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I ¡ WOMAN'S WIDER WORLD. BY TERESA BILLINGTON-GREIG. IIL—THE WOMAN WORKER: HER STATUS. Woman invented work. While all man Energies were still turned into avenues of de- struction she began the constructive work of the world. She stored up the fruits of the Hummer for winter use, and tended the plants that bore them; she built the first shelter, and wove the first garment. STHS MOTHBB'S INSTINCT. It was not because in herself and for her- celf she was possessed of more forethought and ability than her brother. It was be- cause the demand made upon her in this primal state was the demand of the preserva- tion of the child. For the child's eake she invented work; driven by its needs she jrrang from the untamed wilds food and covering, and set up a shelter against the elements. MAN THB MASTER. Yet the invention and practice of produc- tive industry, although it made possible our racial advance from savagery, has not brought to woman an equivalent of comfort, credit, and glory. It has served rather to ensure the enslavement of women to men. Woman, the worker, was possessed of a dual value to man. He desired her as woman, and he desired her that he might enjoy the fruits of her toil. In order to control both the woman and her industry, he made bonds lor her that were doubly strengthened be- cause of her double value. Man, the non- trorker, lived upon wcman's labour; and for generations after man had become a worker fens self he controlled woman's labour, and Jook the fruits of it as his awn. This has eontinued uven until to-day. Gradually, with the passing of the ages, man has ocrne to regard himself as the worker, and woman as a subject and nfeTior help. He has taken possession of the indus- trial world. From the position of sole world-worker woman has dropped to the position of the worker of lowest gr&de, un- paid or underpaid. There is no n°ed to trace the gradations by which this result has been peached. The problem of the present is suffi- cient for us. UNDERPAID LABOUR. The one general characterstie of all Women workers--the one condition common to them all from the lowest grade to the highest-is that they are underpaid. There jure a few exceptions, of course, but these ars rare, and have been thrust into wndue pro- minence by their very rarity. The cotton workers of Lancashire are worM-famous on this account. But, generally speaking, from the box-maker and tailor's finisher to the teacher and the journalist, the woman ,worker is paid less than the standard rate of yrages. And she is paid less simply because jhe is a woman. Wherever she has obtained a footing in the Labour market the same evil principle has been applied. She has been forced to work for what are called "women's wages." In plain terms, this precious phrase means that be- cause of the sex of the worker a portion of the wages really earned is kept back. Work is not paid for as work. It is paid for by the eex of the worker. The employer thinks iimself justified in robbing his women em- ployees, and many a man worker would con- eider it an unbearable affront if women ,were offered the same wages as he receives for his labours. FIOMS CONCRETE EXAMPLES. One can give only a few examples from the thousands that could be quoted. Among teachers the difference in salary merely be- ifcanse of sex varies from .£10 to JE150 per annum. Among shop assistants the wages of men are almost double those of the women. omen working at unskilled trades are in a similar position. In the tailoring trade the difference varies in different workshops and for different branches of work, but generally the advantage to the men is at least fifty per cenl. In lace-weaving—where the men and Women attend the same machines and the work is paid for by the piece—for the weav- ing of two identical pieces of lace, one woven by a man and one by the woman, two dif- ferent prices will be paid. The woollen in- dustry shows the same condition. Indeed, there is no part of the industrial market ?where this injustice does not crop up, an ex- isting remnant of the one-time serfdom of Woman. JTHK Aal OF CHIVALRY Taking the whole mass of women workers, the condition of deplorable underpayment from which they suffer becomes even more apparent. It can be described as nothing less than a national disgrace. British men alill pride themselves upon their chivalry, ad boast of the protection which they afford to the women of their race. Whatever they were in the past, these boasts to-day are mere empty words. For women are not protected by men in the labour market, where the A-eadliest battles of to-day are fought. They are left to suffer the worst penalties of an in- fcnman syetem-to sweat and