Montreal needs a first-class public library and it will get one when one of her public-spirited millionaires decides to establish and endow one.and to personally assume the responsibility of its organization.Some day we shall get it, let us hope as part of something more; something conceived in the spirit of Sir Walter Besants \u2018\u2018Palace of Delight,\u201d to \u2018\u2018awaken in dull and lethargic brains a new sense, the new sense of pleasure, to give the people a craving for things of which as yet they know nothing, to cultivate a noble discontent, to teach them to be critical, to cease to look upon life as a daily uprising and a down-sitting, & daily mechanical toil, a daily rest.\u201d ere TES CHE ME PESRISN yvoyvaGES PLEASE Do You Know What You Know?A the early days of state education lots of timid souls were afraid that the general education of the masses would resul, in unfitting them for work, that is to say the hard work, rough work and dirty work and at any rate would \u2018\u201c\u2018give them ideas above their station\u2019 and make them discontented.To-day the worst feature of our educational system is that so many millions of people while dissatisfied with the rate of wages, the cost of living and social conditions which are exceedingly bad, are suffering from a deadly contentment with amazingly low standards of knowledge.Nor is this prevailing ignorance confined to the poor.Both rich and poor would be the better for a little divine discontent in this matter.The average man makes the mistake which has been pointed out by Professor Soddy of assuming that familiarity with a thing is equivalent to knowledge \u2018hereof.After alluding to the upward progress of the human race being classified with susceeding eras distinguished as the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the Steel Age, he asks, \u2018How many people blessed with a liberal education would be at a loss if asked offhand what steel is and how it is distinguished from iron?\" The average modern man is so familiar with the uses of iron and steel that he thinks he knows something about them.He really knows little more about iron and steel than the palaeclithic man knew about iron «nd steel.Carry the idea a step farther.The world in well into the Age of Electricity.How many of the people who use the telephone.the telegraph, the electric car, the electric light, or any work of the dynamo every day of their lives know anything whatever about these things?And the worst of it is that they are perfectly contented to remain in ignorance.The next time you are delivering à temperance lecture ask anybody in your audience to define \u2018\u2018alcohol.\u201d Tle chances are that nobody will answer correetiy and i.will not be entirely through lack of familiarity with the subjest.To prevent aay awkward contretemps you had better look up the subject yourself, in case somebody asks you to answer your own conundrum.While you are about it you might also look up \u2018\u2018soda- water,\u201d because if you are like moet of the people who are familiar with that exhilarating beverage (mined or straight) yen do not know whether it owes its stimulating qualities to soda or soap.We do not pretend that the masses would be ener- EEA SERRE President Montreal, Saturday, February 1, 1913.mously benefitted by knowing all about iron, steel, electric inventions, alcohol and soda-water, but we do contend { that they would be immeasurably better off if they could \u201cbe aroused to a realization of the advantages of a higher education than any of which they have dreamed for ; themselves and for their children.Too many men have a lofty contempt for pure science \u2018 and à profound disbelief in any new practical application of science, until it is forced upon them by familiarity.There is no arrogance like the arrogance of stupendous ignorance.The Latest in Mergers.WO more interesting mergers are announced, one a combination of some of the biggest steel industries of the United States and Canada, with a Canadian charter and a capital of $1,100,000,000 and the other a $25,000,000 combine of millinery manufacturing and jobbing firms.Mr.Charles M.Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel Company, is given as the authority for the story of the steel combine which it is said will include besides the company named, the Youngstown Steel & Tube, Midland Coal, Pennsylvania Steel, Cambria Steel, and Labelle Iron Works companies in the United States, and the Dominion Iron and Steel Corporation and the Steel Company of Canada.The incorporation of the merger in Canada will make it dificult to secure its dissvlution under the Sherman Aot by the United States Government, although it may not save the directors and officers of the combined companies from pains and penalties.All that the Dominion Government can do wo discipline the merger under the law as it stands, is to withhold tariff protection or bounties from all engaged in the steel industry in Canada, guilty or not guilty\u2014unless, indeed, it should revert to the extreme measure of refusing to grant the mergerites the privilege of subscribing to the party funds.The surprise and the shock might kill several public spirited Canadian millionaires.It would, however, be hard, we imagine, to find a precedent for any Canadian Government going to such an extreme.The invasion of Canada by the big steel trust may be a good thing or a bad thing for the Dominion.It is not necessary to go over the whole argument for and against huge combinations.Sufficient to say that Canada to-day needs a great deal more steel than she can get; that the need will constantly increase; that the Dominion has great quantities of the raw material from which steel is made and needs big capital to work it.At first sight it appears difficult to reconcile the statement that the Dominion contains great quantities of the raw material from which steel is made with the fact that the Dominion Iron & Steel Company and the Nova Scotia Steel Company have for some years been importing their red hematite ore from the Wabana Iron Mines in Bell Island off the east coast of Newfoundland.Technically-speaking an important distinction is made between \u2018\u2018ore\u2019\u2019 and \u2018\u2018metaliferous rock.\u201d Crudely expressed if a ferruginous rock will pay to work, it ia iron ore, and if it will not pay to work it is only metaliferous rock.Obviously this depends upon a number of conditions, and what is not ore to-day may become ore next year.For instance the construction of a railway or the providing of facilities for water shipment, the discovery of a cheap and near coal supply, the exhaustion of higher grade ore sources, the provision of cheap electricity for smelting, or the influx of cheap labour may effect the conversion of a comparatively low grade ferruginous rock into a profitable iron ore.Authorities say that as a general rule rock containing less than 35 per cent.of iron is not worth working and the ores actually mined throughout the world vary from 25 to over 60 per cent.Values are also very seriously affected by the nature and extent of the impurities to be got rid of.The most profitable raw material for steel manufacture in Canada is red hematite.The deposits are numerous and some of them extensive, but for one reason or another comparatively few of them have been worked.A good deal of prospecting has been done and some systematic exploratory work in \u2018the country north of Montreal has resulted in the discovery of some enormous deposits of high grade hematite, containing little in the way of impurities which are expensive to get rid of.One island in Hudsons Bay is reported to contain millions if not billions of tons of this kind of hematite.What effect the $25,000,000 millinery merger will have in Canada can only be conjectured.It was organized in Chicago at a meeting at which were present a hundred he-milliners representing twenty-one big concerns and representing fourteen cities hesides Chicago, extending from Pittsburgh to San Francisco and from Louisville to St.Paul.It is to be hoped that this has nothing to do with the threatened war between the sexes predicted from Paris, but if it is going to make hats any dearer and the bills any bigger, it may lead to much strife.It does not, however, look like a movement of the militant suffragettes.They would probably begin firing the man milliner and end by setting fire to his artistic creations.The cost of manufacture has probably as little to do with the price of millinery as it has with the price of old masters.The price of a woman's hat is based entirely upon what lovely woman is willing to let somebody clse pay for it.When a woman wants to express unqualified contempt for another woman's hat, horror at its inartistic design and unsuitability to the wearer and positive loathing for the materials of which it is composed, she is apt to characterintize the whole thing in terms of dollars and cents.This method has its advantages, it saves long explanations in terms \u2018\u2018 which no fellah can understand,\u201d and it avoids the danger of inadvertently incidentally treading on the wrong woman's hat.Then to some ladies a high price is the chief attraction about a hat (to a mere man it would seem the only attraction in some casesi.If a sufficiently ugly hat could only be copyrighted, it would fetch a big price, even if the material only cost a quarter and the labour, seven cents.The average Philistine will never appreciate the most expensive hat until it ' escomes fashionable to wear them with the price tickets .n.T a recent meeting of the Cork Board of Guardians a resolution was moved requesting \u2018\u2018all officials who cannot prove their relationship with at least three members of this Board to resign immediately, so that their places may be filled by our friends, as we are of opinion that this course will end all desputes and compiaints in future.\u2019 This resolution was withdrawn, the gentleman who was anxious to put an immediate nd \u2018\u2018to all disputes aad complaints in the future,\u201d probably deciding like Mrs.Malaprop that it was not worth while to \u2018\u2018aaticipate the past.\u2018 | But if the Cork Board of Guardians can do as well as | this, what may we aot hope from aa Irish Hansard?» FAMILIAR INCIDENTS 1-Tlith the Photographer + ++ By STEPHEN LEACOCK WANT my photograph taken,\u201d Isaid.The photographer looked at me without enthusiasm.He was à drooping man in a grey suit, with the dim eye of a natural scientist.But there is no need to describe him.Everybody knows what & photographer is like.\u2018Sit there,\u201d he said, \u2018\u2018and wait.\u201d I waited an hour.1 read the Ladies Companion for 1912, the Girls Magazine for 1902 and the Infants Journal for 1888.I began to see that I had done an unwarrantable thing in breaking in on the privacy of this man\u2019s scientific pursuits with a face like mine.After an hour the photographer i) A= Se TIE 1 i it is, I've learned to love it.And this is my mouth, not yours.These ears aro mine and if your machine is too narrow,\u2019\u2019\u2014here 1 started to rise from the seat.Snick! ; The photographer had pulled the | string.The photograph was taken.I could see the machine still stagger- | ing from the shock.; \u2018I think,\u201d said the photographer pursin his lips in a pleasing smile, \u2018that I caught the features iust in a moment of animation.\u201d \u201cSo!\u201d I said, bitingly, \u2018\u2018features, eh?You didn't think would animate them, I suppose?But let me see the picture.\u201d \u2018\u2019Oh there\u2019s nothing to see yet,\u201d he said, \u2018\u2018I have to develop the negative first.Come back on Saturday .A ils | IT | | 9 om AS i J PA! S&S = - ANY = a \u201cYOUR NOSE IS WRONG!\" opened the inner door.\u2018Come in,\u2019 he said severely.I went into the studio.**8it down,\" said the photographer.1 sat down in a bean of sunlight filtered through u sheet of factory cotton hung over a frosted skylight.The photographor rolled a machine into the middle of the room and crawled into it from behind.He was only in it & second,\u2014just time enough for one look at me, \u2014and then he was out again, tearing at the cotton sheet and the window panes with a hooked stick, apparently fran- tie for light and air.Then he crawled back into the machine again and drew a little black cloth over himself.This time he was very quiet in there.1 knew that he was praying and I kept still.When the photographer came out at last, he looked very grave and shook his head.\u201cThe face is quite wrong,\u201d he said.\u201cI know,\u201d I answered quietly, \u2018\u20181 have always known it.\u201d He sighed.\u201cI think,\u2019 he said, \u2018the face would be better three quarters full.\u2019 \u201cI'm sure it would,\u201d 1 said enthusiastically, for 1 was glad to find that the man had such a human side to him.\u2018\u2019So would yours.In fact,\u201d I continued, - \u2018\u2018how many faces one soes that are apparently hard, narrow, limited, but the minute you get them three quarters full they get wide, large, almost boundless in\u2014\"' ut the photographer had ceased to listen.He came over and took my head in his hands and twisted it sideways.1 thought he meant to kiss me and I closed my eyes.But I was wrong.He twisted my face as far as it if would go and then stood looking at it.He sighed again.\u2018I don't like the head,\u2019 he said.The he went back to the machine and took another iook.\u2018\u2018Open the mouth a little,\u2019 he said.I started to do so.\u201cClose it.\u201d he added quickly.Then he looked again.\u2018The eers are bad.\u2019 he said, \u2018\u2018droop them a little more.Thank you.Now the eyes.Roil them in under the lids.Put the hands on the knces, please, and turn the face just a little upwards.Yes, that's better.Now just expand the lungs\u2019 80! And ump the neck, that's it,\u2014 and just contract the waist \u2014ha' and twist the hip up towards the elbow, now! I still don't quite like the face, it's just a trifle too full, but, \u2014\" I swung mysel* round on the stool.\u2018Stop.I said with emotion but, 1 think.with dignity.\u2018\u2018This face is my face.It is not yours, it is mine I've lived with it for forty years and I know ite faults.| know it's out of drawing, | know it wasn't made for me, but it's my face, the only one I have, \u201d\u2014I was conscious of a k in my voies but I went on.\u2014'\u2018auch ae and I'll let Jou see & proof of it.\u201d On Saturday I went back.The photographer beckoned me in.I thought he seemed quieter and graver than before.I think, too, there was a certain pride in his manner.He unfolded the proof of a large photograph and we both looked at it in silence.\u201cIs it me?\" I asked.\u201cYes, \u2019\u2019 he said quietly, \u2018\u2018it is you,\u201d and he went on looking at it.\u201cThe eyes,\u201d I said hesitatingly, \u2018\u201cdon\u2019t look very much like mine.\u201d \u2018Oh, no,\u201d he answered, \u2018\u2018l\u2019ve retouched them: they come out splendidly.don\u2019t they?\u2019 \u201cFine,\u201d I said, \"but surely my eyehrows are not like that?\u201d **No,\u201d said the photographer with a momentary glance at my face, \u2018\u2018the eyebrows are removed.We have a process, now,\u2014the Delphide,\u2014for putting in new ones.You'll notice ere where we've applied it to carr the hair away from the brow.don\u2019t like the Pair low on the skull.\u201d \u2018Oh, you don't, don\u2019t you?\" I said.\u201cNo.\u201d he went on, \u2018\u2018I don\u2019t care for it.I like to get the hair clear back to the superficies and make out a new brow line.\u201d \u2018What about the mouth,\u201d I said with a bitterness that was lost on the photographer, \u2018\u2018is that mine.\u201d \u201cIt's adjusted a little,\u201d he said, \u2018your's is too low.[found I couldn\u2019t use it.\u201d \u2018The cars, though,\u2019 I said, \u2018\u2018atrike me as a good likeness: they're just like mine.\u201cYes,\u201d maid the photographer thoughtfully, \u2018that\u2019s so: but I can fix that all right in the print.We have a process now,\u2014the Sulplide,\u2014 for removing the ears entirely I'll see \u201cListen,\u201d I interrupted, drawing mysell up and animating my features to their full extent and speaking with a withering scorn that should have blasted the man on the spot.\u2014\"\u2018 Listen.I came hore for a photograph.\u2014 a picture, \u2014something which (mad though it seems) would have looked like me.I wanted something that would depict my face as Heaven gave it to me, humble though the gift may have been.I wanted something that my friends might keep after my death, to reconcile them to my loss.It seems that I was mistaken.What I wanted is no longer done.Go on, then, with your brutal work.Take your negative, or whatever it is you oall it,\u2014dip it in sulphide, bromide, oxide, cowhide, anything you like, -\u2014\u2014remove the eyes, correct the mouth, adjust the face, restore the lips, reanimate the necktie and reconstruct the waistcoat.Coat it with an inch of gloss, shade it, emboss it, gild it, till even you acknowledge that it is finished.Then when you have done ail that, keep it for yourself and your friends.They may value it.To me it is but a worthless bauble.\u2019 I broke into tears and left.STEPHEN LEACOCK.! BANISBING TER AVALANCHES Along the side of an Alpine raiiroed an ingenious device bas heen put into use to ent avalanches from falliag u the cs the icing aes sad forces IV to recive.» ag snow A (ale iid ln lou bare It cours (Be It's Seey enough to be plessant, | nes broek 1° way off ie well: ut the man w while Is the man who can smile ;case of disrupte Many Things **The time has come,\u2019 the Walrus said, \u2018to talk of many things.\u2019 OU have doubtless read at some period of your life about some unfortunate though fictitious personage who has been \u2018cast fromthe heights into the depths\u201d or who has \u2018fallen in a night from a sublime happiness to dark despair.