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(Continued from Pigt r>-) 7- Mr Walker, Wrexham; Mr and Miss Morris. Llatiarmon; Miss Williams, Llansantifraid 8. Mrs Pritchard- Mr and Ir3 White and family, Bristol 10, Mrs Hunter— I Mrs and Misses Young. Devonshire Ii. Jrs Dawsett- Misses Pearson, Mam-'jesiir; Aliss Dowsett, London j 20, Mrs Townby Jones— Mrs Gough and three children, Miss X Harries, Swansea Vale 22. Mrs W Roberts— Misses Evans an,l Roberts, Bootle FRANK WELL STREET Mrs Daniels- Mr, Mra,*Miss, and Master Simspon, Manchester COLLEGE GREEN Dysynni House, Mrs Evans- Mr Shaw, Manchester Mr Morgan. Mr Deacon, Knighton PLAS EDWARDS Mrs Williams- Mr Hornby and maids, Liverpool; lr, Mrs, Miss, and Mr Hindmarsh. Birmingham Glantywodyn, Mrs Davies- Mr Eels, Birmingham Dr and Mrs Collins, E D Collins and Miss Boucher, Rev R H Edwards, family End maid Glasfor, Mrs Jones Mr and Mrs Hignett and party, Liverpool Mrs Dawning, children and nurse, Wolverhampton Bryn Llewelyn. Mis Wynne Thomas- Misses Caughey, Leamington Miss Rowlands, Mis Hughes, Cardiff; Mr and Mrs Redrobe and family, Oswestry Penyryrfa, Mrs Parry- Miss Jones. Mrs Jones, Mrs Hughes, Miltord Min-y-don, Mrs Morris- Rev T H and Mrs Taylor, Manchester Mr and Mrs Glover, family and maid, Birmingham Frondeg, Mrs Jones— Mra Clark and children, London Mr Jones, Mr Davies, Corris Berwyri House, Mrs Jones- Rev A and Mrs Easter, family and maid, Miss Burton, Miss 'I Easter, Miss Grace Easter, Miss Winnie Ea3ter, Master Easter and maid, Addiscombe, Croydon California, Mrs Williams— Misses Davies. Aberangell Madoc House, Miss A E Roberts— Mrs Ellis and family, Dolgelley Misses K and I Elliott, Liverpool Porthgwyn- Rev R Roberts, Fenrhyntieudraeth Mr Griffiths Llwyngwril No address- Mr, Mrs, and Miss Harrdy, Aneley, London
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BORTH. CAMBRIAN TERRACE A rrr n n i_ ,t, yv ii not)ertg- Mr and Mrs D Lewis Jones, family and nurse, Llyswen 5, Mrs Murphy- Mr and Misses Ilitie, Deiby Nliss Lawson, Huntley, Aberdeenshire 8, Mra Prosser- Mr Jones, Builth 10, Mr John Morris— Mr and Mrs John Morris, family and maid, Welshpool 11. Mrs Williams— Mr and Mrs Crowder, family and nurses, Miss Milward, Edgbaston, Birmingham Captain Milward, London Taliesio House, Mrs Rees- Mrs Robinson and family, Oxford; Mr and Mrs Openshaw, family and nurse, Hale, Altrin- cham; Misses Ibbotson, London Uppingham House, Miss Owen- Mrs Pardoe, Bewdley Mrs Hazeland, do Mrs Scromberg, do Cambrian Hotel, J Hohenberg- Mr Tutton, Mr and Mrs Rocald, Mr and Mrs Ketley, Birmingham Mr and Mrs Rupert Smith, Liverpool; Mr Jones, Llanidhes E J Evans, Aberystwyth Mr Cae, Kent Mr Mander, Wolverhampton G Symor-ds, Bar- mouth; EGGouring, Mr Robertson, Dolgelley CAMBRIAN PLACE 3, Mrs James- Mrs Jones, Mrs Lloyd, Machynlleth Cambrian House, Mrs Hughes- Mr and Mra Lawrence and family, governess, and two mauls, Wolvei hampton HIGH STREEf Lsrry Villa, Mrs Lioyd— Mr and Mrs Tavior and family, Newtoan Neptune House, Jones — -aiiii Iiiii Mr and Mrs Saddler and baby, Birmingham Mrs Porter. Miss Lane, Welsnpooi Pilgrim House, Miss W iiliams- Mr, Mrs, and Miss Bur ford, Birmingham Mrs and Miss Swift. Mr S.:a- :»•»». Manuhest«T PRINCESS STREET Aelydon House, Mrs Junès- Mr and Mrs T M Price and tarniiy, Welshpool York House, Mrs Htights- Mrs and Miss Eilia and maid, Dr and Mrs Charles Cole, Leicester Mr T K Pardoe Snowdon House. Mrs Lewis— Mrs Pogson, family and nurse, Birmingham Diana House, Mrs Davies — Messrs H B Tiernay, G Cneckland Williams, and J L Davies, Mrs and Misses Evans, Mr and Miss Griffiths Shrewsbury Home, Mrs Richards- Mrs Paull and children, Birmingham Bronheulyn, Ili's Jon(,S- Mrs Robinson and tami'.y, Birkenhead Mrs Bennett, Wolverhampton Glenrosa, Mrs Da-ies- Mrs Whittall Mrs Court and family Mrs Thomson, Birmingham Bryngwyn Villa, Mrs Jones- Mr E Davies, London Temperance House. Mrs Enos — Mrs Morris, Pontrobert Gordon Viila, Mrs Jenkins- Mr andjMrs W alker, Shrawsbury Lome Villa, Mr* Hughes — Mr and Mrs Delk Portd. and family, Miss Ward, Shrewsbury Saxatile Hou-te, Misses Evans— Mr and Mr3 Hamer, Manchester Mrs Huner Newtown Nathaniel House, Mrs Davies—' Mr and Mast r Edward Osborne Morgan, Bir- mingham = Carron House, Mrs Jones- Mr and Mrs Chavasse and family Elton House, Mrs Jones- Major, Mrs, and Parry, Taunton Miss Taylor, nurse and maid Penmount, Mrs Thomas— Mr and Mrs J H Tilman, family and nurse, Mrs Tilman, Liscard Moorland House, Mr Williams- Miss Cole, Dr J S Scriven and party, Stourport Grosvenor Villa, Mrs Davie-i- Mr and Mrs Ibbotson, family and maid, Hale, Altrincham Misses Ibbotson, London Mrs France, family and nurse, Colwyn, Os westry Miss Hawks, Welshpool Bardsey View, Mr Hughes- Mr and Mr3 Teakes and family, Great Malvern Scranton House, ylrs Cpt James— Dr and Mrs Arthur Jacksoo, Bearwood, Smeth- wick Miss Sleigh, Chester Mr and Mrs Wilson, family and two malU?, Oxton. Bir- kenhead Mrs Phillips, Leicster
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WOMEN AMD CLOTHES.
