Saturday mirror, 22 mars 1913, samedi 22 mars 1913

[" Vol 1 No.8.Published by THE MONTREAL PUBLISHING Co.Limited, 275 Craig Street West.Thro\u2019 the Looking Glass Or?Father Hibbard He went to the kibbard, To get his poor dog a bone, But when he got there The kibbard was bare\u2014 the last objection to giving them the vote ought to ' disappear.* OK KOH DX MICHAEL CLARK, M.P.for Red Deer, was \u201cnamed\u201d by the speaker last week, thereby estab- And so the poor street car passengers will continue lishing a precedent for the Canadian Parliament.The to be herded like cattle and made to suffer indignities \u2018result has not vet been made public.at the sweet will of the Tramways Company for all the Public Utilities Commission can do about it.x # x A TOAST for the 18th of March: \u201cTop o\u2019 th\u2019 Bromide to you.\u201d XX OX * AND then, again, not every clergyman would make a good business manx # HO % IT would not be a bit surprising to see Mr.William Jennings Bryan crucify the Wilson administration upon a cross of golden rhetoric.x OX OX OX HE Toronto Telegram accuses the militant suffragettes of being \u201cgorilla warriors.\u201d The Telegram evidently thinks their recent operations savor of monkey tricks.x XX XX AND then Mr.Fox might suggest that if more people walked it would bring \u201cimmediate relief\u201d to our congested street car traffic as well as be good for the shoe trade.X XX X ME BRYAN'\u2019S St.Patrick's Day speech has been described in England as \u201ca blazing indiscretion.\u201d Mr.Bryan will probably feel more complimented by the \u201cblazing\u2019 than distressed by the indiscretion.x #% Kk é A STRONG Germany is Europe's best guarantee of peace,\u201d declares the German Foreign Office.To be sure, to be sure.But at the same time we Canadians prefer to look elsewhere for our guarantees.* RK OH OX IF the Tramways directors are wise they will accept Mr.McDonald's report on what the service needs in lieu of the $750,000\u2014or was it $750,000,000\u2014damages for which they have sued the Herald.X OH OH OX Sk LOMER GOUIN is fond of telling people that Montreal is the worst administered city on the continent.Well, Sir Lomer\u2019s Public Utilities Commission will never make it any better.x # # # [8 it for love of Mr.Robert that the Star wants to surrender St.James and Notre Dame streets to the Tramways Company?It certainly is not to show its affection for the people who have to use these streets.x # % % MARSHAL VON DER GOLTZ, the celebrated German military tactician who organized the present Turkish army, has been retired.Another evidence of Germany's peaceful intentions in Europe.X OH OH OH IFTY Washington clergymen have asked Secretary of State Bryan to take the leadership of what they hope will prove the greatest inter-denominational Bible Class in the world.Even the most rabid trust- baiter will not oppose that kind of a merger.* Ox Mt E.E.CULPIN fears slums will come to Canada, says an evening paper.If he will call at this office we will supply him with a guide who in less than half an hour will prove to him that his worst fears are already realized.* OK Xx THE people of Australia, it is alleged, have given their capital city a name which, being interpreted, means \u2018Laughing Jackass.\u201d The people of Canada have given to their capital city a House of Commons which- - but why pursue a painful analogy?x # OX # OW that the suffragettes have to evict one another from one another's meetings they are exhibiting the characteristics of masculine polities so forcibly that 7 = I'm the Saturday Mirror Boy Perhaps the treatment, like Dr.Friedmann\u2019s needs some time to take effect.X XX HH I¥ England sends us Mrs.Pankhurst in exchange for the Hon.R.H.Emerson, as requested by Mr.Lansing Lewis of Montreal, we hope that the first glass the lady will shatter will be that composing the house in which the chancellor of the Anglican diocese resides, x OX OX OX ARE you a Malay paying for protection, or a C'ana- dian willing to perform the freeman\u2019s first duty of self-defence?asks the Toronto Globe.By this process of reasoning every man who is not a soldier, or sailor or a policeman is only a mercenary who prefers paying a tax to being a patriot.* oF # % ANOT HER \u201cexpert\u201d is out with a solution of the street railway problem, but we still stand by that of our own expert, Mr.Howe E.C'hatters, printed last \u2018week.If the object of the experts is to make street- ; \u2018car riding as uncomfortable as possible\u2014as we suppose it to be\u2014surely Mr.Chatters\u2019 suggestions are entitled to take precedence over all others.x OX % XX SOME of theEnglish papers, in discussing the Churchill i Borden correspondence, express alarm that Canajda\u2019s \u201ccolonial pride\u201d may be wounded.This shows lamentable ignorance on the part of those papers in regard to this nation.\u201cColonial pride\u201d went out of use in Canada some two score years ago.\u201cNational pride,\u201d if vou please.* OK XX ¥ THERE is something to be said for the old English practice of printing the actual text of the parliamentary debates in the newspapers without comment.It was very difficult to believe that the Ottawa session reported in Monday's Liberal papers, and that reported in Monday's Conservative papers, were one and the same session.* % # OX 6 SLIPPERY BILL,\u201d may not be a Parliamentary, nor pretty nor polite epithet, but it is not.unsuited todhe taetics digplayed by the man who led the opposition in last Saturday's fracas in the House of Commons and who succeeded in defeating the Govern- ment\u2019s evident intention of shutting off the Naval debate on that occasion.* X HO X TT ME brings strange ironies.The Conservative party, the age-long advocates of manufacturing everything in Canada no matter what the cost, are now ordering the Canadian Navy built in Great Britain, while the Liberals, hereditary champions of buying in the cheapest market, want to have it built in Canada at t trifling extra expense of ten to forty millions and som uncertainty as to quality.x de #% OX So far as the great debate has been reported, nothing was said by anybody about the fact that all warships may become serap before any that Canada is now discussing can be built.Canada does not seem to be quite conscious of the airship.If Germany makes as much progress in the next two years as in the past two, we | may soon be living in another era.Witness Editorialixactly! Therefore, what's the use of anything?| Why build more locomotives when a few years hence we may be flying on our own account.* #% % * | poST-I MPRESSIONISM hasreached theart of poetry.One of the lines in which a post-impressionist undertakes to translate in forty words the second act of \u201cTristan and Isolde\u201d reads thuswise: \u201cThen; Stricrujujealousss re-wreckwrectchalases.8.\u2026.\u201d We get the idea, but there is a certain conservatism about the use of old-fashioned words like \u201cstricrujujealousss\u2019 that jars upon us, and sounds like the interruptions of Government supporters during an obstructionist debate at Ottawa.* xX ¥ 0» THE owner of premises assessed at $1,968 in Toronto rents them to Macedonians at a rental of $1,056 per annum, while a place assessed at $2,628 earns $1,500 \u2018a year rental in the same way.The Macedonians are described by the Medical Officer of Health as living in conditions of almost indescribable filth and insanitation.| Duplicate conditions could be found in Montreal.As | Ambassador Bryce put it the other day, one of (\u2018an- ada\u2019s first duties is to educate the immigrant population \u2018up to a healthy Canadian standard; and this is how we are doing it' « # # # i NOTICE that the City Improvement League has adopted more \u201c resolutions in favor of better homes for Montreal's workers.But of what use are resolutions when the present laws and practices in this Province permit the landlords to erect any sort of an old building and enable them to get a yearly rental revenue ranging from 15 to 40 per cent.on its cost.The only way to secure relief of this kind is to vote Mr.Gouin and his smug administration out of their Quebec sinecure and install a government that has some respect for the common people.\u201c # # EARLY 28,500 mothers, in the four months since the Act went-into force, have received from the Austra- \u2018 lian Government the allowance of five pounds for the MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1913 | | | | ! | t ' | t \u2018 | ! | | | | \u201cTHE KIBBARD WAS BARE.\u201d EST my readers forget, I want to say that Mr.R.C.Miller, a citizen of Montreal is still a prisoner in the Carleton county jail at Ottawa although never hav- ! ing been accused or convicted of any crime.I am told | that agents of the Government this week made re- | presentations to Miller that he could secure his release y saying ever su little\u2014just enough, he was urged, to give Government an excuse to let him out and to save ! still declares he has no information to give.I do not | know Miller and have never seen him.I am interested \u2018in his case only because I do not believe any man \\ # 4 ¥ * / PUBLIC UTILITIES 4 COMMISSION a from passing through its Valley of Shadow, for the real cause of its depression, and the reason why business men lost interest in it, was the break-up of the old and influencial English-speaking Liberal party in this Province under the Mercier regime.The official Liberal party was dominated by the Mercierites, and to that official party the Herald clung, in spite of the widespread disaffection and revolt among the English its face.Miller I am informed declined the offer.Ha Liberals throughout the Province, in which the Witness very wisely joined.With the rise of Laurier to a position of national importance and the disappearance of Mercier from the field, there began again to be a need and a chance for should be deprived of his liberty without just cause.| The Ottawa Government should be big enough to leave ; Miller to the courts.x # x + IX a two-stick summary of the week-end rumpus at Ottawa a local paper whieh prides itself on its impartiality and its freedom from party bias informs us i \u201cjudicious,\u201d \u201cundisturbed,\u201d \u2018undismayed,\u201d \u201cdetermined\u201d and \u201csuperb,\u201d while the gentlemen on the | \"other side were \u201cmean,\u201d \u201cdisgraceful,\u201d \u201cindecent, a [ \u201ctaunting,\u201d \u2018\u2018sneering,\u201d\u2019 \u2018\u2018clamouring,\u2019\u2019 \u201crioting,\u201d \u201cdegrading,\u201d \u201cobstructing,\u201d \u2018\u201cruffianly,\u201d \u2018humiliating,\u201d \u201cdemoralizing,\u201d \u201cgamblers,\u201d \u201ctransgressors,\u201d and a \u201cband of seceders;\u201d that while one was a giant the others were the merest pygmies and rather undersized pygmier at that.I always enjoy reading these impartial and non-partisan reports of the doings at | Ottawa; they furnish such excellent food for speculation as to what the writer could do if heever acquired a really partizan and prejudiced interest in a political controversy, x XK KW THE MONTREAL HERALD last Saturday celebrated (somewhat dilatorily) the one-hundredth anniversary of its foundation by publishing a very large and admirably-prepared special edition, including a history of the newspaper itself from 1811 to the present time.The actual date of the cente was marked by the laying of the corner-stone of the Herald\u2019s handsome new building; and as the paper was at that time domiciled in exiguous temporary quarters secured after the Victoria Square disaster there was nothing surpris- | ing in the postponement of any special edition until it was once more in possession of a home of its own.The Herald has had a peculiarly interesting history, | and in Saturday's issue that history is very well told.| We see it being founded by an adventurous young Scotsman, newly landed and newly married, assisted in the editing by an ex-merchant of the little colonial city, also Scottish.We see it, through the troublous times of the last war upon this frontier, giving loyal | support to the military authorities, but, once the war was over, unable to refrain from denouncing the ineptitude and cowardice shown in high places, and gradually taking up a position of leadership in the struggle to secure a better understanding of Canadian affairs in England.Then came the period of the French-Canad- ian uprisings, and the Herald, seeing the racial aspect rather than the constitutional, fought with all its might for the sternest repression of the \u201crebels.\u201d And then, in the era of tremendous trade expansion which followed - the settlement of the constitutional problems, we see it becoming an almost purely commercial sheet, a fate \u2018from which it waa rescued about the time of its jubilee ( by falli | Federal Liberal party, the late Senator Penny, who made | it « political organ of the highest influence.into the hands of a powerful leader of the new he circumstances u which it fell, after his birth of a child, and the cost to the country has been death, to the nadir of its low estate during the years over $700,000.There is no distinction of class or economic position in the Act, but naturally the well-to- : which preceded the advent of its present chief, Mr.| James 8.Brierley, are not too pleasant to dwell upon, | do classes do not usually make the application, so that and are dismissed, perhaps rather inadequately, with a \u2018at least 25,000 of the grants made most probably were | reference to \u201clack of good business of expressing poor Peter Mitchell's very ed.And $700,000 is not a had price to pay for havi- otherwise have been.nt\u2019 \u2014a very mild wa onesidedness of genius.As a matter of fact it is doubt- | an official Liberal organ in English in Montreal, and prominent politicians and business men financed the reconstruction of the paper, and its transfer to the evening field (it had been a morning paper ever since it began publishing as often as three times a week) under Mr.Brierley.The success that has attended it since e | that the leader of the Government during the tur- that day is too recent to need comment.It has been due \u20ac 'moil was \u201ccalm,\u201d \u201cclear,\u201d \u201ccool,\u201d \u201calert,\u201d \u201cquiet,\u201d | largely to its free and courageous attitude in regard to matters of municipal administration and its consistent work \u201cFor a Better City.\u201d Having specialised on close-at-home circulation it is able to devote far more space and energy to purely civic matters than its rivals, land it is not the Herald's fault if Montreal is today, as a good many assert, one of the least public-spirited cities in the world.x #H # AN it ever occurred to Col.Hibbard,Chariman of the Public Utilities Commission, that possibly the position of that Commission is not so utterly and unspeakably hopeless and helpless as he thinks?That there is just a chance that if he were in a moment of rashness to let the Commission actually do something, the courts might be prevailed upon to take a tolerant view of the action and not merely refrain from sending the Commissioners to jail but even allow their action to \u2018stand?That conceivably Sir Lomer Gouin, even ' though he really intended to inject the poison of paral- \u2018ysis Into every joint and every limb of the new and ; imposing-looking creature which he was holding up as the safeguard of the public interests, may have overlooked some claw or antenna which might still be .made to wiggle as if the creature were alive?Last week Col.Hibbasd intimated to the press, after mature thought and long consideration, that in spite of | the exceptions filed by the Tramways Company the Commission still believed that it had power to order the production of certain information.This is gratifying or would be so if the Commission had not qualified it with a rider, to the effect that With the very one-sided jurisdiction whioh the Commission possesses the Commission is without autority itself to even order an adequate remedy.It may, however, accomplish something as an intermediary or arbiter in the matter.John P.Fox could have said no more! It is a delightful thought, to know that the minute the Tramways Company and the City Corporation want to join hands and sit down lovingly together to arbitrate, there ia the Public Utilities Commission just waiting to say \u2018Bless you, my children, let me act as your intermediary.\u201d The intense and passionate anxiety of the Tramways Company to secure an \u2018arbiter in the matter\u2019 is notorious.The status quo, with its continual loading of 200 passengers on an eighty-seat car, its huge economy of rollingstock and labor, must be acutely painful to Mr.Robert and his fellow-directors.Their desire for a solution that will relieve them from the painful necessity of collecting 200 fares on a car that should properly take 100 is so intense that it can hardly be restrained.Did they not welcome Mr.Fox with open arme\u2014sup- posing that they did not actually import him hither\u2014 and express their joy at the t of the light he would \u2018shed on the situation, not realising, of course, that Commissioner Hibbard has heen sitting waiting aad wishing for nothing better than à chanos to perform that service! And yet the suspicion will not down that the publie fui f any business management could have saved it is likely to get very little satisfaction from aay \u201c\u2018ar- er 2 bitration\u201d or \u201cmediation\u201d voluntarily accepted by the Tranways Company.Take Mr.Fox, for instance; what the public gains from him is a suggestion to pro-! vide a little more room for standing and work the antique single-truck cars a little harder.The Tramways Company does not have to arbitrate; it is making rather good money already, and could go on with things as they are for another ten years if necessary.If it does arbitrate it will be in an arbitration where it is pretty sure of coming out on top.But half a million Montrealers would howl with joy at the idea of the Tramways Company experiencing a little compulsion.Col.Hibbard | says he is reluctant to compel the Tramways Company | because he has no power to compel the city, and the two are partners in the street-railway contract.This desire to stand aloof and \u2018\u2018see fair play\" is highly commendable, but it is hardly what the citizens of Montreal thought the Commission was created for.If the Commission would, for example, order the .Tramways Company to put on two hundred additional | cars within a specified time, with a heavy daily penalty | for non-compliance, we should at least have a chance of finding out whether its orders were worth the paper they are written on.That it cannot order the City of Montreal to place additional streets at the disposal of the Company is very probable; but the citizens of Montreal can attend to that, by the simple process of electing aldermen and Controllers pledged to do so.And incidentally if the Tramways Company were once compelled to operate the proper number of cars, it would soon find means to get the necessary streets to operate them on.x # FX ONE more monarch has paid the penalty of power and conspicuous position, and has fallen before the revolver of unreasoning assassination.The possibility of such an abrupt termination is pretty constantly before the mind of every ruler, from the autocrat of Russia to the president of the most democratic of Republics; indeed the danger, calculated on the percentages of past experience, is undoubtedly greater in the case of the Republics.The average ruler, the man with a life job at any rate, must become considerably calloused to it, and we know that kings as a rule dislike : extremely the secret-service measures for their preservation, and submit to them more in the interests of - There : the state than from a personal desire for safety.are few cowards among the kings.There are some compensations even for assassination.Nothing has so strengthened the personal loyalty and devotion felt for most of the ruling families of ' Europe by their peoples, as the realization of the danger they incur, not by ruling badly, but by ruling\" at all.Regicide in the last century has lost every vestige of political logic, and has become the mere unreasoning act of madmen, whom the average man cannot on any grounds admire and should not even hate.It is one of the uncontrollable risks of kingship, which place that profession among the extra-hazardous employments.à % x Hx ME DUNCAN McDONALD'S report on the tramway situation in Montreal, published in the Montreal Herald of Tuesday last, is altogether a very excellent document of which Mr.McDonald has every just reason to be proud.It is a marvel of good judgment, and has no small pretensions to literary style in its summing up of the situation, which by reason of its clarity and conciseness would have done credit to a Supreme Court Judge.The document reveals no traces of the partizonship which some people affected to =o greatly fear.It adheres strictly to the matter in hand.Its recognition of the growing aesthetic spirit of Montreal.as emphasized in the desire of most clear-visioned citizens.to keep certain of our streets clear of street car traffic: its modest reference to the author's connection with such a street railway service as that of Paris: its direct arraignment of existing conditions and its lack of the tiresome generalities which so often make wearisome reading of documents of such a nature, make it an expression of opinion worthy of very earnest study by all concerned.The report.we believe.contains the solution for our immediate surface traffic troubles.Mr.MeDonald is to be congratulated upon it.It gives the Board of Control something to go on in their conferences with the Tramway officials.It is so eminently fair that the officials of the company should have no hesitation in following out its recommendations.LE EE [DEAREST Mother, \u2014I am fighting! fighting! fighting! I have four five or six wardresses every day, as well a8 two doctors.1! am fed through the stomach tube twice a day.They pry open my mouth with a steel gag, pressing it where there is a gap in my teeth.I resist all the time.My gums are always bleeding.1 am afraid they may be saying that we do not resist, yet my shoulders are bruised by the struggling while they hold the tube in my throat.I used to feel that I should go mad at first and be pretty near to it as I think they feared, but I have got over that and my digestion is the thing most likely to suffer now.(Signed) \u2018\u2018Sylvia.\u201d Reginald McKenna, the Home Secretary, in defending the Government, told how one woman in prison sponged herself all over with hot water and remained uncovered all night in the hope of catching cold.Others pretended to take their food, but surreptitiously starved themselves so as to become exhausted and die in prison.Some had voluntarily self-tortured themselves by thirst, refusing to touch milk or water.They are actuated by the fanatical determination not merely to bring the law into contempt, but to martyrize themselves wo that their heroic example may act ax a stimulus to others engaged in the cause, he said.I print the above with all due apology for its unpleasantness.It is an extract from a London dispatch to the Montreal Gazette of Wednesday, March 19, 1913.I state this specifically in order that my readers may make no mistake.It refers to things that are taking place IN ENGLAND in this the third your of the reign of his gracious majesty King George .and in the twentieth century of the era inaugurated by Jesus of Nasareth, who gave his life in defence of a cause.» ¥ x =» BOUT the only conclusion one ran draw from the Coderre election charges and the \u2018affidavits\u2019 attached to them is that some peculiarly delightful citizens at times engage in elections in Montreal constituencies.And we had a suspicion of that before.# + # # R.W.F.MacLEAN of Toronto wants to have a dis- tinetion made in the license laws between beer and whiskey.And there have been more unreasonable ideas put forward by temperance reformers, at that.\u201c # # # HF License Commissioners say they do not think that Mr.Roberta is à proper person to © license cases before them.And we gather from Mr.berts\u2019 remarks that be doesn\u2019t think the License (Commissioners are proper people for him to argue license cases before.The both wrong.: LL] Texte détérioré har ie rem M DE nen THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 22, 1913.The Week in the World Montreal.The city made a step toward municipalization of its public works when Mr.Janin, as city engineer, proved to have forwarded the lowest tender for asphalt paving.It is expected the saving will be about 30 per cent.Professor Todd, of MeGill University, has decided to accept the position of Professor of History in Dalhousiehe city is being ravaged by the worst epidemic of measles it has experienced for many years.Chairman Hibbard declares that the Publie Utilities Commission has no power to order a remedy for the transport problem.He suggests that the City and the Tramways Company confer to devise a means to carry out their mutual obligations.Mr.Robert Reford, prominently identified with the shipping interests of this port and an influential citizen, died at the age of 82.A severe storm, with lightning, high wind, and heavy rain, caused considerable damage in the city and suburbs.A large area of Cote St.Paul district being inundated by the rising of the St.Pierre river.\u201cThat we should either abolish divorce altogether or make it available for the poor as well as the rich,\u201d was the keynote of an address by Dean Walton before the Montreal Women's Club, The Board of Trade and many individual citizens are opposed to the suggestion made by the Tramways Comany that they be allowed to lay tracks on Sherbrooke and orchester streets and double track St.James and Notre Dame.The Catholic School Commissioners decide to build eleven new schools in the city during the coming year.Canada.The New Brunswick Legislature passed a bill providing for a donation of $3,000 to the Cartier Memorial Fund.The Hon.John Haggart, the oldest member of the House of Commons, died in Ottawa.He represented South Lanark continuously since 1872.The passage of a bill amending the Medical Act of New Brunswick permits any qualified British practitioner to practice in that province.The Hon.Maleolm McKenzie, Provincial Treasurer of Alberta, died after a brief illness.IMMENSE CROWDS LINE THE ROUTE OF ST.PATRICK'S It is described as virulent inflated nonsense of a kind that might prove dangerous to the goodwill existing between the two nations.United States.Sarah Bernhardt was injured in an automobile accident at Los Angeles, Cal.A disastrous fire at Elmira, N.Y., did damage to the amount of $350,000.Ninety people were killed.many severely injured.and great property loss sustained Ly a eyclonie storm which swept the Southern States.Julian Hawthorne, son of the famous novelist, and two of his business associates were found guilty of using the mails with intend to defraud in connection with the promotion of worthless mining properties in Canada.Mr.W.FF.McCombs, chairman of the Democrat National Committee, declines the post of Ambassador to France, and Mr.Richard Olney, of Boston, that of Ambassador to Great Britain.President Wilson issued the formal proclamation convening Congress in extra session at noon on April 7th.The Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace issue a signed statement in which they say America should arbitrate the Panama Canal question.They favor the Birish interpretation of the treaties and urge the repeal of the Canal Tolls Act, The Democrats are likely to include wood pulp in the free list, and greatly reduce the duty on paper.Europe.Marshal von der Goltz, a leading tactician in the German Army who organized the present Turkish army, announced his retirement.Sixteen people were killed when a avalanche overwhelmed three farms in the Gudbrands Valley, Norway.During the first airship gunnery trials held in Germany, 500 rounds of ball cartridge were tired from the machine gun of a Zeppelin dirigible.Although a forty-mile-an- hour wind was blowing, the gun was handled with ease and_precision.King George of Greece was assassinated at Salonika, whither His Majesty had transferred the seat of his Government last November after the town was captured Many towns and villages in Ontario, Quebec, and New from Turkey in the early stages of the present war.DAY PARADE IN MONTREAL.« It was a happy thought to hold St.Patriek\u2019s Parade on the Sunday preceding St.Patrick\u2019s Day.It enabled many more than the customary number to walk in the procession, while the route was hardly long enough to accommodate the many thousands of spectators who thronged the streets to view the enthusiastie Irishmen.Moreover, the weather was more kind than it generally is on this occasion.The chilliness of the air ean only be described as seasonable, while there was a noticeable ahsence of the usual rain.Brunswick experience severe floods owing to the rapid advance of springlike weather.Heavy snowstorm ties up the Lake Superior section of the C.P.R.for twenty-four hours.The dedication of MeViear Memorial marked by impressive services, Prince Edward Island Provincial Legislature opened, the speech from the throne reflecting unprecedented prosperity.; Nine men were killed when a cave-in occurred in the Cross and Wellington tale mine near Madoc, Ont.Senator James McMullen died after a few days illness, and five days after the decease of his wife, at his home near Mount Forest, Ont.He was in his cightieth year.In Ottawa.The blockade in the committee stage of the Naval Bill continued throughout the second week of the two- week session, the long drawn out speeches of the Opposition giving way to acrimonious debate and foreed divisions on points of order.The House even went so far as to vote on the question as to whether it could adjourn in order to permit the members to attend the funeral of Mr.Haggart.These fighting tactics evidently got on the nerves of the members and the House adjourned over Sunday after the most riotous scenes ever witnessed in the Dominion House.Led hy Dr.Pugsley, the Opposition successively defied the Chairman of Committee and the Speaker in painful examples of the bitterness of party feeling, carrying matters so far that the Speaker was forced to name Dr.(lark who persisted in refusing to take his seat.On Monday the bye election charges against the Hon.Louis Coderre occupied the attention of the House throughout the session, the (Government voting against granting the enquiry asked for by the Liberal leader.truce was made regarding the Naval Bill and it does not again come up for discussion until after the Easter recess, the House being meanwhile occupied in voting supplies.Church was British Inles.Oxford won the University boat race hy a quarter of à length.Time, 20 minutes, 33 seconds, During a debate in the House, the Postmaster-General intimated that after proposed reform had been carried out, the House of Lords would contain no vestige of the hereditary principle.Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas, a Canadian born officer who achieved brilliant success in the Royal Navy, died at his home in Hampshire.At the Tariff Reform Conference held in London, the Unionist party refused to countenance any weakening in the full acceptance of the Rt.Hon.Joseph Chamberlain's principals of Imperial unity.King George formally opened the new reservoir which is to supply the southern part of London.The reservoir is nituated at Chingford, cost two and a half million dollars, covers 416 acres, and has four and a half miles of embankment.: London is afflicted with a bad epidemic of influenza.Overneas Demin \u2018anhe Ta, the new capital rite of the Australian Common ealth, was formally christened by Lady Den- | man, wif of the Governor-General.It is to he a com- | tely £ \u2018w city.laid out on most modern plans.| Lady Clifford, wile of the Governor of Cold Coast! § olony and a famous novelist, is suffering from yellow ever.i Secretary of State Bryan is severely criticised fou his ; have refused to accept such conditions.\"jrish speech in Chicago at a Ht.Patrick's day banquet.the Powers is progressing very slowly.À grave situation was created in France when the Government, under the leadership of M.Briand, resigned after being over-ridden by the Senate on a question of proportional representation.Foreign.The Commons as Seen Thro\u2019 a Lorgnette.OTTAWA, OyT., March, 22nd.Y dear Lucille:\u2014Believe me or not, my nerves are completely shattered! Naturally, I don\u2019t know ! what it feels like to be a member or tu be in the fight, but if it is any worse than to watch it or listen to it\u2014then the | country has a wealth of Christian martyrs betwixt her shores.By the time my last letter reached you, there was such , a conflict raging in the House as even your imagination , cannot picture.The Navy Bill?Phsaw, no! Not much \u2014this was Slippery Bill, instead! To my feminine, and therefore illogical, mind, the whole thing was something of a tangle, but perhaps you can make some sense out of it.Mr.Crothers referred to somebody as \u2018\u2018Slippery Bill,\u201d and Mr.Pugsley supported by Mr.Gavreau and several other hon.gentlemen accused Mr.Crothers of having dined too well otherwise he would not have called his hon.friend **Slippery Bill,\u2019 and he used the words * dastardly\u2019 and \u2018\u2018ungentlemanly\u201d in connection with the minister's speech.So Mr.Crothers said that he had certainly not been dining too well\u2014he had been dining at home( draw your own conclusions!) and that he did not refer to any one person as \u2018\u2018Slippery Bill,\u201d but indefinitely to any one who might be either slippery or Bill.So of course, with the help of the Speaker and the chairman and a few words from Mr.Borden thrown in, heinsisted that Mr.Pugsley retract his unkind insinuation that the Minister had been too well dined; whereupon Mr.Pugsley averred that if Mr.Crothers had not meant himself\u2014oh, well, what's the use of going over all that ground again?It simply amounted \u2018to this that neither the Minister nor Mr.Pugsley meant * what they said and that their colleagues didn\u2019t know what they n:eant.It was a subtle and intense piece of gallery work.Poor ' Mr.Armstrong, the good looking Mr.Armstrong, iron gray hair, young face, tall and powerful, regular \u2018\u2018best seller\u201d hero type, you know \u2014was in the chair during most i of the fracas, but his cries of Order were absolutely drowned by the raging din and uproar.I don\u2019t deny that I have not told you half\u2014I couldn\u2019t hear it; and if Hansard is not a blur of vituperative epithets and interruptions, then the reporters were struck with writer's cramp and did not get them all in.You know how dazed you used to feel after a Moving Picture Show, in the days when the pictures wiggled so horridly?Well, I felt just the same after trying to keep my eye on the Member who was speaking.Many times there were three on their feet at once, each trying to roar above the voices of the others.Mr.Lalor, I fancy, had a good deal to do toward quelling the raging tempest for, as I told you, Mr.Crothers said that he did not refor particularly to Mr.Pugsley as Slippery Bill and Mr.Lalor upheld that statement, and the gentleman in question acknowledged that such being the case, there was no valid reason to consider the Minister dastardly and ungentle- manly\u2014merely his language was! - 3e IGHT found the galleries jammed and everyone wearing that expression which says louder than words, \u201cLook out, something is going to happen!