\u201d This is an unfortunate occurence that often happens to the people of Mr.Garvice, Miss Libbey and other writers of the Garvice-Lib- bey.Sahooell, that is how I feel just now.The other evening I visited a friend who has an alarm clock.He has also a son.The alarm clock isa quite ordinary affair, which you can buy fur 99 cents at the most expensive stores, while the son has an unholy capacity for generally upsetting things, which I have never seen equalled.On the evenimg prior to my visit he upset the alarm clock, and out of this simple and by no means uncommon accident, springs my general feeling of disgust with all things mundane, and my dismal for- bodings in regard to things which are not mundane, my general all-gone feeling of the soul, in fact.It was a sadly mangled corpse, the keys were badly bent, and the interior construction rattled dismally when you shook it up.All attempts to wind it failed because the moment the operator removed his hand from the key the spring jumped back to its original position and you were no further ahead.There were ladies present.One of them sd: \u2018\u2019The spring is broken.\u201d I have never yet come across a clock mechanism when someone did not declare that the spring was broken so the remark was passed over in silence.A suggestion that we lubricate the interior with vaseline applied on the end of a match was also scorned, and finally we came to the conclusion that we had to remove the entrails in order to successfuly conduct any repairs.There is a mechanical instinct latent in every man, I don't care what he does to earn his daily bread, and the suggestion as to dissection was received with loud acclaim.Accordingly we unscrewed the little keys from the back, and removed the rear wall, as it were.We also took off the bell which was perched on top, and by dint of considerable twisting, finally succeeded in removing the works without damage.It was at once evident that the trouble lay in the fact that most of the balances had been knocked what we used to call \u2018\u2019skew-ift\u201d in my younger days, by the fall.All the cogs were balanced on a thin framework of near- brass which fitted over the rear of the works, by the simple method of boring holes in the frame and slipping the sharpened ends of the cog axles into the holes.One of the wheels has slipped its moorings altogether and was embarked on a pointless tour of inspection in the inner regions.I tried to persuade it to return, Prodigal-son wise, with the end of my little finger.I made two attempts and failed, whereupon the head of the house, who is an impatient man, though old enough to know better, remarked.\u201cIere, let's take the back off.Accordingly we started to take \u2018\u2018the back\u2019 off, meaning by \u2018\u2018the back\u2019 the framework of near-brass above alluded to.It was secured by minute brass nuts at the four corners.The had taken off two of them before it dawned upon me that if they once lifted that piece of brass every wheel in the whole shebang would collapse in irreparable ruin.With a ory of horror 1 exclaimed.\u201cDon\u2019t du that! for the love of Mike!\" They stopped, and as well as I was able 1 explained what would inevita- ably happen if they continued their ruthless course.Then we started to put the uuts back on.[I think I mentioned that they were minute.I take it back.They were microscopic.There were five of us gathered around that kitchen table and it took us three-quarters of an hour by actual timing to get those nuts back on again, and then we only did it by balancing then on the screws and hitting them firmly with the coal hammer, which was the only suitable weapon we could find to give them a \u2018\u2018start.\u201d\u2019 In some sort of fashion we did ultimately get them fixed.And then I managed to persuade the wandering wheel to return to position, only to find three other wheels jolted out of place either by the original fall or our subsequent ministration.We got them back, and wound it, and it went.1t is safe to presume that Alexander felt triumphant when he conquered his last world, and that the various victorious monarchs who have sucoeed- ed in chastising the Turk in the Balkans are at the present time feeling slighty chesty.But neither Alexander nor the Kings of Bulgaria, et al, felt anything like as Jood as | did when that clock ticked.Actually tioked.Altoge.iher we had struggled with that cheap time piece fur three hours and sixteun minutes and finally it ticked.1 was \u2018in the heighte\u2019\u2019 as Mr.Garvice puts it.We put it together again without mishap except that we put the face frame in wrong, which didn\u2019t matter.I carried it reverently to the son and heir\u2019's room and set it on his table, and walked away on tip toe.When I left the house it was ticking merrily.I met him on the street next day.He said: \u201cYou're a fine clock fixer.The blame thing stopped in the middle of the night, and | was late again this morning.I could have killed him.To-day 1 met the Head of the House.He maid.\u2018\u2019Theclock?Oh, it's going fine.I got to work on it with some vaseline and a match, and now it's keeping fine time.I knew what it oll the while.\u201d This makes two murders whieh I might have committed.PF.B.B. Montreal, Saturday, = THe Feminist ch + ++ A Twentieth Century Woman\u2019s Page ! WILLIAMS + ++ TEXT FOR THE DAY \u201cMy dear, I never dispute your abilities ! to make a goose ple and 1 beg you'll leave argument to me!\u2019 From * Tue Vicar or WAKEFIELD\" AID our much-beloved Vicar of Wakefield to his less-beloved wife: \u201cMy dear, I never dispute your abilities to make a goose pie, and I beg you'll leave argument to mel\u201d Low be it spoken! Though we fear few husbands, to-day, would | have the temerity to proffer a similar request, is not this request made ver often by editors to their women readers?Do they not say in effect, \u201cMy .dears, we never dispute your abilities to snake lobster croquettes and frill breakfast caps, and we beg you'll leave intelligent discussion to us, the masters of creation!\u201d Will we?If, as is often asserted, \u2018\u2018the twentieth century belongs to Canada,\u201d then, still more, does the twentieth century belong to women.It is fitting, therefore, that a representative Canadian journal should throw open its pages to women, should invite the women of Canada to speak freely on those topics nearest their hearts.It is unfortunately true that in many circles it is still necessary for a woman to feign imbecility if she does not wish to be thought quite mad.But we are inaugurating a circle of our own, here and now.The aim of Tre FrMiINisT is an ambitious one.It is to present, as far as possible, all intelligent points of view on all absorbing questions relating to women.© wish this page to bea \u201cWoman's Page\u2019\u2019 in the deepest and fullest sense of the word.© wish it to be a age\u2014the first, perhaps, of its kind in Canada,- where Woman and the things of Woman may be freely and fully discussed by the thinking women of Canada.We may, we think, safely promise that no view shall be dobarred because of its audacity or its vehemence, because of its conservatism or its radicalism.\u201cIs it worth while?\u201d will be the only question asked.VWWHAT is Woman?This is a question which only the most ignorant will attempt to answer confidently.The most we con assert, with any degree of surety, is that she is evidently something like and yet unlike what she was supposed to be in Mid-Victorian days.When the first steamship was making its first trip across the Atlantic, learned men were proving conclusively that it was impossible for any vessel propelled by steam to cross the water.hen the question of higher education for women was first mooted learned men were proving conclusively that it was impossible for any woman to do things which numbers of women .have done and are doing daily.Therefore we must assume to begin with that Woman cannot be classified dogmatically.The truth is that we do not know exactly what Woman is.It is with the aim of finding out, approximately, what the Canadian woman of the twentieth century is that we are issuing this page.Lobster saude and frilly breakfast caps have been and are so adequately dealt with in other \u2018Woman\u2019s Pages\u201d that we propose to drop them for the present and devote ourselves to a third issue often raised, \u2014*\u2018the best way to make home happy.\u201d It has occured to us, in this connection, \u2014an audacious thought, perhaps!- that a good way to make home happy may be to make the home-maker happy.In order to achieve this end it il be necessary to devote some time and thought to the nature of the Home-Makor- Woman! WHAT is woman?Without question the woman of to-day differs vastly from the woman of a hundred years ago.Imagine Evelina or Arabella in a modern novel! Compare, for instance, \u2018\u2018Lady Cecily\u2019\u2019 in \u201cCaptain Brassbound's Conversion\u201d with Miss Burney's \u2018Evelina.Lady Cecily is so feminine, so captivating, that the most hide-bound feels for charm; yet she does things, which, in Miss Burney's day, would have brought about her confinement for life.\u2018hat has brought about this change?And is it a change for the better or the worse?What is the ideal woman?Bernard Shaw says that the great difficulty in evolving the Superman lies in the fact that no one of us is very sure as to what he believes the Superman to be.Is not this true?If you were ssked to-day to sit down with pencil and paper and write a description of the kind of man you wished the world to be populated with in the future, would you find it an easy task?So with women.We do not know what the ideal woman is\u2014what we want the woman of the future to be.One thing we do know\u2014 that we do not want her to be what the earlier nineteenth century considered an ideal woman.We sometimes say that we do, but we contradict ourselves ime diately afterwards.If, in one breath, we say that we want a woman to stay at home and look after her house, we in the next, speak with pity of the man whose wife does this very thing\u2014 attends solely to her housekeeping.takes no interest in her husband's business or profession: and refuses to sssompeny him to pisces of amusement of to mix im general society.Miss Cioely Hamilton's description of the \u201cwile all men would like, who never thinks or rides a bike\u201d, ia hailed with eral amusement.We do aot ously want such & womaa to be mistress of our home or mo our children.But what do we waat?\"are at the parting of the ways.of son: and no Balie law.What is our ideal?What do we wish the woman of the future to be ?Here we encounter a diversity of opinions.One thing is gertain; we 0- man cannot be what she has been in the past; she must be more or less.Scientists cannot help us greatly, for they differ as widely on this point as on every other; some asserting boldly that women are, biologically, the superior sex, and, sociologically, the beginners of all arts, trades and governments; others asserting that women are, manifestly, an inferior creation and have been so held from the beginning of time.ESTER WARD once published an article\u2014in, I believe, the \u2018\u2018Forum\" ,~ discussing the superiority, as he considered, of the female sex, viewed biologically.Mr Grant Allen replied to this article and he so clearly defined the beliefs of many men (and women) in his reply that I believe it may be worth while to quote at some length from it.: \u201cI believe it to be true\u2019\u2019, he says, \u201cthat she is very much less the race than man; that she is, indeed, not even half the race at present, but rather a part of it, told specially off for the continuance of the species, just as truly as drones or male spiders are parts of their species told off for the performance of male functions, or as \u2018rotund\u2019 honey-ants are individual insects told off to acy as living honey jars to the community.She jis the sex sacrified to reproductive necessities.\u201d But Charlotte Perkins Stetson believes that \u2018Woman's natural work as a female is that of the mother; man\u2019s natural work as a male is that of the father; but human work covers all our life outside of these specialities.Every handicraft, every profession, every science, every art, all normal amusements and recreations, all government, education, religion, the whole living world of human achievement, all this is human\u201d.Which is in the right?With which do you agree?* .* E must avow that we have a prejudice in favour of considering women as human beings, and not as appendages to men.But we allow that, if we study certain phases of human development, we can see Grant Allen's point of view.But are these phases transient?We are, at present, Jnclined to think so.ECAUSE this is a woman's page, please do not think that men are debarred.Indeed, any opinion from à man on & subject of s0 much importance to men as women cannot but be valuable.Two types, only, of men, we do not crave to hear from: the man who says that he knows everything about women, and that \u201cthey are all alike\u2019; and the man who says that he knows nothing about women because \u2018\u2018you never find two alike at any ons time and find one alike, twice.\u201d Bot our judgment, are correct, are superficial.Women, llke men, are all alike in many particulars and, also like men, are all unlike in many particulars.And much of man's misunderstanding of woman arises from the fact that he will create in his mind an image which he calls woman and then become hopelessly puzzled when the living woman, \u2018\u2018the average human being\u201d does not square with this purely imaginary conception.\u201cMan\u201d, says Cicely Hamilton, *'being determined that we live in a world apart, spends his time inventing explanations for our conduct; whic conduct would be quite comprehensible if he would condescend to apply to us those laws which he applies to every other living being.\" She thinks that man has quite made up his mind, & la Grant Allen, that woman is wife and mother and nothing more; but then, being obliged to see that she acts at times as though she were something more\u2014not higher, mark you, but more\u2014he is driven to a further conclusion.\u201cWoman is not only wife and mother, but a thoroughly incomprehensible wife and mother.\u201d She points out that each man sees in woman what he wants to see.Man's ou never views.In i attitude towards woman has been, by turns, sentimental, savage, adoring, contemptuous\u2014anything but open- minded and deductive.Thus the troubadours saw in her a spiritual incentive to song; the Mahometans consider her flesh without soul; the Fathers of the Church, \u2018in the habit of giving hasty and nervous consideration to the subject, denounced her at intervals as sin personified.\u201d Which of these widely differing views is the correct one?She goes on to point out that the modern man apparently oraves in a wife an inspiration, plus a good general servant.\u2018Me is uentiy disappointed!\u201d she wickedly adds.But perbaps there is no reason why he shoul be disappointed.Perhaps woman's highest sphere is to inspire good deeds and oook good dinners at one and the same time\u2014ridiculous as it may sound.LS * OMEN of Canada, we want to know your views cu this all-important topic.What do you believe yourselves to be?What do ou wish to be?This is an \u2018Open ourt\u201d.Write us freely of your liefs, your ambitions, your aims.We beliete that there is a vast mine of unexplored intelligence in Canada.We wish to draw its treasures to the ight.Perhaps we can all agree on one point the moet conservative and the most radical alike.Woman's highest mission is to be a successful wife and mother.But how to attain that end! What constitutes a successful wile and mother?An animated frying.pen or a humaa broom is hardly Likely to produce an intellectual or foreeful ualortunately, heredity has and both | , Hamilton.Then, another point! It seldom | occurs to any of us that an unmarried : woman who has never had a child | may, paradoxical as it appears, be | a better race-mother than her next- door neighbour who marshals a famil | of ten to school every morning.the former, as a nurse or doctor, saves ' a hundred children\u2019s lives in her life- | time, she is a ten times better mother and of ten times more value to the | race than that mother of ten.If she, | a8 & philanthropist, supplies food and | warmth to thousands of neglected starving infants every year, and, by, so doing, saves a thousand lives in her lifetime, she is a hundred times .better race-mother than the mother .of ten.No woman is debarred from a spiritual maternity, and when we speak of motherhood as woman's highest 'ealling, we must always bear | that in mind.* * THE German Emperor is quoted | as saying that a woman's world should consist of \u2018\u2018church, cooking and clihdren.