suffer, to starve Imd die. Here are specimens of the wages paid to "free and protected" British women. {TERUIBXE STATISTICS. Women carding hooks and eyes earn an fcverage wage of 38.. per week. These human carding machines stitch 384 hooks and 384 eyes upon cards for the sum of one penny. The carding of buttons is a better trade. The women who work at this branch tan earn an average wage of 5s. 3d. weekly. Shawl fringers of some grades earn less than one halfpenny per hour. There are shirt ttakers who receive Is. 6d. to Is. 9d. for twenti-ciae hours of steady work, and who have to supply the thread, needles, and nachine tused for the work. Shirt finishers earn from a halfpenny to a penny per hour. In oua caee, quite a typical one, a woman sewed on ninety-six buttons, and clipped and bridged forty-eight seams for threepence. 21a women chain-makers of Cradley Heath earn from 6s. to 8s. per week. The average wage for Bible folders and sewers is from Gs. 9jd. to 6s 4d. for a week of sixty hours. By this bitterest of irony British women and gills are sacrificed in order that Bibles may be sent freely to the "dark places of the Jporld." These are but a few typical examples of thousands of investigated cases- They can be matched in any large towa T5»« army of 81reated women has" representatives in every corner of the land; in every corner of the land their needs clamour for attention, and their wrongs cry for redress But redress cornea nut-neither from the legislator, nor from man, the woman's fellow-worker. SZX PRIDE. The working man is son and husband and toother of the working woman. But he seems to have forgotten the fact. In his relations with women he is often as blindly selfish as the sweating employer. He seldom dreams of the; necessity for payment or for the ac- knowledgment of indebtedness to that least protected of all workers—the working man's Wtfe. This same spirit of indifference and aeglect is marked also in his treatment of Women working for wages. Working men, Who have most to gain by it, are the worst eaemies. of equal pay for equal work. They love their pride of sex more than their indus- trial safety. Even in the matter of trade imionism for women they are wanting. The boy, trained and apprestieed; and with the prejudices of the day in his favour, is always arged to protect himself by joining a union, but the unprotected girl is told that it does not matter, and the paltry fees that would amure her some measure of co-operative pro- tection are grudged. After all, she is only a girl. 8QUAL IarousTETit RIGHTS. There is no royal, and no s?ngls road, to the solution of this great problem. Neither legislation nor organisation alone will settle &. Both are needed, and the forces of both must be fully used. There are great compli- cations, and small ones, all of which will »eed to lie faced. They rango from the ques- tion of equal pay, and the status of the mar- ried woman worker, to the presence of the iMcket-BMHMy girl, and the servant problem. But be the problems what they may, they *iust be solved; and the principle by which We must guide ourselves in seeking for «oia- fctous is that woman has the same right to li'-e by the work of her hands and hex train m her mate and brother—man.
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-r- x \A,'W\AW &$Ja0t (or S&tomrn* A SMART COSTUME. ManY (i the newest ooetumee show distinct tiraoes of the Directoiro influence in the short- ness of their ooate in front and their much de- I veloped basques—one might almost eay coat- tails. The charming example sketchy in our SMART COSTUME OF SMOOTH-FACED CLOTH. present illustration is of this cteeoripton, bhoug'h the Direotoire suggestion is much modi- fied. and only really shows in the short equare- ended fronts of the ooat. This costume, by the way, is carried out in fine, smooth-faced .clotlh of fairly heavy weave and of a delightful tone of marron brown- From the neck of the coat turn back revera and collar of satin in exactly the same shade, tihe satin being almost hidden beneath an elaborate design carried out in black soutaohie. A strapping of the cloth edges, and' the soutache embroidery, makes a suitable finish to collar and revers. The ooat fastens down the front in single-breasted style, and is cut juet long enough to cover the top of the wide belt beneath- Six enormous buttons three on side, finished witih heavy loops of silken cord, adorn the front, though the real fastening consists of hooks and eyep- From these fronts the coat sweeps sharply down to a baisquo of ooTtsidcirahle length which has rounded corners, and is slit up at the back to the level of the waist- The eteeves of the plain coat order, and' are completed by large gauntlet ouffs of