\u201d Neither were they disappointed.Mr.Aitken who of late has been busy addressing anything from the Woman's Club to Sunday Schools, replaced good looking Mr.Armstrong as Chairman, and Mr.Aiken had rather more trouble I taney than his predecessor, Those naughty Liberals did try his patience so! He ruled everything out of order, every one wanted something amended, and about forty votes were taken; whoever said anything was asked to take it back, and one could not make head or tail out of what was going on.In the Press Gallery excitement crept in so largely that the Sergeant-at-Arms had to send in a command for Order\u2014and that is no usual occurrence, believe me! Pandemonium reigned; mouths were opening and closing to the accompaniment of flourishing arms, and you couldn't hear a word! A man sitting behind me said: \u201cIt\u2019s a good thing that this here ain't in Italy, orlsome of em\u2019 would get a knife between their slats!\u2019 And another interested onlooker commented, when young Mr.Martin rose to speak.\u201cWell, this here Navy Bill is doin\u2019 somebody nod, after all.There's people like Martin and \u2018Nobby hite who never shone before; now they can get their names in the papers!\u201d x À À À UT to resume.I am solemnly serious when [ tell you that I waa shaking with nervousness all through the evening.To see one person dominated by anger is a scaresome sight, but imagine forty or fifty men howling at one another in rage! I nearly dropped out of the gallery when Dr.Pugsley stepped right out of his seat into the aisle and addressed the Speaker; for he is the suavest and most imperturbable man in the whole House.Later, when his urbhanity asserted itself, he asked in defense of Mr.Martin, who has got his name in the paper; \u2018\u201cIf we may not \u201cpeak on anything relevant or anything irrelevant, will the \u20ac lairman be so good enough to tell me À severe earthquake destroyed several towns and villages What we may speak u in Guatemala, causing à heavy death list.In one case, one hundred children were killed by the collapse of a school.The Militant Sufiragettes.Although Mrs.Emmeline Pankhurst has recovered from her indisposition and declared herself ready to pro- coed with militant methods, the week has passed without the enaction of any serious deeds of destruction being enacted by the militants.This has caused the news papers to exercise the greatest ingenuity in devising sufficiently sensational headlines to keep the public interest keyed up.The discovery of what is said to have been the militants\u2019 arsenal, and the throwing of a pot of paint through one of the windows of the frome Office, appear to be the most striking features of their campaign during the past week.There have also been some cases of window smashing and of mail destruction.The matter was brought up in Parliament where the Home Secretary was severely criticized for what was dubbed his weak and inefficient methods in dealing with the militant suffragettes, methods so inept as to have brought ridicule on the administration of the law.Dr.F.F.Friedman in Canada.N his return to New York, Dr.Friedman expressed himself as being delighted with his cordial reception in Canada.and with the spirit of openmindedness in which he was received by the medical fraternity, who offered every possible facility to the provin tute, Montreal, he journeyed to Ottawa, where the (Canadian Association for the ment to Canadians that he should choose this occasion t > make his first public address on this side of the Atlantic, explaining the principles and results of his treatment.That the meeting was under the distinguished patronage of H.R.H.the Governor-General, himself a strong advocate for any measures tending to decrease the ravages of the white plagne, added a pleasing lustre to the occasion, After! tre ting thirty-nine patients in Ottawa, he concluded hin hurried mission by inoculating forty in Toronto and twenty-nine in London, Ont., promising to return to Canada in six weeks, partly to note the progress of those already treated, and also to arrange for continuance of his treatment.The Balkan War.The past week brought further success to the Greek armies and they have occupied the towns of Prementi and Kliscura, the latter after a stubborn resistance by the Turks.An these two towns are situated between forty and fifty miles from Janina, the conquering Greeks have advanced that distance during the past week.Seutari still holds ouùt against the attacking Montenegrins, who are anxious to gain possession before ace ean he declared, while the defenders of Adrianople repulsed a fierce arnault in which the Servians and Bulgarians are reported to have lost heavily.The garrison has 0 ered to surrender on the condition that the Turky diers he permitted to keep their arme, but the \u2018 : of his claims.After inoculating fifty-six patients at the Royal Edward Instiia tio revention of Tuberculosis was then holding its annual meeting.It was a delicate compli- n!\u201d | I said in my last Potter that the palm for endurance ! should go to the Westerners; I must amend that\u2014you see I have the habit, now\u2014 for Dr.Pugsley was in the House almost continuously on Friday and Saturday for twenty- eight hours.During that time he was tho target at which most of the Government remarks were shot, and if he stands for a sample of Canadian armour plate, then by all means, say I, by all means, let us build Dreadnoughts in Canada !\u2014 Yours \u2014MILLIE.THE MIRRORGRAM CONTEST AS announced last week, the Mirrorgram Competition, this week does not close until Saturday, and the announcement of the winners will be made in Tr SATURDAY Mirror of March 29th.This gives our out-of-town readers an opportunity to participate, and judging by the number of letters received they are taking full advantage of the extension of time made in their favour.This week's competition closes on Saturday, March 29th.The six words from which you must choose your Mirrorgram subject appear below.Can you take one of these words and make a sentence or phrase, the initial letter of each word of which is a letter in the word you choose, using the letters in the order in which they appear in that word, and the sentence having some bearing upon the meaning of the word chosen ?For example take the word \u2018\u2018Spring.\u201d From it ou may construct the sentence, \u2018Sweet Promise Redundant in Natural Glory.\u201d For the beat Mirrorgram constructed out of any one of the six words given below the SATURDAY Mirror will give a prize of ten dollars.To the next best a prize of five dollars, and to the ten next in line a consolation prize of one dollar each.With your Mirrorgram, you must send the coupon below, on which the words for this week are printed.You may send as many Mirrorgrams as you please provided only that you send a coupon with each attempt.Mark the word \u2018\u201c Mirrorgram\u201d in the corner of the envelope.The Editor is the sole judge.MIRRORGRAM COUPON.To the Editor of the BaTurpay Minnon.I encloss my entry for the Mi m Competition.I agres to accept the deetsion of the Editor of the Sarunpar Minron as Name.Address ~~ uy go LOSS TO BUSINESS COMMUNITY.THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 22, 1913.IN THE PRESIDENT\u2019S WORKSHOP.The late Mr.Robert Reford, whose death, which oe- curred on the 13th inst.leaves a void in Canada\u2019s shipping and industrial circles.213 A Montreal Girl\u2019s Success.: MINNIE ALLEN, singer of character and comedy songs, who comes to the Orpheum next week, is a Montrealer whose success on the stage is a story that had its beginning twelve years ago.When she was a very\u2019 young girl, her father was injured in a railroad wreek and disabled for years.In an effort to protect the welfare of her parents Miss Allen sought the stage.Hers is the same sad story of hardship and struggle as that of many another girl who had gone ** the Broadway hike.\u201d But one day she attracted the attention of a manager of a small musical comedy company.He was looking for a musical director.Miss Allen \u201ctook the job,\u201d to ;lay one night stands and occasionally a popular priced theatre in a city.In this company little Miss Allen not only conducted the orchestra but she arranged all the dancing numbers and directed the stage ensembles.Finally her real chance came.The leading singer became ill and she \u2018\u2018filled in.\u201d One St.Patrick\u2019s day in Ottawa the manager of a rival company was attracted to the little comedienne.He suggested she might have eater scope for her talents in a vaudeville sketeh.onsequently \u2018The Bifurcated Girl\u201d was written for Nor mix him up wit Who died some little time before these merry days.The first photograph of President Woodrow Wilson taken while sitting at his desk in the White House.Copyright Underwood and Underwood Letters to Lucy on Latter Day Literature Ir you would learn how drab our modern life is, Peruse the published works of Robert Herrick, Whose literature most lamentably rife is In samples of the vices of Ameriean husbands, daughters, sons and even wifies, Portrayed with reprehension almost clerie; author of ** Hesperides,\u201d \u201cOne Woman's Life\u2019 * is all about poor Milly, Who never learnt the truths Eugenics teaches, Nor knew her \u2018rounded breasts\u2019 and skin of lily Designed but for continuing the species.\u201d Her schooling was conducted rather illy.Ladies\u2019 Home Journals helped her not; you see she's À product of Chicago in the \"nineties \u2014 To sing whose narrowness, thank Heav'n, not mine \u2019tis.Her father was a traveller in drugs: Her grandma read the Christian Vindicator.t | ! | | MISS MINNIE ALLEN.i Mira Allen's use and her debut was made at Tony Pastor's | theatre in New York ten years ago.Miss Allen's next step | was in the dramatic line, playing ingenues and juvenile | characters for three years.Then she spent & year in.farce Her father at this time having made a fortunate | investment Miss Allen was able to devote two years to vocal study, only making occasional vaudeville incursions until she finally decided to construct a pretentious act with à male partner.She was induced to give this up and go out with one of the \u201cThree Twins\u201d companies.After two season she returned to vaudeville last November, Miss Allen is the daughter of Dan W.Allen, who until | six years ago was a well known resident of Montreal.He was a railroad conductor until he moved to Long! Island, N.Y., where he is now connected with he | National Printing and Engraving Co.WOULD YOU BE HAPPY WITH A MILLION?Would you be happy with a million A million dollars all in gold?Or do you really think a billion i Would bring you happiness untold\u2019 And do you think that you could buy Of peace and quiet and content; The peace for which you yearn and sigh Just pay for it and have it sent?The song of ceaseless, babbling brooks: The color of the setting sun; The joy and sadness in all books Are these on sale by inch or ton?The silence of the deep, dark wood.The music of the breakers bold - Do you su pose that if you would, You could get these with yellow gold?No riches vast that men impress Can serve you in the vale of years.Nor bring you aught of happiness, Nor of regret dry up the tears._, But Milly yearned to know the Bigger Bugs, And sail around to dances and the theAtre; Tore up the parlor carpet, laid down rugs: Gave teas, with water-ices and a waiter: Threw out, black walnut and put in mahogany; Would have hung prints \u2014there were none Poganythen by After a hundred and fifty pages\u2019 flirting, The while her charms grew richer yet and riper, She married-\u2014 not Eugenically, that's certing\u2014 An artist chap, who henceforth paid the piper, Until he found a lady more diverting \u2014 A vital Russ, whom Millie thought a viper.He painted and he panted for his Russian Until there came the inevitable pereussion.But Jack, although his love for Mill was fainter.Was still a rather decent sort of chappie, Refused to cut the matrimonial painter And did his best to make his wifie happy.Although he knows by this time that it ain't her Chicago soul and education scrappy Can c'er inspire his painthrush to à Masterpiece, He seeks in domesticity a vaster peace, So gave up art and turned to illustrating, Which, though a task less glorious and glad.Is more conducive to domestic mating.Requiring fewer models scantly clad: Until, his sordid struggle sorely hating, With loneliness and disappointment mad, He fell a prey to New York and pneumonia, Leaving his widow poor and not much tonier.How Milly followed up this devastation By messing up the lives of several others, You, Lucy, ought to read with concentration, And all the other girls who may be mothers, That vou may learn how foolish Kdueation The native goodness of the infant smothers; Nor be of Millie's faults too harshly eritieal Lack of Eugenies made her parasitieal.B.K=.*Maemillan, Toronto, 81.35 net.A HUNDRED TO ONE.Physician My friend you have one chanee in a hundred to live, Patient I always thought these hundred-to-one shots had a strange fatality for me.Florida Times-Union.THREE LITTLE MEXICAN EXILES.Nieces and nephew of ex-president Francisco I.Madero | departs in the arme of an officer of | of Mexico photographed om the steamship which carried | the law in the last act, and the hero | them from their native land after the recent tragic happea- and heroine take the Ingsthe subject of the 3 Paris Kid Glove Store We guarantee every pair.Paris Kid Glove Store 140 PEEL STREET (Open Saturday Evening) We carry the most complete stock of the celebrated PERRIN GLOVES famous the world over for their fine quality, their style and fit.Phone Up.1068 The Awakening Of American Art.At very short notice, Mrs.Homer | Curry addressed a well attended meeting of the American Women's Club on | Awakening of American Art.Mrs.Waycott, the president, was in the chair.The lecture which was all too brief, was remarkable for psychological ex- | - pression and for knowledge of facts.The lecture embodied some very.interesting and little known details ; about the earliest artists that America produced and who may be considered : as the father of the art of to-day.The | deeply introspective preamble, replete | with evidence of profound thought, is worth quoting.What does the \u201cWhat is art\u201d word suggest to us ?Fundamentally, In common all manifestation is art.\u201cwith most generie terms, it is signifi- * multitudinous _ ordinary connection with science often cant of infinite things, of the spiritual reality that is ever surging outwards and upwards in varying modes of expression, One of man\u2019s primal impulses is to perfect images or symbols of the eternal beauty.From first to last he is consciously or unconsciously striving for that perfection which is elemental in cll manifestation.\u201cMan'sefforts to objeetify or embody his thoughts, feelings and desires, are but limited demonstrations of the Infinite activity.\u201cOf necessity, man is both in the development and moulding of his ideas, governed largely by racial instincts, customs and belets,by lucality, climate, environment, association and education.Even as a dweller in lon established countries, man's upwar progress is more or less curtailed by one or another of these rudimental causes.How much more so is it when, as a pioneer in & new continent, he has first to transform a trackless wilderness into a home for himself, to prepare a centre for the exercise of his energies.Broadly speaking, man must first be utilitarian in order to obtain the wealth and ita attendant leisure for the growth and exercise of that refinement and culture which seeks expression and joy in art and delights to encourage both it and the efforts of its gifted exponents to | - \u201cA MODERN METHO D OF DELIVERING GROCERIES.This two-ton auto truck does delivery throughout the island of Montreal, replacing many horses.all of Fraser, Viger & Co's suburban t is one of the famous **Aleo\u2019\u2019 trucks made by the American Locomotive Company.It covers from 50 to 100 miles a day with ease.thing to make a real hit right now, when most theatre-goers are rather weary of plays which tax their intellect plays which are more than slightly morbid, plays where rogues and rascals are glorified into heroes because they .are slick enough to dodge the law, plays that are only saved from indecency by cleverness of epigram, and musical comedies which are simply wheel burlesque glorified.Make it Irish\u2019 said the little fairy, \u201cbecause the Irish people are better adapted for that kind of a play than anyone else.\u2019 So Anne Caldwell wrote \u2018Top o' th\u2019 Mornin\u2019,\u201d and people who go to see it at the Princess this week will be glad they went without quite knowing why, just as the fairy prophesied.Top o\u2019 th\u2019 Mornin\u2019 is just Cinderella, with frills, and in the United States.While it will make its strongest appeal to Irish-Americans because it reflects the various component elements which make up that large proportion of the citizens of the United States in a very kindly and pleasing light, yet iv extends its appeal by reason of sher wholesomeness to the whole world of playgoers, although it is quite likely that it will not please the critics altogether.Its plot is wahbly in places, as for instance in the scene in the police headquarters, and its little crowd of supers were not altogether convincing in their Kerry fair uproariousness in the last act on Monday.But the strong human interest which is splendidly maintained throughout by the excellent | acting of the principal characters serves to banish all this from the mind of ordinary playgoer who will find \"his soul uplifted and the blue willies \"chased clean away by the wholesome humor which runs in a clear stream throughout the whole three acts.Too much praise cannot be lavished on Miss Gertrude Quinlan for her ; happy interpretation of the vivacious \"heroine.Her entire lack of affecta- \u2018tion goos far toward making a success of a part which might easily be ruined develop and materialize it for man\u2019s happiness and uplift.Thus it was | with our forefathers while they were establishing the great new civilization which became known as America.\u201d Allusion was made to the first writers of American history, Puritan Vaughan and Captain Smith, to Benjamin Franklin, the most famous of utilitarian philosophers, to the, author of *' Poor Richard's Almanae,\u201d to William Billings who wrote the \u201cNew England Psalm Singer,\u201d to Oliver Holden who composed ** Coronation,\u201d to Benjamin West and a host of half forgotten worthies.Mrs, Curry also drew attention to the extra- manifested in American artists, as instanced in the case of 8.F.B.Morse, the inventor, who was president of the Academy of New York.An Irish Play At The Princess.Some good Irish fairy paid a visit to Anne Caldwell, one day and whispered in her ear, If you want to make a hit, to write something that will make your audiences really giad they went to see it, without knowing just nas they are glad, write an old- fashioned comedy-drama, one of the kind where virtue triumphs and vice last curtain in with the Motor Boat Show to will close of the show.individual taste of the exhibitor.Composition, correctness of ex 1912.each other's arms.This is just the To Amateur Photographers: HE SATURDAY MIRROR, being anxious to encourage amateur hotographers along constructive lines, invites y.your favorite prints for a competition, which it will run in connection held in Montreal Arena.The 8aTurpAY Mirror will have a stall at the Motor Boat Show.The photographs received will be exhibited at this stall, and the result Po announced after the judges have completed their task, at the Valuable prizes will be offered for the best prints submitted.A full list of the prizes will be announced together with the names of the judges in next week's issue of the Saronpay Minnon.The Rules.Prints may be any size, may be printed and mounted to suit the ints must treat of some subject connected with water sport.ting, canoeing, yachting, or any other water pieture will All Motor be acceptable.The Sarunpat duce any of the prints submitted, returae to competitors at the close of the show, Prints will be judged with regard to their for reproduction will all be considered.Only amateur photographers work will be considered.All photographs must have besa taker since the first of January, ou to enter IRROR retains the right to re free of charge.All prints will be general exocilence.ure sad printing, and suitability THE SATURDAY MIRROR.MONTREAL, MARCH 22, 1913.RS.HUGH BRODIE gave a very successful \u2018\u2018bridge\u2019\u201d\u2019 on Mon- THE marriage of Miss Isabel Ewing, day afternoon, March 17th, at her daughter of Mr.and Mrs.William Ewing, to Mr.James Bearman Bry- y son, son of Mr.and Mrs.Charles Bry- \"1 residence on Roslyn avenue.The son, of Ottawa, took place on Tuesday house was decorated throughout with evening, March 18th, at half past six spring flowers and greenery.The o\u2019clock.at the residence of the bride's , | hostess who was wearing a handsome parents 100 Sherbrooke street west, gown of black chantilly over white which was beautifully decorated for satin, with touches of Irish green, was the occasion with masses of spring ; assisted in receiving her guests by flowers and palms.The Rev.Mal- Mrs.Dewar and Mrs.J.G.Scott of com Campbell perfornied the cere- A Ottawa.Cards phere played at Y i \u2019 ay welve tables.> winne by her father.wore an ivory char were Mrs.J.M.Robertson, Mrsby her father, wore an ivory charmeuse satin gown with pearl trimmings and carried a lovely shower bouquet of white roses and lilies-of- the-valley.Miss Margaret Ewing who was her sister's bridesmaid was wearing a pretty pale blue charmeuse satin and carried Killarney roses.Mr.Clarke Anderson of Ottawa was the best man.After the ceremony a reception was held and later Mr.and Mrs.Bryson left for a trip to Boston.The out of town guests included, Mrand Mrs.Charles Bryson, Dr.Mary Bryson, the Misses Bryson, Mrs.Percy M.Buttler, Mr.and Mrs.George Ross, Dr.and Mrs.Milon Graham.Mr.and Mrs.Jas.Bearman, Mrs.Robert Watson, Miss Ruby Watson, Mrs.Fred.Graham, Miss Florence Graham, Mrs.John Bryson, and Mr.and Mrs.William Grahamx x * Mrs.D.MeNicoll, Miss Dollie MeNicoil and Mrs.Alec.MeNicoll, left last week for Los Angeles, California, and will later visit in Vancouver.They expect to return in May.Mrs.T.Robertson, Esplanade avenue, was the hostess at an informal crystal and hardware shower, last week, given in honor of her sister-in- law, Miss Helen Robertson, and Mrs.James Webber.Miss Jean Bovey, sailed last Saturday, from New York to join her mother in Italy.Miss Janie Fleet accompanied her as far as Italy, and will later visit other parts of the continent.Miss Lemesurier, of Quebee, who bas been visiting Mrs.C.H.Lemesurier, has returned home.Mrs.George Nash, who has been visiting Mr.T.C.Keefer, of Rockliffe Manor, O tawa, has returned to town.Col.A.P.Sherwood, of Ottawa, has been stopping at the Ritz-Carlton.Mr.8.Lasalle, of London, England, is stopping at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.Mr.and Mrs.Edgar Thorne, are visiting in Florida.2j Mrs.James Gardner, Miss Alice | | Gardner, Mrs.Thompson, Miss Thompson and Mr.Arthur Gardner ; are visiting in the South for a few weeks, Mrs.CC.F.Wilson and family, are visiting in Atlantic City.; Mrs W.D.Sutherland and Miss Sutherland, who have been visiting in | Vermont, have returned to town.Mrs.Thompson, of Vancouver, is in town, the guest of Mrs.Plummer x OX OH Mrs.O.E.Youngheart.gave a very enjoyable \u2018Bridge\u2019 last week.The prize winners were Mrs.de Sola, | Mrs.Lomas, Mrs.Hill, and Mr.Solomon, Mr.Monteliore and Mr.Hibbertspending, 3 William Brown, Mrs.A.B.Scarff, Mrs.Traversy, Mrs.Hart, Mrs.A.J.Moore, Mrs.R.J.Inglis, Mrs.James Shearer, Mrs.Alex.Me¢Dougall, Mrs.R.F.Read.Mrs.A.H.Chave and Mrs.J.G.Scott were in charge of the tea room, and were assisted by Miss Edna Craig.Mrs.John Meclntyre, Mrs.J.Gilman Shearer and Miss Munro.LE Hutton Crowdy and Mrfor for Mr.C.James O'Connor left last Monda New York, whence they saile Bermuda.Mrs.gF.W.Nagle, Sherbrooke street west, gave \u2018a very successful luncheon last Tuesday in honor of Mrs Mrs.Walter Healey and Miss Dorothy Healey, of Toronto.Miss Pauline Laurier, who has been visiting her aunt, Lady Laurier, in , Ottawa, has returned to town.i The Pope received the Hon.Sir Lomer Gouin, Premier of Quebec, À i in private audience on Sunday, ny | March 2nd.i Lt.-Colonel John Carson of Montreal, is in England.Mr.Hayter Reed is on his way , home from Italy and will arrive in i Montreal shortly.\u201c * There will be another military re- : ception at the Drill Hall on Saturday \u2018evening, March 49th, when indoor \u2018baseball matches will be played be- \u2018tween the Highlanders and the Artil- | lery, and between the Victoria Rifles \"and Brockvillex % ¥* COMING MARRIAGES.Miss Hilda Eileen Irn.Be oer of Mr, and Mrs.William Irving, Grosvenor, avenue, West- Silja to Mr \u201cHarold Reid, which is to take initia.> Lady Murray Fifeshire, Scotland, and also of Nova Scotia, Canada.Brown, Esq., Sheriff of Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine, the celebrated beil D.A.Scottish judge.Miss Edythe Ross, the Linton, who| Mrs.R.©.Common, formerly is visiting in New York and Atlantic City, is not expected home until after Easter, Mr.and Mrs.D.J.Munn, of Westmount, who have been spending some time in St.Augustine, Florida, have returned home, and her little daughter, t Sir Charles Tupper is thinking of\u2019 the greater part of the summer in England, and expects to sail, by the Empress of Ireland, on the 2nd of May.The adjourned annual meeting of the Montreal Day Nursery Committee was held at 50 Belmont Park at half- pret three Wednesday afternoon.r.Bruce Taylor was in the chair, and afternoon tea was served at the Mrs.H.Troop will receive in future Close of the meeting.on the first and third Wednesdays of | each month.; Mrs.R.E.Guy Smith, Melbourne avenue, has returned from New Brunswick, N.S Mrs.A.G.Lomas, who has heen visiting in town, the guest of Mrs.J.| A.Pillow, Macgregor street, has returned to her fome in Sherbrooke, ue.Mr.G.Gordon Weir, who has been ! visiting in Vancouver, has returned to town.! Mrs.Leonard of Boston, who has been the guest of Mrs.J.A.Mackay, has returned home.; x # * Mrs.Wilkinson of Kingston, is spending the Easter holidays with her daughter, Mrs.Archibald P.Christmas.i Mrs.George Slater, Miss Mildred | Slater and Master William Slater, of Dorchester street went, are spending a few weeks in New York and Atla ntie City.Mr.and Sirs.Craighead, of New York, have been staying at the \u2018Wilbeimina.\u2019 Mountain street, this week.Mins Edith Macpherson who has been \u2018visiting her aunt, Mrs.Reiffenstein, has returned to Ottawa.Mr.and Mra.A.A.Cole and family, who have been visiting Mrs.Ernest C.Cole, Essex avenue, have left for Cobalt, Ontario.Mra.William Pugsley has returned to Ottawa.The Choloest Product of the finest Tea-Preo- dueing COeuntry in the World \u201cSALADA\" its flaveur and strength are preserved unimpaired in the sealed load pasket.BLACK, GREEN and MIXED.»* # À Miss Elizabeth McLennan is sailing today, March 22nd, by the George Washington, to spend a couple of months abroad.Miss Gabrielle Belcourt is in town from Ottawa.the guest of her aunt, Miss Belrourt.A site for the new building of the Y.W.C.A.was purchased a few days o in Fairmount.This is the result of the campaign of certain energetic ladies in St.puis Annex and the neighborhood, who collected a sum of over $700.The leaders of the \u201cwo sides were Mrs.Chas.Krause (blue) and Mrs.E.J.Lidstone (red).During the campaign tea was served every afternoon by the social committee and at the close the board of directors entertained the workers.Tea was poured by Mrs.Jas.F.Macfarlane, and music, recitations and addresses made in enjoyable afternoon.»* XE Mrs.Joseph Delormier, who is visiting in Ottawa, was the guest of honor at a bridge\u2019, on Saturday, Mareh, 15th, given by Miss Madeline Sanwalle.Among those present were Mes.E.B.Devlin, Miss Beatrice Beleourt, Miss Florence Lynch, Miss Gladys Genest, Misa Bertha Gendron and Miss Jeanne Fairbauit.Mrs.J.H.Smithers, Mina Smithers and Miss Georgine Smithers, have returned from Old Point Comfort.Mrs.À.F.©.Ross and family, who have been ataying at the Marlborough, Atlantie City, for the past three weeks, have returned to the city.Miss Ruby Ramsay is visiting in Toronto, the guest of her sister, Mrs.Gordon Osler.Mins Edith Macpherson of Ottawa in the guest of her aunt, Mra.Charles Reiffenstein, Miss Snowball of Chatham, N.B., who has heen visiting her sister, Mra.Henry Rawlings, Crescent street, sailed on Saturday, March 15th, from New York for Jamaica, where she will stay some montha.»* # * Mr.©.Hamilton Wickes, who has been spending à week in Toronto, returned to the city on Wednesday, March 26th.Mr.and Mrs.Fitz-James E.Browne and family are spending some time in New York and Plante City.Mr.Edwin J Cox.Lorne Crescent, has left for afew weeks vimt to Nassau, Bahamas, WI.Mise Margaret Young.of Burlington.Ont , ie in town the guest of her sister.Mrs.W.A.Graseit, Cressent street.lace at the Westmount Methodist Church 5 Apri luth, the bride will be attended by her sister, Miss Norma Irving, and Miss Rita Maver, and the best man will be Mr.Arthur Lionel Daw and the ushers Mr.Nelson Ogilvie of Ottawa and Mr.Gordon Camp- Rachel, wife of Sir Edward Murray, 13th Baronet of Cleremont and Lady Murray is the unerne, Her father was The marriage is announced to take place on Monday, March dist, at St.Leo's Church, ! Westmount, of Miss Ethel Loretta Leveqgue, Miss Helen Bacheller Schultx, of New York, received for the first time.since her marriage on Tuesday afternoon, March 18th., at her new home 1020 Tupper street, which was beautifully decorated for the occasion with quantities of yellow and pink tulips.he hostess was wearing a lovely gown of black satin.trimmed with cerise satin and lace.with a corsage bouquet of American Beauty roses, and was assisted in receiving by her mother-in-law, Mrs.W, J.Common, who wore a handsome gown of ruby velvet with bugle and lace trimmings.The tea room was in charge of Miss Seath, Miss Edythe Masson and Miss Alice Commonof Dorchester street west, to Mr.A fred St.Cyr, jr, eldest son of Mr.and Mis.Alfred 81, Cyr, of Elm avenue, Westmount.Alban Philipps, youngest son of the late Rev, J.J.Philipps and of Mrs.Philipps, Llanteglos, Step aside, Pembrokeshire, and : Florence Louise, only daughter of E.Kaymond Lewis and the Late Mrs, Raymond Lewis, Dog Pound Creek, Alberta, Canada, will take place carly in the spring at the Pro- Cathodral, Calgary, Albertax x # ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED.Mr.and Mrs.C.V.Farrell, Fox River, Gaspe, quebec.announce the engagement of their daughter, Mildred, to Mr.Herbert Ti Qllivier, of St.Brelades, Jersey, Channel slands.Colin RK.Mackenzie, fourth son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel M.M.and Mrs.Mackenzie, of Heatherley, Inverness, and Nora Constance, socond daughter ot Mr.and Mrsx ¥ A Herbert Guernsey, of victoria, B.C.A .Tho engagement is announced of Mr.Sep- Mrs.Thomas W.Hodgson, for- umus Warwick, F.R.LB.A., of Gray's Inn, London, and Florence Kvelyn, daughter of Mr.George A.Mooney, of Montreal and Dorval, Canadax #% ¥* DAUGHTERS OF THK EMPIRK Mrs.Preble Mcintosh was_at home on the afternoon of March 14th, to a number of ladios in order to arrange the foundation of 8 Westmount branch of the \u2018Daughters of the Empire.\u2019 Addresses were delivered by Mrs, Prevle Mcintosh, regent of the municipal chapter and by Miss Young of the University Nettiementin her very interesting address Mrs.Mc- Intosh recapitulated the objects for which the \u201cDaughters of the Empire\u2019 was founded.These are (a) To provide an effective organization by which prompt and united action may be taken by the women and children of the Kinpire when such action may be desired, (b) To cure for the widows, orphans and dependents of dritish soldiers or sailors and herves in time of pescy and of widows in sickness, accident ur reverse of fortune.(c) The attainment oi: any analogous onject.In concluding ber remarks Mrs.Mclntosh said \u201cIt is against all the principles of the urdee than we should be an xressive or interfering body.Our aim is to have a good and womanly influence in the home, the town and the country to which we belong; and in this progressive and commercial age to foster end encourage à true and loyal Brush feeling vf patriotism.\u201d It was decided that the new branch be called the Lady Scott Chapter and that its work would be Ww supply a cot ina hospital merly Miss Ruby Bonar, received for the first time since her marriage last Tuesday afternoon March 18th, at her residence 142 Grey avenue, Notre Dame de Grace, which was was decorated throughout with masses of lovely daffodils and pink carnations.The hostess was wearing her wedding gown of white Duchense satin, trimmed with lace, and was assisted in receiving by her muther, Mrs.Bonar.who wore a gown of deep green charmeuse satin, Mrs.J.Hodgson and Mrs.Shirley Miller were in charge of the tea room, pouring tea and coffee, while Mra.Russell Patterson eut the ices.Those assisting to serve, were Miss Phyllis Jones, Miss lady Bonar, Mins Ada Meehan and Miss Muriel Ohorne.Mr.and Mrs.F.W.Benn, and Miss Dorothy Benn, sailed from New York on Saturday 22nd for Europe, Dr.H.M.Patton is spending some time on an extended tour in the South.Mra.Mercer, of Montreal, who has been spending the winter in \u2018Ottawa, is leaving early in April for Europe, and will remain abroad for a year.* x » (probaoly the © huidron s Memorial Hospital).A sun-comuiitter was formed with the onject Invitations have been issued hy of taking lowers to the University Settlement once 8 wool, Mrs.Huw hings being the convener.The officers of (he new chapter are Mr.J.H.M.Roberwson (Kegent), r.L.Morrisey, (Vice-Regent), Mrs, \\mcretery rs, D.HB.Robertson {Lreasurer).Mrs.David Campbell (Standard earer ).Afternoon ta was served st the close of the meeting, Mrs.Herbert Walker and Mrs, J.G.Ross dispensing tea and coffee, Among the ladies present were Mrs.Charies M.Molt, Mm.GN, Cantlle, Mrs.KB.savage, Mrs.William Prentice, Mrs.Norman Starke, Mm.( hares Smart, Mre.Viiltwn Rutherford, Mes.McGarry, Mis.Kad, Mrs.W.PP.Mlessor, Mrs.J.A.Guan, and Mrs.Alleworte 4 ; meeting of the Municipal Chapter of the Danghters of the Empire was bdd at the Highlanders\u2019 Armory on Monday, March 1.th, under the presidency of Mrs.Preble Meintosh Allusion was made to the work of the Wolfe and Montcalm Chapter In supporting a Kindergarten teacher for a peur atthe | nsversity Nettdement Mrs.Kadford nou known fu per ork amongst girls in thus city, plraded for the establishment hostel tor girls earni a and Mm.J 8 Leo spoke of the urgent necessity of ur) ing to help girls who come out of all or who.fur want of a proper home.had allem into the clutches of vile men and women.Both speakers suggested that the Daughters of the kmpire might devote thelr strength Lo these causes be Presidentwhilst warmly admitting the necrasity for such good works, pointed out that the \u2018Daughters of the Empire waa not à chariis- sbhie institution but was intended to help the organization of good works.1 herefore iF any member wished to foster any special charitable srheme she was quite at liberty to found a chante Dik Jha otijert, be lac interest shown hy srhool committee in the work of the Daughuers of the Empire and thelr tacit refusal to co-operate was mentioned and regretted.(Continued on page 4.) Lady Lilian York, to the marriage of her daughter, Miss Evelyn Pelly, to Capt.T.H.Rivers-Bulkeley, of the Scots\u2019 Guards, at half-past two on Saturday, April 19th, at the Guards\u2019 Chapel, Wellington Barracks, with a reception afterwards at 4 (irosvenor Gardens, London, Mrs.Walter Healey, and Miss Dorothy Healey, who have heen visiting in town the guests of Mr«.Harold D.Joyee, have returned to Toronto.Mrs.H.P.Douglas, Cedar avenue.was the hostess this afternoon, Saturday, March 22nd, at a tea and bazaar at which the Merrymakers disposed of the work done at their Lenten sew- Munn, ing circle.Mina I\u2019auline Hanson, who ia visiting her sister, Mra.Angus Macdonald, in Toronto, has returned to the city.Mrs.W.W.Butler.who is visiting tn the United States, 18 expected home shortly after Easter.