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AFTER MANY DAYS.
CHAPTER XX. .
The New -year began with much ring-
ing ot parish bells, some genuine jovial-
ity in the cottages and eervants' hales,
and various cenventional rejoicing in
polite society, but silence andssolitude
still reigned at Davenant. The ehief
rooms-saloou anti dining -room, library
and =sic -room -were aleendoned al-
together by the gloomy master of the
bailee. They might as well have put
on their holland pinefores and shut
their shutters, as 41 the absence of the
tannin for nobody used them. Gilbert
Again Coestance looked at him curi-
ously ; but at sight of the sraoke-colored
epectaeles and the sallow old. face,
balf-covered with white hair, turn-
ed away her eyee with a sigh. If
she could have seen eyes that looked
honeetly into hers, it might have given
-a visitor whom he received with a force to that promise of comfort, but
very cordial greeting. this blind oracle was too mysterious.
Soon after dusk on the following even- She gave a long sigh, anti kept silence.
hag Lord Clanyarde returned to Doyen- The doctor louked at the open piano
ant, but not aleae. He took with him on the other side of the fire -place, and
an elderly gentleman, with white hair, remained in thoughtful silence for a
worn rather long, and e, white beard- few naoineets.
a person of almost Laatnerchal appear- "Does your mistress sing sometimes?"
ank.e, but somewhat disfigured by a he asked Martha Briggs, who sat OD
pair of smoke -colored epeetacles of the guard bt: the sofa.
kind that are vulgarly known as "gig- "No, sue not since she's been so ill,
lanaps." but she plays sometimes, by snatehes,
The stranger's clothes were of the beautifue It would go to your heart
shabbiest, yet even in their decay look- to hear her."
ed the garments of a gentleman. He "Will you sing to me," asked the doe -
wore ancient she'pherd's plaid trou-sers. tor, "if you are strong enough to go
and a bottee-green overcoat of exploded to the piano? Pray, try to sieg."
t. Constance looked at him with the
same puzzled gaze, and then tried to
rise. Martha supported her an one
side, the doctor on the other, as she
feebly tottered to the piano.
"I'll sing if you. like," she said, in a
careless tone that told how far tbe mind
was from consciousness of the present.
"Papa like e to hear tee sing."
She seated herself at the piano, and
ber fingers wandered slowly over the
keys, and wandered on in a dreamy
relude that had little meaning. The
German doctor listened patiently for a
few minutes to this tangle of arpeg-
gios, and then, bending over the piano,
played the few notes of a familiar sym-
phony.
Constanm gave a faint cry a sur-
prise, and struck a chord, the chord
that closed the eymphouy, and began
"Strangers Yet," in a pathetic voce
that had a strange Insterical power
ID curious contrast, with the feebleness
of the singer.
She sung on till she came to the
words "child and parent." These touch-
ed a. sensitive ebord, and she rose sud-
denly from the piano and burst into
tears.
"That may 'do good," said Dr. Webb,
approvingly.
"Aly ft tend is no fool," replied Lord
Claugarcle.
"Take your mistress to her room,"
said Gilbert, to Martha, with an angry
look. "Thie is only playing upon lier
nerves. I wonder you can allow such
folly, Lord Cie/verde!"
"Your own declare have agreed that
some shock was necessary, souething to
awaken her from apathy. Poor pet:
ftalatohs:r'te, ars are a relief," answered the
He went to his daughter and assist-
ed in arranging the pillows as she lay
down on tbe wife. Martha calmly ig-
nored her master's order.
The German doctor bent over Mrs.
Sinclair for a moment, and whispered
the one word "Hope," and then retir-
ed with the three other gentlemen.
"Would you like to Kee:gibe any-
thing?" aaked 1)r. Webb, taking the
stranger into a little room off the hall.
"No; it is a case in which drugs are
useless. Hcpe is the only remedy for
Airs. Sinclair's •disease, She utast be
Iteusgluilve.edd with hope, even if it be de-
"Wliat?" cried Dr. 'Welsh, "would you
trifle with her feelings, play upon the
weakness of her mind, and let ber awak-
en by and by to find herself deluded?"
"I would. do anything to snatch her
frora the jaws a death, answered the
German elootor, unhesitatingly. "If
hope is not held but to her. she will
a lower tone, as Gilbert move away, die. You atio her fading day by day.