the soutache-embroidered satin, edged with a strapping of the cloth. The pkdrt is perfectly plain, beautifully cut, and sufficiently long to rest a couple of inches on the ground, with a very slight train at the back. BLACK AND WHITE AGAIN. Black and white, or, rather, white and blaok, is immensedy popular this season for evening wear, and maaky reaUy exquisite toilettes of un- impaachiabdpe taste are carried out in iris magpie combination. I notioed a lovely white and black gown two or throe evenings ago at a smart restaurant dinner, which. I am afraid, raised rather qpvowur. feelings in my mind. Thia frock was made of dead-white ninon-de- soie, was gathered all round the waist, and finished at the bottom with a wide hem-stitched border. In front the skirt was split up to the waist, and displayed beneath it am underskirt of the same material, arranged in alternate bands of pin tucks and wide insertions of the finest blaok Chantilly lace- The pretty bodice whidh, by the way, was out with a square dooolletage opeoned in similar fashion over a vest treated in exactly the same way with tucks and black Jiaoe- e,]r Uves of the black lace. which was de- iigthtfuily fine and transparent, showed beneath the folded kimono sleeves of white ninon. The finishing touch was given by a wide and im- mensely long saøh of the softest black-satin, which fell to the hem of the dreas behind. THE INDISPENSABLE NET OR LACE COAT. One of the most useful as well as the most fashionable garments of the moment is a long coat of laoe or net, intended to be worn with an evening gown, a high reception frock, or even with a bridge toilette of blouse and skirt- These ooats are mot at all difficult to make, and I as the materials employed naay be just as cheap or expensive as the owner desires, they should strongly recommend thempeives to the woman of limited dress allowance who has to make as much dhange as possible in her dress on the least possible expenditure. Plain coarse net d'yed the correct "old ivory tint looks as nice as anything, and is by no means a costly fabric. The ooat when made Should be ornamented by some heavy ooaise lace motifs, and should have its basques slashed up all round into several Ghristmastide, in England, at any rate, is airways associated witih all sorts of fceririvities. varying Ifrom tihe simplest of children's parties to big grown up dances. And fepeaking of dances. I notice that fancy dress functions are rapidly growing in favour, not only for big public entertainments, but also in a simpilter form. for small private dances and dinineffS- Never db I rememSeir peeing so many invita- tion oairds with "Fancy Dress" printed in one corner, and never do I remember noticing suoh a general interest in fancy dress attire. With this in my mind, I have asked an artist to give us thi¡9 week a pretty but not elaborate costume, which can be carried out with practi- cally equal success in costly or inexpensive and I think you will agree that the pictured frock is a great &ucoess. It repre- sents a dress of the Georgian period, and is not onty very becoming to the average womaai, but is not at all a difficult style to manage, be- ing quite within the powers of the amateur dressmaker. Now gown realises -splendidly in two types of material, costly brocades and silk, or dainty printed cretonne and mercerised cotton goods, so that it should appeal equally to the woman of large dress allowance and to her sister of modest means- The '4P"or part of the frock consists of a tigiht-fitting bodice with sharply pointed front, which laces over a dainty vest of tucked lawn. The edges of the bodice are softened by a narrow turned back frill of lace, and voluminous lace ruffles soften the simple elbow sleeves. Below the waist are big panniers of the same material as the bodioe, edged with ruokinge of ruffled silk, and hooped up in traditional style over a petticoat match- ing in colour the design of the patterned material. The skirt, I must not omit to tell you. is held out all round by a crinoline of not too exaggerated dimensions, and the toilette is completed by a powdered wig of a ptyle which oorinesporadls with the period of the gown. Now as to the realisation of this charming design- Should you decide upon the more ex- pensive type of material, I would suggest the choice of a brocade of Georgiaca desigm--fay an ivory silk ground patterned with big posies of flowers, and brightened here and there with a lit.t1.e gold. The petticoat should be of taffetas silk in the dominant shade of the brooaded de- sign, and tihie lacings of ribbon in exactly the same colour as the petticoat- If, however. leas costly fabrics be decided upon, I should advise a whiite cretonne. pat- terned with