# # # Mr.and Mra.E.J.Chamberlin.of Ottaws.have come to reside in Montreal, and have taken up residence at 2,7 Peel street.\u201c # =» Mr.and Mrs.Angus MeLean, Mine Alberta Mclean and Mr.Ethelbert very limited wages.Mclean, who have been visiting in the South.New York and Atlantic City.have returned to town.Miss Mary Gardner, Mrs.Cope, and daughter of Mr.and Mrs.Cyrille Leveque, | The New FF amily In The Thite House T would be difficult for anyone with red blood in his veins to avoid some degree of pleasure from contemplating the real enjoyment which the \u2018three young women in the White sydney .Î f The marriage arranged between Frank | House are deriving from the honor which has come to their father, writes a Washington correspondent.It would be equally correct to say four young women, for Mrs.Wilson, who appears little older than her t daughters, is sharing with them the ! delight of residence in that historic old .mansion with all its privileges and | An engagement is announced between | President and the respect which is perquisites, That the chief pleasure of Mrs.Wilson and her daughters grows out of the honor which fee come to the paid to his high office is evident.Of all the people who witnessed the inaugural ceremonies at the capitol, of all those who watched from the President's stand the great parade which marked that oceaston, none was more unconscious of self than Mrs.Wilson, and the extent of her absorption in her husband and her pride in his success was written large for all to see.Equally evident was the extent to which this sentiment was shared by the President's daughters.LE It is probably true that no family that has occupied the White House in recent years has brought with it so fresh à taste, so large a capacity for enjoyment, as that of President Wilson.He brought his family strangers to the national capital.Only a few years before he had been president of a college, with little prospect of political honors.His whole career in public life had consisted of (wo years as governor of New Jersey, and even then he and his had lived a quiet and simple life in the little town of Princeton.And from that little town they were translated, by the mandate of the people last November, to the foremost place in the nation, to its most desired residence, a home replete with memories and history and tradition, in a city regarded by many as the most beautiful in the world.A man at all tines of moderate means, it had not been given to President Wilson to provide his family with all the luxuries they now enjoy, a fact which makes their present en- Birks\u2019 Thin Model THatches for Gentlemen This watch may be had in the following styles : 200\u2014Birks\u2019 Brokers Watch, 14-kt, case, with 17 jewelled .adjusted movement.Lo .550.00 255\u2014Birks' Chesterfleld Watch, 14-kt.gold case.with 17 ewelled adjusted movement.ee $62.50 211\u2014Birks' Touchon (extra thin) 18-kt.gold case, 18 jewel- adjusted movement.Ce en à $112.50 202\u2014Birks\u2019 Touchon 2412 (extra thin) 18-kt.gold case, 21 fowelied extra adjusted movement.8135.00 211\u2014Birks' Touchon 19/12 (extra thin), 18-kt.gold case, 19 jewelled extra adjusted 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vicinity abound.And, too, on each day since the young women have ridden about the city in one of the smaller cars.That the daughters of Woodrow Wilson, the historian, should take a special interest in the historic features of their new home is only natural, and they have already extracted from the White House employees every particle of historie lore to be gained about the various apartments in the old mansion -and possibly some bits of fiction from those with fluent imaginations.À treat still in store for the young women is their first cruise on the Mayflower, the fleet dispatch boat which it is customary to hold in readiness to convey the President on any trip he may care to make by water.Whether or not the President will take his family with him when he makes his promised trip of inspection to the Panama Canal is not yet decided, but it is likely that they will go along.While it has been made clear that the Misses Wilson are not devotees of society there is every reason to believe that they will not turn their backs on the social advantages which their resent position affords them, and the act that they are disposed to take their social pleasures with moderation will make them all the more delightful.They have already attended one thoatre party and a concert, and one of them, Miss Margaret, was at the informal dancing party which followed the theater performance.CONCEIT.The man who thinks the world was made Just for his use and pleasure \u2014who, Conceitedly believes that all That's best to him should always fall, In time makes others think so, too.\u2014 Exchange.Ladies\u2019 Exclusive Hatter 848 ST.MAISON LEWIS URZ Prompt Delivery and Attentive Assured.CATHERINE ST.WEST le now displaying à besutiful assortment of the Latest the most eminent Modistes, vis.POUYANNE.LOUISON.GEORGETTE, 308 .MAN.and many other M BPs Bpring Novelties from prominent EDINBURGH CAFE 436 St Catherine Street West OR RT TIMI I e PR et dE n quactil \u201cTS - A.tn.ATE A AR. - - THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 22, 1913.Montreal\u2019s Beautiful Homes | * # ala #58 # The Residence of Tancrede Bienvenu, Esq., in Westmount.The Exterior, of Scotch Baronial Design Possesses Two \u201cFronts.\u201d NE of the difficulties of suocess- | fully planning an urban home of somewhat more than the average size ! is that of giving the building that intimate air of domesticity which Canadians expect in all but the most formal | of dwellings.That the problem can be solved, however, may be seen by observing the exterior view of the pleasing residence of Tancrede Bien- | venu, Esquire, which is situated on the upper part of Mount Pleasant ! Avenue.In planning the layout of this property, the owner has followed a well devised scheme which has resulted in utilizing the entire land area.By locating the house on the northeast section, the principal rooms and porch derive the maximum of air and unobstructed sunlight, and also make it possible to secure a fairly large sweep of lawn area and to derive all possible benefit from the summer hreezes.Fortunately the northern property line adjoins a public street, which obviates the necessity of a driveway to the garage and tool house, located in the rear of the residence, and enables the lawn to be extended around the three principal facades.Has Two * Fronts.\u201d It is not always easy for an architect to persuade a client that a house may possess more than one \u201c\u2018front,\u201d but in this instance it may be said that there are two.On the southern side the windows and portico look out upon the terraced lawn and afford a more private entrance, while the main, or more formal entrance, is situated in the eastern facade.The exterior may be regarded as an example of the modern English house adapted to this country\u2019s conditions and requirements.In design it follows the Scotch Baronial and is constructed of buff firebrick withlimestonefounda- tion facings and embellishments.The material is, of course, fireproof, and the rather unconventional treatment conveys a pleasing appearance whieh will further improve with age.The lot is enclosed by a low wall, built in a terraced effect to conform to the slope nf the street, which is construet- ed from the same material as the residence and adds a distinetive air of individuality to the house and sur roundings.terra cotta tile floored porch which is ing and combined with the design of The entrance chiefly used is by the | which carries quite the old world feel- approached from the street.Here the dull finished oak doors, each with one large panel of plain plate glass, protected by, artistic wrought grilles, opens into a vestibule where the walls of panelled oak, the ceiling of rough stucco finished in grey bronze effect, and the mosaic floor immediately create an environment of refined taste.the fitments stamps the decorative scheme as following the Tudor period.This panelled and tapestried design and color scheme is carried through the stairway into the upper hall, the handsomely carved newel post and massive turned balusters being of harmonious design.fixtures have been carefully selected ! to form\u2019 the component parts of à most artistic decorative scheme.The Dining Room.The dining room is approached through large glass framed doors leading from the south side of the hall, and on the opposite side of this | apartment, companion outlets open | to the portico which overlooks the lawn.The lower portion of the walls are paneled with mahogany, the \u201cupper part with delicate green silk tapestry mahogany styles, the shallow | panels over the sideboard and doors \u2018containing dainty old ivory colored friezes in shielded and festooned relief | after the style of Grindley Gibbons.| The soft green and mahogany color 1 scheme is carried out throughout the room, the heavy rug.hangings, and upholstery all being in color interest ,and harmony, and with the dull - mahogany fittings convéy an exceedingly chaste and restful effect.| The drawing room is a charming apartment exquisitely decorated after lthe Louis XVI period, the walls | being paneled in grey silk with white mouldings on grey styles.The rose | colored hangings, the heavy hand- tufted soft grey rug, and the greenish cream tapestry of the furniture with delicate rose colored floral design, produce a most efficacious color scheme which combined with the dull gold finish of the graceful furniture adds the note of completeness of detail so strikingly apparent in this charming room.The library, which is the other principal room on the main floor, might aptly be termed the blue room.| The walls are covered with blue silk of | ! | | This Corner of a Bedroom | rooms of the second floor.One of the chief of these, is the cosy music and living room with green grass paper- covered walls and mahogany woodwork, and containing a fine carved The hangings and loose covers of the chairs and settee are of a natural colored flowered chintz which com- i bines with the green walls to produce i a restful atmosphere.In a curtained recess, the walls of which are decorated iin green silk, hangs a fine picture of , the Madonna and Child.In the various chambers, the same appreciation of the importance of \u2018details has been observed by the , decorators.Representative of the | mantel with Persian tile decorations.| À feature of this apartment is tue | pleasing shade and in color harmony \u2018distinctive charm of the sleeping The An Impesing Main Hall.i Passing the drawing room and library,one on eitherside of the entrance hall, one enters the main hall whieh, | as in most English country houses, possesses an importance which is a survival of the days when the great hall was the chief room of the house, and when other apartments were of minor importance, The lower part of the walls are panelled with oak, the upper part covered with a medieval tapestry the blark harkground of period mantel with pilastres and frieze in Elizabethan strapwork carried out in oak and surrounding a Caen stone fireplace containing massive andirons of Tudor design.The floor, which is lof o&k, is covered by à heavy Anatolian rug of splendid design and coloring which is matched by the stair rug, while the furniture, with its twisted \u201cand spiral rails and high cane backs, is consistently in keeping with the mural and other embellishments.In fact, every detail, even to the lighting The Music Room Contains a Fine Mantel With Persian Tile Firoplace.Hall is Absolutely Consistent, Following the Tudor Designswith the carpet and hangings, all combining with the fumed oak woodwork, fitments, and furniture to produce a desirable effect.The elec- troliers and wall brackets are in old Duteh style, conveying a touch of that feeling to the room.The Upper Rooms.The upper hall, which is decorated in, the same manner as the main hall, is lighted by a fine stained and leaded skylight, and is well planned so as to give ready access to the various room is the one which serves as an illustration.This attractive room has soft pink silk covered walls and light green hangings arranged in an attractive manner.The furniture is walnut, inlaid with ebony and satinwood in the style of Williamand Mary, a fine Verni Martin writing table decorated in Watteau style with frieze and landscapes being a notable feature.The interior decorations of this residence were designed and carried out by Messrs.G.A.Holland and Sons.T°0 often one sees the good work of some architect utterly spoiled by the ignorant caprice of a woman who insists upon incongruous details, or treatments, which are quite unsuitable to the materials used.Perhaps, for instance, she may have set her affections upon a huge fleldstone fireplace she has somewhere seen and admired, and, quite ignoring the fact that the hall of her unpretentious house is paneled in some inharmonious wood, in goes this massive chimney, quite out of scale with everything else.The Handicraft Guild.The Canadian Handicrafts Guild is again organizing a prize competition, in connection with its big exhibition in the Arena, Montreal, next June.This exhibition will be on a far larger and more ambitious scale than anything before attempted by the Guild.(Good specimens of handicraft work are wanted from all over the Dominion, and there will be an excellent chance for the sale of all work that comes up to the requisite standard.There is no entrance fee of any kind payable.A circular with all details will be sent on receipt of a stamped self-ad- dressed envelope.Address The Secretary, Canadian Handicrafts Guild, 586 St.Catherine St.West, Montreal.is of Charming Appearance, ] GOOD TASTE.T is open to question whether in practice we are as faithful to-day to the principles of good taste as we are conscious of them in theory.Our ride in having escaped from the ictorian ugliness in architecture, in furniture, and in decoration is un- - doubtedly justified.In search for the beautiful we have gone back to the antique, the Middle Ages, and the eighteenth century in England.The things with which our great middle - classes surround themselves are in line, in proportion, in color, more beautiful than they were forty years ago.But when it comes to the more abstract elements of sincerity and appropriateness, we have less cause for self-con- gratulation.Vietorian houses were gloomy and Vietorianfurniture was uncomfortable.But there is exaggeration in the intensity with which we have gone infor comfort.Contemners of the Victorian taste are in the habit of saying that the houses and the furniture of the period were as narrow and drab as the life of the time.But what a dangerous admission to make, that the surroundings and the thought of people of that time were harmonious! Are our own lives in harmony with our surroundings?We have built houses in imitation of old English manor houses and furnished them in imitation of the eighteenth eentury.Or we have surrounded ourselves with the simple lines and cool colors that have been borrowed from the ancient world and from the Orient.But what business have our restless twentieth century lives in this austere setting Presumably, it is the aesthetic sense that draws the present generation to long, dim rooms, with low-beamed ceilings and large red fire-places.But what of the higher aestheticism which - arises when the soul is in agreement with its environment ?As examples of formal beauty, these modernized Tudor houses that are filling up the suburbs will do very well.But to create the spiritual atmosphere that goes with such a house requires an effort.Of what relevancy are fireplaces and low ceilings in an age that reads by elcetrie light and plays tennis ?COLONIAL DESIGNS.THERE is probably no style of architecture or no treatment of interiors more dignified or restful than the Colonial types of this continent.The moditied cornices, pillars, capitals, and fluted columns carry us back tu the days of the early Greeks and Romans, whose wonderful structures of antiquity afford the most enduring types for exterior elevation, and one of which we never tire.The furnishings of this period, simple, strong, and beautiful in line, which were born of the simplified needs of the early colonists and adapted from the styles left behind in England during the Georgian period, carry with them today the lasting influence of those master makers of furniture of the eighteenth century.The names of Chippendale, Sheraton, Hepplowhite and others are still fully appreciated and will continue to remnain standards for ail time.2e mme = Je meer THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 22, 1913.The Feminist \u201cI confess myxelf allogether feminist.\u2019\u2014H.G.Wells.Edited by FRANCES FENWICK : WILLIAMS T A Twentieth Century Woman's Page +++ || TEXT FOR THE DAY.\u2018Be Off And Clean Your Rifles!\" | (A taunt, addressed to the Bawling Brother- | SERMONETTE.IN last week's sermonette I spoke of | the country of Happy Parellel ; where women held the reins of power and men were relegated to their *'proper sphere\u2019\u2014that of war and war-' making.Now 1 must tell of the strange disturbance which arose in this country, causing strife and dissension and leading to many unpleasant confliets.All might have been well in Happy Parallel to this day: the men might have continued happily cleaning their rifles and pipe-claying their helmets like sensible men while the women peacefully pursued those intellectual avoeations for which Nature had fitted them, But in an evil hour\u2014or so many thought\u2014the government of that country, a somewhat radical government as it happened, decided on compulsory education.Girls and boys were educated together despite the protests of many men and women who insisted that no good could come of educating men beyond their needs.It was obvious, they said, that men could not be taught much; therefore why waste time in teaching them anything?They were intended for the open air, for manly, simple pursuits; what a shame to turn them into bookworms and spoil that beautiful simplicity which constituted their chief charm! To which the government answered that men should have equal opportunities with women even though they might not be equally intelligent.Men would fight none the less well for a common school education; and might even be better soldiers if they were.trained to think.And the new law passed.x x But now an amazing thing happened.Despite the fact that it had been conclusively proved that men's brains were fundamentally inferior to those of women\u2014men did quite as well at the schools and the colleges as did women.This curious phenomenon was explained in many ways; but the phenomenon remained.The names of the boys and girls, of youths and maidens together headed the lists of prize winners at school and college; and slowly and unwillingly the people of Happy Parallel came to the conclusion that there was no such dis- arity of brain between the sexes as bad previously been believed.But now a new trouble arose.Young men, tainted with the radical thought | of the times, boldly requested that; they be allowed to encroach upon purely feminine pursuits such as law and medicine.It was easy to deal with such unmasculine upstarts; the colleges simply refused to allow them to study with women and there thematterended.Unfortunately, bow- ever,owing to an oversignt in the constitution,unmarried men were allowed to hold property; and some of them actually sold that property and started in business on their own account.Some built schools for the higher education of boys; others started factories where men were given equal ' wages with women; some even went so far as to set up places of business which were altogether independent of women .The curious thing was that | many of these pioneers of the \u2018\u2018male | movement\u2019 as it was called were incomprehensibly successful.Rightminded people however frowned on them and audibly sighed for the good old times when women were women ! and meu Were mens simple happy creatures without a thought in their minds beyond innocent football games and rifle practices.x ¥ Kx Then, just as people were beginning to forgive the unmanly creatures who had usurped women's place in the world a fresh and almost unheard-of demand was heard; namely that men should be given the parliamentary franchise on the same terms us it was or might be granted to women.There are limits even to the patience of women; and this demand infuriated the mildest of them.The men who had dared to make this unseemly demand were denounced on all sides and nicknamed \u2018\u2018The Bawling Brotherhood.\u201d *\u2018 Unmanly,\u201d \u2018betrayers of their sex\u2019 were some of the epithets hurled at them.When they tried to speak in public anti-suffragists pelted them with rotten eggs, accompanied by the apposite advice to \u2018\u2019go home and make an omelette!\u201d This, as the reader will perceive, was a bit of delicate satire, intended to suggest what sort of omeleties men would make were they once allowed to take a hand in the domestic and economic affairs of the community.And when the men-suffragists stood their ground and tried to explain that they too had to obey the laws affecting the home and no should have a voice in making them, they were met with insults, jeers, and taunting cries, such as, \u201cBe of and clean your rifles!\u201d or \u2018Get along and make bull's-eyes!' and this, whatever their age and occupation might be.Aged men who were renowned and revered for their intellectual and humane achievements, and who had long since passed the fighting age were none the less commanded to *\u2018 Uo and kick a football!\u201d and \u2018\u2018Clean your rifle!\u201d It was perhaps this latter circumstance that caused & number of women to change theirattitude toward the men-suffragists; slowly but surely the amazing spectacle was seen of women addressing public meetings in favour of Man Suffrage; women even arose in Parliament and, despite the yawns and frowns of their colleagues, endeavoured to prove that the men had right on their side.» x » The position.as you see, Was now getting serious; and a great number of influential men and women decided to band themoelves together against these abeurd creatures, and put down the rebellion\u2014 for it amounted to MISS SARA MOORE.Miss Sara Moore, a well-known writer and artist, whose pictures and prose are favorably known to most American newspaper readers, is now in England, where she is making a study of the Suffragette Movement.She will write on the subject from both sides\u2014that of the sympathizer with and the opponent of ** Votes for Women,\u201d and will give an unprejudiced, if lively, view of the situation, which is to-day the most vexatious issue confronting Great Britain.THE SATURDAY MIRROR has secured the exclusive right to Miss Moore's letters and pictures and expects to publish the first of her articles next week.little else\u2014wit® a firm hand.The women who held comfortable Government appointments or who occupied well-paid positions from which the law excluded men all declared that this demand was ridiculous, unmanly and dangerous to the State.For, they said, if men were allowed an not approve of; and rather than allow .such laws to be promulgated women might refuse to be mothers; and where \u2018found a natural outlet in their ad- ' fighting.equal share in the government, they might before long force through some law which the majority of men would would the State be then?Then again if men were allowed to administer justie they would bring to that administration all those ferocious and bloodthirsty instinets which at present diction to sport and their love of f If allowed to serve on a jury the same instincts would prevail; while their dislike for sedentary occupation would prevent them from devoting to each case that time and patience which women naturally ga se : to it.But the main reason\u2014and one | which many felt could not be gainsaid ; -\u2014was this: men could not be the mothers of children; and, as they could not risk their lives in giving citizens to the State, they must neees- ; sarily be regarded and treated as \u201cide | irresponsible sex.\u201d x % %X Now to this the Man Suffragists made what their oppnents felt was a very lame and trivial answer.\u2018\u2018 Even if we are not the mothers of children,\u201d they said,\u2018 We are the fathers of them.We do not risk our lives in bring them into the world but we do risk our lives in war when our country needs us.And although our wives have a legal right to our wages and are only bound to keep us from being chargeable to the rates, still if we did not work there would often be no wages at all, and then what would become of the home.We pay rates and taxes just as women do; we have brains\u2014in other things than domestic\u2014just as good astheirs; and we have our own interests and points of view which cannot be properly represented in a State which is ruled only by women.\u201d The obstinacy and irrationality of these tiresome men annoyed their opponents greatly.Next week I shall tell what further steps they took to quell the unseemly rebellion.\u201cDISCREDITABLE INDIFFERENCE.\u201d Mrs.Humphry Ward Is finding out the : male politicians as her Suffragist sisters have | done before her.She is becoming quite Militant in fact and announces that if the men's political parties will not put women municipal candidates in the field, \u2018we shall go on organizing the women voters and we shall put up Independent candidates until our end is secured.'\u201d She speaks of \u2018women\u2019s | shabby treatment at the hands of the political parties.\u201d It ls, she says, \u2018impossible to | exonerate either of the great parties from a | discreditable indifference to the claims and wishes of women in the fleld of municipal action.\u2019 Ie not Mrs.Humphry Ward aware that this discreditable indifference to women's wishes and claims extends also to every other field and is due to the fact that men and women are not political equals where the Parliamentary as well as the municipal franchise is concerned?at the Sign of the P Heroines of Fiction \u2018 MARGARITA\u201d In *\u201c Margarita\u2019s Soul\u201d by Ingraham Lovell.66 ARGARITA\u201d is an achievement of which Josephine Dodge Daskam, otherwise Ingraham Lovell, may well be proud.Tocreate sooriginal a personality as that of Margarita, to endow her with barbaric traits, with splendid genius, with compelling charm, to make her utterly unlike any other character in fiction\u2014and then to make her real, surely this is an achievement indeed.Yet \u2018\u2018 Margarita\u2019s Soul\u201d is a curiously disappointing book despite its charm and beauty, We find it difficult to understand the author's attitude.She apparently feels that no talent is useful or necessary which is not directly transmitted to the race.There is, of course, much to be said for this point of view, yet if one carries it to its ultimate conclusion it becomes a little ridiculous.\u2018All women must marry\u201d seems to be the author's chief proviso.We may agree with this, somewhat, it is certainly better that all people who are fit to marry should marry, men and women alike.Then all people who marr, must have children, here also, wit certain reservations, we must agree.Provided people are fit to have children.Point three, all women whomarry must withdraw from the world of action, must bury their talents, must relinquish their carcers.Now with this third proviso I most emphatically disagree, and must take issue with the author of \u2018\u2018 Margarita\u2019s Soul.\u201d x # H* Let us consider Margarita\u2019s case.She has a wonderful voice and great dramatic power.She achieves tri- ;umphs in operatic roles, she sways street crowds, she enchants music- lovers.Discovering that her husband dislikes the idea of her being an opera singer she retires with him to an island where she spends the rest of her days.The supposition is that if she had not retired from the stage she could not have had a large family.But Madame Schumann-Heinck, to mention one name in thousands, has twelve children, and is a devoted mother to them.Many of our opera singers are mothers, some of them retire from the stage for a time but few think it necessary to i retire altogether.We will suppose that a woman has five children and that she does not care to spend every evening away from home while those children are young.Can she not retire for ten years\u2014say from twenty-five to thirty- \u2018five ?And willshe not then have many ears in which to continue her career ?am assuming, for the sake of argument, that this woman is a rich woman or the wife of a rich man, and that she would spend all her evenings the theatre.Of course if she were a poor woman her time would be so fully occupied with domestic duties that she would have only odd minutes in which to attend to her children at all.The average woman with one or no maid has, necessarily, much less time to devote to her children than has a successful opera singer who need leave them only an hour or two daily during rehearsals, and in the evening when! they are in bed and asleep.In short any successful opera singer has more time to devote to her children than has any mother in moderate ecir- cumstances who must perform the duties of cook, housekeeper, housemaid, dressmaker, laundress and bookkeeper.It is far easier to be a mother and an opera singer than to be a mother and a maid of all work.* FX Understand that I am not eriticizing the housekeeper whose domestic duties fill her time to the exclusion of her children.She is much to be admired if she fulfils these duties competently and cheerfully, and the children of poor people are often rendered more independent and self-reliant by a little unavoidable neglect.I only say that, if a woman's duty is to her children, a successful professional woman can fulfil that duty more adequately by continuing her career than by dropping it and assuming the equally honourable but far more onerous duties of a housewife.Of course housekeeping, properly undertaken, is an absorbing and fas- | cinating occupation.If a woman prefers it to opera singing there seems no reason why she should not adopt it.Or if, like Margarita, she is wealthy and .prefers to spend the most of her life in | idleness or in the fulfilment of useless tasks, she should certainly be at liberty to do so.But why hold her up to admiration for doing so ?If all women who possessed marvellous voices retired from public life when they married we should be driven to adopt one of two alternatives.All our sopranos and contraltos would be obliged to abjure matrimony, or else we should require a new set of operas written only for bass and tenor voices.Ingraham Lovell says, \u201cIf all the wisdom and experience and training that the wonderful sex is to gain by its exodus from the home does not get back into it ultimately I can't (in my .masculine stupidity)quite see how it's going to get back into the race at all! And then what good has it done ?I hope Mr.Ibsen knows!\u201d Sertainly it is desirable that talents and virtues of every sort should be transmitted to posterity.Still it hardly seems fair to assume that Eliz- 7 | and Queen Elizabeth did nothing for the human race because they had no descendants.According to this method lof reasoning, any human being who, i willing or unwilling, brings a dozen i children into the world is doing more i for the race than Jane Addamsi Now let us apply this reasoning to i men.Shakespeare's child, Judith, ! represents the sum of his gifts to the human race! Sir Isaac Newton had no child, consequently he has done nothing for the race.Stephen Langdon who was instrumental in making King ! John sign the Magna Charta had no { children, consequently his boldness land ability have never benefitted the | race.Dickens, on the other hand, had !a number of descendants, and they, of | eourse, represent what he has achieved | for humanity.| * + I do not know how much Mr Ibsen | knows, but I believe that every man | and woman who by personal effort and wise legislation preserves human life i and prevents human suffering is doing | more for the race than the average man or woman who rears a large i family.i Of course I readily admit that it \u201cwould be a great pity if all noble and \u201caltruistic individuals refused to hear children.But then that practically { never happens except in the case of unmarried altruists, in which case society heartily approves.therefore, as I said before, 1 cannot , quite understand the author's point of \"view.F.FW, Feminist Notes.A WAIL FROM ENGLAND.Green grow the rashes O, Bang go the glasses O, We have no pane, dear Mother.now, Within our window sashes O, 1 For Guid's sake gle the lasses Votes, | Or onything they fancy O, + Or they will soon be at our throats, They're gettin\u2019 malist unchancy O.Green grow the rashes O, Another window crashes O, \"\u201cT'were better far to gie them votes Than thole sic awfu\u2019 bashes O! x\u201c # The newspapers and several well-known men have been offering replies to the question \u201c What would you do with the Suffragettes?\" : Mr.Bernard shaw deserves the prize for his | answer: \u2018I should give the women the Vote.\" Mr.Arthue Pinero runs him close with \u2018Treat the women and their Cause fairly and liberally.\" i Mr.Blatchford says that he would cut all | their heads off ** Because then they would be the intellectual equals of the men who refuse them votes!\" x ¥ !__ \"The contention that women will not vote (if given the ballot was answered in Los Angeles within two months after the October election.During that short time 99 per j cent.of all the women of Los Angeles regis- | tered, and at the municipal election In December 95 per cent.of them came out .and voted\u2014a record never equalled by the men.* * » Fola La Follette lectured in Des Moines recently on \u201cThe Democracy of Woman : Suffrage.\u201d In an interview in the Des | Moines Tribune she is reported as saying: | \u2018Father and | are pals.Not until I was out in the world did I realize the opposition toward woman suffrage.In our home father and mother stand on an absolute Sality, Mother was the first woman in | Wisconsin admitted to the bar, and we referred questions of business to mother just t at home if she did not spend them at 'abeth Fry and Florence Nightingale | as readily as to father.\u201d (Editor's Note.-1t has been a real pleasure to me to receive a number of letters lately from Anti-Suffragists.I wish that space would permit of my answering each letter fully ; but that is rather out of the question.) Sex Hanpicas.\u2014 Your letter is a long one and descrves à detailed answer.As it is impossible for me to devote space in this issue to it 1 shall postpone answering It till next week; only pointing out that you appear to have forgotten that the spider \u2014the female spider, rather\u2014carries a number of males about with her and eats one when she is hungry; also that the female whale is larger than the male whale.These biological facts should welgh against your arguments even were they valid: I hope to show In my next article that they are not.\u201c + * M.C.D.\u2014 Your letter may be answered bricfly.The birth rate hus a tendency to rise in those countries where Woman Suffrage obtains.It has risen both in New Zealand and in Australia; and the death rate among children Las decreased in both countries to à degree unknown in non-suffrage countries.hus you see that your fears are quite groundless.You say that \u2018if women are slaves the have not been made so by the laws as constituted by men; thoy are slaves through the laws of nature.