"What, do you wean?" asked the Do you think eeere ie any" elearra 121
other, turning sharply around. your medicines theewilI brieg her lack
-What I say. Watch your wife I" to life?"
Mrs. Sinclair's morning-roona was a "I fear not, six'," answered Dr. Webb,
spacious, old-faehioned apartment, with dependently.
three long windows, one opening into 'Then you or those who love her
must find some inore potent influence.
She is heart -broken for the loss of her
child. She must be taught to think
teat ber thild is still living."
Sinclair lived iu his snuggery at the Gilbert Sinclair was in the hall when
Lord. Clanyarde and. corapanion ar-
med. Mr. Wyatt had just come down
from London, and the two men were
smoking their cigars by the great hall
fire, the noble old, cavernous hearth
which had sacceeded the more mediae-
val fashion of a fire in the center of
the hall.
"My dear Sinclair." began Lord Man -
neck, and with his horse in a condition I Yarde"
nervous air, which migbt he forgiven
with a somewhat hurried axed
peculiarly aggravating to grooms and ba a Teen whose favorite daughter lan-
guished between life and death. I
have ventured to bring an old friend of
mhae, Doctor Hollendorf, a, entleman
who has a. great practiee us Berlin,
and who bas had vast experience ha
the treatment of mental disorders.
Doctor Ilcalencierf. Mr. Sinclair. 1 beg
your pardon, Wyatt, how do you do?"
interjected Lord. Clanyarde, offering
the solicitor a couple of tingers. "Now
Gilbert, I should much like Doctor Hol-
lendorr to see my poor Constenee. It
may do no good, but it can do no harra;
and if you have no objection, with
Doctor eirebbe, concurrence, of course,
I should like-"
"Webb is in the house," answered Gil-
bert. "You can ask him for yourself.
I have no objection."
Tis wee said with a weary air, as
if the epeaker ha. ceased to take any
those were her svedding-bells, and that led :Xs till: dee' , lit;erinhgtGerman.
she maest get ready for church. doctor, but James Wyatt, mho was of
'To please you. papa," she fetid. "For amore observant turn. scratinizea bine
your sake. papa. •Pity my broken '11,t.lentiv13`." *
heart," Here le Webb," seed Gilbertoas the
little doctor came tripping down the
There had beau dans and nights. at great staircase, with t he lightsome
the end of the old year. when Dr. Webb aciivitY of his Prnfoxsioa, rabbing his
trembled. for the sweet Young Me which' balld'ardasChla6neya.amerde, p,resented Dr. Rol-
lie had watehed almost from its begin- tendert to the rural practitioner, and
ning. A great pbysician bad come' sta.ted his wish. Dr. 'Webb had no ob-
down from London every day, arid had! jection to offer. Any wish of a father's
must be seered.
gone away with a fee proportionate to "You will come. up and eon ber at
his reputation, a.fter diagnosing the ohoer be &lid, interrogitively.
disease be a roost wonderful manner; At te tagr
wilt a slightly guttred 1 8t.r,
but it wa,s the Mae country apothecary The three men went -.tin theexistair
wlao saved Constance S.inclair's life. His Gilbert remaining behind.
watelifulness, bis devotion, bad. kept "arrena. you going I" aeked Wyatt.
the common enemy at bay. Tile life+ "No; my preeenee -generally disturbs
leer. Why should I go? I'm iaot, want -
current, whieh had ebbed very \ low ed."
• end of the long gaLlery, eat mad drank lti
there. read is newspapers and wrote
his letters, smoked and dozed in the
dull winter evenings. He rode a, good
deal in all kinds of weather, going
far afield, no one knew where, and com-
ing laterne at dusk, splashed to tbe
stable -boys.
"".nhezia there 'asses will "eve raud fev-
er before long," said the hirelings, de-
jectedly. "Tberees 1 bat blessed chest-
nut he set such Store by a month ago
with 'artily a. leg to stand. on for wind -
and the roan filly's over at knees
a'ready."
"Ile" meant Mr. Sinclair, who was
ridiug bis finest horses with a prodi-
gal recklessness.