big bunches of pink roses, for the upper part off the gown. and a pettiooat of green or roso-oolourod mercerised lawn for the lower oart of the fnook- Where cretonne is employed -the rudhes on the panniers should be replaced by two full and rather narrow frills of the material set on all round1 the edges In the same way- long narrow panels. The corners of eadh panel should be weighted by heavy tassels of crystal beads and tihe panels laced loosely together by bands of the same .glittering beadfe. The effect of a ooa.t of this kind worn owcfr a frock of plain white satin, or indeed, of any glossy white material is really lovely, the toilette re- quiring notihing more tiban a bumdh <xf pink or crimson roses an a great knot of carnations and Russian vioOets tucked into the waistband to render it perfection- ABOUT MARQUISE HATS. I am pleased to be able to record the rapidly growing popularity of the small "marquise hat. This delightful little three-cornered shape always looks so very trim and chic that I am surprised it ever goes out of fashion. It is one of the few hats which is at the same time smart and dressy, and yet so small and neat as to be wearable in the worst of weather. All the best and newest examples of the "marquise are carried out in black satin, which is very tightly stretched over the shape beneath. As trimming, quite the favourite things are eno-r- mous pomp,oms of slipped white and black feathers from the centre of which stands up a etiff white o&prey with square-cuts ends. Three or four of these pompoms are used upon a single hat, the result 'being a very quaint and picturesque ohapeau strongly suggestive of the romantic days of and highway- men. DRESSING WELL. Dressing well is an art that can be oulti- vated; yet in spite of all ihe various means whioh women possess of looKing well, we con- stantly meet some who give the impression that their clothing was only intended as a covering. Extravagance in dress is held to be a feminine vice. Yet a leading wtrees counsels us to bear in mind that clothes have a most important hearing1 on succeed in life. Surely if this be so it should be the duty of every mother to teach her doughter to dress well. The neatly garbed work-girl is much surer of sucoess than the untidy drab, and the stylish girl of the middle-class makes a better impression than tho "dowd," OPENWORK HOSIERY. Openwork hosiery has been relegated to a back seat and a sheer silk hand-embroidered stocking has taken its place. Some of the embroidery seen is indeed wonderful. Worked on a sheer, bright-finished silk stocking one sees the most graceful arrangements of sprays, detached sprigs, individual blossoms, not to men- tion the effectivo ribbon embroidery and lace insettings. PETTICOAT WITH DETACHABLE FLOUNCE. I think we owe a. real debt of gratitude to the intelligent person who first invented the petticoat with a detachable flounce. Of all use- ful and economical devices it is the best, for by its kindly aid we can make one skirt do duty for morning, wet weather, and very dressy occasions, and do it really well, too. Now the smart petticoat pictured in our sketch has been specially designed with a view to detachable flounces, and is, I think you will find, a parti- cularly good and well-shaped pattern. The upper part is made in the usual way, with gored seams, a side fastening, and a certain amount of fulnees at the back drawn up by ribbons or tapes. At the bottom the skirt is finished with a machined band, on to which are sewn at short intervals, strong smoked pearl buttons. This band ia hidden from view by a cro6sway band of the material, which is sewn on at the top and left loose at the lower edge, so that it can ibe raised to button on the flounce. The flounce pictured in our drawing has a wide shaped iband at the top, decorated by rows of narrow diagonal tucks, on to which are sewn two narrow gathered frills, one below the other, each made with a. small heading. This flouncc is finiehed with a narrow stitched band at the top, in which a-re worked button-holes to cor- respond with the buttonson the skirt. I would suggest carrying out this design in a. gcod quality moirette and making three flounces tc go with it—one of the same material for re. gular everyday wear, one of silk or satin foi very smart <3boasions, and one of a good quallt3 of alpaca for wet weather use. I think you will find thi^ a practical suggestion, as it pro. SMART MOIRETTE PETTICOAT WITH DBTACHABLE FLOUNCE. vides for all necessities. I advise alpaca for leally rough wear, as, provided a good quality 'be used, it washes as well as cotton or linen goods. This design requires six and a quarter yards of 36-inch material, this amount allow- ing for one flounce.
