Saturday mirror, 3 mai 1913, samedi 3 mai 1913

[" Lo IA 0 Vol 1 No.14.Published by THE MONTREAL PUBLISHING Co.Limited, 278 Craig Street West./ x A / | \u2019 he Saturday MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1913 Thro\u2019 the Looking Glass SOME weeks ago I suggested that Dr.Friedmann would give Dr.Munyon a run for his money.And he has! x OX OX # AFTER all, a speech by William Jennings Bryan is a good substitute for champagne and almost as intoxicating.¥ OK OK OK HAVING smashed the government over the Naval issue, the Opposition press is now engaged in breaking up Mr.Borden\u2019s cabinet.x X H X pERHAPS Monday night's \u201cearthquake\u201d was merely Montreal\u2019s army of 30,000 householders getting ready for the Mayday moving.¥* OK x Kx THE Jingoists are now at work stirring up strife between Uncle Sam and the Japanese, but I do not anticipate they will meet with much success.x x #X x E have heard a lot about town planning in the last two years or so.This generation is magnificent in planning, but sadly deficient in executing.x % x # MONTREALS workers are so busy this year that the Socialists had to abandon the idea of calling a general Mayday strike.That\u2019s a good sign.x #% % IF all other signs were lacking we should still know that spring had arrived from the fact that the city has begun tearing up the Sherbrooke street roadway.x x X # A member of the Gazette staff escaped without othe injury than a risible tendency in the region of the scalp \u2014 Montreal Gazelle.[LAUGHED in his hat, instead of his sleeve, evidently.x % #X * THE Yorkshire Post remarks that wealthy Canadians are beginning to transfer their social interests from Canada to Great Britain.Help! An export duty, Mr.Borden, please.x x X X PREMIER GOUIN observes on his return from abroad that the frequent alternation of ministries in France makes for the strength of the republic.Now, in Quebec, ah, hem! x OX OH OX M2 HARRY KAUFMAN of the Feature Film Company of Canada, writes me: \u201cI have read with much pleasure your article in the defence of Satan.\u201d Oh, I trust I did not go that far! x #% % % IF I had made a practice of going around in low shoes and silk stockings on a windy day with the thermometer at 62 1 should have been dead long ago.But then I belong to the stronger sex.x * * %* THE Suffragettes are to be congratulated on the fact that Henri Bourassa thinks Quebec women can get along without votes.This at least leaves the way open for Sir Lomer Gouin to take the opposite view.w #H OK # FARL GREY is teaching the Londoners how to get a physical and mental midday meal all within sixty minutes\u2019 time, having learned the trick while a guest of the numerous Canadian clubs in Canadax # X Xx LON DON Truth speaks of the Pankhurst campaign as a comedy.Probably those who have suffered financial loss from the attacks of the militants, as well as the self-made martyrs in the English jails, are wondering where the laugh comes in.x # X # HIS week's prize in the Greatest Stretch of the Imagination Competition is awarded to Mr.A.Phan, St.Francois Xavier street, for the following: \u201cImagine a championship pennant flying from the flagstaff of Atwater Park!\u201d x OH OX # RTIE McMANIGAL, the dynamite informer, will undergo a surgical operation for the purpose of altering his physiognomy as soon as he is released from prison.What is more important for Ortie, however, is to secure a complete change of character.x # x Xx HILE the English militant suffragettes have brought upon themselves the reprisals now being enacted by the Government, it is to be doubted whether the suppression of free speech and a free press will work to the Government's advantage.Those tactics have been tried in the past with ill success.* % % # SIR EDMUND OSLER says that he has been in Parliament for seventeen years and only heard a dozen s hes worth hearing.1 should like to know now whether any one of those speeches changed Sir Edmund's opinion on the subject under discussion.x # # *# NOT for worids would the Herald mention that one Mr.Fox has made some recommendations in d to the tramways service.Wild horses could not drag from the Star the admission that Mr.McDonald has made a few suggestions touching on the same subject.! * # x #* ME J.H.ROBERTS protests against the Mayor's acquittal of Chief Campeau on the charges referred by Mr.Roberts.Good gracious! Didn\u2019t His onor ask the chief if the charges were true, and didn\u2019t the chief say they weren't?What more does Mr.Roberts want?« # # # M?ROBERT'S latest request, according to the daily press, is for permission to cut off the corner of our sidewalks in order to facilitat® the turning street cars.Having asked for shout everything on the earth beneath, Mr.Robert's attention will doubtless pext be turned to the Heavens above for future favors.$250\u2014SEE PAGE 13.THE estate of Will Carleton, the American poet who wrote \u201cOver the Hills to the Poorhouse\u201d and who died a few weeks ago, has just been inventoried.The inventory shows that Death only just forestalled the fate of Carleton\u2019s subjects from overtaking their creator.Carleton was just $75 worse off than nothing when he died.x x % OK APROPOS of the farewell of the Stanley street Presbyterians to their old church edifice it is recalled that the congregation was organized as a protest against those members of the Erskine church who wanted to instal an organ, and it is said that the new Stanley street church will have one of the best church organs obtainable.Which again illustrates the mutability of even our most violent prejudices.x KX # x MONG the news that isn\u2019t so printed in the Montreal dailies this week are items to the effect that King George will visit Canada in 1914, that three members of the Dominion Cabinet are about to resign, that the Niobe and the Rainbow are to be taken back by the British Admiralty and that Sir Thomas Shaughnessy has cabled plans for the expenditure of $100,000,000 on improvements to the C.P.R.This is not taking into account the \u201cwar news.\u201d And it wasn\u2019t a very good week for the news fakers at that.* KX Xx I the journalistic profession to get no protection at the hands of the film censors?I saw a \u201cpassed\u201d film this week in which an editor was portrayed as luring his rival in love into a gambling den and then having it { \u201cpulled.\u201d Inasmuch as this 1s calculated to bring into | disrepute a profession which is second only to that of the clergy in its responsibility towards the public, I have to ask that the license of this film be immediately withdrawn, and that henceforth editors be never represented except as persons of immaculate morals and im- | perial intellect.i | x x #% % ! AN English title is still a potent influence with the : plain American citizen, as witness this extract | i from a report of an interview with Mrs.Belmont of | New York, on her arrival in London, England: | With flashing eyes Mrs.Belmont spoke excitedly of the wrong done English women.Her \u2018 torrent of words almost submerged the interviewer.She waved her right arm occasionally and shouted until her voice became husky for three quart- | | ors of an hour with scarcely a pause.She discon- : tinued only when THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH arrived.Her voice dropped and she rosed quietly and greeted her daughter in soft and submissive accents.LE EE IT has been ascertained that while the fund for the relief of the families of the victims of the Scott | Antarctic expedition amounts to more than $250,000 none of it has yet been distributed and that Mrs.Evans, widow of Seaman Evans, is endeavoring to eke out an existence for herself and her three children on an income of $3.24 a week.The treasurer of the fund, Sir William Soulsby, says the custodians of the money are waiting to see what the Government is going to do before they act.In the meantime the destitute people for whom the money was subscribed may starve to death.You can\u2019t beat British red tape.i x WH \"A AISS ANGELA GAUTHIER was the winner of the adding machine contest at the Toronto Business Show.Itis not necessary to remark that Miss Gauthier is a French-Canadian, but ! may suy that there is not an employer in Canada, who has had any experience | with the work of French-Canadian girls, who will not admit that in delicate mechanical operations requiring \u201ccare and accuracy they are the finest workers on the continent.The efforts of the rapidly-growing Canadian \u201cknitting industry to bring back to Canada the girls who have been expatriated in New England mills are astounding, but they are as nothing compared with the efforts of the New England employers to keep them I there.x # # * A POLICE magistrate and reputable citizen in On- .tario is being prosecuted for bigamy, because he secured a divorce in South Dakota which is claimed to have no effect here upon a marringe which had been contracted in Ontario.This country contains a very large number of married couples in this precise position of uncertainty regarding the status of their relations.Many of them secured their foreign divorces upon grounds which would be regarded as perfectly valid for | a private bill in the Canadian Parliament, but aie deterred from taking that method of legitimising their position by the tremendous cost of that procedure.\"The rich, in such a plight, can protect themselves; the r may be condemned to dishonor, the destruction of their homes, and possibly a prison sentence.x # # * '\"'\"HE Montreal Star is greatly concerned hccause it fears that somebody is trying to make a hero out of \"R.C.Miller, the state priser at Ottawa \u2018\u2018The cold, \u2018hard fact remains that Mr.Miller is still incarcerated because he does not think it advisable to disclose some facts which Parliament thinks should be known in the public interest.This may not be romantic, but it has the distinct advantage of being true,\u201d says the Star.I don\u2019t know anything about any effort to make Miller a hero.My own opinion is that he is a badly-advised man.The cold hard fact remains that Miller is deprived .of his liberty without warrant of law.He is accused of no offense and has had no trial.His appearance before the bar of the House was farcical by-play.Miller: | | should engage other counsel.Hero or villian, be is en-' titled to his day in court.\u201c # ## NEWSPAPER circles in Montreal are discussing a frequently recurring rumor that the Montreal Witness is about Lo change hands and that the prospect- ' \u201cive sale will give Sir Hugh Graham, proprietor of the $250\u2014SEE PAGE 13.\u2018 school, then to that.has taken her to Los Angeles, Cal., and promised her a home.\u2018other kind and that unfermented grape juice is good \u2018brought up on corn pone and bacon he could have [16 Pages] irror.Five Cents.THE MILLIONAIRE\u2019S DAUGHTER WHO PINES FOR A HOME.This is a portrait of Romona Borden, daughter of Gail Borden, the millionaire condensed milk manufacturer, whose mysterious disappearance from school in Pompton, N.dJ.en was discovered living in a hotel in New Yorkabduction.Miss Bor said in explaining her actions.\u201cBut with all our wealth 1 I long for the comfort and security of scattered throughout Canada.Star, the control of that paper.The report lacks confirmation, and, in fact, is vigorously denied by those who are in a position to know.However, it has been known for some time past that the Dougalls would not be averse to disposing of their property provided that they could obtain a satisfactory price for it, and at the same time preserve the traditions long associated with the Witness.Sir Hugh's ambition to dominate the newspaper situation in Montreal is equally well-known, so it would not surprise newspaper men generally if it should turn out that there is some truth in the report.The Witness has made considerable advancement in the last year or two and is today regarded by many as one of the best newspapers in existence.Its difficulty has always been, however, that its appeal is to the classes, rather than to the masses, and the classes it appeals to are not numerous enough to yield very profitable support to a newspaper.* WH # HE fact that Secretary of State Bryan served unfermented grape juice at his first dinner to the diplomatic corps at Washington instead of the fermented kind to which the diplomats are more accustomed, gave rise to almost as much noise in the United States this week as did the discussion of possible consequences pon California's anti-alien land law.Some people hold Bryan's action to he pedantic and parochial, if not rank\u2018 discourtesy towards his guests.Bryan, however, explains that he was brought up on unfer- mented drinks, that he doesn\u2019t know how to use any for the brain.By the same token, if Bryan had been excused himself for serving only those delectable dishes to his and his country\u2019s guests in the same way.However, it is always the host's privilege to select the menu.When Aesop's fox invited the stork | to dinner he served the feast in a shallow dish.And! when thestork returned the complimentjehe invitcdthefox | to cat from à long-necked jar The diplomats can get | even with Bryan, if they wish, by serving nothing but alcoholic drinks when they invite him to dinner.And no doubt some of them can excuse themselves, as he did, on the ground that that is what they have been brought up on.\u201c # # * A Ottawa friend writes to advise me to bet no money on the Naval Act being passed.\u201cI have it on the best of authority,\u201d he says, \u201cthat the bill will never reach the Senate.\u201d He intimates that a compromise will yet be arrived at between the Government and the \u2018 Opposition.I don't know how much truth there is in the rumour.The Government certainly is not showing any undue haste in getting the Bill through the Commons.It was to have received its third reading last week, but I notice that it is now unlikely that the vote will be taken before next week or the week following.For my own part, I do not look for any compromise\u2014 none, that is, that will require the Government to surrender any essential part of its programme.Mr.Borden is not the kind of a man who puts his hand to the plough and then turns back.In ail his long Parliamentary career, I doubt whether anyone can point to an instance in which he has unequivocally declared himaelf on any issue and has later gone back on it.He is unlikely to do so this time.$250\u2014SEE PAGE 13., last week led to a great hue and ery and fears of an \u201cI am a rich girl and my father is rich,\u201d she have never known a home.1 have been sent first to this my own hore.That's why 1 ran away.Romona\u2019s mother Her father, Gail Borden, is the owner of several factories NE of the interesting developments of our proposed Naval vote is the indifference now displayed in Great Britain towards it.When the plan was first announced, the British press and public received the proposal with cordial enthusiasm.Of late there has been a marked tendency to lukewarmness manifested.Possibly the haggling that has taken place in Ottawa over the proposal has chilled the ardour of our British friends.It isn't pleasant to sit by, and listen to an argument as to whether you are to be made the recipient of a rather handsome present or of nothing at all.Had the naval grant been the spontaneous and unanimous offering of the Canadian people there is no doubt that England would have received it with generous appreciation and that its giving would have inspired Englishmen everywhere with an increased regard for Canada.Now the situation is changed.If the money is given at all it will be regarded by many in England as a gift given grudgingly.Besides, the amount proposed to be given \u2014835,000,000\u2014 has in some way dwindled in significance since it was first announced, It doesn\u2019t look nearly as large as it did, for instance, before Lloyd George announced his $975,000.000 budget last week.Probably England is looking at the proposed Canadian grant from the perspective of bigger things than what we are accustomed to in Canada, and it may not look quite as hig or quite as important there asit does here, * x» x AM distinctly pleased with the Hon.Winston Churchill's method of dealing with unsupported charges of corrupt practices, The other day Mr C.F, Hamilton, one of our most distinguished \u201cwriters for the press\u2019 at Ottawa, observed that the only decent course for men who talk about one another as our Canadian politicians do is to punch one another in the face as soon as they are out of sight of the Speaker, by way of showing that they take their own statements seriously.Mr.Churchill did not go so far as that, perhaps because the individual who impugned him was not handy: but his remarks, picturesque enough in themselves, gain enormously from the certainty that \u201cWinsome Winnie\u201d wouldn't hesitate a minute to reduce them to physical action if the opportunity arose.He was summoned before the Marconi Committee to answer questions arising out of the statement of a certain journalist, who had said that he \u201chad heard rumors, which he did not believe, that Mr.Churchill had had a flutter in Marconi shares.\u201d Mr.Churchill said that he had had no flutter, and he went on: \u201cIf anybody said mo that person is a liar and a slanderer, and if anybody repeated such 8 statement and stated that he believed it to be false the only difference between him and a liar is that he is a coward as well.\u201d After which there is not much scope left for further debate.The only difficulty about introducing this method of closing debate into (Canada is that everybody believes the Hon.Winston, whereas ® oR ON % O'R genial masor, the Honorable Louis Arsene Lavallee, has been investigating certain reports which have reached him in regard to the conduct of the police department and various other matters affecting the city's welfare.He has looked into complaints made against Chief of Police Campeau and he there is nothing to them.Chief Campeau himeelf told him so.He has investigated the charge that some members of $250\u2014SEE PAGE 13. 2 | the police department are under the pay of keepers of | disorderly houses and he finds the charge is false.Chief Campeau told him so.He has probed the accusation made against a civic employe that the civic employe | profited, in a questionable, manner, from the sale of some land to the city and he finds the civie employe is not to blame.The civic employe told him so.He! has had Commissioner Godfrey look into the charges | made by the fire underwriters regarding an alleged , shortage of pumps and he finds that there is no shortage of pumps.Commissioner Godfrey told him so.Here is the Mayor's statement in regard to these matters: Icalled upon Chief Campeauand asked him if he was connected with the Frisco company in any way, or if he had ever been connected with it.In reply the Chief said that, shortly after the company was formed his wife had taken some shares in it; but nearly two years ago she had sold out.Personally, he (the Chief) had never had a cent of stock in the company neither had he directly or indirectly tried to help the sale of the company\u2019s goods.He also stated that his son had worked for the concern for u couple of years.These were the facts brought out by the enquiry.1 heldanadministrativeenquiry into the charge that the police are receiving money for protecting disorderly houses, The chief of police assured me on his word of honor, that he was not aware of a single instance where the police took money from such houses.He would only be too pleased to punish any official who would be guilty of such a grave offence.As there were no direct charges either in this matter the enquiry I made could go no further.is » #94 + Inthe matterafthe civic employe, who sold land on Sherbrooke street to the city and made several thousand dollars profits, 1 called this official before me and investigated the facts.I considered that under the circumstances the man had made a satisfactory explanation.Controller Godfrey lookedinto the charges made by the Fire Underwriters in regard to the alleged shortage of pumps.Mr.Godfrey said that the charges were unfounded, and that an investigation was not necessary.When it comes to holding an inquisition Mayor Lavallee has the inquisitors of every age and nation backed off the boards.His honor brings the culprits before him, applies the thumbscrews and forces the horrid truth from their unwilling lips.It is not the mavor's fault if they are able to establish that it is their first offense and that they can prove an alibi.I have no patience with those people who are crying out against the Mayor's cruelty and inhumanity.I think that the circumstances call for stringent methods and 1 congratulate his honor upon his success in bringing these investigations to a satisfactory conclusion.In this opinion I have the support of Chief Campeau, of certain members of the Police Department, of certain civic employes, and of those responsible for protecting the city against fire.Pis be oo Lama mm « xx # X bhbHhÈE 0 \u201cThe Morality Squad under lImspector O'Keefe Tast night raided a disorderly house at 666 St.Blank street.Eleven persons were arrested, two men and nine women, and a large quantity of liquor found on the premises was geized.\u201d'\u2014 Extract from any Montreal daily paper almost any day.Vsome friends of mine took an apartment in what was to all appearances a perfectly respectable apartment-house in an entirely decent neighborhood, and moved in last week.They have already found that they have some most undesirable neighbors.They complained to the landlord, who said that he could do nothing about it; but on their threatening to take the matter into court he consented to the eaneellation of my friends\u2019 lease.Inquiry among neighbors elicited the information that the undesirable tenants were paying three times the regular rent.My friends have decided to leave Montreal and return to New York.\u201d - Extract from a letter to the Saturday Mirror from a lady reader.BETWEEN these two little items lies a big tragedy.The business of vice, driven out by persistent raiding from nearly all (but not quite all) of its old centres, is spread ng into scores of apartment houses both in Montreal and in Westmount, where it is doing more harm\u2014by exposing its temptations in the closest proximity to the homes of decent citizens and under the eves of their young ones\u2014than it ever did on Vitre street or St.Lawrence Main.If anvbody supposes that the traffic ix being suppressed under the present regime, any more than it wis suppressed under the toleration regime revealed by the Cannon Inquiry, they have another supposition due them immediately.No landlord who receives a rental grossly in excess of the regular housekeeping value of the property which he is letting ean possibly be in ignorance of the nature of the tenaney.If the practice of * hoving along the traffickers of vice is to be continued in this city and is to have any good results, it is absolutely necessary that the landlord who participates in the profits of the business over and above his regular rental shall be made as responsible ax the traffickers themselves, The letter from which the above is an extract is by no means the first complaint that has reached me on this subject, and probably every open-eyed citizen is as fully aware as I am that the most alluring and consequently most dangerous of the establishments of the trade are now to be found in small apartments scattered among the most respectable residential districts, The hardship to the ordinary tenants of the apartment- house is very great, especially where voung families are concerned; but apparently, if the landlord is willing to accept an extortionate rent from the disorderly persons as compensation for the lors to the reputation of his establishment, the ordinary tenant has no redress, There are, of course, a good many landlords who value the good reputation of their apartment-houses too highly to tolerate any evil practices but the supply of apartments in Montreal is not so overwhelmingly great that home-scekers can pick and choose with absolute freedom.And of course.segregation\u2019 continues to anathema maranatha in this pure and unaullied city.* Kk OR WH OME.day there will be trouble over the granting of the privilege of advertising on the cancellation marks of the Dominion Post Office, Originally this privilege was accorded only to institutions of a strietly public character, such as exhibitions controlled by municipalities or other public authorities.In Toronto it has now been extended to a Horse show, a very worthy undertaking but hardly one which should be bonused at the expense of the Post Office, If we must have advertising on our letters, let ua put the privilege up to auction and help to reduce the postal rates, be SP x # # # \u201cCivilization- What of rivilization?I apurn it, 1 make no secret of my opinions and | desire no hiding place to crawl into.Here, standing on my two feet, | declare that I care nothing for civihzation''\u2014Comrade W.T.Leach.socialist, at a Montreal public meeting.YES.but until you can defy civilisation standing on one foot and with one hand tied behind you, civilisation can afford to treat your threat with indifference.\u201c# # # ID a Toronto man when he heard that the Montreal fim censors had banned \u2018Satan\u2019: \u201cOh, the Devil!\u201d CADILLAC.THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MAY 3, 1913.The Week in the World Montreal.The Canadian Autobus Company announces that they will have fifty buses running on St.Catherine street by the end of June and two hundred on various lines before September.The company is capitalized at $10,000,000 and has a strong local and English directorate, with Duncan Me Donald as managing director.; The Harbor Commissioners announce extensive supplementary plans increasing the facilities for the accommodation of large vessels.; ; After making an \u2018administrative\u2019 enquiry into the charge that Chief Campeau was interested in the Frisco Soda Water Co., Mayor Lavallee decides the Chief was not implicated in any way.Alderman Ward, however, says he is determined the charge will not be permitted to drop.A slight earthquake was felt in the city and surrounding country about 7.30 p.m.last Tuesday.The McGill seismograph recorded a disturbance one quarter as severe as those caused by the tunnel blasting operations.Notice of & motion to reduce the city\u2019s water rate from five to four per cent.was laid before the City Council by Ald.Blumenthal.Because he had sold brandy to a ten-year-old boy, who became unconscious from the effects of drinking a portion of of the liquor, the liquor license of T.Monpetit grocer, corner of Chatham and Notre Dame streets was cancelled by the License Commissioners, Judge Bazin dissenting.The Canadian Government will tender Viscount Haldane an official welcome on the occasion of his visit next September.; The Publie Utilities Commission has decided not to move in the Tramways matter while the city and company are conferring.Canada.Sir Richard W.Scott, former Secretary of State in Mackenzie and Laurier governments and the futher of the celebrated Scott Act, died at Ottawa in his eighty-eight \u2018as can be expected.NEW PRESIDENT OF TWO OF MONTREAL'S LEADING CLUBS.Later her condition was reported to be very grave.The Government announce an annuity of $500 to Lady Scott, supplementing the Admiralty pension of $1,000.United States Ninety-seven miners lost their lives in a colliery explos- jon at Finleyville, near Pittsburg.Another enormous land-slide, said to be the worst in the history of the Panama Canal, has started at the Culebra cut.A crack situated 1,500 feet from the excavation has moved forward two feet and nothing can be done to prevent this mass of earth from entering the canal.Secretary of State Bryan gives a wineless dinner to retiring Ambassador Bryce and the foreign diplomats, causing humorous ridicule by the foreign press and excitement in Washington society.Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, Great Britain's new Ambassador to the United States, arrived in New York.; Dr.¥.F.Friedmann sells the American rights in his consumption cure for $125,000 in cash and $1,800,000 in the stock of thirty-six Freiderich F.Friedmann Institutes to be organized in thirty-six states.Having closed the business which brought him to America, he sails for Germany carly next week.By a vote of 13 to 1, the Senate Canal Committee decided tu postpone the regular December session of Congressional questions relating to Panama Canal tolls.Fire in Baltimore, Md., destroys an entire block on Sharp street, doing damage to the extent of $200,000.Secretary of State Bryan journeys to Sacramento to confer with Governor Johnson, of California, regarding the Alien Act, and a new bill, said to be in accordance with the treaty between Japan and the United States, allays the excitement between those two countries.Democratic Senators are said to have prepared over two hundred amendments to the Underwood Tariff Bill to be put into the measure when the bill reaches the Senate.Mr.A.R.Doble who was this week elected President of the Montreal Canadian Clubyear, He was the second senior member of the Senate.The Railway Commission orders a reduction, amounting to about twenty per cent, of express rates in the West.In order to relieve the labor situation, which promises to become acute this summer, the Government removes the immigration regulations relating to monetary qualifications until the last day of September.Sir Lomer Gouin, Premier of the Province of Quebec, returns to Canada after an extended visit to Europe.Mgr.Archambault, first bishop of Joliette, died after a brief illness.Fire destroys half the business houses of Gretna, Man, including the Post Office and the Bank of Montreal, when doing damage to the extent of $300,000, In Ottawa, That the new rules are not so drastic as to prevent debate in the House of Commons, as was feared by the Liberals hefore the passage of the measure, was proved when the Hon.Frank Oliver was given an opportunity to try and create a scandal over the sale of the Kitsilano Indian Reserve of 80 acres in Vancouver city, a course which precipitated a debate which occupied the greater part of one session, but which closed without the reflection of diseredit on any party concerned.In the Hon.Frank Cochrane's motion providing that the Minister of Railways may purchase or lease certain railway works subject to the authonty of the Governor-General in Council, the Hon.George Graham affected to sce a scheme whereby the Government would buy out all or part of the Canadian Northern, but the Premier pointed out that even undet the motion the Government could only make an agreement subject to the approval of Parliament, seeing that the necessary money for any purchase would have to be voted.The passing of the resolution to provide the necessary expenses to keep the Mint running brought out the statement that while last year's expenses were $05,000, there had been a profit of $300,000 made on the coining of silver.Various suggestions were made aiming to discard the use of American gold in bank and Government reserves, but discussion proved that plans along this line were not feasible for the present.During the discussion providing for increase of civil servants in the Customs Department, the Hon.Dr.Reid was warmly criticized over the increased cost of the Customs Department, Throughout all these little pleasantries, the Agricultural Aid Bill, the West Indian trade agreement, the Quebec Harbor Bill, the Bill compelling all vessels carrying SU passengers to carry wireless operators and the Bill to amend the silver and gold marking act, five important Government measures were passed through the Commons, while à resolution to extablish a Harbor Commission in Vancouver was passed, the Highways Aet and other measures moved forward several xiages, and notice of à motion presented to amend the election act by increasing the penalty for illegal voting.British Isles Chaneelior Lloyd George introduced a resolution in the House permitting the British Government to guarantee à Soudan loan of $15,000,000 to aid the Nile cotton growing industry, thus protecting the Lancashire cotton trade against corners in the American cotton market.The Postmaster-General, when presenting the annual Post Office Budget to the Hous, declared himself in favor of universal penny postage which, he said, would cost 82,500,000 yearly.A new departure in the British merchant service was inaugurated when the R.M.S.8.Aragon left Southampton for South American ports carrying guns and ammunition and manned with sufficient officers and men of the R.N.Rto work them, if necessary.ueen Mary attended a brilliant review of the Guards in Hyde Park wearing a costume resembling the uniform of 8 Guardsman.Responding to the toast ** The Dominion\u201d at a special (\u2018snada (lub hanquet in London, H.R.H.the Duke of Connaught said: \u20181 can only hope that if the Duchess\u2019s health permits, we may go back again to spend another year in your midat.