\u201d\u201d It is a wise ! saying, but surely an unnecessarily comprehensive one.Had he said that children alone should constitute a woman's world, he would have said | enough; for the intelligent care of children implies all knowledge, all wisdom.We are beginning to realize that; we are beginning to see that the condition of the coming race should be the one end and goal of right-minded people.When we strive to make things better for ourselves we do it to the end that things may be better for our children.We have always done this; each of us has fought and worked that his children may be exempt from strife and want; but our present aim is broader.We desire not only that our children shall not want or suffer; we desire that the children of king and peasant alike shall be equall free from care.Itisnotonlya broader and grander ambition; it is also a more rational one.Our ideal, we may then assume, is identical, whatever our political leanings.We disagree only as to the methods to be followed in gaining our end; and we call for opinions from both men and women as to what should constitute the world of women.And we ask for views on the vital question; have men a world apart from women?Are men and women essentially different, or has custom and environment developed differences?And, granting these differences, are they beneficial or harmful?We have the view expressed by a Canadian essayist that men and women are essentially unlike; that the unlikenesses are not only necessary but valuable; and that the race will, cease to exist when women become | \u2018masculine\u2019.Yet, as this writer des- | cribes women as being \u201c\u2018un-moral, | im-moral, mindless, heartless, unsympathetic\u2019\u2019, and so mean that they | o not even know when they are committing & meanness, it is somewhat difficult to see what he means when he declares that the race is only kept in existence at all by the dissimilarity of men to women.It would seem to.la lay mind that the race would be i distinetly improved by all the females becoming masculine if masculinity implied virtue of so high an order.Olive Schreiner believes, on the other hand, that no race can rise above the level of its mothers, and that, whenever we find a race dominating, achieving prominence of any sort, we find its women the equals and partners of its men; and that, whenever we find a race sinking, remaining in the background, we find ite women in a subject position.We invite opinions on these points.LJ .° ° .s i THEN there is the question\u2014much discussod at present\u2014of the franchise, dominion and municipal.There is militant suffrage as opposed | to suffrage gained by constitutional means.here are the laws relating to women and ohildren in the various | provinces of our dominion.What | opinions have my readers on these | points?; We cannot undertake to publish | all the letters we receive or even.| perhaps, to reply to all.But we reiterate the request with which we began this page.Write to us, one | and all, men and women; tell us frankly what you believe and hope for; and we will not only reply whenever possible to any points raised for | general discussion, but will publish the whole or portions of such letters ! as we believe to be of general interest | to the community.Help us to make Tux Feminist: an epoch in journalism; help us to show the men of Canada what the | women of Canada are thinking and | striving for to-day; help us to create a \u201cWoman's Page\u2019 that will be | worthy the women of our country.i * + = | i 1 metal buttons.; discussion.February 1, 1913.TWO OF THE NEWEST SUITS wet pavements.Heroines of Fiction SILK FACINGS ADD VARIETY TO THIS SUIT.In this season of ornate tailored effects the little suit pictured here seems unwontedly plain, but facing of silk on the revers and under the edges of the sleeves gives a contrasting note of color that is very modish.lis built of taupe serge, the silk facings being in king's blue shade and the coat is further trimmed with gun The lines are trim and the skirt, in short walling length, reveals equally trim buttoned boots of the new tan leather which does not become stained from The suit violet shade.1-LADY CICELY in \u201cCaptain Brassbound\u2019s Conversion.\u201d ACH week the editor Feminist will select a character , Who, instead of bein from some fairly well-known work of | acter analytically.\u2018There seems no hersell as well as older.reason why we should confine ourselves to any one time or style; the more diverse the women whom we discuss the more likely we shall be to derive pleasure and benefit from the Ore week we may select the heroine of a Greek play; the next, some cres tion of (ieorge Moore's the third, some rebel feminine of H.G.Wells\u2019.All readers of Tur Feminist who would like to have a favourite heroine discussed here are begged to write and name her.I shall be guided largely in my choice of heroines by what my readers say.Perhaps, as Tux FEMINIST is an ultra-modern venture, it will be appropriate to choose a character from the most ultra-modern of our writers.George Bernard Shaw.All of us read Shaw, most of us admire him, and many have seen his plays.Let us therefore choose the most delightful of his feminine creations for our first study.I shall in by à rash statement- that Lady Cicely in \u2018\u2018Captain Brassbound's Conversion\u2019 is, to me, the most ideai character in fiction.She most nearly approximates what I should wish the woman of the future to She is the most feminine creature imaginable and yet she is a human being before she is a female.Lady Cicely's age is not mentioned in the play; yet, from various indications we gather that she has attained what Shaw, in another play, calls, \u2018the prime of womanhood\u2014 thirty-six to fifty-five.\u201d Here let us pause for a moment.We are face to face with a phenomenon of the twentieth century.Shaw has struck à new note in fiction \"tamiliar with the chivalrous and TEXT FOR FUTURE SER- with this bold saying.We are all MONETT .charmin proverbs of former oentu- \u201cThe woman, the cat, and the ries, \u2018Old Maids lead apes in hall!\u201d chimney should never leave the house.\u2019 \u2014Old Proverb.\u2018Man, woman, and the devil are | and similar statements.Yet here, in the twentieth century, we find the most Lulliant of our playwrights the three degrees of comparison.\u201d \u2014 ' choosing, as heroine of his most de- Old Proverb.\u201cMan is the whole world and the breath of God: the orooked piece of man.\u2014B8ir Thomas Browne.i \u201cThere is no evil without a woman 'lightful play, a woman who would have been in other ages, a most un- woman the rib and qualified \u2018old maid\u201d.In the beginning of the last century, there were throe classes of respectable women.First, young girls who were at the bottom of it.\" \u2014Old Proverb.\u2018ranked high or low according to their \u2018As much pity to see & woman weep as to see a goose gO oot.\" \u2014Old Proverb.\u201cA man has two happy days his wife; the day h~ marries with abilit and third, attract men and make to second, married good\u2019 matches; women who wore little caps soon after tated till death; the wedding, and v \u201cold those miserable beings, the day he buries her.\" \u2014Greek Pro- | maids\u2019 who, being neither young nor verb.\u201cI'm mot demyin\u2019 that women are foolish; God Almighty made \u2018em 0 match the men!\" \u2014 George Kliot.\u201cWoman is not only mother.but a thoroughly ineompre- heasible wife and mother! \u2014Cissly marri ed, were justly treated with universal disruepect.Thess were the \u201cgood old times\u201d wife and to whieh we are always being asked to go beek.Now turn to this work of the twentieth century.\u201cCaptain Bracsbou and behold ad'e Conversion of Tur this amazing anomaly; despised for not 2 is admired and ., .respected every man whom she fiction, and will consider that char- | Pope and loved by vounger men than | possessing a husband, derful yet! we beauty; apparently her position depends or.something more subtle than à fine pair of eyes.; Such a character as Lady Cicely's could not have been conceived by out immediate ancestors.would the Vicar of Wakefield have said to her?She moves through the lay, a winning, smiling, indomitable oroe, moulding everyone with whom she comes in contact, leaving no evil circumstance untouched.re using to countenance any unkindness or injustice; and all with the utmost sweetness and apparent unconsciousness.She is the only woman in a company of degraded and vicious brigands; yet, one after another, all submit to her cheerful interference and do what she advises.Even the captain, Black Paquito, a soured and embittered misanthrope with but one pur se in life\u2014revenge\u2014is turned y her from that purpose which she renders ridiculous in a few quiet words.She is a born Jeader; a few words from her alter lives and change destinies.But what would the good Vicar Lave said to her?Can you imagine him politely requesting her to make goosc-pies and leave argument to im Cioely typifies the modern outlook in its most winsome form; she is always womanly but never weak.True, the heroines of all time have resembled her in this respect.In the most degenerate ages we have always had women who set tradition at de- flance, and insisted om following Shakespeare's advice, \u2018To thine own self be true!\u201d In the eighteenth century we had Elisabeth Fry.In the nineteenth century we had Florenoe Nightingale.y Cicely, however, seems to me not so much an exception as a type; a type of true womanhood in its modern form.She was not a publio character, a saint or agenius; just à woman of the twenti- oth century whom wo one ignored because she was no lomger young or despised because she was unmarried.A woman who was, in short, s human poing before she was anything else, just like all the men whom we respect and emulate.\u201cA Winchester school master whom we will call The Worm That Turned ones, says H.W.Neviason, wrote in his report: \u2018\u2018This boy has no special aptitude, power and qualification; will make an exoslient parent.\u2019 We see the fine satire of it when applied to a future father, but it is very much the view we bold of most womea though it does not in the least follow that a particular womaa's true voes- tion is motherhood.any more than fatherhood may be a man\u2019s.\u201d re | been \u201cdribbling their minds out by More won- ; the hear nothing of her | Mrs.What, oh what, FRENCH STYLE IDEAS REPRODUCED HERE] Paris couturiers now are disguising the seams of the coat by every possible device of cut and trimming.coat of very light tan serge, built for Southland wear, hints at the French idea of covering up seams by oddly - shaped motifs at the sides of the coat.\"a slash but is really straight and rather narrow at the lower edge, showing the walking boot in buttoned style.A collar of machine embroider in one of the new lace imitations is laid over a second collar of moire silk in a deep This The skirt suggests The Suffrgatte Exhibit.HERE'S no pleasure in living if you're to be corked s woman | up for ever and only dribble your i mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel,\u201d says Mrs.Poyser.Throughout the ages women have sly\u201d.Only here and there a oyser has arisen\u2014to be cruoifi- ed in one age, or out in another, as the case might be.But today \u2018\u2018nous avons change tout cela\u2019.Nearly all the literature at the coming Suffrage Exhibit is written by women; snd all of it has\u2014I think\u2014 been written during this century.It is, to my mind, the strangest and most significiant portent of this strange and portentous age in which we live\u2014 the sudden, turbulent, steadily increasing output of feminist literature.\u201cSchlieman may uncover one Troy after another, six separate cities deep,\u201d says Elizabeth bins,\u201d and never come the nearer to what Helen thought.All that is not silence is the voice of man.If I were a man and cared to know the world I lived in J almost think it would make me à shade uneasy\u2014the weight of that long silence of one-half the world.\u201d ut now the long silence is broken.For the first time we are learning what women really think of them- seives and of the world in which they live.For the first time we are learning that that peculiar and inexplica- able sex, long regarded as \u2018\u2018s cross between an angel and an idiot\u201d, has idens of its own shared, we fear, by neither angels nor idiots.Among s0 much that is food it may be difficult to choose.ut let me entreat those who intend to visit the Suffrage Exhibit not to miss Constanoe Smediey's \u2018Woman\u2019, Laurence Housman's \u2018\u2018Rawling Brotherhood\", Masefleld's \u201cMy Faith In Woman Suffrage\u2019, Maude Royden's \u2018\u2018Pelain Answers To Tangled Statements\u201d, and, last but not the least, Nevinson's \u2018Men and Women's Votes\u201d.Walton's \u201cMarriage Law in Quebec\u201d is like the old toast, ''Woman''\u2014she needs no eulogy; she speaks for ber- Those who have seen Masefield's \u201cNan\u2019\u2019 will lose no time in ur ing \u2018My Faith In Woman Suffrage\u2019.It ie rumoured that the Manchester Players will produce \u2018\u2018How the Vote Was Won' by Cicely Hamilton aad Christopher St-John.This too will be in stock.The feminist writings of Bernard Shaw, Zangwill, the Earl of Selbourne, Lord Robert Cesil, Beatrice Harraden, Elisabeth Robins sad Lady Constance Lytton and countless others can be procured at moderate prices in an attractive form.Thisis an opportunity such as Montreal may not see soon again, to get ia touch with some of the greatest minds of the day and to obtain from them aa insight into the real meaning of the ae Exe op Saturday xhibit opens on f February 1, and will rua for twe weeks.Lectures, debates and other attractions will add to ite iaterest; and sa exesilent home-made tea will be served daily. pro THI GET pT EN Et es wo + + use yr Pi rt] ~ -_\u2014 tr ee me rm 10 Montreal, Saturday, February 1, 1913.+h | Counsel for the Defense (Copyright, 1911, by the Frank A.Musssy Co.) (AI Rights Reserved) THE room was thick with dust and draped with aneient oob- webs.One corner was filled with a literary junk-Leap\u2014 magazines, brok- en-backed works of reference, novels once read by everybody but now forgotten.The desk was a helter- skelter of papers.One of the two chairs had its bursted cane seat mended by an atlas of the world; and where- ever any of the floor peered dimly through all this debris, it showed a complexion of dark and ineradicable asiness.Altogether, it was a room opelessly unfit for human habitation; which is perhaps but an indirect manner of stating that it was the office of a successful newspaper.Before a typewriter, at & small table beside the open window, sat a bare- armed, solitary man.He was twenty eight or thirty, with a deal of bone and muscle, and with a face\u2014 but not to soil this early page with abusive terms, it will sufficient to remark that whatever the Divine Sculptor chiseled his countenance to portray, plainly there had been no thought of carving an Apollo.He was constructed not for grace, but powerful, tireless action; and there was something absurdly disproportionate between the s machine and the broad and hairy hands which so heavily belabored it.; It was a custom with Bruce to write the big local news story of the day himself \u2014a feature which had proved a stimulant to his paper's ever-growing prestige.To-morrow, was to be one of the proudest days of Westville\u2019s history, for it was to see the formal opening of the city\u2019s groat- est municipal enterprise, its thoroughly modern water-works; and it was an extensive and vivid account of the next day's program that the editor was pounding so rapidly out of his machine for that afternoon's issue of the Express.! Now and then, as he paused an instant to shape a sentence in his mind, he glanced through the window across Main Street to where, aguiast the front of the old courthouse, shirt- sleeved workmen were hanging their eountry's colors about a speakers\u2019 stand.Then his fingers thumped madly on.He had jerked out the final sheet, and had begun to revise his story, making corrections with a very black pencil and in a very large hand, when there sauntered in from the general editorial room a pale, slight young man of twenty-five.The newcomer had a reckless air, a humorous twist to the left corner of his mouth, and a negligent smartness in his dress which plainly had its origin elsewhere than au Westville.The editor did not raise hit eyes.\u201cIn a minute, Billy,\u201d he said s ortly \u201cNothing to hurry about, Arn,\u201d drawled the other.The young fellow drew forward the atlas-bottomed chair, leisurely deposited himself upon the nations of the earth, crossed his feet upon the window-sill, and Lit a cigarette.About his lounging form there was a latent energy like that of a relaxed oat.He gazed rather languidly over at the square, its sides abustle with excited preparation.Across the fronts of stores bunting was being tacked; from upper windows crisp cotton flags were being unrolled.As for the court- bouse yard itself, to-day its eilmshaded spaces were lifeless save for the workmen about the stand, and an occasional frock-coated lawyer, his vest democratically unbuttoned to the warm May air.ut to-morrow\u2014 The young fellow had turned his head slowly toward the editor's copy, and, as if reading, he began in a drawling, declamatory voice: i \u201cTo-morrow the classic shades of Court-House Square will swarm with a #ildly cheering multitude.In the against.spot-light\u2014it\u2019s enough to make one heart failure.To do a great piece of work, and then be as modest about it as he is\u2014well, Arn, I sure aia for | tossed it back.that old doe!\u201d \u201cHuh!\u201d grunted the editor.i \u201cWhen it comes time to hang the laurel wreath upon his brow to-mor- row, I'll bet you and your spavined | old arrangement committee will have to push him on to the stand by the, scruff of his neck.\u201d .\u201cDid you get him to promise to sit for a new picture?\u201d .\u201cYes; and you ought to raise me five a week for doing it.He didn't want his picture printed; and if we did print it, he thought that old relic of the eighties we've got was good enough \u201cWell, be sure you get that photo, The way he dodges the |The Hon.Hiram is certainly one citi- zon who'll never go broke buying him- of your prima-donns politicians die of | self a bushel to hide his light under!\u201d The editor glanced at a page or two of it with wearied irritation, then rint it; \u201cI guess we'll have to owers of but weed out some of his rhetoric.\u201d \u201cPressed flowers,\u201d amended Billy.\u201cSwipe the Hon.Hiram's copy of \u201cBartlett's Quotations,\u201d and that tremendous orator would have nothing left but his gestures.\u201d \u2018How about the grand jury, Billy?\u201d \u201cAnything doing there?\u201d \u2018Farmer down in Buck Creek Township indicted for kidnaping his neighbor's pigs,\u201d drawled the reporter.