WOMEN AMD CLOTHES. THAT clothes are more to women than to men is certain, and for good reasons. Indeed clothes, in a sense, are every- thing to women, and that is why it is so exceedingly difficult for women to make progress in certain directions. Men, as a rule, do not depend on their clothes for position in life, but women do, and therefore a woman will spend on clothes money which a man would save, or spend on pleasure, or invest in business. Women are hampered in their struggle to earn a living bv clothes. Their physical freedom is hindered by clothes. Their position in society is measured to a nicety by clothes. Their settlement in life by marriage is often a mere question of clothes. There is far less variety in men's clothes than in women's, but the avocations of men and their social standing are often pretty plainly indicated by their clothes. There are millions of men who never wear gloves, who never wear tall hats, who never wear white shirts, who never wear frock coats, but for the most part women wear as good clothes as they can get, and it is far more difficult to tell by their dress what station of life a woman of good taste occupies than it is to tell by his clothes what station of life a man of equally good taste occupies. There are men who hang on the fringe of n Z5 society to whom clothes are of the utmost importance. What is true of these hangers-on is true of most women and will remain true of them until they obtain recognised places in busi- nesses, professions, and other occupations. Almost all women believe that is their duty, or to their advantage, to look nice." Most men do not care whether they look nice or not, as they have nothing particular to gain by looking nice. When a great daily paper sets about providing a department for women on one day of the week it devotes that department mainly to pictures of clothes and to descriptions of new fashions It used to be said that the infallible sign of the advanced woman was that she was badly dressed, and one of the most advanced women in the country made- it a point to dress well so that men should not be able to say that all women who wanted to vote for members of Parliament were "dowdy." It is not, we think, realized how the occupations of men have modified their dress, and how already there are signs that the occupations and activities of women are modifying their dress. It is not by dressing like men that roraeu will modify their clothes, but by adapting theni to their new spheres. The nurse has i^dopted a uniform that is being copied m modified forms bv other women. The woman bicyclist, again, is gradually adapting her clothes to that form of exercise. It is not in knicker- bockers that women bicyclists manifest most strikingly the change that has been effected in their clothes, but in the absence of tight corsets, in the re- duction of the number of garments suspended from the hips, and in the adoption of headgear that does not require to be held on if there is a bit of a breeze blowing. Women do not now wear the heels of their boots in the middle of the foot, and their dresses do not sweep the streets as they used to do. There will be changes of fashion in the future as in the past, but those fashions will have always to be controlled by the fact that women bicycle, walk, work, and will no longer consent to be rendered helpless by their clothes as women were rendered helpless forty years ago. One of the changes which has now become almost permanent is the adoption by women of the jacket and skirt. The texture may differ and the cut may vary but the style of dress is practically the same among all classes of women. The activities of men have modified their dress and the activities or women will modify their dress, but the modifica- tions will be slow and very gradual, for they will be permanent-that is, they will not be mere changes of fashion. The Employers' Liability Act may bring about modifications in the dress of mill and factory women. Employers will noc run greater risks than are necessary, and if it is found that the chances of accidents are reduced by modifications in dress, those modifications will be enforced during work hours and, in the end, will be permanently accepted. The woman doctor will not wear rustling silks, and the woman chemist will not wear hanging sleeves. There will come into vogue costumes which will enable women to follow their avocations without discomfort or risk to themselves and without loss or irritation to those for whom they work. Far greater progress has been made in modifying the dress of women than they themselves are aware of, and the process is going on in many direc ZD t5 tions. As women obtain a footing in the skilled handicrafts, they will dress in ways that they find conducive to efficiency, and the time will come when women, like men, will be proud of their crafts and will desire to be identi- fied with them. In examining the causes which tend to keep women down, there can be no doubt that inordinate love of dress is one of those causes. We will not try to set out the reasons why women are fond of dress. They are numerous, and we do not believe that the chief of them is to attract men. Women like to excel each other, and as good clothes unquestionably improve the appearance, they get the very best they can. It would be absurd to pre- tend that the desire to attract men does not count. Men have monopolised the trades and professions and have in their hands the bulk of the wealth of the country. Marriage is the main busi- ness of women, and as long as that remains so women will try to do as well as possible in the marriage market. Still, it must not be forgotten that women when married do not lose their love for dress, or if they do, they are unwise. The most beautiful textures and the most attractive colours are used for the dress of women, and it is quitre reasonable that they should desire to enhance their beauty by the use of beautiful fabrics and colours. We think ] it is probable that the modifications in dress will be more in shape < than in fabric and colour. We should be glad if men's dress were less sombre < and less uniform. All we wish to urge is that women's dress at present tends to handicap her in the struggle for a living, and she is weighted enough by prejudice and custom and law without adding any- thing on her own account by unwisdom in cloches. All we advise is that working women should be willing to modify their dress in any way that would tend to greater safety, to increased efficiency, and to added freedom. There is no need to set custom or public opinion at defiance. All that is necessary is to adopt what is most reasonable and to be willing to stand bravely by the best conditions without shrinking and without shame. There is no subject that women could discuss among themselves with greater advantage than the influence of clothes on their social and economic condition.