\u201d\u2019 A se-rond operation wa performed upon the Duchess of Connaught in order to remove intestinal trouble, the sur- goons in attendance reporting that although the operation was severe in character, the Duchess is recovering as well Mrs.Heliodore Fortier who was this week elected | President of the Montreal Women\u2019s Club.! + Europe A French aviator named Eugene Gilbert beat all records for a continuous cross country flight when he flew \\ from Villacoudlay, France, to Vittoria, Spain, a distance of 513 miles in cight and a half hours.| German shiphuilders capture an order for four Argentine | torpedo-boat destroyers in competition with English and | French yards.| An abortive uprising against the Republican Government of Portugal oceurred at Lisbon, one hundred and | fifty persons being arrested and imprisoned on the warship | Republican.Foreign Chinese pirates capture th: British steamer Taion : near Hong Kong, killing five members of the erew and | wounding a number of passengers.The discord in the Chinese Government is increasing, | several Provincial Governors having become so hostile to the Pekin Government that they are likely to form a separate union until an acceptable President has been! elected.Dr.Sun Yat Sen has announced that Yuan Shi - Kai, Provisional President, who is said to be trying to usurp the powers of a dictator, will not be elected Pre-| sident.! Trade in Mexico is almost at a standstill owing to the | eneral conviction thgt the Huerta Government eannot |! ast much longer.The Carranza revolution is gaining | headway, and the finances of the Government are in a deplorable condition.The Militant Suffragettes.Mrs.Emmeline Pankhurst having failed to comply with the conditions of her release by reporting within a certain time to the authorities, has caused a new warrant to be issued for her arrest, the execution of which has been delayed owing to the medical inspector of prisons having reported that the condition of her health was such as to render her removal to prison inadvisable for the present.Meanwhile, she is keeping quiet at the home in which she is recuperating and none but adherents of the cause are permitted to see her.The Women's Social and Politieal Club threaten such \u201cviolent reprisals as will shoek the world\u201d should their president he re-arrested and again confined in Holloway jail to serve more of her three-year | sentence, Mrs.Charlotte Despard, mister of Sir John French, and two companions were arrested for creating a dis turbance by holding a meeting in Trafalgar Square, but the \u201cunknown\u201d philanthropist who is always in attendance at police courts when Suffragette leaders are hrought up for trial, paid their fines and they were liberated, Mrs.Oliver H.P.Belmont, mother of the Duchess of Marlborough and an American admirer of Mrs.Pankhurst, ave a characteristie interview on her arrival in London uring which she indulged in a torrent of inveetive against the authorities and proved herself a militant of the militants hy saying she believed in burning houses and would go further than leaving bombs around.\u201cHow I hate and loathe England!\u201d she cjaculated, yet she is making preparations to live in luxurious style at a leading hotel for some time, The Balkan War.The capture of Seutari by the Montenegrins has created a tense situation and imperilled the pesce vf Europe, although how bad the situation really is it is impossible to Judge from the contradictory and unconfirmed reports which emanate from the various scenes of action.Austria, who is the most chagrined nation over the success of King Nicholas, threatened to set alone and compel the evacuation of Seutari.a move which was apparently met by a movement of the Montenegrin army towards the Austro- Montenegro frontier, caumng doubt on the part of the Powers as to the attitude of Russia and the other ies of the Balkan League, and the latest report is that Austria will now await the outcome of the Ambassadorial Confer enos.An unconfirmed report, now five days old, states that three ngage ments have taken place between different armies of the allies, but rumor says these reports may be to cover a noncerted movement of Bulgarian, Servian and Greek armies against Austria which will eventuate should that nation atteok Montenegro.| tout and don\u2019t forget it!\" \u201cthe ingrate! The Commons as Seen Theo a Lorgnette.Y DEAR LUCILLE: -Electric fans in the House and not too much excitement! The most interesting scene since my last letter took place on the night of the 23rd., during a brilliant debate on the Closure.All the \u201cgood ones\u201d took part, commencing with the two leaders and running nip and tuck through party ranks.The contradictory accounts in political newspapers tickled me immensely, reminding me in a way of the blind men\u2019s des- eriptions of the elephant.For instance, one said some thing like this\u2014\u201c What the Borden-Rogers gag really means was interpreted to Parliament by Sir Wilfrid.The Liberal leader analysed the sinister intent and the concealed meaning of the rules as cunningly drafted by the tyros of Parliamentary Government, regardless of fair play.To his logical and lucid criticism, both of the rules themselves and the manner of their introduction, there was no argument left.\u201d And this same paper says further that Mr.Borden merely\u2014please not \u2018\u2018merely\u201d\u2014replied with the plea that the Government be trusted.I see that Mr.White suffers keenly at the hands of fervid Liberals who contend that his speech was flippant and that flippaney is unbecoming in a Finance Minister.Not only was he flippant (and it\u2019s true, he was!) but he stultified himself and was non-plussed! Mr.Meighen\u2019s speech was ignored entirely.Poor little Portage la Prairie member, with your ubiquitous red cravat! The Government organs burst loudly into tune in this manner\u2014*\u2018Sir Wilfrid was in a pessimistic mood, and conjured up a dark picture for the future.under closure rules.He took advantage of au trick to speak again.\" And they assured the public that no light was gleaned from the remarks of any of Sir Wilfrid's followers.Naturally, the specches of Government members received warm praise, that of Mr.Meighen being called \u201cthe speech of the week,\u201d and a \u201cmarvellous summing up of facts,\u2019 and many more equally eulogistie things.Mr.White was in \u2018\u2018fine form and spoke humourously at the expense of Opposition members.\u201d And like the five blind men, deseribing the elephant, there is truth in all of it\u2019 3 x HK Mr.White was very funny; he said that his friends across the aisle must have been reading too much \u201cTexas Bill\u201d literature for it coloured their speeches profusely.He criticized Mr.Oliver for using the word \u2018\u2019Brigandery\u2019 and the former Minister denied the allegation.However, Mr.White was treuding on thin ice, and should pluek the mote from his own party\u2019s eves first, sez I, as shouldn't! When Mr Graham rose he regretted Mr.White's dislike for light literature and in order to please him, quoted a little Milton.Literary?Our Parliamentarians?Well, I should say! Why, it was only a few weeks ago, that Mr.Rogers-\u2014no, [ have made no mistake, it was Mr.Rogers,\u2014 quoted from St.Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians, which was something of a feat in itself, but wonder took the breath away when Mr.Macdonald, of Pictou, rose and corrected the Minister, remarking that possibly infrequent reference to St.Paul had rendered Mr.Rogers a little rusty in his lines, so he took the liberty of correcting him! nd, on the night of which I write, it was Milton\u2014 ! Satan and the archangels and all! Mr.Graham did not want the Naval Bill passed by brute force\u2014*'Too strong,\u201d interrupted the Speaker, \u2018think of something else,\u201d and \u201cbrute\u2019\u2019 was changed to *\u2018 physical\u201d amid howls of laughter from both sides.Mr.Crothers made a fighting speech, covering many vears and events.| heard a newspaper man whisper to his companion, \u2018\u2018he always talks in a circle, keeping exactly the same distance from the point.\u201d However, a dramatic moment marked the end of the speech, when the Minister paused rhetorieally a second, then dropped his voice to a thrilling murmur and said: \u201cWe have proposed a Naval Bill to strengthen the Empire's fleet\u2014and it is going to be carried; the sooner honorable gentlemen make up their minds to it the better.And (this is not meant for the galleries!) the people have told us what they want, their wishes are going to be carried Hoity toity! Wow! And a couple more Wows! The vurrrry idee! \u2018Not meant for the Gallevies.\u201d Well, I can thank heaven for keen hearing, then! Mr.Carvell spoke again; Mr.(Guthrie and several more.Dr.Pugsley coming in late was congratulated upon his appearance by the Finance Minister who remarked that he wore his after-dinner smile.And the cheerful doctor, not wishing to miss his little joke, was heard to say in connection with a mention of Mr.Foster's opposition to closure rules, \u201cNo wonder they sent him to Australia!\u201d XX I heard this story about Mr.Graham the other day; he was visiting 8 member who had also the Hon.W.L.King as a guest.While there, Mr.King reecived word that he was an uncle and congratulations were numerous-\u2014in fact Mr.King was made quite a hero.The following day Mr.Graham received word that he was a grandfather, and he looked in pity at the Boy Minister from that moment, saying: \u201cWell, I am sorry for vou, King.You are not such a muchness, after all.And vou will have to go a long way \"before yon can travel in my class!\u201d LE | was amused upon leaving the House to hear a woman ask her escort, \u2018Say, Henry, what was it all about, and which was the Speaker?\" And Henry unflatteringly answered, \u201cOh, you can never tell.You see, they re paid for gassin\u2019.\u201d\u2019 There are a few of us, who claim to know what it is all about, but what is going to happen next?That is the question.The Liberals hint that even if the Bill goes to the Senate, our hoary-headed members will spew it out and refuse to have aught to do with it.In that case the House will have no Spring or Summer cleaning, even if morning sessions are introduced.There is not & ghost of a chance of its closing before the middle of the summer.And Henry said that the members were paid for \u2018gassin\u2019.Oh, Yours, MILLIE.THAT MISDIRECTED \u201c REFORM \u201d Editor of the Mirror: Sir: -Your short editorial on that subject was a bit of a surprise to me.Personally 1 am past that stage of thought whore heroes are rade of martyrs for any school of thought.My idea of a hero is the one who makes the other man walk the plank instead of glorying in the martyr's crown.While all kinds of religious and political cranks have now the privilege of hiring halls and expounding their theories to those who appreciate them 1 believe that open air propaganda to try to convert the ignorant rabble to anything is pure waste of time and energy.In England during the last two years several young mon have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment for what is called \u201cblasphemy.\u201d These young men undergo these temporary punishments intentionally as they consider it a good advertisement for themselves and what they call the cause.Those who are agitating for the repeal of the old laws are the goody-goody both inside and outside the church, To me there can be nothing more revolting than to hear such sentences sung at street corners \u2014'\u2018 There is a fountain filled with blood,\u201d ** Washed in the blood of the lamh.\u201d To hear such quotations as \u2018They destroyed everything that was in {he city (Jericho) with the edge of the sword, men, women and children,\u201d are revolting.Do you know that there are thousands in Montreal who think as I do but who are afraid to say so ?These people hate all preachers with such a hatred that makes me shudder to think what will happen when the tables are turned.In my case | am not in the least afraid, therefore I have not a particle of hatred of the preachers as have belonged to that school of thought myself once, and therefore | know that the hard shell atheistic school of miacailed free-thought misjudge the spirit and the motives of the religious people.Knowing what | know of these things I think it ie à huge mistake to try to revive any old discarded \u2018Blasphemy Laws,\u2019 as it will only rouse violent atheistio fanatics to deeds of violenoe that will serve no purpose.These violent fanatics are liable to attack not only orthodox persecutors of what they call the \u2018cause\u2019 but they also extend their hatred to the philosophical schools of thought that they are not able to understand.I know, of course, that the bulk of the good people still belong to the churches, therefore while I differ from them in religious opinions I much prefer their gompenz to that of the hard atheists.NORMAN MURRAY. THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MAY 3, 1913.3 SOME OF THE LATEST FASHIONS IN NEW COSTUMES WORN BY DAINTY PARISIENES AT THE RECENT SPRING MEETING AT THE LONGCHAMPS RACE COURSE.«708 The new girdle effect brought into rather more than Bulgarian influence on this year\u2019s fashions crops out usual prominence.in these daring colors.Two exaggerated examples of the slashed and draped The old and ever popular Russian blouse with some skirt which is gaining in popularity here.rather striking innovations added.THE 65TH REGIMENT WERE GREETED WTIH IDEAL WEATHER WIEN THEY HELD THEIR FIRST CHURCH PARADE OF THE SEASON ON SUNDAY LAST.The Regiment arriving at the Church of the Infant Jesus, were received by a guard of the Pontifical Zouaves.SOUTHERN AND MARLOWE IN WESTMOUNT TO SEARCH FOR CAPTAIN R.F.SCOTT.YTHE DUCHESS OF WESTMINSTER.MOVING DAY IN BABYLON.Mr.E.H.Sothern and his wife, known on the stage Dr.A.de Castellane Seymore claims that the body of a as Miss Julia Marlowe, have a handsome home on Rose- rson frozen to death can mount Avenue, Westmount during the week they appear his contention, has organized an expedition to search for at the Princess in Shakespearean plays.the body of Capt.R.F.Scott.DR.F.F.FRIEDMANN ADMINISTERING HIS TREATMENT.Dr.Friedmann, whose treatment of tuberculosis has not been in operation long enough to have proved its value, bas already sold his eure for over $2,000,000.That he did not shrink from publicity when giviag his demonstrations js shown by this photograph of a olinie at a Washington hospital, with Secretary of state Bryan and other cabinet ministers wate ing t operat.on.19 3 a .- ¥ 5 * x, ' J .- 1 A new photograph of Her Grace, who is the wife of the On moving day, the Babylonian arranges his furniture restored to life, and to prove richest Peer of | land, and whose divorce proceedings, on the back of his donkey and, seating himself and family shortly to be heard before the Courts, are creating consider- on the pack, starts for the place he decides will be his new able interest.home.THE MOST FAMOUS GOLF LINKS IN THE WORLD.» THE BT.ANDREWS\u2019 GOLF LINKS IN BCOTLAND.The game of golf first saw the light in St.Andrews in Scotland and it is every golfer's delight to be able to boast of having played on the links of the renowned Royal and Ancient Club of St.Andrews.The accompanying illustration shows the first tee and the popular slub house at St.Andrews which has been used for generations and generations with improvements.The ssaside town practically manufacturers golf players and the residents of the district live on its grifing propensities.Here is the home of the industry of the manufacture of the finest clubs in the world.Ît is an ancient and historic town, aad contains the ruins of a once magnificent castle which flgures so promineatiy in English and Seotch history as sa impregnable fortress.It was here that the famous Cardinal Beaton wes foully murdered. Cosmopolitan Good Housekeeping Two of the greatest American magazines clubbed with the Saturday Mirror 1 year **Cosmopolitan\u201d., .$2.00 \u2018Good Housekeeping'.2.00 \u201cSATURDAY Mirror\u201d.2.50 Actual value .$650 Subscribe to-day and get all three for one year.$4.50 Choice of \u2018Cosmopolitan\u2019\u2019 or \u2018Good Housekeeping\u201d with the \u201cSATURDAY MIRROR\" for one year.$3 Write or telephone to The Saturday Mirror 275 Craig St.West.\u2018Phone Main 5150.The Debutantes\u2019 League Benefit.The Debutantes\u2019 League deserve a very hearty vote of thanks.not only from the organization that they benefited (The Y.W.C.A.) but from Montreal society for the very bright and enjoyable entertainment that they presented at the Stanley Hall on Monday might.Many of the League were taking part in the \u2018Vaudeville\u2019 Amongst those present either performing or attired in fascinating Quaker garb and selling programmes, were | Miss Constance Sutherland, Miss M.Sutherland, Miss Edith Ross, Miss Gladys Wainwright, Miss Merritt, Miss Alison Elder, Miss Marjorie Ross, Miss Jean Ross, Miss Frances Caverhill, Miss Hazel Ekers and Miss Alice Ross.The hall was well filled, in the gallery as well as down below, Amongst the first of the items presented was an original series of Tableaux Vivants, called ** The Night Before the Wedding.\u201d \u2018The Bachelor\u2019 (Mr.Ross Hutchins) is presumably the bridegroom of the morrow.In fancy there pass before im recollee- tions of all the fair ones who have attracted his fleeting attention, ending with the charming bride to whom he is so shortly to be united.The other parts were taken as follows, each character being presented as à colored p'eture: sehool Girt.Miss Edith Harrower Winter Girl.Miss Margaret Holden Summer Girl.Miss fsobelle Hart Actress.Miss Beatrice Coristine Miss Ethel Jamieson Miss Helen Macpherson Misa Alice Ross Miss Madeline Hanson Miss Marguerite Hodgson Miss Muir Athletic Girl.Quaker \u2018iirl.Sporty Giri spanish Girl rench Maid.Japanese Girl Widow.Miss Adrienne Hart Debutante.Miss Monica Ross Bride.Miss Jean Ross Pretty Miss Fayette Brown gave a very cute imitation of Gaby des Lys, gorgeously garbed in a wonderful cloak of mauve satin and ermine and bearing immense feathers in her hair, She was well supported by Mr.Armour, who refleeted Al Jolson successfully.Miss Bradford's slightly satirical monologue, \u2018The Art Gallery was well received.foibles of ladies who go to look pictures but only sit and talk.Dr.Nichol sang \u2018coon\u2019 songs very cleverly.The one with the laughing chorus and the refrain \u2018I'll make that black girl mine\u2019 brought down the house.As a too brief encore he gave a barking quarrel between two dogs that eonvulsed everybody.at Miss Edith Creelman was to have taken a part in the drawing-room play, \u2018Petticoat Perfidy' but the sudden illness of à near relation prevented.The part of \u2018Mrs.Norwood Jones,\u2019 the social aspirant.was filled very cleverly at short notice by Miss English.Miss M.Sutherland, as \u2018Mrs.Mountrevoe\u2019 and Miss Madeline Hanson as \u2018Juliette,\u2019 the maid, hoth acted brightly.A dainty dance song and chorus, \u201cWe Will All Go to Go-Go,\u201d formed the closing number and was enthusiastically applauded.Miss Davida Wigmore, soloist, being assisted by Mins Ay Stanger, Miss Adrienne Hart, Miss Alice Ross, Miss Jean Ross, Miss Quintina Muir, Miss Elvira Strathy, Miss Helen Macpherson, Miss Ethel Jamieson, Miss Edith Ross and Miss Isobelle Hart.Amongst the audience I noticed Mr.and Mrs.Charlie Coristine (the latter looking very charming in a pink dress that sparkled), Mrs.Prentice, Mrs.Turpin, the Misses Ruth and Edith Turpin (hoth in stylish pink gowns), Mr.Hughson, Mr.Wainwright.Miss Marjorie Smith, Mr.and Mrs.White, Miss McPherson, Mr.Strathy with the Misses Isobel and Marguerite Strathy (in pale blue and ecru satin dresses respectively), Mrs.Stanger with \u201crs.Jacobs, Miss Fleet, Miss Marjorie Burke - wearing biack) and Mrs.Harold Clay in an effective rontume of scarlet over black, Misa Pratt in white), Misa Dorothy Patterson in red natin:.Mr.Strathy.Mr.Keith Nottman, Miss M Tupper from Winnipeg.Mr, Hugh Johnstone, Misa Farquhar Robertson, Miss Gwynnette Wanklyn.Miss Annie Starke and Misr Stevenson Brown, Moy Mth 20 p.m.RITZAARLTON ROTEL 20d CONCERT by he Plamondon- Michel Choral Society (riving 1+ Rot d'Ya Opera.by lain.duet à few fleats at 61.060 and some Bes flrata at $1.50, now on sale of Bd.Advhaomben it 312 6t.Catharine fi.Rast Wilke 8 (o.Led.i009 + \"+ \u201c West Kantbe Gouné à (vga supplied by Wills & Ce.In it she dealt with the THE SATURDAY MIRROR.MONTREAL, MAY 3, 1913.LÀ ACR vas = b 0 DC re AIS FE OCIETY'\u2019S greatest spring event, the Montreal Horse Show, opens on May 7th and promises to be a greater success than ever this year, both in the point of attendance and attraction.The dainty Lnes which this year\u2019s fashions follow are particularly suited to display in a Horse Show box, and it may be taken for granted that some really exceptionally beautiful costumes will be worn by the various Society leaders at this year's show.The entries are, despite one or two regrettable but unavoidable absences, fully up to the high standard set in recent years and the many keen admirers of beautiful horses will be fully satisfied with the fare provided for them, while it is certain that the judges will have their work cut out.Tan bark trials are now being held and everything will be in readiness for a successful opening.The full list of box-holders ia as follows: Sir Hugh Graham, Lieut.-Col.Geo.R.Starke, Mr.Chas.R.Hosmer, Sir William C.Van Horne, Mr.Geo.L.Cains, Mr.A.E.Ogilvy, Mr.W.J.Morrice, Mr.W.R Miller, Mr.J.Ross, Lieut.-Col.F.F.Meighen, Mr.Colin Campbell, Mr.A.Hamilton Gault, Hon.Clifford Sifton, Gu .Lorne McGibbon, Hon.Nathaniel Curry, C.F.Gudewill, Major H.A.Lyman, Mr.Duncan McIntyre, Lady Drummond, Mr.Huntley Drummond, Mrs.À.D.| Shirref, Mr.J.C.Watson, Mr.E.T.Cowans, Mr.H.| Vachell Koelle, Mr.Preble Melntosh, Mr.Chas.B.Gor- | don, Mr.Chas.Fergie, Mr.A.D.MacTier, Maj.A.Haig | Sims, Mr.E.A.Robert, Mr.Andrew Allan, Lady Hickson, ; Dr.Ch.MeEachran, Mr.J.Marshall Melntyre, Sir Thos.! G.Shaughnessy, Mr.A.Baumgarten, Lady Clouston, Sir H.Montague Allan, Mr.Hugh Paton, Mr.H.Linton Merei dith, Mr.Horace Joseph, Mr.Sydney E.Howard, Mr.W.Henry Bell, Lieut.-Col.J.J.Riley, Mr.J.H.A.Acre, Miss Dian, Hon.J.L.Decarie, Mr.J.T.R.Laurendeau, i Mr.H.F.Cook, Mr.James Hutchison, Mr.Ch.W.Me- Lean, Mr.J.Wesley Allison, Lieut.-Col.Ch.A.Smart, \u2018 Lieut.-Col.J.H.Carson, Capt.W.T.Rodden and Mr.F.Sheppard.The Ladies\u2019 Branch of the S.P.C.À.are as usual to have charge of the tea-room.On Wednesday afternoon, this feature will be in charge of Mrs.Charles McEachran, Mrs D.Lorne MecGibbon, Miss Marguerite Joseph and Oli olin | \u2018 Kathleen Moore; on Thursday afternoon, Mrs.Campbell, Mrs.Norman Ogilvie, Mrs.GG.A.Dillon and Miss Enid Campbell; on Friday afternoon, Miss Estelle , Power O'Brien, Miss Muriel Bell, Mrs.J.Wilson Cook, ' | Miss Dorothy Judah and Mrs.Norman Ogilvie; Saturday morning, Mrs.H.W.Thomas, Mrs.J.W.Couk, Miss Jeanne .Chevallier, Miss Enid Campbell and Miss Beatrice Macdougall; Saturday afternoon, Mrs.i Estelle Power O'Brien, Mrs.Arthur Mignault and Miss Elaine Casgrain.X OX % # The marriage of Miss Edna Bethune vans, daughter of Mr.and Mrs.Alfred Evans, Mance street.to Mr.James Ernest Guiton, son vf Mr.and Mrs.James P.Guiton was quietly celebrated at 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning in St.James Methodist Church.Only immediate relatives witnessed the ceremony at which the Rev.Dr.Sparling officiated.The bride, who was given away by her father wore a travelling costume of tan Bedford cord, with hat to match with shaded burnt orange feather, and carried roses and lilies of the valley.Miss Gertrude Evans was her sister's bridesmaid, and wore a Connaught blue satin gown with hat with shaded blue feather and carried American beauty roses.Mr.Walter Evans brother of the bride was best man.Immediately after the ceremony Mr.and Mrs.Guiton left for New York, On their return they will reside on Esplanade avenue.Dr.Hanington gave his daughter away and she was attended by her sister, Miss Ruth Hanington, as maid of honor, and two bridesmaids, her sister, Miss Millicent Hanington and Miss Gertrude Holland.They were all dressed alike in shell pink satin trimmed with chiffon roses of the same shade and large pieture hats with tulle trimming and one large pink rose at the side, and they carried houquets of pale pink carnations.The bride\u2019s gown of white charmeuse satin had an overdress of ninon made pannier effect and was trimmed with Maltese lace.wore a tulle veil with a wreath of oranze blossoms, sprays of which decorated the train.Mr.William Davidson was the best man and the ushers, Mr.Patrick Ambrose and Mr.Jeffrey Maynard.The Rev, Arthur French officiated.After the ceremony a reception was held at the home of the bride's parents, 85 Park avenue, which was beautifully decorated with a profusion of fragrant pink flowers.x x OX Miss Helene Jondreville, only daughter of Mrs.Charles Jondreville, and Mr.Alfred Forest, advocate of Montreal, and son of Mr.Lgel Forest, of Rawdon, County of Montcalm were married at 7 o'clock a.m.on Wednesday at the Chapel of the Saered Heart, St.James' Cathedral.The Rev.J.M.Landry, priest of Rawdon, officiated at the service, which was fully choral, the soloists being Mr.Edward Dufresne, and Miss Aurore Vigeaut.The bride wore a maroon-colored costume with purple hat to match.She vas given away by Mr.Alphonse À.Loiselle.The brideproom's witness was the Hon.P.E.Leblanc.Mr.Forest and his bride left later for New York, whence they sailed by the 8S.8.Rochambeau, for Europe, for a two months\u2019 trip.On their return they will reside at the Evanscourt apartments.Mrs.Weston, of Minneapolis, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs.Vietor Gnaedinger, West mount.Mrs.Bernard Coghlin entertained a few friends at the tea hour informally on Tuesday afternoon, in honour of Mrs.Julius Griffiths, Mrs.Waycott was prevented by the illness of a relative from taking the chaironfTuesday at the American Women's Club.In her absence Mrs.Stuart Taylor presided.The marriage of Miss Jennie Robertson Hanington, daughter of Dr.and Mrs.J.P.Hanington to Mr.James Lester Heald, son to Mr.R.M.Heald of London, England took place on Wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m.at the Chureh of St.John the Evangelist.* ox # # Mr.and Mrs.J.J.Courtney, 770 St.Hubert street, anpounce the engagement of their eldest daughter Jessie Isahel, to the Rev.William MaeMillan, B.A., B.D., of Chalmers\u2019 Preshyterian Church, Richmond, Que.The marriage will take place in July.Mr.and Mrs.L.N.Duquette, Hutchison street, Qutremont, announce the marriage of their only daughter, Juliette, to Mr.J.A.lefebvre.The wedding will take place the latter part of June.Mr.Bernard K.Sandwell, dramatic editor of the SATURDAY Mirror delivered an address on \u2018Some aspects of the American Stage\u2019 before the American Women's Club on April 29th.Mr.Sandwell compared the American stage to the cuckoo, in that it had taken possession of the nest of our Canadian theatrical system and is there busily hatching out a brood of dramatic products and dramatic tastes which have nothing Canadian about them.Mr.and Mrs.H.R.Kirkpatrick have returned from Atlantic City.Mrs.Snowhall, of Chatham, N.B., ia visiting her daughter Mra.Henry Rawlings, on Crescent street.Mr.Edward Archer, Mra.Pelletier and Mrs.Arthur Boyer went to Quebee for the golden wedding celebration of Sir.and Mrs.Jos.Archer, Mrs.Henshan in the gueat of her daughter, Mrs.Grant P.Marden at the Ritz Carlton Hotel.Mr and Mrs.J.Paine are paying a week end visit to Mr.and Mra.F.H.Manley, Strathcona avenue, Mrs.Duncan C.Grant of the Prince apartments, Guy street is leaving on May 15th to take up residence in Toronto.Miss Julia Ward of Brockville is the guest of Mrs.MA.Mclean at the Knoll, Pointe Claire.Mr.and Mrs.R.J.Kilvert (Bayle street) will take up | residence at Saskatoon in the autumn, \u201c # ## Mr.and Mrs.M.J.Stack, Laval avenue, have gone to their summer residence at Lachine.Mr.Burton Brown, formerly Mise Gladys Anderson, received for the first time since ber marriage, on Wodnesday, April 30th, at her home, 221 Oxford aven 2e, Notre Dame de Grace.Mr.and Mrs.D.Hughes Charies have left for their eountry home at Bridgnorth.Ontario, for the summer.Dr.and Mrs.Dorval will ieave shortly for their summer home in Seaneville.J.H.Dunlop, Miss ' She The theatre should be a common meeting ground of all classes but the American theatre had become an exclusive preserve for the class that can afford to pay two dollars a seat and sup at a cabaret restaurant afterwards.This condition was entirely detrimental to the real interests of dramatic art as the patronage and opinions of all classes are valuable.The theatre should express the ideals of an entire nation.The theatre, today, is patronized only by , the blase and the well-to-do, who- shrink from genuine | feeling and seek within its walls only a titillating sensation, a sugary sentimentality or a sexual excitement.Meanwhile the more red-blooded part of the population, whose crudeness of judgment should be balanced and corrected by the refinement of the cultured class, and whose deeper emotional eapacity and truer sense of the values of life should correct aristocratic dilettantism, is dismissed to vaudeville and \u201cthe moving pietures and given to understand that the theatre is no place for such as have not two dollars.Mr.Sandwe'l discussed the social position of actors in America \u2018 anil in England to the advantage of the latter and blamed ! the American public for the lack of standing allowed to the actor.i Miss Nora Prentice leaving home for Christ Chureh Cathedral on the oceasion of her marriage to Mr.Arnold Wainwright.She is followed by her maid of honor and attended by her father, Mr.Wm.Prentice, Miss Mildred Cairns is in Norfolk, Virginia, visiting her sister, Mrs.J.Prescott Forrest., Mrs.Jean Blewett, author of \u2018* Romance of Canadian History,\u201d ** The Cornflower,\u201d and other well-known books, is in Montreal attending the Nationa! Council meeting.Miss Whitehead, who has been visiting Mrs.C.H.Cahan, has returned to her home in New York.: The marriage of Miss Ruby Gnaedinger, daughter of the late Mr.E.W.Gnaedinger, to Mr.Stephen Politzer, was quietly celebrated in St.Andrews Church, Westmount, at five o'clock on Wednesday last.The Rev.Dr.Clark officiated.The bride was attended by two bridesmaids, Miss Lauer, of New York, and Miss Laura Walker.Mr.Stoever, of Toronto, was best man and the ushers were Mr.Fred Gnaedinger and Mr.Ernest Ryan.The Misses Minnie and T.LaRocque, Dorchester street, Westmount, who have heen spending some months abroad, are expected home next Week.Mr.and Mrs.J.W.Long, Mountain street, have returned from a seven weeks\u2019 trip to the South, having visited Washington, New York, Atlantic City and Old Point Comfort.Mrs.E.P.Winslow, of Winnipeg, who is the guest of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr.and Mrs.Edward Winslow, Dorchester street, Westmount, is extending her stay in Montreal.The marriage of Miss Queenie May, daughter of Mrand Mrs.Edward May, Elm avenus, to Mr.Alfred Manson White, will be quietly celebrated at St.Matthias Church, on May 27th, Mr.and Mrs.Southee, accompanied by Miss Southee, have returned from Quebec where they went to attend the marriage of their niece, Miss Carruthers, to Mr.Fred Marsh.