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Christmas Plum Pudding. To make a whoksome family Christmas pudding, chop up half a pound of suet, wash and dry half a pound of currants, stone half a pound of raisins, and clean half a pound of sultanas, taking off the stalks. Cut up four ounces of peel, and blanch and chop up two ounces of -almonds. Put four ounces of flour into a basin, and rub the suet into the flour; add a little salç, four ounces of fine breadcrumbs, half a pound of sugar, and the fruit and peel, and mix very thoroughly. Grate in half a nutmeg, the rind of a lemon, and add the chopped almonds. Put four eggs into another basin, beat them a little, add a gill of milk and a wineglassful of brandy, and thoroughly mix these with the dry ingre- dients. Turn the pudding into a buttered mould or basin, tie it round with a floured cloth, put it into boiling water, and boil for five or six hours. Directly amy kind of tinned food is openea, turn it out. The neglect of this precaution, and not badness of the contents of the tin, has caused many cases of illness from poison- ing. Unplucked poultry should be examined by the following rules Ruffling back feathers to notice the skin, the eye should be bright and prominent if freshly killed. Young birds have down under the wings and short pin feathers. For the sake of economy dried apples and apricots are often used to make jam. The fruit should be allowed to stand for forty- eight hours after it has been covered with boiling water, and then treated in the same way as fresh fruit. Stains on the hands can be easily removed by using salt and lemon-juice. Put a little heap of salt in a saucer and squeeze suffi- cient lemon-juice into it to moisten it. Rub this on the stain until it disappears, then rinse the hands in clean, warm water. Sponge Cake.—Take seven eggs and CM pound of castor sugar beat them together for a few minutes, then add half a pound of rafted flour and a quarter of a pound of ground rice. Beat all together for fifteen minutes. Bake in a moderate oven. Cocoanut Icing.—Quarter of a pound of desiccated cocoanut, three-quarters of a pound of lump or castor sugar, quarter of a pint of water. Boil the sugar and water till melted, then put in the cocoanut, and boil for five minutes. Floors are impenetrable if painted with a solution of paraffin and coal oil. They get brown in colour and keep in good condition for about two years. To remove paint, patient rubbing with chloroform is effective on black silk or any other goods, and will not hurt the most deli- cate colour or fabric. To keep the hair in curl dissolve a lump or two of sugar in tea and with this moisten the hair slightly before putting it into curl- ing pins. Looking-glasses can be cleaned by washing with a rag slightly damped in warm water, then being polished with a woollen cloth dipped in powdered blue.
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Food and Health Notes. (By a Correspondent.) CHRISTMAS AND GOOD-TEMPERED SHOPPING. The last Saturday before Christmas finds most of us with cupboards already heavily stocked for the festival. The tilings that are yet to be bought are for the moat part pariebabl-, and the buying of these will give us a legitimate excuse for a last round of the shops on Christ- mas Eve. And what a bustling, happy-go-luck struggle this last round is! How one catches the real spirit of the season in this shopping, when the knooks and buffet tings in narrow doorways ana tat overcrowded counters are taken by each one of us in euidh good part. How we should re- sent this crowding and jostling at any other tiote, and because we take it so differently now, how vividly we realise the spirit of kindliness* charity and good temper abroad tMoo few last days at the close of the year.
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APPETITE, DIGESTION AND GOOD CHEER. There are a few things still wanting to com- plete our enjoyment of the good fare we have got together for the festival, and of these the most important are appetite and digestion. I count my&elf among the fortunate folk just now, for I was privileged last week to hear an ex- cellent helpful lecture on this very topical sub- ject from Dr. Strikland Goodall, at the Insti- tute of Hygiene, Dovorjshi rc-tstroet, London, W. Ain adult's appetite, the doctor pointed out, originated partly from definite tissue want or physical hunger, and partly from a mental state due to the plea&urable recollection of food eaten at former meaJs and the equally pleasurable anticipation of partaking of the same kind of food again at the .approaching meal. It is the combination of these physical and mental states whioh gets the saliva in our mouth on the run, and thug produces the first of the valuable juices needed for the digestion of food.
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MEALS PAST AND TO COME. There will be none among us I trust doomed to suffer unduly from tissue-want or sheer physical hunger this Ohristmas. Appetite, I 'hope, will be largely the result of the mental factor, arising from the remembrance of enjoy- able foods oaten, mingled with the anticipation of palatable food to oome. Thus, even in the mid&t of so muoh rich fare, our thoughts will not turn for long together to dishet; that are new and strange, or even to the tried onoe-a-ycar favourites. Instead, the mental piotures we shall conjure ULO as each meal- time approaches will more often than not be those of everyday dishes, of foods, tthat is, which we have eaten with the keenest relish almost daily throughout the year. For in this matter of appetite we are all very much the creatures of habit, and past satisfaction. The daintiest dishes, whose like we have never tasted we have generally no strong desire to taste; but the foods we have eaten and enjoyed daily are not, even at Christmas to be orowcled out of our meal; for it is these which above all thuigg our appetite craves.