THE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION MOVEMKNT.
THE UNIVERSITY EXTEN- SION MOVEMKNT. THE Duke of DEVONSHIRE, Chancellor of Cambridge University, who presided at the second day's conference on University Extension, held last week at the Senate House, Cambridge, delivered a speech which cannot fail to have moulding influence on this important national move- ment. The trend of educational events during the past twenty-five years has been to give increasing importance to the external university work which Cambridge began to do in 1873 and now, in 1898, everybody who gives consideration to the movement realizes that it is to this University Extension Movement that we must look wise for direction in the difficult and important task of guiding, con- solidating, and co-ordinating the various agencies for higher education in the country. Wales is as interested as any other part of the United Kingdom in University Extension Education, and the lessons taught by the recent conference are as needful to be learat in Wales as any- where. In Wales the educational ladder is theoretically complete from the primary school to the intermediate schoo', and from the intermediate school to the university college, and on, finally, to the Welsh and other universities. The need is great, therefore, in Wales for just the sort of guidance that the University Extension Scheme already provides, and that it is felt ought to be provided still more completely if the country is to reap the full practical advantage of all the expenditure and all the agencies devoted to higher education. County Councils will year by year exercise greater influence in welding to- gether the educational agencies in their areas, and there is no way in which this influence can be more easily or more efficiently exercised than by securing the appointment of superintendent lecturers in connection with the University Ex- tension movement, as was over and over again suggested at the conference. How to obtain adequate remuneration for these superintendent lecturers was discussed at Cambridge last week, and some of the more influential speakers urged that the colleges might with great appropriateness and wisdom give fellowships to extension le-turers and by this means not only show the sympathy of the University with the extension movement, but en- able the University to retain a vital and controlling influence over the educational authorities of the country. Another means IY which it is felt that the educational energy of the country could be stimu- lated and consolidated would be by the University of Cambridge bestowing a coveted mark of recognition upon students who have done the necessary amount of work to justify the recognition. A scheme for granting a diploma to extension students has recently failed to obtain the sanction of the University. Dr R. D. ROBERTS, the secretary to the Local Lectures Syndicate, fsels strongly that if the University is not to lose iLS hold of the country something must be done in the direction of recognizing the work accomplished by the students in various centres. As was pointed out at the conference, the University extension work must go on and will go on what ever the universities do or leave undone. It has taken deep root in the country and has become an essential part of the national educational system. The work will certainly go on, but the ancient uni\ersities may lose the power to contiol and influence the movement by simply failing to keep pace with it. This is a most undesirable contingeney, and ought, if possible, to be avoided. The establish- ment of local colleges in several of the large towns has grown directly out of the university extension system, and even where colleges have not been established the educational forces of the localities have been beneficially organized and utilized as they could not have been, utilized except under the authority and prestige of the ancient universities. It is impossible to say how the work which it is felt ought to be done will be undertaken by the universities. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE and the Bishop of BRISTOL made it clear that the University of Cambridge cannot now stand still without disaster to itself and without serious injury to the movement which it is to the lasting credit of Cambridge to have started twenty-five years ago. Every step hitherto taken by Cambridge has resulted in greater efficiency and, although mistakes have been made from time to time, those mistakes have been rectified, and to-day there are all over the country strong connecting links between the people and the universities—links which thirty years ago not only did not exist, but did not seem to be possible. The younger generation of university men are scarcely in a position to realize the dissatisfaction and contempt then felt towards the ancient universities. The country had moved forward com- mercially, educationally, socially, and in- tellectually, while the universities had not only not advanced but had retro- graded. There was danger that Parlia- ment might step in and disendow the uni- versities and otherwise revolutionise them. Now, as was seen last week, the people from hundreds of centres are looking up to the universities for help. Govern- ments are recognizing the external work which the universities are doing, and county councils, urban councils, and other bodies which have possession of educa- tional funds and control of educational institutions look up to tbe universities for advice and help in the work of making the highest educational facilities available tor the humblest citizen who has the mental and other powers necessary to make use of them. We do not think it is necessary to say a great deal to convince our readers that it is of the utmost importance that the universities should be willing and anxious to use their influence and power and resources in the consolidation and development of national education. If one thing came out of last week's conference more clearly than another it was that Cambridge desires to help those who have been placed in authority over education in Lhe country without dictating to them, ] limiting their freedom, or laying down] any hard and fast rules as to methods 1 af procedure. We do not know that 1 we can do better than quote the words of the Duke of DEVONSHIRE, who said It is in training and provid- ing the teachers for this great and difficult work (university extension: teaching) of adult popular education that the universities are rendering one of their highest services to the country. By equipping and sending out these "intellectual missionaries, men of high purpose and of high culture they are really guiding a national movement. Let us not imagine that great educa- tional enterprises realize themselves mechanically—that the merely fortuitous combinations of county councils or other public authorities will suffice to spcureaJI that is wanted in the training of citizens for citizenship. What is really indispensable is leadership and it is one of the highest duties of the universities to train and to send forth such men, to give them moral "support in their difficult labours, and to attach to their enterprise the weight of academic prestige." The foregoing words are words that cannot fail to mark an epoch in the history of the univer- sity extension movement.