\u2019 This is an immensely interesting point of view, it was held by the entire human race in its infancy to apply to both men and women: there were natural masters and natural slaves; physical weakness constituting in both cases \u2018natural slavery.\u201d With the birth of civilization this \u201claw of nature\u201d ceased to be advanced as argument.laws wore instituted in order to make physical differences negligible and to give the weak man an equal chance with the strong.Were these laws abolished to-duy the muscular man could make a slave of the weak one.No you see people are not necessarily \u2018\u2018slavea through the law of nature\u2019 except when they have no voice in making the Iaws or in seeing that the laws are properly enforced.My answer to this argument that, where women have political power they are able to pass laws protecting their children and their homes and preserving human life, and that they do.In Quebec a poor wuman with a worthless husband is à slave because that husband has a right to her wages even \u201csemi-masculine.\u2019 The sort of man who dislikes a woman because she drops a bit of paper in a slot once a year cannot be taken very seriously ; indeed I fear that the \u201c\u2018semi- masculine creatures to whom you refer would be greatly pleased to know that such & man did \u2018\u2019detest them.\" 1 have never proclaimed that men were \u201cno good: 1 have emphatically stated that there are good and bad, logical and illogical, humane and cruel, in both sexes, and that the Suffrage question was a question of the men and women of the future against the men and women of tho past.Women are not \u2018\u2018modelling themselves on men\u2019 when they take an interest in humane legislation any more than men are modelling themselves on women when they invade her former \u2018\u2018sphere\u2019\u2014 weaving and spinning.Now in one breath you say that women are mentally feeble and lacking in will power: in the next that \u2018men are what women have made them.\u201d I must return your own graceful compliment; you are certainly \u2018\u2018charmingly inconsistent.\u2019 If women are such pathetic Jellyfish how can you hold them responsible for the characters and destinies of Nature's masterpioces\u2014 men?In the exalted and chivalrous circles which Mr.Delafield evidently frequents it may be customary to excuse women for all deliquen- cles on the ground that they are women.Our police courts tell à different tale.80 do the proverbs of all nations.\u2018Cherchez la femme.\u2018There ls no evil without à woman at the bottom of it.\u2019 As à matter of fact you know that it Is only since women began the Women Movement that any mercy has been shown by men to women, either legally or socially.Almost all Suffragists are women who have done much of the useful work of the community; they are trying to obtain the franchise | because without it they have been ham in their work.All the Suffragists who are wives and mothers are doing just what you so sensibly suggest: training their children to be good men and women, and their daughters to be good wives and mothers.But then.you now, their ideas of good wives and mothers may not always coincide with those of Mr.Delafield.; Your second letter J shail answer next week as space will not permit of my answering it now.\u201c # + though her children actually suffer hunger.In New Zealand the Maintenance Act not | only gives hor à right to her own wages but | also & claim on her hnshand\u2019s earnings for the maintenance of her children.1 hus.you } see.woinen are not \u2018slaves through the law | of nature\u2019 but only through (he laws of certain countries.| hope that 1 have made this point plain; it is one which often occurs to peuple who are boginning to think along | these lines, i No one says that work in the home is: slavery.on the contrary one of the chief aims | of suffragists is to enable mothers to stay In the home.And we do not wish that women should be overpaid because they are women; | but only that men should not be overpaid because they are men.It is not wished that | women.after ten years of service should | reccive the same wages as men who have | worked for fifty years, hut only that they should receive the same wages as men who have worked for ten yoars\u2014 if they do squally work.Have | answered all your objections?| \u201d * 0» w.\u2014 The Suffrage Kxhibit was à dicen fnaocail .more (has three ars .you w on the M affrane ocety it will be best to send in your name to Mrs.Waiter Lyman, 80 Victoria .! i Rasen Derarizrp\u2014After reading wr first letter | frit as though | had been taking a; whirl in à merry-go-round Your second is more intelligible, but I suppose you will wish | to have your first letter answered.Pardon the question; but had you not enten something that disagreed with you whem you, composed it You say that \u2018we men detest the cemi- | masculine creature you admire so much and are trying to force on us.Weil! | have not the lightest objection to your detesting | her though | do mot kmow what authority you have for making yourssif the mouthpiece of your entre sex.nor yet what you consider L.McD.\u2014The Sufirage colors for Canada are yellow and brown.A lady there was who said, * Why men have the vote aad not 1° To call this democracy Is naught but hypocrisy \u2014 I'll got me the ballot or die!\u201d \u201c % * In Seattle, two rooms in the he Halli are ven over to 8 class in scientific buying for vusewives.Just now the head of the city department of weights and seals is siving a series of lectures, illustrated by moving pictures.Mrs.Helen Loring Grenfell.former State Superintendent of Public Instruction | for Colorado.has puinted out that when ; women are given the ballot, \u201cinterest in the old-fashioned womanly arts increases instead of diminishing.\" \u201c # =» + Frances E.Wiliard, \u2018though dead ui | speaketh.\u201d The aaniversity of her birth called out not only affectionate tributes to | her memory.but many powerful uments | for the good causes to which sho gave life, : including votes for women.| I .& + -_ LE ER PE es 2x Za PU | Tr)\"; AORN X RS __ HET EE \u2014 N ; IT SN 9 If J fh N (0 7 mir Hy! le mT / | / i 4 74 NI / US UL NJ NN 7 | pt ESS SE RAS \u2014 4 | Tl / ME à PM Si RES | [ | 7 NS 7 4 Nay UNS The Furnishings For The Living Room NO ONE WITH A HOME TO BEAUTIFY-whether a modern palaceora small flat-noone who loves beautiful upholstery and drapery fabrics will miss inspecting our showing of the famous Liberty line of Housefurnishings.Here you will find fabrics suitable for the handsomely decorated home or the simpler, but none the less beautiful draperies Materials for draperies, portieres, furniture coverings, for the Summer cottage.cushions, soreads, etc., are here in abundance.A com plete range of Period and Modern Furniture for the Living Room will be found im our Furniture Department, while amongst our Rugs you may obtain just that Oriental, which will set of and give effect te the whole.L G.Smith has been a nted to Be Fo rr AE La Une re THE woman doctor to hold this position in Îre- | land.and is a koen suffragist.| ON WOMEN AND THEIR WHIMS.| \u2018 When Eve brought woe to all mankind.| 6 519 ST.CATHERINE WEST.Sele Agents for the House Furnishings of Messrs.Liberty & Ce, Lendenve Old Adam called her woe-man But when she wooed with love so kind, He then pronounced her woo-mas.| But now with folly and with pride.tr husbands! porketa maming, a The Saturday Mirror EDITED BY EDWARD BACK.THE SATURDAY MIRROR is published every Srturday at 275 Craig Street West, Montreal.Telephone Main 8150 all departments, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $2.50 Ber year in Canada or Great Britain ; Elsewhere $3.50.THE MONTREAL PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED.T.KELLY DICKINSON.- - - - President EDWARD BECK, - - « Secretary-Treasurer SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1913.The Immigration Problem.HE statesmen and other men of affairs in the commonwealth of Australia are concerned, as are statesmen in Canada, with the quality of the immigrants they are getting from Britain.The magnitude of the problem is being realized \u2018\u2018down under\u201d as it is up here.It has led the British Immigration League of Australia to issue a comprehensive and rather outspoken report.The aim of Australian politicians of all parties is to produce à \u2018White Australia\u2019 and to keep it so.They are scared to death, in the British Antipodes, of the advance of the Little Yellow Man, and they want at all costs to keep him off their continent.Consequently, they have in force, as we have, pretty strong restrictions against the importation of Asiatics.Consequently, also, the Australians are encouraging all they know the migrating Britisher to migrate southwards; even to the extent of giving him a free or at least an \u2018\u2018assisted\u2019\u2019 passage from the old to the new country.x x % Naturally, this migration business has grown with the Australians as it has with us, and, naturally again, it has produced problems thut want watching closely and often.There is.among the chief difficulties, the nuisance of the physically unfit.Now it is a common impression among Greater Britons, and Canadians are as much deceived as are Australians, that Britain has any number of physically fit citizens to send to the Dominions.The fact is that she has by no means an illimitable number among her respectable population that she can spare without hurting herself.Mr.John Burns,president of thelocal Government Board, warned the Imperial Conference of 1911 that there was no considerable surplus, and figures recently compiled show that the Dominions are actually absorbing nearly one- half of the natural increase of the British Isles.What is more, they have been taking particularly the healthy adults whom Britain can least spare.And, especially during the last year or two, these emigrants have included thousands of thoroughly skilled workmen representative of many diversified trades.This ie a drain on Britain's resources that many thoughtful people regard with much misgiving.There is in fact no surplus to speak about of skilled workers in the United Kingdom.But there is a surplus of unskilled and casual | workers, to which a whole mountain bristling with rocky difficulties arises.It is no wonder if the immigration authorities of the Dominions hesitate at receiving, holus bolus, this overplus, which undoubtedly includes an appreciable proportion of physically unfit persons.So there is no keen competition among the Dominions to relieve the Mother Country of this large section of her domestic troubles.* #% # # But Britain has another surplus of population, and one that is of vast importance to Canada and the other Dominions.The British Immigration League of Australia has been watching what has been done for thousands of Barnado orphans, and recommends its statesmen, in effect, to take a leaf out of the Barnado book.It goes so far as to recommend, and with considerable emphasis, that government training farms for boys be established in all sections where the government holds tracts of land for free grant to settlers, and that every encouragement he given to the transferring of the waifs from Britain to Australia, upon these training farms, and thence in time to the farms of the settlers.There is no space here to go into the story of child emigration to Canada, but it may be stated as a firm fact that this branch of the business has proved itself good and sound over and over again.The life stories of Barnado and other orphans settled in Canada, set side by side with the minute percentage of failures, demonstrates beyond question that child imiigration pays.And it would pay better if it were developed on an official and a much larger scale.This idea of the Australian League, to have government farms established for and restricted to training hoys is a commendable one.It would mean that these orphans would be not only met and handled on arrival by officials responsible to the government, but they would be kept in the care of the government until they had he- come used to the new conditions and had reached a stage of proficiency and ability to earn their own living.The occasional instances of bad treatment by farmers of orphans placed in their care would be lessened, the percentage of failures among the waifs would be cut in two at least, and the country would benefit by having permanently settled on the land a growing class of vigorous and successful young farmers.Taxing Vacant Land.HE New York legislature has been petitioned to pass an act requiring land to be assessed at its full value, and the improvements thereon only 50 per cent.This is in line with the arguments advanced in the SATURDAY Minnor for equal taxation in Montreal.Vacant lots add to the expense of administration of a city.Water pipes, sewers, gas pipes.telephone and electric wires have to be carried past them.The pavement in front of them has to be maintained.Policemen\u2019s beats and firemen\u2019s runs are lengthened on account of them.Worst of all, they make the street car service more expensive.They benefit by all these branches of municipal service, ns may be seen by comparing the price of lots with- im the city limits with those just across the boundary.Yet they pey practically nothing for the advantage.Within the city limite of Montreal are plenty of vacant lots which are held at over $1 per foot which are assessed at less than half that amount where they are assessed at all, but if a house is built on one of them it is immedially assessed at nearly ita full value, Our whole system of taxation seems to have been devised in the interest of the man who ean afford to hold vacant property out from the use of the publie until the city grows around it sand makes it vaiuable.No consideration is shown the man who invests his saviags is improving the property and helping to make a city beautiful.Under the Henry (ieorge plan the whole burden of tazation would be placed upon the land and improvements would escape altogriber.but this is perhaps too radicel à scheme.At the present time ia New York State it is proposed that improvements shall be taxed at from ome- quarter to one-half of the rate paid by the land.Maay THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 22, 1913.of the cities in the Western States and the northwest of Canada have adopted this plan.Montreal, more than any city, is suffering from a scarcity of homes.The big manufacturing concerns are bringing workmen here every week.Many of them drift away again because it is next to impossible for them to find homer.There are vacant lots that would comfortably hold homes for 200,000 people.As long as this land is held out from the use of the people, just so long will it be necessary for workingmen to be huddled into unsanitary, unsightly and uncomfortable \u2018\u2018fiats,\u201d at rentals which fall little short of extortion.Wages and Morality.THOSE who believe the social evil is rooted in economic conditions will take some comfort from the investigations of the Illinois legislature's vice commission now sitting in Chicago.Those who believe that the social evil is not to be explained by low wages alone will hardly be convinced that they are wrong by reason of the evidence there adduced.Low wages play their part in degrading young working women; but other contributing agencies become more and more apparent as the investigation proceeds, says a writer in the Detroit Saturday Night.One of these suggestions for improving these conditions, Illinois investigation tends to establish a connection between the wage of $3 or $4 or $5 a week paid to many girls in the big retail stores of Chicago and immorality.Nearly all the merchants examined thought any girl should be could guarantee that wage to all their girls without increasing prices to the consumers, and showed a disposition to fix $8 a week as a minimum if the investigators should decide it to be for the henefit of public morality.i Bills now before the Illinois legislature call for a minimum wage of $12.William C.Thorne, vice president of i & large mail order house, said that a minimum wage of $12 | would result in the employment of men and boys, rather than women, because men are twice as efficient.\u2018In the | event of such a law ($12 minimum), ! think,\u201d he said, \u201chalf the women workers in the state would be out of i work.I know that would be the case in our establishment.\u201d None of the merchants seem to have mentioned the possibility that women who are now paid more than $8 a week might find their wages reduced to that figure under jan eight-dollar-minimum law by way of reimbursing the | house for the compulsory advance of the wages of those now receiving less than $8, though it was just such an | objection that President Wilson advanced against the ' minimum wage in his Buffalo speech last Labor Day.We | have in mind & large manufacturing plant employing \u2018several hundred women, some of whom earn $6 ur $8 a week and some $18 or $20 à week.If a minimum wage law is enacted the management will immediately discharge ; every girl or woman who is not efficient enough to earn the | minimum.Such a policy is simply a matter of financial self-preservation, especially in any industry with a narrow- | ing margin of profit.The lower the minimum wage the i stronger the tendency to keep as many employes as pos- \u2018sible down to that wage.The higher the minimum wage | the stronger the tendency to employ men and boys instead | of women.On the other hand, there is the possibility that a high minimum wage for women might have some tendency to increase men's wages.\u2018What, asked James Simpson, ! vice president of Marshall Field & Co, \u201cwould a firm have to pay a man with a family if it paid $2 a day to girls with nu one hut themselves to support?\u201d\u2019 x XX MN ,Ç It is a nice question\u2014this relationship of wages to im- i morality among working women.How are we to effect | a satisfactory readjustment?Shall we adopt & minimum | wage 80 low that it guarantees the bare necessities of life {for the working girls of the big cities?And if we do, will \u2018we have ensured them a safeguard against immorality?Is a girl more likely to be moral on $10 a week than on ' $8, and more likely to be moral on $8 a week than on $6?Or shall we adopt a policy of driving women out of commercial and industrial life by fixing a minimum wage so high that men will take their places, and perhaps earn i enough money to marry and support them without making them work?And if we do that, will we have abridged the social evil?| Jane Addams is convinced that the best answer, whatever it may turn out to be, is to be found in retaining women | in commercial and industrial life, and in giving women the | right to vote.Miss Addams has set down her views on the social evil in A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, an | exhaustive study of conditions in Chicago.Of her moral .preference for industrial rather than domestic work for women she says: Although amelioration comes shout so slowly that many young girls are sacrificed each year under conditions which could so easily and reasonably be changed, nevertheless it is apparently better to overcome the dangers in this new and freer life, which modern industry has opened to woman, than it is to attempt to retreat into the domestic industry of the past; for all statistics of prostitution give the largest number of recruits as coming from domestic service, and the second largest number from girls who live at home with no definite vecupation whatever.Here is a phase of the problem which defies economic explanation.If wages of $3 or 84 or 85 a week account for the downfall of the commercial or industrial girl, what are we to say of the girl who does not have to work at all or of the domestic who receives the same average wage and as much more in room and board\u201d Miss Addams replies in part by pointing to the glamor and glitter and innumer- , able temptations of a large and disorderly city; and she | quotes the federal report on Women and Child Wage i Earners in the United States to explain the frequent prostitution of the domestic servant: The loneliness of the life, the lack of opportunities for making friends and securing recreation and amusement in | safe surroundings, the monotonous and uninteresting | nature of the work done as these untrained girls do it, the lack of external stimulus to pride and self-respect, and the , absolutely unguarded state of the girl, except when directly | under the eye of ber mistress.# # # + Commercialized vice, dues not always depend on low wages for its supply of reeruits.[It depends as well on low \u2018taste and on low mentality and on low entertainment and ; on low companionshipe.Who will change all this?How : can it be changed?Only by a change in the social fabric; * which in turn premises a change im publie opimion.Stupendous as this makes our social problem seem, this change of public opinion is here.Already this new change of public opinion has found \u2018concrete expression in a vigorous proseeution of the abominable white slave trafic and a srientific effort in many sitios to solve the larger problem of the social evil.(iradual and determined repression has become tbe watehword.UNTIL PROVEN.AU mon are equal-\u2014 until you can ve differently.\u2014.Deaver Republican.pro ; | PROSPERITY.| Bome pesple can't stand prosparit .Fortunately the \"don\u2019t have to try very long.timore American.\u2019 involves a minimum wage for women workers.The able to maintain herself on $8 a week, admitted that they }, | ®nver the French Regime i i By GEORGE HAMBLETON.T is Monday, the last day of April, f the year 1699, at Quebec.| Monsieur l\u2019Intendant is residing over | | the Sovereign Council o the Council chamber is the antechamber of the governor's apart- | ment at the Chateau St.Louis.About the round table sit (as the | records of the Council have it) Mais- | the sentence L ihus carried out.the tres Louis Rouer de Villeray, Nicholas Dupont de Neuville, Jean Baptiste Depeiras, Charles Denis Devitre, Claude de Bermen de la Martiniere, ; | Charles Aubert de la Chesnais and Denis Rieurin.They constitute the i highest court in New France, but, i they wear no judicial robes.All but \u2018 the bishop, who sits to the right of | the Intendant, have their swords, for! \u2018these early makers of Canada were , soldiers first and colonists afterwards.The lack of cap and gown had disturbed the Intendant Meules fourteen | ears earlier, for did he not write to his Royal master at Versailles telling how important it was that the councillors should inspire respect?They | should appear in long black robes, e said, and these, on occasions o ceremony could be exchanged for robes of red.\u2018\u2018The principal persons of the colony\u2019 he added, in a letter! to the minister, \u2018would thus be in-; duced to train up their children to | so enviable a dignity.And, as none\u2019 of the councillors can afford to bu red robes, I hope that the King will vouchsafe to send out nine such.\u201d The Grand Monarch sent no robes.He was generous in money and men for his colony, but splendor was for Versailles and the satellites of the Royal Sunx # There were many things on which the Council exercised jurisdiction.All Royal edicts, ordinances or declarations relating to Canada were entered on its registers.It passed judgment on matters as varied as murder and a dispute over the price of the sow.And here, on this thirtieth of April, 1699, it has before it the strange case of Estienne Chipault dit Beauport.Chipault was a man of arms and of the Degrais company.Feminine eyes had been his undoing.He had been sent to prison and while in his cell had tied a rope about his neck and tried to hang himself to a beam.He had done it out of unmeasured affec- tion\u2014par une pation demesuree d\u2019a- mour\u2014and because of areport that he was no longer to be permitted to be near the lady.And so, \u2018\u2018accuse de s'estre pendu\u2019\u2019\u2014charged with having hanged himself\u2014Chipault stands before the Council.The offence is a heinous one in the eyes of the Council.With a cord about his neck, and a lighted torch in his hand, Chipault (whom men call Beauport) must take his stand before the parish church of the town and with bared head and on his knees must ask pardon of God, Justice and the King for the attempt he has made.This done, he must return to the prison whence he came and there remain till he may be sent from the country into perpetual banishment.One hundred livres shall | he also pay as fine to the King and another one hundred livres to the Hotel Dieu.Chipault hears the sentence with bared head and on his| knees (so runs the record).At three o'clock in the afternoon of the same day it is carried out.x % # Curious judgments and decrees are scattered through the \u2018\u2018deliberations\u2019\u2019 : of the Court.Paul Dupuy has been heard to say that there was nothing like putting one's self right.When news came that the English had cut off the head of their King, the daring ! Paul had declared that they had done the right thing, and other remarks he made to the same effect.The Council found him guilty in that he had spoken ill of royalty.His words tended to sedition.Paul Dupuy, the sentence ran, shall be dragged from prison by the public executioner.\u2018ith a rope about his neck and a torch in his hand, he shall be taken to the gate of the Chateau 8t.Louis and there beg don of the King.Thence, he shall be taken to the pi - lory of the Lower Town to he branded with a fleur-de-lis on the cheek and set in the stock for half an hour and afterward led back to prison and put in irons.In irons, he shall remain till the information against him shall be completed.\u201cIt is our will and pleasure,\u2019\u2019 runs a royal mandate duly registered on the books of the Council, \u2018\u2019that all persons convicted of profane awearing or blaspheming the name of God, the most Holy Virgin his mother, or the saints, be condemned for the first offence to a pecuniary fine according to their possessions and the greatness and enormity of the oath and blasphemy; and if those thus punished repeat the said oaths, then for the second, third and fourth time they' shall be condemned to a double, triple and quadruple fine; and for the filth time, they shall be set in the pillory on Sundays or other festival days, and remain there from eight in the morning till one in the afternoon.They shall be exposed to all sorts of opprobium and abuse .,\u201d and so on and on till the increasing enormity of the oath demands that the tongue shall be cut out.\u201c # » Here, on the thirtieth of March, 1686, appears Francois Genaple.He was a democratic dog, this Genaple.Perhaps he had in him a little of that which made the Jacobin club and sent a later Louis to the scaffold; for Uenaple was guilty of want of respest for onsieur le (Gouverneur.© had \u2018\u2018spoken in insolent terms,\u2019 said the charge.So (ienaple, at the next meeting of the Council, must on headed knees pray pardon of the King aad Governor.Here is a sentence for murder.Jean Hautecoeur of Boucherville had been convicted of the killing of ome Francois Poignet of Mon Hautecoeur, standing at the gate of the town, must have his right hand out : ' off and receive six strokes oa the lege 233 St.James Street, Montreal.New France; : on the wheel.\"of Jean Delquel dit la Breche, for la f | And you, Jean Delquel dit la Breche \"a carnival, and arms.Then he shall be taken to a scaffold erected in the lower part of the town and finish his days But a little later the Council added a little mercy.Now, Hautecoeur is to receive no strokes with the rod.He shall be strangled secretly; and Or, again, there is the ulisr case of Jean Gaultier dit Rouche.Gaultier has shot Henry Petit, and from his wounds Petit has died.Gaultier, it seems, had used the gun Breghe, for some reason which the record does not give, had wandered from the ranks of the militia, leaving his loaded gun behind.Gaultier is first condemned to have his hair cut off by the executioner, to pay compensation to the widow and relatives of Dequel and to be banished in perpetuity.But he has appealed.| His sentence is changed.For killing a man, you, Gaultier, must pay 306 livres to the widow and heirs of Petit and 100 livres to the Kingfor leaving the ranks of the militia without your gun, must pay twenty- five livres to the heirs of the deceased.Jean Lumineau, miller, has Stolen | corn.He is to be taken into the ublic places of the town, there to | e beaten with rods.The fleur-de- lis is to be marked on his right shoulder and there is a fine of fifty livres to be aid to the seigneur of Montrealhis too is a sentence given Mm appeal, for a previous judgment condemns: Lumineau to be hanged before his\u2019 mill.x # Now and again, the old French records tell of à fruitless hunt for one who is accused.He has evaded himself, and New France knows him no more.Sergeant Dube has fought in: a duel with Begard, and the worthy Sergeant is not there.Moreover, the Sergeant has killed his man.The \u2018 executioner shall not be baulked of his prey.He shall hang Dube in effigy, and Dube\u2019s property shall be conflscated to the State.As for, Begard, his body is to be dragged through the streets of the town, | and fott unburied.His property, : too, shall be confiscated.The Council sits in solemn deliber- ; ation on the 26th July, 1696, to hear wherefore the Sieur Jung with malice aforethought, has cut off the hair of Charles Chartier.There is the remonstrance of Frontenac of the revels by night during There were scandals an disorders in the comedies, Frontenac writes, as he asks the Councillors to inseribe their opinions on the register.À report is current that certain habitants have followed the example of Joseph in Egypt and endeavored to form a corner in corn.The Couneil orders that those with sufficient shall agree with those who have not, therefore no land will remain unsown.There is the story of the widow Petit.She is in prison, but the merry music of Franz Lehar would suit her ways.She is militant too, a forerunner of much that is known in England to-day.She has been heard to threaten, it is gravely reported to the Council, that unless repairs.are made to her prison, she will, escape when the ice breaks in the Spring.There is consternation about | the Council board.Orders are issued that the prison shall be immedi- | ately repaired.Prisoner Pillerand also complains of the dampness of his cell.He is taken to the civil rison.A complaint comes too from arie Noel.In truth, the prisons must be repaired.So the ponderous reports of the Council run from grave to gay and to grave again.They are difficult reading in their old French orthography, but it is a fascinating picture they paint of France in Canada.Meeting an Old Friend.The two American war correspondents were gazing at the conflict when Winkletop caught sight of a gallant officer leading a charge.\u2018His face is strangely familiar,\u201d he said.\u2018That \u2018Greek lieutenant.I mean.\u2018Yes,\u2019 said Blithers, \u2018\u2018 He used to run the hoot-hlacking stand in that barber shop over on Steenth Avenue and Umty-iph Street.\u201d And just then the noble warrior dashed madly past, and, forgetting himself under the excitement of the moment, turned and cried aloud to his advancing troops: Next! Shine!\u201d And the indomitable phalanx moved steadily up the hill, giving the enemy the worst polishing-off they had since war was declared.WEAKENING.\u201cYes, said the old man, \u2018\u2018! find my strength is failing somewhat.1 used to walk around the block every morning.but lately I feel so tired when [ get half way round I have to turn and come back.\u201d\"\u2014Women's Home Companion.King Edward in Canada.A Railor's Diary of the visit to Canada in 1860 of the late King Edward, then Albert Edward.Prince of Wales.This diary, written over 50 jure ago, and only printed lately, is th very interesting and entertaining.The author, the late Lieut.Gough, R.N., was a midshipman, only fifteen years of age on the sailing ship Hero.that brought the then Prince of Wales to Canada.Many amusin sailors\u2019 adventures, both at sea and from Newfoundland to Niagara, are recorded with thirteen full illustrations of the visits to Newfoundland, Halifax, Prince Edward Inland, Quebee, Montreal and Niagara.on- tains also the story of the Orangemen's Arch, Published at $2.50.1 bought remainder of the first edition, which I: am offering as long as they last for $1.00 postpaid.NORMAN MURRAY.Many Things * \u201cThe time has come,\u2019 the Walrus said, \u2018to talk of many things.\u2019 \u201d D'YOV KNOW, sometimes, I am overwhelmed by a simply frightful longing to be back in dear old London, I am really.Of course, I understand things aren\u2019t what they used to be before this anarchistio Johnny, Lloyd-George began tearin up the roots of the constitution, and undermining the throne and putting taxes on land, and old age pensions, and all that sort of blatant rot, you know.All the same, there are some things they do around Piccadilly, you know, that they simply don't do anywhere else in the world.Don't know why.Don\u2019t really.They just don\u2019t seem to do \u2018em, and that's all.Jolly queer old world, isn't it?What! x HF ¥ I SEE that the turkey trot has reached London.I know it's so because a gentleman named Edward | Scott has written to the Telegraph about it.I have read Edward Scott's letter and I must say that I was simply frightfully impressed with it.I gather from his letter that Edward Scott, doesn't approve of the turkey trot.I imagine, in fact that Edward Scott thinks the turkey trot, to say the least, is jolly bad form.Not only that, but I gather that several other people have had ideas about the tur- ey trot, and have confided them in the editor of the Daily Telegraph.Some of them agree with Edward Scott, and some of them simply tear his ideas to pieces.Altogether, I fancy that the excitement in dear old London about the turkey trot simply beggars description.Brokers, I understand, instead of spending the lunch hour discussing the tight money market.gather in the cafes and argue for and against the bunny hug, while debating societies instead of deliberating on, \u201cResolved.That compulsory Education in the Art of Raising Mangel Wurzels would be Advantageous to the Empire,\u201d talk for whole evenings on \u2018\u2018Resolved.That the Elemental Differences between the Turkey trot and the Tango, are such as to be Entirely oe ental.\u201d R.EDWARD SCOTT starts off by remarking that when he wrote to the editor of the Daily Telegraph on a previous occasion on the subject of \u2018\u2018 Decadent Dancing,\u201d he i thought it would bring a hornets\u2019 nest about his ears.I gather that Mr.Scott has been spared the bitter pangs of disappointed ambition.He thought he would upset the beehive, and he did it.Most people would be content with this, but not Edward Scott.I can clearly see that his spirit burns within him, and his soul soars to still more exalted realms.In other words, having dislodged the hornets\u2019 nest, he is now busily engage in chasing the hornets around the Tot.In the course of this exciting amusement Mr.Scott appears to have run up against one hornet with a particularly nasty disposition, who calls himself Mr.Taylor.Mr.Taylor has apparently stung Mr.Scott in a tender spot, as the poet would say, and in the letter under notice, Mr.Scott is engaged in bitter reprisals.OR some reason or other Mr.Taylor has called the turkey trot, which is really the turkey trot, whatever title you may see fit to apply to it, the \u2018'Boston.