\u2018Infants snatched away while fond mother slept.Very pathetic.Also that second-story man was indict- pursued the editor.: but the celebration down to bones,\u201d Bruce called out.| And with that he passed out of the l office and down the stairway to the j Street.1 i Despite its thirty thousand popu- lation\u2014\u201cForty thousand\u2014and growing, sir!\u201d loyally declared those disinterested citizens engaged in the sale \"of remote fields of ragweed as building lots\u2014Westville still was only half \u201cevolved from its earlier state of an \u2018overgrown country town.It was as yet semi-pastoral, semi-urban.Auto- ! mobiles and farm-wagons locked hubs familiarly upon its highways; cowhide boots and patent leather shared its \u2018sidewalks with democratic equality.; There was a stock-broker\u2019s office that ! was thoroughly metropolitan in the facilities it afforded the elite for relieving themselves of the tribulation of , riches; and adjoining it was Simpson Brothers & Co's store, wherein hickory shirted gentlemen bartered for tresh- \u2018ing-machines, hay-rakes, axle-grease, \u2018and such like articles of Arcadian commerce.There were three topics on which one could always rouse an argument in Westville \u2014polities, religion, and the editor of the Express.A year before, Arnold Bruce, who had left Westville at eighteen, and | of whom the town had vaguely heard as à newspaper man in Chicago and The Temporary Vice-Regal Residence.N A J .LS - fin © PP.à OS ut RL: _ Q gd AY i = J i we 4 .N ; Pe = fa a.à 7) î 2 & Ï pr eu 3 Un.- = _ A > see z se iad = oe 8 Ce .bin fy HR B LY} A i, po 1 , > owl ro + - | if you have to use chloroform.I saw him go into the court-house a little while ago.Better catch him as he comes out and lead him over to Young's gallery.\u201d \u201cAll right.But, Arn,\u201d drawled the young fellow, his feet still upon the window-sill, \u201cthis certainly is a slow old burgh you've dragged me down into! if a leading citizen wants to catch the seven-thirty to Indianapolis to-morrow morning, I suppose he sets his alarm to go off day before yesterday.\u2019 \u201cWhat's soured on your stomach now?\u201d demanded the editor.\u201cOh, the way it took this suburb of nowhere thirty years to wake up-to Dr.West! Every time I see him, I feel sore for hours afterward at how this darned place has treated the old boy.If your six-cylinder, sixty-horse- power, seven-passenger tongues hadn't remembered that his grandfather had founded the place, I bet you'd have talked him out of the town long 0 LA \u201cThe town didn't understand him.\u201d \u2018I should say it didn't!\" agreed she reporter.\u201cAnd 1 guess you don't understand the town,\u201d said the editor.\u2018\u2018Youn man, you've never lived in a sma speakers\u2019 stand the Westville Brass place and, in new uniforms, looking like so many grand marshals of the empire, will trumpet forth triumphant music fit to burst; and from this breeze-fluttered throne of oratury\u2014\u201d \u201cGo to thunder!\u201d interrupted Bruce, his eyes still racing through his copy.Pind from this breeze-fluttered throne of oratory,\u201d continued Billy, with a rising quaver in his voice, \u2018Mr.Harrison Blake, Westville\u2019s favorite son, the Rev.Dr.Sherman, president of the Voters\u2019 Union, and the Hon.Hiram Cogshell Calloway County's able-bodiedest orator, will scatter prodigal and perfervid eloquence upon the populace below.And Dr.David West, he who has directed this magni- floent work from its inception to the present\u2014 he who has laid upon the sacred altar of his city's welfare a rare devotion and a lifetime's scientific knowledge\u2014 he who\u2014\u201d \u201cSee here, young fellow!\u201d The editor slammed down the last sheet of his revised story, and turned upon his assistant a square, bony, aggressive face that gave a sense of having been modeled by a clenched fist, and of still glowering at the blow.He had gy eyes that gleamed, dogmatically m behind thick glasses, and bair that brush could not subdue.\u2018\u2018See here, Billy Harper, will you please to thunder?\u2019 \u201cSure; follow you anywhere, Arn,\u201d wled Bruce.He took a cigarette, ke it open, and red the tobacso into a black pipe, which he lit.\u2018Weil -\u2014\u2014tera up enything\u201d\"\u201d \u201cGovernor oan t come, replied the reporter, lighting a» fresh cigarette.\u2018Hard luck! But we'll bave the srowd anghow.Blake tell you any- thi 0 id; \u2018do t vern- or's lelegram.Blake's in Indiana to-day-\u2014looking after hie chances the Bemate, I supposes.\u201d \u2018See Dr.West?\" \u201cWeat to his house fret; bui se vvual he wouldn't say a thing.That old i mes- is certaialy the Lee othe day Î ever vont up \u201cTill this, Chicago was my smallest \u2014the gods be praised!\u201d \u201cWell, it\u2019s the same in your old smokestack of the universe as it is here,\u2019 retorted Bruce.\u2018lf you go after the dollar, you're sane.If you don\u2019t, you're cracked.Dr.est started off like a winner, so they say; looked as if he was going to get a corner on all the patients of Westville.Then, when he stopped prao- tising\u2014\"' .\u201cYou never told me what made him stop.\u201d Ria wife's death from typhoid: = I barely remember that.hen he stopped practising and began his scientific work, the town thought he was fooling away his time.\u201d \u201cArd yet two years ago the town was glad enough to get him to take charge of installi.g ite new water system!\u201d .\u201cThat's how the city diseovered be was somebody.When they began to look around for an expert, they found that no one they could get had a tenth of his knowledge of water- su LL\u2019 PR ues the way with your selif- worshiping oroser towns! You raise a genius \u2014laugh at him, pity his family\u2014till you learn how the outside world respects him.Then\u2014hurrah! Strike up the band, boys! When I think how that old y has been quietly studyi typhoid fever and water-supply these years, hardly ever leaving his laboratory, with you buach of hayseeds looking dowa on him as à erank, Î get so sore at the that I wish 1'd chucked your tier into the waste-basket when you wrote me to come!\" \u201clt may have been a dub of a town, Billy, but it'll be something differeat before we get through with it\" returned the editor confidently.\u2018\u2018But whom else did you see?\u2019 \u201cRaa into the Hon.Hiram Cogshell on the street, aad he slipped me this presious gem.\u2019 Billy handed Bruce a packet ol by written sheets.\u201cIt's » carbon à to-morrow ¢ specch.e gave it to me, said, to save ue the trouble of taking it dewa, ed who stole Alderman Big Bill Perkins\u2019 clothes.Remember it, don't you?Big Bill's clothes had so much diameter, that the poor, hard-working thief couldn\u2019t sell the fruits of his industry.Pathos there also.Guess 1 can spin the two out for a column, if you want it.\u201d \u201cSpin 'em out for about three lines,\u201d returned Bruce in his abrupt manner.\u201cNo room for your funny stuff to-day, Billy; the celebration crowds everything else out.Write that about the Governor, and then help Stevens with the telegraph\u2014 and see that it's carved down to the bone.\u201d He picked up the typewritten sheets he had finished revising, and let out a sharp growl of \u201cCopy!\u201d \u2018That's your celebration story, isn\u2019t it?\u2019 asked the reporter.\u201cYes.\u201d Bruce held it out to the \u201cdevil\u201d who had appeared through the doorway from the depths below.\u201cWait » minute with me, Arn.The prosecuting attorney stopped me as Î was leaving, and asked me to have you step over to the court-house for a minute.\u201d \u201cWhat's Kennedy want?\u201d \u201cSomething about the celebration,\u201d he said.\u2018I guess he wants to talk with you about some details of the program.\u201d \u2018Well, why didn't he come over here, then?\u2019 growled Bruce.\u201cI'm as busy as he is, and quite as important!\u201d 0-ho, we're on our high horse, are we sy \u201cYou bet we are, my son! And that's where you've get to be if you want this town to respect you.\" .\u201cAll right! She's a great nag, if you can keep your dle.But I guess 1'd better tell Kennedy you're not coming.\u201d Without rising, Billy leaned back and took up Bruce's desk telephone, and soon was talking to the prosecuting attorney.After a moment he held out the instrument to the editor.\u201cKennedy wants to speak to you,\u201d he said.Bruce took the phone.\u201cHello! That you, Kennedy?.No, 1 can\u2019t come-too busy.Buppose you rum over here.Got some people there?Well, bring\u2019 em slong.Why can't they come?Who are they?.Can't you tell .ne what the situation is?.Al right, then; in a couple of minutes.\u201d Bruce hung up the receiver and arose.; pine you're going, after all?\u2019\u2019 asked illy.\u201cGuess I'd better,\u201d returned the editor, putting om his coat and hat.\u201cKennedy says something big has just broken .Bounds queer.onder what it can be!\u201d and he started out.\u201cBut how about your celebration .[4 queried Billy.\u2018Want it Lo go Bruce looked at his watch.\u201cTwo hours till press time; 1 guess it can wait.\u201d Taki the story back from the \u201cdevil\u2019\u2019, tossed i* down beside bis typewriter.a stepped out into the local room which showed the same kindly tolerance of dirt ae did his private office.At a long table two young mem set hefore typewriters, and in a corner a third young man was takiag the olick- ing dietation of a telegraph sounder.\u2018Remember, boys.keep everything | Sherman, and a rather smart! JAMES ROSS HAS PLACED HIS FINE RESIDENCE ON PEEL STREET AT THE DISPOSAL OF THEIR EXCELLENCIES, DURING THEIR PRESENT STAY IN MONTREAL.New York, but whom'it had not seen since, had returned home and taken charge of the Express, which had been willed him by the late editor, his uncle.under old Jimmie Bruce, showed suddenly a volcanic energy.The new editor used huge, vociferous headlines, instead of the whispering types of his uncle; he wrote a rousing, rough and ready sort of English; occasionally he placed an important editorial, set up in heavy-faced type and enclosed in a black \u2018box\u2019, in the center of his first page; and from the very start he had had the hardihood to attack the \u2018\u2018established\u2019 order, and to preach unorthodox doctrines.he wealthiest citizens were outraged, and hotly pronounced Bruce to be a \u2018yellow Journalist\u201d and a \u2018\u2018red- mouthed demagogue.\u201d It was the common opinion of the better element that his ultra democracy was merely à pose, à mask, an advertising scheme, | to gather in the pultible subsoriber and to force himself sensationaily into the public eye.But despite all hostile criticism of the paper, people read the Ezpress\u2014many staid ones in secret\u2014 for it had a snap, a go, a tang, that at times almost took the breath.Bruce stepped forth from his stair- Way, Cros Main Street, and strode up the shady court-house walk.On the left side of the walk was an irreproachably draped nymph of cast- iron, a-tiptoe in an arid fountain; on its right stood u statue of the city's founder, Colonel Davy West, wearing a coon-skin cap and leaning upon & long deer rifle.\u2018 He entered the dingy-court-house mounted & wooden stairway, brown with the tobacco-juice of two generations of litigants, and passed into a damp and gloomy chamber.This room was the office of the prosecuting attorney of Calloway County.That the incumbent might not become too depressed by his environnment, the walls were enlivened by a steel engraving of Daniel Webster, frowning with multitudinous thought, and by a map of Indiana -the latter dotted by industrious flies with a myriad nameless cities.Three men arose from about the flat-topped dosk in the center of the room \u2014the prosecutor, the Rev.Drdressed man whom Bruce remem to have seen once or twice, but whom he did not know.With the first two the editor shook hands; the third was introduoed as Mr.Maroy, nt of the Acme Filter Company, which had installed the filtering plant of the new water-worka.Bruce turned in his brusk manner to the prosecutine attorney.\u201cWhat's the matter?\u201d he asked.\u201cSuppose we all sit down first,\u201d suggested the prosecutor.y did so, and Kennedy regarded Bruce with a solemn, weighty stare.He was a lank, Iantern-jawed, frock- coated gentleman of thirty-five, with an upward rolling forelock and an Adam's apple that throbbed in his throat like a pretrified pulse.He was climbing the political der, and he war carefully schooling himself iato the dignity, poise, and appearance of importance which should distinguish the manner of the publie man.\u201cWell, what is it?\u2019 demanded Bruee shorty, \u201cYes\u2019\u2019, responded Kennedy.\u201cThe water-works, Mr.Bruce, is, hardly I need say, a source of pride to us all.To ou especially it has had à large signi- foance.You have made it a theme for a continuous agitation in your You have argued that, since should not halt with this one municipal enterprise.You have urged that the city should refuse the new fran- ohise the street-railway is going to apply for, take over the railway, run it as à municipal\u2014\" \u201cYes, yes,\u201d interrupted Bruce impatiently.\u201cBut who's dead\u2019?ho wants the line of march changed to go by his grocery-store.?\u201d \u201cWhat I was saying was merely to recall how very important the waterworks has been to us,\u2019 the prosecutor returned with increased solemnity.He paused, and having gained that heightened stage effect of a well- managed silence, he continued: \u2018Mr.Bruce, something very serious has oceured.\u201d For all its ostentation, thé prosecutor\u2019s manner was genuinely impressive.Bruce looked quickly at the other two menthe minister pale and agitated.\u2018Come,\u2019 cried Bruce, \u2018\u2018out with what you've got to tell me!\u201d paper.i the city's new water-works promised ; to be such a great success, Westville The agent was ill at ease, his integrity reassert itself at the last moment, and cause him to refuse the bribe, the whole matter would then remain locked up in my heart.I arranged with Mr.Marcy that he should carry out his agreement with Dr.West.Yesterday, as you know, the council, on Dr.West\u2019s recommendation, formally approved the filtering plant and sent a draft to the company.Mr.Marcy was to call at Dr.Wests home this morning to conclude their secret bargain.Just before the appointed hour I dropped in on Dr.West, and was there when Mr Maroy called.Saying that I would wait to finish my talk with Dr.West till they were through with their business, I took a book, and went into an adjoining room.I could see the two men through the partly opened door.After some talk, Mr.Marcy drew an envelope from his pocket and handed it to Dr.West, saying in a low voice: \u201cHere is that money we spoke about.\" \u201c\u2018And he took it?\u2019 Bruce interrupted.\u201cDr.West slipped the envelope unopened into his pocket, and replied: \u201cThank you very much; it will come in handy just now.\u201d \u201cMy God!\u201d breathed the editor.\u201cThough I had suspected Dr.West, I sat there stunned,\u201d the minister , \u201cItie a matter of the very first | continued; \u201cbut after a minute or two importance,\u201d returned the prosecutor, ; I slipped out by another door.I re- who was posing for a prominent place | turned with a policeman, and found in the Æxrpress's account of this affair , Dr.West still with Mr.Marcy.The \u2014for however much the public men | policeman arrested Dr.West, and of Westville affected to look down ound the envelope upon his person.In upon the Express, they secretly pre- | it was two thousand dollars.\u201d ferred its superior presentment of \u201cNow, what do you think of that?\u201d their doings.\u2018\u2018Dr.Sherman, in his; Kennedy demanded of the editor.capacity of president of the Voter's | \u201cWon't the town be thunderstruek?\u201d Union, has just brought before me Bruce turned to the agent, who had some most distressing, most astound- | gat through the recital, a mere corro- ing evidence.which I must act both as a public! official and as a member of the arrangement committee, and evidence which concerns you both as a com- mitteman and as an editor.It is painful to me to break\u2014\" \u201cLet's have it from first hands,\u201d It is evidence upon i borative presence.\u2018And this is all true?\u201d \u201cThat is exactly the way it happened,\u201d replied Mr.Marcy.Bruce looked back at the minister.\u201cBut didn't he have anything to say for himself?\u201d \u2018I can answer that,\u201d put in Kenneinterrupted Bruce, irritated by the \u2018dy.\u201cI had him in here before I sent verbal excelsior wrapped about the him over to the jail.He admits prae- prosecutor's fact.! tically every point that Dr.Sherman He turned to the minister, a slender | has made.The only thing he says for man of hardly more than thirty, with \u2018 himself is that he never thought the a high brow, the wide, sensitive mouth ' money Mr.Marcy gave him was in- of the born orator, fervently bright | tended for a bribe.\u201d eyes, and the pallor of the devoted, Bruce stood up, his face hard and student\u2014a face that instantly explain- ' glowering, and his fist crashed explosi- ed why, though 80 young, he was the ' vely down upon the table.town's most popular clergyman.i \u2018'Of all the flimsy defenses that ever The Express, which had been | à slippered, dozing, inoffensive\u2019sheet \u201cAbout the water-worke?\" \u201cWhat's it about, Dr.8 the limit!\u201d the editor asked.\u2018Who's the man?\" \u2018About the water-works.as Mr.Kennedy has said,\u201d the minister answered in & voice that shook with agitation.\u201cThere has been some\u2014 some crooked work.\" \u201cCrooked work!\u201d ejaculated the editor, starin at the minister.\u201cCrooked work!\u201d \u201cYes.\u201d | Lou are certain of what you say?\" \u2018 es.