* OX kk Mrs.Torrington, Mrs.Courtice, Mrs.Willoughby Cummings and Mrs.Sanford, treasurer of the International Council who have been in town this week attending the meetings of the National Council of Women are leaving at its close for the Hague to be present at an executive meeting of the Internation Council to be held there.Mr.R.B.Angus will return from abroad in May.* Ok # # Mrs.Francis Bacon arrived home by the Tunisian | April 25th, from an extended trip abroad.Mrs.Boardman Layton and Miss Georgine Layton, who ! were visiting Mrs.F.K.Eaton in Kingston, have returned to town, Mrs.Pringle, Bishop street, her sister, Mrs.James MeKell, and Mr.and Mrs.Allan Fenwick, of Chateauguay Basin, have returned from some weeks\u2019 visit at Atlantic ! ity.Mrs.George E.Drummond is in New York.Dr.and Mrs.John Gardner, who spent several days | Ho New York upon their return from abroad, have arrived | ome.i Mrs.F.F.Fleteher, of Minneapolis, Minn., who was in | town for some weeks visiting the Hon.R.É.and Mrs.Gilman, has gone to Vermont for a stay with friends there.x # # # Sir Lomer and Lady Gouin have left for Quebec after a short visit to Montreal where they stayed with Mrs.Amos, Lady Gouin's mother.Dr.L.de L.Harwood and family are May to their summer home at Vaudreui Mr.and Mrs.A.E.Holt, Pine avenue west, have returned home after à short stay in Atlantic City.Mrs.George Smithers, the Misses Smithers and Miss Cook left town on Wednesday and sailed on the Empress of Ireland for a two months\u2019 trip in the Old Country.Mr.G.R.Marler, who has heen ill for several weeks, | has now quite recovered.He is leaving shortly with Mra.Marler for a trip to Boston, New York and other cities in the United States.Mrs.A.B.Chafee, who has been visiting friends in the United States for several weeks, has returned home.| Mim Edythe Chaffee is remaining for another couple of weeks.i \u201c # = # | going out early in Bowie's guest for a few days, is going to Toronto for the Horre Show.after a brief stay ia town.To Sriable Wed Bits qu No.84148.ANDSOME OAK TRAY, twenty inches long.Silver plated railing and handles; alsosilver plated centre plate forengraving - MONTREAL += [A Price - - $9.00 5 = No.84134.[ed] NE HARD METAL SILVER PLATED MUFFIN 2 or Chop Dish, diameter seven inches.Removable cd dish, and hot water compartment.Price - - $6.00 2 2 , + 2) Benry Birks & Sons, Limited | = GOLD AND SILVERSMITHS PHILLIPS SQUARE, MONTREAL = 5 (S]] od g 2 ©) J 5 The Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Restaurant At SHERBROOKE & DRUMMOND STS.Five minute's drive from Arena.SPECIAL ,.Horse-Show Week Luncheon AT $2.00, OR A LA CARTE On MONDAY, MAY Sth And following days.MENU - Hors d'oeuvre or Potage; Fiah or Eggs: Entree: Vegetables and Salad; Entremets: Cheese or Fruit.FIVE O'CLOCK TEA AT 60c.SUPPERS AT $2.00 OR A LA CARTE.Legnanti\u2019s Celebrated Orchestra in Atteadance > of | Hl i | : i pil Baby Bonds We have just issued a little Booklet containing valuable information for the small investor.You should have a copy.phone for one.Write or tele- Miss Freda Birks was the guest of | honoron Wednesday at Mrs.Schmidt's ; (Pine avenue) who gave a china shower for her.Mrs.Harold Birks and Mrs.Arthur Walker poured tes and coffee, and Mrs.W.H.Schmidt cut the ices and were assisted in servi Misses Irene Clarke Marjorie MeGillis, Dorothy va Nehmidt.y 7th, is the date fixed for Miss Birk's wedding which will take Dominion 8quare Meth .MeKenzie and family, and Mra.J accompanied by Mrs.Douglas Bowie, who has been Mrs.Duncan E.Uillis, left Apnl 30th, for Torontowhere they will reside for some time | hald.Mrs.CC.A.Smart, Mrs.R.A.Miss Florence Hopkins, Mackay Dunton, Mrs.James Laing, Mrs.Geo.Mr.and Mrs.| Cornish, Mrs.Bradley and Mrs.C.Bk E.Halls, at Cookshire.(Gordon.The Hon.C.J.Doherty returand to Ottawa on Monday street, in the guest Frederic Limited.The Royal Securities Corporation 164 St.James Street, Montreal mong recital by Mise Grace Davis New York, in the Ritz-Carlton Miss Davis wi Duboisby the Helen Cleghorn, Blakeley | beautiful thetic inter interest is evinoed in Montreal appearance.The recital Wednesday, Ma ace at the iat Churehmond, Allan, Miss Marie Mac- Invitations have been issued for a of on Monday evening, the fifth of May.Il assisted by Mons.In New York City and throughout the western States Mise Davis has won recognition as an artist of superior attainments, both by her uslity of voice and sym- tations and great Miss Davis\u2019 is under the patronage of Lady Drumy Mrs.Huntley Drummond, Mra.C.C.Ballantyne, Mra.Geo.Cantlie, Mrs.C.E.Archi- THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MAY 3, 1913.BETROTHALS.The engagement is announced of Miss Josephine Hebert, daughter of Mrs.\u2018Albert Hebert, Dorchester street west, to Mr.L.R.De Lorimier, advocate, Park avenue, son of Mr.and Mrs.S.A.DeLori- mier.Mrs.F.J.Hart, Ontario avenue, announces the engagement of her niece, Miss Ethel Cliffe, to Mr.R.M.Wilson, the wedding to be celebrated early in June.The engagement is announced of Miss Caroline C.Buddo, onl daughter of r.and Mrs.George Buddo, to Mr.William N.B.Jackson, son of the late Mr.and Mrs.Peter Jackson.The marriage will take place at the residence of the bride's parents, Bayle street, on the 5th of June.The engagement is announced of Miss Bertha C.Symonds, eldest daughter of the Rev.Dr.and Mrs.Symonds to Mr.H.Percy Thornhill.\u201d The marriage will take place quietly in Christ Church Cathedral on Wednesday, May 21st at 4.30 p.m.COMING MARRIAGES.The marriage has been arranged to take place in England in the fall of Miss Alice Margaret Booth, only daughter of the late Mr.and Mrs.Turner, of Bideford, and granddaughter of the late Colonel Zachary Clutterbuck Bayly, R.A., of Orleigh Court, North Devon, to Neville, eldest son of the late Major Neville Saltron Keats Bayly, R.A.HE wedding of the season, that of Miss Nora Prentice to Mr.Arnold Wainwright, took place at Christ Church Cathedral on April 26th.\u2018\u2018Happy\u2019s the bride that the sun shines on\u201d and sun was there in plenty.The church was very beautifully decorated and the effect of the raised masses of hydrangea at the end of every third or fourth pew was very artistic.The music was good, too, especially a solo by Merlin Davis given whilst the bridal party were in the vestry.The bride wore a really beautiful robe of white charmeuse satin much trimmed with pearls and having a full court train.Her veil was arranged with a wreath of orange blossoms and the bridal bouquet had the fashionable touch of colour in some yellow iris.The dresses worn by the maid of honor, Miss Mona Prentice and the bridesmaid, Miss Wainwright, were fully decollete.White brocade was the material chosen, with lace draped across the corsage and worn with lace hats faced with black velvet.A rich touch of colour was provided by the huge bouquets of erfect American beauty roses.Mrs.Prentice was gowned in black embroidered silk ninon over champagne coloured satin, worn with a becoming hat with a profusion of feathers in the same hue as the underdress.The bridegroom's sister, Mrs.Arthur Chipman, was attired in a pretty shade of blue chiffon with some chene ribbon on the bodice.Mrs.Skinner wore pale blue brocade with beautiful lace arranged as a basque and a \u2018chic\u2019 purple toque with pale blue and violet flowers.Mr.Charles Greenshields, was the best man, and Messrs.Eric McCuaig, Arthur Baby, Russell Bell and Norman Prentice were the ushers.Mr.and Mrs.Prentice gave a reception at their house in Peel street after the ceremony.The bridegroom's gift to the bride was a diamond bracelet, and to her attendants the bride gave silver manicure sets in leather cases.received a gold card case and the ushers silver cigarette cases from the bridegroom.The honeymoon is being spent abroad, Mr.Wainwright and his bride sailing from New York for Frunce, Going away the bride wore a smart travelling costume of grey velvet ratine faced with purple charmeuse, and a purple hat with purple bird of Paradise.Amongst the guests present at the wedding were Mrs.The best man : THE meeting of the ** Daughters of the Empire,\u201d to be held shortly at Winnipeg, will be graced by the presence of Mrs.Clarke Murray, the foundress of the League, who will deliver an address \u2018\u2018 The Order, its Past and its Future.\u201d The organizing members of the conference are to be congratulated on their good fortune in securing Mrs.Murray or this occasion.The foundress of the \u2018 Daughters of the Empire\u201d is as practical as she is patriotic and whatever she has to say on the subject so near her heart will be as helpful and useful as it is interesting.It is given to few women to originate a& scheme for a vast organization; to fewer still to indicate the manner in which the various channels should move from a central directing force.A ROYAL BRIDE TO BE.| A New and hitherto unpublished photograph of Princess Victoria Louise only daughter of the German Emperor, who is to be married to Prince Ernest of Cumberland on May 24th.Ottawa Society.! | ! cille Watson) of New \u201cvisiting Mrs.Fellowes, Belmont Cot- .tage, Aylmer road, entertained at the \u2018tea hour at the Royal Ottawa Golf OTTAWA, Friday, May 2nd.Mrs.Rockliffe Fellowes (Miss Lu- York, who is Club in honor of Miss Ruth Chatterton, leading lady in the '*The Rainbow,\u2019 and also of Miss Louise Closser Hale of the same company.Mrs.Charles K.Graham and Miss Ottily Fellowes presided at the tea table.Miss Kathleen Nesbitt, who was Mrs.Lorne MecGibbon's guest at Atlantic City for the past fortnight, has returned to Ottawa.Sir Percy Girouard entertained at a dinner party of fourteen covers, which was given in the Tudor dining room of the Chateau Laurier.The guests included Major General and Mrs.Cotton, Colonel and Mrs.Victor Williams, Hon.George H.Perley, Hon.Rodolphe and Madame Lemieux, Miss Milly White, Miss Mary Hamilton, Madame Girouard, Colonel Ramsay and Mr.McCready.The engagement has been announe- ed in Toronto of Miss Dorothy Beardmore, daughter of Mr.Alfred Beardmore, and niece of Rear Admiral and Mrs.Kingsmill of Ottawa, to Mr.Gordon MacKenzie, son of the late Mr.Hector MacKenzie of Montreal.The marriage will take place very quietly in May.LE The Hon.W.J.Roche and his daughter, Miss May Roche, are sailing on the 3rd of May from New York by the Olympic, for the Old Country.Mrs.Charlie Graham entertained at luncheon at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club in honor of Miss Daisy Chrysler.A large bowl of golden daffodils centered the table and the guests included Mrs.F.H.Chrysler, Mrs.McBride, Mrs.Stewart Wotherspoon, Montreal, Miss Edith Cross, Toronto, Mrs.Rockliffe Fellowes, New York, Miss Elsie Keefer, Toronto, Miss Mildred Kittson, Miss Ottily Fellowes, Miss Flossie Whiteves and Miss Gwen Burn.Miss Chrysler was the guest of nonor at a tea, given for her by Miss Flossie Whiteves.Among those present were the Misses Helena and Aurelia Hughson, the Misses Jessic and Edith Macpherson, Miss Josepthe Haycock, iss May Loucks, Miss Mildred Kittson, Miss Ethel Mec- Carthy, Miss Edith Cross, Mrs.Rockliffe Fellowes, Mrs.Foster Wil- |\" son, Mrs.Arthur Hamilton, Mrs.C.! K.Graham and several others.Mrs.Frederick Montizambert enter- MILLINERY, HENRY MORGAN & CO.LIMITED DESIRE TO CALL ATTENTION TO THEIR DISTINCTIVE MODES IN GOWNS, WRAPS AND COSTUMES FOR THE COMING HORSE SHOW.EXCLUSIVE PARISIAN MILLINERY AND MODELS DESIGNED BY OUR OWN ARTISTS TO EXEMPLIFY THE SEASON'S MOST FASHIONABLE STYLES.RECEPTION GOWNS IN MOUSSELINE DE SOIE, CHIFFON AND CHARMEUSE.GRACEFUL COSTUMES IN SATIN CHARMEUSE AND BENGALINE WITH CHIFFON, IRISH LACE AND BULGARIAN COLLARS.PICTURESQUE WRAPS IN BROCADED RATINE AND VELOUR DE LAINE.SECOND FLOOR.RECEPTION EXCLUSIVE IMPORTATIONS IN OUR FRENCH ROOM.PARISIAN GOWNS IN BROCADED CHARMEUSE, BROCADED RATINE AND PLUMETIS VOILE.PARIS WRAPS IN BROCADED SILK AND CHIFFON CREPE.| % # x Reginald Gault, Miss Marguerite and Miss Sybil Joseph, | Miss E.Fayette Brown, Mr.and Mrs.McCulloch, Mr.and | The infant daughter of Mr.and Mrs, Hugh Mathewson | tained at luncheon her guests includ- Mrs.8.Bateman White, Mr.Justice Davidson, Mr.and | (Pine avenue) was christened on April 21st, at Christ | ing Mrs.Walter Cassells, Mrs.Colling- | Mrs.Peers Davidson, Mr.and Mrs.W.Gi.Pugsley, Miss | Chureh Cathedral, receiving the names of Honor Graham.| wood Schreiber, Mrs.A.G.Parker, | Jeanne Ross, Mr.A.T.Shaughnessy, Mr.and Mrs.Preble | Dr.Symonds performed the ceremony and Miss Helen Mrs.Lenox Smith, Mrs.J.A.Clayton, : Macintosh, Miss Mary Macintosh, Mrs.Grant Macintosh, | Mathewson was one of the godmothers.I Mrs.Lyons Biggar, Mrs.J.A, Gem- | Mr.and Mrs.Bernard Coghlin, Miss Elsa May, Miss | mill, Mrs.W.B.Scarth, Mrs, Irwin, Mrs.Rodolphe Lemieux, Mrs.Frank COSTUMES IN BROCADED RATINE AND ZAGZIG.DAINTY TULLE AND CHIFFON RUFFS.FEATHER BOAS WITH Mrs.S.E.Dawson of Montreal was the guest of honor 5 L i Rawlings, Mr.Stuart Ewing, Mr.and Mrs.J.P.B.Cas- | at grain, and Miss Elaine Casgrain, Mrs.G.Gordon Weir, Mrand Mrs.Sheldon Stephens, Mr.and Mrs.Turpin, Miss Edith and Miss Ruth Turpin, Miss Hariett, Miss Marguerite Harwood, Mrs.Harry Budden, Miss Dorothy Maeherson, Mr.and Mrs.A.R.Doble, Mde.de Hann, Miss arjory Heney and Mrs.Clarence McCuaig.Mr.and Mrs.Wainwright on their return will reside on Seaforth avenue.x # % OX Mr.O.F.Lewis, general secretary of the Prison Association of New York, who addresssed a public meeting of the National Council on the evening of May 2, was the guest of Lady Drummond while in town.Mrs.Hamilton, convenor of the committee on agriculture for women, was entertained hy Miss Hurlbatt, Mrs.Courtice, convenor of the peace and arbitration committee stayed with Mrs, William Rutherford and Dr.Stowe Gullen, convenor of the citizenship committee was the guest of Mrs.Alexander MacKay.\u201cDo it now\u2019 is the watchword of the new Imperial order of the Dughters of the Empire that was inaugurated at the house of Mrs.Geo, Cantlie on April 26th.The new chapter is to be eaded the \u2018Robert Louis Stevenson\u201d.The officers of the new chapter are: Regent, Mrs.B.B.Stevenson; vice-regent, Mrs, Wilfred Bovey; secretary, Mrs.H.Beverley Robinson; treasurer, Mrs.Bernard Coghlin; standard bearer, Miss Macintosh.The special work to be undertaken by the newly formed chapter will be to assist the Young Women's Christian Association, expecially in the travellers\u2019 welcome department.They wil young lady assistant to that department for the three busy months of the year.; About twenty ladies were present at the inauguration amongst them being Mrs, Grant Melntosh, Miss Gwynneth Jones, Miss Beatrice Cantlie, Mrs.Preble Melntosh, Mrs.Reginald Brock, Mrs.W.Forbes-Forbes, Mrs.Herbert Walker, Mrs.Clement Macfarlane, Mrs.Fred Archibald, Mrs.J.H.A.Acer, Mrs.C.B.Gordonx Xx ¥ The Strathcona Skating Club gave a successful dance at the Town Hall, Lachine, on April 25th.The patronesses were Mrs.Dining and Mrs.Liffiton.Members of the committes present included Mr.Boucher, Mr.Haskill, Mr.Tetley and Mr.Mallock.Among the guests were Miss Penfold, Mrs.W.8S.Johnson, Miss Henry, Miss D.Dowie, Mr.and Miss McLaren, Mr.and Mrs.Bastable, the Misses Martin, Mr.Giles, Mr.and Miss Oliver, Mr.Rolph, Mr.and Mrs.Parkinson, Mr.and Miss Wurtele, and many others.A \u2018Moonlight Dance\u2019 was enjoyed and there was also a Gavotte amongst the dances set down on the programbne.Many pretty dresses were to be seen.Miss Penfold, whose engagement to Mr.Tetley has recently been announced, looked very pretty in pale blue satin, veiled in chiffon and trimmed with tiny pale pink rose-buds.Mrs, Parkinson wore white chiffon.Miss Murray's dress of blue satin was veiled in chiffon and Miss Oliver wore white chiffon.There was a good band and supper was served half way through the programme.i ; Mrs.Russell Cowans, who is in the Royal Victoria Hospital and suffering from typhoid, is progressing favorably.Mrs.Vincent Meredith has not taken typhoid as was at first reported.She is suffering from the effects of a severe chill and is laid up at her own house.* x x Miss CGiwynneth Jones has returned to Quebec.Mrs.Arthur J.Laliberte and her son, Fernan, are sailing from Havre on May 12th by 8.5.Le Touraine (French Line) after a year's stay in Paris.Mra.J.J.Westgate and Mrs.J.Whyte entertained at a \u2018Charity Bridge\u2019 on April 25th at the residence of the former in Victoria avenue.The rooms were decorated with a profusion of daffodils and there were thirty tables, twenty-five of which were sold.The hostess was beautifully gowned in a white costume embroidered in black.Mrs.Whyte wore a costume of pink satin embroidered with cerise and a black and white hat.The twenty-five prizes were all most desirable articles and included cut glass hotties, rafia bags, scent cushions and so on.The winners were Mra.Crowse, Mra.Harrison, Mra.Whitaker, Miss Meldrum, Mrs.Carmen, Miss Nelson, Miss Tackard, Miss Caron.Mra.Mumford, Mrs.Matthew, Mrs.Reid, Mra.Porter, Mrs.MeObie, Mra.Gardner, Mra.Cape, Mrs.Milligan, Mrs.Murphy, Mrs.Mason, Miss Gardner, Miss Place Mise (iwen Allan, who has been for some weeks in the General Hospital suffering from typhoid, was to have returned home last week.There , however, been a alight return of the illness and her removal has been poet- Mr.and Mrs.W.G.Ross (The Linton) have returned from Virginia Hot Springssupply one.a tea given by Mrs.George E.Foster in Ottawa, on April 24.| Miss Enid Campbell is going to Toronto for the Horse | : Show next week.We are glad to hear that Mrs.D.F.Sutherland (Winchester) is regaining her health.She is at present staying in Philadelphia with her daughter, Mrs.William Cory, | whose husband is in the United States Navy and whose | i | ship, the \u2018Kansas,\u2019 ia at present in dry dock at Philadeliphia.Mrs.Cory will return to Paris next month to resume her singing studies, and Mrs, Sutherland will join her daughter in Paris at the end of June.Mrs.Gearge Washington Stephens, who has been i travelling abroad for the past four months, is in England jat present and may probably be away for another two \"months.I Miss Constance Dawes and Miss Hall, of Perth, who ; have been abroad for two or three months, and have now | joined Mr.and Mrs.Ryde and Miss Doris Ryde in Paris, .are sailing for home by the Adriatic on May 8.Miss Rosalind Oshorne, of Hamilton, has been the uest of Miss Kate Tinling, Mackay street, for two weeks, \u201chas returned home.x HX | Oliver and Lady Davies.| Mrs.George E.Foster was the hos- | tess at the tea hour, in honor of her guests, Mrs.S.E.Dawson of Montreal and Mrs.W.W.Ross of London, Ont.| Mrs, George E.King presided at the : tea table.| At the marriage of Miss Daisy Chrysler, daughter of Mr.F.H.Chrysler, K.C., and Mrs.Chrysler, ! which took place on Wednesday afternoon at two thirty o'clock, in St.Andrew's Presbyterian Church, to | Mr.Frederick Harcourt Emra, C.EK.the bride was attended by Miss Edith Cross, of Toronto, as maid of honor, and by Miss Elsie Keefer, of Toronto, and Miss Gwendolyn Burn | as bridesmaids.The best man was Mr.Rowland Lewis, and the ushers {were Mr.Phillip Chrysler, brother of | ] the bride, Major E.T.B.Gilmore and Mr.Reginald Smith.! Mrs.Fred Montizambert entertain- , Mr.and Mrs.Richard Warminton are returning to ed a second time this week at luncheon, | Montreal the first week in May.They have spent the | when her guests included Mrs.R.L.| SHADED ENDS.SUNSHADES IN MARQUISETTE AND BULGARIAN MODES.STIRRUP SHAPED BAGS IN MOIRE AND STRIPED MOIRE.FOURTH FLOOR.Misses Edith and Jessie Macpherson an | several others, Mrs.Creelman, of Guelph, is visiting her parents, Dr.ard Mrs.James Mills.The engugement has been announced of Mise Gladys Evelyn Dowsley, younger daughter of Dr.and Mra.D.H.Dowsley to Mr.Walter Wetherall Wright, son of Mr.and Mrs.Edward V.Wright, of Rockliffe, the marriage to take place in May.Mrs, George E.King entertained at a very Winter at their southern home in St.Petersburg, Florida.83 .'} Crothers, Mrs.| : Mins Myrtle Melha Alice Knight, only daughter of Mr.(orden.N Kina Moe, Lyman.Duff, RE er oat onto wh and Mrs.F.T.Knight.was married on April 26th to Mr.Rickard Samuel Dening, of Liverpool, Englandceremony was very qui father.The Rev.Rural Dean Saunders officiated.The bride's brother gave her wasy.She was unattended.Mrand Mrs.Dening will reside at 188 Selby avenue, Weatmount.Dr.and Mrs.Milton Hersey and family return to Mont- | An orchestra played at intervals during the real at the end of this week from Riverside, California, where they have been paying a lenghty visit.Mr.and Mrs.Andrew A.Allan, Mins Hazel Allan and Mr.and Mrs.W.R.Allan, of Winnipeg, sailed from Liverpool for Montreal! by the Victorian April 25.Miss Fraser, Murray avenue, West mount, who has been spending the winter months in Torquay, Devonshire, England, is sailing for home to-day.Miss Louise Alberta Pennington, of Stanley street, has successfully passed second year exams.in medicine at Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.Mrs.Henshaw, of Vancouver, is staying in Montreal.| CW.C.and Mm.Eawards, Mr.Justice and x HO # Mrs.R.Wilson Reford, who is spending some weeks abroad, is expected home about the middle of May.Miss Josette Gagnon, who has studied the best Italian method under Mrs.Homer Curry, the favorite pupil of Viardot-Garcia, and whose voice and singing were s0 much admired at the concert recently given by Che Ameri- | and.was the can Club, has been offered an engagement to go on tour in the autumn by Mr.Max Hambourg, the famous pianist.| The tour will include forty cities.Miss Gagnon has a very nym pathetic soprano voice, sweet and full, and we are sure that her singing will be mueh appreciated in the towns to be visited, Mrs.William Burnett (Mc Kaye street) gave a * Bridge\u2019 on April 25th, uiet owing to the illness of the bride's | Frank Cochrane and Mrs.| Mrs.Charles Harriss, Mrs.William The | Me Dougall, Miss Milly White, Mrs.| Martin | Griffinx OX OX The Hon.Sydney Fisher entertained twice | during the past week at delightful musicales.evenings between the numbers.The first list of guests included Sir Wiifrid Laurier, | \" Hon.McKenzie King, Colonel and Mrs.Lyon Biggar.Hon.Mr.Justice and Mrs.Anglin, | \" Pardee, rs.Preble Macintosh, Mrs.A.W.MeDougall and Mrs.Herbert Walker are going to Winnipeg for the Daugh- ' ters of the Empire Conference on May 3rd.Mrs.DD.Lorne MceGibbon returned this week from a three or four weeks\u2019 visit in Atlantic City.Dr.and Mrs.Dunstan Gray have returned from a trip to New York.Mra.John W.Peck, Mrs.Warren (J.Peck and Miss Florence Peck have returned from Atlantie City.Mrs.A.H.Ellis, who was the guest of Mrs.C.M.Scarff for a few days following the Ellis-Scarff wedding.left for her home in St.John, N.B., on April 22nd.\u201c + #* The marriage of Ming Lillie Spear to Mr.Oscar MeGuen was celebrated on April 20th.in Seattle, Washington.Mra.W.E.Stavert, Mr.Harry Stikeman.Mise Stikeman and Miss Muriel Stikeman have returned from Europe The Misses Verret have returned to Quebec after a visit to the city.Pi Mrs.Martia,from Toronto is visiting with Mrs.Howard rie.Mra.A.F.Leguatt gave an interesting address of Women's Suff at the closing meeting for this season on the W.C.T.U.held on Monday at the house of the President, Mr.Charles Yost.Mrs.A.F.Leggatt urged that this union take up thin part of the work.She also asked that the union encourage the enforcing of the anti-cigarette law.Hon.Adam Beck is confined to his residenos in London, , Ontario, suffering from a severe coid.A long rest has been ordered by Mr.k's physicians.It is possible that he will sail for England aad the continent.| Sie Frederick and Lady Borden, Mr.Hugh Guthrie M.P.and Mrs.Guthrie, Senator and Madame Belcourt, Mr.John Sinclair M.P.: and Mm.Sinclair, Mr.Pardee MP.and Miss Mr.and Mm.David Warnock, | Colonel and the Misses Pennington Mac- | pherson.Mr.and Mrs, William Graham, Mr.| and Mra.F.A.Acland, Mr.and Mrs.Par- | malee.Mr.and Mrs.Law, Mr.and Mra.| Edmond Fortier.On the second evening the guests were Hon.Frank and Mrs, Oliver, Hon.Rodolphe and Madame Lemicux, Hon.Mrs.Casselis.Mr.Justice and Mrs.Duff.| Hon.Mckenzie King, Dr.and Mrs.Thomas Gibson, Mr.and Mrs.Montague Bate, Mins Alice Fitzpatrick, Mr.and Mr.Colin Mecinane.Dr.and Mrs.Adam Shortt, Mr.and Men.Jose Machado, Mr.and Mrs.Gadsby.Mr.and Mrs.MecCraney, Mr, and Mrs.Martin Grifin, Senator and Mes.Bostock.Mra.Achille Frochette, of Lucerne, Switzeruest of honor at 8 very charming tea.having as hostess Mm.Charles Dougherty.Mm.Frank Oliver and Mrs J.F.Orde presided at the tea table, Mrs.Jose Machado serving the ices, and Miss Toola Lambart the punch.the ladies helping heing Miss Trixie Stewart and Miss Kathleen | Doherty.Mrs.Frechette, who is an author- ems of No mean merit, is a sister of the cele- | brated writer, W.D.Howells.LE I J Miss Giwen Burn entertained at a luncheon ty at the Country Club.in honor of Mim dainy Chrysler.Those present were, Mrs.Foster Wilson, Mm.Gordon Hewitt.Mrs, McBride, Mrx.Charlie Graham.Miss Bessie Hill.Mise Kiste Keefer, Miss Edith Macherson.Miss Edith Cross.Miss Emma tewart.Miss Ottily Fellowes, Miss Aurelia Hughsonhe Misses Macpherson entertained at the tea hour.in honor of Miss Chrysler.following the luncheon given by Miss Burn, and including the same guests.with several additions.among those noticed being Miss Mildred Kitteon.Mise Harrtet Cunningham Stewart Mm Jack Macpherson, Mm.kenneth Mac- ! n.Mm.Ward Hughson and others, Mra.Douglas Hazen, and her daughter.ave left for their home In St Mim Katie, John.N B.and will remain until after the marti of Miss Hasen.which takes , some time in June.the date of which has not | et heen decided upon.Miss Francia asen will remain in the Capital with her father until the end of May Mrs.T L Willson entertained at a luncheon party in honor of Mrs.Achille Frechette Covers more laid for four ees.the table being beautifully arranged wit white The guests taciuded rs.Boausck Mra.Adam \u201chortt, Mm.Duncan Campbell, Mrs.D P ¢ rul :shank.Mrs.Hamaett Hill, Mra.Reginald Scott, Mrs.Louie Burrell Mrs.Alan McDougall Jonea.Mrs.J Armistead Wilson.and Mm R.Cameron Bate Miss Harriet Cunningham Rlewart was the hontess at the tra hour.the questa being Miss Daisy Chrysler.Mr F i Mrs.Jack Mar .Mrs, George Netue.Mra.McBride.(be Misses wen Burn, Miss (irces.Miss Mildred Lambe.the of Montreal, and Mra, Ross, of Toronto, who have been visiting Mrs.George E.Foster, Mrs.David Gilmour and Miss King poured the tea and coffee and were assisted in serving by several young girls.Among the guests roacnt were Mrs.R.L.Borden, Mrs.George .Foster, Mra Martin Burrel, Mrs.Crothers, Mm.Hazen, Mrs.Cochrane, Mrs.Oliver, Mrs.William MeDougall, Mrs.Andrew Blair, Mrs.Kirchhoffer, Mrs, Percy Sher wood, Mrs.Clayton, Mrs.John Pugsley, Mrs.W.P Anderson, Mrs.J.F.Gorman, Mrs.W.C.Edwards, Mr.EE.R.Cameron, Mrs.Capp, Mrs.John G.Foster, Mra.J.A.Gemmilt, Madame Girouard, Mrs.W.B.Nearth, Mrs.Martin Griffin, Mrs.Thomas Gibson, Mra.Irwin, Madame Lemieux, Mra James Mills, .Mrs.Fred Carling, Mrs.Kidd.Mrs.Dennis Murphy and a number of others.The Hon.the Speaker of the Senate, with Madame Landry and her daughter.Miss Taschereau, have returned to the capital from Quebec.The Chief Justice of Canada, Sir Chartes Fitzpatrick, entortained at a dinner party in honor of the Rev.Father McNally.of Almonte.* ® » Mrs.W.C.Edwards entertained at a small luncheon party for Mrs.F.W.Cowieprevious to her departure for her home in Montreal, The tanle was artistically arranged with snapdragon., and covers were laid for six.the guests being Mrs.Cowie, Mra.Weston.Mra.Charles Read, Mrs.Mather, Miss Edith Wilson.Lt -Colonet H.