ON THEIR BEHALF.
ON THEIR BEHALF. IN the Town Council meeting at Aber- ystwyth, last week, Mr PETER JONES said that an able, temperate, and timely letter written by Mrs ELIZABETH JAMES in reference to the treatment accorded to the donkeys on the Terrace was in- consistent and that she charged the Council with being incompetent. We bow, of course, to Mr PETER JONES'S literary judgment, but as a matter of fact, however incompetent the Council may be, Mrs JAMES did not accuse the Council of incompetence, and it says something for the majority of the Coun- cil that Mr PETER JONES'S desire to treat Mrs JAMES with contempt was not supported. With all du3 deference to another literary critic, Mr C. M. WILLIAMS, those who know anything about liter- ature will not agrpe with him that the letter was not well expressed. One thing is certain, namely, that Mrs JAMES could easily give Mr PETER JONES and Mr C. M. WILLIAMS points and beat the pair of them at literary composition. It is a thankless office that Mrs JAMES holds, and she discharges it3 unpleasant but humane duties with rarB courage and most praiseworthy persistence. And now as to the facts. The donkeys on the Terrace have unquestionably been treated in shameful ways. They have always borne the evidences of their ill-treatment. There is also a good deal of cruelty to animals in the town and district, and, notwithstanding official reluctance, something must be done to bring about a better state of things. We offer no apology for dealing with this subject in our leading columns. Religion that does not take cognizance of the suffer- ings of the brute creation is not worthy of the name, and humanity that can wit- ness unmoved the sufferings of what are called the lower animals is lacking in some of its main essentials. The case that Mrs JAMES put before the Town Council set up the back of Mr PETER JONES who, in our opinion, owes Mrs JAMES an apology for stating twice over that her letter accused the Council of incompetence seeing that it does nothing of the sort. We believe that as far as the Council are concerned there is unwillingness to deal with cruelty to animals as it ought to be dealt with. Whether Mr PETER JONES likes it or not, he may take it for granted that there will be no cessation of the etiorts made, and rightly made, to obtain better treat- ment for those creatures who cannot plead on their own behalf. We have read Mrs JAMES'S letter over several times and we fail to see the alleged charge of incompetence. It is important that a man like Mr PETER JONES, who has received every honour which the com- munity can confer upon him, should at least be fair towards those who dis- charge public duties quite as important and quite as honourable as the duties he himself discharges. We ask nothing for Mrs JAMES on the ground that she is a woman, but we do say that she is entitled to common courtesy and to fair dealing even though she is a woman and is not afraid to deal with persons who loom much larger in their own estimation than in the estimation of those who know them belter than they seem to know themselves. For many years there has been a dullness of intellect as regards cruelty to' animals in Aberystwyth. Who has not seen fowls with their legs tied flapping their wings on the dusty ground Who has not seen horses in a state that would be discreditable even in Italy 1 It is considered, we know, to be a sign of mental weakness to object to cruelty to animals, and the petulance of Mr PETER JONES at the last Council meeting may have the effect of persuading the less thoughtful that Mrs JAMES had written a letter which ought not to have bfen written in reference to a subject that did not require noticp. Her letter was necessary. It was well expressed. It did not accuse the Council of in- competence, and the subject demands attention and will not cease to receive attention until public opinion in the town is more sensitive than at present in reference to the treatment of animals. Mrs JAMES is quite competent to defend herself in any fair encounter, but we consider that Mr PETER JONES used his privilege of position in a way that was not fair, inasmuch as he said she had made an accusation in her letter which we fail to find in it. We think that the rate payers have a perfect right to address a 1 letter to the Town Council, and that any letters received should be treated with respect when they deal with important subjects and are written by officials who gratuitously discharge important public duties. What passed at the Council meeting last week renders it imperative that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals should see that the work at Aberystwyth does not suffer either from the apathy of public bodies, or the petulance of hyper-ensitive town councillors who saw in Mrs JAMES'S letter what we fail to find in it. In our correspondence columns Mrs JAMES deals with Mr PETER JONES, and she is well able to defend herself. The pity is that she should have occasion to defend her- self, seeing the sort of work she is engaged in.