`Constance Sinclair lived to see the
New -year, though elm did not knOW why
the ehureinbells rang out on, the quiet
naidnigiat. She started up from her
pillow with a, frightened look , when
she heard that joy peal, crying that te t o lv look -
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flowed gradually back, and after lying "I should Jif I were you. How do
for ten days in an utterly prostrate and you. know what this man isf An im-
pudent quack, in all probability. You
apathetic state, the patient was now ought to be present."
strong enough to rise and be dressed, *Do you. think :so?"
and lie on the sofa in her pretty morn- "DeeMedly."
"Then
ing-room, while Melanie, or lioneet "Watch your tvife when that roan
Martha :Briggs. who had come back to man et talking to her," said Wyatt, in
nurs hr cid mistress, read to ber, to
divert her mind. the doctor said; but
alas t as yet the mind seemed inca`7pab1e
of beieg anakened to interest in the
things of this mortal Life. When Con-
et:thee spoke it was of the past -of her
childhood, or girlhood, of people and a wide . balcony, from win1 an iron
scenes familiar to her in that happy stair led down to a garden, small and.
time. Of her husband she never spoke, secluded, ,aid out in the Dutch style -
and his rare visite to her room had it a garden which had been always sacred
disturbing influence. So much so that to the mistress of Da.venant. There
Dr. Web!, sugg‘Isted that for the pres- were heavy oak shutters, and a com-
exit Mr. Sinclair :should refrain from plicated arrangement of bolts and bars
seeing Lis wife. to the.three windows, but as these shut -
"1 can feel for you, my dear sir," he tars were. rarely closed, the stair and
said, sympathetically. "I quite under- Lhalcony might be considered as a con -
stand your anxiety, hoedgeeetione,,
vernence spetearr
lisFaetadeftesethe bene -
me and the nurse-
ou will have all fit of bur.glars. 10 burglars Ii6214; ;OA,
progrees. The mind at ever, yet been heard of at Davenant.
_ is somewhat astray," There was a piano in the room. There
"Do you think it will be always so r were well-filled book -cases, pictures,
asked Sinclair. "Will she never recover *quaint old china -ail things that moire
her senees?" life pleasatt, to the znind that is at
"My dear sir, there is everything to ease, and which may be supposed to
hope.. She is so young, and the die- offer some coiasola.tion to the care -
ease is altogether so mysterious, wheth- burdened spirit. The fire blazed mer-
er the effeet of the blow -that un- rily, and on a eofa in -front of it Con-
lueky fall -or whether simply a. de- stance reclined in a loose white cash-
velopment of the brooding melancholy . mere gown, hardly whiter than the
which we had to fight against before' wasted oval face, from which the dark -
the accident, it is Impossible to say. brown hair wee drawn back by a band
We are quite 'in the dark. Perfect se-; of blue ribbon, just as it had been ten
elusion and tranquility may do much." , years ago, when Constance was "little
Lord Clanyarde came to see his , Connie,' flitting about the lawn at
daughter nearly every day. He had Marchbrook like a white and blu.e
come back to ararchbrook from far more.; butterfly.
agreeable scenes on purpose to be near . "My pet," said Lord Clanyarde, in a
her. But his presence seemed to give pleading tone, "I have brought a new
Constance no pleasure. There were ; doctor ttesee you, a gentleman who may
days on which she looked at him with be able to understand your case even
a wandering gaze that went to his I better than our friend Webb."
heart, or a blink and stony look that! -No one ever knew leer 'constitution
appalled him by its awful likeness to as well as I do," commented Dr. Webb,
death. There were other days when sotto voce.
she knew him. On those days her talk ' Constance raised her heavy eyelids
was all of the pa,st, and it was clear and looked at her father with a lan-
that memory had taken the place of guid wonder, as if the figure standing
intelligence.
Lord Clanyarde felt all the pangs of
remorse as he contemplated this specta-
ele of a broken heart, a mind wrecked
by sorrow.
"Yet I can hardly blame myself for
her sad state, poor child," he argued.
"She was happy enough, bright enough,
before she lost her baby."
The New -year was a week old, and
since that first rally there had been
no change for the better in Constance
Sinclair's condition; and now there
came a decided change for the worse.
Strength dwindled, a dull apathy took
possession of the patient, and even
by her couch were far away, and
she sew them faintlyr in the distance,
without knowing what they were.