\u20ac Lowther and Captain and Mrs.Walter Long have arrived in Otiawa after an absence of three weeks spent in several southern citien.Among the week-end hosta at the Country Club were the Hon.William and Mrs.P ley, Mr.and Mr.W.H.Rowley and M.Leonard Blackburn.Mr.Cameron Ntanton entertained at dinner at the Country Club in bonor of Mrand Mrs.J.P.Ling, who are leaving shortly for England.The guesta included Commander and Mrs.Henry Thompson, Mr.and Mra.Donald Campbell, Mr.and Mm.W RB.Northrup.Miss Kdith Powell and Mr.and Mrs.Edgar Rhodes.Senator and Mrs.Kirchhoffer entertain \u2018at a dinner at the Contry Chan their guests included Mr.and Mm.Rumsell Blackburn, Mr.and Mrs.Arthur Brodnck, Mr.and Mr.: Fred Avery.Mra.Alee Christie, Mrs.Montague Aldous.of Winni .Miss Pauline Lemoine, Hon.Senator Lougheed, Colonel Ramsay and Mr.George \u201cparka.Mrs.Dennis Moeohy her daughter.Misa Hilda Murphy, and Mrs.George Patterson Murphy.have left to spend the week in New ork.A very delightful dance was given in the old Racquet Court.whea the members of the Saturday Evening Class invited a number of their friends to re their pleasure.About one hundred and twenty-five guests were present.Supper waa served from à long buffet in the down stair dining room at eleven- thirty.The chaperones for the evening were Mra.T.Ellery Lord.Mre.E.A.Mra H F Lyster Mra.Clifford Sifton.who is suffering from a severe attack of neuritis.was unable to ar- company her husband three anne to Toronto.where they have heen attending the Horse Show Quite à number of small dinner parties were given at the wenk-end at the Royal Ottawa (iolf Club, amo those entertaini heing Hon Martin and Mm Burrell, Mr.and Mrs.Edward Fauquier.Mr and Mm.Joe Mr and Mm AE Palmer Mrs.H B Billings, Miss May Biliiags and Mr.Nammith have loft by motor tw» attend the Teronto Hors Show, ETTY Drummond Hogg, Mra.J.A.SUFFRAGE LEAGUE CONCERT.Mrs.Fenwick Williams addressed the audience at the concert given by the Equal Suffrage League on April 23.The speaker, in | detailing the incidents of the suffrage movement in Montreal, remarked that it was only | a part of the Suffrage Movement of the whole : British empire and that that was only a part jof the Feminist Movement, which had ita \"Inception at the beginning of the eighteenth | century.Women's rights had been conceded in most civilized countries and it was worthy , of note that many of the leading statesmen \"and leading thinkers of the day were sup- | porters of \u2018Votes for Women.Among these were Mr.Arthur Balfour.Lord Robert Cecil.Mr.Lloyd George.and many others.In Montreal the movement had recelved every encouragement from leading people.When the Suffrage Exhibit was organized offers of | help were sent in from ali sides.Since the exhibit the press had devoted much more attention to the subject for which suffragists were grateful, Mre.Fenwick Willlams went on to ay that the Suffrage Movement in Montreal had originated with the Local Council of Women.Before 1908, no definite suffrage work was done in this city.Allusion was made to the feminist speakers that had visited Montreal, Mrs.Pankhurst.Miss Beatrice Forhes Ro- : berteon and others.The Suffrage Exhibit was organized by Mrs.Douglas Melntosh who made a brilliant success of it.Two acte Playe with \u201csuffragist\u2019\u2019 morals were included in the p amme.Leading arta in both were cleverly taken by Mise sther Mendel.In the first she represented the char-woman of suffragist opinions who wishes for the vote to right the wrongs of women of her class.With all respect to s uffragiata.is It quite fair to represent the av e \u2018\u2019char\u2019\u2019 as à down-trodden person in Canada?As far as we know her she is distinctly mistress of the situation and even something of a tyrant.As depicted hy-Misa Mendel she ly dared lift up her head and hoe voice was as \u2018\u2019\u2019umble' as that of Uriah eep.In the second play the young and lovely heroine makoa it a stipulation that, if she marry heel over, he must allow her to continue her work as a kindergarten teacher.He gave in, preferring ratlier to eat the meals sent in hy a co-operative association than to lose the Iady.Misa Mildred Bain sang three songs, the words of which were by a socialist writer and Mrs.Hemming » fine contralto was also heard in non-suftragist ditties.THE CANADIAN PAVEY TRER EXPERT CO.07 Now Bohs Wiig. THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MAY 3, 1913.The English Suffragette Movement Through Unprejudiced Eyes.V-hp the Suffragettes Attack Law Makers Who Have Favored Their Cause.By Sara Moore Written for the Saturday Mirror.LoNDoN, April 25\u2014 While suffra- | gists are using violence to fight for ; votes it is important to know that | as à moral issue their cause is already | approved in the House of Commons.! A majority of members are on record | as favoring women's enfranchisement as a logical development of re-' presentative government.That this | majority will not vote as it talks is not | due to the power or convincing arguments of anti-suffrage organizations.It is becausesuffrage hasobtained a mea- ure of success\u2014as a principle\u2014and has achieved failure on purely poli- | tical grounds.Unless the militant suffragettes or some other unusual force can remove the present cabinet\u2019s opposition to women's suffrage, the militants declare there is absolutely no hope that the present House of Commons will pass a women's rights measure until after the Irish Home Rule bill becomes a law.To understand how the Home Rule bill ean hold up legislation not even remotely connected with it, one has to go back to the A B C of English ptocedure.The English government is in power only so long as the bills it proposes and the policies if favors are supported by the majority vote in the House.The present government does not depend upon a physical majority in the House, but upon a combination with minor parties.The House divides into: Liberal.265 Labor.40 Irish.76 Independent Irish.8 Conservative.281 Total.670 With the government dependent upon Irish support and all Irish members elected on a Home Rule platform, the relations of the two parties are cordial because the present (Liberal) overnment is in favor of the Irish fo The Irish members\u2019 only chance to pass the bill over the disapproval of the House of Lords lies in the maintenance of the Liberal government for at least two years.Since the success of a woman\u2019s rights bill would put the present government out of power Irish members favoring women\u2019s suffrage will not support any such bill.The suffrage members of the Liberal and Labor arties have their own party-platform interests which effectively prevent any attempt to force the measure over the government prejudices, Conservatives who are suffragists are fully aware that a vote for women might be also a means of returning their party to power, but the Conservative type of mind is not usually democratic enough to favor an extension of voting power to either male or female., The Militant Argument The one hope of the suffragist 1s to convert the government, not individual members of parliament.Militants argue that all peaceful methods to induce the eabinet which is divided on the franchise question to take up the measure have been ignored, ridiculed or scorned.They feel that the only possible way of shaking it is to, make it as uncomfortable as possible.They are getting into jail for breaking | laws, getting out again by refusing to eat, in hope that when the publie is sufficiently annoyed to demand that the government put down the nuisance, they will find that the only means of enforcing the law against the militants is to make them lawmakers, It the constituents of the favorable members of parliament, could be induced to urge their members to push à private members franchise bill, with out regard for party interest or pet legislation the women would stand an immediate chance of success.But the | electorate of the country are by no means mightily agitated about the wrongs of women, either in political or economic matters.The non-mili- | tants feel that success lies in educating the present electors.The militant believes that in discomforting the government, (even if it is necessary \u2018to embarrass\u2019 it by the death | of a few hunger strikers), they have à more iinmediate form of pressure.The non-militant campaign of education seems to be one of almost miraculous optimism for it is by no means easy to convince the present electorate of any progressive measures and it would seem an impossible thing to enthuse them to the point of great demonstration.An authority says all the progressive legislation for ten years has been in advance of publie opinion.Consesvatives hard te Convince The Conservative might he con- vinoed of the justice of votes for both sexes hut the Conservative generally favors restricted suffrage, even for men, and would oppose the women's vote fearing it would increase the \u2018uninformed\u2019 electorate.The t middle class manifests a heavy indifference to things concerning women generally.The women themselves are not progressive\u2014 witness their antiquated customs even in the matter of running a home.The lower class of women are too busy trying to figure out how to maintain families on less than $5 a week, to think beyond the immediate problerus in their struggle for existence.Nor is the laboring man in any degree approaching the politio- ally educated working man of America.The English laborer has only a rudimentary idea of the power of no-opera- tion for betterment of his own oondi- tion and v little interest in the study of public affairs.In England the workingman has been governed so Jom ¢ be is in the habit of having eondi- tions made for him.And information on publie questions is not easy to ob- MRS.ENMELINE PANKHURST.Sketched for the Saturday Mirror by Sara Moore in London.tain.I find that political news in most British newspapers is served in doses best adapted to the needs of lawyers or politicians and all news is usually smothered in dull comments by writers whose authority for making comment has only the backing of an obseure signature like \u201cBystander\u201d or *Seribbler.\u201d Besides being dull and irrelevant these newsgatherers have a passion for endless discussion of unimportant detail.They will report what the home secretary said in re ply to what Mr.So-and-So said about the home secretary's comment on what Miss This-or-That said about the effeet of forcible feeding on the lungs of a hunger-striker.But you read miles of poor type about such quibbling to an inch of fact about hunger-striking.Reading English papers is not an oceupation for a man tired by 10 or 11 or 12 hours\u2019 work.And the papers that have a beginning of reducing the news to the comprehension of a third or half-trained mind are struggling for existence-and are poorly printed and hard to read.The women, I find, in the very poorest class, often forget how to read after they are married.The vounger ones apend their pennies for cheaply printed weeklies of the love-story variety, fairly recking with sentiment on \u201cThe Shop Girl Countess,\u201d \u201cThe Gipsy Lover,\u201d \u201cWedded at Last,\u2019 \u201cRuby's Redemption,\u201d \u201cThe White Slaver's Prey,\u201d order.Great Need of Education.But whether it is in the ignorance of the very poor, or the stolidity of a middle class too comfortable to be forced to mee need of change; or the gay indifference of the rich who may also be prejudiced by a fear that any extension of the franchise might disturb their interests, the \u2018\u2018constitutional suffragists find an almost gigantic field for their educational endeavors.The militant.who is usually very awake to the inadequate press facilities and who has re history to some purpose feels that education is a cold means as well as a slow one, and purposes to kindle interest by violence .and force the government to yield with a threat of fanning the kindling interest to flame.She helieven that the government fears the public resentment which will he directed at it as the public realizes the government is powerless to squelch the Suffragette.The Suffragiste\u2019 situation certainly suggests the difficulties of the old woman whose pig *' wouldn't get over the style.\u201d Her various appeals for e or Phe stick would not.\u201d But when she went far enough she obtained action.For \u2018\u2018the horse began to drink the water, the water began to uench the fire, the fire began to burn the stick.the stick began to beat the dog.the dog began to gr through the stile\u2014and vo the old .man got home that night.\u201d T his theoretical victory and actual defeat accounts for the militaat's latest ove aa attempt to break up political meetings addressed by the members who have been mont ardent supporters of 8 woman's bili When vate members have intr, fused ills these tentative measures, which ended with \u2018the dog would not\u201d might disturb Mr.Asquith\u2019s reign as the head of the government, have heen carefully talked to death.Time after time the Suffragist supporters encouraged by the safely bagged pledges of the majority, have gone to parliament expecting to see the private member's bill put through.The government had pledged itself \u2018to Ricks and Ba'pence Some Opinions from Our Readers \u2014Flattering and Otherwise.To the Editor: Sir:\u2014Permit me to thank you from \u2018the woman's point of view for the very generous and impartial tone which your paper has adopted in treating of those subjects in which \u201cwomen are especially concerned.It \"is most gratifying to find a publication which will enter so many homes treating the whole woman movement in the sane, dignified and human fashion which hasdistinguished thearticles printed in your columns.In addition to the Feminist page in last Saturday\u2019s issue, which is always interesting, (although it seems a pity that some of its space has to be given up to advertisements) there were several other features, such as the editorial on \u2018\u2018Women and War,\u201d and the article on \u2018Homes for Self- \u2018supporting Women,\u201d which cannot fail to make a strong appeal to the intelligent womanhood of the city.And this is but a repetition of that \u2018which has been a marked feature | structures there now.facilitate the consideration of such a measure.Birth of Militarism.It was in an outburst of protest at this painless method of exterminating an enfranchisement measure that the militant movement was born.The cries of protest which came from the women's galleries lead to the forcible ejection of the band of women who had come to see the bill come to vote and remained to see the time allotted to its consideration dribble away in futile verbiage.As members talked on and on to no purpose, the women in the gallery, realizing the inteution of the house, broke into cries of ** Divide! Divide!\u201d Policemen hustled them out into parliament square where they held an indignation meeting.Militaney had begun.The more conservative Suffragists hold that if the women had not cried out the house MIGHT have voted favorably.The militants believe that the house had no intention of destroying the government by putting the hill through and their outburst of protest in no way changed the course of events.This self-preservation attitude of arliament has made Suffragists very hitter against the Suffragists members of the house.The militants have decided to annoy them as well as members who openly opposo the bill.Women are breaking up meetings of the very men who have been most committed to women's enfranchisement.They interrupt speeches, and are thrown out of political meetin favorable to them quite as frequontiy as they are ejected from anti-suffrage member's meetings.Inconsistency Explained.To attack their own members seems lon the surface to be an inconsistent move on the part of women.But ; their theory is that these men by con- ,certed action could estahlish the bill immediately.Pressure stronger than argument must be brought to bear.o the charge that these members vof parliament are traitors to women the members reply that they have first to devote their support to the platforms upon which they were clect- ed and that if women can make suffrage the paramount issue, the measure of greatest public importance, men pledged to that issue would have no alternative, but to put it through.Mr.Keir Hardie, one of the most active workers for the bill, has been repeatedly interrupted and insulted by angry nuffragists.His reply has bern that when women have the publie back of them they will get what they want, and what he leves is their right.He haa said : \u201cYou suffragists are like members of the labor party: you havea't the support of your people.We have not got the workingman with us.You of every issue.[Ihave often wondered whether the newspaper men of Montreal really believed that their women readers enjoy seeing their special interests blandly ignored, or else treated in the most frivolous and flippant manner; whether they are under the impression that invective, caricature, and biased statements amounting to misrepresentation, made about any body of women whatever or about women in general, recommend their journals to women as a whole.That there has been some improvement along this line throughout the newspaper press of Montreal during the few months just past is matter for appreciation, and it is but common sense to believe that this improvement in tone will bemate- rially furthered by the entrance of a new publication which is not afraid to own the belief that women as well as men have an individual point of : view which is worth considering, and individual claims which society is bound in the long run to respect.With sincere good wishes success, I remain, truly yours, A READER.To the Editor Sir:\u2014I am mighty glad that someone in Canada has had gumption enough to take a vigorous stand and protest against the proposed travesty at Ottawa in the matter of slapping down a semi-classical group of buildings in connection with the fine old, romantic and pioturesque Parliament Bravo! It was news to me that any such sacrilegious intent obtained and that , news came to me through the MIRROR.What in the name of Heaven can possess the powers that be if they have sanctioned those designs by the Mr.White you mention?But, perhaps, those sketches have been gratuitously submitted and illustrated in the news- apers and the authorities are blame- ess in the matter.Let us hope it is so.I for one most heartily subscribe to your sentiments that:\u2018\u2018Anything that is built by the people of Canada within a mile of Canada\u2019s Temple of Legislation must be built so as to leave that Temple the focal center of a harmonious group.\u201d Indeed, | firmly believe that all publie work in Ottawa, even though not in the immediate neighborhood of the Parliament Buildings, should harmonize therewith and be subordinate thereto, In other words, let the style and general character of that Parliament Building be the key, the inspiration to all public work thereabout so as to preserve that unity and individuality which should characterize Government architecture.Very truly yours, F.W.FITZPATRICK.To the Editor: Sir: \u2014Please return the money I sent you for the SATURDAY Minton.The course your paper is taking on the Woman Question is extremely obnoxivus to me.I've never yet seen the woman with intelligence enough to know her own mind let alone to know how to vote.\u2018\u2018The Feminist\" gives mo a pain.I think all suffragettes should he banished.I don\u2019t want to read your paper.GEORGE SIMPSON, Cornwall, Ont.To the Editor: Sir:\u2014A friend recommended your paper and 1 have taken it from the start and shall keep on doing so, competition or no competition.Surely no girl should be without a Mirror (paper, of course, not glass.) (Miss) BLANCHE FEYDEAU, 111 Blenheim Place, Westmount.To the Editor: Sir:-~1 am not paper any more, oing to buy your have heen greatl disappointed.I tried my luck in all your competitions and failed miserably.I'm not casily daunted, but when one losos in four smacks you can't help giving up.That was my only attraction for it.A READER.To the Editor: Sir: \u2014I think the Satvmrpar Min- ROR is an excellent production and will at all times put in a favorable word for it among my friends.J.W.JONES.6 Querbes street, City.To the Editor: Sir: \u2014I find your paper very pleasing indeed CLARISSA A.SILL.2318 Esplanade Avenuehaven't the women.You will have to take your chances as we do and work as we do.We have to convince the men we are trying to help of their need of the principles we represent.\u201d Tia je the fourth of o ervire of articles oe ufraget te ovemm Eagand y Miss Sara Moore, a well-known Americas nesperes writer and fllustrator.A ffth will appear next week.or your NS RNR N Se SN NN SR SN One Touch of Distinction DENGALENE WILL NOT CRUSH NOR SHOW PIN HOLE Ym, 7 D + 0 f ; CA 7 NN NIN s SIN S S S S 4 2977 QE TIES AT ALL BETTER CLASS HABERDASHERS MONTREAL BRANCH, BIRKS\u2019 BUILDING.Budapest, The Montreal of Europe.[The Seventh Convention of the | Margarethen Inselternational Woman Suffrage Alli-|of rough coarse grass and scrubby In No mere waste ance, and second Congress of the In- | trees, with an occasional desolate pic- ternational Men's League for Woman | nic ground, but an enchanted lan Suffrage, takes place in Budapest, Hungary, June 15th-20th, 1913., WHEN those among the travellers of pink waterfalls, gardens seething with blossom, tiny bays and outdoor cafes, | where sociable Buda-pest may drink its coffee or Tokay, enjoy the beauties to these notable gatherings who claim | Of nature and the simplo pleasures of the metropolis of Canada as their | \"x home, wake from their first night's: sleep in the capital of Hungary, or otherwise, if they have the good hap, after making the beautiful sail up the Danube from Vienna, to enter the dual city by the highway whieh leads under jewelled bridges, after the time of lamplighting, it may be that they will for an instant of confused consciousness imagine themselves once again back in the new land across on the other side of the Atlantie.For here is Mount Royal, with the broad river at its feet .and the huddled roofs and confused ways of a reat eitv .dim blue hills that wound the view .even, in its right place too, the little pleasure island with boats plving between.Only, & second glance shows that this hill and river are nearer neighbors, and reveals, instead of the pines and maples, the elms and bireh clothing the Canadian mount, the outlines of a magnificent royal palace; in place of the woodland drives frequented hy the cabs of tourists and loitering pedestrians, a Bastion Walk with sentinels, and the Cathedral Church, where must come each Emperor of Austria when he would assume that dual crown which makes him king of one of the most historically fascinating, the most high-spirited, the most rest- leas and untamable races of eastern Europe.Mount Royal too may have its | haunting memories of Indian and mis- | sionary, of camp fires and altars, of | days of enterprise and nights of sudden alarm, but it ean have no associations graven so deep as those old memories of the centuries during | which Hungary's sons stood like a bulwark between Euro stant menace of the bulwark,shattered and broken many a time against the surging armies of the infidel.No memory of any Canadian hill recalls a tragedy like that urk, a human ! f the battle of Mohaos, 1 a Sof Hans hace, where he | \u201cthe great event of the year 1913,\u2019 flower of Hungarian manhood that of Scotland at Flodden Field, was \u2018A\u2019 wede awa\u2019\u2019 or the red ruin which visited palace, and palace library and church, hefore the torch of the Turk.* * # OUNT ROYAL may look down upon its own baffling racial problem an a nation seeks to mold itself from a thousand diverse elements into fraternal life, but her sons will not believe that she may ever face conditions so adverse, so conflicting in operation, and so age-enduring as those which have been dramatically called the \u2018seven cardinal sins of Hungary,\" consinting of three nations and the four religions.Magyar, Szekler, and Saxon, Unitarian, (\u2018'atholie, Lutheran, Calvinist, between them they have made, and kept, Hu ys battlefield, and held her people in the second frank of the nations of the world.And here.between the old age and the new, separating the ancient, tragic town of Buda, hoary with old romance and the salt of forgotten tears, from the glusay newness of handsome, modern ent, ca bly busy, effee- tively commercial and progressive, matter-of-fact.successful, rolls the wideness of the turbid Danube, and in the Danube the fairyland they call :h itality.and distri nd there will be the inevitable gypsy band who will bo delighted for the benefit of the strangers to slide into the strains of the Hungarian national anthem, \u201cNo other land like Hungary.no other songs like hers.\u201d 3% 7 OR next June, the old castie of Buda will look down across its fallen ages upon the newest manifestation of the new age, will see women and men gathered together from the remotest corners of the round world to express the universal demand of half the human race for the right to political liberty.And nothing in the spirit of that demand will be alien to the free spirit of the Magyar, to the comprehension of a nation which almost three centuries before the possibility of religious tolerance and freedom of belief had dawned upon other so-called Christian countries, had passed the world's first great charter of religious liberty.But the world has grown immeasurably larger since the day when that Bayard amon rulers, John Sigismund, prince o Transylvania, proclaimed an ediet assuring absolute freedom of thought, speech and conscience to every subject in his dominion, And next summer the castern-tinged Longuo and eustoms and temples of old Pannonia and Dacia will meet with a further east, when the women of China come bearing gifts from a country that was old when Pannonia was a province of the Roman Empire, and when the women come from Burmah, where women always have been able to hold ublie office, and where their ancient i freedoms are hard put to it to sustain themselves before the encroaching \"influence of the Christian missionary and the eon.- 8nd the Christian militarism.There is something most character- \u201cistic of the true Hungarian spirit in the enthusiasm and the energy with ! which all classes of society have thrown themselves into the preparations for he approaching Suffrage Congress, they say.And those who travel to Budapest in the summertime that is coming are likely to learn it with the most exalted, and perfectly accurate, ideas of the genorosity of Hungarian : Not only municipalities districts have given liberal oon- tributions towards the funds of the Executive Committee, but all sorts and conditions of people are worki and saving for the entertainment the city's guests.Children have saving-boxes for the Congress funds, girl students are earning fees by teaching to give to the cause, the Committee of Artists has not only given a liberal contribution in money, but gave a larme number of art products to be sold to swell the funds.Football clubs have arranged henefit matches whilst garden-parties, bazars and lectures, have n given in the different fashionable watering-places.Under the direction of the Baroness {George Banffy the guests at five o'clock teas and social functions have been asked to give small sums, and many hundreds of crowns have been gathered in this way.Muggine\u2014 \u201cWhatever became of that friend of yours who used to have money to burn?\u2019 Buggins\u2014' He's sifting the ashes.\u201d \u2014 hiladelphis Re- a 20e re = | The Feminist | #2 \u201cI confess myself allogether feminist.\u201d \u2014H.G.Wells.Bridge BY PONTIFEX.+ +% A Twentieth Century Woman\u2019s Page + ++ TEXT.| \u201cMan is a reasoning animal; Woman is not.\u2019\u2014Remark by one of the former, Does it not seem a pity that men should be so swayed by prejudices?| A letter appeared in this page a few weeks ago, criticizing the Frazer Library.Another letter followed this concluding with the sentence, \u2018It\u2019s up to \u2018American Woman' to acknowledge | her error, if such an outmoded thing as an apology comes into the purview of a suffragist.\u201d\u2019 : The bad taste of such a reflection on \u201cAmerican Woman\u2019s'\u2019 supposed political predilections can only be realized by substituting the word \u2018\u201cConservat- : ive\u201d or \u201cLiberal\u201d for \u2018\u201c\u2018Suffragist.\u201d\u2019 \u2018 Does this gentleman think that any man or woman who does not see eye to | eye with him on all political topies is \u2018 necessarily defective in good judgment?Or is he so slightly educated | as to suppose that a woman who holds certain political views is necessarily lacking in politeness?The letter has an amusing side as \u201cAmerican Woman\u201d went out of her : way to inform us that she was not a! Suffragist.Apparently \u2018\u2018Canadian Man\u201d did not read the letter which he ! answered.I am criticizing \u2018\u2018Canadian Man's\u201d manner, not his matter.Personally I am a frequent visitor at the Fraser Library and I have always received every possible attention and politeness | from its custodians.I never\u2014oddly enough-\u2014visit the reading room so am .unable to pronounce on its merits; but | I think that the library is well stocked with desirable books.Thus my animadversions have reference only to the | end of \u2018\u2018Canadian Man's\u201d letter.i I do not suggest that \u2018\u2018Canadian | Man\u201d show politeness to \u2018\u2018American Woman\" because she is a woman; but I do advise that he treat her (supposed) political convictions with the same courtesy which he would show to a.man\u2019s.; A correspondent has written askin | me why so much attention is devote to the question of Suffrage on a page that purports to be for the discussion of all feminist topics.The question is a fair one.It was no plan of mine to discuss the Suffrage to the exclusion of other matters; the procedure was forced upon me by my correspondents who seem more interested in the question of Suffrage than in any other.Whether they write, lauding this department and expressing pleasure at its attitude, or whether they write in indignant disparagement they all allude to Suffrage and apparently feel that Feminism to-day is Suffrage, and is concerned with nothing but Suffrage.; t is popular opinion, not my choice, that bas made this page a Suffrage age.True, 1 expected to discuss uffrage to some extent because it is an important aspeet of Feminism; but I did not expeet to discuss it continually.But what am I to do when every day brings letters or messages asking me to deal with some new aspeet of the \u201cmovement\u201d or demanding that I, explain, if 1 can, some apparent in-' consistency?; True, 1 believe that Suffrage is a ressing question.But it must not be orgotten that it is but one aspect of a great world-wide movement\u2014the movement to elevate women to the status of intelligent human beings; Feminism claims for women\u2014as Havelock Ellis puts it\u2014' \u2018the same human rights as for men; the right to | be educated, the right to add to the | occupations they are fitted for, the same political rights.\u201d j It is curious to note that the first right, the most important right,\u2014the right to be educated,\u2014 was the right most strenously refused, most loudly scoffed at.One very telling argument brought against the higher : education of women was that young | men would despise their fellow stud- | ents, would jeer at them, and would consistently refuse to marry them.One wonders what these prophets would have said could they have' A WELL KNOWN FEMINIST WORKER.MISS HARRIET MAY MILLS.Miss Mills is a graduate of Cornell University and a tireless worker in the cause of woman's suffrage.travelled through California speaking in behalf o She is an able speaker, and during 1896 the enfranchisement of women and the advanced attitude of that state regarding this question is, to a great extent, owing to her efforts.She is known in Montreal, having addressed the League of American Municipalities which met in this city in 1910, when her speech created much favorable comment.looked into the future! students dancing together at college hops, boy and girl students walkin together on the campus, boy and gir students fraternizing over their studies, boy and girl students becoming engaged to one another.How much surprised the prophet would have been to find that a far larger percent- ago of college men marry their co-eds than marry other girls! How much surprised he would have been to hear that the marriages of college girls show a rather higher percentage of children than the marriages of girls who have not attended college! What would he have said?Well 1 suppose he would have said just what we are all saying now about the franchise- that dreadful things were going to happen anyway in spite of the fact that they never had happened.A recent argument advocated by one of the \u201clogical set\u201d against Suffrage is that \u2018\u201c\u2018the whole thing\u2019 is very tiresome and that men are sick of the very name of Suffrage and that wo had much better drop it.I wonder if it ever occurs to our critics that we too get sick sometimes of the very name of Suffrage.I wonder if it ever oceurs to them that the amount of hard work whieh we put in in various direetions is aimed at putting an end to discussions on Suffrage.Do you not know that, as soon as the absurd political embargo is withdrawn, the name of Woman Suffrage will be as dead as King Charles?When we are able, through our vote, to install men who will represent our interests in Parliament du you think we shall yearn for the days when we patiently endeavoured to instil into the publie mind the amazing fact that we were not satisiled with the political status of children?.at the Sign of the ?Sex Hanpicar.\u2014-You wrote me à letter | some little time ago.1 have searched everywhere for it.but it seems to have disappeared.| No doubt it will turn up before next week, and 1 shall anawer it then.1 have so man letters ahead to answer as a rule that it is impossible to answer most of my correspondents at once; and the letters are sometimes overlooked.But none have been lost so far: no doubt yours will tym up in a day or two.Raven Devarieip.\u2014Why do you say that \"you notice \u2019ethis, that and the other, when the moat cursory examination of conditions would show you that your ohservations are inaccurate?The women In Europe do not + exercise all the power they want through the votes of their male relatives.\u2019 many of them exercise power through their own vote, obtained after the patient toll of many years: others, in unenfranchised countries, are working Incessantiy for the franchise, doing everything that Englishwomen have done.except adopt militant tactics.Do you not sce how you justify militant tactics when ou say that these women are indifferent ?f they had broken a few windows they would have Peur heralded in every newspaper in the world.Because they do as men are always saying the Englishwomen should do\u2014 work et ty for the franchise- you say tha.they not want it.There are huge organizations in every European country aimed at the one end.A monster demonstration took place in Holland lately.France is most insistent.In Germany many of the most prominent politicians are Suffragista.As for the | nited States and the '' generally express- od desire there is a larger number of le handed together there for Woman Burrage than foe any other reform.Your letter shows a pitiable ignorance of the average woman Montreal.In the first place she need not \u2018divert sufficient in- from her children in order to understand the political questions of the day.she will do far better if she devotes herself for the present to her children and to sering that their intervata are safe-guarded by the laws.The ' politics which you think so important often srem to me a sort of childish game.hardly worth understanding.What is really Important ia that the interrats of the home be e-guarded., that women be slowed to protect their children, and that the be odministered In in an ¢ Can y not met women : mishout se wer vote Lot pousess power Laforce laws any more (ben (he power te make them?You say that if women \u2018lifted up their voices\u2019\u2019 the authorities would have to enforce the laws.for shame's sake.Well, 1 suppose you will think that they have \u201clifted up their voices\u2019 sufficiently in England.How many laws have heen enforced there because women clamoured for reform ?It does seem strange that \u2018'educated and cultured women\u2019 should be obliged to adopt the tactics of \u2018\u2018ignorant working-men.