\u201d This pe ite definition, it seems has partiou- arly excited the ire of Mr.Scott who comes back at Mr.Taylor with the following magnificent rejoinder.As a matter of fact, the step of the Boston, as described by Mr.Taylor.is the simplest and best, but it is difficult for an indifferent waltzer to acquire if danced, as it should be, with the true dactylic rhythm.This, however, is really the recuilinial step of the waltz as it has been taught by the t teachers for many years.Thon why call it Boston?[It is the position of the dancers rather than the step that is new.Of course, many people do the two-step to walts music.and fancy they are dancing the Boston: while many of the so-called Bostons, double, triple.and so forth, are merely freak dances pro- motte the old tag.\" Populus vii Sesto e ol .Populus vu \u2018\u2019 decipiatur.P p »* OW, I don\u2019t know Just how strong a man Mr.Taylor is, because, unfortunately, I missed the number of the Daily Teleyraph which dis- gharged the hornets at the devoted head of Mr.Scott.But from this distance, I should say that he will have to be some man to come back at this with anything like a three base hit, as it were.Ordinary argument a man could stand, but it certainly looks to me as if Mr.Taylor would be utterly crushed to earth without even the remotest possibility of rising again, by the frightful truth that the \u2018\u2018Boston\u201d is never beautiful except when danced with the true dactylic rhythm, and *' Populus vult plocip, decipiatur\u2019\u2019.* # You may believe me that this Edward Scott is quite the implacable enemy.We should say.Not oontent with dactylie rhythming his opponent, and pouring the whole of a populus vult decipi, decipiatur on his ead he continues with this frightful denunciation.\u201c1 am told by residents of the \u2018 Argentine that the dance known as \u2018the \u2018Tango\u2019 is never danced there in food society\"\u2019; and he winds up his etter with the overwhelming quotation \u2018\u201c verbum sap.\u201d Under so terrific an assault it certainly seems to me as \u2018though Mr.Taylor's goose is cooked.M; word! If the best people of the rgentine sim ore the \u2018\u2018 Tango.\u2018 how can it nd fee in the eyes of the best people in London?ly, ou know, it simply osa\u2019t be done.et, I judge from the fact that Mr.Scott, the implacable.pulled a hornets nest down when he launched his first letter.some of the best ing it.And the sight of a Park Lane dowagor dancing à \u2018\u2018 Tango,\u2019 minue the faintest sign of true daotylie rhythm, with an elderly Lord of the Admiraity, say, must eertainly be a sight worth many leagues of travel.As Mr.Seott has it \u2014\u2018\u2019 Verbum sap.® % » 8 ! said at firent, sometimes I am overwheimed by a simply frightful longing to be baek ia old Loadoa.am really, you know.ie are do- AMUSEMENTS.| PRINCESS WEEK BEGINNING MONDAY, MARCH 24 SPECIAL BASTER MAT.MONDAY WED.MAT.BEST SEATS $1.00 NIGHTS 25e, 50e, 75e, 81.00, 81.50 400 SEATS LOWER FLOOR 81.00 WILLIAM A.BRADY, LTD.Presents THE COMEDY TRIUMPH BABY MINE BY MARGARET MAYO With WALTER JONES IN HIS ORIGINAL ROLE AND NEW YORK CAST ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK CONLINX, STEELE & CARR in \u2018just out of college.\u201d ALBERT C.CUTLER The expert billiard player.HAL DAVIS AND INEZ MACAULEY Presenting the clever comedy sketch \u201cThe girl from Child's.\u201d MINNIE ALLEN Singing comedienne and mimic.BERNEVICCI BROTHERS The Italian serenaders in \u2018A night in Venice.\u201d ERNIE AND ERNIE Eccentric comedians HARRY JOHNSON Singer and dancer.WEEKLY GRAPHIC Showing the news of the world.RESERVE YOUR SEATS NOW For the holidays.Telephones up 591% up 71.CERTAINLY SHOOR IS SURE.Footlight Gossip The Aborns, whose English opera ventures | are fairly familiar to this burg, have arranged with a New York real estate operator for the erection of an opera-house on Forty-seventh street near Broadway, with a capacity of 2.500.It will he devoted to grand opera in English, with prices at 25 cent to 81.50.| » ¥* % | The death a few days ago of John B.Wills, | a former well-known actor and manager, has | reminded some old Montreal thestre-goers that in the late \u2018seventies he played a season with Hattie and Ben.F.Grinnell at the Theatre Royal, then known as Jacobs and Sparrow's Theatre Royal, doing songs and sketches; he later organised the Wills Musical Comedy Company which frequently performed here.* * =» ! Ned Wayburn, the famous stager whose choruses have on occasion had more c.othes placed upon them by Inspector O'Keefe In this city.is about to superintend a uction ' in London.1 prophesy that London will sit up.Mr.Wayhurn is the gentleman who made the Runway famous.| * #* Blanche Bates is about to tour in \u201cThe Witness for the Defence.\u2019 which was cut short in New York by the illness of Ethel Barrymore, and has not been seen elsewhere.| îtis by A.E.W.Mason.The actress is now under management of Charles Frohman.\u201c # * \u2018 Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson, who is well known in this city but has not danced | publicly here as yet, has signed a contract to | appear in the famous barefout dances at Hammerstein's Victoria this summer.\u201c # * Mrs.Patrick Campbell has sufficiently recovered to go out driving.* #« » Martin Harvey, who begins to look as if we should never see him here again in spite of the unmense hit he made years ago in \u2018\u2018\u2019i he Only Way,\u201d has presented a revival of \u201cThe Taming of the Shrew\u201d In the English prov inces.He le still also performing \u201cOedipus Rex.* * =» Amold Bennett will have another play produced in London next week, a tour-act comedy entitled \u201cThe Groat Adventure,\u201d which was done In some provincial repertory a year of two ago.in its satirical aspects the pivce resembles © What the Public Wants Henry Ainley is to appear as a famous artist.liam Carve.who, supposed by a muddie- headed doctor 0 be his own valet, allows the servant tu be burjed in Westminster Abbey with the honors due to Carve himself, and thereafter takes upon himself the dead man's identity.1 he two new offerings Philadelphia this week are \u201c1 he High \u201csod \u201cThe Typhoon.\u201d\u2019 It becomes dally mure interesting to speculate bow long Mrs.Fiske can ram the sheidon piece down the throats of the American public, although its action has doubtiess been smoothed Ge a good deal since its premiere here.newspapers are very cordial to \u2018The Typhoon,\u2019 which will shortly mn here, to its chief actor, Walker Whiteside, ho plays the villainous Jap Tokeramo.\u201d he piece was nally written ia Hungarian.by one Men)?rt Tengyel about five years ago, when Yellow For bly more \u201ctopical\u201d thaa it te now, but it je such a strong piece of work \u201c + Jessie Boustelle, who used years ago to be leading lady of the Proctor's stock com y ta this city, and wbo has since accumulated a considerable measure of fortune le stock work in other cities (she is the origin- 3 owner of the stage version of Little omen which was played to hig business 2 city recently).the co-star with Lady from Oklahoma.presen ia Chicago by William Bradyte Kisabeth Jordan.an editor of women's megazines.The piece seems to be à rather fantastic hit of work.dealing with the question of 8 womans winni hack a strayi hushand by the rather difficuit means making berseëf beautiful and intelligent of at least assuming such counterfeits of those qualities as the American beauty-shop sad culture-circle know so well how to administer.» ® Emma Trentimé has determined to return to grand opera her transcontinentel tour ia The Firely under the direction of Arthur Ham next seascl.She has already accepted an offer from La Scale ia Mian Plays and Players SANDWELL By BERNARD K.LOTS HERE is nothing to \u2018The Red Widow' except Raymond Hitchcock and a counle of dancers.What more does the average musical-comedy habitue want?There is a plot which might have been made rather interesting, but is used simply as a means of getting Mr.Hitchcoe into scrapes in which he can behave in his customary amusing manner.Nobody expects a plot in musical farce to be used for any other purposes than to provide situations that suit the star, which is one reason why plots in musical farce are almost always so bad.The comedy of Mr.Hitchcock would be vastly improved if he took it more seriously.I should like above all things to see him undertake to act before a London audi- ence\u2014not that a London audience is any higher in its ideals than one on Broadway or in Montreal, but because for the purpose of introducing himself into a new milieu and to people who have no preconceived idea of his methods he would be obliged to take himself seriously for a little while and to offer a legitimate and carefully built-up characterization.Playing as he does on this continent before dangerously friendly audiences, he has fallen into the easy habit of gagging and \u2018\u2018joshing\u2019 his roles until they lose all sense of reality and become simply Raymond Hitchcock walking about on a platform (not in an imaginary scene) and talking just about as often to his audience as to his fellow \u2018\u2018actors\u2019\u2019.It is this habit that is ruining, or has already ruined, musical comedy and musical farce in this country, and has seriously impaired our appreciation of genuine comic opera.American audiences, it would appear, do not want any illusion on the stage; they prefer to see their most popular players in their own proper character, performing vaudeville stunts in between the gyrations of a dexterous dancer and the love-songs of the lonely tenor.In De Wolf Hopper the habit became so ingrained that he could not give it up even when playing \u201cThe Pirates of Penzance\u2019 and \u2018Patience!\u2019 The average comedian would do it in **The Midsummer Night's Dream\u201d and be much annoyed if the management stopped him.None of them do it very extensively when they are rising to fame; their methods are then legitimate.De Wolf Hopper did not josh his part in \u201cWang; Hitchcock did not josh his part (much) in \u2018The Yankee Consul.\u201d There must even have been a time when Frank Daniels and Jefferson de Angelis did not josh their parts.But as soon as a man is successful we extend him full license and invitation to make the play look as foolish as he likes.It is very strange and sad.x x % Xl D'AR old W.C.Fields, whose ludicrous antics do not altogether conceal his very real dexterity as a juggler of anything that happens to come handy, was once again a feature of the Orpheum programme this week sharing honors with William Hawtrey, the English character actor, in a very excellent all round bill.a whole host of supporters among the Old Country Montrealers, the result of years and years of experience on the English Halls, and his act, which contains many new but none the less amusing features, was splendidly received at each performance.illiam Hawtrey's sketch, a tabloid devildrama dimly reminiscent of \u2018\u2018Faust\u201d gave the star ample opportunity for the display of his undoubted powers as a character actor.Lew Hawkins has a neat minstrel act and some good stories.* XK %X MANAGER Judge confirms the announcement, exclusively made in the Mirror last week, that the Annie Russell Old English Comedy Company will be seen in Montreal before the close of the present seasou.It is expected at the Princessin May, and the repertoire will include \u2018She Stoops to Conquer\u201d and \u201cThe Rivals.\u201d It will be extremely interesting to compare the work of this American-made (but not American-born) organization with that of the Manchester Players.The company is full of personages of distinction.Oswald Yorke, George Giddens (considered by many the best Tony Lumpkin of this generation) and others of the cast are well known in Montreal.Miss Folliott Paget, who played Mrs.Malaprop with Jefferson for years, Mr.Fred Permain, a opular English actor, and Miss Henrietta Goodwin, an English ingenue, are also on the list.Mise Russell's work has been immensely eulogised by the metropolitan } Fessx #% x # HE \u201cBaby Mine\u201d engagement will complete the month of March at the Princess, and for April Mr.Judge announces (but without giving definite weeks except in the case of Marie Dressler for April 7) the following interesting engagements: Sothern and Marlowe in Shakespearean revivals; a return visit of \u2018The Blue Bird,\u201d the beautiful and lavishly-staged Maeterlinck allegory which was originally produced in America by the New Theatre and which visited Montreal last season; \u2018The Typhoon,\u201d a thriller of Hungarian origin, dealing with the Oriental peril, with Walker Whiteside in the chief role; and Marie Dressler and her \u201cAll-Star Gambol,\u201d allusion to whose New York premierc was lately made in this column.\u2018 Another booking for May at this theatre is \u201cThe Road to Happiness,\u201d with William T.Hodge.This is one of the most charming and earnest of modern American comedies, and has been successful both with the public and with the critics.\u2018The Red Petticoat,\u201d a musical play by Rida Johnson Young and Paul West, with a cast headed by Helen Lowell, formerly the old maid in **The Lottery Man\" will also be seen here before the end of the season.| x # # ¥ T His Majesty's Theatre the booking to follow \u2018Officer 666\" will be a revival of that classic of early American rural drama.\u2018The Old Homestead.\u201d Those who have not seen Denman Thompson's famous work, and who desire a knowledge of the growth of the art of dramatic writing on this continent, should study \u201cThe Old Homestead\u201d in somewhat the same spirit in which they would study \u201c Uncle Tom's Cabin,\u201d which isprobably the only American play that has exceeded it in universal popularity.The \u201cCabin\u2019\u2019 has not been done in Montreal, if 1 remember rightly, for many years, except in a tabluid form at the Orpheum, but the \u201cHomestead\u201d is still good for a metropolitan engagement.\u2018 ; After Denman Thompson's piece comes one of the chief novelties of English dramatic literature, the famous \u201cMilestones\u201d of Bennett and Knoblauch.This is one of the small list of plays of recent years which have given conclusive evidence that the vitality and productive power of the English stage is once more on the increase.The company is the same one as recently visited Toronto with this play and was accorded a most enthusiastic reception.The New York Post observed last Saturday: \u2018Persons who have not yet seen \u201cMilestones,' the comedy of three enerations, which has been running all winter at the iberty Theatre, should take note that next week will be the last of ita present engagement.\u201d There are several companies on the road, but that which is booked here appears to be probably the best.\u201c #% # # WH EN Ellen Terry celebrated her sixty-fifth birthday in London the other day, her son, (Jordon Craig was able to announce that Lord Howard de Walden had provided him with the necessary funds to establish his ro \u201cSchool for the Art of the Theatre\u2019 upon a sound nancial foundation.He declares that this institution will differ from existi dramatic academies in various respects.It is not his aim merely to train pupils as actors actresses, but to uaint them with the many aspects of theatrical art.Craigs models of scenic designs for the stage have heen exhibited in many places in Great Britain recently.Mr.Milton Roamer, who studied them with great care, was immensely impressed, and fully believes that they will have an enormous effect upon the art of production.They have not yet been emp oyed in an actual performance outside of Russia, but it is pretty safe betting that sone New York manager will wake up to the fact that they might be made the fashion of the period.Perhaps what is needed is somebody with a missionary spirit (Lord Howard de Walden, for instance) willing to stand the losses while the public is getting eduested, so that the sommercial manager oan then step in and take the profits.W.C.Fields has | THE extreme difficulty of maintaining an effective cen- | sorship without a police force possessing a knowledge of the difference between decency and indecency is nicely exemplified by the bewildered efforts of Mr.William Banks, the lately-appointed dramatic censor of the City of Toronto.Mr.Banks wants to have it arranged so that any citizen attending a performance at any Toronto theatre may apply for the arrest of any actor or actress if in his opinion their performance is obscene.Imagination pales at the idea of the state of terror in which burlesque artists, both of the fifty-cent and the two-dollar houses, would go before their audiences under such eir- cumstances.There are plenty of people in Toronto who would regard \u2018Row, Row, Row\u201d as indecent in the highest degree.Still, Mr.Bank's predicament is easily understandable.The burlesque companies come to Toronto, says the censor, after 47 weeks of performances on circuits where there is no censor, and where they: play twice a day on Sundays as well as any other day.| * Aecustomed to saying all kinds of things, they imagine they can introduce what they like into their performances | when they come here.What is often the cause of trouble is the extra encore.This encore may not be given at the - i MINE\u201d BACK AGAIN.\u201c\u201c BABY Walter Jones and Vera Read in à scene from the famous farce which will be aguin pres ented at the Princess during Easter week.performance at which the censor is present, and when it is given it may be filthy, but the censor does not hear of it till afterwards.\u201d In future no encores are to be given in Toronto theatres that are not heard at a previous performance and passe by the censor.If the Monday audience doesn\u2019t ask for encores, the Tuesday audience won't get \u2018em.* x %* À THE booking at the Princess next week will be \u2018\u2018 Baby Mine,\u201d\u201d the American farce by Margaret Mayo, under management of William Brady, \u2018with Walter Jones and the New York company,\u201d as the press-agent puts it.Not much is known here of the New York company, but the company which presented it here last season was fully as good as the piece required, and there will be no complaints if the present organization equals it.The plot of the piece is familiar and need no* be recapitulated; it has amused several million persons on this continent and elsewhere and doubtless done them no harm, which is about as much as can be expected of a farce.As is well known, Miss Mayo conceived the idea from a newspaper paragraph in Chicago, stating that many an infant proudly bearing the surname of a wealthy Chicago father was really the child of entirely different parents, adopted by the mother to satisfy the husband's desire for a family.of Jimmy, the confidential friend, over four fifty times.* ¥ Xx # MONTREALERS who still regret the two expensive dollars per seat which they paid out a few weeks ago for the privilege of seeing Gaby Deslys in à vehicle which gave not the slightest chance for any of the artistic capabilities which she may possess will read with sympathy these gentle words of Walter Pritchard Eaton, a Canadian and a dramatic critic of New York, upon the latest output of the same factory.The ntle words are entitled \u201cAdventure of a Critic's Soul at a Burlesque Show,\u201d and part of them are as follows: \u201cThe something turned out to be \u20181'he Honeymoon Express,\u2019 described as \u2018a spectacular farce with music, in two acts and six scenes.\u2019 We detected some faroe, but a patient wait of nearly three hours failed to disclose any music, though a large orchestra was industriously at work most of the time manufacturing syncopated sounds, Melville Ellis played the piano, and numerous people frequently open their mouths und emitted strange noises, \u2018\u2019The whole affair was staged by Ned Wayburn.As a result, nobody stood still for a second.The choruses rushed back and forth in time to the syncopated noises, waved their arms, skipped.made lines across the stage and went off each with her hands on the hips of the gir in front, kicking up the leg toward the audienos.he principals shouted and rushed about.\u201cThe din and the meaningless movement were incessant, till the brain was beaten into a kind of quiescent stupor.\u2018And through it all Gaby glided ie about twejve remarkable gowns and one ectly set of embroidered French underwear.Every time she entered the stage she wore a new dress, and in the second act she took her dress off and put on a nightgown.Occasionally she essayed to sing, and frequently she danced in a kind of wild, clumsy abandon.\u2018Then there was à black-faced comedian.named Al Jolson.who interrupted the proceedings at periodie intervals to regale the audience with somewhat dubious pitticisms and strange songs supposed on Broadway to undred and negro.Speculators rold vai ~ high \u201cse \u201cOfficer 666, the much-heralded faree from the pon of - \u2014 A TALK ON INTERIOR DECORATION from a Wall Paper standpoint by one of our Interior Decorators\u2014a woman (rained in the best Art School for Interior Decoration on this continent.A Day Nursery North-Eastern Exposure Woodwork and Furniture of Oak, stained asoft gray-brown,and waxed.A low group of casement windows, with a broad window seat, breaks one side of the room and looks into a garden where trees abound.Across the room is the fire-place, with simple, un- glazed tile mantel, into which is set a beautiful Madonna in plaster\u2014from a rare relief by Michael Angelostained to match the soft buff tones of the tile.Built-in cases for books and toys extend across one side of the room, and a dado of panelled wood rises to the height of the cases on all other sides.A small kindergarten table with its accompanying chairs, a few low chairs of wood and cane, and a roomy wing chair near the fire with a substantial table for a reading lamp close by, complete the furnishings of this room and leave ample space for rocking horse and intricately laid railroad tracks.The rug is a plain Axminster in two tones of grey- brown.Easily drawn curtains of silk and wool casement cloth hang next the glass, with outside hangings of washable cretonne in a gay little pattern of vellow roses and tiny birds.The cretonne is used again in slip covers for the window seat cushion and pillows, and the wing chair.Just above the dado and built-in cases, the only pictures in the room are arranged in line with charming effect.A series of Mother Goose illustrations in grey browns and orange yellows, drawn by a foremost artist of the day for one of the current magazines, is pasted flat against the wall, above the wood trim, and finished with a narrow moulding of the grey-brown wood at top and bottom.Above the pictures is the true background of the room\u2014a tawny yellow Silk Fibre paper\u2014contrasting beautifully with the pictures, hangings and furniture.The warm yellow tones of the paper give exactly the cheer and light that the room lacks through its exposure.lacking a Gt ared warmth whether ie be nursery, bod-rooimn or hall.The plain surface, broken by silky fibres produces an extremely artistic background for a room where plain eflects are desired.We are selling this paper in a line of choice colorings at .60 per roll.Second Fleor up.Walter Jones has played the role | production.Gps is |\u2014\u2014 - Augustin MacHugh, will be presented at Sis Majesty's next week for the first time in Montreal.Since this | booking was announced we have re- i ceived good evidence of the technical \u2018qualification of Mr.MacHugh for playwrighting, in the shape of his i \u201cValue Received,\u201d played last week \u2018at the Princess, which whatever its demerits, was at least à skilful piece \u2018 of stage presentation.\u2018Officer 666\u201d comes with the recommendation of long runs in New York, Chicago and , even London.In general situation it somewhat resembles the famous \u201cSeven Days.\u201d A millionaire globe- : trotter, owner of a valuable collection ' of paintings, returns from a long trip | to Rnd his bachelor quarters occupied by a high-class burglar, who has passed himself as the real owner and is busily engaged in disposing of the paintings \u2018and at the same time arranging to marry a pretty society girl.The young globe-trotter induces the policeman on the beat to lend him his uniform, and the burglar is allowed to remain in possession of his quarters and his assumed identity until the close of the play is reached after a series of i the most amusing incidents and a succession of surprising situations.' Obviously the effect of the whole ; will depend largely upon the degree of assurance and plausibility with which the players are able to carry on their parts in the masquerade.The roduction, like that of this week, longs to Cohan & Harris.* * # Conlin, Steele and Carr-\u2014two boys and a girl\u2014in \u2018\u2018Just Out of College\" will be one of the important items at the Orpheum, in a song, dance and dialogue sketch that has been a big hit in the States.Albert C.Cutler, a billiard marvel, will exhibit dificult shots for the edification of the local experts of the green cloth.Minnie Allen, the singing comedienne and mimic, is a young Montreal girl who has made a name for herself all over the continent in vaudeville and musie- al comedy.The Bernevicci Brothers, Italian serenaders, will present \u2018A Night in Venice,\u2019 and Ernie and Ernie will do eccentric comedy.* # # RACE LARUE, it is announced, is out G of the of \u2018\u2018\u2019The Seventh Chord the new musical play to Re produced shortly in Chic hy George lederer.To Montrealers who saw her at Hin Majesty's some two years ago it has aiways been a mystery why she shouid be in any im t Vers Michelena will y the role of the showgirl which Miss LaRue was to have taken Miss Mary Shaw piays a hoarding house ker per.and Doris de Phillips a slave)\u2019 who becomes am opers star in a night.& = le something uncaany about the stars the musical y education in Cana- Miss Josephine There number of bright youn stage who had vinele di convents Here te Rhodes.ome of the \u2018ponies\u2019 in Raymond Hitchooek's vehicle.\u2018The Widow.=\u2019 due here pest weuk.who mays she boarded our years ia 8t.Joseph 's Canvent in Torontote something about Toromte which makes à giei with à temperament willing to do almost caythiag to get ovar.One of the members appcari with Wil- {fam T.Hodge in \u2018The Road to Happinees, due here shortly is a white hen.She appears in the third act, and her part of the stage business\u2019 is to help the \u2018atmosphere\u2019 of the production.On the opening night in Utica, N.Y.she overplayed to the extent of laying an egg on the stage.Mr.Hodge took this for a good omen, and in a curtain speech he thanked the fates\u2019 \u2018that the egg was on the right side of the footlighte.The * B® * Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company returned to New York last week for re hearsals of \u2018The Beggar Student,\u201d which is to be revived under the management of the Messrs Shubert & Wm.A.Brady at the Casino Theatre, this Saturday.Rehearsals began in Boston, and some fifty new recruits were sent on to the Hub to go into rehearsal with the company there.Miss Anna Wheaton, who was recently seen with James T.Powers in \u2018Two Little Brides,\u2019 has been cast for a prominent role.\u201c # + The Messrs.Shubert announce that the will present two companies in Edward Sheldon's new play \u2018Romance\u2019 next seascn.In spite of the melodramatic crudity of ite there appear to he qualities in this piece which will ensure it a certain kind of success.Mjss Doris Keane's charming impersonation of the vivacious operas prima-donna of the seventies is dul much ford in New York.These are five corapanies on the road in ** Freckles,\u2019 three in \u2018* Bought and Paid For,\" two in \u2018\u2018 Milestones,\u2019 five in \u2018 Mutt and Jef,\u201d four tn \u2018Officer 666.\u2018 four in '' The Shepherd of the Hills,\u201d five in \u201cThe Rosary.\u201d The ton engagement of ** Officer 666 °° includes George Nash and Edward Abeles.* #* #* Otis Skinner reaches Boston with \u2018 Kis- Foon tad Sort TAL ha may be besser m for pe ma t to Montreal in the interval.y \u201c # + Ethel Houston, who has sung the role of Suzuki in the Savage\u2019 Butterfly \u201d productions here.skipped a on Baturday.March Ist, and explaiaed later that che was busy marrying Henry 8.Brown.a Wall Street broker.8he hus no intention of leav- Her part in TA wentboaria.a which Carlet Pp n wee St w Ci Macdonald is to be starred.\u201c # =» \u201cThe Money Moon,\u201d Jeffrey Farnol'e novel now running in an American magasine, uced in New York as a play early cast included several peuple tread, demons them Jobyna the C an au Arthur Charles Waildron.Warwick Prank Peters.+ + * The New York Sun remarks A occasionally at Gg .filer be has boum applauded for ome of his A $0 the footlighta.Melville ra Lhe wings and seata hi meel{ nacre to the astonishment of all ha M t A Te al and most gravity e in ef good material in the new play re moon Erprem in mot rich 1a o\u2019portenities bm Bet it le éoubtfui K vil fad 2 Ter Tie 1e po i JU re ca r not testify?\u2019 Blake insisted.\u201cTestify,\u201d whispered Dr.Sherman.\u201cJust as you choose,\u201d said Blake coldly.The minister sank back to his seat upon the mossy log, and bowed his head into his hands.\u201cOh, my God!\u201d he breathed.There followed a silence, during which Blake gased down upoa the huddled figure.Then be turned his set face down the glittering, dwindled stream, and, resting one shoulder lightly inst the sycamore, be watched the sun there at the river's | end sink softiy down into ite golden slumber.(Te be continued.) as been | shipped to this country.who the eritic recalls was a newspaper artist in that city twelve years ago.\u2018\u2018 More powerful art, however,\u201d the notice runs, \u2018\u2018is that of Mr.Maurice Cullen, R,C.A.whose \u2018Louise Basin, Quebec,\u2019 a wharf picture, and \u2018Snow Storm, Montreal,\u2019 are gripping and dramatic works.\u201d Of the pictures by Mr.William Brymner, P.R.C.A., the notice says he \u2018\u2018.has recorded the color and beauty of the Canadian summer and autumn.\u201d sa matter of fact that painter\u2019s \u2018\u2018 Golden Autumn,\u2019 has scored a decided hit both with the visiting artists and public alike, for it is full of good solid ualities and conscientiously done.hen it was shown at the Montreal Art Association it was generally regarded as one of the happiest canvases Mr.Brymner has yet painted\u2014a placid river reflecting the shimmering gold of autumnal foliage, the trees on the bank glorious in orange and amber with the old white cottages behind them streaked with rich transparent shadows.HoH OH OUCHING on the above exhibition the \u2018\u2018American Art News,\u201d admits the quiet, peace and sanity of the show remarking \u2018\u2018.after the brilliant, flaming coloring which has characterized so many of this season\u2019s art \u2018\u2018displays, this now \u2018old-fashioned\u2019 method of expression, is somewhat disconcerting.But true it is that its quiet, harmonious tones, are a relief to eyes tired from trying to fathom \u2018Post\u2019 and \u2018Neo-Impressionism.\u201d It is a dignified and serious show, and varied enough to be interesting.\u201d x x x HERE threatens to be an insurrection of Canadian artists and unless some amicable settlement is arrived at,Montrealers are going to be the chief vietims\u2014unless the local art-lovers and painters will be content to view contributions to the shows under the auspices of the Art Associa tion of Montreal from, with a fow possible exceptions, purely local sources.The bone of contention is the mode followed in selecting pictures for the annual spring show, which it is understood is a service undertaken by the council of that body none of which members are artists, but art-lovers who in the majority of cases are engaged in professions which occupy the major portion of their time.hat this protest is more than the peevish opinion of obscure painters whose contributions have been rejected will be apparent when the thirtieth annual spring Exhibition opens next marked falling off in the entries from Toronto.In fact it is the Ontario Society of Artists which has taken steps to bring this long-standing grievance to a head.The Ontario Society of Artists are hoping that the Graphic Arts Club and the Royal Canadian Academy will co-operate with them, have communicated with those bodies to this effect, and as far as the members of the 0.8.A., are concerned they have reached a stage whero they refuse to contribute works to the exhibitions of the Montreal Art Association unless there is a majority of artists on the selecting committee.The artists\u2019 contention is manifestly a.reasonable one for under the conditions they allege to exist any attempt at originality will be repressed and progress killed.x x x HE same system of judging and selecting by others than artists has done nothing to make Canadian art better known.In connection with the Canadian National Exhibition, held annually in Toronto, the Canadian section has come at times within measurable distance of being the most indifferent of the lot, owing to the fact that there was seen no adequate selection.Meritorious work has been accepted hut much has gone in that would not have heen given wall space if artists had been on the selecting committee, for painters invited to contribute have not always done themselves justice.At the same exhibition there has usually been a ood collection of selected work by ritish and French artists, the best examples by the foremost artists in both countries being submitted, after careful eliminntion before they were Fortunately representations in that case brought good results and now the Canadian section can be made up by selections from the best works shown at the different exhibitions in the larger Canadian cities, and the same applies to the gathering of the American | pietures or that section.One of the eatures of the exhibition to be held ; in the autumn will be the inclusion for oir works | the first time, to an important extent, of work by some of the foremost German artists.LE # HE solution of the problem in connection with the Art Association of Montreal will be looked forward to with interest for if the exhibition of pictures in any country has any function to perform it is to emul- .ate and inspire those engaged in the same line of work-the exchange of ideas and the strengtheni the bonds between the scattered colonies of artists.It remains to seen whether Montrealers will be content to each season view the output of studios located here and occasionally.through the medium of an indifferent half-tone reproduction in a journal from outside learn that there are inters beyond the confines of this island who can do work worth while.A patient with a pain would quickly resent his trouble being diagnosed by lay-men and the medical association would have something to say if amateurs undertook that work.The artist is entitled to treatment by those who know, and it is for the art-loving publie to play the part of the nether mill-stone.PALETTE.week for it is reported that there is a\u2019 o\u2014 LA Texte détérioré a art THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 22, 1913.ss The Glass of Fashion A WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE LATEST THINGS IN WEARING APPAREL Reflections from the Fashion Centres of Europe and America + + + + Spring Blouses.Wash Sik Waists in Striped Effects are Fancied.\u2014 The Long Shoulder Line Insisted on by Fashion.\u2014 Machine Embroidered Collars in Dainty Hand Effects.\u2014The Almost Inevitable Touch of Color.