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MY CHRISTMAS BREAKFAST AND WHY. I cannot imagine myself, therefore, even when sunounded with Christmas fare, giving up my usu-al breakfast of Grape-Nuts and fruit. Cereal food and fruit is what breakfast has meant to me throughout the year, and as the hour for breakfast approaches during the ooranng holiday, it will be cereal food and frint. „ and nothirbg else that I shall fancy. Indeed, after the heavier eating at all other meals, I am likely to turn with an even keener relish to iny r simple and favourite breakfast.
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j HOW <X>NDIMENTS AND SAUCES HELP. As for the heavier fare forced upon one and all of HIS, more or less at Christmas, it is some satisfaction to know that this too is more di- gestible when we flavour it to our individual liking. Let us therefore for digestion's sake keep our fa-vourite sauce and condiments handy. The lecturer I F-poke of just now exhibited a sketch of two turkeys; the one a small puny scraggy bird, the other bonny and plump, five timet, as large and five times as fleshy. If we ta,ke the small bird, he argued, as representing the limit of what we could digest without a.ppetite, the larger bird (five times as ia,rSe> mark you) would represent the limit of what we could digest when wo set down to our table with appetite, and all the nerves of ta.s.to were stimu- lated by the pleasurable palate of the food. So, as you value digestion, be wise and pass the ea-uce bo-ttle freely at Christmas, and if you are uncertain as to which of the many good sauces tried during the past year is your favourite, then fall back on the oldest favourite of all, Goodall's Yorkshne Relish. You,il find nothing better than this to help you out with the oold fare left over from dinner, whether such faro be fish, fowl, or flesh.
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CHILDREN'S STOCKINGS: A NOVEL IDEA. pf181ba.blyall mothers have already settled upon their purchases for the children's stockings. If so, I wonder how many have hit upon an idea as novel as that of a friend of mine. She has a little girl who is very fond of Grape-Nuts, and has the food every morning for breakfast. My friend has therefore secured a small sample packet of this food for her Christmas Eve bed- room round, and she is looking forward to the mingled surprise and pleasure that will come to her little one's faoe, when she discovers that Sa.nta. Claus takes euch an interest in the per- sonal food likes of his little favourites. It may be too late for others to do (something similar. But let all such console themselves with the thought that the children's parties are rapidly ooming along, and that these will provide many opportunities of giving tiheir little ones pioamnt surprises in the way of wholesome home- made novelties in sweetsan.d cakes. But botwoen now and then lies Christmas, and a very merry Christmas too I trust for all of us.
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Husbands Know How It Is. Jnstead of thinking' of wha.t she should have at- tended to before gumg to bed, Mrs Dixie thinks of it afterwards. While she ift revotviag these mutters in "her mind, and while snugly tucked up in bed, the old man is scratching his legs in front oi the fire and wondering how ne will pay the next month's rent. Suddenly she says "James, did you lock the door?" "Which door?'' says James. "The cellar door," snyg ake. "No," says James. "Well, you had better go downstairs and loclc it, for I beard some person in the backyard last night." Accordingly James paddles down the stairs and locks the tloo-r. About the time James returns and is going to get into bed she remarks "Did you shut the stair doory" "No," says James. "Well, if it's not shut the cat -will get into the "bedroom." "Let her get in then," says James iUuaturedly. "My goodness, no," returns his wife "she'd suck the baby's breath." Then James paddles downstairs again, and steps on a tack, and closes the door, and curses the cat, and retums to the bedroom. Just as he begins to climb into his couch bis wife observes "I forgot to bring up some water. Suppose you bring up some in a big jug?'' And so James with a muttered curse goes down into the dark kitchen and falls over a chair, and rasp3 his legs along the dresser in search of the jug, and then Jerks the stair door open and howls: "Where the deuce are the matches?" She gives iiim minute directions where to find lie matches, and adds that she would rathergo and fetch the water herself than have the neighbourhood raised about it. After which James finds the matches, pro- cures the wwter, and comes upstairs, and plunges into bed. Presently his wife says: "Jamea, let as have an understanding about money matters. Now, next week I've got to pay- "I don't know what you'll have to pay, and don't care, rihouts fames, as be lurches around and jams his face agvAnA the wall; all I want is sleep." "That's all very well for you," snaps his wife, as she Tpulia the sheets viciously; YQtI never think of the -worry and trouble I have. And there's Amarintha, who, I believe, is taking the measles." "liet her take 'em, Said James. Hereupon she begins to cry softly, but about the time James is falling into a gentle dlese she punches him in the ribs with her elbow, and says "Did yon bear the scandal about Men jeuest,, "What JonesT' says James sleepily. "Why, Mrs Jones." "Where?" inquired James. "1 declare," says his wife, "vou are getting more stupid every day. Voa know Mrs Janes, at Nu. 5Q» Well, day before yesterday, Susan Smith told Mrs Thompson that Sara Baker had said that Mrs Jones had Here she P-mm MIl BIteu. James is snoring in profound slumber. With a snort she pulls all the covers off him, wraps herself up in them, and lies awake until 2 unL, thinking how badly used ahe is.