The new doetcrr did' not go through
the usual formula of pulse and tongue,
nor did he ask the old -established ques-
tions, but he seated himself quietly by
Constance Sinclair's sofa and began to
talk to her in a low voice, while Dr.
Webb and Lord Clanyarde withdrew to
the other end of the room, where Gil-
bert was standing by a table, absent-
ly turning over the leaves of a book.
"You have had a great sorrow, my
dear lady," said the German doctor, in
that low and confidential tone which
memory seemed a blank. sometimes finds its way to the clouded
Dr. Webb was in despair, and fairly brain when louder and clearer accents
owned his helplessness. The London convey no meaning. "You have had a
physician came and went, and took his great sorrow, and have given way to
fee, and went on die gnosing with pro- grief as if there were no comfort either
foundest science, and tried the last re- in earth or in heaven."
sources of the pharmacopoeia, with an Constance listened with lowered eye-
evidextt conviction that he could min- lids, but a look of attention came into
ister to a mind diseased; but nothing her face presently, which the doctor
came of his science, save that the pa-
tient grew daily weaker, as if fate and
physie wese too mob for one feeble
sufferer to cope withal..
Gilbert Sinclair was told that un-
less a cher)ge came very speedily his
wife must die.
"If We CGDId rouse her from this ape
thetie state," said the physician; "any
shook -any surpeise-especially of a
pleasurable kind -that vecalti act on the
torpid brain might do wonders even
yet; but all ous attempts to interest
her ha.v•e so fax been useless."
Lord Clanyarde was present when this
opinion was pronounced. He went borne
Lull of thought, more deeply concerned
for his daughter than he had ever been
yet for any mortal except himself.
"Poor little Connie I" he thought, re-
membering her in her white frock and
blue sash; "she was always my favor-
ite -the prettiest, the gentlest, the
most high -bred of all my girls, but I
didn't know, she had such a. hold upon
ray heart."
At Marchbrook Lord Clanyarde found
an *unexpected visitor waitepg• for him
perceived.
"Dear Lady. there is always comfort
ID heaven; there is sometimes 001150 -
lotion on earth. Why can you. not
hope for some sudden, unlooked-for
happiness, some great joy such as God
hes sometimes oinen to mourners like
you? Your child was drowned, you
think. What if you were deceived when
you believed in her death 1 What if
she was saved from the river 1 I do
not say that it is so, but you can not
be certain. Who can know for a cer-
tainty that the little one was really
&maned?"
The eyes were wide open now, star-
ing at him wildly.
"What's the old fellow about so long?"
asked Gilbert impatiently.
• "He is talking to her about her ehil "
replied Lord Clanyarde. "He wants 10
make her cry if he can. He's a great
psychologist."
• "Does that mean a great hutiabug?"
asked Gilbert. "It sounds like it
• "Hope and eonfort are coming to
you, dear IVIrs. Sinclair," said ibe Ger-
man deckle; ',be sure. of that."
"But when her mind. orows stronger
ID woulti be a still beaver blow to dis-
cover that she had been deceived."
"She would be better able to bees
the blow when health and strength had
returned, and she Might have fornaed
an.eittaclitilent in the meantime which
would. console her iu the hour of disil-
lusion."
"1 don't understand," faltered Dr.
Webb.
"I'll make myself clearer. A. child
must be brought to Mrs. Sinelair, a.
little girl of obout the age of her own
baby, and she must be persuaded to be-
lieve, now while. ber brain is clouded,
that her own child is given back to her."
"A cruel deception," cried Dr. Webb.
"No; only a desperate remedy. Which
are her friends to do -deceive hey, or let
her die? In her present condition of
mind she will ask no questions, she
will tot speculate upon probabilities.
She will take the 'child to her • breast
as a. gift from heaven.. •A mind dis-
traught is always ready to believe in
the marvelous, to imagine itself the ob-
ject. of supernatural intervention." •
Webrlooked thoughtfulry- and
half convinced. This German physic-
ian, who spoke good English, seemed
to have studied his subject deeply. Dr.
Webb was no psychologist, but he had
seen in the mentally afflicted that very
love of the marvelous which Dr. Hol-
lendorf spoke about. And what
hope had. he of saving his patient? Alas!
none. It would be a cruel thing to
put a spurious child in her arms, to
trifle with a mother's sacred feelings;
but if life and reason could be saved
by this means and no other, surely the
fraud would. be a pious one.