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EDITORIAL NOTES. A correspondent calls attention in another column to the practice pursued by the Aberyst wyth Bench of Magistrates of inflicting small fines ranging from one shilling to half a crown including costs in cases brought before them. This means that the iatepayer3 are called upon to pay the deficiency between the fine and the costs which in a case of street obstruction tried last week amounted to three shillings. Aber- ystwyth magistrates are—well, best understood by those who know them best. It is quite time action were taken to alter the present practice which is nnfair to the ratepayers of the town. It seems probable after all that private enter- arise will accomplish at Dolgelley what the local governing body has been fruitlessly talking ibout for year?. If Mr GHIDLAW ROBERTS builds thirty-two workmen's cottiges at Dol- gelley he will render the town a great service and ] make the lives of the poor more bearable. We hops every ftciiity will be given to Mr RUBEIITS by the Urban District Council. As long as the poor are compelled to herd together like swine II in hovels and dens it is useless trying to battle with the evils of insanitation, drink, and im- morality. < The British Medical Journal in the course of an article published a day or two ago dealing with the COLLINS' abortion case said: "A glanse at some religious newspapers and many of the newspapers taken in by the poorer classes will reveal columns filled with adver- tisements of medicine warranted to cure female irregularities." This is only too true. We have called attention scores of times in these columns to the filthy advertisements printed by so-called Christian and religious newspapers. We refuse every year scores of pounds worth of these and money lending advertisements which as a rule are well paid for. 4- If the ratepayers of Towyn and their repre- sentatives on the Urban District Council were half as anxious to do something for themselves as they are that somebody else should do some- thing for them, it would be better for all con- cerned and progress in many directions would be made easier. The cheese-paring and waiting policies adopted by local governing bodies are sad to see. Towyn has much to be thankful for to Mr JOHN CORBKTT, whose help has never been appealed for in vain and whose munificence with reference to the Intermediate School, the Market Hall, the Esplanade, and other works and institutions in the town has been of the most princely description. If Towyn had done for itself a small part of what Mr CORBETT has already done for it, its claims to the position of a first-class wateiing place would have been made more widely known. • The CHAPLAIN of the Gordon Boys' Home at Chobbarr, Surrey, has just received a letter from General GATACRE, in the Soudan, in which he expresses his interest in the Gordon Boys, and says Should we advance, I shall make a point of seeing that those Gordon Boys who may be in my command at the time shall get early into Khartoum—it is impossible to say "first, because most of them are bandsmen or drummers, and if we have to take the place some bayonets must go first. I will watch fresh arrivals." Of course the bayonets must go first because the object is, as Lord CHARLES BERESFORD said last week, to get the bayonets into the enemy as soon as possible. The CHAPLAIN of the Gordon Boys' Home is anxious that Gordon Boys should be early killers of the enemy in the Soudan and he is to have his wish gratified. 0, we are a godly pscple The discussion which took place on Monday night at a meeting of the Public Works Com- mittee of Aberystwyth Town Council with refer- ence to the manufacture of ice-cream is a good example of the way important matters are treated by officials. The questions put to them were fenced with in all sorts of ways and it was oiily with difficulty the assurance was obtained from the INSPECTOR that if it came to his knowledge that there was anything wrong, he would take the matter up at once. During the past few weeks several inquests have been held touching the deaths of children who have died through eating ice creams which are pronounced by the medical men to be really dangerous to eat. WTe hope this matter will be carefully followed up and that the Corporation officials will try to realise that knowledge comes to those who seek for ir. The SURVEYOR has too much uork to do and he is not to blame for not doing it. One of the lessons tbat" ate ring places in this district would be wise to learn is that if they are to succeed and hold their own with other pUiccs they miut be constantly adding to their attractions and making etlcrts to bring their places up to date, Visitors to Towyn object to walking along muddy and dusty roads. They expect footpaths to be provided for them. They do not expect to have to grope their ways on dark nights along the roads because the public lighting is deficient. They expect to find at watering places where they go for pleasure and health all the comforts they possess at home. At a meet ing of Towyn Urban District Council held on Friday, the matter of electric lighting was. dis- cussed. It was said that a scheme for lighting both Towyn and Aberdovey by electricity could be carried out for a sum of six thousand pounds. This is a matter which should be considered very carefully. The present lighting of Towyn is far from satisfactory. We have never doubted the ability of women to take part in the transaction of public business and to carry out the duties devolving upon them with thoroughness and grip equal to men. Penrhyndeudraeth Board of Guardians has three women members who have done good woik in adjusting ancient abuses and putting a stop to practices fraught with evil consequences to bjth the poor and ratepayers g- nsrally. At a meet- ting of the held 0:1 Tuesday, during a discussion on finance, Mr CADWALADR ROBERTS, Festiniog, referring to visits of the Visiting Committee, said "The Committee did not do its work. It was only Mrs CASSON who paid any attention to the work." There are men all over the country who get themselves elected to public positions, but do not trouble themselves about the duties and responsibilities which devolve upon them. These are the men who object to women like Mrs CASSON taking part in the work of public bodies. Penrhyndeudraeth Board of Guardians is cleaner and more efficient by the presence of its women guardians who take a real interest in the work. The penny wise and pound foolish policy of public bodies in paying their officials and work- men wages which mean little lea than star vation is quite familiar to those persons who take an interest in the transaction of public husiness. Those bodies which have to do with the repair :1nd maintenance of roads are the wor&t sinners in this respect. At a meeting of Aberystwyth Rural District Council on Monday the follow- ing discussion on the employment of workmen, took place and will be interesting to those who He ia the know :— Mr RICHARD JENKINS moved that the road labourers be employed at day work three days only per week during the summer month3. Mr JENKINS said he noticed that day month that most of the men had been working by the day in three or four dis- tricts cutting stones. He could not see what they had to do on the roads at that I time of the year. Of course they could cut stones for the winter, but he should like to know what they had to do besides. In his opinion ithey had nothing to do. The men could get plenty of other work now from the farmers.—The CHAIRMAN Your con- tention is that thp men have nothing to do except on three days during the week.—Mr JENKINS said he would give them three days a week to cut stones ready for winter.