\u201d Tt does not speak very well for the intelligence of the world that these tactics should have attracted more attention than all the quiet efficient, lady-like work which women had done, unnoticed for countiess years before , that! But your letter almost convinces me that they are right; and that these very objectionable tactics are the only ones that men are capable of understanding or paying any attention to.received a letter from you à week which was very amusing.f space can found I should like to publish it next week.! Perhaps your firat letter, too.was intended to be merely humorous.1 cannot believe that you meant such illogical and contradictory arguments seriously.\u201c ® 0» Brossou.-1 think that the \u2018\u2019French- Canadian-woman discussion is an excellent thing.| My idea ie always to have everything in the open.There is too much secrecy.too much whixpering, too much \u201cyou mustn't say this \"and \u2018it would never do to ray that.\u2019 It will do to say anything that ought to be said; and the sooner difficulties are discussed the sooner they will te solved.Nothing te ever gained by cowardice and the attempt to shirk dificulties.They munt be faced some time and the sooner the hetter.One youn French lady said to me, | sometimes thin that the Roman Catholic Church Je like Bogey to some people.The speak of it ust ae You a ee a child.\" There ls a | great deal of truth in this.We are very | much given to creating phantoms and then running away from them.Whether they are real or Imaginary phantoms in this case | think they are purely imaginary nothing ls gained by running away from them.| see no reason why we should not discuss every aapert of suff question from every point of view.and | think that we owe a debt of gratitude to the lady who first began the discussion.8 Jrericn.\u2014| shell publish your letter next rok ad give you my opiaion of your, uw! .Boy and girl \u201cof a vote.fit has got to be altered, i point of the Catholic Church Personally I know of no one direction in which I as an individual should be directly benefited by the possession But I also know that thousands of women aro living and dying under degrading and unfair conditions in Canada today because |}.able to give his partner the lead they and the women who could help them are politically non-existent.I have no intention of sitting with m hands in my lap and allowing this state of things to continue.It has got to stop.The sweating of women has got to stop.The pleasant little Quebec law which makes a man both father and mother to his children in respect of power, and yet allows him to colleet his wife's earnings if ho sees The law which gives a woman's property to her husband unless she has a marriage contract must be abolished.All the laws which benefit men at the expense of women\u2014as well as the laws which benefit women at the expense of men \u2014must be replaced by just and equitable laws.Otherwise Quebec will remain what it is at present\u2014the \u201cawful example\u201d of the civilized world.1 am too guod a patriot for that.Quebec Suffragists everywhere are too good patriots for that.We wish to do what all good housekeepers do despite the protests of their male relations\u2014econduct a thorcugh \u201cspring cleaning.\u201d Men say that polities are too dirty for us to touch.Whose fault is that?Not ours.They will be a oat deal cleaner by the time that we ave finished with them.1 do not care for polities.1 find them boring.But I cannot allow my personal likes or dislikes to interfere with what is so manifestly my duty, first as a Canadian, wocondly as à woman.I shall continue to advocate the Suffrage for women because in the, words of Judge Lindsay, \u201cI believe that it is important for the nation, the child, and the home that women have the right to vote.\u201d CATHOLIC WOMAN'S DAY.A Catholic Woman's Day was recently organized with great success throughout Bavaria, in which 40 towns and communities participated.Women of all classes, including peasant women, attended the large meetings, at which an open discussion was held \u201cthe Catholic Women and Her on Position in the Present Fight for Freedom.\u201d The enthusiastic gatherings testified to the great increase in the numerical strength of the Catholic women's organizations, and furnished further evidence of the broader view- in Germanic countries on women's participation in public affairs.FRENCH WOMEN TEACHERS.The rejection of their demand for | equality of treatment with their male confreres was a bitter blow to the French women teachers.The women have been endeavoring to secure this reform for years, and in spite of the fact that a majority of deputies were in favor of the principle the government rejected it on account of the great increase in expenditure it would entail.The women, however, intend to renew their demand immediately, asin their opinion the fight for equality of treatment is the most critical and important, because until the State has no material interest in employing women in preference to men Civi servants, at any rate, cannot claim economic freedom.Out of the recent , APROPOS of my article on the i { { i | | investigation into the condition of the teaching profession in France women have, however, gained several concessions.Women professors in lyoees with the highest degrees are to be paid equally with the men: high school and special tsachers will receive only $40 | à year lens than the men in eorrespond- 0 I ing grades while the first, second and coward,\u201d replied ades of State teachers have , who remains single so be won't bave ned a small inorense in salary.to try.\u201d \u2014Argomaut.thi also game of \u2018\u2018Miss\u2019 Auction for: three players, I may say that I have, recently tried out the game, and find it has three or four weak points, which require alteration to make the game satisfactory.As played under the rules set forth in th\" issue of April 19, I find that the \u2018\u2018declarer\u2019\u2019 has still an enormous advantage over his oppon- ; ents, chiefly owing to the fact that he | can discard three of his sixteen cards, and thus, in the majority of cases, fix his hand so &s to be void of the suit, or suits,in which his temporary opponents are strong.The following | alterations will be found to greatly improve the game.(1) The player who contracts to make the number of tricks, and becomes the declarer, shall name his trump suit before seeing the | four cards that compose the \u2018\u2018miss.\u2018\u2019 (2) The players in temporary partnership noble mosque, ancient houses and wedding.against him should be allowed to double.(3) It will be much better if the declarer | still dominates the scene.eR y CAIRO IN SEASON.A FEW HINTS ÇAIRO has changed eatly duri the last decade.an he European palaces of princes and pachas amongst roves of palm trees and encircled $y igh walls.Yet the City of the Caliphs retains much of its ancient charm.The Citadel, Saladin\u2019s ancient fortress, : The panorama from its walls is a vista of delight, especially at sunset time.In the distance, against the flaming sky, are the pyramids of Ghizeh; near at | hand lies a vast native district with winding streets.A haze veils the FOR TOURISTS.although he may seem full of gratitude and politeness.Too many tourists, , quarter has spread and huge blocks of , especially women tourists fall into , flats, enormous hotels and fine shops, .are to be seen, where once stood the: that the dragoman, in dealing with his this grave error.When we reflect : countrywomen, looks on no woman's i face save those of his own relations, it \"is not difficult to understand how easily they may misunderstand the actions (quite innocent in themselves) of the ; women of other countries.Do not | oncourage him to sit in the carriage with you or to walk beside you.Ho | will despise you if you do and brag of it to his friends.Many dragomen earn large sums from visitors by undertaking to conduct them to a native It is not generally known | that there is one day during the be forced to give dummy one of the cards Newness of the modern town and the , festivitios in connection with a Musfrom the \u2018\u2018miss\u2019\u2019 and each of his opponents | also one of those cards.This alteration prevents the declarer voiding his hand of his | weak suit and makes the game very much ' more difficult, while at the same time keeps it more in line with ordinary auction.; | We found in playing the game under the rules as previously printed that, firstly \u2018No Trumps\u2019 was very rarely called; Dummy's hand being exposed, length of suit, or suits, is at once seen and the advantage of a long trump suit, together with the ability of discarding the cards of his weak suit, enabled the declarer to make five, six green waters of the classic hill with its memories of the great ones of the earth, winds across the scene.The Tourist Season.Visitors begin to fill the hotels towards the end of Novemberthey realize what a lovely, warm month November is they would come even earlier.What many tourists do 18 to postpone their arrival until the cool weather has set in and then, be- ; cause they cannot wear light summer \u2018garments, to complain of the cold.: um, o- | pockets.Did ; sions like the tombs of the Caliphs or sulman wedding on which any one , may enter even without an invitation.+A well bred Moslem would not take advantage of this but the wily drago- \u2018man uses the opportunity to line his For certain longish excur- | Sakkarah and Memphis (those majes- ' tic monuments of antiquity that lie { half a day\u2019s journey into the desert) it is desirable to engage a dragoman.But for such simple outings as the | Ghizeh Pyramid, the Egyptian Musethe Arabie Museum or the and seven tricks in the majority of The Cairo winter lasts from about the Mosques it is quite feasible to take a cases.Where he could see a certain nine tricks, the discard nearly always enabled him to make his hand, combined with Dummy\u2019s, worth two or | three more tricks, and the game alto- | gether too easy.There is little play ; beginning of December until the middle of February, a little earlier or later according to the season.It is ideal weather but you must dress suitably.Men must not forget their great-coats nor ladies their thick tailor of the cards as the game in the majority of cases developed simply into the establishment of one suit outside of ; trumps, and roughing the opponent's | strong suit.With the aiterations as indicated above, the game is far more difficult and is well worth playing by three people who are unable to find a fourth to complet: the table.EE | There is a little known method by which the leader at Bridge and Auetion Bridge can show his partner that he has five cards of the suit he is opening, which may be useful to some of my readers.It may often be desirable that partner of the elder hand should be able to disclose the fact that he holds five cards in his partner's opening suit, so that the elder hand may be in a position to either drop an unguarded queen, let us say, or else with that suit and unbloek.Let us suppose that when the declarer has made \u201cNo Trumps,\u201d as dealer, and not been overcalled, the elder hand holds the ace, king, knave and two of spades or clubs, and leads the king.Dummy has a strong supporting hand, but only two of the suit opened -say the five and the six of spades.The first trick consists of the king, five, four, seven of spades.Now the elder hand is in a difficult position, having three courses open to him.(1) Should he try and find his partner with the queen?(2) Show he draw a bow at venture, and try another suit to put his partner in and have the spade suit led \u201c\u2018through\u2019\u2019 the declarer to him?(3) Should he try and drop the queen?An observant player would, of course, have noticed that the three was absent from the first trick.Of course the declarer may be \u2018\u2018foxing\u2019 and concealing the three with the ohjeet of misleading the elder hand.Herer, en passant, let me say that this strategy on the part of the declarer, so easy to work and so often neglected, namely to play the low cards, which have no actual value, out of order so that he may befog his adversaries, is of great importance and should always be employed by the declarer.However, he that as it may, in the, case under discussion, the elder hand concludes that the declarer has really played his lowest spade.He then queries why his partner has played the four and not the three of spades.His artner cannot possibly be showing our cards in the suit, since the four cannot be his highest but one since the \u2018unseen cards are only the queen, ten, nine, eight and three! It will be little help to the elder hand to know his partner has four of | the suit, inasmuch as if the declarer has the queen, it must be guarded; but it is exceedingly advantageous to him to know that his partner has five cards of the suit and that five tricks can be won in spades right away, irrespective of the position of the queen.hus the elder hand assumes the play was genuine; he knows his partner played an unnecessarily high card, which waa not possibly his highest but one; that he did so, consequently, to show that he held five cards of the suit and not four, and the declarer has but one card left in the suit and no matter what that card is, if he, the elder band, leads his ace, he and his partner must make five tricks in the suit and save the game.This device or piece of card conversation cannot be termed a \u2018\u2018convention.\u201d It is merely expansion of the card conversation of whist or bridge players of many years\u2019 standing, viz.the echo.To put the thing in a few words simple and direct o show your partner four cards, and only four, in the suit lead, play your second best or the highest card in the suit but one;to show five cards in the suit, play your lowest card but one.PONTIFEX.A witty judge of the muniei court of Boston stoutly declared that \u201ca patriot was a man who refused to button his wife's lingerie waist.\u201d \u2018A ; martyr,\u2019 he went on, \u2018'is one who attempts and fails, while a hero triee and sucoreds.\u2019 \u2018Then what is a coward,\u201d asked a curious bystander.\u201cOh, a the judge.'\u2018is a man car or hire an aribeah (the Cairo cab) ! and go \u2018\u2018on your lone,\u201d Baedeker in hand.There are always guides on \u2018the spot who will show you over the | premises for a small sum, and do not Imagine that you go in danger of your Typieal Scenes in Egypt- A Native Women carrying a water-jug\u2014 Tourists climbing the Pyramidsdresses and fur stoles.These will often be needed though not always.Mornings and evenings are sufficiently cold to From 11.00 a.m.to 2,30 p.m.is generally warm and sunny and very delightful it is to sit on the balcony of the hotel and watch the life and movement in the gay, cosmopolitan crowd.A chill wind often blows across the desert, springing up rather suddenly.Many an English or Canadian, delighted with the morning sunshine, has started off on an excursion in a linen suit and taken a chill because no wrap was handy.Had she been properly proteeted her health would not Lave suffered.Some Street Scenes.The street life of Cairo affords constant amusement not only to the new \u2018comer but to those who have spent many seasons there.A procession approaches heralded by a brass band playing a curious Arabic air.Then come gaily dressed Arabs holding up mirrors on long poles that reflect the .rays of the sun, sending discs of light ; here and there.Then come carriages filled with native women and children, the little unes in the gayest frocks, pink, blue and yellow, their mothers, aunts and grandmothers in the black hooded cloak and white veil in which all the women of Egypt, save very great ladies or the very orest, appear out of doors.It is probably a circumcision feast in a tradesman's family.When this has passed there is a sound of tramping feet and a khaki clad battalion of infantry from the Kasr el Nil barracks pass marching out to Heliopolis to the strains of the regimental band.If you are leaning over the hotel balcony to watch the soldiers go by, a swarthy blue gowned pedlar, with a persuasive not to say a wheedling manner, tries to entice you to buy a black and silver Assiout shawl, holding his glistening wares aloft to show their quality.hen the proprietor of a performing ape bangs is tambourine to attract attention to the gifts and graces of his quadruped.At nine in the morning or about four in the afternoon the shawish (poline- man) who directs the traffic clears the way and there is a stir of expectancy.His Highuess, the Khedive, drives past, seated in an elegant open carriage, attended by an officer of state and escorted by a detachment of lancers of the Egyptian army, blue uniformed and with pennons waving.The Drageman.The dragoman is not the necessity that he was some forty years ago when the streets of any Eastern city were unsafe for Europeans.He is useful, however, within certain limits.He is often a tall, good-looking fellow, pioturesquely dressed to attract the tourist.he talks excellent English and has some sort of a smattering of the history of the Mosques, the Coptic churches and so on.Visitors who wish for reliable information will, however.find some such book as \u2018The Story of Cairo.\u2018\u2019 by Btanley Lane Poole, useful for correnting the occasional errors of this worthy.The dragoman is often quite a good fellow but he must not be paid too highly and do not (above all) be too familiar.He will only despise you if you are, make warm clothing desirable.| life by doing things this way because you are quite safe, as long as you keep to heaten tracks and go about by daylight.Amusements.Having explored the bazaars and made delightful purchases of copper and brass work, in narrow lanes thronged with swarthy salesmen, and after passing hours admiring the splendid carving in dim and ancient mosques where gorgeous sheikha in silken raiment are at their devotions, | outdoor sports do not come amiss.The edivial Sporting Club at : Ghezireh allows visitors to take out monthly subscriptions.The grounds are beautifully laid out and the tennis, gol and polo are excellent.The .8.C.races are the smartest in Egypt and the coup d'oeil at a January meeting is something worth seeing.There are sorne first rate gentleman jockeys amongst the British officers quartered in Egypt, and as far as lady visitors are concerned, belles of New York, Montreal, London or Paris can look at the Greek fair ones and realize that Ionian beauty is more than a classic tradition.The Heliopolis Sporting Club boasts the finest race course in Egypt and Helouan, the finest golf course.Both these sunny little towns are easiiy accessible from Cairo.A monster tennis tournament generally comes off at Al Hayat, Helouan about Christmas or the New Year to which visitors are cordially invited.The opera is the musical event of the Cairu season.It is dificult to get seats as 90 many residents have boxes or stalls for the season.The classio and symphonic concerts given on Friday nights at Shepheard's hotel are much appreciated by music lovers.Entrance to these is by invitation and the management is very liberal.There are weekly balls, also invitation, at the Savoy hotel on turdays, the Semiramis on Wednesdays and Ghezireh Palace Hotel on alternate Thursdays.Besides these there are special special balls, such as the Ghezireh alace Fancy Ball, the Cotillon Ball and the Venetian Fete.Invitations for these events are eagerly sought.FLORENCE 8.DAVSON.THE SOUND OF TELEGRAPH WIRES A phenomenon with which most people are familiar is the curious noise made by telegraph wires.It is accepted as ordinary; and yet there has n hitherto no tinal explanation, Professor Field, of the University of Ottawa.states that the song of the telegraph wires is the song of the barometer, and that the variations are in direct relation to variations of the weather.It is, according to Professor Field, a scientifio indicator of the weather.If the sound is low the weather will change in two days.Li it is sharp a momentary change is probable.According to the new theory the vibrations of the wire are traasmitted by the posts, which re- ecive these in turn from the earth.Woodchopper \u2014 1 sen a lot o bear tracks \u2018bout 6 mile north 'o here \u2014 big ones, too!\" Huater - \u2018Good! | Which way is south?\u2019 Chicago Daily ows. The Saturday Mirror BPITED BY BDWARD BECK.THE SATURDAY MIRROR is published every Saturday at 275 Craig Street West, Montreal.Telephone Main 8150 all departments.SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $2.50 per year in Canada or Great Britain ; Elsewhere $3.50.THE SATURDAY MIRROR, patients, some of whom showed slight improvement mmediately following the doctor's treatment, have! relapsed into a condition as bad as or worse than they were in before.There is a story from Buffalo of the cure of a patient in that city by the Friedmann system which lacks final authentication.In the face of this disappointing showing, one is glad | to find so sane and hopeful a statement as that made by | Dr.James J.Walsh, Sc.D., of New York, whose review | | of the Friedmann episode in that city is printed in the | ' New York Herald and ably summarized in the Montreal | - THE MONTREAL PUBLISHING comp.AN Y Liv ITE D.Gazette.The doctor neither praises nor condemns Dr.EPWARD BECK, - - - Secretary-Treaswrer | Friedmann.To quote from the Gazette: SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1913.The Case for Divorce.THE development of interest in the question of divorce has been astonishingly rapid in Canada in the last four or five years.It may be traced in part to an increased disposition to examine into social questions generally, consequent upon our relief from the economic worries of our days of struggle in the last century; in part to the feminist movement, which has exposed the | utterly disproportionate burden imposed by our marriage system upon the woman; and very largely to the enormously increased employment of Canada\u2019s one device for getting around the absence of a divorce law\u2014 the procuring of a private Act of Parliament.It is so grossly illogical and absurd that the shackles of matri- money should be breakable at will by anyone who has the money to put a bill through Parliament, while they are eternal and indestructible for all poorer persons, that Dr.Walsh points out that tuberculosis when taken in time and properly treated is an eminently curable affection.It is known to the medical profession that practically everyone who dies above the age of 30 from some other disease than tuberculosis has a healed tubercular lesion somewhere in his body.Almost no one is exempt, but seven-eights of the people throw off the disease by their.own resistive vitality, while less than one-eight succumb.Nowadays the treatment of consumption has advanced so greatly that many even of those suffering from the disease in severe form have the affection arrested and some of the incipient cases are cured altogether or at least put in a condition in which consumption will develop only if there is very serious neglect of proper health rules.Patients in the latter class live an active life for many years; there are records of some who have lived for half a eentury after severe symptoms were noticed.Most people personally \"know of cases where great improvement has followed treatment given by the family physician and where the patient has taken caie of himself and lived a proper life.he avoidance of dissipation and the keeping of good hours have saved the lives of many persons not constitutionally strong.Dr.Friedmann has with his promises brought hope vo the despondent in many quarters.If his cure realizes\u2019 his expectations it will be a wonder.If it does not there will still be the cures of undoubted worth that are many who have no love for divorce itself are beginning to look toa divorce court as the only means of abolishing a grave social injustice.In the articles which the SATURDAY MIRROR is now publishing by Mr.Annesley Burrowes, the case for divorce from what may be called the humanist stand- | point is put with an extraordinary clearness and force of | ment and more than offset the disappointment of the appeal; and we earnestly recommend to all of our read- | ers, whether their convictions allow them to regard divorce as permissible for themselves or not, to read these articles with care and with dispassionate judg- | ment.We are by no means disposed to assume that the case is settled, for (\u2018anadians, by the arguments which Mr.Burrowes puts forward, and we shall be very glad to receive and to publish any arguments on the other side of the case, which our readers may care to contribute.One argument alone is not available in such a discussion, and that is the argument of the indissolubility of marriage as an article of religious faith.A vast number of Canadians, both Catholic and Protestant, hold that faith very firmly; but it is impossible, in this age of liberty, to consider their belief as entitling them to impose the same indissolubility upon those who believe nothing of the kind.À divorce court infringes upon nobody's liberty of belief; if it did there would be tyranny in New Brunswick, in Nova Scotia, and in | British Columbia, where such courts have been operating since long before Confederation.But the prohibition of divorce by an anti-divorce majority, not on grounds of its social or economic undesirability but because of an article in a creed, is imposing a purely religious disability upon persons who do not profess that religion, and is therefore tyranny of a very serious kind.The social and economic arguments against not merely excessive freedom of divorce but any divorce at all are very considerable and need to be weighed and pondered by Canadians before they decide whether they will place divoree in every Province within the reach of the poor or take it away from the rich.The arguments for divorcee are absolutely individualistic; they depend upon our sympathy for the suffering of the individual and our desire to ameliorate his or her condition, The argument against divorce is social, collectivist: every phase of it may be summed up in the statement that it is better that one man or one woman should suffer than that the character of the whole community should be relaxed.The tendency in these days is to carry individualism to excess.The individual must be saved and made happy and comfortable no matter what the effect on the race may be.There is some chance that the social argument against divorce may be overlooked, or so confused with the religious argument ax to be thrown overboard along with it.There is no doubt that our people need to be taught a greater seriousness and self-denial in the matters of matrimony and the rearing of children, rather than a less.Whether or not we need greater freedom for divorce in the courts, we certainly need a deeper stigma upon it in our society as an open confession by at least one party of failure and wrong-doing in the most important relationship of life.The whole question ix one of the highest importance to this generation.and one which will have to be resolved in one direction or the other before many years have passed by.The SATURDAY MIRROR proposes to do what it can to secure due consideration for it.Friedmann a Mercenary.N'-W=PAPER reports areto the effeet that Dr FF.Friedmann has sold the American rights to his tuberculosis treatment to a syndicate for close upon $2.000000, and that the syndicate will proceed to exploit the same for all it is worth.\u201d Members of the medical profession express great disappointment.They accusé the German doctor of being nothing but a mercenary.They now see that hix entire programme on this side of the Atlantic has heen unethical and planned solely to exploit his \u201ceure.\u201d Some of the good doctors are congratulating themselves that they stood aloof and thereby escaped being made à part of Friedmann\u2019s advertising propaganda, while others, who helped to introduce the doctor in the various cities which he visited, are expressing regret that they did so.The whole things savor< of Barnumism, built upon the theory that the public liken to be humbugaed.\u201cAx to the merits of Friedmann's treatment, medical opinion ix still unconvineed, Laymen who have given the subject thought are even more skeptical.Newspaper reports are conflicting but most of them leave but little room for belief that the Friedmann serum is what ite discoverer claims it to be.A Baltimore physician of repute who was sent to Berlin to undergo the Friedmann treatment under the most favorable comditions reports that after a three months\u2019 test be finds himself no better than he wan before the serum had been injected] into his veins.Reputable New York doctors who have had every opportunity for Observing the patients treated by Dr.Friedmann in that sity agree that none of these patients shows improvement from the treatment.The authorities of a number of cities which Dr.Friedmann has visited are protesting that he has not kept his agreement for sulwequent visits to give hia patienta the needed tal treat- meat In Mostreal, observers say that Ir Friedmann's constantly being applied by earnest physicians and that are as constantly being improved on.Hospitals for the spend their time and money in helping them.The outlook is better than it ever has been.This sort of advice will bring hope and encourage- Friedmann fiasco.Nothing to Be Ashamed Of.UNDAY last was April 27.On April 27 the Ameri- ; cans captured, sacke and burned the city of .Toronto, but were subsequently compelled to abandon their prize.We hasten to add that this interesting \u2018episode took place exactly one hundred years ago, and | that the risk of its being repeated at the present time lis practically negligible.It is curious and regrettable that Toronto has said so little about it at this time of its centennial anniversary.| The motive of the Torontonian silence is creditable enough, but in our opinion mistaken.It is very nice of \u2018the people of Toronto, whose town rejoiced by the way Ï and predecessors were beaten back in an eight-hours ' struggle from Humber Bay to the Old Fort, to say to | themselves: ** We have buried the hatchet; why should we harrow the feelings of our good American cousins by recalling these painful scenes?Hurrah for the Hundred Years\u2019 Peace, and down with anybody who men- itions that there was a Two Years\u2019 War!