\u201d \u201cThen you have evidence?\u201d \u201cI am sorry\u2014but\u2014but I have.\u201d ,The editor was leaning forward, his nostrils dilated, his eyes gleaming sharply behind their thick fasses.\u201cWho's mi?xed up in it?Who's the man?\u201d The minister's hands were tightly interlocked.For an instant he seemed unable to speak.\u201cWho's the man?\u2019 repeated Bruce.The minister swallowed.up.\u201cDr.West!\u201d ne cried.\u2018The superintendent of the water-works?\"\u2019 If the editor's concern for thd city\u2019s \u2018welfare was merely a political and \u2018 business pose, if he was merely an aot- \u2018or, At least he acted his part well.\u201cMy God!\u201d he breathed, and stood with eyes fixed upon the young minister.Then, suddenly, he sat down ; again, his thick brows drawn together, and his heavy jaws set.i snapped out.\u2018From the very be- ' ginning!\" | \u201cI cannot tell you how distressed I am by what I have just been forced \"to do,\u201d began the young clergyman.: I have always esteemed Dr.West most highly, and my wife and his daughter have been the closest friends since girlhood.To make my part \u2018in this affair olear, I must recall to you that of late the chief attention of | the Voters\u2019 Union bas heen devoted | , to the water-works.I never imagined that anything was wrong; but speaking frankly, after the event, I must say that Dr.West's position was such as made it & simple matter for him to defraud the city should he so desire.\u201d \u2018 \u201cYou mean use the council invested him with so much authority?\u2019 demanded Bruce.\u201cYes.As I have said, I regarded , Dr.West as above ail suspicion; but a short time ago some matters\u2014I need not detail them\u2014 aroused in me the fear that Dr.West was using his office for\u2014for\u2014\" \u201cFor graft?\u201d supplied Bruce.The minister inclined his head \u201cLater, only à few weeks ago, à more definite fear came to me,\u201d he continued in his low, pained voice.\u201cIt happens that I have known Mr.Marcy here for years; we were friends in college, though we had lost track of each other till his business brought him to Westville.A few small oir- cumstances \u2014my suspicion was already on the alert\u2014made me guess that r.Marcy was about to give Dr Went a bribe for having awarded the \u2014-\u2014 filter contract to his company.t him alone\u2014taxed him with his intention\u2014worked upon his con- scienoe\u2014\"\u201d \u2018Mr.Marcy has stated,\u201d the prose- \u2018cutor interrupted to explain, \u2018\u2018that Dr.Sherman always had great influence over him.\u201d : Mr.Marcy corroborated this with & nod.| \u201cAt length Mr.Marcy oonfessed,\u201d Dr.Sherman went on, \u2018He had arranged to give Dr.West a certain sum of | money immediately after the filtering- plant had been approved and payment ad been made to tho Coinpany.After this confession | hesitated long upon what ! should do.[| shrank from disgracing Dr.West; at the same tine, I had a duty to the city.After a lo struggle, | decided that my responsibility to the people of Westville should overbalanne any feeling 1 might have for an individual.\u201d \u201cThat was the only devision,'\u2019 said .\u2018Go on!\u201d i.\u2018But at the same time, to protest Dr.West's utation, | desided to take no one inte my plan.Bhould herman?\u2019 ' 4 man made, that \u201cDr.West,\u201d he said.Bruce sprang .\u201cLet's have the whole story,\u201d he | { \u201cIt certainly won't go down with | the people of Westville,\u201d commented , the prosecutor.\u2018I can see the smiles of the jury when he produces that defense in court.\u201d ; \u201cI should say cried Bruce.\u2018But what was motive?\u201d \u201cThat's plain enough,\u201d answered ; the prosecutor.\u201cWe both know, Mr.Bruce, that he has not earned anything from the practise of medicine since we were boys.His salary as superintendent of the water-works was merely nominal.His property is mortgaged practically to its utmost | value.Everything has gone on those ; experiments of his.It's simply a case of a man being in a tight fix for money.Bruce was striding up and down the room, staring flercely at the worn linoleum that carpeted the prosecutor's office.\u201cI thought you'd take it rather hard said Kennedy, a little slyly.\u2018It sort of puts a spoke in that general municipal ownership scheme of yours, eh?Bruce paused belligerently before the prosecutor.: \u201cSee here, Kennedy,\u201d he snapped j out, \u2018\u2018because a man you've banked on | is a crook, does that prove a principle :is bad?\u201d | \u201cOh, perhaps not,\u201d Kennedy ad- | mitted.\u201cWell, suppose you cut out that kind of talk, then.But what are you going to do about the doctor?\u201d \u201cThe grand jury is in session.I'm efore it with the evid- they would smile!\u201d his i | going straight ence.An hour from now, and Dr.West will be indicted.\u201d \u201cAnd what about show?\u201d d pv bat do you think we ought to o \u201d to-morrow\u2019s \u2018What ought we to do?\u201d Again the editor's fist crashed upon the desk.\u201cThe celebration was half in Dr.| West's honor.Do we want to meet and hurrah for the man that sold us jout?As for the water-works, it looks | as if, for all we know, he might have bought a lot of old junk for us.Do we want to hold a jubilee over a | junk-pile?You ask what ought we | to do.There's only one thing to do, \u2018and that's to oall the whole con- | founded performance off!\u201d \u201cThat's my opinion,\u201d said the prosecutor, \u201cWhat do you think, Dr.Sherman?\u201d \u2018 The young minister wiped his pale ace.+ \u201cIt's & most miserable affair.I'm i sick because of the part I've been forced to play\u2014'Im sorry for Dr.West\u2014and I'm particularly sorry for his daughter; but I do not see that , any other course would be possible.\u201d \u201cI suppose we ought to consult Mr.: Blake,\u201d said Kennedy.I \u201cHe's not in town,\u201d returned Bruce.: \u2018And we don't need to consult hm.We three are a majority of the com- | mittee.The matter has to be settled At once; and it's settled, all right.\u201d The editor jerked out his watch, \"glanced at it, then reached for his t.\u201cI'll have this on the street in an hour\u2014and if this town doesn't go wild, then I don't know Westville.\u201d i He was making for the door, when : the newspaper man in him recalled a Dew detail of his story.He turned | | \u201cHow about this daughter of Dr.| West?\u201d he asked.ventre prosecutor looked at the minis- \u201cWaa she coming home for the celebration, do you know?\u201d \u201cYes.She wrote Mrs.Sherman that she was leaving New York this morning, and would get in here tomorrow on the limited.\u201d \u201cWhat's she like?\u201d saked Bruce.\u201cHaven't you seen her?\u201d asked Kennedy.\u201cShe hasa't been home since | same back to Westville.When I left here she was a tomboy \u2014 mostly legs and : freckles.\u201d The prosecutor\u2019s lean face smiled.i \"I guess you'll And she's grown | right smart sines then.She went to one ef those colleges baok East\u2014 | (Continued on page 11) ! ! \u2014_ I Dy OG.AAENRY cs TT Lu 9 (Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Company The Trimmed Lamp .Reprinted by Special Arrangement) F course there are two sides to the ; question.Let us look at the! other.We often hear \u2018\u2018shop-girls\u201d spoken of.No such persons exist.There are girls who work in shops.They make their living that way.But why turn their ocoupation into an adjective?Let us be fair.We do not refer to the girls who live on Fifth | | Avenue as \u2018\u2018 marriage-girls.\u201d\u201d | Lou and Nancy were chums.They came to the big city to find work because there was not enough to eat at their homes to go around.Nanc was nineteen; Lou was twenty.Bot were pretty, active, country girls who had no ambition to go on the stage.O.Henry, regarded by many as America\u2019s foremost short-story writer of modern times, \u201chad the punch.\u201d He knew how to tell a story and he had stories lo tell.Unhappily, O.Henry's pen is now forever idle.Its work is done O.Henry's stories are, perhaps, not as well known in Canada as they might be.Hence, we regard ourselves as fortunate in having been able to secure the Canadian serial rights to some of his best stories.\u201cThe Trimmed Lamp.\u201d which is here given, is considered by some as his masterpiece.It is indeed a classic.Even those who have once read it will derive much pleasure from another perusal.The little cherub that sits up aloft i guided them to a cheap and respectable boarding-house.Both found : the sad eyes of Romeo, and thought positions and became wage-earners.her embroidered waist a web in which hey remained chums.end of six months that I would beg you | to step forward and be introduce them.Meddlesome Reader: My Lady ; It is at the any fly should delight to be caught.\u201cMy friend, Mr.Owens\u2014shake to hands with Miss Danforth,\u201d said Lou.\u201cI'm mighty glad to know you, friends, Miss Nancy and Miss Lou.\u2018 Miss Danforth,\u201d said Dan, with out- While you are shaking hands please stretched hand.take notice \u2014 cautiously \u2014 of their \u2018 speak of attire.Yes, cautiously; for they are \u201cI've heard Lou ou so often.\u201d \u201cThanks,\u201d said Nancy, touchin as quick to resent a stare as a lady in his fingers with the tips of her coo a box at the horse show is.Louisa e laundry.She is clothed in a badiy- fitting purple dress, and her hat plume is four inc es too long; but her ermine ' Mrs.Van A .ones, \u2018\u2018I\u2019ve heard her mention you\u2014 iece-work ironer in a hand a few times.\u201d Lou giggled.\u201cDid you get that handshake from styne Fisher, Nance?\u201d muff and scarf cost $25, and its fellow she asked.beasts will be ticketed in the windows at $7.98 before the season is over.ng it,\u201d said Nancy.Her cheeks are pink, and her light blue ! eyes bright.from her.because you have the habit.ere i no type; but a perverse generation is always seeking & type; so this is what the type should be.She has the high- ratted pompadour, and the exaggerated straight-front.Her skirt is shoddy, but has the correct flare.No furs protect her against the bitter sprin air, but she wears her shot broadeclot jacket as jauntily as though it were ersian lamb! On her face and in her eyes, remorseless type-seeker, is the typical shop-girl expression.It is a look of silent But contemptuous revolt against cheated womanhood; of sad rophecy of the vengeance to come.When she laughs her loudest the look is still there.The same look can be seen in the eyes of Russian peasants; and those of us left will see it some day on Gabriel\u2019s face when be comes to blow us up.lt is a look that should wither and abash man; but he has been \u2014with a string tied to them.Now lift your hat and come away, while you receive Lou's cheery \u2018\u2018See you again,\u201d and the sardonic, sweet smile of Nancy that seems, somehow, to miss you and go fluttering like a white moth up over the house-tops to the stars.ontentment radiates too stylish for me.set off diamond rings, that high shake Nanay you would call a shop-girl\u2014 is.| here is try it.\u201d upon a great known to smirk at it and offer flowers | educational institution.in which Nancy worked was somethin | t , Bhe was surrounded | by beautiful things that breathed of | And you saw what kind of handker- taste and refinement.an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, thing or nothing, if you please.\u201d or another's.| like that to her.\u201cIf I did, you can feel safe in copy- \u201cOh, I couldn\u2019t use it at all.It's It\u2019s intended to Wait till I get a few and then I'll \u2018Learn it first,\u201d said Nancy wisely, \u2018and you'll be more likely to get the rings.\u2019 \u201cNow, to settle this argument,\u201d said Dan, with his ready, cheerful smile, \u2018\u2018let me make a proposition.As I can't take both of Tiffany's and do the right thing, what do you say to a little vaudeville?I've got the tickets.at stage diamonds since we can\u2019t shake hands with the real sparklers?\u2019\u2019 ou up to How about looking The faithful squire took his place close to the curb; Lou next, a little peacocky in her bright and pretty clothes; Nancy on the inside, slender, | Cophetua air.and soberly clothed as the sparrow, of the girls said: but with the true Van Alst;ne Fisher \u2018 walk\u2014thus they set out for their evening\u2019s moderate diversion.I do not suppose that many look It you live in Montreal, Saturday, February 1, 1913.Ï | epartment store as an est, sweetest, most im But the one | Alstyne Fisher smile; \u2018\u2019not for mine.| t = x I ; _\u2014 2 wm MONTREAL ART GALLERY.\u2014\u2018\u2018 INCOMPARABLY, THE FINEST BUILDING IN MONTREAL.\u201d Thus Nancy learned the art of defense; and to women successful defense means victory.The curriculum of a department store is a wide one.Perhaps no other college could have fitted her as well for her life's ambition\u2014the drawing of a matrimonial prize.Her station in the store was a favored one.The music room was near enough for her to hear and become familiar with the works of the best composers\u2014at least to acquire the familiarity that passed for appreciation in the social world in which she was vaguely trying to set a tentative and aspiring foot.She absorbed the educating influence of art wares, of costly and dainty fabries, of adornments that are almost culture to women.The other girls soon became aware of Nancy\u2019s ambition.\u2018\u2018Here comes your millionaire, Nance,\u201d they would call to her whenever any man who looked the role approached her counter.It got to be a habit of men, who were hanging about while their women folk were shopping, to stroll over to the handkerchief counter and dawdle over the cambric squares.Nancy's imitation high-bred air and genuine dainty beauty was what attracted.Many men thus came to display their graces before her.Some of them may have been millionaires; others were certainly no more than their sedulous apes.ancy learned to discriminate.There was a window at the end of the handkerchief counter; and she could see the rows of vehicles waiting for the shoppers in the street below.8he looked, and perceived that automobiles differ as well as do their owners.Once a fascinating gentleman bought four dozen handkerchiefs, and wooed her across the counter with a King When he had gone one \u201cWhat's wrong, Nance, that you didn't warm up to that fellow?He looks the swell article, all right, to me.\u201d Him?\" said Nancy, with her cool- rsonal, Van I saw him drive up outside.A 12 H.P.machine and an Irish chauffeur! chiefs he bought\u2014silk! And he's got dactylis on him.Give me the real Two of the most \u2018\u2018refined\u2019\u2019 women ; | The people she served were mostly i in the store\u2014a forelady and a cashier The two waited on the corner for; women whose dress, manners, and | \u2014had afew \u2018\u2018swell gentlemen friends\" position in the social world were quot- | with whom they now and then dined.Dan.Dan was Lou's steady com- intl any.Faithful?Well he was on ed as criterions.From them Nancy | Once they included Nancy in an invi- Band when Mary would have had to | began to take toll\u2014the best from each tation.The dinner took place in a hire a dozen subpoena servers to find her lamb.os \u201cAin't you cold, Nance?\" said Lou.\u2018Say, what a chump you are for working in that old store for $8 a week! I made $38.50 last week.Of course ironing ain't as swell work as selling lace behind a counter, but it pays.None of us ironers make less than $10.And I don't know that it's any lesa respectful work, either.\u201d .\u2018You can have it,\u201d said Nancy, with uplifted nose.\u201cI'll take my eight a week and hall bedroom.I like to be among nice things and people.And look what a chance I've farts Why, one of our glove girls married a Pittaburg\u2014 steel maker, or blacksmith or something\u2014the other day worth a million dollars.l'Il catek a swell myself some time.I ain't bragging on my looks or anything; but I'll take my chances where there's big station.\u201d according to her view., From one she would copy and prac-.gaged for New Year's eve a tice a quent lifting of an eyebrow, from others, a manner of walking, of carrying a purse, of smiling, of friend, of addressing \u2018\u2018inferiors in From her best beloved model, Mrs.Van Alstyne Fisher, she made requisition for that excellent thing, à soft, low voice as clear as silver and as perfect in articulation as the notes of a thrush.Suffused in the aura of this high social refinement and swell good breeding, it was impossible for esture, from another an elo- eeting & er to escape a deeper effect of it.As good habits are said to be better than good principles, so, perhaps, | t the words eyes and ears.spectacular cafe whose tables are en- ear in advance.There were two \u2018\u2018gentlemen friends\u2019 \u2014one without any hair on his head\u2014high living ungrew it; and we can prove it\u2014the other a young man whose worth and sophistication he impressed upon you in two con- vineing ways\u2014he swore that all the wine was corked; and he wore diamond ouff buttons.This young man perceived irresistible excellenciesin Nancy.His taste ran to shop girls; and here was one that added the voice and manners of his high social world to the franker charms of her own caste.So, on the following day, he appeared in good | the store and made her a serious pro- manners are better than good haibts.posal of marriage over a box of hem- The teachings of your parents may not ' stitched, grass-bleached Irish linens.keep alive your New England con- Nancy declined.science; but if you sit on a straight- back chair and re A brown pompadour ten feet away had been using her When the rejected prizes offered.What show would a \u2018prisms and pilgrims\u2019 forty times the suitor had gone she heaped carboys of girl have in a laundry?