—The CHAIRMAN suggested that this matter he also deferred. The .surveyors could make a statement in the meantime as to the work that was done. Mr E. J. EVANS proposed that the matter be postponed until the next meeting and that the surveyors bring in a statement as to the state of the road and the work required to be done. He found that there were some of the men at pre- sent cutting stones by the day. That should not be. The surveyors should also give them an estimate of the quantity of stones required for the winter.—The pro- position was agreed to and the Council rose. The suggestion of Mr JENKINS that the road- men who are already miseiably paid should only be given three days work a week and that they should work fcr farmers for the other three davs leayes nothiDg to be desired and savours of the time when ex-officio guardians made up the wages of the poor people who worked for them out of the pockets of the ratepayers by means of grants of money in the form of relief. At a meeting of Towyn Urban District Council held on Friday last, the CARETAKER of the Market Hall said he had received numerous applications for stalls at the Market Hall. It was stated that the Hall had not been com- pleted. Mr MAETHLON JAMES said he was sick and tired ot the business. They were now in the middle of the season and it was ttill nn- finished. Mr MORGAN, the contractor, was sent for and promised thai the Hall would be ready to be opened by Wednesday. This is the sort of thing that is quite common. There teems to be no system by which works are carried out final completion. There is one question we should also like to ask. Will the approaches to the Hall be completed or left in their present half finished state? The Town Council of Aberystwyth just at present is very particular about stables, however well they may be kept, and an effort is being. made to do away with all the stables in Portland- lane with the exesption of those just below Terrace-road lately rebuilt by the Corporation. On Wednesday night North-parade, which is one of the finest streets in the town, was in a disgraceful state. Heaps of manure lay all over the road and the smell was almost unbearable. This is due to the fact that the street is used as a carriage stand. Why carriages which could not be tolerated in Bath-street should be allowed to disfigure one of the principal streets of the town is hard to understand. The whole matter of hackney carriages is quite out of hand. Touting is carried on in the very teeth of the police and Corporation officials, but nothing is done. Owing to the noise made by the drivers, the manure and stench, life in North-parade is made almost unbearable. The proper place for hackney carriages, whose number is out of all proportion to the need for them, is on the road adjoining the Station. The Town Council will, it is to be hoped, see that the finest street the town possessss is not kept worse than the worst stable in the town. The following letter, which appeared in the London Standard last week, will be of interest to public bodies in this district, which sooner than spend a few pounds in rates, allow the natives to drink liquid sewage and force visitors to do the same often at the risk of their health and not seldom at the cost of their lives As many of your readers are going into the country at this time of the year, I am sure you would confer a great bene- fit and perhaps save some valuable lives, if some of our great scientific men would give us, through your columns, a simple test for ascertaining the presence of sew- age in drinking water. In three country houses to my knowledge, supplied with every sanitary improvement and abundance (. of water, illness has broken out, and in all three cases it has since been found that a connection existed in some round- about way between the cesspool and the well. People do not keep on having the well analysed it is expensive and incon- venient; but surely some simple test, such as putting a few drops of something into a tumbler of water, must exist which would be sufficient as a danger signal for ordinary people. I lost a dear friend not long ago from typhoid fever and I was ill myself from the same cause for several months a simple test might have warned us of our danger. This correspondent asks for a test by which sew- age can be detected and takes it for granted that where water supplies were known to be contaminated, action would be taken at once to remedy the defect. Nothing of the sort. Dolgelley Rural District Council has known for years that Dytfryn and Llwyngwril water sup- plies were little better than filthy sewers, but nothing has been done. There are people everywhere who will oppose reform tooth and nail which proposes to touch their pockets, however slightly. These are also the people who gladly benefit by the labours of others a d take every advantage of improve- ments towards which they have contributed nothina. On Thursday of last week an inquiry was held at Dolgelley by a committee appointed by Merioneth County Council into the applica- tion of the Urban District Council of Dolgelley for an order to extend the district. Ti,e appli- cation was oppose."] by tlwRural Dhtrict Council of Dolgelley and owners of property which will be a tfected. The case put by the clerk, Mr W. R. UAVIKS, in support of the extension is one that shows how unjust the existing arrangement is to the present ratepayers of the Urban District. We tane his statement which was not questioned with reference to sewerage, to the following effect The sewers ware laid down in the main strsefcs with branches in other streets and the sewage "was discharged into the river Mawddacb. "From time to time, he continued, houses had H sprung up on the immediate borders of the nrbin "district. For instance, there was the Cambrian 11 Brewery which discharged its sewage into the local sewers. That sewer, which was but "a small one, served for the purpose of the board schools, the Union Workhouse, a dwelling-house, and the new County Intr. mediate School for boys. All these places had "been constructed outside the liuiis of tie di*- "trict, but they discharged the whole of their "savage into the local sev\er», which were never '•laid down for that purpose. He might say at "once that the existing provision for persons "riding out -ide the urb sn district wi3 not "satisfactory for two reasons. The capacity of n the ECv'.ers was inadequate and the point of discharge was not satisfactory "It was desirable that there should be a larger "provision for the disposal of sewage. The "drains of the Sta'ion itself discharged directly "into the river. The same reasons applied to "the National School district, where stood the Rectory ann Frondirion-terrace. There were also houses in Tynycoed-road and a series of "dwellings had been erected by Mr Richard "Richards and Mr Jones a few yards outside "the district. All these houses derived all the advantages within the district in the matter "of sewerage, lighting, maintenance of roads, and yet contributed nothing to the rating.' This latter point is one which should be borne in mind. The property owueis who opposed the application on Thursday said nothing about the advantages they derive from the proximity of their property to the town of Dolgelley. Of one thing there can be no doubt. The present drainage system is inadequate and an enlarged system will have to be proceeded with to which those persons who live just outside the district should contribute. The evidence in favour of the exten- sion of the district was conclusive. The matter is of vital impor:ance to Dolgelley and the sur- rounding district, and there is more at stake th an the few shillings in rates which the pro- perty owners are so afraid of parting with.