\u201d It is very well meant indeed, but does it do our American cousins lany good, and does it do Canada any good, and is it fair to the young Canadians who are growing up with little or no knowledge of the heroism that made their country\u2019 what it ix, and is it fair to the memory of the heroes, several score of whom fell on that fatal day in the effort to keep the British flag flving over the chief city of Upper Canada?The lack of historical spirit din Canada is one of the most serious dangers that the Young nation has to face.Such an enormous propor- \u201ction of our population consists of new arrivals, who can have no Canadian historical spirit, that those who do possess it should overwork it rather than keep it silent and suppressed.Would the Americans (whose achievement in building up a national feeling in a hundred vears is the most amazing in history) have allowed such an anniversary to pass without a word of rommem- oration, no matter whose feelings might be hurt?Not by all the fireworks of the Fourth of July and all the rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence! And is there any real danger of hurting anybody's feelings by Canadian commemoration, wisely and sanely directed, \u2018of the great events of our struggle for national existence \u2014many of which events are as interesting to Montreal as to Toronto?Let us learn to uppreecinte the Hundred Years of Peace better by learning of the sufferings and heroism of those who secured it by two years of terrible war.Canada has nothing to be ashamed of in the war of 1812, Toronto\u2019s Traction Problem.THE one thing that scems to be obscure about the proposed civie purchase of the Toronto Railway is the price.If the deal can be effected at any figure that will not throw a ruinous burden of interest on the city.it ought to go through: and if 1 were a Torontonlan | would be prepared to pay quite a lot of interest before I decided that it Was ruinous, in return for the pleasure of getting rid of one of the most intolerable situations that ever existed in an urban transit system, Toronto ix admirably adapted for a thoroughly promising experiment in municipal ownership and commission operation of its transit facilities, though Toronto people will have a lot to learn before they get it running perfectly.They will have to learn, for instance, that the present market value of the property depends on the ability the street railway enjoys of pucking its passengers like sardines, and that if they want to be carried decently and properly their railway will not earn enough to pay the interest on it< present price, at any rate for some time to come, They will have to learn that reduced fares and improved accommodation are incompatible, unless they are prepared to pay for them out of the taxes.They will have to learn how to deal with real estate speculators who want carlines simply to enhance the value of their lots.with a huge body of employees whose voting power may make them consider the city an easy mark, and with aldermen and controllers who may try to play with the system for their own political purposes.But none of these things at their worst appear to me to be as bad as the existing street railway situation in Toronto\u2014or in some other towns in which the same street-railway franchise system is in vogue.Ho.Dr.Montagu has been addressing the women of Winnipeg on the subject of the Union Jack.Seeing that Winnipeg is the city where what is alleged to be the largest Union Jack in the Dominion is bet used to keep the rain out of a quick luach counter.| ' venture the opinion that Hom.Ir.Montagu has found a promising field for his endeavor.in the sobriquet of ** Muddy York\" when their ancestors MONTREAL, MAY 3, 1913.Canada in London A WEEKLY CAUSERIE.LoNDon, April 19th, 1913.NE of the characteristic institutions whieh flourish in London, \u2018and serve to cement the bonds of i Empire are the *\u2018 city luncheons \u2019\u2019 given under the auspices of the Royal Colonial Institute.These functions are \u201cheld at De Keyser's Hotel on the Embankment and are timed to last precisely an hour.Into that hour are compressed a welcome to the honored guest, luncheon and the honored guests address, prefaced and followed by a very few brief remarks from the chairman.As can be gathered, these functions provide an admirable opportunity to extend a friendly welcome to distinguished visitors from overseas and to give those visitors a chance to deliver any message they may have to London and the Old Country.Whereas busy men would often find it impossible to add a formal dinner to their engagements everyone who wishes to attend can manage to fit in an hour in the middle of the day.On Wednesday last Sir Lomer Gouin was entertained at a \u2018eity luncheon\u2019 at which Earl Grey presided and many distinguished Anglo- Canadians were present.Among them \u2018were Sir F.Williams Taylor, Dr.! Pelletier (Agent General for Quebec in i London), Mr.Homer Greenwood, i treatment of tuberculosis victims are also growing in; K.C., M.P., Mr.Richard Reid (rep- number and it is good to note that there are men willing to resentative for Ontario in London), Mr.J.Obed.Smith (Assistant Com- | missioner for Emigration), Mr.Harry ! Britain, Mr.Beckles Wilson and Mr.| A.Bruce Joy.Sir Lomer spoke eloquently for half an hour touching mainly on the loyalty to the British \u2018flag of the French Canadian com- \"munity.said, that a French Canadian Prime Minister of Quebec had been so honored in London and he wished to improve | the occasion by telling his audience how happy and contented they, the descendants and pioneers of civiliza- , tion in Canada were living under the : British flag.Sir Lomer also spoke at length on the resources and advantages of Quebec as à Province.% où On Thursday evening Lord Strathcona gave a dinner party at the Athenaeum Club to a small and dis- \"tinguished company which included Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, Sir Frederie Williams Taylor, Mr.R.B.Angus, I Mr.James Ross, Mr.James Redmond, Mr.John Galt, Mr.Charles Meredith, Mr.C.B.Gordon.The privilege of \u201centering the premises of the Athenaeum is exclusively reserved to members and it is only in the case of dinner parties that this rule is relaxed to allow them to introduce guests\u2014while the membership of the Athenaeum has the reputation of being at once the most distinguished and exclusive in London, it is said that it is the only elub which has never blackballed a candidate\u2014 zone who was not in every wav quali- fled for membership having had the temerity to propose themselves.Its ranks include cabinet ministers, bishops, judges, scholars, literati, what Boswell called \u2018the great, the learned, the distinguished and the ingenious.\u201d To be elected to the Athenaeum \u2018under rule 2\u201d in other words to be elected by the committee, without waiting amongst other applicants is the last honor of the celebrity.It is an honor bestowed upon him by his peers.The order of merit from the king himself could scarcely count for more.Cabinet meetings have been held at the Athenaeum \u2014ecabinet ministers have taken refuge there from Suffragettes \u2014 Dean Farrar, Matthew Arnold, Thackeray have written there, From its association with the great Victorians, it is one of the most inter-\u2019 esting houses in London.* Kx Other items of social intelligence are that Mr.and Mrs.Norton Griffiths have left 3 West Halkin street for Highwood House, Mill Hill, which they have taken for six months; that H.R.H.the Duke of Connaught has become a patron of the Anglo-Ameri- can Exhibition to be held in London in 1914: that Lord and Lady de Blaquiere have returned to their residence at >The Circus\u201d Bath from the continent; that Miss Wilson, lady superintendent of the Winnipeg Gene eral Hospital is staying at the Curzon Hotel; that Mr.John Galt of the Dominion Bank who is staying at the Hyde Park Hotel will visit Scotland before he returns to Canada; that Mrs.H.S.Holt of Montreal has arrived in London to meet her son.Mr.Herbert Holt, who is on leave from his regiment in Egypt; that the Chief Justice of New Brunswick, the Hon.Eustache Barker, and his wife are staying at the Savoy Hotel; and that amongst Montreal residents registered at the High Commissioner's Office and elsewhere are Misses A.and L.De Guise, Mr.R.J.Fetherstonaugh.Mr.C.B.Gordon, Mr.Abner Kingmann dr, Mr.and Mr« J.H.Mayor.Mr.4.Cecil MeDougatll, Miss Mary Manson and Mr.A.B.Stewart.MAYFAIR.SEEING OURSELVES, A pieeolo player in a music shop was urged to buy a phonograph, the dealer, as a last resort, getting the man to make a phonographic record of \u201cThe Last Kose of Summer\u201d with his own piccolo, The dealer then ran the tune off, while the player a really wretehed performer listened with a strange, rowning air.At the end the dealer raid: \u2018There\u2019 Isn't that wonderful ?\u201cHm well yen, said the piccolo player.\u2018\u201cAnd now.\u201d said the dealer briskly, \u2018are you going to buy the phonograph ?\u2018No, the other answered, going to sell the piccolo.\u201d Magintrate\u2014 \u201cAnd what was the prisoner doing?Constable \u2018BE were \u2018avin° à very \u2018ested argument with a rab driver, yer worship.\u201d Ma gistrate\u2014 \u2018But that doesn\u2019t prove be was drunk.\u201d\u201d Constable \u2018Ah! But there worn't no rab driver there, yer worship.'\u2014 London Opinion.It was the first time, he: Men of Hote.| SENATOR DE BOUCHERVILLE.| FT was Lord Rosebery who, some thirty years ago, conferred the | title of \u201cGrand Old Man\u201d upon the 'late Mr.Gladstone and the coining of the phrase was by no means appreciated by the famous statesman.However the term was used a little later by Sir W.Vernon-Harcourt and stuck, and has survived and is applied in a somewhat promiscuous manner to-day to this and that person of age and fame.It is the fashion in certain circles to belittle the Senate of Canada.It may be that the Chamber would be strengthened as a co-ordinate power with the Commons by some recasting, or \u2018reform\u2019 of the kind promised by the Liberal party at its great convention in 1892, but studiously avoided when the late administration acceded to power.denied that the Senate has housed .many \u2018Grand Old Men\u201d of whom i Canada has reason to be proud.Today there are two Senators who merit a brief sketch in these columns not only as remarkable examples of men advancing to the century mark and | yet in the fullest possession of mental activity and physical strength but as men who for many years have \u2018\u2018done the state some service,\u201d and form strong links with the past older order of things and the post-confederation period.They are Senators de Boucherville and Sir Mackenzie Bowell.Upon the western wall of the Legislative Council chamber at Quebec there hangs a portrait of the first .president of that body after confederation, painted in Legare's ablest i manner.To-day the Hon.C.E.! Boucherville, C.M.G., sits in both | Senate and Legislative Council the | last representative of the \u2018double mandat,\u201d an institution which was : probably of more publie benefit than \u2018its adversaries at the time of its \u201cabolition seemed inclined to allow.This distinguished Senator was born in the year 1822.Descended from Lt.-General Pierre Boucher Sieur de Grobois, governor of Three Rivers and Seneschal of New France in 1653.Mr.De Boucherville is the son of the late Hon.I>.B.De Boucherville, a Legislative Councillor in the old par- : liament of Canada, and was educated at St.Sulpice and McGill colleges and .graduated as a medical man at Paris in 1843.He first entered parliamentary life in 1861 when he was elected to represent Chambly an office he held until 1867, passing through the fires of ' the stormy period which preceded the happy union when men agreed to disagree and the famous resolutions later erystalized in the B.N.A.Act were passed.x # Although the debates on Confederation do not contain any speech by Mr.De Boucherville it is known that he was one of Cartier's \u2018old guard.\u201d The federation of the Dominion having been launched it was only in the natural course of events that Mr.De Boucherville was found in the first Quebec Government in the Cabinet of Mr.Chauveau with the presidency of the council.In 1874 he became the Premier of the province holding that position until his administration was dismissed from office by the late Lt.- Governor Letellier de St.Just.Very bitter was the controversy and party strife which grew out of this unprecedented coup d'etat and it resulted in the dismissal of Mr.Letellier in due course after the accession to power of Sir John Macdonald in 1878.As the constitution \u2018\u2019slowly broadens down from precedent to precedent\u201d soit was yerhaps in the nature of things that a bow years later Lt.-Governor Angers followed the example set and dismissed the Mercier Government in 1591 and Mr.De Boucherville was \u2018\u2018sent for\u201d and again became Premier with the Hon.L.O.Taillon as his first Lieutenant in the Assembly.A year later he resigned office and last named gentleman formed a government.\u201che Senate now contains no survivor of the first roll called by Royal Proclamation at Confederation.Senator Miller, of Nova Scotia, who died recently was the last and the subject of this sketeh isnow fourth in the matter of seniority.Having been appointed in 1879 he is still junior in date of appointment to Mr.MeDonald of British Columbia.Sir R.W.Seott and Mr.L.G.Power all of whom are more or less by a few years his junior.The country may be proud of this representation of the pioneer province.A Bayard in his provincial polities, he stands in the winter of his days strong in all his facultics and as keenly alive to publie affairs ax many half his age and though not a frequent or wordy speaker his mature experience in effectively brought into play in the work of the House.It may be reasonably ues- tioned whether any legislative body in the world has in its ranks two such veterans an we have named and to Sir Mackenzie Bowell, the junior of Mr.De Boucherville by one year, a special reference will be made.L.A.M.L.Not the actual figure of Mlle.Gaby Deslys, the king's charmer, but her attire, was responsible for æ recent description.As it is the fashion to be thin nowadays, Mile.Gahy is ultra fashionable.Not only do her clothes forbid navigation.but they handicap emotion.A spectator looked at her: \u201cIf she'd elose one eye,\u201d said he, she'd look like a needle.\u201d Argonaut.Many Things \u201cThe time has come,\u2019 the Walrus said, \u2018to talk of many things.\u201d \u201d S most of you are aware, we are just on the edge of Moving Time.I believe that a large section of our population has already moved from one uncomfortable location to another that will seem just as undesirable this time next year; but \"at any rate it is perfectly safe to surmise that every unfortunate person who ' reads this has either moved or is about to move or lives next door to someone who has moved or is about to move, .or at least knows some dear friend And yet it is not to be.who is pulling up stakes.If I have overlooked any of my readers, I ask them to run to the window and sit there for a moment.If somebody\u2019 furniture doesn\u2019t come along piled up on a waggon several sizes too small for it, before the end of this column is reached, I'm a Dutchman; and I'm not really, being of English descent.x % % or course, | am referring only to Montreal.Certainly.Retrogressive centres of alleged culture, such as Toronto, Ottawa, New York, N.Y., and London, England, where the poor unfortunate landlord is ground into dust beneath the heel of the brutal tenant, who actually moves his residence whenever it suits his convenience, are barred from this discussion.They are outside the pail (excuse me, | mean, of course, pale), and cannot he considered in the same class as this great and glorious metropolis of the country to which, we understand, the Twentieth Century belongs exclusively.We must not, however, be too severe on the hapless people who live in these so-called cities.Most of them never had the privilege of participating in a Removal Period such as we enjoy annually, and the vast majority are absolutely ignorant of the tremendous advantages which go with it.As you all know, where ignorance is bliss it is folly to explain.Although I realize perfectly that there is no danger of anyone being overawed by any wisdom which 1 might display, at the same time 1 will refrain from urging on the luckless inhabitants of the benighted regions outside Quebec the necessity of adopting the local system as their own.feel that should 1 succeed 1 should be overwhelmed with their gratitude, and I am really very young to be overwhelmed.* ox Kk HE real mystery about the moving _ business has always been to my mind the fact that anyone wants to move at all.It is just as expensive and inconvenient to live in one part of Montreal as it is to live in another.And even if the landlord does raise your.rent, well, what do you think e's in the landlord business for?Any landlord in Montreal who wouldn't raise rents would need to have his head carefully examined by an eminent specialist on brain disoase.Beside, your new landlord will raise your rent, anyway.The whole thing is a dark mystery from the male point of view, but there is a possible explanation.One which I have evolved all by myself and only after long and careful study of the subject.1 he- lieve that the ladies are at the bottom of the moving habit! * kx D'\"\u201d you ever see a really conscientious housewife discuss Spring Cleanin withher husband?Because If you have, you\u2019 got my meaning right off.Just like that.You now how she goes anout It.She comes Into breakfast and wipes an ostentatious finger along the buffet.She then carries the finger to the light, and examines it carefully for traces of deadly microbes.She comes back from the window.looking very, very thoughtful.Then all of a sudden she says: Well it's an awful nuisance, but I suppose it's got to be done.\u2018 And there you are.Poor old husband.He's dono, Up a gum-tree, as one of my London friends 1s fond of saying.This assumption of forced activity is always a serious sgn in à woman.And taken at shout this time of year it is one of the most decided Binploms of Spring Cleaning Fever, even Dr.Friedmann would have busy time hunting a bacillus to cure or prevent the Spring Cleaning Fever.\u201c HEN that poor married man goes home at night what docs he find?Or rather what does he not find.the answer being, everything he is accustomed to find.His des is in the bathtub having its legs washod, His favorite pipes are being subjected to à severe overhauling in the kitchen sink.Half his best ties have been sold to the rag-man for five cents and à geranium which is suffering from spinal meningitis.iis slippors are gone for ever.I have never yet been able to understand why it should be so ridiculously easy for a man s slippers to be swallowed u for all time in the rapacious maw of a thoroug| going Spring Clean.Last year | lost three pairs.le haven*t started this year yet, but on the day that we do | am going to leave à standing order at the bootshop on the corner to supply me with one new pair of slippers per evening, until it Is over, 0 avoid mistakcos I'll call for them on my way home at night.* x =» ™ ERE is no need to enlarge on this painful subject.| am coming to the point of the argument however.After one or two Spring Cleans in the same circumstances, the excitement, 1 fancy begins to pall a ttle.About this time your wife finds out that the dining room is far too small to be really comfortable, and that the angle at which the den window la net makes it unsafe and unsanitary.It is time to move again.F.B.K.Benevolent Old Lady \u2014*What is your son doing now?\" Auntie\u2014 \u201cHim?Oh, jest talkin\u2019 about what he's gwine ter do.\u201d B.O0.L.\u2014\u201cBut vour husband -what ix he doing?A.\u201cHim?Oh, he's jest talkin\u2019 what he's done.\u201d -Puek.ALL HONE & RIV (Between Si.James & Notre Dome Ste.) Old Country Passages Prepaid Get particulars of sur BOOKING SYSTEM fer relatives and friends te Canada from home ; excludes possibiiity of losing Cash or Choques sent by mail.Sush persons are given special attention during entire voyage.LINFS REPRESENTED.ET, General Travel Agency 9 tt.Lewrence Boulevard, MONTREAL.31 Beade Street, QUEBEC.+ (Ouws Best Gast of Bank of Mentrent) 2005\u2014cout By BERNARD K.\u2018\u201c MUNDAY KNIGHT.\u201d Plays and Players SANDWELL HERE is, 1 trust, no need for me to reeommend \u2018\u2018Hindle Wakes\u201d to readers of these columns.Only an astonishing piece of good fortune (and the fact that steamboat rates from Montreal to Liverpool are rather cheap) could have brought us anything so good as this most interesting drama of the new dramatic movement in England, which will be presented at the Princess next week with the company which has been holding the boards in Chicago for nearly six months, and which includes our old friend of last year's Horniman Company, Mr.Herbert Lomas.The theme of the play 1s the conflict between new and old morality, and persons who object to new morality upon the ground that it is not old should stay away.The new morality is exemplified in the person of a Lancashire mill-girl, who has spent the Hindle Wakes holiday\u2014a week-end of jollification among the mill people\u2014with the scape-grace son of her employer.When the episode becomes known, the old morality in the person of the parents demands that the scapegrace wed her *\u2018 to repair his fault.\u201d He is more or less willing to do so, but the girl will have none of him, declaring that she has no intention of giving up her life to an utterly unsuitable wedding simply because of a week-end frolic.The strength of the play lies in the delineation of the force and essential morality and independence of the girl\u2014a character played with great success on this continent by Emelie Poldini.Subsequent bookings at the Princess, according to programme announcements, include William T.Hodge in \u201c\u201cThe Road to Happiness,\u201d \u2018\u2018 Little Boy Blue.\u201d and Gertrude Hoffmann and her company in the Revue, \u2018\u2018 Broadway to Paris.\u201d which is reported to have had a lively time with various censorships en route.The engagements of \u201cThe Typhoon\u201d and the Old English Comedy Company are cancelled.EE A T His Majesty's we are to have Mr.Tyrone Power's production of **Julius Ceasar\u201d next week.That it will be a sincere and affectionate one there can be no doubt, and Mr.Power will be able to get an immense amount of human feeling out of the closing tragedy of Brutus\u2019 life.As the production has only been seen as yet in the smaller cities and Toronto, little 1s known of the character of the ensemble.Many will doubtless attend to see what Mr.Faversham suppressed in Mr.Power\u2019s Brutus that made the latter gentleman revolt.; i ; Following the Power engagement His Majesty's will offer Alice Lloyd in a musical farce of which I forget the name, and which probably does not matter in the slightest in comparison with the exquisite art of the vaudeville impersonations which that most charming little singer will introduce.Then will come May Robson, known and beloved here for her delicate work in ** The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary,\u201d in a new comedy, understood to be much on the same lines.And then, the close of the regular season.* KK #% ITTLE eriticism of current attractions is possible on this page this week.On Monday evening I attended the Sothern-Marlowe \u2018Taming of the Shrew,\u201d and on Tuesday the new play with Constanee Collier at His Majesty's, a notice of which will be found elsewhere in this issue.Later performances are not available for criticism owing to the time at which the Mirror goes to press.There does not seem to me to be any reason why \u201cThe Taming of the Shrew\u201d should continue any longer to be presented on any stage conducted in the modern manner.f given with some regard for the essential qualities of the Elizabethan performances\u2014by which 1 mean completeness of text, rapidity and unbroken continuit of performance in each act, and broad and homely simplicity in the farce- comedy, and not in the least that external imitation of the Elizabethan theatre which seems to satisfy some anti- quarians\u2014it might be a tolerably good play, though there are scores of hetter plays which are never revived, merely because they have not the good fortune of having heen written as to one-third of their text by the one Elizabethan dramatist that the public can be induced to tolerate.It would he absurd to try to weigh the merits of the two stars and their company by this one performance, but so far as it goes it suggests concerning Mr, Sothern, just what was suggested by all his performances here in 1906, that he has made himself by purely intellectual gifts a good but not a great comedian.Miss Marlowe, on the other hand, was as much above her shrieking farce- comedy role as Mr.Sothern was merely adequate to his.Her performance did not even suggest the slightest limit to her powers.In spite of this apparent difference of artistic stature, it should be recorded that the two stars layed to one another with the most perfect cohesion.Fhe supporting company is not very notable, and the beautifully comic speeches of the servant who brings news of Petruchio's approach in his wedding attire were absolutely unintelligible.Grumio\u2019s description to the housekeeper, on the other hand, was very well done.With all possible reverence to the Great Bard, and in view of the fact that most of the play is notoriously not by his pen and that the piece as à whole is of no conceivable interest to à modern Audience, | venture to put forward the suggestion that the two big scenes would make an excellent vaudeville turn, and that the kind of audience that Shakespeare wrote them for is now to be found in the vaudeville houses.There would he more of the Shakespearean spirit in the performance there than there is at the Princess, OK kK T would be unjust to bury an account of the performances of \u201cTrelawny of the Wella\u201d under the somewhat repellent heading ** With the Amateurs,\u201d not because the Trinity Church Dramatic Society which performed consists of anything but amateurs, but because the performances were the first in this city of a very notable English comedy, and because they were such as to give a very complete and authoritative idea of its effect.The play, after three dazzlingly Pineronian acts, goes to pieces so miserably in its conclusion that it is hardly to be wondered at that it did not go the rounds of the American cities; but the three acts are gems of their kind.1 have already expressed my view of the merits of the Trinity Church players, but they greatly outdid all former efforts in this most exacting production, and their success in achieving the very subtle atmosphere of the stock-company theatrical milieu of the \u2018sixties was the more remarkable hecause few if any of them can have seen an authoritative performance to guide them.The group of comedy characters in the theatrieal lodging-house, while perhaps slightly more Dickensian than DPineronian, was extraordinarily vivid and lifelike, the men in particular carrying off their costumes and mannerisms with fine effect.Some credit, 1 fancy, is due to persons whose names do not appear on the printed programme, among them Mrremavne, the Mentor of our Montreal amateurs, and Mr.C.W.Simpson, who provided some thoroughly appropriate scenery; while I have long had a suspicion that Canon Almond was an inspiring factor in the whole business.\u201c # # # | nl Mr.E.L.Hughes is too serious a player to remain long among the amateurs.He played Tom Wrench with the subtle modulations, the suggestion of poetic temperament, and the quiet earnestness (to say nothing of the vocal peeuliaritions of a Milton Rosmer- à thoroughly interesting and attractive performance, in which the transition from the hopeless despair of the \u2018utility man\u2019 to the commanding certainty of the author whose play is heing roduced was heautifully managed.Messrs.8.L.Wood, (+.Winn.R.Ashhy and Leonard Young in the hoard- ing-housé group were all excellent.and so were several character s outside of that group.Miss Ella Dixon lacked little but experience (she has come u vers rapidly in these productions; for the difficult role of relawny and the Avonis Bunn of Mrs.R.D.Vibert was admirable in every respect up to the embarrassing moment of the appearance in pantomine costume.Miss May Idler played an aristocratic old maid in good style, and Miss Edith Idler put some real fecling into the part of the once popular but supe actress.Miss Finnie imparted the suggestion of the business women to the role of Imogen Parrot very well.There were no sheolutely weak spots aay- where.All of which may sound like gush, but really : was a very remarkable amateur performance of a play Estd which only one amateur society in a hundred would not shy at, for the difficulty of its milieu and the large number of trying roles involved.The Trinity people should | certainly be seen in a more public theatre than the base- | ment room of Trinity Chureh.i i * ox #% kx HIS IS Old Home week at the Orpheum.To close | up the season of 1912-13\u2014and a most successful | season it has been, by the way\u2014we are regaled with a whole bill of old time friends and acequaintances, includ- | ing Stuart Barnes (looking more like a rabbit than ever), Joseph Jefferson, John and MacBurke, and Smith and Campbell.Talk about a family re-union! and most of them have the old stuff, at that.Naturally any bill with the name Joseph Jefferson ! on it yields to that celebrated name, the pride of place.| The famous son of Rip Van Winkle, (or is it grandson?) has a sketch entirely unlike anything he ever did before, : a really amazing bit of satire, purporting to represent a : problem drama of the year 1999, by which time, the argu- | ment is, Women will have changed places with Man in the social scheme, and it will be Hubby who darns the socks while wifey celebrates somebody's birthday at the club.So in place of the famous two men and a women triangle, we get two women and a man.The result is quite interesting, but hardly, it is to be hoped, an authoritative forecast.Jefferson himself is as good as he ever : was, and his stalwart support is really excellent.! Stuart Barnes has some new stuff on married life, and , Stuart, as usual, is alone | most of his old stuff as well.worth the price of admission.AT HIS MAJESTY*S.l Mr.Tyrone Power as Brutus in Julius Caesar, at His Majesty's Theatse during the week commencing May 5th.AVE you noticed that the drama on this continent has in late years made the fatal mistake of attaching itself entireiv to the noureau riche section of the population: -that enormous and unwarrantable powerful element in the American and Canadian commonwealt hy which, having very lately come into the possession of money, feels itself compelled always to sit in the best seats at the theatre and elsewhere, at the best tables in the most expensive restaurants, in the best saloon of the fastest transatlantic steamers, and so forth and so on.For the accommodation of this class, and of this class alone, the theatres of the continent heve been built to hold a vast number of two-dollar seats and relegate everybody who could not pay two dollars to the obscurity of impossibly remote galleries.The plays of the last generation have been written exelusively for the tastes of this class; for the business to be made in any other portion of the house is insignificant in comparison with the business in the two- dollar seats; so that no produeer cares one iota whether his produetion pleases the people who only spend fifty cents or a quarter.In other words, in what is supposed to be the most demoeratie continent in the world we have the least démocratie theatre that could possibly be imagined; and the demoaocraey have rebelled.Who can wonder?It would be interesting to trace the steps by whieh the democracy has heen driven from its rightful place in the moderately-priced parts of the standard theatre, into a sue- cession of more or less degrading amusements all its own, I vay more or less degrading, not because there is anything wpecifieally detrimental, to taste or morals in any of the chespers theatres which have arisen to cater to the publie excluded from the standard houses, but simply because it is bad for any mind to feed exelusively on the lower elements of dramatic diet an\u2018! never to witness any of the more serious efforts of that noble art.1 do not think the old melodrama theatres, represented in this city by the Francais for several years after 19.0), did any particular harm to those who frequented them |, so long as they also ve- casionally witnessed a Shakespearean melodrama at a standard theatre; but the trouble was that none of them did.They were not wanted at the standard theatres; the performances there were not for them, they were for people with two dollars to spend on their seats, and the kind of mind that goes with a newly-acquired recklessness about two dollars.Similarly, I do not think that the \u2018movies\u2019 of today do any harm, to those who are able to perceive their dramatic weaknesses through familiarity with really good acted drama; | personally find them extremely entertaining for an occasional hour or so much more so than many of alleged standard-theatre plaxa that I am required to sit through.It is when they obtain an absolute command of the imagination that they are dangerous, just as à dime novel is dangerous only to those who never read anything better.But the situatior, with the standard theatre ahsolutely divorced from vhe democracy and the democracy rushing to the moving pictures as its sole means of entertainment.is distinctly painful to contemplate.In the end, of course, managers will find that real actors and real plays \u2018an be so employed as to offer greater at- attractions even than the moving pictures.The discovery will be made first of all in the stock compa niea, whose chief diMeulty at present in the necessity of using plays which were constructed for the plutocratie theatre of the two- dollar seaters, but who will eventuall hasfound in Los Angeles, that it in wort plays if they seem calculated to auit your demoeratie, audience.