\u201d \u2019 \u201cWhy, that's where I met Dan, said Lou, triumphantly.\u2018\u2018He came in for his Sunday shirt and collars and saw me at the first board, ironing.We all try to get to work at the first board.lla Maginnis was sick that day, and 1 had her place.He said he noticed my arms first, how round and white they was.1 had my sleeves rolled up.Some nice fellows come into laundries.You can tell 'em b pu e their bringing their clothes in suit | oases, and turning in the door sharp and sudden.\u201d \u201cHow can you wear a waist like that, Lou?\" said Nancy gazing down at the offending article with sweet soorn in her heavy-lidded eyes.\u2018\u2018It shows fierce taste.\u201d .\u201cThis waist?\u2019 cried Lou, with wide- eyed indigration.\u2018Why, I paid $16 for this waist.It's worth twenty-five.A woman left it to be laundered, and never called for it.The boss sold it to me.It's Jo yards and yards of hand embroidery on it.Better talk about that ugly, plain thing you've devil will flee from you.Nancy spoke in the Van Alstyne Fisher tones she felt the thrill o o wire And when noblesse lige to her very bones.T ppbraidings and horror upon Nancy's \u201cWhat a terrible little fool you are! That fellow's a millionaire\u2014he's a .There was another source of learn- nephew of old Van Skittles himself.ing in the great departmental school.And he was talking on the level, too.enever you see three or four shop- Have you gone Crazy, Nance?\" girls gather in a bunch and jingle their racelets as an accompaniment to take him, did I?He isn't a million- apparently frivolous conversation, do aire so hard that you could notice it, not think that they are there for the anyhow.rpose of critizing the way Ethel does $20,000 a year to spend.The bald- ack The meeting may iack headed fellow was guying him about it the dignity of the deliberative bodies the other night at supper.\u201d of men; but it has all the importance | of the occasion on which Eve and her and narrowed her eyes.first daughter first put their heads to-| gether to make Adam understand his | r back hair.lace in the household.It is roper Conference for Common oman s Defense and Exchange of Strategical Theories of Attack and Repulse upon and against the World, which is a Stage, and Man, its Audience who Persists in Throwing Bouquets Thereupon.the young of any animal\u2014with the fawn\u2019s grace but without its fleetness: Woman, the most helpless of t on.\u201d with the bird's beauty but without its \u201cThis ugly, wer of flight; with the honey-bee\u2019s plain thing.\u201d said | pe Nancy, calmly, \u2018\u2018 was copied from one ' burden of aweetness but without ite-\u2014 that wearing.The girls say her bill in the ma store last year was $12,000.I made mine, myself.feet away you couldn't tell it from \u201cOh, well,\u201d siad Lou, good-natured- ly, \u2018\u2018if you waat to starve and put on aire, go ahead.But I'll take my job and good wages; and after hours give me something as fancy and attractive to wear as | am able to buy.\u201d But just then Dan came\u2014 a serious ou Tho ad escaped the city's brand of frivolity\u2014an electrician $30 earning per week who looked upon Lou with \u201cotra | formulated out of the tactics of life.you the fresh thing! Who suppose | am, to be ad remark to me?And what do you think he says baek to me?\u201d siter in passages-at-arms with SOMIMOR SRO), MAS.rs.Van Alstyne Fisher was ' Ob, let's drop that simile\u2014some of us have been stung.uring this council of war they pase It cost me $1.50.Ten weapons one to another, and exchange ems that each has devised and \" says Nadie, ' ain't do you dressing sueh à \u201cIl says to \u2018im The heads, brown, black, flaxen, red, and yellow bob together ; the answer is man with a ready-made necktie given; and the parry to the thrust is esided upon, to be used by each there- \u2018everything \u2018Have 1?'\u2019 said Nancy.\u2018I didn\u2019t His family only allows him The brown pompadour came nearer \u201cBay, what do you want?\u201d she in- uired, in a voice hoarse for lack of chewing-gum.\u2018\u2018Ain't that enough for you! Do you want to be a Mormon, and marry Rockfeller and Gladstone Dowie and the King of Spain and the whole bunch?Ain't $20,000 à year good enough for you?\u201d Nancy flushed a little under the level gaze of the black, shallow eyes.\u201cIt wasn't al ther the money Carrie,\u201d she explained.\u2018\u2018His friend nner.It was about some girl he he hadn't been to the theater Well, I can't stand a liar.Put ether\u2014I don't like him; and that settles it.When I sell out it's not going to be on any bargain day.caught him in a rank lie the other night : at di said within a chair like a man.anyhow.I'm looking out for à catch; but it's got to be able to do something more than make a noise like a toy bank.\u201d 1've got to have something that sits up even beyond the } Yes, | that her dress profited until sometimes her belt day by day.On her face was the faint, soldierly, sweet, grim smile of the pre-ordained man-hunter.The store was her forest; and many times she raised her rifle at game that seem- some deep unerring instinet\u2014 perhaps of the huntress, Jorhaps of the woman \u2014made her hold her fire and take up the trail again.Lou flourished in the laundry.Out of her $18.50 per week she paid $6 for her room and board.The rest went mainly for clothes.Her opportunities for bettering her taste and manners were few compared with Nancy's.In the steaming laundry there was nothing but work, work and her thoughts of the evening pleasures to come.Many costly and showy fabrics passed under her iron; and it may be that her transmitted to her through the conducting metal.When the day's work was over Dan awaited her outside, her faithful shadow in whatever light she stood.Sometimes he cast an honest and troubled glance at Lou's clothes that increased in conspicuity rather than in style; but this was no disloyalty; he i deprecated the attention they called | to her in the streets.| And Lou was no less faithful to her chum.There was a law that Nanoy should go with them on whatsoever outings they might take.Dan bore the extra burden heartily and in good cheer.It might be said that Lou furnished the color, Nancy the tone, ; and Dan the weight of t he distrotion ' seeking trio.The escort, in his neat but obviously ready-made suit, his ! ready-made tie and unfailing, genial, ready-made wit never startled or clashed.He was of that good kind ' that you are likely to forget while they are present, but remember distinotly after they are gone.To Naney\u2019s superior taste the flavor of these ready-made pleasures was sometimes & little bitter: but she was young; and youth is a gourmand, when it cannot be a gourmet.\u201cDan is always wanting me to marry him right away,\u201d Lou told her once.\u2018\u2018But why should I.I'm independent.I can do as I please with the money I earn; and he never would agree for me to keep on working afterward.And say, Nance, what do you want to stick to that old store for, and half starve and half dress yourself?1 could get you 8 place in the laundry right now if you'd come.It seems to me that you could afford to be a little less stuck-up if you could make a good deal more money.\u201d \u201cI don't think I'm stuck-up, Lou,\" said Napoy, \u2018\u2018but I'd rather live on half rations and stay where I am.I suppose I've got the habit.It's the chance that I want.I don\u2019t expect to be always behind a counter.I'm learning something new every day.I'm right up against refined and rich people all the time\u2014even if 1 do only wait on them; and I'm not missing an pointers that I see passing around.\u201d \u201cCaught your millionaire yet?\u2019 asked Lou with her teasing laugh.\u201cI haven't selected one yet,\u201d answered Nancy.\u2018I've been looking them over.\u201d | \u2018Goodness! the idea of picking over \u2018em! Don't you ever let one get by you Nance\u2014even if he's a few dollars shy.But of course Joure joking\u2014 millionaires don\u2019t think about working girls like us.\u201d \u2018\u2018It might be better for them if they did,\u201d\u201d said Nancy, with cool wisdom.\u2018Some of us could teach them how to take care of their money.\u201d \u2018If one was to speak to me,\u2019 laughed Lou, \u2018\u2018I know I'd have a duck-fit.\u201d \u201cThat's because you don\u2019t know any.The only difference between swells and other people is you have to watch \u2018em oloser.on't you think too bright for that coat, Lou?\u201d Lou looked at the plain, dull olive jacket of her friend.\u201cWell, no I don\u2019t\u2014but it may seem so beside that faded-looking thing you've got on.\u201d \u201cThis jacket,\u201d said Nancy com- lacentiy, \u2018\u2018has exactly the cut and Fi of one that Mrs.Van Aletyne Fisher was wearing the other day.The material cost me $3.98.I suppose her's cost about $100 more.\u2019 \u201cOh, well,\u201d said Lou lightly, \u201cit don't strike me as millionaire bait.Shouldn't wonder if I catch one before | you do, anyway.\u201d Truly it would have taken a phil- | osopher to decide upon the values of the theories held by the two friends.' Lou, lacking that certain pride and fmatidiousness that keeps stores and i desks flied with girls working for the barest living, thumped away gaily with her iron in the noisy and stifiling laundry.Her wages supported her int of comfort; so she cast a sidelong glance of impatience at the neat but inelegant apperel of .Dan\u2014 Dan the constant.the immut- \u201cThe physiophatie ward for yours!\" ; able, the undeviating.said the brown pompadour, walking pompad Le ens of thousands.Bilk and jewels ideals\u2014 and laces and ornaments and the away.These high ideas, if not Nancy ountinued to cultivate on $8 per week.She bivouacked on the the trail of the great unknown \u2018\u2018cateh, eating her dry bread aad tighieaing ; made for woman ; they are her sble portion.As for Nancy, her case was one of fume and musio of the fine world of good-breeding and taste these were Let her keep near ed broad-antlered and big; but always growing fondness for dress was thus that red silk lining is just a little bit : uit.if they are a part of life to her, and if she will.She is no traitor to herself, as Esau was; for she keeps her birthright and the pottage she earns is often al very scant.In this atmosphere Nancy belonged ; | and she throve in it and ate her frugal meals and schemed over her cheap dresses with a determined and con- \u2018tented mind.She already knew woman; and she was studying man the animal, both as to his habits and eligibility.Some day she would bring down the game that she wanted; but she promised herself it would be what seemed to her the biggest and the best, and nothing smaller.Thus she kept her lamp trimmed and burning to receive the bridegroom when he should come.But, another lesson she learned perhaps unconsciously.Her standard of values began to shift and change.Sometimes the dollar-mark grew blurred in her mind's eye, and shaped itself into letters that spelled such words as \u201ctruth\u201d and \u2018\u2018honor\u201d and now and then just \u2018\u2018kindness.\u2019\u201d\u201d Let us make a likeness of one who hunts the moose or elk in some mighty wood.He sees a little dell, mossy and embowered, where a rill trickles, babbling to him of rest and comfort.At these times the spear of Nimrod himself grows blunt.So, Nancy wondered sometimes if Persian lamb was always quoted at its market value by the hearts that it covered.One Thursday evening Nancy left the store and turned across Sixth Avenue westward to the laundry.She was expected to go with Lou and Dan to a musical comedy.Dan was just coming out of the laundry when she arrived.There was à queer, strained look on his face.\u201cI thought I would drop around to see if they had heard from her,\u201d he said.\u201cHeard from who?\u2019 asked Nancy.\u201cIsn't Lou there?\u201d \u2018I thought you knew,\u201d said Dan.\u2018She hasn\u2019t been here or at the house where she lived since Monday.She moved all her things from there.She told one of the girls in the laundry she might be going to Europe.\u201d \u201cHasn't anybody seen her anywhere?\u2019 asked Nanoy.Dan looked at her with his jaws set grimly, and a steely gleam in his steady grey eyes.; \u2018\u2018They told me in the laundry,' he said, harshly, \u2018 that they saw her pass yesterday\u2014in an automobile./ith one of the millionaires, I suppose, that you and Lou were forever busying your brains about.\u201d For the first time Nancy quailed before a man.She laid her hand that trembled slightly on Dan's sleeve.\u201cYou've no right to say such a thing to me Dan\u2014as if I had anything to do with it!\u201d \u2018I didn't mean it that way,\u201d said Dan, softening.le fumbled in his vest pooket.\u201cI've got the tiokets for the show to-night,\u201d he said, with a gallant show of lightness.\u2018\u2018If you\u2014' Nancy admired pluck whenever she saw it.\u201cI'll go with you, Dan,\u201d she said.Three months went by before Nancy saw Lou again.At twilight one evening the shop-gi was hurrying home along the border of & little quiet park.She heard her name called, and wheeled about in time to catch Lou rushing into her arms.After the first embrace they drew their heads back as serpents do, ready to attack or to charm, with a thousand questions trembling on their swift tongues.And then Nancy noticed that prosperity had descended upon Lou, manifesting itself in costly furs, flashing gems, and creations of the tailors\u2019 art.\u201cYou little fool!\" eried Lou, loudly \u2018and affectionately.\u2018\u2018l1 see you are istill working in that store, and as i shabby as ever.And how about that big catch you were going to make\u2014 nothing doing yet, l suppose?\u201d | And then Lou looked, and saw that something better than prosperity had descend upon Nancy\u2014something that shone brighter than gems in her eyes and redder than a rose in her \u2018cheeks, and that danced like elestricity anxious to be loosed from the tip of her tongue.; \u201cYes, I'm still in the store,\u2019 said \"Nancy, \u2018but I'm going to leave it next week.l've made mm\u2019 catch\u2014the biggest catch in the we.rid.You won\u2019t mind now Lou, will you?\u2014l'm going to he married to Lan\u2014to Dan !-\u2014he\u2019s my Dan now-\u2014why, Lou!\u201d Around the corner of the park strolled one of those new-crop, smouth- faced young policemen that are making the force more endurable \u2014at least to the eye.He saw a woman with an expensive fur coat and diamond-ringed hands crouching down against the iron fenoe of the sobbing turbuleatly, while a slender, plainly-dressed working girl leaned close, trying to console her.But the Gibeonian cop.being of the new order, passed on, pretendi aot to notice, for he was wise emoug to know that these matters are beyond help, so far as the power he re ta is eoneerned, though he rap the pavement with his nightetiok ti goes up to the furthermest stars.the sound ke A Minimum Wage for Wives wives! asks James Douglass in Lonpon OriNioN.If a miner is \u2018entitled to a minimum wage, surely | & wife is ais0 entitled to it.A strike {of miners has brought this country to the brink of ruin.A strike of wives would not be so calamitous, buy it would causea great deal of domestio inconvenience.The question of wages for wives has been raised in New York by the refusal of Mr.Peck to ay one of his wife's little bills.Mrseck ordered a motor coat, s taffeta coat, and three suits.The bill came to £113.Mr, Peck declined to pay it on the ground that out of his income of £9,000 a year he allows Mrs.Peck £300 a month for pin money and £7 a week for cabs and lunches.My sympathies are with Mr.Peck.The most extravagant wife ought to be able to make both ends meet on £4,- 000 a year, nearly half her husband\u2019s income.But undoubtedly a wife ought to have a fixed income of her own.She ought not to be dependent upon the ms given to her by her husband.The position of a wife who has no money of her own is sometimes intolerable.Her pride is hurt in a thousand little ways by her servile status.Her husband may be affectionately generous, but his affection and his generosity do not wholly compensate her for her parasitic position.As co-partner in the home, as the mother of children, as the domestic economist, as the organiser of social relationships, as the tireless bousekeepar who supervises the household staff, guards against waste, plans the meals, and keeps the family machine running smoothly, she earns her salary.No man has a right to exploit the labours of love.No man has a right to withhold the wages due to a willing slave.It ought to be the husband's pleasure and glory to make his wife economio- ally free.oe WHY not a minimum wage for * + * T is not good for any human being to be either a slave or a slave-own- er.Human nature is human nature, and the servile state invariably injures both parties.It ought not to be 80, but so it unquestionably is.It may seem very romantic and very chivalrous that the husband should be the benevolent protector of the wife, and that the wife should be the trustful ward of her husband.But it does not work in real life.In plain terms, the wife is at the mercy of her : protector, just as the slave is at the mercy of the slave-owner; and it is not good for either of them to know this, even if the course of their life runs smooth.The perfect slave is demoralised | by his slave-ownership.HE case for a minimum wsge for a wife is complete.How can it be fixed?I am disposed to suggest that the wife's wage ought to be half the surplus income of the household.After paying the common expenses the balance ought to be divided.If the husband wishes to be generous he can do so out of his share, and vice versa.The husband ought to ay for all his clothes and personnel uxuries, and the wife ought to pay for all her clothes and personal luxuries.Their savings ought to be their own, 80 that both husband and wife would have a rainy day fund.This arrangement would prevent an extravagant husband or wife from impoverishing the family, and it would enab- able a wife to make provision for her own future.It is grossly unjust that a wife, after twenty or thirty years of married life should suddenly find herself without a penny.here are thousands of wives who are utterly in the dark as to their husband's affairs, and who live perpetually on the edge of & precipice.If they could save out of their salary they would be delivered from a nightmare of foreboding.1 think it is the duty of fathers to insist upon an arrangement of this sort, for, unless it be made before marriage, it is not likely te be made afterwards.Counsel for the Defence (Continued from page 10) Vassar, I think it was.She got hold of some of those new-fangled ideas that women are crazy over now\u2014 about going out in the world for themselves, and\u2014\"\u201d \u201cIdiots, allof them!