\u2014Front Fastenings and Long Sleeves This Year.THE silk blouse plays a large part in fashion this year; but fortunately most of the silken blouse fabrics employed may visit the washtub with impunity so that this summer may not be as expensive a one as some of these perishable looking blouses would seem to forfend.There are dainty crepe de chine blouses for wear with tailored suits; there are chiffon blouses for wear with more dressy tailleurs of draped silk or silk and wool fabric; and there are tub silk blouses for wear with knockabout athletic togs.Of course, one would not expect a tucked and hemstitched chiffon blouse to visit the laundress, but the erepe de chine waist may be washed with ordinary soap and water if one is fastidious about the soap and careful not to have the water too hot.As for the tub silk waists, of course, they revel in weekly launderings and emerge fresh and lustrous as ever from under the kindly warmth of the pressing iron.Stripes of color are just now the thing in the tub blouse for country wear, and these striped effects come in & new Japanese silk, very fine, very soft, and not too sheer for good taste.Since the thinner the silken blouse the cheaper it shows itself to be, in these models, transparency is not a virtue, and the softer and heavier the material is, the better appearance it makes.A young woman who adores out of door life and country sports, is having a dozen of these blouses made up, some of white tub silk, others with narrow blue, or pink, or pale green stripes on the white ground, for wear with riding habits, golf skirts and mountain costumes of khaki.A belted Mackinaw, stitched cloth hat with a rakish feather, and boots of washable tan leather will complete the sturdy outing garb.| Not only the tub waists but dozens of other styles in spring blouses have the mannish suggestion.This does not mean an arbitrary following of the lines and general style of à man\u2019s shirt, but rather a certain severity of type in ! contrast to the fanciful effects which now prevail in other items of a woman's costume.For instance, all blouses have the very much elongated shoulder line, and most models have long sleeves, although it is predicted that sleeves will be lopped off midway to the elbow with midsummer weather.The collarless waist is very much the preferred style and it is probable that only women who have not pretty throats will consent to wear high-collared blouses this year, so charming and graceful are the neck effects of the other styles.The Robespierre collur in various modifications appears on the spring blouses, and these collars are often set quite low to give a very collarless effect.That is, the neck of the blouse is well rounded out befure the collar is applied.The simple white crepe de chine blouse with broadly rolling collar from which fall pleated jabot frills, retains its hold on feminine fancy and bids fair to be a favorite model for wear with spring tailored suits.Usually a string of pearl beads worn around the throat, above the low-cut collar, adds just the touch that prevents a bare effect.Narrow, flatly turned over collars of machine embroidered batiste are attached to many of the new models, some of them blouses of silk and even chiffon.Machine embroidery is exceedingly fashionable this year | and stands high in the estimation of Paris, and touches of it are considered a dignity rather than a detriment to the most exclusive garment.Some of these little machine embroidered collars are made of handkerchief lawn, and are ax fine and dainty as any hand models ever produced; while bolder effects in Bulgarian colors on white are excessively fashionable.Color is used lavishly on the new blouses, and scarcely a model that has not some knowing touch of color in the shape of embroidery, buttons, pipings, facings, or at least a well placed knot of ribbon.A charming tucked white | chiffon model, displayed last week in the window of an exclusive blouse-shop which admits the Paris inspiration that is responsible for its creations, had pale green ribbon most artfully introduced to give the color-touch.The tucked chiffon blouse was mounted, above an underblouse of allover eyelet embroidery, after the manner of so many THR COLLAR IS AN IMPORTANT DETAIL THIS SEASON.Pa 22 75> Ca ( EE ee of the new blouse, it je perferted and collar.This blouse la of white Combination a A PRETTY FRENCH BLOUSE WITH PLUMETIS EMBROIDERY.Old fashoined plumetis embroidery.with stiff little sprays heading clusters of drawn threads, has been revived this season, and the wonderful looms of Switzerland have succeeded In reproducing to perfection the old-fashioned plumetis effects.This little blouse by ristiaane is of plumetis embroidery crepe and the tones of rose and green, cmploye in the tiny flower embroideries are repeated in the veat which is of pale green crepe de chine with à rose colored bow at the bloused waistline.The arrangement of crossed bands of Irish lace over this colored vest is very graceful.of these white chiffon and net models, and between the two materials, pale green satin ribbon was drawn around the bodice starting at the waistline at the back and rising toward the front to a point just beneath the bust.The ends of the green ribbon, fringed out for half an inch, emerged through buttonholed slashes in the chiffon and were tied in a loosely knotted, flat bow.Similar bands of ribbon encircled the arm, between chiffon and embroidery, just above the edge of the sleeve (which was in three-quarted length) and the fringed ribbon ends were drawn through the outer side of tLe sleeve in the same manner and tied in a knotted bow.This blouse was completed by glass buttons in the pale aquamarine tint, and it should be adorably dainty with a tailored suit of gray-green material, accompanied by correct walking boots of patent leather with buttoned tops of gray-green suede.There are a-plenty of white tub blouses, some made of handkerchief linen, some of mull, some of batiste, and some \u2014-very new ones\u2014of organdie.The sheer organdie blouse, entirely plain exeept for many clusters and groups of narrow tucks, is immensely smart, and for wear with such blouses there are low necked and sleeveless corset covers of allover embroidery which are tacked to the blouse at shoulder and waistline, the ordinary brassiere being donned beneath.Blouses which are not quite so sheer are being made of batiste and lawn, and are very suitable for everyday wear.They have trimmings of machine embroidery in all sorts of yoke, vest and bolero effects.The embroidery is set \u2018into the blouse flatly, sometimes with hemstitching and no to matter how much elaboration of design there may be, the lines are always kept very simple.Vest effects are extremely fashionable and it is easy to achieve these with embroidery bandings.Flduncings are not much used in blouses.When they are, the embroidery is stitched flatly to the \u2018 blouse material, with no suggestion of fullness anywhere.Fabrics That Do Not Fear The Tub.HE annual spring consideration of wash fabrics is necessarily an important one because of the vital part they play in \u2018he summer wardrobe.Perhaps the most noticeable feature about the cottons this season is their conservatism.Undismayed by the radical color innovations in the silk and woolen field, they have clung to their fresh daintiness of coloring and to weaves that have been tried and proved worthy.Linen, it is said, is to have a revival of popularity, for last year it was somewhat eclipsed by ratine.Already the sales of heavy Russian, Irish, and domestic dress linens are double what they were in 1912, and of them will be fashioned the tailored suit, the simple one-piece dress, and the indispensable odd skirts.The present distinguishing note is that the weave is closer and the finish rather more glossy than last year.All the delicate colors are in evidence and some vivid tones.The trimmings of such frocks will usually be of heavy white lace \u2018and braid.Glorified Ginghamsi Another promising material is a gingham which bears a\u201dresemblanoe in name only to its humble workaday forbears.Ît is very closely woven of soft, fine threads, and ; shows a rich brilliancy of color.| plaids, and the more genuinely Scotch these are, the tter.This grade of gingham wears remarkably and does not shrink nor lose its color.Allied to this gingham are the fine grades of percale and madras which are being shown in attractive patterns and which will be put to the same sort of uses as the ginghams.Cetton Crepes.With orepe, in an infinite variety for a multitude of uses, dominant in the silk world, it is not surprising to see this treatment applied to cotton fabrics.eo grades \u2018range from the sheerest lawns for lingerie frocks to a heavy, durable fabrio for the shirtwaist.A dainty crepe of sobweb thinness, suitable for afternoon wear, is oarri : by one of the large stores at the moderate price of $1.50 : a yard for material forty inches wide.The design is one | of small, raised flowers and sprigs on a white ground.When it comes to buying material for the blouse, an | English cotton crepe is decidedly satisfactory, both in { appearance and in its wonderful wearing qualities.Not the least joy in its use is the facility with which it can be laund to wash such à waist in & h \u2019 .It is 80 eas dry it, and by a few judicious pulls restore it to wearable be Por! y called six, condition without ironing.This material comes in and-white stripes and makes up v prettily.A of bright color in the tie gives à touch of character.A shade more elaborate, but mo less tioal everyday dresses, is Eolienne, more famili and eottoa poplin.Weely Cottons.\u2018 Closely following ia the footsteps of the woolens ie | flowers.| ground.The patterns tend to 11 PF Easter Millinery News from \u201cMurphy's\u201d S Model to be seen number of 815.00 and of grace.colors.for 1913.flowers.A veritable garden of them on the 2nd floor.& A delightful Springtime air pervades the Millinery Salon now.Smart, flower trimmed hats, brilliantly lighted cases, filled with beautiful flowers, suggest the glories of Spring.This gives you some idea of the wonderful range of hats handiwork of the most skilful of French and American artists.Phis season we have been successful in obtaining a large individual style model hat at a low price will find this range of remarkable interest.New Shapes in Milan, Chip and The latest Parisian novelty styles, small, dainty and full Shapes to suit every type of woman and in all The assortment is extensive enough to enable you to secure a hat for any occasion, Flowers to the Fore This Season Flowers stand high in the estimation of Dame Fashion Most of the models from Europe and New York show flowers in the trimming to a more or less degree.Ready for the new Easter Hat we have a wonderfully comprehensive collection of beautiful artificial Hardly one specimen in the floral world but can be secured here.(Don\u2019t forget to ask about our No Charge Trimming Service.) The Hs Lint ity fi Hats, from $15.00, to Ten Times That Sumhere.Imported Models which exemplify the exclusive model hats at very moderate prices, $18.00.Women who desire a distinctive and Prices $1.98 to $14.00.Prices .25 to $10.00.N an army of rough cottons so nearly approximating the appearance of the silks and wools that at first glance it is difficult to distinguish between them.It is a fact that some of the heavier tailored suits can be very closely copied in washable materials.Cotton ratine has under- eat developments, and now has little in common gone with its humble bathroom progenitor.The eponge of thiseseason is fine, pliable, and capable of taking a tailored finish.Materials, Tried and True.For the dainty afternoon frock or the informal evenin own there are a number of materials that are really old riends brought up-to-date.i for the debutante and her younger sisters, has taken on silk designs of delicately sprigged flowers in real French i Jouy patterns, and still the price remains moderate.These new patterns show the dots rather more scattered i than formerly.This year some decided novelties are being shown in | net.Besides the usual printed designs there are patterns with lovely velvet flowers and arabesques of chenille.The mention of printed designs leads quite naturally i to the disputed question of horders.Every season bor- ; ders march serenely in the front ranks of the popular i trimmings, too useful and adaptable to be discarded.| Cotton voile has appeared very prettily in this class.One piece shows a white ground sprigged with little Jouy The border is of small pink roses on a tan HAT PIN LEGISLATION.hose women of Massachusetts who do not cover the ' points of their hat pins with some device that will protect the public from injury on and after April 7 will be liable a fine of not more than $100.An act to this effect was recently signed by Covernor Foss after the legislation had been under discussion for | more than two months and provoked heated arguments in committee in which men and women participated.Attempts to restrict the length of the pins failed and the manner in which they were tu be rendered harmless was i left to the discretion of the wearer.SEVEN-YEAR-OLD HUNTRESS.Peggy Timins, the seven-year-old daughter of the Vicar of Smeeth, Kent.is the youngest follower of the hounds in England, and rarely misses a meet of the East i Kent Foxhounds.THE VEST EFFECT IS PARAMOUNT.] | | od This model is a cost setusl ov of arnoen ocnstume of brown wear with Turted Note the |B SE TR EE Dotted Swiss, just the thing Unusual Is the biouen that has Rot some sort of a vest.Sher u blouse.4 aad wool lansdowne.nowt.ufton le laid over white satin, the vest of white eatin small of brown t of twokn \u2026 just above and vent are \u2014 HER QUIET WEEK.ONDAY A.M.at the modiste's.Lunch at the club house at noon, Three o\u2019celock, lecture on Nietzsche, Evening, a concert; home soon.\u2018Hello! Oh, no, I can't do it \u2014too great a strain on my strength, \u2019 Sick people always depress me; D\u2019ye think my new train's the right length?\" | Tuesday, from Strindberg, Miss Plusfat gives reading at ten o'clock sharp.\u2018 Two P.M,, civic committee.Four, Senor Juan, on the harp, plays in the Tooteheron _ tearoom, Eight o'clock, bridge at the Grant's.Wednesday forenoon, Swami Sadeve lectures on Cosmic Expanse,\u201d\u2019 Lunch at the Hotel D'Isplayee, Five hundred party at two.\u201cSouth, 4-5-7 ?Yes, central.I do?I can\u2019t get out home to dinner and back to hear \u2018Carmen\u2019 at eight.Take in the fern from the porch, dear; feed little Boodles, and\u2014wait!\" Say, Charlie, what shall Thursday morn, board of directors, Orphans\u2019 Home Training School, meets, Three to six, help with reception at old Mrs.Flannel- .mouth-Sweet's.Night, Dr.Zheorge wharti lectures, ** Ethical Efforts and Aims.\u201d Friday morna early à meeting of U.R.D.C.V.M.Dames.Noon, a masseuse and a Turkish.P.M, spin, calls, crush, four teas.Night, dinner.Box-party.Dancing.Four A.M., ** Don\u2019t.scold, dear, please\u2019 Motoring week-end.Goll.\u201cHow now ?Allin?\" \u2018Oh no! it's been very quiet! Next week the real things begin!\" AT THE TYPEWRITER.When I! look up and see your tireless hands A-flutter o'er the immolodious keys, My fancy ranges far to fairer lands And other scenes than these.Tennis.Country Club, - Life.I see you at a nobler instrument On which the sudden fireshine flickers red; The while your hands, wizards of fair intent, Raise the undying dead.Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert \u2014once again Their magic and their mystery break the tomb.And yet once more their passion and their pain Throb in the tender gloom.Caprice, sonata, prelude, overture, Nongs once that fell from dead, delicious, lips Aye, at your fingers\u2019 hest, all Beauty's lure Flows from their tapering tips.Then I look up and see your tireless hands Swiftly caress the unresponding keys, And fancy wings away from fairer And other scenes than these.CECIL W.LANE.Montreal NATURAL IMPULSE., Most of us wouldn't do with à million dollars what we imagine we would, but rather would think at once how we might double it.\u2014Albany Journalnds J.F.HANNAH Decorator 5H PRUMMOND.Phone Up 3128.Ladies\u2019 Tailor and Habit Maker À.Brodfubrer & Co.63 METCALPE STREUT tows S008 Our.8%.Cutheasine Spring Geeds Now Ready for Inspection 12 THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 22, 1913.$40,000; chain stone for sidewalks, ! ' $62,540; purchase of asphalt.$13,330; M a ON rea ou O improvements to Champ de Mars, \u2018 @ $37,000; lowering Cote des Neiges 2 road, $58,000; Sundry votes, $7,775; | With The Money If There Were No Tax Exemptions PTS .+ ~ + New Revenue Would Be Sufficient to Abolish Youà re\u2018 the School Commissions the Water Rates, Maintain the Police Department and Give the School Board Half annum.Half a million dollars annum would be sufficient to enable the building of one new school per annum that would rank in size and a Million a Year for New Schools-Or It fibro B58 bovnc ies in (he Might Be Used to Maintain the Fire, Light, Health, Parks and City Hall Departments.Fourth Article.All this forms a pretty serious in- dietment, and demonstrates how seri- FENousH bas been said in previous | ous is the abuse which has resulted articles to show how the tax exemption privileges in Montreal are being abused.It has been shown that farms are being run in the heart of the city and in the colossal anomaly of over one- fifth of the entire real estate of this great citv being exempted from tax- ! ation.| Now let us consider what it would ; .i | vast tracts of land kept idle and held | rean to the city if the publie, sick for development through the abuse of tax exemption.! It has been shown that in many cases tax exemption is being used in a grossly unfair way for the single purpose of speculating on the improvements carried out by the tax-paying ' citizens.| It has been shown that tax-payng property 1s bought in the name of religion, held absolutely idle for à | period during which no taxes are paid : on it, and then sold at a handsome profit.It has been shown that people buy church property.rent it to the congregation originally owning it in order to escape paying taxes on it, and thus hold it in unfair competition | with other property holders for a | speculative nse.It has been shown that congrega-! tions themselves speculate on tax! exemption by selling their property, renting it at a cut rate, an putting, the capital obtained by the sale ol | their property out at interest, or for buying up tax-paying land and taking it out of the category of property bringing revenue to the city.of the robbery which is perpetrated in the name of religion and charity, were to rise ip its might and decree that tax exemption should be no re.Immediately there would be an additional revenue of over $2,000,000 coming into the ecivie treasury.But that is not all.Many hundreds of acres of vacant, undeveloped lands would immediately be sold, not \u2018for speculative purposes, but for the teitv.An idea of the size and magnificence of the annual newschool that could be provided may be judged \u201c from the fact that the new Art Gallery levelling and macadamizing new streets, $147,895; city's share in | various pavings, $23,801; tion to sewers, $658,633; or in round | figures a total of $1,727,653.the exception of $227,000.' And so one might go on.;two million dollars per annum.! Only Abuses Aimed At.BUT of course it will be argued that taxing all the exempted property.A ifitdid.There are probably very few citizens who would want to tax re- general ! \u2018 street repairs, $250.000; city\u2019s half of | i sidewalks, $382,750; city\u2019s contribu- If ® : there were no tax exemption in the | | eity, all this money could have been | | paid from the additional revenue with It is] t astonishing what can be done with | the city never would think of | t ' certainly would give the world a jolt | on Sherbrooke, erected by the Art ligious or philanthropic institutions | Association of Montreal, was put up at a cost of half à million dollars.\u2019 \u201cor general civic purposes $1,500,- 000 annually would still be available.If this million and a half were used for tax exemption, the whole of the water rates of the cit out, and water provided to the citizens free.When that had been done there would still remain enough to pay all the salaries and maintenance charges of the police department of the city.What Else It Might De.HERE is another group of things | which might be done with this mil- | lion and a half dollars All the expenses connected with the Fire Department, including wages, upkeep and every | other expense, could be paid.There .would still remain enough to pay all purpose of using them for the erec- the expenses of the Light Department, | tion of residential aud business prop- | including the lighting of the streets, | erty.This in its curn would enors ; mously increase the assessable value of the property, and the civic revenue | would go up by leaps and bounds, automatically providing all the extra money now so badly needed for the | city's develgpment and at the same time bringing down the general taxes.But we will leave that phase of it, and see what could be done with the immediate increase of $2,000,000 in the city's revenue.Spending Two Millions.WO million dollars is a big sum.Of this amount the portion that 1 Or By O.OENRY li.7 The WM (Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Companyemento.Reprinted by Bpecial Arrangement) MBs LYNNETTE D'ARMANDE turned her back on Broadway.This was but tit for tat, because Broadway had often done the same thing to Miss D'Armande.Still, the \u201ctats\u201d seemed to have it, for the ex- leading lady of the * Reaping the Whirlwind\u201d company had everything to ask of Broadway.while there was no vice-versa, So Miss Lynnette D'Armande turned the back of her chair to her window that overlooked Broadway, and sat down to stiteh in time the lisle-thread heel of a black silk stocking.The tumult and glitter of the roaring Broadway beneath her window had no charm for her; what she greatly desired was the stifling air of a dressing-room on that fairyland street and the roar of an audience gathered in that capricious quarter.In the meantime, those stockings must not be neglected.Silk does wear out so, but \u2014after all, isn't it just the only goods, there is ?The Hotel Thalia lnoks on Broadway as Marathon looks on the sea.It stands like a gloomy cliff above the: whirlpool where the tides of two great thoroughfares clash.Here the pla \u201cere | bands gather at the end o their | wanderings, to loosen the buskin and dust the sock.Thick in the streets! around it are booking-offices, theatres, agents, schools, and the lobater-| [laces to which those thorny paths Wandering through the eccentric! halls of the dim and fusty Thalia, you | seem to have found yourself in some t ark or caravan about to sail, or | y, or roll away on wheels.About the | house lingers a sense of unrest, of expectation, of transientness, even of anxiety and apprehension.The halls are a labyrinth.Without a guide, | ou wander like a lost soul in a Sam | d puzzle.¥urning any corner, a dressing-sack | or §, cul-de-sac may bring you up short.| You meet alarming tragedians stalking in bath-robes in search of rumored bathrooms.From hundreds of rooms corie the buzz of talk, scraps of new anu old songs, and the ready laughter of the convened players.Bummer has come; their companies bave disbanded, and they take their rest in their favorite caravanaary, | while they besiege the managers for engagements for the coming season.t this hour of the afternoon the day's work of tramping the rounds of the agents\u2019 offices is over.Past you, as you ramble distra:tedly through the mossy halls, flit audible visions of houris, with veiled, starry eyes, flying tag-ends of things and a swish of ailk, bequeathing to the dull hallways an\u2019 odor of gaiety and a memory of frangipenni.Serious young come- | dians, with versatile Adam's apples,\u2019 ther in doorways and talk of Boothar-roaching from somewhere comen the smell of ham and red cabbage.and the crash of dishes on the Amencan lg | The indeterminate hum of life in the | Thalia is enlivened by the discreet ppi st reasonable and salubrious tervals-\u2014of beer-bottle corks.Thua nctusted, life in the genial hostel deans easily the comma being the favorite mark, semicolons frowned | dpon, pad periode | Miss D'Armande's room was a small one.There was room for her rocker between the dresser and the washstand if it were placed longitudinally.On the dresser were its usual accoutrements, plus the ex-leading lady's collected souvenirs of road engagements and photographs of her dearest and best professional friends.At one of these photographs she looked twice or thrice as she darned, and smiled friendlily.\u201cI'd like to know where Lee is just this minute,\u201d she said, half-aloud.If you had been privileged to view the photograph thus flattered, you would have thought at the first glance that pou saw the picture of à many- petalled white flower, blown through the air by a storm.But the flcral kingdom was not responsible for that swirl of petalous whiteness.You saw the filmy, brief skirt of Miss Rosalie Ray as she made a complete heels-over-head turn in her wis- taria-entwined swing, far out from the stage, high above the heads of the audience.You saw the camera's inadequate representation of the graceful, strong kick, with which she, at this exciting moment, sent flying, high and far.the yellow silk garter that each evening spun from her agile limb and descended upon the delighted audience below.You saw, too, amid the black- clothed, mainly masculine patrons of select vaudeville u« hundred hands raised with the hop of staying the flight of the brilliant serial token.orty weeks of the best circuits this act bad brought Miss Rosalie Ray, for eachoftwoyears.Shedidother things during her twelve minutes\u2014a song and dance, imitations of two or three actors who are but imitations of themselves,and a balancing feat with a stepladder and feather-duster; but when the blossom-decked swing was let down from the flies, and Miss Rosalie sprang smiling into the seat, with the golden circlet conspicuous in the place whence it was soon to slide and become a soaring and coveted guerdon\u2014then it was that the audience rose in its sent as a single man\u2014or presumably se\u2014 and indorsed the specialty that made Mise Ray's name a favorite in the booking-offices.At the end of the two years Miss Ray suddenly announced to her dear friend, Miss D'Armande, that she was going to spend the summer at an ante- iluvian village on the north shore of Long Island, and that the stage would see her no more.Seventeen minutes after Miss Lynnette D'Armande had expressed her wish to know the whereabouts of her old cum, there were sharp raps at her door Doubt not that it was Rosalie Ray.At the shrill rommand to enter rhe did so.with something of a tired flu and dropped a heavy hand-bag on t floor.Upon my word, it was ie, in a loose, tra: el-stained automobile- less coat, closely tied brown veil with - walking- yard-jong, flying ends, gra lavender suit and tan oxfords wit ov ters, When she threw off her veil and bat, you saw s [ou enough fase, now Sushed and disturbed by some unusual emotion.and restless, large eyes wi ' squares and arks; to pay all the expenses of the Incineration Department, | the Building Inspector\u2019s Department, the Hygiene and Statistics Department, the Parks and Ferries Department, and the City Hall Department.And after all this group of expenses had been paid there would still remain in hand over a quarter of a million dollars for other purposes.In the year 1911 the appropriations voted by the Council for the Road Department were: Purchase of macadam and tools for permanent works, $45,838; granite blocks for pavements, discontent marring their brightness.A heavy pile of dull auburn hair, hastily put up, was escaping in crinkly, waving strands and curling, small locks from the confining combs and pins.The meeting of the two was not marked by the effusion vocal, gym- nastical, osculatory and catechetical that distinguishes the greetings of their unprofessional sisters in society.There was a brief clinch, two simultaneous labial dabs and they stood on the same footing of the old days.Very much like the short salutations of soldiers or of travellers in foreign wilds are the welcomes between the strollers at the corners of their criss-cross roads.\u201cI\"ve got the hall-room two flights up above yours,\u201d said Rosalie, \u201cbut 1 came straight to see you before goin up.I didn't know you were here til they told me.\u201d \u2018*l\u2019ve been in since the last of April,\u201d said Lynnette, \u2018And I'm going on the road with a \u2018Fatal Inheritance\u2019 company.We open next week in Elizabeth.[I thought you'd quit the stage, Lee.Tell me about yourself.\u201d Rosalie settled herself with a skilful wriggle on the top of Miss D\u2019Armande\u2019s wardrobe trunk, and learned her head against the papered wall.From long habit, thus can peripatetic leading ladies and their sisters make themselves as comfortable as though the deepest armchairs embraced them.\u201cI'm going to tell you, Lynn,\u201d she said, with a strangely sardonic and yet carelessly resigned look on her youthful face.\u2018And then to-morrow l'Il strike the old Broadway trail again, and wear some more paint off the chairs in the agents\u2019 offices.If anybody told me any time in the last three months up to four o'clock this afternoon that l'dever listen to that \u2018 Leaverour-name-and-address' rot of the ooking bunch again, I'd have given \u2018em the real Mrs.Fiske laugh.loan me a handkerchief, Lynn.Gee! but those Long Island trains are flerce.I've got enough soft-coal cinders on my face to go on and play Topsy without using the cork.And, speaking of corks\u2014got anything to drink, Lynn ?\" Miss D'Armande opened a door of the wash-stand and took out a bottle.\u2018\u201cThere\u2019s nearly a pint of Manhattan.There's a cluster of carnations in the drinking glass, but \u201d \u201cOh, pass the bottle, Save the glaxs for company.Thanks! That hits the spot.he same to you.My first rink in three months! \u2018Yes, Lynn, I quit the stage at the end of last season.1 quit it because | was sick of the life.And especially because my heart and soul were sick of men-of the kind of men we stage people have to be up against.You 'if the exemption elaims put in in the \u2018the name of these institutions were \"confined to a strictly legitimate basis.On the other hand there is not a single tax-paying citizen but would welcome : the day when all abuses of tax ex- could be wiped : emption\u2014an abuse which is nothing short of a huge fungoid growth on the city\u2019s being\u2014were destroyed.How could this fungoid growth be destroyed?done.It is b We will give a very simple method by which it might be ; taxing all vacant | land held in the name of religious and philanthropic institutions and exempting only the actual buildings actually occupied by the institutions jor parties claiming and legitimately entitled to exemption.Not a single foot of vacant land should be exempted from taxation\u2014only the buildings and the actual land upon which they stand.Do that, and make taxes auto- malioally apply to both the buildings and the land on which they stand the moment they pass out of the possession of a strictly religious or philanthropic institution, whether the latter remains as a tenant or not, and to a very large extent you, will wipe out the abuse of tax exemption,, Also, you will be astounded to find what a tremendous area of land now held vacant in the name of religion and philanthropy is suddenly discovered to be absohitely useless for either purpose.P C.L.SIBLEY.know what the game is to us\u2014it\u2019s a fight against \u2019em all the way down the line from the manager who wants us to try his new motor-car to the bill-posters who want to call us by our front names.\u2018And the men we have to meet after the show are the worst of all.The stage-door kind, and the manager's friends who take us to supper and show their diamonds and talk about seeing \u2018Dan\u2019 and \u2018Dave\u2019 and \u2018Charlie\u2019 for us.They're beasts, and I hate \u2018em.\u201cI tell you, Lynn, it's the girls like us on tlie stage that ought to be pitied.It's girls from good homes that are honestly ambitious and work hard to rise in the profession, but never do get there.You hear a lot of sympathy sloshed around on chorus girls and their fifteen dollars a week.Piffle! There ain't a sorrow in the chorus that a lobster cannot heal, \u2018If there's any tears to shed, let 'em fall for the actress that gets a salary of from thirty to forty-five dollars a week for taking a leading part in a bum show.She knows she'll never do any better; but she hangs on for years, hoping for the \u2018chance\u2019 that never comes.\u2018And the fool plays we have to work in! Having another girl roll you around the stage by the hind legs in a \u2018Wheelbarrow Chorus\u2019 in a musical comedy is dignified drama compared with the idiotic things I've had to do in the thirty-centers.\u2018But what 1 hated most was the men\u2014the men leering and blathering at you across tables, trying to buy you with Wurzburger or xtra ry, according to their estimate of your price.And the men in the audiences, clapping, yelling, snarling, crowding, writhing, gloating\u2014like a lot of wild beasts, with their eyes fixed on you, ready to eat you yp if you come in reac] of their claws.Oh, how I hate em! \u201cWell, I'm not telling you much about myself, am I, Lynn \u20181 had two hundred dollars saved up, and I cut the stage the first of the summer.I went over on Long Island and found the sweetest little village that ever was, called Soundport, right on the water.I was going to spend the summer there, and study up on elocution, and try to get a class in the fall.There was an oid widow lady with a cottage near the beach who sometimes rented a room or two jus, for company, and she took me in.She had another boarder, too\u2014the Reverend Arthur yle.\u2018* Yes, he was the head-liner.You're on, Lynn.I'll tell you ail of it in a minute.It's only a one-act pla \u2018The first time he walked on, Lynn THE PERILS OF POLITENESS, Lady (in tears; \u201cWi will you poison such Chemist ( Lady: ey \"| > di Hy i 1 nef = my dear lit little Fido?ny.itely: \u2018Witch pleasire, madam.\" | ith pleasure! You nasty.unfeeling man\u2019 Then you shan't do it! says he.London Opinion | t | f | i | | | WILL NOT.CRUSH NOR SHOW PIN HOLE MONTREAL BRANCH, BIRKS\u2019 BUILDING.I felt myself going; the first lines he spoke, he had me.He was different from the men in audiences.He was tall and slim, and you never heard him come in the room, but you felt him.He had a face like a picture of a knight\u2014like one of that Round Table bunch\u2014and a voice like a \u2019cello solo.And his manners! \u2018Lynn, if you'd take John Drew in his best drawing-room scene and compare the two, you'd have John arrested or disturbing the peace.\u201cI'll spare you the particulars; but in less than a month Arthur and I were engaged.He proached at a little one-night stand of a Methodist church, There was to be a parsonage the size of a lunch-wagon, and hens and honeysuckles when we were married.Arthur used to preach to me a good deal about Heaven, but he never could get my mind quite off those honeysuckles and hens.\u201cNo; I didn\u2019t tell him I'd been on the stage.I hated the business and | all that went with it; I'd eut it out: forever, and I didn't sce any use of | stirring things up.I was a good girl, and I didn't have anything to confess, except being an eloeutionist, and that was about all the strain my conscience, would stand.