"Mr. Sinclair would. never consent,"
said Dr. Webb.
"Mr. Sinclair must be made to con-
cent. I have already suggested this
step to Lord Clanyarde, and he ap-
proves the idea. He must bring his
mfluence to bear upon Mr. Sinclair, who
appears an indifferent husband, and not
warmly interested in his wife's fate."
"There you wrong him," cried the
faithful Webb. "His manner does not
do him justice. The poor man has been
in a most miserable condition ever
since Mrs. Sinclair's illness assumed an
alarming aspect. Will you make
this suggestion to him -propose our in-
troducing a strange child?"
"I would rather the proposal should
come from Lord. Clanya.rde," answered
the strange doctor, looking at his wateh.
"I must get back to London by the next
train. 1 shall tell Lord Clanyarde my
opinion as he drives nae to the station.
I think I have made my ideas suffic-
iently clear to you, Dr. Webb."
"Quite so, quite so," cried the little
man, whose mother was an Aberdeen
woman. "It is a most extraordinary
thing, Dr. Hollendorf, that although I
have never hed the lacnor of meeting
you before, your verice is leery familiar
to me." •
• "My dear sir, do you suppose that
Nature can give a distinctive voice to
every unit in an overcrowded world?
You might hear my voice in the Fejees
to -morrow. There would. be nothing
extraordinary in that,"
"Of course, of course. An accidental
resemblance," assented Dr. Webb,
• The German would take no fee; he
had come as Lord Clanyarde's friend,
and he (trove away, in Lord Clanyarde's
brougham without any further loss of
time. •
•
To be Continued.)
ORO WEING THE MEN OHT,
WOMEN ARE HAVING THEIR WAY
IN THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD
injurious Fireets Ilion Society tend Civiliza-
tion Caused by Wouteu Entering Ilexes
Spberee of Warn,
• just hew large and operative the in-
flux of women. Luto man's field. of lab-
our is few ooze to 'und.erstand. It, is
perhaps, rather startliug to learn from
the census of Massachusetts that in
1885, out of 394,584 persens engaged he
the great industries, 112,762 were WO -
men.. In the cotton industry alone, out
of 48,178 persons employed, 26,163 are
females. By an offie,a1 report we learn
that in Prussia, in 1867, there were
1,054,213 women working in the fields,
against 2,232,741 men, and the, number
of women bee steadily increased each
year since.
"Lady Dilke, writing in 1891, says: -
"From tlae far north of Scotland, from
the linen mills of Ireland, the same
story reaenes us that comes from the
forges of Staffordshire and tire looms
of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Tile wo-
men, are doing men's work at half pay.
They are driving us from the trades."
The trades union registers tell the same
tale. The Northern Counties Weavers'
Azoocia.tion of Engtend shows that out
of 47,000 members, 26,000 axe women.
The Card and. Blowing Room Amalgara-
aled Association of Manchester, out of
a total membership of 14,000 persons,
shows two-thir4 to be women and.
girls. And. so Ott through most of the
great industriee, with, perimpe, the sin-
gle exception. of tra,nsportation or navi-
gation.
CROWDING MEN OUT.
In, the clerical vozation.s women LUTES
pushed themselves in to the utter dis-
comfitur* . of clerks, copyists, telegraph-
ers, accountants, einem:nen and secre-
taries. It ID in.dispatable that all the
semi-professional vocations are beseiged
by women. This in itself is enough, to
=comet for the falling off in wages.
Tim supply of unskillett or but half
skilled labour is far greater than. the
demand. But there are other reasons
why the wage rate should be decreased,
and. it is to be found in the industrial
notion that women's work in man's field
is not worth as much as a mann. This
raay be a mere prejudice. but n.o amount
of dislargodgetunietn, t has so far bee. a able to
Charles W. Elliot quotes Alr.Brassey,
the great railroad contractor. as saving
that in Germeny woman le worth, ava
labourer against man, 1.60 franes a day. I
the Twin receiving 2 to 3 francs.
Marquis Calle& and a few other
investosators see in what the nomen
have called their " entancipation" some-
thing like a. revolution which is affect.
rng t he race. The enormous increase
in the supply of labourers, the itvasion
of what hest hitherto been. regarded as
masculine employments,the wultireeval
of in much material from the hozne and
educational plane ol life. are deereaein,g
ta birth. .ate in. Aineriea, France aad
England, and depriving the coming geu-
eration ,of male children of those- don-
estic restraints and infuences which
have been the largest factors in con.serv-
mg and developing the affeetional char-
acters of men.