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A youth was venturing into danger on a. frozen poad when am attendant OIdiilO up and cautioned m. "But," remonstrated the young -man. "I have paid sixpence for admission, Y, I can go wihare I like?" Yao. re- plied the attendant, "yOu have paid eixpenoe for admission on the lake, but not into itill
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Pictures from POJertrl Land BY GRAHAM-SAMPSON, III. From within a solemn-looking in a gloomy quarter there is the sound It' a piano, "Ihe piece is one of Chopin's firsrt composi- tions. The last chords having died away, after a momentary silence thue arises a vert- table of female voices, followed by a rythmical shuffling of feet, aJ the player sud- denly draws from the instrument a rousing polka, ù the circumstances it Î3 not surprising tfiat modest knocking outside has passed Oflheaded. Now, however, as it ic repeated, bolts ..r. withdrawn, and the door opened just sufficiently t-. allow a hsad tfli be thrust diit. Through tho aperture thus created a <haft oi light falls upon the face and figura 4 a man. "tTbafc do loa say: the head very /sspiciouslv. Hl* JSSiss Grantham here?" queries the new yoaiah Tho door shut and bolted again, and in- ridn may be heard, near the entrance, a num- ber of girls talking together in subdued tones. Two or three times tie process of peering is resumed, Lad on each occasicn ends in fresh pRals of laughter. Then a ludy's voice sounds, u though in command. There is instant silence, and next Jnoment the door is thrown wide open. "Miss Grantham is here," lays a being of distinguished appearance. "She has been playing for the girls, and, as it is still very early, won't you como in and wait for her?" Tho advent of the stranger is the cause of much excitement and giggling among soma thirty girls, aged from fifteen to twenty-five, indulge freely in audible comments OQ. the young man's appearance. Miss Grantham is evidently somewhat per- iui-bffd. Shp. had not expected anyone for her, Itast of all this tall, bronzed individual, who bw recently come from abroad. Matters are fiot improved by a voice from the far end of he room calling in shrill treble I' "Miss Miss > Is that your bloke? You told, itai you 'adn't got one To the chief of the club, the austere lady of Tineertft'.n age, the Stranger is formally pre- sented, and then betakes himself to the reo motest corner of the room to watch the pro- ceedings. Apparently, however, he is too in- teresting to be left alone. Mischief is brew- ing. From a much-amused group a maiden of some eighteen summers is pushed forward, and with assumed shyness coming towards him "Say, Mister," she observes, "are you her pal?" Miss Grantham, in confusion, is beating the.life out of the old piano in order to drown the conversation, and calls upon the members Jof the club to dance; but not one of them ;movea. "What do you mean by pal'?" There are shrieks of mirth at his ignorance. "Why, the bloke wot walks 'er out!" is the reply. No. I'm only going to see Miss Grantham safely home." t "Why d'yer want ter do that, if you're not walkin' 'er out?" "Oh, someone might be rude to a lady all alone in these parts." He has touched an unfortunate chortL After all, "these parts" are the home of the working people, and they are eager in de- fending them. "Nao," is the immediate rejoinder, "tain't 'ere as anyone would 'urt 'er. It's in your part of the world as them sort lives!" "I suppose it really is," he answers good hnmouredly, and, quite mollified, his ques- tioner proceeds with a little minor heckling. By this time nearly all the members of the ub have clustered around him, and it is only through the exertions of the lady in charge that he is at length reeesed from per- secution. Part songs are followed by more dancing tmd a mild form of dumb-bell axerdee. There js not one of the faces but has its own special interest. A wild, as yet untamed lot, with their own peculiar ideas of right and wrong, they have only to be made to recognise what is good to follow it. Quite unconscious of paving done anything exceptional, many of them perform daily acts of self-sacrifice and fceroism. Rough in many respects, few could ie more gentle than they on occasion. They {te all toilers in one or other of the fac- tories or shops in the great East-end. These f.!J' the most part are the beings responsible {of the beautifully coloured flowers and fruits 55 ladies' hats, and it is possible