\u201cHENDERSON STORE YOUR FURS.Warm weather, Moths, Fire and Burglars are detrimental to your FURS.By placing them in our SPECIAL VAULTS DÉRA 0 FUR 1834.o [RAGE DO NOT DELAY.you eliminate every possible LOSS while the Furs are in our charge.When may we send for yours ?Tel.Up.2650.MODERATE RATES.SPECIAL VAULTS.John Henderson & Co.517 St.Catherine St.W.The board of control and city of Montreal capitulated to the Militia Department on Wednesday, the 23rd of April (St.George's Day), and surrendered the desired portion of Fletcher\u2019s Field for military exercises.The terms permit regiments the use of the ground every evening, except Saturday, for six weeks from May 1st, during the hours of 8.30 to 10.00 p.m.The militia department conceded that no chargers would be taken by mounted officers onto the grass, in order to save the herbage from as much damage and wear as possible, The Militia Department, Col.Denison and headquarters\u2019 staff, and local militia regiments are to be congratulated on the success gained, which incidentally can in no way interfere with the use of the field by the general publie, while, on .the other hand, the fact that military | bands will render a programme of | music, both martial and otherwise, | will add to the attraction of the open | air, and possibly draw the youth of the city out to watch the arade, | thus both stimulating public interest .in the militia and its doings, and doing a good work in inducing the said publie | to breathe pure air.Therefore everybody will be a gainer by the victory of the militia.|\" That it was absolutely necessary to secure the ground for drill is evinced by the fact that on the same day that | permission was granted, the cadet arade on the Champ de Mars had to i be abandoned.After inspecting the parade ground Lt.-Col.Lydon decided | that it would not be safe to attempt : any drill owing to the state of the paving, which has been much broken up.The stone balustrades and stops are practically completed, so that it behooves the authorities tofsee that \u201cthe ground be repaired at an early i date, Fletcher's Field is likely to be ! of little use to cadets, many of whom \u201chave a distance to cover, nor could the i time granted to the militia be spared by the local regiments.85th Regiment.The first church parade of the year was held on Sunday last, when the | 65th regiment, under Lt.-Col.Ostell | paraded at 10 a m.in glorious i weather.The parade was honoured | by the presence of Col.the Hon.Sam Hughes, Col.Denison, C.M.G., com- ' manding the division, Lt.-Col.A.E.Labelle, commanding the brigade, as well as Hon.Lt.-Col.Sir R.Forget and several members of the headquarters staff.Before leaving for the Church of St.Louis de Mile End, Col.Sergeant N.Gauvreau was presented with the long service medal.The 65th was also the first regiment to make use of Fletcher's Field as a drill ground\u2014 somewhat in advance of the actual date.The regiment turned out for over an hours drill on the very evening the permission was given, and the band concert on Esplanade avenue was listened to by a large and appreciative audience.Mueh good work was done by the regiment, which paraded with 8'large companies, each of which was | put through extended order drill hy the respective company officers.On Thursday, the 24th, the dance at the armoury was attended by over six hundred guests.Organized by Lt.- Col.Ostell and the officers, practically the whole regiment attended, accom- The Orpheum players are busy getting ready for the opening of the third season of stock at the Orpheum Theatre which begins at the Monday matinee on May Oth with \u2018The Gamblers.\u201d The company.which in- eludes nearly all the old favorites will be again headed by Mise Lilian Kemble and Mr.Chas.MacKay and will as in former years he under the able direction of Mr.Perey Meldon.\u201cThe Gamblers\u201d by Charles Klein, is well known and well liked here.Wilbur Emerson will be played by Mr.Chas.MacKay while the part of Catherine Darwin will he played by Mins Lillian Kemble.Mr.William Webb will play John Emerson.and the rest of the company is cast as follows: Mr.Ainsworth Arnold as James Darwin, Mr.Stuart Fox as Geo Cowper, Mr.Richard Ogden as Giles Raymond, Mr.Samuel d as Frederick Tooker, Misa Eleanor Brent as Isabel Emerson, Miss Jean Marcet as Mra.Pickering and Miss Nelly Temple as Mrs.Roberts.Next week'sattrartion at the Gaiet is \u201cThe Bowery Brulesquern™ wit Fitagerald and Quinn, Mabelle Moran.Chas.Jansen, Sem Brown, innie Lee, Edna Green and Keeler and Don.in addition to the two acts of comedy hurlesque, there is a strong = ing their appraraace in } find.as Moroseo olio with Keeler and Don, two clever : while to get mew 3; ers in & Bovelty creation ROW | FURRIERS panied by their families, and the fune- tion was undoubtedly one of the most successful ever held.Quite a number of recruits were enlisted at the conclusion of the festivities, which included cards and billiards in the companies\u2019 rooms, in addition to the dancing, for which an excellent orchestra had been secured.The Montreal Heavy Brigade.Lt.-Col.Lacey R.Johnson presented long service medals to Quartermaster Sergeant Fryer and Bandmaster Hardy, the latter being the former regimental bandmaster, after the parade and march out on the evening of Friday, the 25th.The two recipients of the medal have served practically their entire time with the ontreal heavy brigade.The parade and march out was a distinct success and St.Lawrence Boulevard, St.Catherine and Dorchester streets were the routes chosen.Imperial Cadet Rifle Meet The team tu represent the Canadian Cadets at the meeting in the Old Country from May 19 to 24 has been selected.The first six in order of merit resulting from the various divisional and district shooting competitions have been chosen.Five comprise the team, with a sixth as reserve.Calgary Publie Schools had the best team, four of their five being in the first nine, while the fifth was by no means disgraced with a score of 220 out of a possible 280.The following boys will go to England and will, we hope, acquit themselves well: Dalton MeVWilliams, Calgary Public Sehools.256 points J.Brown, Quebec High School, Quebee.242 F.W.Huggins, Ottawa Collegiate Institute, Ottawa.242 °° A.MacNab, Ottawa Collegiate Institute, Ottawa.241 °° C.Watchorn, Calgary Public Schools.240 \"\" H.Bradley, The Victoria, Quebec.237 \"\" \u201c Camp Preparations for camp and camping grounds are being actively pushed by the authorities.Considerable repairs to water systems, eto., are necessary, and matters are now well under way so that all should be in readiness by June 1st.In connection with camp, the department has just issued a memorandum for Camps of Instruction.The memorandum gives the syllabus of training for the various branches of the service, as well as general instrue- tions for camp.The Montreal Cadets will camp at Farnham this year.A signalling course has been authorized at Petewa wa from July 15th to August 30th, attendance being limited to four officers and ten N.C.0.s of the Permanent Force, and twelve officers and twelve N.C.O.s of the Active Militia.A provisional school commenced at St.Hyacinthe on the 25th.Monday, May 5th Matinee OPENING OF THIRD SEASON OF ORPHEUM PLAYERS !! Stronger than ever before, headed Miss Lilian Kemble Mr.Chas.Mackay In Chas.Klein's Great Play, THE GAMBLERS Special Scenery.Low Summer Prices In preparation,\u201c SALOMNY JANE\u201d GAYETY NEXT WEEK.THE BIG SHOW areas.THE Bowery Burlesquers With the Clever Comedians, FITZGERALD AND QUINN AND THE MOST BEAUTIFUL Chorus in Burlesque.| | I | | | CA garrison survey hoard, of which Col.Fages was president, assembled at St.Johns, Que., last week, and in- | apected the condition of the ordnance stores at that depot.Corps de Guides.A mounted company is now being organized for the corps and two sections are being enlisted.Men must be good riders and have a knowledge of the country, be able to sketch, and ; make a map that can be understood.They will also be required to signal and receive messages, as well as to study the country from a military view-point, so as to be in a position to locate sites for camps and hivouacs, positions for guns and manoeuvre I ARE NOW COMPLETE \u201cRAIRIE GRASS FURNITURE.MATTING, ENRY MORGAN & CO.LIMITED SUMMER FURNISHINGS CRETONNES, TAFFETAS, LINENS, SILK GRASS CLOTHS, ART CANVAS, CASEMENT NETS AND MUSLINS.CREX MATTING, MOURZOUK COLONIAL RUGS.VUDOR PORCH SHADES, ROLLER FLY SCREENS, THIRD FLOOR.EXHIBITING DISPLAYS IN OLD HICKORY FURNITURE. \u201c secret conferences.10 THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MAY 3, 1913.Copyright 1911, by Frank XV ITHOUT cessation, Katherine kept eyes and mind on Blake.She searched out and pondered over the thousand ssible details and ramifications that his conspiracy might have.No human plan was a perfect plan.By patiently watching and studying every point, there was a chance that she might discover one detail, one slip, one oversight, that would give her the key to the ease.One of the thousand possibilities was that Blake had an active partner in his scheme.Since no such partner was visible in the open, it was likely that his associate was a man wit whom he wished to have seemingly no relations.Were this conjecture true then anturally he would meet his confederate in secret.She began to think upon all possible means and places of holding Such a meeting might be held there in Westville, in the dead of night.It might be held in any large city in which individuals could lose themselves\u2014 Indianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago.It might be held at any appointed spot within the radius of an automobile journey.Katherine analyzed covery possible place in this last category.She began to watch, as she watched other possibilities, the comings and goings of the Blake automobile.It occurred to her that, if anything were in this conjecture, the meeting would be held at night;and then, a little later, it occurred to her to make a certain regular series of observations.The Blake garage and the West stable stood side by side and opened into the same alley.Every evening, while Blake's car was being cleaned\u2014 if it had been in use during the day\u2014 Katherine went out to say good night to her saddle horse; and as she was on friendly terms with Blake's man, she contrived, while exchanging a word with him, to read the mileage record of the speedometer.This observation she carried on with no higher hope of anything resulting from it than from any of a score of other measure.It was merely one detail of her all-em- bracing vigilance.Every night she sat on wateh\u2014the earlier half of evening usually in the rustic summer-house in the back yard, the latter part at her bedroom window.One night, after most of Westville was in bed, her long, patient vigilance was rewarded by seeing the Blake automobile slip out with a single vague figure at the wheel, and turn into the back streets of the town, Hours passed, and still she sat wide- eyed at her window.It was not till raucous old muezzins of roosters raised from the watch-towers of their various coops their concatenated prophecy of the dawn that she saw the machine return with its single passenger.The next morning, as soon as she saw Blake's man stirring about his work, she slipped out to her stable.Watching her chance, she got a glimpse of Blake's speedometer.Then she quickly slipped back to her room and sat there in excited thought.The evening before the mileage had read 1437; this morning the reading was 1459.Blake, in his furtive midnight journey, had traveled twenty- two miles.If he had slipped forth to meet a secret ally, then evidently their place of meeting was half of twenty- two miles distant.Where was this rendezvous?Almost instantly she thought of the Sycamores.That fitted the requirements exactly.It was eleven miles distant-Blake had a cabin there-\u2014the place was deserted at this season of the year.Nothing could be safer than for -Munsey Co.A STORY OF LOVE, All Rights Reservedtwo men, coming in different vehicles, from different points, perhaps, to meet at that retired spot as such an eyeless hour.Perhaps there was no confiderate.Perhaps Blake's night trip was not to a secret eonference.Perhaps the Sycamores was not the rendezvous.But there was a chance that all three of these conjectures were correct.And if so, there was a chance\u2014aye, more, a probability\u2014that there would be further midnight trysts.Bruce had fallen into the habit of dropping in occasionally fora few minutes at the end of an evening's speech-making to tell Katherine how matters seemed to be progressing.When he called that night, toward ten, he was surprised to be directed around to the summer-house.His surprise was all the more because the three months\u2019 drought had that afternoon been broken, and the rain was driving down in gusts, while a far rumbling of thunder threatened a nearer and a fiercer cannonading.Crouching beneath his umbrell:s, he made his way through the blackness to the summer-house, in which he saw situing a dim, solitary figure.\u201cIn mercy\u2019s name, what are you doing out here?\u201d he demanded as he entered.\u201cWatching the rain.I love to be out in a storm.\u201d Nevertheless, every clap of thunder sent a shiver through her.*You must go into the house!\u201d he commanded.\u2018You'll get wet.You must be soaked already.\u201d *Oh, no.I have a rain-coat on,\u201d she answered calmly.\u201cI'm going to stay and watch the storm a little longer.\u201d He expostulated, spoke of colds and pneumonia; but she kept her seat, and sweetly suggested that he might avoid his vividly pictured dangers of premature death by following his own advice.He jerked a rustic chair up beside her, growled a bit in faint imitation of the thunder, then ran off into the wonted subject of the campaign.As the situation now stood, he seemed to have a chance of winning, so successful had been his fight to turn back publie opiinon.If only he had, and could use, the evidence that Katherine was seeking, an overwhelming victory would be his beyond a doubt.He plainly was chafing at her delays, and as plainly made it evident that he was skeptical of her gaining proof; hut she did not let herself be ruffled.She evaded all his questions, and when she spoke, she spoke calmly and with good nature.Presently, sounding dimly through a lull in the rising tumult of thenight, they heard the court-house clock strike eleven.Soon after, Katherine's ear, alert for a certain sound, caught a muffled throbbing that was not distinguishable to Bruce from the other noises of the storm.She sprang up.\u2018You must go now good night!\u201d she said breathlessly, and darted out of of the summer-house.\u201cWait! Where are you going?\u2019 he cried, and tried to seize her, but she was gone.He stumbled after her vague figure, which was running swiftly through the grape-arhor toward the stable.Then \u201cWait! Where are you going?\u201d he cried, and tried to seize her, but she was gone.He stumbled after her vague figure, which was running swiftly through the ape-arbor toward the table.The lackness, his unfamiliarity with the way, made him half a minute behind Katherine in entering the barn.\u201cMiss West!\" he ralled.West!\u201d There was no answer and no sound I By OHENrRY [D HE honeymoon was at its fuil.There wan a flat with the reddest of new carpets, tasselled portieres and six steins with pewter lids ar- anged on a ledge above the wainscoting of the dining-room.The wonder of it was yet upon them.Neither of them had ever seen a yellow primrose hy the river's brim; but if such a sight had met their eyes at that time it would have seemed like well, whatever the poet expected the right kind of people to see in it besides a primrose, The bride nat in the rocker with her feet resting upon the world.She wan wrap in rosy dreams and 8 kimono of the same hue.She wondered what the people in Greenland and Tasmania and Beloochistan were saying one to another about her marriage to Kid McGarry.Not that it made any differen.There was no welterweight fromLondon to the Southern Cross that could stand up four hours no; four rounds with her bridegroom.And he had been hers for three weeks, and the crook of her little finger couid sway him more than the fist of any 142-pounder in the world.Love.when it is ours, is the other name for seifabnegation and sacrifice.When it belonga to people arrose the airshaît it means arrogance aad oelf- conceit.The bride erossed her oxfords and looked thoughtfully at the distemper Cupids on the eviling.Little Speck in Garnered Fru (Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Company.Reprinted by Special Arrangement) \u201cPrecious,\u201d said she, with the air of Cleopatra asking Antony for Rome done up in tissue paper and delivered at residence, I think I would like a ach.\u2019 Kid McGarry arose and put on his coat and hat.Tie wan serious, shaven, sentimental, and spry.\u201cAll right.\u201d naid he.as coolly though he were only agreeing to sign articles to fight the champion of England.\u201cTR step down and rop one out for you see?\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t be long,\u201d said the bride.\u201cI'll be lonesome without my naughty boy.Get a nice, ripe one.\u201d After a series of farewells that would have hefitted an imminent voyage to foreign parts, the Kid went down to the street.Here he not unreasonably hesitated, for the season was yet early spring, and there seemed small chance of wresting anywhere from those chill streets and storea the coveted luscioun guerdon of summer's golden prime.At the Italian's fruit-rtand on the corner he stopped and cast a contemptuous eye over the display of papered oranges, highly polished apples and wan, sun-hungry bananas._ \u2018Gotta de peach?\u201d asked the Kid |in the tongue of Dante, the lover of lovers, | \u201cAh, no.\u201d sighed the vender.\u2018Not for one mont ocom-a da peach.Too soon.Gotta da nice-a orange.Like-a .da \u201d Booratui.the Kid pursued his quest.Counsel for the Defense LAW AND POLITICS By LeROY SCOTT, Author of * To Him That Hath,\u201d Ete.within the stable.Just then a flash of | rain-coat, and soon she was as wet as lightning showed him that the rear! if dropped in the river yonder.door was open.As he felt his way, The night was as black as the inte- through this, he heard Katherine rior of a camera, save when\u2014as by the say, \u201cWhoa, Nelly! Whoa, Nelly!\u2019 and saw her spring into the saddle.| opening of a snapshot shutter\u2014an instantaneous view of the valley was He sprang forward and caught the : fixed on Katherine's startled brain by the lightning ripping in fiery fissures bridle-rein.\u201cWhat are you going to do?\u201d he cried.\u201cGoing out for a little gallop,\u201d she answered with an excited laugh.\u201cWhat?\u201d A light broke in upon him.\u201cYou've been sitting there all evening in your riding-habit! Yourhorse has been standing saddled and bridled in the stall! Tell me\u2014where are you going?\u201d \u201cFor a little ride, I said.Now let loose my rein.\u201d \u201cWhy\u2014why\u2014\"\" he gasped in amazement.Then he cried out fiercely: \u201cYou shall not go! It's madness to go out in a storm like this!\u201d \u201cMr.Bruce, let go that rein this instant!\u201d she said peremptorily.\u201cI shall do nothing of the sort! I shall not permit you to make an insane fool of yourself! She bent forward.Though in the darkness he could not see her face, the tensity of her tone told him that her eyes were flashing.\u2018Mr.Bruce,\u201d she said with slow emphasis, \u201cif you do not loosen that rein this second, I give you my word I shall never see you, never speak to you again.\u201d \u201cAll right, but I shall not let you make a fool of yourself,\u201d he cried with fierce dominance.\u2018You've got to yield to sense, even though I use force on you!\u201d She did not answer.Swiftly she reversed her riding-crop, and with all her strength brought its heavy end down upon his wrist.\u201cNelly!\u201d she ordered sharply, and in the same instant struck the horse.The animal lunged free from Bruce's benumbed grasp, and sprang forward into a gallop.**Good night!\u201d she called hack to him.He shouted a reply; his voice came to her faintly, wrathful and defiant, but his words were whirled away upon the storm.XVI SHE quieted Nelly into a canter, made her way through the silent back streets, and at length emerged from the city and descended to the River Road.This was slightly shorter than Grayson's Pike, which led over the high back country to the Sycamores.She knew what Nelly could do, and she settled the mare down into the fastest pace she could hold for the eleven miles before her.Katherine was aquiver with suspense, one moment with hopeful expectation, the next with fear that her deductions were all awry.Perhaps Blake had not gone out to meet a confederate, and if he had, perhaps the Sycamores was not the rendezvous.But if her deductions were correet, who was this secret ally?Would she be able to approach them near enough to discover his identity?And would she be able to learn the exact outlines of the plot that was afuot?If so, what would it all prove to be?Such questions and doubts galloped madly through her mind.The storm grew momently in flerceness.The fury of three rainless months was spending itself upon the earth in one violent outburst.The wind cracked her snarled and roared among the trees.sheets, found every opening in her He entered the all-night chop-house, cafe, and bowling-alley of his friend, and admirer, Justus O'Callahan.The O'Callahan was about in his institution, looking for leaks.\u2018I want it straight.\u2019 said the Kid to him.\u2018The old woman has got a huneh that she wants a peach.Now, if you've got a peach, Cal.'t it out quick.1 want it and others fixe if it you've got \u2018em in plural quantities.\u201d \u201cTh: house is yours,\u201d said O'C'al- lahan.\u2018But there's no peach in it.It's too soon.1 don't suppose you could even find \u2018em at one of the Broad- | way joints.That's too bad.When a! lady fixes her mouth for a certain kind of fruit nothing else won't do.It's too late now to find any of the first-class fruiterers open.But if you think the missis would like some nice oranges I've just got a box of fine ones in that phe might- \u2014 \u201cMuch obliged, Cal, It's a peach | proposition right from the ring of the | gong.I'll try further.\u201d The time was nearly midnight as the Kid walked down the Went-Bide avenue.Few stores were open, and such as were practically huoted at the idea of a peach.But in her moated flat the bride \u201c voices floated dimly out to her.Thislee : skirt like à whip-lash, and whined and | \u2018Miss : \u2018The rain drove at her in maddened down the sky.Then she saw the wil- i lows bending and whipping in the wind, saw the gnarled old sycamores wrestling with knotted muscles, saw the broad river writhing and tossing its swollen and yellow waters.Then, blackness again\u2014and, like the closing click of this mighty camera, there followed a world-shaking crash of thun- er, Katherine would have been terrified but for the stimulant within.She crouched low upon her horse, held a \u201cclose rein, petted Nelly, talked to her, and kept her going at her best\u2014on- ward\u2014onward\u2014onward\u2014through the covered wooden bridge that spanned Buck Creek, through the little old village of Sleepy Eye\u2014up Red Man's Ridge\u2014and at last, battered, buffeted, half-drowned, she and Nelly drew up at the familiar stone gateway of the Sycamores.She dismounted, led Nelly in, and tied her among the beeches away from the drive.Then cautiously, palpitant- ly,she groped her way in the direction of the Blake cabin, avoiding tne open lest the lightning should bet ay her presence.At length she came to the edge of a cleared space in which she knew the cabin stood ; but she could see nothing.The cabin was just a cube of blackness which was the night.She peered intently for a lighted window; she listened for the lesser thunder of a waiting automobile.But she could see nothing but the dark, hear nothing but the dash of the rain, the rumble of the thunder, the lashing and shrieking of the wind.Her heart sank.No one was here.Her guesses all were wrong.But she crept toward the house, following the drive.Suddenly, she almost came into collision with a big, low object, She reached forth a hand.It fell upon the tire of an automobile.She peered forward, and seemed to see another low shape.She went toward it and felt.It was a second car.She dashed back among the trees.Thus sheltered from the revealing glare of the lightning, almost choking with excitement, she began to circle the house for signs which would locate in what room were the men within, She posed before each side and peered closely at it, but each side, in turn, presented only blackness, till she came to the lee of the house.This, too, was dark for the first moment.Then in a lower window, which she knew to be the window of Blake's den, two dull red points of light appeared\u2014glowed-\u2014subsided- glowed again\u2014then vanished.A minute later, one reappeared, then | the other; and after the slow rise and fall and rise of the glow, both once more went out.She stood rigid, wondering at the phenomenon.Then sud- dents she realized that within were two lighted cigars.Bending low, she scurried across the open space and crouched beside the window, Luckily it had been opened to let some fresh air into the long-closed room, Luckily, too, this was the lee of the house, and the beat of the storm sounded less loudly here, so that their Was also à minor blessing, for Katherine's poor, wet, shivering body now had its first protection from the storm, Tense, hardly breathing, with all five senses converged into hearing, she for their conversation was of a preli- storm, and the additional security it | down?\u201d stood flattened against the wall and strained to catch their every word.flanked the steps of a building down a dark side street.| \u2018Captain around anywhere?\u201d he asked of the desk sergeant of the police station, At that moment the captain came briskly forward from the rear.He was \u201cin plain clothes and had a busy air.\u201cHello, Kid,\u201d he said to the pugilist.\u201cThought you were bridal-touring?\u201d \u201cGot back yesterday.I'm a solid citizen now.Think I'll take an interest (in municipal doings.How would it suit you to get into Denver Dick's place to-night, Cap?\u2019 \u201cPast performances,\u201d said the captain, twisting his moustache.\u201cDenver was closed up two months ago.\u201d \u201cCorrect,\u201d said the Kid.\u201cRafferty , chased him out of the Forty-third.He's running in your precinct now, and his game's bigger than ever.I'm down on this gambling business.! can put you against his game.\u201d \u201cIn my precinet?\u201d growled the captain.\u201cAre you sure, Kid?I'll take it as a favor.Have you got the entree?How is it to be done?\" \u201cHammern,\u201d said the Kid.\u201cThey haven't got any steel on the doors (yet.You'll need ten men, No; they t won't let me in the place.Denver has confidently awaited her Persian fruit.been trying to do me.He thought I A champion welter-weight not find | tipped him off for the other raid.I didn\u2019t, though.You want to hurry, a peach?\u2014not stride triumphantly over the seasons and the zodiac and I've got to get back home.The house the almanac to fetch an Amaden's is only three blocks from here.\u201d June or a Georgia cling to his owny- own?The Kid's eye caught sight of a window that was lighted and gorgeous with nature's most entrancing colors, The light suddenly went out.The Kid sprinted and caught locking his door.\u201cPeaches!\u201d said he, with extreme deliberation.\u201cWell, no, sir.Not for three or four ! weeks yet.i haven't any idea where jou might find some.There may be a ew in town from under the glasa, but : they'd be hard to locate.Maybe at one of the more expensive hotels some place where the the fruiterer re's plenty of toot .money to waste.I've got some very from door A Before ten minutes had sped the captain with a dozen men stole with their guide into the hallway of a dark and virtuous-looking building in which many businesses were conducted by day.\u201cThird floor, rear,\u201d said the Kid, softly.\u201cI'll lead the way.\u201d Two axemen faced the door that he pointed out to them.\u201cIt seems all quiet,\u201d said the captain, doubtfully.\u201cAre you sure your tip is straight?\u2019 \u201cCut away!\u2019 said the Kid.\u201cIt's on me if it ain't.\u201d The axos crashed through the as yet A blaze of light through the fine oranges, though from à ahipload | smashed panels.The dour fell, and that come in to-day.\u201d' | the raiders sprang into the room with on the corner for 8 | their guns handy.The Kid lingered moment, and thea set out briskly toward a pair of green lights that 'the gaudy magnificence dear to Dea- sternly, \u2018a The big room was furnished with One voice was plainly Blake's.The other had a faintly familiar quality, though she could not place it.This second man had evidently come late, minary, beating-around-the-bush cha- acter\u2014about the fierceness of the lent their meeting.Katherine searched her memory for the owner of this second voice.She had thought at first of Dr.Sherman, but this voice had not a tone in common with the young clergyman\u2019s clear, well-modulated barytone.This was a peculiar, bland, good-nature drawl.She had not heard it often, but she had unmistakably heard it.As she ransacked her memory it grew increasingly familiar, yet still eluded her.Then, all of à sudden, she knew it, and she stood amazed.The second voice was the voice of Blind Charlie Peck.Katherine was well acquainted with the secret bipartizan arrangement common in so many American cities, by which the righteous voter is deluded into believing that there are two parties contending for the privilege of giving him their best service, whereas in reality the two are one, secretly allied, because as a political trust they can most economically and profitably despoil the people.Her first thought was that these ancient enemies, who for ten years had belabored one another with such a realistic show of bitterness upon the political stage of Westville, had all along been friends and partners behind the scenes.But of this idea she was presently disillusioned.\u201cWell, Mr.Blake, let's get down to business,\u201d Blind Charlie's voice floated out to her.