\u201d snapped Bruce.\u201cAfter she uated, she studied law.When she was back home two years ago, she asked me what chance & woman would have to practise law in Westville.A woman Lawyer im West ville\u2014oh, Lord!\u201d The prosecutor leaned back and laughed at the excruciating humor of the idea.\u201cOh, I know the kind!\u201d Bruces\u2019 lipe ouried with contempt.\u2018\u2019Loud- Joiced pr aggressive \u2014 bony \u2014 perfeet \"Let me suggest,\u201d put in Dr.Sherman, \u201cthat Miss West does not belong in that classification.\u201d \u201cYes, you're a little wrong about Katherine West,\u201d agreed Kennedy.Bruoe waved his hand peremptorily.\u201cThey're all the same.But what's she doing in New York?Practising w \u2019 \u201cNo, she's working for an organise- Sherman\u2019 tion gomethi like .3 \u2014 the Munioi think she called itr ope Leseue, 1 think » \u201cHuh!\u201d grunted Bruce.\u201cWall, whatever she's like, it's a pretty mess she's coming back iutol\u2019 With that the editor pulled his hat tightly down upon his forehead and strode out of the oourt-house, aad past the speakers\u2019 stand, in front of which twin flags were being festooned.Back in his own office he picked up the story he had finished an hour before.With a sneer he tore it asroes aad trampled it under foot.Thea, jerking & chair forward to his typewriter, his brow dark, his jaw set, he began to thump fieresly upon the ys.(TO BE CONTINUED) 12 Montreal, Saturday, February 1, 1913.\u201cThe Thinker\u201d Rodin\u2019s Marvellous Creation in Bronze.One of the Montreal Art Gallery\u2019s Treasures, whose significance is not appreciated by every spectator.+ + «+ + | * + + + + * THE THINKER BY RODIN, VIEWED FROM THE THINKER BY RODIN, VIEWED FROM LEFT.HE RIGHT.FROM BRONZE INT MONTREAL ART GALLERY.(By C.L.Sibley.) WE rail about our civic government, we candidly admit our shame at the condition of the streets, but, are we proud of Montreal?Just ask us! I know I am.There are many things about Montreal that have given me a thrill of pride in my time.I won't attempt to enumerate them.I want to talk about just one of those things\u2014the one that has given me the greatest thrill of all.I mean our new Art Gallery.You notice I say \u2018\u2018ours.\u201d It is true that it was built by a private association, with funds largely provided by a few private members of that association\u2014but it is ours all the same: yours and mine and all the rest of the citizens\u2019, because it has been .ecided that on two days in every week it shall be open free to all.1 will not soon forget the thrill of pride 1 experienced a few days ago when 1 found myself for the first time inside this beautiful marble pile- ride not only at what I saw there, ut at the still more beautiful idea which the building represents.That building is a concrete expression of the noblest conception of citizenship.It means that here in Montreal we have men whose feeling of responsibility to, others stretches out beyond their own families, beyond their own little \u2018\u2019set,\u201d and embraces the whole opulation of Montreal, French and English, rich and poor.That is why this noble pile, filled with art treasures, is to be thrown open to the public twice a week, That is why the almost priceless Learmont collection of pictures was bequeathed to the Art Association on this condition.They know the spiritual solace, the broadening and ennobling influence of the fine arts, and they want all the people of all the city to have the opportunity to share in the pure enjoyment and the opportunity to cultivate refinement of taste which these arts afford.Do you feel with me the real pate riotism and the real citizenship which were behind the building of this Art Gallery and the decision that for two days in every week it shall be the peuple\u2019's own?I think you will if you try to realize what the city itself would be like if those elected to govern it were animated by the same principles which have actuated the group of men who have built this Art Gallery.I won't try to describe the building ~ incomparably the noblest specimen of srchitecture in the city.You have probably seen it for yourself, and if you have not, you have no duubt read the descriptions which the daily papers have given of it, and bave thus gained a general idea of it.Nor do Î want to speak in detail of the aumerous art treasures which it contains.| shall probably have much to say about these in future articles.I want, in this article, to draw attention to just one little piece of sculpture which the Gallery contains, and to make that illustrate my point\u2014 which point is this, that in the realm of the fine arts, the new Art Gallery will serve to keep us as a city fully abreast of movements in the world of art as we are in those of industry and commerce.The exhibit I refer to is the bronze statue of \u2018The Thinker,\u201d by that great French sculptor, August in, soquired for the anent collection of the gallery for S2UU0.It is à small copy, made by Rodin himself, of a colossal work that aroused a storm of controversy when it was grec exhibited in bars.o ap iate fully the significance of \u201cle Penseur.it is necessary first to appreciate what Rodin stands for in the world of art.Rodin in seulp- ture has been deseribed as being akin to Tolstoi in fiction, [been in \u2018frame.Wagner in music.and Walt Whitman, ia poetry\u2014 an mentary energy, as original type.reveal life im ite more mative and ound aspects of ypol existence.This mueh bo poosonately oo br Le mirere The controversy involves the whole discussion as to that great revolutionary development of modern art, Impressionism.You see, therefore, how educational is this one bit of statuary.There was a time when landscape concerned itself with realistic drawing of the objects of nature\u2014 with the composing and arranging of an accumulation of curious details into a balanced picture.The next step was to give moral significance to objects\u20141to express their soul, their nature.Finally the soul was identified with light itself, and landscape painting has become \u2018\u2018volatile and fluid, a mere music of colors, a caress of transparent lights, through which we can sce the scene serving as a pretext, like the theme of a sonata, reappearing, through its variations.\u201d hat is Impressionism in landscape painting.It has its equivalent in portrait painting in the \u2018\u2018Intimism\u201d which seeks to give à glimpse of the soul of the individual rather than to impart realistic solidity to form and feature.This painting of the mood of the moment in painting the individual is not the absolute discovery of modern artists.Leonardo da Vinci surprised its secret in the \u2018Mona Lisa,\u201d but its development is entirely a modern achievement.Now if we turn from landscape and portrait painting to sculpture, we ree that Rodin is trying to do for sculpture exactly what the Impressionists have done for painting.He secks to express the mood of the moment; to give a vision of the mystery of the inner life.His most famous example of this is his statue of Balzac, which was exhibited in the Salon of the Champ \u2018de Mars in Paris, in 159%.It is an astonishing piece of work, so upsetting all previous ideals of memorial sculpture that many connoisseurs who went to the Salon to see it, were simply aghast at it.Here was not a grave solemn figure of the great writer, with a marble collar and marble creases in his marble trousers, but an inderterminate figure, wrapped in a hugh cloak which he held about his neck, with head poised in action and face full of intelligence and meaning.It was the spirit of the man arrested and solidified; its fleshly trappings ignored.A storm of polemic broke out.The statue was fiercely denounced and fiercely defended.* C'est Balzac qui est sortie de son lit pour recevuir un creancier,\u2019\u2019 said one, and Paris laughed- the simile was so diabglically ingenious and apt.But the controversy went on, and to such effect that the Societe des Gens des Lettres, which had commissioned the statue, disavowed its legal obligations in regard to the work.The same controversy which the statue of Balzac aroused was renewed over the figure of \u2018The Thinker,\u201d when it was exhibited in 1904.Rodin says of his work: \u2018* My model has a brain aud a heart.My hronze or marble, therefore, must think and feel.It is not only the ensemble of the body which is beautiful, hut each part has its individual beauty, and, what is more, its significance.What makes my \u201cThinker * (* Le Penseur\u201d'; think, is that he thinks not only with his brain, with his knitted brow, his distended nostrils and compressed lips; but with his elenched fists and gripping toes.\u201d Rodin now has an assured place in contemporary art, but connoisseurs are by no means decided as tu his per - manent place among the immortals, nor as to the permanent effect of his work on sculptural art.A good, downright example of what those who oriticiss his work adversely think is supplied by the famous writer Max Nordau, who says of this very work in our mew Art Gallery: \u2018The Thinker\u2019 is not only naked, but also flayed.Its anatomy is exe- euted with obtrusive importance without the covering epidermis, with its vital warmth.he enormous ex- tion of the muscles, the im poe a assertion of strength whieh is expressed by the extreme contraction of all the muscles, are well known FROM BRONZE IN THE MONTREAL ART GALLERY.features of sculpture in its worst riod of decline.There is still, owever, a distinction between Rodin and the rococo sculptors, who confused fleshy tumors over the whole surface of the bodies of their statues with the power-of portraying artistically.At any rate, the latter had a correct knowledge of myology, or the subject of the muscles, whereas Rodin\u2019s anatomy is shockingly inaccurate.Rodin invents muscles where they do not exist, and never didi ezist.\u201cTwo mighty ridges, ending he- low in sausage tips, run down the Thinker's back, which perhaps are intended for the two longissimi dorsi.In this case, however, they are howling blunders as regards their attachment, their whole course, and their form.The muscles of the forehead and temples are treated quite as arbitrarily as those of the back.Where Nature only recognizes thin eutaneous muscles and ligatures, there Rodin put bumps which remind one of lood tumors after blows from a club, and impart to the face an appearance of evil Verschlagenheit.As a record the Thinker stands on the same level as the anatomical plates in Japanese manuals of the healing art of the time of the Shoguns.\u201cThis, however, is not the worst.The intellectual element fares even worse with this oaf who calls himsel so pretentiously \u2018The Thinker\u2019.The flayed man sits crouching, with a dis- tinetly crooked hump, on a sharp- edged block of stone.His toes claws convulsively into the ground.He holds a clenched fist before his mouth, and seems to bite it fiercely.His bestial countenance, with its bloated, contracted forehead, gazes as threateningly dark as midnight.He who has tu interpret the figure without the help of a title will, from a back view, conclude it is something writhing in agony on a rack; and from a front view, a criminal meditating over some foul deed.* Its mien and bearing would suggest a designation such as \u2018The Fallen Titan\u2019, *'Lucifer's Rebellion\u2019, or 'Ca\u2018\u2019n before he murdered his brother\u2019.The last thing one would think of wouod be to look for a mind working behind this bulgy forehead, or to imagine that thought was supreme in this body seized by a spasm of rigidity in all its muscles.he name given by Rodin to this wretched performance sounds like a scoff or a calumny, and it might be thought the misled artist, robbed by his fanatics of all self-criticism, had intended to make a malicious parody of Michael Angelo\u2019s \u2018Penseroso\u2019.\u201d\u2019 Here, then, is opportunity for singularly interesting and profitable study.Uo to the Art Gallery and appraise for yourself the movement which Rodin is inaugurating in the realm of sculptural art.See first the plaster casts which are there of the coldly-perfect works of the ancient Greeks, so lung the classic models of all sculptors.And then go and look at the work of Rodin, which tries Lo express not cold perfection of form and line, but the impress of mind upon matter.ln that contrast you bave summed up for you one of the greatest controversies in the modern worid of art.Here, right at your doors, you can appraise for yourself the leaven that is working in the art centres of the world.And that statue by Rodin, so interesting and so significant, is only one little feature suggestive of what this Art Gallery will mean in the intellectual life of the City of Montreal.SICK OF LOVE A Washi a woman bas ia ber employ as a hutier a darky of a pompous and satisfied mice who not ago permitted a chocolate- roksed dameei.lot:g hia ardent admirer, to bee ome his spouse (ne day when the mistress of the house her occasion temporarily to avall herself of the services of butier's wife it was observed that wheaever the duties of tbe two brought them ia coajunction the bride's es would ahise with extragordiaary devo- \"Your wife ssemns wonderfully attarbod to wm Thomas ', casually observed the mistrems the house.\u201cYes, ma'am, asswered Themes cenple- garer \u201cAlms is sent gichen-ia?\u2014 Marper's anaslan, || Strindberg The rise of August Strindberg to a | position of international fame (it ; would not be surprising if one his plays should be performed in Montreal in ten years or so) is going to | simplify existence very greatly for the antifeminists.Henceforth all that +is necessary, in order to crush an | advocate of the emancipation of wo- men\u2014and it does not matter what it is a question of emancipating them from\u2014is to say, with sufficient scorn \u2018and conviction, and with an air of finality: berg?\u201d or \u201cMy dear lady (or sir as the case may be), the great dramatist Strindberg\u2014\"' or, if you happen to forget his name, simply: \u2018But, as the Swedish dramatist says\u2014' and .you will never have to go any further.Never, that is, until the world has .digested Strindberg (which will take some time) and found out how much \u201cof his tremendous *\u2018plaidoyer\u201d is good evidence and good argument, and how much is the mere invention or exag- .geration of an intensely zealous advocate.For Strindberg was the slave, the most unspeakably abject slave, of the sexual power of the various women who held him each for the time being, and he resented that slavery with all the force and bitterness of a man who knows his own intellectual predominance and hates the slightest feeling of inferiority in any relation of life.Eventually the world will sort out Strindberg\u2019s arguments and passionate arraignments and discern which of them are fair and which are false, just as we have to a large extent discovered the elements of prejudice and bias in Ibsen.In the early days of \u201cA Doll's House\u2019 It was sufficient for a young lady who wanted emancipation to point to Ibsen's declaration of the right of every human being to complete self-development, and the only answer that her opponent could - make was that Ibsen was a fool, which was obviously untrue because a fool cannot write good plays.In the case of Strindberg, to say that he was a fool would not be only inaccurate (which does not matter so much in argument) but also unfashionable.The latter objection is fatal.Throughout the whole of the literary work of this giant of creative intellect there runs the obsessing idea of protest against the exorbitant power of woman, of demand that she be made once more subject unto her master as in the old patriarchal days.If we were to assume that this was the reasoned conclusion of a calm and unprejudiced man, of an artist working in the plastic material of human life in general rather than in that of his own life in particular, we should be placing Strindberg upon a throne of authority to which he hus really no claim.He is no detached and superhuman mind, viewing the faults and virtues of men and women with equal sympathy.On the contrary he is une of the most sublime and unabashed egoists who ever photographed their inmost mental processes to.the contemplation of the human race.His plays can be «njoyed as plays without any knowledge of his personality; but they cannot be valued as a guide to life without a full knowledge of the kind of life in which they were evolved.For the acquisition of that knowledge the volume\u2014 still, 1 believe, suppressed in Swedenentitled \"The Confession of a Foul\u201d is indispensable.There are undoubtedly plenty of marriages Quite us unhappy as that of which Strindberg gives us the man's record (it would be entertaining if nothing else to learn what the woman thought about it all; in this appalling volume, but it may be doubted if any such has ever been recorded before with such heartrending fidelity.Strindberg was a librarian in the Royal Library at Stockholm and already enjoyed a slight measure of literary fale at the date when the tragedy opens.He was 8 son of the people, with an exces sive endowment of that sensitivencss and easily-wounded pride common to the luw-born man of genius in a com- unity where birth is of more importance than brains.le attracted the attention of an unhappily-married Baroness, with the \"artistic tempers- ment\u2019, which took the form of a longing to go on the s\u2018age, and with an ynusually large endowment of the common feminine desire for admiration.lt is difficult to tell how much of what he sets down aw being Lis current impressions of her from time to time was really present in his foel- ings at the moment of which he writes, and bow much was read into bis recollections by subsequent develup- ments; but if his descriptions are accurate be presents an extraordinary case of a mau under full hypnotisum of sexual passivn, who ovuld yet with a sort of second consciousness discern and Late the chains that bound him.Bitterly he scorns himself for his submission.