UNSEXES THE SEX.
Walter Besant declared not long ago
in a thoughtful article that the gen-
eral desire of men ett keep women '
the bomee sprang from no selfish or
tyrannical spirit, as was urged by the
champions of emaxicipetion, but from
a broader masculine view of all the
coneequences.
Men, he said, deferred to women as
educators, if not as mothers. The future
of the. race depended on their gentle
authority and protecting guidanoe of
the young. To confer upon teem the
privilege -s of masculinity, for which
they had no function, and se add to
their duties the compulsive and execu-
tive labours of men in the world, for
which they had by nature no taste,
was to strike a deadly blow at the co-
ordinate differences of nature itself and
bring about an effeminized condition
of:ivteilr.
ization, which history showed to
be the precursor of decline and national
4i,s
DEBASING MARRIAGE.
Dr. John S. Billings, in summing up
the results of. the eleventh United
States census, in 19S3 said: "In the
struggle for what is deemed. a desir-
able mode of existence at the present
day, marriage. is being held less desir-
able and its bonds less sacred than they
were forty years ago. Young women
1220 gradually being imbued with the
idea that marriage and motherhood are
not to be their chief objects in life,
or the sole methods of obtaining sub-
sistence; that they should aim at being
as independent as possible of husbands."
Francis M. Abbott in svrtting of Vas-
sar College quotes the late Maria Mit-
chell as saying that "Vassar girls
marry late, but marry- well," but adds,
"Let us hope tbat tine will not disprove
her observations." TvIany graduates,she
says, do not engage in gainful oper-
ations. There are very few cases in
which. the impulse de,rived from the
four years' training does not make itself
felt in 'some form outside the round
of old-fashioned domestic activities.
01 the. twenty-five graduates of Vas-
sar who have taken the degree of M.D.,
most are practicing physicians.
M. Fraucillon, writing over his own
name, has issued a pamphlet which un-
dertakes to show that whenever wo-
man as a sex exerts an undue influence
in the practical affairs of life, marriage
suffers. In plain words M. Frencillon
thinks that womeaa have more freedom
than is good for the race.
THEY ARE NOT SKILLED.
There are at present 75,000 women in
New York city who are earning their
own livings. The influx of women from
all parts of the. country increases every
day. There are 20,000 young igirls,from
eight to fifteen, employed m stores,
shops, and. factories at wages averaging
$2.50 a 'week.
An intelligent woman who recently
investigated this class gave it as her
opinion that the educetion and associ-
ation were extremely ,detrimental to
the best interests of the community.
.A. great many of these young people
grow up with one determination, and
that is to avoid the obligation.4 of sex
seed. the conformities of civilization.
Veey few of them become skilled in
anything. What are called trained.
workeromen are mainly those whose.
work appoetains to their OWII sex -such
as the seanestresses, milliners, modistes.
Tv:elartthisetema, seiervs.ants, book-keepers and
cle
pets in efficiency, reliability or skill
rks never to any extent can corn -
WHL SHE IS INFERIOR.
Charles W. Elliot, in enumerating the
causes of a general inferiority in WO -
man's to man's work, mentions: -First,
indigestion; second, muscular pains;
third., organic irregularityefourth, ner-
vous debility; and states it as a phy-
siological fact, that the catalogue of wo-
man's troubles has increased year by
year with the attempt of woman to en-
ter the tient of 103,11'S labour,
No one who hos observed the sexes
carefully can lieve failed to notice that
a ()helve is taking plat* in the attitude
of nem, with respect to women in the
practical fieltli of work. Mn is slowly
learning to treat women without senti-
ment and only with justice. He doesn't
consider her feelings as carefully as he
did fifty years ago, She stands in the
open witb, the men to get her wages
and the paymaster makes no distinction.
The overseer swears at her a little now
if she fale behind, her male. competi-
tor. The street gallant reads his pa-
per more sedulously and lets her stand
In, the street ear. She goes home froin
her labours without any escort at night.