\u2018You've had a day to think over my proposition.Now what have you got to say to it?\u2019\u2019 There was a brief silence.When Blake did speak, Katherine could discern in his repressed tone, a keen aversion for his companion.\u201cMy position is the same as last night.What you say is all guesswork.There is nothing in it.\u201d Blind Charlie's voice was soft\u2014 purringly soft.\u201cThen why didn\u2019t you ask me to go to thunder, and stay at home yourself, instead of coming out here?\" There was again a short silence.\u201cCome now,\u201d the soft voice persuaded, \u2018let's not go over what we did last night.1 know I'm right.\u201d \u201cI tell you you're only guessing,\u201d Blake doggedly returned.\u201cYou haven't a scrap of proof.\u201d \u201cI don't need proof, when I'm certain about a thing,\u201d gently returned the voice of Blind Charlie.'\u2018I've been in polities for forty-eight years\u2014ever since 1 was nineteen, when I cast my first vote.I've got sharpened up considerable in that time, and while I haven't been in on much in the last ten years, I can still smell a fat deal clean across the State.For the last three months I\u2019ve been smelling, and smelling it keener every day, that you've got a rich game going.\u201d \u201cAnd so'\u2019\u2014rather sarcastically\u2014 \u2018vou set Bruce on, to try to run the game down!\u201d \u201cWell, I would use a little different figure of speech,\u201d returned Blind Charlie smoothly, \u201cWhen I've got a coon up a hollow tree, 1 build a fire in the hollow to bring him down.Bruce is my fire.\u201d ; ; ; \u201cAnd you think your coon is coming \u2018I rather think he is.Don\u2019t you?\" \u201cWell, 1 tell you he's not! For there's no coon up the tree!\u201d \u201c1 see I've got to state the thing to pou again,\u201d said Blind Charlie patient- y, and so softly that Katherine had to strain her utmost to get his words.\u201cWhen | came to feel sure that you had a big deal on about the waterworks, I saw that the only way to force you to let me in was to put you ina fix where you would either have to split up or be in danger of losing the whole thing.So I nominated Bruce, He's one of the easiest | ever took in; but, [ tell you, he is certainly one devil of a fighter! That's what | nominated him for.You know as well as I do the way he's swinging the voters round.It beats anything I've ever seen.If he keeps this up till election, and if 1 pull off à couple of guod tricks 1've got all ver Dick's western idoas.Various well-patronized games were in pro-: gress.About firty men who were in the room rushed upon the police in a grand break for personal liberty.The plainclothes men had to do alittle club-swinging, More than half the, patrons escaped.Denver Dick had graced his game with his own presence that night.He led the rush that was intended to sweep away the smaller body of raiders.But when he saw the Kid his manner became personal.Being in the heavy:weight class he cast himself Joytully upon his slighter enemy, and they rolled down a flight of stairs in each other's arms.On the landing they separated and arose, and then the Kid was able to use some of his professional tactics, which had been useless to him while in the excited cluteh of a 200-pound sporting gentleman who was about to lose $20,000 worth of paraphernalia.After vanquishing his adversar the Kid hurried upstairs and throu the gambling-room into a smaller apartment connecting by an arched doorway.Here was a long table set with choicest chinaware and silver, and lavishly furnished with food of that expensive and spectacular sort of which the devotees of sport are su posed to be fond.Here again was to perceived the liberal and florid taste of the gentleman with the urban rogno- menal prefix.A No.10 patent leather shoe protruded a few of its inches outside the tablecloth along the floor.The Kid seized this and plucked forth a black man in a white tie and the garb of a servitor.\u201cGet up!\u2019 commanded the Kid.\u2018Are you in charge of thia free lunch?\u201d \u201cYes, sah, | was.Has they done pinched us ag\u2019in, bossa?\u201d \u201cLooks that way.Listen to me.Are there any es in this layout?If there ain't I'll have to throw up the sponge.\u2019 \u201cThere was three dozen, sah, when the game opened this evenin'; but I reckon the gentlemen done eat \u2018em al up.If you'd like to eat a fust-rate orange.sah, I kin find you some.\u201d \u201cGet busy,\u201d ordered the Kid, move whatever peach! \"SALADA\u201d Tea ls sold only in sealed lead packets to preserve its native purity and goodness.Black, Greenand Mixed.065 ready, he'll be a winner, sure! And now''\u2014Blind Charlie's purring voice thrust out its claws\u2014\u2018\u2018either I put Bruce in and smash your deal till it's not worth a darn, or else you come across!\u201d \u201cThere's nothing in it, I tell you!\u201d declared Blake.\u201cThere's no use keeping up that pretense,\u201d continued Blind Charlie.\u201cYou've had a day to think over my proposition.You know perfectly well what your choice is\u2014a sure thing if you divide with me, the risk of nothing if you refuse.So let\u2019s waste no more time.Come, which is it?\u201d There was a long silence.\u201cT understand,\u201d commented Blind Charlie, with a soft sympathy that Katherine knew was meant to bite like acid.\u201cIt\u2019s hard for a respectable man like you to mix up with Charlie Peck.But political business makes strange bedfellows, and unless you're willing to sleep with almost anybody, you'd better keep out of this kind of thin altogether.After all,\u201d he added, * guess it\u2019s better to share a good bed than to have no bed at all.\u201d \u201cWhat do you want?\u2019 Blake asked ; huskily.\u201cOnly my share of the bed,\" blandly returned Blind Charlie.\u201cWhat's that, in plain words?\u201d \u201cNot much!Only half of what you're going to make.\u201d Blake exploded.\u201cConfound you, Peck, you're nothing but an infernal blackmailer!\"\u2019 \u201cAll right, I agree to that,\u201d said Blind Charlie.Then he added, in his soft voice: \u201cBut if I am a blackmailer in this affair, then please, Mr.Blake, what do you call yourself?\u201d \u2018\u201cYou\u2014you-\u2014\u201d To the crouching figure outside the window Blake seemed to be half choking.But suddenly he exploded again.\u201cI'll not do it, Peck! I'll not do it\u2014never while God's earth stands!\u2019 \u201cFE guess you will, Blake!\" Blind Charlie's voice was no longer soft; it had a slow, grating, crunching sound.\u201cDarn you, you've becn acting toward me with your holier-than-thou reformer's attitude for ten years.D'you think I'm a man to swallow that quietly?D\u2019you think I haven't had it in for you all those ten years?Why, there hasn't heen a minute that I haven't been looking for my chance.And at last I've got it! I've only not got a line on thi: water-works business, but I've found out all about your pretty littlo deal with Adamson when vou were Lieutenant-Governor!\u201d **Adamson!\u2019 ejaculated Blake.\u201cYes.Adamson\u2019 went on the harsh voice of Blind Charlie.\u201cThat hits you where you live, eh?You didn't know I had it, did you?Well, I didn't till to-day \u2014but l've got it now, all right! There, my cards are all on the table.Look \u2019'em over.I don't want Bruce elected any more than you do; but either you do what I say or I turn over to Bruce all I know about the Adamson affair and all I know about this water-works deal! Now 1 give you just one minute to decide!\u201d (To be continued.) crop you've got quick or there'll be trouble.If anybody oranges me again to-night, I'll knock his face on.The raid on Denver Dick's high priced and prodigal luncheon revealed one lone, last peach that had escaped the epicurean jaws of the followers of chance.Into the Kid's pocket it went, and that indefatigable forager departed immediately wilh his prize.With scarcely a glance at the scene on the sidewalk below, where the officers were loading their prisoners into the patrol wagons, he moved homeward with long, swift strides.His heart was light as he went.So rode the knights back to Camelot after porils and high deeds done for their adies fair, he Kid's lady had commanded him and he had obeyed.True it was but a peach that she had craved; but it had been no small deed to glean a peach at midnight from that wintry city where yet the February snows lay like iron.She had asked for a peach; she was his bride; in his pocket the peach was warming in his hand that held it for fear that it might fall out and be lost.On the way the Kid turned in at an all-night drug store and said to the spectacied clerk: \"Say, sport.| wish you'd size up this rib of mine and see If it's broke.was in a little scrap and bumped down a flight or two of stairs.\u201d The druggist made an examination.\u201cIt isn\u2019t broken,\u201d was bis diagnosis; \u2018but you have a bruise there that looks like you'd fallen off the Flatiron twice.\u201d \u201cThat's all right,\u201d said the Kid.\u201cLet's have your clothesbrush, please.\u2019 The bride waited in the rosy glow of the pink amp shade.The miracles were not all passed away.By breathing a desire for some slight thing a flower, a pomegranate, a\u2014oh, yes, a h \u2014she could send forth her man into the night, into the world which could not withstand him, and he would do her bidding.And now he stood by her chair and laid the peach in hor hand.\u201cNaughty boy!\u201d she said, fondly.\u201cDid I say a peach?| thiak 1 would much rather have had an orange.Blest be the bride. THE SATURDAY MIRROR, | Fashions From Paris A WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE LATEST THINGS IN WEARING APPAREL Latest Reflections from the Fashion Centres of Europe.+ + + * Smart Togs for Spring Outings.Riding Habits Must Be Conventionally Corvecl.\u2014Informal Sweaters Have New Tricks Of Modishness.\u2014 Golf Boots Of Washable Tan Leather That Wet Turf Will Not Stain.\u2014S port Coats For Street Or Motor Wear.THE woman who likes to get out of doors early in the season must possess a special set of outing clothes, warmer yet quite as practical as the khaki and linen garb of midsummer days.Outing regalia differs radically from the conventional raiment proper for street wear, yet must conform to prescribed rules and not be selected in an indiscriminate manner from the old-clothes closet, for itis no longer considered the proper thing for such rough and ready wear to be worn on links, tennis courts, or during country rambles.Conventional Riding Habits.Of all outing garb the riding habit is the most conventional and it will pay the fair equestrienne to have built two smart and correct riding habits for spring and summer use.One of these should be made from dark worsted material, and the other from heavy linen crash, and each should be provided with an appropriate complement of accessories in the way of hat, boots and gloves.Although horseback exercise soon sends the blood dancing through the veins and throws the rider into a perspiring glow, there is all the more danger of a chill from keen spring winds when the exercise ceases, and the riding togs for April and May days\u2014and even for June in a northern climate\u2014 should be comfortably warm.Cheviot serge in a small uneven check or invisible mixed effects makes a good looking and not expensive habit, as riding habits go, and one may have this material made up in side-saddle or cross saddle style as preferred.The Frenchwoman seldom rides astride and the Englishwoman is also wedded to the side-saddle; but American women are rapidly taking up the cross saddle habit for country wear out of town although the conventional sidesaddle is still preferred for town use.p.pe Cross-saddle habits are a bit more sporty in type than side-saddle garb and very smart models of the former sort have knee-length coats of shepherd chock worsted overriding breeches of the same material; the coat being met by tan leather puttees strapped above buttoned or laced boots of tan leather.Covert cloth is also used for these coat and breeches riding costumes and gunmetal gray worsted in small mixed effect is another material much in favor.With the spring riding habit are worn a melon-crowned cloth derby or a dark straw derby, white ascot stock and heavy kid gloves.Sporty Silk Sweaters.For athletic sportg that demand very active movement, like tennis, canoeing or basket ball, the sweater is most practical and the new models are delightfully smart and natty while cosily warm and comfortable as ever.The silk sweater is the aristocratic member of the sweater family now and while naturally rather expensive, these silk sweaters are ideally graceful and distinguished.They may be had in plain knitted effects or in a striped dark and light knitted weave, with faneiful trimmings, an especially graceful design being the long sweater of green and white silk, with cuff and trimming bands of plain white, and knitted buttons showing green and white rings in alternation.Another new sweater for early spring days, is pictured with the canoeing costume on this page.This sweater, quite properly, is rather short, to allow free movement of the limbs, and is of tobaeco brown worsted in a new knitted rib effect; the cuffs, collar and pocket being bordered with brown and white hloeks.Most charming is the pure white sweater with a deep knitted hood over the shoulder and back.This hood falls gracefully at the back and rests on the shoulder as flatly as a nailor collar; and it may be drawn up at will over the head in a coquettish peaked hood effect.The point of the hood at the back is weighted with a big white tassel and tasseled cords at the front make it possible to adjust the hood snugly and comfortably over the head.Another new white sweater in the smooth, ribbed weave now fancied has a double breasted front with two rows of large knitted white buttons.The fronts may be turned open and caught back by loops to the buttons when the day is A BLOCK EFFECT USED IN SWERATER-TRIMMING THIS YEAR.some of ~ Novelty is oo secured in horder trimming of alterna blocks matching the sweater.the t and dark blocks.the be harder.showing biecks' of this \u2018tured je brown color, the ng wa Den irernation with cresm white blocks.Blue and Ra bul.black snd orange hiack and royal blue and bo ole nl 0r0 ne combinations.The brown sweater word (8 similar matches à canocng froch of brown with white silk huttons and knotted tie.THE RIDING RIG MUST BE CONVENTIONAL.Anything like careless informality of style is very bad form in the riding habit which must be trim and faultless] correct in every minutest detail.This well cut side saddle\u2019 habit has the bell coat which flares below the hip and rests against the saddle.The mannish sleeve, revers and notched collar are all marks of the correct riding coat.This costume is made of dark gray mixed worsted and is accompanied correctly by a melon crowned derby, black riding boots and white pique ascot.em warm, and a belt around the waist, passes through slashes ; under the turned back fronts and holding the garment in trim, graceful lines, even when thus thrown open.MacKinaw Coats For Tennis And Tramping.| For the tennis girl and the tramping girl the Mackinaw | seems specially designed.These big coats with their jaunty smartness are gloriously comfortable to slip into after a strenuous game although they are clumsy to wear during active exercise.They may be worn with the tramp- {ing costume, however, with perfect comfort and are very | smart and sporty in effeet when accompanied by a short | i skirt of corduroy or serge.White serge or mohair makes fan attractive skirt for early spring outing wear.and should be made up as simply and severely as a linen outing skirt of | similar type Anything in the way of drapery is of course | ; sbsolutely out of place in the outing costume and should | be reserved for formal gowns of satin, crepe de chine or the | fashionable lansdowne, straight lines and fine tailoring | | giving the proper snap to the outing skirt.Such skirts are {also shorter than is now permissible in a draped afternoon gown; and the approved outing length is four inches at | least from the ground\u2014enough to show the well cut walk- Shoes and Blouses for Summer Sports.| if rubber soled shoes are donned for tennis or canoeing, they should be exchanged at the club house for trim but- ' toned street boots before the trip homeward through city streets.Golf and tramping costumes are completed by | stout-soled but smartly cut boots of tan leather which are l suitable fur street wear.Such boots are now made of a washable tan leather which may be wiped clean with a - sponge wet with ordinary soap and water, and the special | tan leather does not acquire stains from wet turf or muddy roads.With the white serge tennis skirt, buttoned boots of white buckskin are very trim and dainty, and the rubber soled buckskin or canvas shoe should be white also.Blouses for outing wear should not be too fanciful.Small turned down collars and cuffs of machine embroidery may be used on the blouse of tucked handkerchief lawn or batiste, and striped tub silk blouses, with turned down | collars and loosely knocted silk ties of dark color are | especially popular.{ \u2014 20e _\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 11 THE TAXICAB CHAUFFEUSE | At present there are five girls in New York who have embarked in the business of being a chaffeur, under the | direction of Mrs.Alice E.Waxham.A number of years | before she established this service, Mrs.Waxham was an | enthusiastic driver of her own car.When it became necessary for this society woman to add to her income, she turn- : ed the cars that had once been her recreation into a busi- | i ness, and now she has her assistants drive five electric cars.; Within a year four cars have been added to the original | coupe, and now Mrs.Waxham is kept too busy managing the Business to do much driving herself.The demand by women for women drivers has grown so that at present 12 \u2018other girls are studying the automobile with & view to i becoming chauffeurs.i Frequently the young women who drive these electric machines are busy from morning until evening.* During the year that we have been driving these cars,\u2019 Mrs.Wax- \"ham said in an interview with a New York paper, \u2018\u2018not a ! single accident has been reported through us.he cars are driven at a rational, comfortable speed, and collisions with other vehicles or catrians are unknown to us.\u2018The reports of the National Highways Protective | Association attribute the majority of accidents to the \u2018jo | rider\u2019 or a driver under the influence of liquor.Suc | things do not occur when women drive for women.(do not favor women drivers for men-\u2014a public taxicab .stand conducted by women\u2014though such conditions do \u201c Oceaning boot which is an important part of the outing regalia.| 7 \u2018exist in some European cities.But should the custom be \u2018 established here I am certain that women would make \"at least as good drivers as men.The young women who are driving in this service are regularly licensed.The understand the mechanism of the cars and are prepare for all emergencies, and the work conduces to health.The | drivers are continually out in the air.\u2018Nerves\u2019 are not known to my four young drivers, and they are the picture | of th.\u201d over & thors drt of 8 MONTREAL, MAY 3, 1913.Spring Styles for Juniors.IMPLICITY, smartness, and suitability.On these three essentials depends the successful dressing of a child.Keep close to them.The simple dress worn on the right occasion gives to its small wearer a ceriain something which stands for distinction.Originality is another requirement worth considering in dressing a child.The type of child should be considered, and then the dress planned to suit the particular little girl.Colors, too, play an important part in the correct dressing of children, and when in doubt as to just what color to choose select white, for that is always in good taste.Do not overdress your child.Do not burden her with many floune 8, lace frills and big bows.Invariably the smart dress is the plain dress.Have the lines right and let the trimming be a secondary consideration.A good quality of material with but little trimming is much better than a less expensive fabric 11 decked out with lace, embroideries and ribbons.The majority of the dresses show the long waist-line, | and all have been designed with an eye to comfort as well as style.Pique, ratine, Bedford cord and cotton corduroy are among the smartest materials for little girls\u2019 | dresses.They are used not only in white but in colors.! French challie is in favor.Sometimes it shows a flowered | border, and again fine stripes.Dainty materials such as mull, voile, and plain and flowered batistes, are used for afternoon and party dresses.Much variety is seen in the treatment of sleeves for little girls\u2019 dresses.Some show the long shoulder, others the large armhole; the kimono effect is liked, and yet there are many sleeves put into the normal armhole.It is really a matter of individual preference.An introduction of brocade effects of the Chinese and : Japanese decorative character is one of the chief and most interesting novelties connected at present with frocks for children.It is, of course, necessary not to overweight the little garments, nor to give the small beings who wear them the too-much-dressed appearance that handsome fabrics might imply.Hence the color schemes are simple, the patterns are not complicated, and the brocades are mainly patterned gauzes, lissome enough to be light in effect as well as in texture.| Smart little coats of fancy worsteds, made similar to a woman\u2019s garment, frequently show belt effects.Some show the side seams cut to form the narrow silhouette, which is coming more strongly as the season advances.Serge coats are still a strong feature.Many are trimmed with bright colored buttons in red green \u2018or yellow,, with bound buttonholes to mateh.The regulation blue serge coat with emblem embroidered on the sleeve is also seen.This style is selling fairly well.rp A feature of the present fashions favorable for girls\u2019 suits is the straight line figure.The Russian blouse and modified Norfolk are also particularly adapted to juniors.Instead of the Russian coat fastening over the shoulder, as was shown in the fall models, spring garments fasten down the front.They are usually made with a turn down collar, instead of the high standing collar which was shown this winter.LACES FOR SUMMER TIME.There is no doubt that laces and ruffles will play a large part on the summer clothes, and as these have always been more or less easy to handle, they may be attempted by any one with confidence, says the Indianapolis News.Summer dresses are either lined like winter ones or they are made up on a belt about two inches wide.If the linings are used they are cut low at the neck and edged with lace and erhaps embroidery to simulate the corset cover, whose place they take, and instead of having conventional armholes there are pieces of ribbon that are fastened to front and back to points made especially to hold them.This style makes it possible to wear the « ansparent models, and most new gowns have a look of transparency from the bustline upward, with the fewest ndergarments\u2014an item of consideration in summers when satins and heavy laces take the place of old-time \u2018Uslins and batistes.AFTERNOON DRESS The feature of the skirt lifted by means of a few plaits | is as universal now as the train, says the Chicago Inter- : On an afternoon dress of black charmeuse the | skirt was thus lifted beneath three very large jet buttons, and the fulness was looped round towards the back in graceful folds.The corsage of this gown had a very elegant sailor collar of fine lace and revers of the same in front making a little heart-shaped opening, which just revealed the collar and guimpe of fine net.A flat waistband of the same silk with long fringed ends covered the union of skirt and corsage.The sleeves wore long and set well below the turn of the shoulders with a piped seam.LINEN EMBROIDERY Richelieu embroidery is very fascinatifig necdlework.In the old days this embroidery was carried out on lawn.| hut to-day it is worked on very fine linen.The design in | many cases takes the form of a figure such as a knight in armor, a falconer or a crusader, which ix traced on the | linen, and the outline is button-holed round in fine linen thread.A wide border is also butten-holed.The intervening linen is then cut away after having heen worked in button-hole stitch carried in an uneven honeycomb stiteh over the space.The figure then stands | out in strong relief, the details being worked in silk-finished | thread.| pee + TOR We THEPO PULAR MAC-KINAW This corduroy opens over mough to boots are made of the ex does mot cloth ; plai THE GAY LITTLE BOLERO A SPRING FEATURE.The bolero coat motif is appearing on many afternoon costumes designed for formal out-of-door wear with a hat.This promenade gown for early spring days is made of tan moire silk, the show the modish Arab drapery which is drawn around from the back, passing under a panel at the front.The jaunty coat opens over a vest of Pompadour silk In shades of rose and pale green and the hat of pale green straw is veiled with black tulle, pink arbutus being tucked against the crown and under the brim.interesting new pote 1 Le dangling cuff made of machine embroidery in a new a .THE FRASER INSTITUTE LIBRARY Editor of Tux SATUnnay Minnon: Sir, \u2014 Regarding the letter from \u2018A Canadian Man\" in your iast issue, may I say that I am most delighted to find that I was wrong in my impressions of the Fraser Institute Library, and that I hasten to offer all possible apologles for my ignorance.Certainly, 1 understood that the books mentioned were not in the Library at any time but perhaps they were simply out when I enquired.How sad is even a small sunderstanding! As I had not found them catalogued, perhaps there is some slight excuse for my mistake.And possibly the books have been procured since the time I asked for them.I did find Yeats' Essays and expressed my surprise that the Library should not have the poems also.The attendant was most obliging, and found a collection containing two or three of the Yeat's yrics.It would seem an advantage to have all the new hooks catalogued and also kept in plain sight.If I am in error as to the practice at the Library I apologize.1 can attempt to give only my own experience.I have seen very few new books in evidence.but if they are continually in circulation, there is certainly no cause for com- nt.1t fs quite possible that I am prejudiced and unreasonable in my views and expectations.As I said before my first impression.of the Library were not wholly favorable.It really seemed rather dreadful in a large and progressive city\u2014but with at least more slums than it is pleasant to think about\u2014in the twentieth century, to find a Library with barred shelves.1 admit that the bars do not seem so large nor 80 numerous to me now as they did at first, Very likely the Montreal people don't see them at all.~ | should not be surprised if some were to write denying their existence.I happen to care about books, and I felt as if the Library, instead of putting obstacles in the way of the readers in Montreal ought almost to take the hooks into their homes for them.This is doubtless a somewhat exaggerated view of the matter, and I can only trust I may be pardoned for thinking my impressions might be of some interest.Montreal Is à remarkable city, but one not easy for a stranger to understand.I have found much to admire and have taken pleasure in Imagining the great and worthy city it is to be.1 know very well that the Fraser Institute Library is doing Incalculable service in helping on the democratization of education.| am glad to express again my own indebtedness to it.I am sorry if | have done it any injustice, but really, after all, I think it sufficiently vigorous not to be Injured in the least by my criticism.n conclusion perhaps I should say that the suffragists need bear none of the blame for my errors.hey seem to be an admirable class of people, but 1 do not belong to their number and my letter ought not to have caused that inference.AN AMERICAN WOMAN.Montreal, April 20th, 1913.NN Pn St Pierre Limited Ladies land Gentlemen's Tailors < 41 AND 43 UNION AVENUE, MONTREAL.J.F.HANNAH Decorator 4 PRUMMOND.Phone Up 3138.Ladies\u2019 Tailor and Habit Maker A.Brodtuhrer & Co.61 METOAMFS STREDY Gptown 80S Om.Gt Chartes Spring Geode Now Ready fer Inapostion a \u2014 a» 12 THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MAY 3, 1913.BY ANNESLEY BURROWES.Does Canada Need a Divorce Court ?Third Article.FALL into conversation with some honest family man whom you chance to meet in cafe or street car; ask his opinion on divoree and he will be likely to reply that divorce is an evil.Press him a little, and he will quote a verse from the Gospel according to St.Matthew.Push hian a bit further, and he will become hazy and incoherent.Keep it up for three minutes, and, if you have thought much on divorce, you will find that he has\u2019 thought but little.The average man accepts the belief that divorce is an evil, just as he accepts the beliefs that night air is poisonous, that frogs can live in the human stomach, and that it is unwise - to sleep in the light of the moon.Possibly it may be so, but he accepts it, not because he knows it to be true, but because he has \u2018\u2019always heard it\u2019 He has been brought up from infancy with that idea as his bedfellow.When a publie, or a semi-public body gets together for the purpose of discussing divorce, they immediately proceed to the remedy.wasted in finding out if the patient is really sick.That is taken for granted.The divorce evil is an evil, because\u2014 well, because it is.But the average man is about tu be jounced out of this comfortable frame of mind.He will soon be called upon to think for himself, and to decide whether divorce is an evil to be restrained or whether it is a remedy for social ills to he used more liberally in the future than it has been in the past.Already the leaders of thought in the Dominion are busy with the problem.One of Canada\u2019s most notable educators is advocating in a series of public addresses a more liberal divoree law.The Ontario Bar Association has passed resolutions in favor of a Canadian divoree court.Mr.Maclean has brought the question up in Parliament and the indications are that a bill establishing a divorce court will be introduced at no distant date.On the other hand a reactionary movement against divorcee has been voted down in the Dominion Senate.These are indications that the divorce problem has reached an acute stage, Arguing from HE trouble is, unhappily.that there are no statistics on divorce from which conclusions can be reached \u2014 no statisties but those of number.In the United States, we learn, there were 355,502 divorces in 1900.one divorce in fact for every twelve marriages amd this is put forward by the reactionaries as an unanswerable argument against divorce.\u201cIf there are so many divorces\u201d thev say.\u201cwhy then.divorce must he bad\" That, of course, is There is no logic in it.One might =ay, quite as sensibly, divorces, Statistics bo argument.If there are so many divorce must be good\" The first is the instinct of a thoughtless pessimist.The other the word of an empty headed optimist.The matter calls for deeper thought than that.It must be followed out step by steps and cach effect traced to its eanse.Iwo careful voters or legislators, students of human nature.might talk it over, perhaps this way.\u201cWhy do people wish for divoree ?U > Because.they have becotne dis- satistiod wath ther mates\u201d Could not this dissatisfaction he reversed without divoree 77 fn some cases 0 In ome causes ne\u201d Why no Because there nas be mental or poh seal 1diosynerasies on the part of one, whieh can never be oxereone bi, cher I~ this pos-ible * It wou doubt gt pho sen\u201d \u201cGyseanexanpie of one ol these