\u201cDown on your knees, damson! Put your head in her lap, press your cheeks against her knees, ask her to forgive you fur the cruel words with which you have lashed her\u2014 and which she didn't even understand! Slave! Coward! You lie in the dust before a stocking, you.who thought yourself strong enough to conquer a world! And she, she only luves you when you debase yuur- self; she buys you cheaply at the price of a few moments of gratified passion, for she has nothing to luse.\u201d After the divorce of her husband the Baroness married Strindberg, and the deterioration in her character was apparently rapid.Btrindberg, who was incapable of making any allowances, seems to bave regarded her lapses as the natural coming-to-light of inherent defects of character, fur be himocif was incapable of being influenced in a moral sense by any surroundings however base, but some consideration must be had for the very undesirable society im which the woman found herself as a divorcee who had married à man after bung his mistress, and as a theatrical artist \u2018Have you read Strind-: BJ.HERBERT HODGINS YEAR ROUND MOTORING Judging from this season in particular, coupled with the winter records of the past few years Montreal has! reached the stage of year round motoring.Mr.Wilson, sales manager of the Motor Import Co.of Canada says he believes the whole atmospheric conditions of Montreal must be changing.Scarcely since motoring became 80 pronounced a means of travel have winter conditions been a handicap.The winters of today do not seem to be ! as severe as fifteen or twenty years ago.Automobile dealers in Montreal will bear me out in this.And the result | is borne out in the increasing demand | for cars.i Dealers maintain there never has been better winter for sales than the present.In other years sales fell, away with the coming of fall.Not so ' this year.Sales have been well | maintained.i PROSPECTS FOR THE SPRING ' Sales agents are around with the larks these days and as blithesome.The auto call is loud and insistent.The spick and span 1913 models are arriving with all their new wrinkles.Orders for cars already show an esti- | mated increase in several of the larger firms\u2019 orders over 1912 of fully 35 per cent.; There is a very heavy sale of second | hand cars.Of course they are going | at \u2018\u2019knocked down\u201d prices, in the, majority of instances.The man who can fully \u201cpay the price\u2019 MUST have .the electric self-cranking, electrically | lighted car.lt is astonishing the: number of new models that are already | driving the streets of Montreal.| Though in the majority of instances the owner is \u2018hanging on\u2019 to his old car while the dirty weather lasts.\u2019 He would reserve using his latest purchase until the finer weather comes.AFTERMATII OF THE SHOW With reported sales that well run up to $500,000.and with a total attendance of 40,000 persons, Montreal's | seventh annual automobile show held at the Drill Shed and 65th Armory, from January 4 to 11 smashed all records.Coupling the local sales with sales to dealers at outside points, from samples shown the total will exceed one million dollars.All of which is very emphatic evidence of the increasing interest and demand for motôr cars.OTTAWA®S SIIOW The Ottawa Motor Show will run from February 10 to 15.Manager Louis Blumenstein is arranging to make this one of the big social events of the year.lt is interesting to note that the Capital City of Canada has now more automobiles in proportion tu its population that any other city in the Dominion.MOTOR CALENDAR 1- #-\u2014Chicago Pleasure car show.} February February 3- 8-\u2014Washington .February 10-15\u2014Chicago truck show.February »-15\u2014Mineapolis.February 10-15\u2014Ottawa show, February 12-15\u2014Geneva, N.Y.February 15-22\u2014Newark, N.J.February 15-22\u2014Albany, N.Y.February 16-23-\u2014 Richmond, Va.February 17-22\u2014 Hansas City pleasure car show.February 18-19\u2014 Madison, Wis.February 18-21\u2014Grand Forks, N.D.February 19-23\u2014Topeka, Kans, February 19-23\u2014New Orleans, La, February 20-22\u2014C'anandaigua, N.Y.February 24- March 1\u2014St Louls Mo.February 24- March 1\u2014Memphis.Tenn.February 24- March 1- Cincinnati, O.February 24- March 1-Omaha, Neb, February 24-27\u2014 Kansas City truck show.February 26- March 1\u2014Fort Dodge, la.February 28- March 1\u2014 Glen Falls, N.Y.March 3- B\u2014SBloux City, Ia.March 3- 5\u2014 Cincinnati commercial show SPARK PLUGS Word has just been received by the Motor Import Company of a 3,000 mile trip in mid winter that gives a fine test of the Franklin car.Oliver Light.Franklin dealer in Regina, Rask., arrived in Ryracuse Monday, Jan.13, having made the 3,000 mile trip from Regina in a \u201cLittle Six\" touring car.Mr, Light was accompanied by A, W.Maclvor and H.Acaster, both prominent men In Regina.The party left Regina Dec, 16, The primary motive in making the trip was to make food on à bet that the Franklin \u2018Little Six\" could make the trip from Regina to the factory without any trouble this time of ycar.Mr.Light arrived in Syracuse three days ahead of his allotted time.The party came of somewhat second rank.Strindberg was utterly insensible to the mere acquaintances who surrounded him, but his life could be made or marred by the one or two intimate associations of his home; his wife, on the other hand, cared little for the domesti- hearth, and was given to intense and sudden feminine friendships, which evoked lamentable suspicions in the minds of Strindberg and other people, and whether the suspicions were justified or not there is no doubt that the women in question exercised a very damaging influence over her.In the end he came to doubt the legitimacy of her children since his marriage with her, a doubt which struck at his egoism in a peculiar way: \u20181 loved them, for they had come into my life as a pledge of my future existence, Deprived of the hope to live again in my children, I floated in mid-air, like a poor phantom, breathing through roots which were not my own\u2019.Chief among the preserving integuments which poor Btrindberg lacked was the sense of humor His wife's dog, which he had hated for seven ears and which had been a perpetual ne of contention, reached the stage of life when its extinction became a necessity; after a farewell feast at which the dog received the breast of a chicken and the husband the bones, the wife started for town with the aged animal.After two days she returned and when her husband ap- cached at the laadi stage to kiss she p im aside.\u2018\u2018Carryi in her arms a large pareel of extraote dinary shape, she walked on, slowly as if she were walking in a funeral > 5 o LS ls thrgouh without any mishaps and the car did not give them any mechanical trouble at any time and no spare tires were carried.Several bad storms were encountered, part- fcularly in North Dakota, where snow drifts three of four feet high had to be negotiated.The sloping hood of the Franklin and the windshield served as an effective snow plougb Montreal will have four new cars this year.They are Abbott-Detroit models, three being 34-40 three passengers roadsters and will be used in the department of public works, The other is a 44-50 roadster for the city engineer.* * * * * * Mr.B.P.8.Ritter, manager of the Grand Central Palace, New York City, where the N.Y.show was held was in the city for the Montreal Show.One of the best of the smaller exhibits I have seen'\u2019 was his tribute to the local show.Mr.Ritter made arrangements, while here with railway authorities for the bringing to Montreal next summer of the Travelling yacation Exhibition.+ * The Reo that made the much talked of across Canada run \u2014the instrument that carved out the National All-Red Highwaywas an interesting at the Montreal Show.Driver Haney vas here Joo, * Of outstanding interest at the Montreal show was Mr.U.H.Dandurand's big Pullman automobile.This car which gives all the comfoft of home is unique among motor cars.Not long ago one of the enterprising \u2018movies\u2019 made a film of Mr.Dandurand's car, while on a tour.= * * * * * Fawncy! comparing the owner of an Automobile with a man who owns a street piano! Yet one very original sales agent in pralsing the new electric starters told us \u201cit gets you away from the \u2018hurdy-gurdy' methods of the past models.\u201d - * * * * v The Lozier announces a new light six in five models: Montclair five-passenger tour ing body and equipment, $3,250; Metropolltan four passenger fully enclosed limousine body and regular equipment, 84,450; Fairbody Lwo-passenger runabout body and regular equipment, $3,250; Coronado semi-fore- door six-passenger limousine body and regular equipment, $4,450; Touraine three- passenger, coupe body and regular equipment, 3,850.The motor develops more than 50 actual horsepower and mechanically the new line is up to the senerally high standard of Lozier orkmanship.+ 5 5 2 * A Packard statement says: \u2018\u2018The largest day's business for mid-winter in the history of the Packard Motor Car Company was recorded on the last day of 1912 when sales orders were received gregating a quarter of a million dollars.For two months total sales were greater in volume than ever before in November and December.The scores in sales contests reveal the fact that dealers in ' the fifteen largest cities averaged a fifty-two pur cent increase in business over any nrevious records for the same period.* * .+ + The Royal Automobile Co., of Mantreal, in the future will be knowu as the Royal Automobile Garage Co., Ltd., with a $50,000, capital.The company will maintain salesrooms at its present location, St.Denis and Ontario Streets, for the distribution of Cale, Stevens-Duryea and Apperson.The Cadillac Motor Car Company has sold to the Japanese Imperial Houschold five 1913 Cadillac limousines.These will be the first American cars to go to the Imperial Houschold, as beretofure the members have used Itallan, French, English and German makes.+ + .= + * Left drive, electric, self-starter and centralized control principal features of the cars exhibited by the Packard Motor Car Co.in the New York Show.> * ° > » = The Studebaker has two 35 s and three 25's making a constant circuit of à course of 1,100 miles with ita star.and finish in Detroit.The run includes Cleveland, Toledo and Cincinnati.The purpose is to determine which parts will first give evidence of the strain that s be ng placed on them.* .* * * * The latest report of Joe Drake, treasurer of the Hupp Motor Cal Company of Detroit who is ma ing his second tour of the world in a Hupmobile, is from Bombay, India.Mr.Drake while there was the [fucat of H.8, Gibhe, government construction engineer on water power development and electrical subjects, and also the Hupmobile represen tative for India.* * * .Ed An automobile laundry is the latest addition to Detroit's business enterprises.Automobiles will be put through cleaning, drying and polishing proccasce and given back to the patrons in first class condition within 20 minutes after they enter the place.Rugs and cushions will be cleaned with compressed air.+ 5 + » + \u2018Panama will be soon a valuable market for Amcrican-made automobiles,\u201d sald Bert Lambert, treasurer of the Rogal Motor Car Co, on his return frem a vacation in the canal zone.\u2018The building and opening of the Panama canal, will soon mean a new and larger market for automobiles.Already thers are scores of cars on the Isthmus and the development of good roads by the United States government will throw open new fields for the motor car to conquer.\u201d The conversion of New Jersey, a northern state to the plan of prison labor will be of much interest to, all soud roads promoters.\u201cThere will be a reduction of 10 per cent in the prices of (ruodyear Motor Truck Tires,\u2019 announces C.W.Martin, manager motor truck department of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, O.\u201cThis reduction is made possible by reason of our large volume of business in motor truck tires, For the 1912 scason something more than 2.803 trucks have gone out from the motor truck factories.equipped with Goodyens truck tires.That means, we believe, at lenst, 26 per cent.of the total trucks built, procession, with a certain rhythm as if to the strains of a funeral march.The parcel held the corpse!\u201d To take such a woman seriously was fatal.And after all this the man was simply unable to stay sway from her.He went to Vienna.and saw resem- blanoces to his wife in the most beautiful pictures in the art galleries, wrote her letters by the yard, and finall tore home long before he had planned.Yet by this time his suspicions were building up unimaginable fabrics of horror concerning not merely his wife's present life but her behavior in her earliest youth, and he soon left for Copenhagen to investigate matters which, even if true, were of no importance compared with the horrible present state of his family life.It is impossible to regard him at this s as perfectly sane, though after his divoros he recovered full control of his reason.B.K.8.ONLY POLITICAL FRIENDS Several days a man called on Mayor Bhank and asked for » permit to peddie until Jan.1, saying be would take out a loense at that time.and it couid be dated back.The mayor was scoommodating and aconm the man to the city controller's office.\"Here's one of my very best friends, ' said the mayor to .B.Akin.uy a Controller.\"He wants a permit am.1 \u2018I guess we Can arrange thet.\u201d reptiel Akin.je his name?\u2019 \u2018fay.\u2019 said the mayor, turning to hie friend \u2018What je your name?\u201d Indi News. Ottawa, January 31st, 1913.A MARRIAGE of widespread interest took place in 8t.Andrew's Presbyterian Church last week when Miss Helen Gilmour Ferguson, eldest daughter of Mr.and Mrs.H.Stewart Ferguson, was united to Mr.John Clough, son of the late Mr.and Mrs.| Jobn Blake Clough, of Memphis, | Tennesee.The cerembny was per-: formed by the Rev.W.T.Herridge, | Mr.J.Edagr Birch presiding at the ' organ.The sacred edifice was beautifully decorated for the occasion in à , J Es A J Po UE JU A Sf N T5) nk h gd STAD 5 ANAL HO & a ax CR a EX \u201d CATE SE COX CUT AT THE ORPHEUM.The chief attraction at the Orpheum next week will be the dramatic sketch, \u2018The Attorney\u201d, with William Weston in the leading role and a company of six talented supporters.This MISS FRANKLIN MAE.Who appears with William Wese ton in \u2018The Attorney\u2019 at the Orpheum Nex Week.~~ little play tells a thrilling story and moves rapidly from one telling situation to another.Bert Levey, the novelty cartoonist, uses a specially constructed apparatus which projects his cartoons upon a screen while he is drawing them, and enables the audience to watch every stroke of his pencil on a greatly magnified scale.\u201cThe Piano Movers and the Aetress\u2019 will supply a wealth of comedy with McDevitt, Kelly and Irene Lucey as the fun-makers.Cooper and Robinson, colored comedians; Frank Mullane, the Irish-American Hebrew; Burly and Burly, English comedians from the London \u2018\u2018halls\u201d\u2019 in \u201cThe Scot and the Dude\u2019; the \u2018Act Beautiful\u201d, a wonderful dog turn; and other features are also offered.Hire Sisten, the furniture king, having made his pile.settied down to the the pursuits of a country gentleman.He Invited hia friend.Plane Figger, to make a stay with him.One day, armed with the latest appliances for dealing out sudden death, he and his friend trudged over the brown furrows.but at the end of three hours they were still looking for something to start thé bag with.Buddenly a hare got up.Bang! came from Hire Sistem.Bang! came from Plane Figger, and over went the four-footed one.\u201cMy hare!\u2019 shouted the former furniture king.y hare!\" cried his friend.They argued as to whose weapon had worked the mischief, Thon the keeper was called up to adjudicate \u201cYou'd take sour oath it's your\u2019 are, would you?\" he turned to Hire Sistem, fiercely, \u201cIf necessary.certainly.\u2019 \u201cAnd youd swear \u2018twas your truculentiy to Plane Figger.\u201cI would \u201cThen think yourself lucky you're escapin\u2019 S VEN years apiece for perjury, \u2018cos it \u2018appens to he my dog?\u201d \u2018are?i _ THE WONDERFUL NEW PERFUME An agreeable surprise awaits you it you have not yet breathed the fragrance of Colgate\u2019s delightful new Odor, This perfume, delicate yet rich and lasting, de- Eclatfo), lights those who know and appreciate the Bsr.% -, price is very moderate.35 50 RS > VF PEE 9 SU ee 7 CE CES Se ME 3 ze pe W.G.N.Shepherd, Montreal G (Yet the We want you to try Eclat Perfume,for we feel sure you will like it.Our Canadian Agent will be glad to send a trial bottle FREE to every reader who sends in his or her name and address to COLGATE & CO, Dept.Y, Coristine Bdg., MONTREAL.! 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