PENRHYNDEUDRAETH.
PENRHYNDEUDRAETH. BOARD OF GUARDIANS, TUESDAY, JULY 12TH. —Present: Mr J. Jones. J.P., chairman; Mr ( Owen Jones, vice-chairman Mrs Casson, Port- madoc Mrs Morris Messrs A. B. Jones, Cidvvaladr Roberts, John Thomas, Wm. Powell,' Festiniog J. P. Robots. Penrhyn Thos.Davifs, Talsarnau R. O. Williams, Cam J R. Owen, Gam E. Jones, Glaslyn Ellis Roberts, Trefiyx; ( Morgan Jones, Portmadoc; A. ,Jones, Llanfrothen the Rev E. B. Thomas, Robert; Richards, Llanfair; Messrs Thoms Robeits, D. G. Jones, master, the relieving officers, and Dr R. Roberts, medical officer. J Boarding-out of Children.—Mrs Casson stated that she had seen two persons who wished to I receive two children from the House. The people Wfre respectable and clran.—It was decided to allow the children to go, Mr Cadwaladr Roberts remarking that the Board ought to be thankful to ( Mrs Casson for the interest she took in the children. Alleged Neglect of Children.—The Mas'er rpported that two children of Johu Jones, Ponmadoc, w brought to the House in a very filthy state. Mr Cadwaladr Robetts asked if proceedings were to b tsken against the father for Ileglt-Jtiog his chiHren? If the police did not, he proposed that the Board should do so.—It was stited that prceeediug9 were being taken,—Mrs Casson said the man had pro- mised to pay seven shillings a week towards the maintenance of the children. -It was decided to take btep3 to make him do so. 1 Jit Boarding out oj Clerk stated that 115 had received replies from several unious to the' lcvterd sent by the Board asking whether they would accept, an(1 upon what terms, paupers from the Hcnso during tne period the Hous" was under- going alterations.—The Carnarvon Union wrote stating that they had nc accommodation for im- beciles. They were willing to take ten paupers [able-bodied) for five shillings a week. They re- quested that a description of the paupers proposed to be sent there should be forwarded.—The Llan- rwst Union asked for what period the accommoda- tion was likely to be required.—The Bangor Union offered to take ten able-bodied men at the rate of five shillings each ppr week.—The Clerk said he had written to Mr Bircbam asking him to L1se 'lis influence with the unions. Mr Bircham wrote stating thac the union with the largest amount of room was Carnarvon a-nd said le had written to the Clerk.— Mr Cadwaladr Roberts asked whether the Board could not do without sending any away and thus save a lot of expense V That day the Master reported the discharge of several paupers and he believed others could leave again. He also thought they could get people in the district to take some of the paupers for a time.—The Chairman suggested that the relieving^officers should make enquiries. Mr Cadwaladr Roberts said he proposed this and it was understood that the proposition was passed. Mrs Casson said the Visiting Committee went care- fully through the list cf inmates and noted each one individually. They came to the conclusion, after doing this, that there were only three in- mates that they could rightly recommend to the Guardians as tit to be discharged. All the other inmates they had were there more or less through drunkenness. Consequently if the Board let these people out. the place would be inundated with a flood of drunken men. The money of the rate- payers would be spent in drink. Most of those people came there in a perfectly destitute state and when they went out sometimes, as the Master could ten them. they came back in a disgraceful state. If they were let out the money of hard working people would be spent in drink and the district would be disgraced, whereas if they were kept in the Workhouse they would know that the money was fpent in keeping them in as clean and tidy a state as possible.— Mr Cadwaladr Roberts said one of the paupers re- ferred to by Mrs Casson had left without their sanction.—Mr John Thomas said these paupers would not receive money from the Board them- selves.—The Chairman But other people will give them drink and they become a nuisance.—The matter was then allowed to drop, no further resolu- tion being passed. Finance.—Mr Cadwaladr Roberts made a remark as to the charges for various articles supplied to the union which he said were too high. He thought the Finance Committee should be very careful in examining tl.e bills. — The Vice-chairman, who is the chairman of the Finance Committee, protested against the remark of Mr Roberta and said he should at L ast wait until the report of the Com- mittee wiifj presented. For one thing the Finance Committee were not at liberty to do what they liked in reference to the bills, as some of them were for articles ordered by the Visiting Committee, of which Mr Roberts was a member. He did not know how often Mr Roberts attended the meetings of that Committee.—Mr Roberts said he was very thankful to Mr Owen Jones. As to the Visiting Committee, he had often said there that that Com- mittee did not do its work. It was only Mra Casson who paid any attention to the work.—Mr Owen Jones brought up the report of the Committee which included the statement of accounts for the half-year. The total cost of indoor maintenance of paupers for the half- year was £461 68 9d as compared with £450 ISs 7d for the corresponding period. The incidental ex- penses amounted to JE84 as compared with £ 6313s0d. The total indoor expenses amounted to JE654 ]4s 5d; less receipts, JE483 4s 4d as against £439 6s 7id. The increase was accounted for by the fact that very little clothing was brought to the House dur- ing the corresponding half year, The weekly average of indoor maintenance was 4s 9d per head as compared with 4s Id the corresponding period. There was a decrease in the amount of out-relief for the whole district, the total being £2,890 98 5d as compared with £3.135 Is lOd. This meant an amount for each person of £2 10s 9d as compared with jE2 7s 2td. Thus they paid 3s 7d more per head than the corresponding half year. The amount per week was 2s Od against Is lOf d. Mr Jones proposed the adoption of the statement, which wculd ther'bepriutedand a copy be supplied each member. He hoped they would make good use of them and reflect upon the figures. He thought they were indebted to the Clerk and his assistant, Mr David Jones, for the trouble they had taken in that matter and the clear intelligent way in which the accounts had been compiled —The Chairman seconded the adoption of the report and said the Board had also to thank Mr Owen Jones for the trouble he had taken in connection with that matter.