In. fact, she resents the old-fashioned
chivalry, and is slowly driving* it out
of sight. In literature she has a copious
disdaill, for t-tLes.heclinging woman and the
gentleAru
WHAT MEN THINK OF IT.
11 you. est- the commercial man his
opinion Jae Yell tell you guardedly that
the lady broker is a nausance and the
book peddler a. peril. If you. a.sk the
educator he will refer you to the in-
crease in bad boys, who wreak trains,
assault schcedmistresses and set fire, to
buildings. If you consult the statis-
titian he will come back to the birth
rate. If you go to the politieel ecoace
mist he will finit make you promise tut
to use his wane anti aim tell you that
women are pouring incalculable streams
or unskilled operatives iota the market
alanbod nunsettling all the conditions of
If you oo to the priest be will tell
you that, to view of the industrial sit-
uation, the departure of women from
her old-time duties is a misfortune and
may be in the end, a etereee,
DUCHESS ON AN ENGINE.
London People See a Nebiewoxuan Re-
sponding to an Alsusiti of Fire.
One day week before last the residents
of the South End of London were treat-
ed to the unusual sight of a woman
hanging to a fire engine as it went
down the street et its usual rattling
pate. What made the sight more in-
teresting was the fact that the woman
was a member of the nobility, being
no less a personage than the Duchess
of Albany. She clung to the engine
with the tenacity tend coolnees of a
veteran, and seemed not a bit fright-
ened by the experience.
The Duchees and the Princess Eliza-
beth of Wahleek-Pyrmont visited. the
chief fire station, where they e ere en-
tertainea by the exhibition of the work-
ing of the apparatue. They were green-
ly interested in the fire -escape drill,
and the operation of the water -tower,
which was else attractive.
A. GALLANT SPECTACLE.
Then the firemen turned out to fight
a suppositions fire in a large Imildim;
in the rear of the fire station, lio,c
was stretched, ladders raised to tee
windows, up wilieh tee firemen clam-
bered like monkeys, dragging* the hose
after them; commands wore shouted ,
through the trumpas and. the men act-
ed as they would if they were really at
a conflagration. Several people were
reeeue.1 from the building and carried
down the ladders by the heretic firemen,
and the royet ladies applauded heartily.
Then the ladiee were asked if t hey
would not like to
respended to the call, nem hitched to
"run with nes um
-
chine." They we ea ee.ea tne exper-
iment, and enelarin o Lire was turned
ID
from a near -by sation. The horses
the engine and other apparatus end
then went dashing down the street.
At the last natoneut the Prineess
Elizabeth decided that she did not
want to risk her neck, axil she declined
to mount the engine. But the Duchess
was not to lae frightened, and, she took
her place as the engine started. Down
the street they 'went, the gong clang-
ing and the horses doing their best.
Bystanders turned te look again at the
engine, and when they saw that it wo-
man was among the firemen they set
up a cheer.
After the engine returned to the sta-
tion the Duchess declared that she was
delighted with the experience, but ad-
mitted that she had been badly shaken
while jutting over the pavement. But
she learned what it seemed like to be
a fireman for one trip.
COAT -OF -ARMS FOR THE RACE.
Escutcheon Suggested fOr the English
Speaking People of Mc Whole World.
There is no word that will take the
place of English-speaking at present,
but some day such a word will be coin-
ed. W. T. Stead, the editor of the Re-
vi'sw of Reviews, suggests a. coat -of -
arms for the English race which has
many points of merit.
It shows two flags crossed. One of
them is the Star-Spangled. Banner, the
other the Union Jack. Between them
is a mail steamer with clasped hands
above, and beneath is the motto: "Hands
A.cress the Sea." Mr. Stead says that a
lion and eagle might be added, together
with such symbols as would suggest
India, South Africa and Australia.
• The design was suggested by Lord
Grey, who noticed a semilar design tat-
tooed on the arm of it cabin steward
while on a voyage to Australia. The
titttoeing showed two *Union :Tacks and
the flag of New South Wales, and the
vessel was an old-fashioned sailing ship
instead of a mail steamer.
A. couple or three years ago a melo-
drama was produced in the United
States called "Hands Across the Sea."
One of the posters used to advertise
that play embodied the. idea that forms
the central part of Mr. Stead's design.
It showed the clasped hands over a
wide waste of water on w.hich a vessel
appeared under full sail.
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