\u201cOh, I tell you, Lynn, 1 was happy.I sang in tho choir and attended the! sewing society, and recited that | \u2018Annie Laurie\u2019 thing with the whistling stunt in it, \u2018ina manner bordering upon the professional,\u2019 as the weekly village paper reported it.And Arthur\u2019 and | went rowing, and walking in the | woods, and clamming, and that poky little village seemed to mo the best | place in the world.l\u2019d have been appy to live there always, too, if ** But one morning old Mrs.Gurley the widow lady, got gossipy while i was helping her string beans on the back porch, and began to gush information, as folks who rent out their rooms usually do.Mr.Lyle was her idea of a saint on earth\u2014as he was mine, too.She went over all his virtues and graces, and wound up by telling me that Arthur had had an extremely romantic love-affair, not long before, that had ended unhappliy.She didn't seem to be on to the details, but she knew that he had been hit pretty hard.He was paler and thinner, she said, and he had some king of a remembrance or keepsake of the lady in a little rosewood box that he kept locked in his desk drawer in his study.\u2018\u2018\u2018Several times,\u2019 says she, \u2018I've seen him gloomerin\u2019 over that box of evenings, and he always locks it up right away if anybody comes into the room.\u2018Well, you can imagine how long it was before I got Arthur by the wrist } and led him down stage and hissed in his ear.\u2018That same afternoon we were lazying around in a boat among the water-lilies at the edge of the bay.\u2018Arthur,\u2019 says I, \u2018you never told me you'd had another love-affair.But Mrs.Gurley did,\u2019 I went on, to let him know I knew.I hate to hear a man lie.** \u2018Before you came,\u2019 says he, looking me frankly in the eye, \u2018there was a previous affection\u2014a strong one.inoe you know of it, I will be perfectly eandid with you.\u2019 \u201cTam waiting,\u2019 says I.\u201c*\u2018My dear Ida,\u2019 says Arthur\u2014of course | went by my real name, while I was in Soundport \u2014\u2018 this former affection was a spiritual one, in fact.Although the lady aroused my deepest | going to have him myself.sentiments, and was, as [ thought, my ideal woman, I never met her, and never spoke to her.It was an ideal | love.y love for you, while no less ideal, is different.You wouldn't let that come between us.\u201d \u201cWas she pretty?\u2019 | asked.\u201c \u2018She was very beautiful,\u2019 said He is in Arthur.\u201c \u2018Did you see her often ?' | asked.\u201c\u2018Nomething like a dosen times,\u2019 \u201cAlways from a distance ?' says.| \u201c \u201cAlways from quite a distance,\u2019 says he.** \u2018And you loved her ?\u2019 [ asked.** \u2018She seemed my ideal of beauty and grace\u2014and soul,\u2019 says Arthur.\u201c\u201c \u201cAnd this keepsake that you keep under lock and key, and moon over at times, is that a remembrance from her 2\u2019 \u2018 \u2018A memento,\u2019 savs Arthur, \u2018that [ have treasured.\u2019 * \u2018Did she sent it to you ?\u2019 \u2018\u201c It came to me from her,\u2019 says he.**In a roundabout way ?\u2019 I asked.\u2018Somewhat roundabout,\u2019 savs he, \u2018and yet rather direct.\u2019 \u201c \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you ever meet her ?* I asked, \u2018Were your positions in life so different ?\u2019 \u201cShe was far above me,\u2019 savs Arthur.\u2018Now, Ida.\u2019 he goes on, \u2018this is all of the past.You're not going to be jealous, are you ?\u2019 ** \u2018Jealous!\u2019 says I.\u2018Why, man, what are you talking about?It makes me think ten times as much of you as [ did before I knew about it.\u2019 \u2018And it did, Lynn\u2014if you can understand it.That ideal love was a new one on me, but it struck me as being the most beautiful and glorious thing I'd ever heard of.\u201cYes, it made me think more of Arthur than I did before.I couldn't he jealous of that far-away divinity that he used to worship, for I was And I began to look upon him as a saint on earth, just as old lady Gurley did.\u2018\u201c About four o\u2019clock this afternoon a man came to the house for Arthur to go and see somebody that was sick among his church bunch.Old lady Guriey was taking her afternoun snore \u2018on a couch, ao that left me pretty much alone.\u201cIn passing by Arthur's study I looked in, and saw his bunch of keys hanging in the drawer of his desk, where he'd forgotten \u2018em.Well, I guess we're all to the Mrs.Bluebeard now and them, ain't we, Lynn ?made up my mind I'd have a look at that memento he kept so secret.Not that I cared what it was\u2014it was just curiosity._ \u2018While I was opening the drawer 1 imagined one or two things it might be.1 thought it might be a dried rosebud sh'd pped down to him from a balcony, or maybe a picture of her he'd cut out of a magazine, she being so high up in the world.\u20181 opened the drawer, and there was the rosewood casket about the size of à gent's collar-box.I found the little key in the bunch that fitted it, and unlocked it and raised the ld.» \u201cI took one look at that memento and then ! went to my room and packed my trunk.1 threw a few things into my grip, gave my hair a flirt or two with a side-comb, put on my hat, and went in and gave the old lady's foot a kick.I'd tried awfully hard to use proper and correct lang, uage while I was there for Arthur's sake, and I had the habit down pat, but it left me then.i , \u201c \u201cStop sawing gourds,\u2019 says I, \u2018and sit up and take notice.The ghost's about to walk.I'm going away from here, and I owe you eight dollars.\u2019 * I handed her the money.* * Dear me, Miss Crosby!\u2019 says she.\u2018Is anything wrong ?I thought you were pl here.Dear me, oung women are so hard to understand, an 0 different from what you expeot \u2018em \u201c\u2018You're damn right,\u2019 says I.\u2018Some of \u2018em are.But you can\u2019t say that about men.When you know one man you know \u2019em ali! That settles the haman-race question.\u2019 \u2018* And then ! caught the four-thirty- \"sight, suft-coal unlimited; and here 1 \u201d am.** You didn\u2019t tell me what wasin the \u2018box, Lee,\u201d said Miss D'Armande, sxiously.à \u201cOne those yellow silk garters that I used to kick off log into the audience during that old vaudeville swing a®t of mine.Ia there any of the cocktail left, Lyan ?se de, = AT LAKE DOR will be proud of.fishing, fresh air, wharf.Sixty trains daily.815 NEW BIRKS BUILDING.WE ARE BUILDING \u201cTHE HOME BEAUTIFUL.\u201d WE HAVE CHOSEN 150 designs from the latest Californian, Minnesota and Northern Michigan Lomes, have submitted them to a Montreal Architeet of wide experience, who specializes in this work, and will have them ready for you in May if you order now; all sizes ; all prices ; everything artistic and substantial ; a home you Beside the Lake; yachting, boating, bathing, health and out-door recreation.FINNIE,MILLAR& COMPANY ST.LOUIS, VAL Private Eight cent fare.Call and see - Tel.Up.6717 and 1089 $1,000 Cash Only required on these exceptionally well built houses, located in the best part of Notre Dame de Grace.£5,000, easy Balance, on very terms.Seven rooms, hardwood floors, elec- trie lighting, ete.Modern in every respect.Good dry basement, fitted with laundry tubs.A real opportunity to home-seekers.530 ST.CATHERINE STREET J.B.Watson Realty Co.Montreal) Limited WEST Phone Up.4577 A SUPERIO \u201cSandy Macdonald \u201d 3 SANDY its AL LIQUEUR CH ThisY 10 Years 0M pe JS LEITH, - Solo Agents ST.PATRICK'S DAY.The restaurant of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel was superbly decorated on St.Patrick's night, with a most artistic arrangement of brilliant emerald green, This colour needs skilled handling if monotony is to he avoided and the experience and insight of the expert floral decorator of our premier hotel made it on this occasion a thing of beauty.Wreaths of Shamrock were formed of emerald ribbon, trimme with others of living trefoil; these were fashioned into most harmonious curves above which large white doves were ised.The bonbon dishes A Connoisseur knows at once by the very bouquet of Whisky that it is no hap- hazardcompound like so many of the \u201c\u2018Scotches\u2019\u2019 sold on this market\u2014but the product of untiring research.\u2014SPECIAL LIQUEUR-\u2014 SCOTCH WHISKEY is positively the best Scotch Whisky in the market, irrespective of price.to its absolute purity\u2014nothing but what nature has put into pure cereal products from which it is distilled, is contributed to fine bouquet ALEXANDER & MACDONALD DISTILLERS, Lawrence A.Wilson Co., Limited 87 ST.JAMES STREET, R BEVERAGE MACDONALD This is due and exquisite flavor.SCOTLAND.for Canada\u2014 MONTREAL The house fit Association held sway.was crowded, all tickets having been sold days before.\u2018My Geraldine\u2019 was performed with a finish and talent that would have done credit to any professional company.Between the acts there was a musical programme, the performers being r.Edward Quinn, Miss Starke, Master Edward Scullion, (a boy soprano) and Mrs.Audrey Bennett-Gibbons, Mrs, [ Gibbons sang \u2018Come back to Erin\u2019 | with sweetness and charm and as an encore gave \u2018An Irish Love Song\u2019 by | | Margeret Ruthven Lang.Mrs.Gibbons is the solo singer at the Preshy- 'terian Church, (Crescent Street).were also most cleverly contrived to represent the national color of Îreland.There were huge sugar shamrocks twined with glistening green ribbon in a lighter shade, also done in sweets: and the coating of the dainty little eclairs, dates and walnuts that accompanied the ices were also \u2018wearing of the green.\u201d The orchestra played Irish airs during the repast, \u2018The Last Rose of Summer\u2019 in particular being beautifully rendered.There were several dinner parties and as is usual at the Ritz-Carlton wonderful gowns were to be seen.The fashion of having the shoulders of a gown in different colour or material is obtaining rapidly and there | were several interesting examples.À lady in Mr.and Mrs.Melnnis's rty had her dresa of white satin and blac lace arranged inthis way; the draperies heing caught in at the waist with cherry velvet.Mr.and Mrs.Jarvis bad a dinner party of 14 covers.The hostess was wearing black draped with white lace, richly embroidered with gold.Mrs.Weir's very handsome dress had the train almost entirely covered with gold passementerie.Mra MceCuaig wore an elegant dark grey dress.Miss Crerar wore turquoise blue.Other uesta included Mr.and Mrs.Gordon, iss Campbell, Mr.and Mra.Morden, Mr.Hanson and Mr.Miller.At the Princess's Theatre the Young Irishmen's Literary and Bene- IGNORANT DOG.\u201cHaven't found your dog yet, 1 i hear ?'' asked Smith of his neighbor, r Jones, | \u201cNo,\u201d answered Jones, ruefully.\u201cWell, have you advertised?\u201d asked Smith.\u201cWhat's the use?\u2019 **The dog can't read.\" \u2018 -Our Dumb Animalssaid Jones.DIRECTORY OF OCEAN SAILINGS.Date of sailing with ports of departure and arrival.compiled hy Messrs.Hone & Rivet, encral atcamship agents, © St.Lawrence oulevard.Montreal.March 18 K.Wm.11.New York P.C.& B.19 Royal Edward.Halifax.Bristol.19 Campania.New York Liverpool 20 Baltic New York liverpool 20 La Province.New York Havre 24 Fmp.Britain.Halifax Liverpool 22 Canada .Portland .Liverpool 22 Grampian .8 John.Liverpool 22 Caledonia.New York (ilasgow 22 St Paul New York PP.CL 8.26 Majestic.| New York P.C & 8.27 Megantic.New York Liv 27 Kr Aug.Vic.New York P.C.& H.29 Teutonle Portiand .14 29 Virginian Halifax.Liverpool 29 Columbia, New York Glasgow 29 Rerlin New York Mediterranean 29 Carmania.New York Liverpool 20 Adriatic New York Liverpool Mail steamers for Bermuda leave New ork every Tuesday.Wednesday and Satury.Note: Abbreviatione\u2014P., Plymouth: © ; ; B.Bremen #, Fouthampton: +, Hambure: P.President or Prince: \u2018mm, Wilhelm.WITH IT By It will come as a pleasant surprise to the many sharcholders of the International Milling company, that the company\u2019s position is now strong enough to warrant the payment of the deferred preferred dividends for a little over the twelve months period.The preferred stock of this company is largely held in Montreal, and though the situation was not an enviable one during 1912, the sharcholders have every reason to congratulate themselves and the executive officers of the company on recovering the lost ground.de UE CE Marconi Stocks.Marconi stocks have been inconspicuous during the past six months, following the wild speculation on the London Market previous to the announcement of the British Government's planto make an \u2018all red route\u201d of the wireless system, As is usual when the English speculators get excited over any security, there was a fast and furious market in all Marconi stocks with the result that prices were carried abnormally high for non-divid- end stocks - the crash came suddenly cnough, until to-day there is absolutely no market interest in any of the securities.Canadians were at one time large holders of the Canadian Marconi company's stock, but there is no way of knowing whether they took advantage of the big advance, or are still holding their stock for another and greater movement.As it is very difficult to revive a market cam- .paign, after an early orgie of speculation, the prospects of securing much more than par for the Canadian stock are very slim indeed.x x x Monarch Knitting.The Monarch Knitting company | showed profits of $198,231 for a period of 1013 months, being the end of the company\u2019s first fiscal period.The company has mills at Dunville, St.Thomas and St.Catharines, and also at Buffalo, in the States.After all appropriations, the company carried forward to credit of profit and loss | balance of $91,411.The company\u2019s first year was eminently satisfactory and the Montreal investors who participated in the public issue last vear will feel, on the strength of the published report, that their confidence In the organization was justified.¥* #% % The B.of B.N.A.When I referred to the annual report of the Bank of British North America a week ago, the data at hand was very meagre.The pamphlet report is now out and a complete comparison can be made with the figures of the previous year, In 1912, the profits were $387,905, compared with $331,- 844 in 1911.The amount carried to reserve fund was $146,000 against $121,667 in 1911; and the total reserve fund now amounts to $2,920,000, JOUR MONE THE INSIDER promise to pay a certain sum on or before a specified date; a certificate bearing interest issued by a Gov- \u2018ernment, a (Corporation or Company for the purpose of borrowing.money.\u201cIt would he difficult to improve | upon this définition, except to add that ! bonds are usually secured by à mortgage Upon real estate.buildings, machinery or whatever assets the company issuing the bonds may have, \u201cFor example.a large company manufacturing steel and steel pro- duets may have $5,000,000 of stock outstanding on which dividends are being paid.This company sces an opportunity to expand its business by constructing a new rolling mill and \u201cnew blast furnaces, but all its capital is invested in the plant now operating.\u201cThe company will approach a banking house and offer to sell $2,000,000 of Po First Mortgage Bonds to provide \u201cthe necessary money to build the new mills.If the banking house \u201cthinks the property and business good | they will buy all the bonds, paying \"cash for them.The Company then | executes à mortgage covering all its | real estate, buildings and assets.This mortgage is usually given to a Trust Company who act as the representatives of the bond-holders and the mortgage is held by the Trust Company as security for the $2,000,000 of bonds issued by the manufacturing company.The bonds state on their face that they will be paid on a certain future date, perhaps twenty years hence, and have attached coupons representing each six months\u2019 interest as it falls due.\u201cThe banking house after buying the entire lot of bonds, next offers them in smaller amounts to its clientele and to the public.IE \u201cThus it will be seen that a bond is a debt of the company it.In this respect it differs from stock, which represents ownership.\u201cA bond-holder is a creditor while a shareholder is a partner in the business.\u201cA bond is really à portion of a lurge mortgage, a mortgage too large for any one investor to buy, but which is sold in small parts, each having equal rights.Each bond-holder has the same proportion of mortgage rights in the property mortgaged as issuing THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 22, 1913.\"The Home Beautiful ] | | | x | his holding of bonds bears to the total | issue.; \u201cBonds form a particularly attractive investment for the person of small means, especially if selected upon the advice of a responsible bond | house in à position to know the merits | \u2018and prospects of the issue.Not only ! can such a person secure a conservative \u2018investment, but he ean at the same time obtain from 4\u201c to 6'( income \u2018according to the bond selected.Anlother advantage, especially to the person of limited means, is that of easily selling his investment at any time should necessity arise.À well compared with $2,774,000 in 1911, selected bond is always sealable either The capital is unchanged at $4,866,- | through a broker, à bank or a bond , 660, he bank, in common with the other chartered banks, enjoyed great prosperity during the year 1912.! x #% West India Electric.I The West India Electric company, | the stock of which is largely held in Montreal, and the board of directors | of which are Montreal gentlemen, presented an annual report which, in view of some very adverse political | and climatic factors, was very satisfactory.x OH ** Baby ** Bonds.N all the mass of highly dignified, yet technically excellent advertising which has been sent out from the offices of the Royal Securities Corporation nothing makes so direct an appeal to so wide a field of clients as à recent small booklet entitled \u201cBaby Bonds,\u201d which 1 understand is the work of Mr.H.G.Boyle, the Secretary of the company.The pamphlet is one which 1 should like to see in the hands of every small investor in the country.Its wide distribution should do much to lead the man or woman of small means who now looks upon 15 cent shares in a so-called gold mine, phosphate deposit or fox ranch as an \u201cinvestment\u201d into much safer and saner paths.In its first paragraph the book is dedicated to \u2018the man or Woman with $100 or more to invest, or who can occasionally set aside a small sum to provide against old age or the proverbial rainy day.The booklet continues: \u201cFor such a person no investment in so desirable as & well selected Bond secured by a mortgage upon assets owned bys well-known growing manufacturing or public service company.\u201cUntil recent years, bonds were issued in denomination of $1,000, with a few exceptions where a small roportion might be in amounts of $500.This precluded the person of small means from investing his savings as securcly and at as good a rate of interest as the person of wealth.The result has been that those with small sums for investment have heen compelled to accept a low rate of interest or turn to speculative stocks where only too often they become the prey of unscrupulous promoters.\u2018During the last few years, the large banking houses have been turning their attention to the bettering of this condition, and they have solved the difficulty by having bonds issued which they can offer in varied denominations, viz: $100, $0, and $1.000, thus giving persons of small means the same investment opportunities as banks, insurance companies and other large investors.\u201cThese small bonds of $100 denomination have been almost universally termed \u2018Baby Bonds,\u2019 hence the title of this pamphlet.\u201cWebster's dictionary defines a bond as \u2018anything that binds; a \"of the house, \u201cIn buying a bond, the purchaser pays the purchase price plus the interest accrued (earned) from the last coupon or interest date up to the day of the purchase.When the coupon falls due, the purchaser recovers this interest by means of the coupon, which represents interest for a period of six months.All a purchaser has to do to secure his [interest is to take each coupon, as it falls due every six months, to his bank and cash it as he would a cheque.: \u201cSu with selling bonds, the seller receives the selling price, plus interest from the last coupon date to the day sale.Thus a bond-holder secures interest on his investment for the exact number of days he has held | his investment; there is no deduction | of interest for withdrawing money | before a certain time as is the rule | in most savings banks.\u201d | * RX EASTMAN KODAK (CO.At the annual meeting of the Eastman Kodak Co.which will be held in Jersey City on April 1, stockholders will vote on the recommendation for a wage dividend to be paid to employs of the company.This dividend will be based upon the extra cash dividends which were paid to the stockholders during 1912.| At about this time last year the company voted to distribute a bonus stopped abruptly and said: ** Young man, I'll its 6,000 employes attend to my art purchases.\u201d , ; wonder that he shuns reporters when em- of $500,000 amon at its factory at July 1.The Eastman Kodak Co.'s plants at Rochester are practically the largest in the country for the manufacturing ' of moving picture films and photu- hi oods.graphic & INSIDER.Rochester, effective | THE INTERVIEWER AND MORGAN.| newspaper interviews are concerned is well known, but should & casual observer at the piers, when he is coming or going.notice the | that values regulated prices ?activity of the ship news reporters in an effort to corner Mr.Morgan and prod him , ultimately determines its with all sorts of questions he would not wonder why Mr.Morgan refuses to comment on any subjert at ail.A year ago when Mr.Morgan sailed for Europe 8 reporter went up in the pier elevator with him and asked à few ener questions, to forcan reaponded pleasantiy.At the opportune moment he was asked if he would not | say something as to general businoss outlook, ete.Just as Mr.Morgan was about to answer.a reporter from an evening fewspaper put the question \u201cHow many art treasures do you expert to purchase on this tri and what will they amount to 7° Mr.Morgan lat Mortgage Bonds On Montreal Realty Payable Quarterly 10 Year Cold Bands of $108, $508, $1000, or multiples) I interrogation marks and his replies ; mon re The reticence of J.P.Morgan so far as of three weeks ago ?\u2018time all of which Mr.value by arti LC \u2014C $145.00 and nowards.guaranteed by the Apply early for acer: umodation to Marl Trust Compeny, HONE & RIVET, GENE AL TRAVEL AGENCY.ot.es sT Limited 9 ft.Lawrence Boulevard, MONTREAL.Tai.Main 37M Paid Copltal - ae ue [Between Nn.Jemes & Notre Lame Sta.) .(Owe Block Bast of Bask of Nontvend) 13 AT LAST-THE PERF ECT ction Sweeper FOR \u201cCLEANING HOUSE QUICK\u201d THE \u201cJEWEL\u201d BE CONVINCED.We are sure that a trial will satisfy you that \u201cJewel Suction Sweepers\u2019 are the most efficient and reliable on the market.Sold under a positive guarantee.Just push the handle, as you would push the old- fashioned carpet sweeper, and the Jewel starts to suck up the dirt as a blotter sucks up ink.It goes after and gets ALL the dirt, deposits it in a stout canvas bag.This simply detach, empty, and replace within the sweeper.The Jewel is light, simple and tremendously efficient.Nothing to get out of order.Mrs.Housekeeper: Our interesting booklet\u2014\"An enemy to dust,\u201d mailed to you on request.ADDRESS : General Appliance Factory Dept a.Canadian Office: Coronation Building, Room 218, Montrea! Take advantage of our FREE TRIAL, at absolutely no obligation or expense to you.Tel Up.5867 DoYouWant to Enjoy the Comforts of Real Steaming Hot Water AT SHORT NOTICE ?This TANK WATER HEATER will supply plenty of HOT WATER for the Kitchen, Laundry, Bathroom-enough for everybody, all over the house and cheaper thanyoueverhadbefore.Just Connect one of these Tank Water Heaters to your range boiler- turn a valve and light the Heater-in a few minutes you have a tank fullof scalding hot water right in the bathroom.Just turn the faucet and have all the hot water you want.Cash $17.50, or $20 on time.$6 down & $1 per month.See Exhibit at our Uptown Store, 358 St.Cath.W., or at the Power Salesroom, Craig Street West.The Montreal Light Heat & Power Co.ublic will he allowed to decide its .metimes the adjustment is gradual and sometimes one day produces most of the change.\u201d \" Wen, how about Can.is it right where it is now or should it be selling twenty points lower ?\"\" .\u201cWhen you consider that within a year Can has moved from 11 up to 47, reacted to 25, ond then hack again to 46, ! ahould say at you wou o well to consider ite value an indeterminate one,\u201d proseat \u201cBut when do you think-\u2014' At this moment the ofice aranager spied another ustomer and moved away with little undue haste.y perhaps & INSULTED.\u201cClubman and his wife don\u2019t speak.\u201d \u2018No.He happened to be home for dinner one night recently, and his wife rose in her place, and be- public may take it into their bead force a gan: Children, we have with us to.stock to a price inconsistent with its true night \"and Clubman has had a ficial means.Ultimately the Erouch ever since.'\u2014 Houston Postns It little barking for his annual vacation ?* * =» QUIZZING THE OFFICE MANAGER.He waa a simple faced man and he asked his questions rapidly and with apparently no great understanding of what he was 2 ding about.The office manager was, however, experienced In the matter of handlir g human were asked the man.\u2018does Can com- wenty points higher than its price Nothing has happencd to increase ls value 80 per cent.The same value existed then an now.Didn't you say PR It \u2018Public opinion of the value of a stock : pete.> Why ultimately?Why not all the \u201cBerause some certain small cop of the SPECIAL CRUISE Ha.ama, Panama Canal, Kingston, (Jamaica) and return to New York By the S.S.\u201cVictoria Luise\" (17000 tous) trem New York City April 30th 1913, EEE IL SEE \u2014 \u2014 THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 22, 1913.of foreign motor car factories Mr.A.Allen, manager of the Pope Hartford Motor Co.of Canada, brings to his position a thorough, practical knowledge of the automobile possessed by few in the business.Mr.Allen, was born in England in \u2014oh, well, he's a very young man yet and the importance of his position is atributetoother qualities than his mere age.He went to France when a young man to learn auto making and during several year's experience he worked in the famous Panhard and Napier factories.Then he left Europe for the United States and became connected with the Pope Hartford Company.Less than three years ago he established the Pope Hartford in Canada locating in Montreal.The remarkable growth of the company's business here is tribute to his energy.The Montreal agency at first was in a small store on St.Catharine street.But it quickly outgrew that.Last year the company located on University street with a fairly large garage and showroom.Now so much room is demanded for show purposes that the offices have been crowded out into the \u2018next door\u201d building, and the age is being enlarged.And the fost part of Mr.Allen's success lies in the part that he thinks it's all due to the Pope Hartford car itself, rather than to the \"man behind\" the selling of the car! »* % ONTREAL offers no better evidence of the astonishing owth of \u201cautomobile row\u2019\u2019 than Mr.A.Allen's ** history\" of the Pope Hartford agency here.The Pope! Hartford Co., is only nicely started on | its third season in Montreal\u2014the infant of its kind.The first season was begun late in the summer and but four cars were disposed of.Last year there were 51 Pope Hartfords sold in Montreal.\u201cI expect to make it 75 for this season, \u2019\u2019 Mr.Allen told me when talking over sale prospects.he Pope Hartford Motor Co.here also handles the Overland car selling from $1350 to $2,250 and the White trucks at $3,000 to $6,100.1 anticipate that our pleasure car sales in 1913 will be double what the were in 1912.Our truck sales will uadruple themselves.For March the selling record has averaged more than one car a day\u201424 to March 16 in fact.Mr.Allen says his deliveries are keeping pace with orders.Four cars promised for Monday of this week were on hand in the garage three days ahead of time.Judge Greenshields has purchased one of the company's finest motor cars a 6 cylinder 60 bp, combination Berlin touring car.Four Montreal duc- tors are also purchasers.Trucks have been sold to a number of prominent city concerns, already.Goodwins Limited, have bought two.The Owens Cartage Co., purchased a 3 ton truck: Stewart, the Westmount contractor, another 3 ton truck and the Imperial Tobacco Company Limited, a 5 ton truck.x OX OX \u2018The big firms who have any great amount of haulage are coming more and more to realize the economy and efficiency of the motor truck,\u201d eom- mented Mr.Allen.\u201cThe truck displaces 4 to 6 horses and covers the ound much more quickly, giving a ar more effective service.\u201d Apart from the general popularity of automobiles Mr.Allen attributes the remarkable increase in Pope Hartford sales to the establishment of the Pope Hartford service.\u201cWe nowgive Pope Hartford owners a real Pope Hartford service.We have factory experts here and a well equipped work shop.We are ina position to assemble two complete cars, were we required.Owners of cars quickly appreciate these facilities.**A8 yet there are really but two Pope Hartford agencies in Canada\u2014 Montreal and Toronto.But ultimate plans are for branching out over the entire Dominion, the Pope Hartford service being a part of the chain of agencies.**An interesting part of this season's selling hasbeen the direct sales through the Montreal branch of four Pope Hartfords in Vancouver, B.C.\u2018Every hour of the day our demonstrator's time is fully taken up, far in advance\u2014 that's a pretty good sign of how things are going\u2019 smiled Mr.Allenx # #* Meter Cars For Deputies.HE auto has scored again.Chief Tremblay of the Montreal Fire Brigade declares fire losses are bein kept down by the more prompt arriva of the fire men at the time a fire breaks out.To make fire fighting even more effective in Montreal he has put in a call to the city council for seven more automobiles\u2014for the use of the deputy fire chiefs.The Board of Control has approved his recommendation for the purchase of machines at $2,500 or for $17.00 in all.Chief Tremblay says the \u201cspread out\u2019 area of Greater Montreal has rendered the use of horses for the deputies impracticable.A deputy is required at the acene of the fire as quickly as possible, for the hetter handling of the brigade.It has been found by experience that horses cannot stand the long runs.# # # Edmonton te N.Y.Arrangements are now complete for the path-finding trip from Fdmonton Alberta to New York city.Hugh Duncan, Joha Radford, Stewart Martin.and J.W.Raitt will drive an automobile from Fdmonton to New York by way of Winnipeg, St Paul, Chi Detroit, Toronto, Ottawa, - and Montreal, starting early in May.They expect to be three montes on SCHOOLE D inthe most noteworthy Ww read Mr.Duncan thinks that the roughest part of the trip probably will be between Edmonton and Winnipeg, \u201cbut,\u201d he added, \u201conce we cross the boundary the superior highways in the central states will greatly make up for any delays by poor roads in the earlier stages of the journey.\u201cThe main object is to see what should be done to put the western roads into good condition in an effort to encourage eastern tourists to Visit our district and continue the journey to the Canadian Rockies.\u201d x % Detroit\u2019s Experience.I> view of the proposed autobus service in Montreal this summer Detroit's experience of the past week MAURICE P.SHEA.Of Shea Sales Co., Montrealwill be of interest.Mayor Marx has started a motor bus service, at a three cent, rate to see how such some scheme would work out in opposition to the Detroit United Railwaythe biggest day of the week for the bus line.There were 4,673 passengers who at three cents each paid $140, As the expense of operation was no higher than on other days, or less than $100 not including depreciation, it is evideni that the city did not lose money.\u201cIt makes no difference whether the city makes or loses anyway\u2019 said the Mayor the next day.\u2018\u2019Nobody has ever tried to figure out whether the police and fire departments, or the hospitals are making money for the city or not.The people demand them, and the city must have them.It's the same way with the \u2018bus line x x x As To Fines.Members of the Automobile Club of Utah at a recent meeting in Salt Lake City drew up resolutions protesting that the imposition of a fine of 850 as punishment for driving an automobile while intoxicated was entirely too light, and was likely to bring the law into disrepute, »* NH $900,000 for Roads.An expenditure of $900,000 on roads of Ontario during this year, $150,000 more than was spent in 1912 is being figured on by the Provincial Good Roads Department.Mr.W.A.Melsan, provincial engineer, of highways, said that the work would start early in the spring and two thous- sand men will be needed.The money will be spent in twenty counties.\u201c More Women Drivers.\u201cMore women will be seen driving motor ears this year than in any previous year in the history of the industry\u2019 is the declaration of R.N.Mosher of the Olds Motor Works.Nearly all the refinements this year have been those which make their appeal directly to the women, and which have in a measure heen brought about through woman's influence.| refer principally to the electric self- starting lighting and ignition system.\"\u2019 » # * THE LONG STROKE MOTOR.AN example of the remarkable ability of the long stroke motor to climb bille was given the best opportunity of a practical test when Giovanni Rietto, an Italian inventor, built & motor ear in which there was no change gears, or in other words, transmission gears, but equipped with an engine so constructed that the length of the stroke might be changed at will from 3°, inches to 10.3 inches, depending upon the lengthening of the stroke to produce the necessary power to take him through the dificult places and over the mountains to Switzerland.This odd car was made at Zurich in Switzerland, and after Rietto com- plated it, he started on a trip to Berlinis mountain-climbing so attracted the Society of German Automobile Engineers that they obtained permission to take the motor from bis car and place it on a block test.It took 1.400 revolutions of the short stroke to produce 14 of their rated horsepower, and only 400 revolutions of the long stroke produced the same effect.In other words, by increasing the length of the stroke approximately 2.8 times increased the power 3.times, While not generally understood, the A.L.A.M.rating admite or rather rates the long stroke engine proportionately \u2018The gases being confined \u201cthe , more power on slower engine speeds, it is also capable of carrying its power i much higher engine speeds than the \u2018pulse before the revolution cycle is j completed.Another feature of the i well known Auburn Car.Sunday was | starter, higher than the short stroke.Take, for instance, the case of two engines, ; one à four-inch stroke and the other a six-inch stroke.According to the | A.L.AÀ.M.rating, the four-inch stroke | engine must turn over 1,500 times a : minute to earn its rating, the six-inch ; stroke has only to turn over 1,000 revolutions to produce the same power.If you increase the number of revolutions of the long-stroke engine : to 1,500 revolutions the A.L.AM.! rating will give the long-stroke a fifty per cent.higher rating than the four- | inch stroke.From the economy standpoint, the four-inch stroke engine must take fifteen hundreds feeds of | gasoline to every 1,000 of the long stroke.The friction surfaces are just : the same to produce the same power | for the short stroke must travel pro- | : portionately faster, hence no increase | in the oil consumption.If anything, the showing is much in favor of the long stroke for the erank with its connecting rods and main bearings turn much slower developing the same power.A long stroke engine stays cooler than a short stroke because the charge before it is unloaded has caused the piston \u2018o come in contact with more radiating surface.The long stroke motor also ¢limbs hills better than the short stroke motor because when the charge is exploded, the effort or impulse Is given much more leverage over the crankshaft.Take for example, the long crank on a grindstone.Continued turning is | much easier with a long crank when there is a heavy tool resting upon it.longer get more effort out of each ence more power, and while stroke engine produces naturall charge, long on slower engine speeds, it is also capable of carrying its power load at short stroke, in other words, is really the faster engine, on account of the longer chance to get some of the im- long stroke is that thore is less valve opening and shutting to produce the same power, hence less valve-fre- quency losses.