—The report was adopted. School Attendance at Travifynydd.—The Rev E. B. Thomas brought up the report of the Attend- ance Committee. A vacancy having been created by the death of Mr Meirion Roberts, attendance officer, Trawsfynydd, the Committee had before th-'m the question of appointing one to take the place. Subject to the Board's approval, they had appointed Mr J. Stoddart to take charge of this district in addition to the district he alrrady had charge of at a salary of JC12 a year. They had made it a condition that the new officer should visit Trawsfynydd once a fortnight and stop one evening there so that he might go thoroughly into the wrrk. He was scrry to say that they had received a letter from Mr Darlington, her Majesty's inspec- tor of schools, stating that the attendance was deplorable. This was in spits of the fact that it was a voluntary school aid that everything, even to a pencil, was supplied free. The ratio of the actual number in attendance to the numbers on the book was from sixty to sixty-five per cent. One question which Mr Darlington asked was how many times the Committee had prosecuted the offenders bcfr.re the magistrates during the last; six months. Of course they had to reply that they had summoned none at all. They, however, hs.d now a prosecution pending which he hoped would be the means of staving (fl Mr Darlington's threat to do what he was bound hy duty to do, viz., bring their ease be- fore the Education Djp:>r'ment. They had IhW decided to reply that they had woke up to their sense of duty—(laughter and h:ar, hear)—and that they were gointi to mend their ways.—Mr Owen Jones: I propose that we accept the sermon of repentance. (Laughter.)—The report was adopted. Puwzor Tn Nurxing Association.—A letter was read from Mrs Greaves, Portmadoc, stating that a nursing association, to be called the Penmorfa Nareing Association, was being tanned and ?sking that the Board should subscribe so that the paupers might receive the benefit of At'f-ndauce by the nurse.—Mrs Carson, Mr Elh; Roberts, M r Cadr. Roberts, and others spoke in favour of supporting the institution and a subscription of £5 was pro- posed, but it was pointed out that the Board could not pass a resolution on the matter as no notice had been given.—Mrs Casson gave notice that she would bring the matter forward at the next meeting. Clerk of the Worl;x.—The recommendation of the Visiting Committee to appoint Mr J. Martin, Man- chester, as clerk of the works for the alterations at the House at a salary of three pounds a week, was adopted.
NAN TC WNLLE (CAR.).
NAN TC WNLLE (CAR.). SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIO.V.—The triennial election of this Board was due in June. Seven candidates were nominated for the five seats. The contest took place on Friday" ith the following result. Mr Jenkin Lloyd, returning officer, presided, and Mr Morgan Morgans, master, acted as poll clerk. The asterisk denotes old members :—*Thomas Edwards, Crynfryn (M. and L ), 159 Jenkin Howells, Hafod (C. rnd C.), 139; David Davies, Brythyfryd (M. and L ), 134; David Davies, Talvan (M. and L.), 122; Thomas Jones, Bryn- eoleu (M. and C'.), 112; .i'oiifs, F.ongoch (M. and 1.), 103 John Davies, Pistyll(M, audL.), :;6.
LLANON:
LLANON: DAY DAJRY SCHOOL, — A day dairy school has been carried on in the village during the last four weeks. It was well supported by the farmers of the district, there being twenty-four young worn n students. The course of tuition ended on Friday when the students were examined by Mr T. Parry, U C. W. Mr T. Parry complimented them for the way they answered the questions. The members of the Committee who had the arrange- ments in hand were Miss Williams, Glynperis, Captain J. Davies, Mr Owen Davies. Mr Hnghes, Maesgrogu. Votes of thanks to Mr T. Parry ind Miss Thomas, the iustructress, were unani- mously passed on the proposition of Mr T. Lloyd, 'cconded by Miss Jones, Roseiand.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES,…
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES, ABERYSTWYTH. Mr D. R. Harris, B.A., has been appointed by the Council of the University College of Wale., Aber- stwyth, to the post of assistaut normal master and assistant lecturer in education out of thirty-four jandidaten. Mr Harris having served for six years is pupil tcachev and assistant master at the St David's National Schools, Merthyr Tydfil, entered Borough Read Training College, gaining the ex- aibitiou offered to the highest VVelsh candidate, entering the College on the Queen's scholarship list. He obtained a tirat-cfass both examinations for the certificate 0" t .e Education Department, and m the completion of lug training he entered the University College of Wales. Abrytwyth, where le gained on entry the Principal's scHolarshiD of £40. and in due course graduated B.A. in the Uni- versity of London with distinction in Euglish. After some fcr her stiulv, Mr Harris was appointed assistant teacher in education in the University [/ollegi cf Ni rtii Wales Bangor which position he Blltd ior two y' an. gaining hignett commenda- tion of the nutlu of flif Coll ge. In October, 1SS0, he enured St John's College. Cambridge, and in June, ISfJS, graduated in the IJniversiry as an idvauced (po-t graduate) student. During his oour.-e at Cambridge he devoted himself to special work "in advanced psychology as well as tiking the tripos ocurst.s in ethic-, metaphysics, and logic. Printed ami Published bv J. &'J. Gibscn, Camlrian Neus Office. Aberv&twyth Tu.sday, July