to tell the of the year by the stains on their hands. In February and March, when Dame J"&shion rejoices in dainty daffodils, butter- s, and king-cups, fingers and nails are yei- Pink is suggestive of the blossoms worn iu May; while red tells of the roses in June an4 July. In August there is generally a holiday, not that the workers wish it, but be- CaUse there is no particular work to do. Then the club ladies, as far as possible, arrange to take them to the country in batches for a fortnight. Yon fair, flushed maiden with sunken cheeks has never been out of London, and cannot imagine the sea. With mother and three sisters she lives in a cellar, the only ligfct for which comes down through a circu- lar glass about eighteen inches in diameter, let into the pavement. Though others are better off, not one can boast of a home con- sisting of more than a few rooms in a tene- mented house; while the luxury of three "sqture" meals a day is uncommon, especi- ally it the time of variegated hands, left by tfe autumn tinted leaves, cherries, and grapes of September and October. During November and December they are more or less iile. Some then undertake charing or becone the minders of families for a con- eiderition, while the mothers are earning moner. Cigirette girls are more fortunate in hav- ing employment all the year round, and 111 the rerun they can easily be picked out on ac- count hi the shape of the hands and fingers. The bmefit of regular engagement is shared by taioresses, who now are busy making warmaps, reefer jackets, and the like. Amcig the most energetic of the party is a girl whose wizened face and shrunken figure make it difficult to decide what may be her age, for she looks anything between fifteen md forty-five. As a fact, she is seven- teen. Her business is to put needles in a mechancal embroidery machine—one thou- sand every half-hour—and they say that fot years ae has been starving herself in order to support all invalid brother who died only a few nontha ago. It may be that in the fierce energy with which she dances, does dumb bill exercise, or sings, she is trying to forget the loss. Her small dark eyes are never still, her tongue at times lashes like a whip, aad even here in this rough crowd she is regaided with something approaching to awe It scarcely needs long study to per- ceive that in her own class she has no friends, for with the world at large since infancy she has bfcer. at war fighting desperately for her own existence and another — of which she feels she has been robbed. Sometimes, how- eyer, she may be seen to steal close up to the piano, and as she watches the face of the player a strange light comes over her own. All the hard lines soften and die away until it becomes almost beautiful. For a while she retu&ina motionless, transformed, until, something attracting her attention, she springs away with even wilder energy than before. It ia with feelings of pleasure that the stranger has noted the evident Affection of this girl for Miss Grantham, Before long, howeer, he becomes conscious of being him- self obser ved with more than usual attention, and looking suddenly around mecta the gaze of the game dark eyes. But now they show no soft/jning. For several seconds she con- tinues to regard him as though she would drag from him the secrets of his sout. Then away she whirls, only to return and place tho man under closer scrutiny when she again imagines she is unperceived. For iis part, he has eonM to the conclusion that she is scarcely quite and takes little further notice of her. Vo hia amazement, however, she sud. denly advances straight up to him, and ia a low tone, but one full of menace, Mister, she deelareF, "I know you want her" (indi- cating the lady at the piano), "I know you'll take he:' from us. But if you're not kind to her by -—I'll bill yer /.r-
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HORKIMAN'S ALMANACK FOR 1938, beautifully printed in colours, BOW being GIVEN AWRY throughout United Kingdom by o*e* 15,000 Hornimaai's wot&d-xenowiKsi Pura TSea- Sold Ctelwyn Bay. far Htjg-h«s, Ontrai Sto-fes; Price. Baker, Abergftk-rd; Coj. wya Bay and District Go-operative -Society; giie Society, fndudlMt; Jonce, 0.. mist, £ ,land«dao Junction; Roberts, Cheoaidt, Liaawiadno; Higgins, Grocer, Prestatyn; N.w York Cooperative SooMty, Poiaaaanmttwr; Griffiths^ Grocer, Llaaiairfechan; Price and Sons, Grocers; and William*, CSiecaiet, Qd Cohvyn; and iL .loa. rSmmirt, 1M- ganwy.