À x HK HONKS.Two more Marmons, have been sold by the Gareau Motor Car Co., in the city.One of them to Mr.B.Bernard, of Longue Pointe, who purchased a 4 cylinder 38 H.P.Touring, and Mr.Chas Bernier, who bought a 6 oylinder 48 H.P.Touring Car.Mr.Donat Lapointe, the proprietor of the company Brediets à bright future for Marmon Cars in the city.x x x Fred E.Ritchie, who sells the Henderson Car, in Montreal, has just completed arrangements to handle the This car will sell at 4 Cylinder, 40 H.P.$1650, and the 6 cylinder, 60 H.P., at $4,000.F.O.B.Montreal.The Henderson | continues to sell at $2,000 and $2,300, which are all equipped, electric self ete.x X% Whatever may be said about the Knight engine, no one will accuse it of wearing out quickly.From this standpoint, it is remarkable, what some of these engines have done in the way of mileage, and the splendid condition the engine has been in, when overhauled.We know of one Knight engine, that has covered over 20,000 miles, and shows absolutely no signs of wear whatever.While there does not seem to be much improvement in engines, the lot of them being pretty much the same as last vear, with the exception of \u201cminor changes, the present poppet valve engine, is admitted to be far from the ideal.The Knight seems to be the only different kind used in any large measure.Some of the American companies using this engine, are the Stoddard Dayton, the Stearns, the Columbia, the Atlas Edwards Co.and others.The Clement Bayard, Panhard and Levassor, and the Minerva, of Belgium, are some of the big foreign firms that use this engine.x * , Mr.Frank Jaquith, of the Mitchell Motor Car Co.has arrived in Montreal, to take charge of the Bellerive Auto and Garage Co.Mr.Jaquith has had a wealth of experience in the motor car business, being with the Mitchell Co.for several years.They intend establishing a service dept.at an early date, and the show rooms and garage will be remodeled, and rebuilt.A mechanic from the factory will be in charge of the mechanical work in the repair shop.»* * od The Rochet-Schneider Automobile Co.are soon to remove from t esent location to 776 Mt.Catherine st.ir.Chatel, the manager, a man with a wide knowledge of auto conditions in Europe, and in Canada, states that expert service will henceforth be given to all owners of the Rochet-Schneider car.An expert mechanic from Paris has been brought over to attend to the work and the local car buyer will have nothing to com- lain of.There are at present about 24 ochet-Schneiders in the Province of Quebec and Alberta.Mr.Chatel states that while this car is foreign, with ail the fine work that goes with such, it ia built for Canadian uses, and to Canadian specifications.These cars sell at from 83.500 upwards.\u201d_# # The Newmastic Tire Cu.of Canada have Wrned quarters at 540 St.Denis street hile the ides of filling tires with a material to replace air may be new in Canada it has been in vogue for years in the Slates.Followi is a list of names of local cur owners who ve their cars Newmasticized Mr.J.KE.Robichaud, J.M Fortier, 3541 Mance, Rod.Langlois, 1368 Mt.Hubert P.H.Sauve, 16 Ave., Verdun, M Murphy, 404 St Catherine East.Thomas Brassard, 106 Chateauguay, Jus Bergeron.323 Seigneur, À, uc, 111 Delisle.A Condron.154 Berri.Jos Laurier, 377 Ontario East J.P.Coyer.8t.Joseph and #t.Lawrence Boulevards.J.H.Benoit, 1150 Wellington, À.F.Boucher.15 Boulevard 4t Laurent E Laframboise.Mance street.Jon.Bauvage 213 St.Ferdinand, Jon.Larrois, 643 Wellington, À.Brauvois.Rachel East.J.H.Paguia, ae pret of the pr ent company ie Mr.Rod Langlois Mr.K.Laframtoiss is we ent and general manager, and F.Trudeau the sec y-treas.* # Since the R-( if Corpors ios announced a new coupe.à pop ty ia with that gained by other Bt -H models hes bros prov moted.The new coupe is ome of the most attractive cars of this tvne.A.E.FLETCHER Beldge Ave.and Notre Dame tt.LACHINE.SPECIAL AGENT FOR Saturday Mirror.S(T \u2018 \u2019 SN XEN EPP Sk ey\u201d This is the Cole \u201c50\u201d Electric eu | 2 Starting Touring Car.= $2650 AKE the purchase of your next motor car a domestic business transaction.Recall how you and the wife J builtthe home?You bought the lot where values were right and selected the architect on the strength of his reputation.You watched the lumbing \u2014 you planned the heating plant.You demanded nothing but \u201cbests\u201d in the entire construction.You left the social environment, the convenience and the interior decorations to her\u2014this was right.When it was all done two things had been satisfied\u2014a woman's intuitive appreciation of beauty and a man\u2019s cold business judgment.It's a combination that can't be beat\u2014take it with you when you go to buy your next motor car.After a careful investigation of the Cole, and other cars as well, your preference will be The New Series Eight No difference in quality\u2014merely diamonds of varying karat Cole \u201c40\u201d 116-inch wheel base, Delco .Electric Starter, completely $ 2 2 50 F rec D emonstration Before you buy your next Car equipped - come in and see a Cole\u2014Get a E ole of 3 7 122-inch wheel base Delco ectric Starter, completely $2650 Free Demonstration \u2014 Let us give you the Cole principle of equipped - - 60\u201d 132- construction in detail.The ew Cole six cylinder : WwW , Electri Starter, completely equippes 1$ 3 2 5 0 Auto and Garage, Limited Sales Department: Cor.Ontario and St.Denis Street F000 0000000 nu WHAT THE \u201cNEWMASTIC\u201d IS AND ITS ADVANTAGES NEWMASTIC IS USED AS A SUBSTITUTE for air ia auto tires.NEWMASTIC is the solution of the problem which all car owners have long been looking for.NEWMASTIC absolutely does away with blow-outs, and the consequent delay taken in repairs.Ina word, IT AFFORDS TRAVEL COMFORT.Ae What \u2018\u201cNewmastic\u2019\u2019 Does NEWMASTIC inflates your tires with a solid, resisting rubber material, which takes the place of the air.It keeps the tire level at all times without pumping, thus prevents}blowouts and rimcuts, the usual trouble to car owners.It adds to the tire two or three timeaithe life that is usual when air is used.What We Do We fill jour air chambers with NEWMANTIC at a reasonable figure.Further, we give ou our triple guarantee.Demountable rims or wheels may be delivered to us, or the car may brought to our factory.where the work will be completed within 24 hours, \u20140)UR GUARANTEE 1.If not satisfactory, absolutely, after thirty days, the filled tubes may be returned to us and we will refund the price.2.NEWMASTIC will resist until there is a hole across the tire large enough to be opened and closed when the wheel is in motion.3.NEWMASTIC will not become hard by cold or usage.For four years the above guarantee of NEW MASTIC has been in force in the United States.We ask.how could we guarantee NEWMASTIC if it was not a success and a material of the finest quality?NEWMASTIC is manufactured in Montreal by a Canadian Company, of which the Managing Directors are Messrs.Trudeau and Laframboise, prominent real estate mea.Write to-day for our Pamphlet.which will give you full information about \u2018\u2018Newmastic.\u201d THE NEWMASTIC TIRE C0.OF CANADA LIMITED 540 St.Denis Street \u2018Phone East 4263 + \u2014\u2014\u2014l Le de EDTA pac.AB j ] | SANRIO AID vy: 2 THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 22, 1913.The Motor Boat Show Keen Interest in the Exhibition to Open at the Arena, Saturday, March 29th.Mr.Hugh Knox in his 25 h.p.Ferro Launch, Helen 11.A PRIZE WINNER AT STE ROSE.D° you own a motor boat?It you don\u2019t it\u2019s a fairly safe gamble that you wish you did, and with good reason too, for of all the methods of marine locomotion which have up to date been invented, the most fascinating by far is that of the gasolene engine propelled launch, which puts you near enough to the water to be able to apprecicte the fact that you are travelling through it at\u2018a good clip, while it is almost as safe as an Atlantie liner.and can be made quite comfortable.The waters around Montreal, more particularly on Lake St.Louis and the Upper St.Lawrence and Ottawa rivers are particularly suitable to the use of the gasolene launch, either for short runs between points not far apart or for long trips which may take a week or a fortnight This being the case it is not surprising to find that the number of motor boats owned and operated around Montreal is increasing by leaps and bounds each year.In this case the motor boat has a distinct advantage over the automobile, which is handicapped by bad roads.Any inland water that is deep enough to give clearance suits the motor boat.TALE of Napoleon Bonaparte, the man of destiny, and the poor pitiful woman whom he made his queen and whose heart he later broke, is told in \u201cJosephine\u201d a coming multiple reel feature.The story is one of the strongest in history, abounding with the glory of Napoleon's brilliance and an irresistable pathos.It will be seen at the Strand.Eugene de Beanharnais and his widowed mother, Josephine come to the great General on his return from his Egyptian conquests to ask a favor.Captivated by her graces he accedes to their prayers.His admiration for Josephine grows and finally urged by hia closest friend he proposes and wins her hand if not her heart.They are married and soon afterward he is writing her from Italy many letters full of love and begging her to come to him.She starts out but stops at Milano, where in the Servandani Palace, drowned in the tumult of festivities she forgets her husband.Bonaparte comes himself to Milano to upbraid her for her unfaithfulness but he weakens Lefore her fascinating gaze.The famous general becomes Emr and though still loving Josephine is flery passion is extinguished.Vast projects and ambitions fill his head while he neglects his wife.Divorce and a new marriage alone can bring the realization of his plans and to attain his ends he does not hesitate.In the World of Films.STRAND Moatreal Photoplay Theatre de Luxe Menday-Tuesday.- Wednesday \u201c Musgrave Ritual,\u201d last of the Sherlock Holmes series.The Vengeance of Heaven Two Reels.Gamont Weekly snd many other pictures.Thersday-Friday-Sat.& Sunday JOSEPHINE, or\u2018 More than Queen\u201d Victorien Sardou\u2019s masterpiece.First tin.e shown in moving pictures, besides regular program.WILLIE RCKSTEIN, - Planiet MR.HENDERSON, ~ Baritone MISS BROWN, « - Vielimist Becoming More Popular.In spite of the natural advantages Montreal and district offers for this class of craft this city is still behind most of the large cities of the United States which offer even less opportunities in the number of boats owned.Signs are not lacking however that the Montrealers are waking up to their privileges, and after the coming Motor Boat Show dealers expect to have a rush of orders which will increase the number of boats owned in Montreal by 50 per cent.The two boats illustrated herewith the Helen II owned by Mr.John Knox, and run by him on the waters around Ste.Rose is already well known among the Montreal motor boat coterie.The boat is a Pyke- Putnam product, with a 25 h.p.Ferro engine, and built to accommodate anything from two to a dozen people.She combines luxury of fitting and accommodation with speed, and won several races at Ste.Rose last year.The second boat is a new model which has not yet been launched in Montreal, but which is expected to be a very popular model with enthusiasts who purchase this year.She | The abandoned Josephine retreats to Malmaison.The Emperor's victories are succeeded by defeats of which Josephine hears, though fearing to believe the rumor.And in a last outhurst of love, perhaps the most sincere in her | life, she salutes the image of the fallen ; giant and sacrifices herself to save im, * x # HE far north is the setting chosen for a two-reel Vitagraph special shown in Montreal for the first time Wednesday, March 19th, entitled \u201cThe Strength of Men.\u201d old story of two men and a girl in a new and thrilling manner.Jan Larose and Clarry O'Garry fall in love with Marie Cummings, the daughter of a lumber foreman.Jan discovers gold and stakes his claim which is restaked later by Clarry.At the recording office it is found impossible to settle the dispute and it is agreed that the men make a simultaneous start, the one reaching the claim first to take possession.© race through surging rapids and whirling torrents is a terrific one.When they traverse one stream they are obliged to make a portage across land to the next.hile crossing the last piece of land the forest is seen to be in a blaze and Jan and Clarry meet in the fiery and smoking furnace and engage in deadly.battle.Both men are Injured and sooner than be cremated by the insatiable flames, decide to help each other to safety.After weeks of care and nursing both recover from their injuries.All anger and animosity have eft them and they seek Marie's hand with friendly nvalry.When she makes Jan her choice Clarry congratulates him and is glad to admit that Marie's happiness is his own.The agree to share the claim and work it together.* * in a Looking Glass\u201d is a the popular ft.Lawrence street theatres.In return for $50,000 Mrshouse, marries her beautiful daughter Lena to Baron von Bulow, a member of the fart set.The Baron tires of his new toy within a year and upon her refusal to mingle with his guests in their baochanalian feats, tells her of the shameful barter when he bought hr from her mother.Frenzied, Lean rushes to her mother for confirmation of the story and on learning it is true, vows to make the world pay for her suffering.She soon becomes the gayest one at her husband's gay parties and pretending infatuation for a jockey, obtains à divorce and enough money to make her independent.8 \u201cThe Battle of NICKEL.SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY An Exciting MILITARY DRANA\u2014In Twe Parts.Bioody Forge\u201d As A sensational three part drama | booked here for a first run at one of RE CENT addition to the staff | becomes a social juggernaut, ruining : : clone.to brave the worst of the elements, is a Luxocraft, also a Pyke-Putnam model and will be exhibited at the coming show.Primarily a famil boat, with plush upholstering and all the fancy trimmings which go to make life on board worth living, she has a very fair turn of speed and with her 25 h.p.Ferro engine can show her heels to most craft of her size and horsepower now running.Utility as Well as Pleasure.While most people think about motor boating a purely summer pleasure, there are certain hardy souls who are prepared to travel abroad in these craft in colder days.In order to test the bad weather abilities of the auxiliary motor boat Ferro, Messrs.Putnam and Sills made a trip down the Gulf of the St.Lawrence last October in which they encountered gales and snowstorms enough to satisfy the most weather beaten mariner who ever run a schooner into a ey- Their voyage however served to prove the ability of the small craft and they declare themselves perfectly satisfled with their experience, while admitting that they were mighty glad to get into a warm bed after they returned to Quebeci ! all she meets, until finally she falls in \u2018love herself, marries the man of her choice, Algy Balfour,and tries to live a new life.Her meeting of a former associate and the spoiling of her , plans and her final suicide make a dramatic finish to a terribly thrilling , picture, It tells the | 1 % HERLOCK HOLMES is billed for the present week in \u2018The Mus- .| grave Ritual\u201d and this time the master | Uned \u201cfox \u2018che MISS OLIVE S.PINCKNEY Appearing in Briam Pictures.detective solves the mystery by notin | the strained expression on the face one maid servant in a group of six.The film is said to be equally as exciting as others of this popuiar series, which are being shows LM the Strandof players of the British American Film Mfg.Co.Ltd.of this city is Despard, a partner in a gambling ' Misa Olive 8.Pinckney, & woman of considerable experience on the legitimate stage.She will igure in many \u201cBriam\u2019\u2019 pictures and was in the cast of \u2018*\u2018Madeline de Vercheres'\u2019 an historical feature filmed at the company's camp at Johnstone's Point last week.This picture will be released in about two weeks.+ » Some good pictures that will be shown in local electric theatres very shortly inolude \u2018\u2018Tigris,\u2019 a detective drama; \u2018\u2018\u201cTamandra, the Gypey.\u201d \u201cThe Theft of the Secret Code,\u201d \u2018\u2019Restitution.\u2019 and \u2018A Cursed Inheritance, or Sins of the Father.\u201d * 0%» ! | | were less than six exhibits which included | totals something over 125,000 square feet.u : something on their cars which in the belief of thelr itself, but also impairs the efficiency of the \u201cThe Battle of Bloody Ford,\u201d another of those stirring dramas of the American civil war is a current picture : of unusual merit.The heart pull of | the ever present romance is strong and the three leading characters, a « two men, are well played.t probably be seen at the Niekel.* ® 0» \u2018Pauline Cushmaa\u2014 The Spy\" this remarkable drama, founded on one of the most unique incidents of Civil War history, is unquestionably the test feature of its kind ever voed, will he a feature at the Strand beginning next Monday.Autographs.ICENSING of automobile drivers is the object of an amendment to the Motor Vehicles Act.proposed by Geo.H.Gooderham, MPD.in the Ontario Legislature.After one conviction for breaking the Act, the Police Magistrate is to have power to revoke the license for such time as he may see fit.Interchange of license privileges for limited periods with neighboring States is another feature.About 2,000 licenses are issued every year to non-resident owners.By permitting a thirty-day interchange of license privileges Mr.Gooderham contends that tourist parties will be induced to travel through the Province.* x*E* \u201cThe American public demands mor?of motor car manufacturers than is demanded abroad.\u201d \u2018American automobiles are more powerful and sturdy than English and uropean cars.\u201d \u2018Greater driving facility and riding | convenience are offered in American cars.\u201d A.J.Neerken, body engineer of the Packard Motor Car Company, makes the foregoing comparisons of the ex- | hibits on this side and those of the | London and Paris shows, which he recently attended., \u201cThis year's show proves that the six-cylinder motor has been accepted as the exclusive type for high-grade and American cars,\u201d said Mr.Neerken.\u201cMost of the cars exhibited in London and Paris were four eylinder of low horse-power.The American motorist takes pride in conquering all grades aud every sort of road, and he dislikes to drop into low speeds.Abroad they don\u2019t seem to mind the bother.A more flexible, rugged car\u2014the car with stamina\u2014is demanded in this country.\u201d * One of Detroit's leading makers is working on cars for racing for 1914 and will probably make no attempt to enter the fleld during 1913.These cars will be given a thorough try out during the coming year and the manufacturer in question.who refuses to allow his name to be mentioned, says that it is the intention of his company to go after the lead in the fleld of racing and touring contests when a start is made.x, *E» \u201cBob\u201d Burman, the \u201cspeed king.\u201d is working night and day to prepare his Keeton car for the Indianapolis mile race and is on the job from early morning until late at night, either at the Keeton factory in Detroit or at the factory of the Wisconsin Engine works, at Milwaukee, where he is assembling the motor, which is manufactured there : after the design of Forrest M.Keeton and his enginecrs.x # *# .After îts many years of service Hupmobile No.88, which has been made famous through the frequent tours and record runs of Howard Watrous of Detroit, is to be made more famous as Mr.Watrous has fitted his little car out in full racing alia and will enter the runs and tours of the Wolverine Club, including the Indiarapolis tour for the race May 30.x x ¥ \u2018\u2019The Brooklyn automobile show furnishes a striking example of the vogue of the six- cylinder car,\u201d says .Burke of the Mitchell Motor Company.\u2018\u2018Last year there six-cylinder models, while this year fully 90 per cent.of the exhibits have one or more sixes.\u201d Qur output of \u2018sixes\u2019 has increased yearly.We now rank as the largest builders of this type in the world, our output for the past year exceeding by a good margin that of any other manufacturer.\u2019 * x 0» 15 Ih CIEE VO en ts 0 .A Slightly Used « ALCO\u201d 6-Cylinder, 7-Passenger, 60 H.P.1912 MODEL New, $9,500 ; NOW, $7,000.We have a rare bargain for someone who will not object to usin a second-hand car.It has been run less than 6,000 miles, has (two) bodies, à 7-passenger Limousine and a 7-passenger touring body, has been overhauled, and is in A No.1 condition throughout.The tires are in fine condition and are almost new.The well known \u2018\u2018Aleo\u2019\u2019 Guarantee goes with this car, the same as a new one.Demonstrations by appointment.MONTREAL LOCOMOTIVE WORKS, Lite West 4238 4280 ST.CATHERINE STREET WEST.1 Purchaser Sold for $500 1 Purchaser Won't Sell Under $600 That the big production programme out- R.C.H.Corporation for this would be carried to completion was | assured last week when arrangements were | completed whereby the now management | provided sufficient working capital to permit amply for the carrying out of its sales and production plans.* Buildin Coating over a quarter of a million dollars have n added to the factory of the Chalmers company during the last year.The plant is now one of the largest and most completely equip in the world.The total floor space of the new bulldings * # # H.D.W.Mackaye has received the ape pointment of special factory representative of the Keeton Motor Co., of Detroit, and will make a novel business trip starting March 1.Mr.Mackaye will travel in his Keeton car, croming New York state several times during the next three months, calling upon the trade.»* x # From successes tered by Studebaker dealers at the local shows this winter, Sales Manager Benson of the Studebaker corporation predicts a new mark for automobile distribution in 1913, Detroit, 57: Buffalo, 31: and Minneapolis, 75, are the retail records of sales inside BtuCebaker spaces during the respective weeks.\u201c # \u2018\u201cSeif-Starter Facts\u2018' is the title of & booklet just issued by the Buick Motor Co.The occupies the position of standing net the demands of a purchasing public in their unqualified refusal to neers not only lacks efficiency in Motor.» #« * Mr.Arthur C.Windham, a Calgary ranch- or who was East this year attending the Auto Shows says that the auto is regarded as an absolute necessity on the prairie by all progressive ranchers.Lighter cars with convertible tops which may be quickly pressed into service for hauling supplies were the popular order.The auto was found more congenial for a twenty five-mile jaunt than a saddie.The social life of the rancher was materially aided by the car, and he believed that motor-vehicies would come into general use on the flat country.KELLY TIRE COMPANY, LIMITED.puBLIO Notice is hereby stren that under the First Part of ter 79 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1006, known as \u201cThe Com es Act,\u2019 letters patent have been under the Seal of the Becretar of State of Canada, bearing date the 26 day of February, 1913, incorporating Errol Malcolm McDougall, John Jennings Creel- | man and Pierre Francois Caagrain, tes, | Joha Buchanan Henderson, cierk, and Flor- .stenographer.ail of the | (ir of Montreal in the Province of Quebec, | (b) T ply for tain, register, | : 0 y oO ' .lease or | on royalty or other- | to ia of or otherwise to account any meen proces and (ee bin, of any Such 8 e or any euc erty or i©) Notwithe the provisions of section 44 of the said Act, to purchase and acquire and to bold.own sell.with or ithout guarantee.the shares any manufacturing ng om business similar to that of thie compaay.and to amal- ! an y compeny comstituted for carrying om of any \u20ac business, and to ecquire by purchase, lease or otherwise and an ratéon .(d) or any part Manitidies of any d_ ailied or other company carry! 1 Purchaser Refuses to Sell And Our Highest Price Lot is $290.00.This should convince any thinking person that when they buy lots in \u2018\u2018Lake Shore Annex\" North Bay, they get real value.APPLICATIONS FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA TO PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND have been received at our offices.The largest Firms and business men are investigating our proposition.THR FACTS backed by Government announce ments published in our ads have aroused the thinking investors to the necessity of buying our)property.LET US PROVE EVERY FACT.It is to your interest to buy property where prices rise through re-sales and not by our artificially raising them.{SEND FOR OUR BOOK \u2018\u2018REAL VALUE.\u201d )| The F.N.Amey Realty, Limited 101 Coronation Bidg., The P.N.Ainey Realty Ltd., 101 Coronation Bldg, 8t.Catherine St.W.MONTREAL.Send me \u2018Rasa VaLus.\u201d St.Catherine and Bishop st.Address.MowTasaL 8.Mrnnon 22.3.13.Phone Up.6362.2eme non-assessabie any shares, debentures or | other obligations: to do any and all acts and things tending to increase the value of an other securities of this company ia payment or ay ment any property, con Aghia ares, debentures or securities of any other company which this company may acquire for the purpose of ite business: (f) T remunerate any soû, firm or com services rend , or to be rend to company in placi or assisting to teeing the ing of any fi the company's capital, or an the property at an time held or con by the company: (J) To sell, lease or otherwise dispoee of property and undertaki © | of the company or any part thereof in sack y for | manner and for such consideration as the the | may think fit, and in particular for partly paid up) deben stock or securities of any other y.whether promoted by this company bentures or other securities of purpose or not: (k) To improve.mag- or In or about the formation or promotion | age, develop, exchange.leases.dispose the company or the conduct of its business, | turn to account or otherwise deal with all i and with the approval of the shareholders to any part of the property and rights of the lesue, allot deliver as fully paid up and company and to distribute any of the com- any shares or Fhe capital y pany's property among the members in pocie.(D To Invest and with the mostes the com y not immediately required in such securities as may from time to time be determined upon; (m) To acsept In payment of any work done by the rompeny stock, shares.bonds, debentures or other serurities of any company: (n) To do ail or ny of he ore things either 8a prind non stock of the company in payment or part payment for services so rendered.(g) To promote or assist in promotin, on or having for its object the operation any business altogether or in part similar to that of this ein romaine such Sompeay.fully a .com y.> or securities of said out ; (h) To enter into na or arrangement for sharing te.union of interest, joint adventure, reciprocal ouacession otherwise with aay : ë i 22 Es i | E 3 FLE ; k | ; 5 i { say corporation any of w dollars each of bust capital miock, bonds or ter obligations are the said company te be 8% the Oly of d'or are in any manner guaranteed by the tresi, ia the Province of Quebec Company to Aerated {he commen ay oe Coats So tek She Secreery of suc! corporation.acts aie anade this 30th day February, things for the prwservation and protecties, 18.THOMAS MULVEY, Under-Seaotacy of osteo. 16 THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 22 1913.Sports Aud Pastimes.LTHOUGH itfis]going on for two | months before there can possibly be any International League baseball in Montreal, the daily papers are devoting consid erable space to what they call \u201cdope.\u201d (quite an apt description, too) and old pie- tures, some of them almost- moth-eaten, describing at length the possibilities and probabilities appertaining to the Montreal Baseball club during the season 1913.All professional sports have to be advertised, of course, but I doubt if any professional sport is so blatantly, absurdly and unnecessarily advertised as is professional baseball.If Heinie Sehmidt the peerless third sacker has : aningrowing tue nail, itis worthat least a two column head, and should Jakey Snigglefritz the spit-ball heaver develop growing pains in the arm, an extra edition is almost sure to herushed off the press to do justice to the ocea- sion.In these days professional baseball gets more free advertising than anything else on earth.with the possible exception of the theatres.If the amateur sportsmen who play games were one half as assiduous in their courtship of the newspapers as are the professional gentleman who simply make money out of somebody else's playing, most of the troubles which now beset amateur sport would vanish into thin air, x x HK IR THOMAS LIPTON and most Englishmen declare themselves surprised at the New York Yacht Club's refusal of the genial sailor knight's challenge for the America Cup.It is alto- ether likely that Sir Thomas and most other Englishmen merely express surprise as a matter of form,and not because they really feel it.The experiences of the past few years must have taught most British yachtsmen what to expect, or rather what not to expect from any challenge which proposes to give the English challenger an even chance to lift the cup.The daily rewspapers declare that Sir Thomas, on hearing of the refusal said he was tempted to almost doubt the sportsmanship of the present holders of the America\u2019s Cup, and the London Times printed an editorial on the matter.Finally of course Sir Thomas and the rest of Englend will wake up to the fact that sportsmanship in the British sense is something that simply doesn\u2019t exist in the United States.You can\u2019t blame the United States for this.They simply don't understand it.They got the cup.All right, they'll keep it.By fair means, if convenient.But, anyway, het your hoots they'll keep it.Sir Thomas, if he really wants the cup, would be well advised to giveup writing challenges.A quicker way would be to hire a few New York gunmen at whatever the market rate may be just now, and blast it loose with dynamite.»* a HIS is the in between time.and a very uncomfortable one for the average sportsmen who has to take his sport as he finds it and cannot afford for instance to leave Montreal and go to Bermuda at this time of year in order to secure a little summer We something to fill in these in enjoyment in advance.badly nee between periods.It is too warm for skating, and not warm enough for anything else.Merely an a suggestion thrown out at random, how would it do to organize a new yacht elub and hold a few varht and motor boat races on Craig street?* * # I am informed that the Crusaders Association Foothall team.which is affiliated with the Second Division League of the P.Q.F.A.is looking for a good centre forward.and some half backs, This club aims especially I am told, to interest office men in the association game.Anybody interested send \u2018ommunications to this office and I will see that they reach the right parties, \u201c # # Hf the report that the Y.MC A.in Westmount has banned boxing in its gymnasium ix true it is only another that some misguided persons in charge of the Y.M.C.A in Montreal are anxious to have the Young Men part of the title altogether eliminated.Renourcefulnens.A Scottish tourist, walking about the atreetsof Paris, some distance from his hotel, found he had taken a wrong turning.and.to make things worse, he could not.through ignorance of the language.ask the way Thena happy thought «truck him.By dint of signs he concluded a bargain with a fruit hawker for a basketful of goose berries, and then, to the amazement of everybody, went about shouting \u2018Fine Scotch grossets' À penny a pret This went on for a while, ol a ellow country man rushed forward and asked : \u2018\u201c Mon, d'ye think ye'rr in the streets of Glesca, that ye gang about like a madman erying te?\" \u2019 the hawker, with a sense of relief, \u2018\u2019ye're just the man Î was looking for.D'ye ken the way otal?\u2019 cr] IN the Around the H gs Size A long after dinner smoke.39¢ per package.Armouries Major General Cotton.NDOUBTEDLY the most notable event of the past week, in Militia circles, was the visit of the Inspector General, Major General D.H.Cotton.Accompanied by Col.Denison.commanding the4th division, and Col.Stewart, assistant director of supply and transport, General Cotton commenced a tour of inspection of the armouries, arms and accoutrements of the various units in the city, on Wednesday, the 12th, and completed the inspection on Friday.General Cotton received the appointment of inspector general early this year: This was his second official visit sinee his appointment, 80 that Montreal cannot complain of any neglect on the part of the Inspeetor.The general has served with the Canadian Militia since 1S66, when he joined the Garrison Artillery at Quebee as a 2nd Lieutenant.and is throughly competent to handle the important and difficult appointment of \u201cInspector General.\u201d #* #% # Additional Hints.Rumours have been rife, for some time, as to the probable formation of two new units in Montreal in the near future.It is confidently expect ed that one of these will be the addition of another Battery to the 6th Brigade, Heavy Artillery.The composition of the 2ud new unit is less certain, though a new Regiment is anticipated in some quarters, and that it will be a French organization! We think the pro- balibities are that all that will take place, in this regard.is the probable enlargement of the 83th Regiment to double its present establishment, and thet the mooted new armoury to he built on Park Lafontaine will be used as a home for that Corps.This would come to much the same thing as a new Regiment, and is more practicable, than the formatiion of an entirely new unit.All speculations are Likely to be settled in the near future, as the Department of Militia usually issues the necessary authorization for new units, towards the end of March.These increases if they materialise, will still further emphasise the importance of settling the armoury question.As matters now stand there is not proper accommodation for the present e