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I The Man Who Does IS THE FELLOW WHO ATTRACTS LADIESj Lord Montagu of Beaulieu has some inte- resting comments to make on fair ladies who elope with chauffeurs in an article in the Car." He asks if there is nothing more than an ordinary masculine attraction for the feminine mind in a smart-looking motorman. —a skilled driver, gifted with a good manner, deferential yet independent, and well educated also, as often happens now—and supplies the answer: "I think there is." Just as the fair sex on a liner say of the captain: 'Wbat a dear" (adds the writer), and often wish they were Mrs. Captain, and just as the most feminine of them adore the actor, the einger, or the author, so women in general love a man of action who does things, control things, and could control them; too, if the occasion arose. "The sense of being absolutely dependent upon the man at the wheel has a peculiar fascination and results in the sense of taust, broadening sometimes into senses of other things. And, looking back, this attraction towards the driver or guider of moving vehicles or ships is very old. A hundred years it was the most interesting form of tittle-tattle and gossip to d-isouss how So-an-so's stud groom or horseman had run away with the heiress, or proposed to a ward of court. The seven- teenth and eighteenth century histories and plays are full of allusions to such events. Perhaps Jehu, who drove furiously to the common danger, was a charmer in his time. At any rate, there is no doubt that rapid motion has a distinct effect upon the human mind. "Sometimes it induces sleepiness, some- times thought, sometimes affection for the srod, or maybe goddess, controlling the car, but it is certain that no human person remains quite uninfluenced or normal in a good oa.r by the side of a good driver, and in congenial company, to which, if you add pic- turesque scenery the picture and the sensa- tions should be complete.

For Women Folk. I HOMELY HINTS AND DAINTY DISHES f Wooden tubs which are not in daily use should have a little cold water left in them. If allowed to dry they will crack and fall to pieces. Soap jelly for washing flannels and fine woollen goods is easily made. Shred a piece of yellow soap into a saucepan of warm water and let it simmer by the aide of the fire till dissolved. Add sufficient of this to warm water to make a Thioo lather. If too strong the flannels will be hard. A smlil enamel funnel is a cook's valuable friend. For instance, put the funnel into a. pan of milk. There is no fear of the con- tents boiling or when yoa are busy doing other things. The milk rises up the funnel tmbe and falls back into the pan again, saving waste of milk and also that horrid i smell that penetrates all over the house. To Clean Patent Leather Boots I First remove all the dirt upon them with a sponge or flannel, then rub over the boots or shoes a paste consisting of two spoonfuls of cream and one of linseed oil, both of which require warming before being mixed. Polish with a. soft rag. Buttered Eggs, Cerman Fashion I Out a slice from a. large tin loaf, toast it, cut off the crust, butter it thickly, cut into four; put loz. of burtter in the frying-pan, melt it; have ready two well-beaten eggs, season with salt, pepper, and a. teaspoonful each of minced shalot (or onion) and capers, add to the btltter. Stir till the eggs are yellow and set, pnt on the squares of toast, and send to taoble at onoe. A Good Ribbon Cake I Beat 5oz. of sugar with Jib. of butter to a cream. Then add three eggs, 5oz. of flour, ard one teaspoon ful of baking powder. Divide the mixture into three equal parts, colour one with cochineal, one with choco- late grated, and leave one its natural oolour. Bake in flat tins the saame size; when cold arrange with jam between; sprinkle top with castor sugar and cut in slices. Thda makes a pretty dish for children's parties. Haricot Curry I Take some large haricot beans. set in cold water to soak overnight, and rub off the skins. Fry an onion and two apples pared and cored in a little fresh butter. Brown and be careful not to burn, and then add the haricots with a little grated cocoanoit end some of the milk. Add also enough water to cover the beans, a dessertspoonful Off castor sugar, and the same quantity of good mild curry powder. Oook very slowly until the beans are soft; sfrim and add the juice of half a lemon and a little thickening. Serve with a border of rioe. Garnish with ahop-p-ed capers.

Passing Pleasantries. I ■ — 11 1 Barber; like your parting oa the side, sir? Patron: Well, if yoa have no objection, I'd rather have it on my head. "What is the matter with your wife? I see she's got her hand in a sling." "Reckless driving." "Horse ?" "No, nail." "Mir. Grimes," mod the preacher to the vestryman, "we bad better take up the col- lection before the sermon this morning." "Indeed?" "Yes; I'm godng to preach on the subject of economy." "Won't you take this seoa?" said the gentleman in the car, rising and lifting his hat. "No, thank you," said the girl with skates over her,arm; "I've been roller-skating, and I'm tired of sitting down." Six-year-old Ruth was very unhappy because one of her many wants had been denied. Her papa was giving her a lecture, and said: "You have everything that most little girls have, and I don't think there is another little girl in town has more than you." "Oh. yes," said Ruth, "Alice has." "Wha.t has she that you have not?" said papa. v p I guess she had a ride to her grandma's funeral." Gentleman (to dog dealer): I grave yon a high price for this dog because you war- ranted it to be a good house dog. My bouse was broken into last night, and the dog never even backed. Dog Dealer: No, sir, I quite believes yar. He was too busy lookin' for the burglars, so as to be able to identify 'em, to evaa think of barkin'. If you was out with this ere dog, and was to meet 'em burglars, he'd know 'em in a minute. He ain't no common barkin' dog; he's a. regular 'tective, an' worth 'is weight in gold, he ie. The traveiMnsr conjurer had been making things appear and disappear, and turning hats into rabbits worth great dexterity at his favourite pitch. But things were s-Lfwik. Money was scarce. After going round with his hat he counted out the magnificent total of three halfpence, so he thought the next thing to do was to djeappear himself. As he was moving away, eyed by the poMceman and some urchins, one of the latter, who did not love the constable, aried out: "HL conjurer, how muoh ave you got?" "Only three halfpence," answered the man, Bazin.gr ruefully into the depths of his bat. "Weil, giw'nor," replied the youngster, "I'll make it twopence, if yer'll torn that there policeman into a hacid drop."

ROWING BOAT RACES LINER I An exciting chase of an Atlamtic liner by a rowing boat took place yesterday at Queens town. A married couple who had engaged berths on the Cunard iner Ivernia reached the quay long after the passenger tender had left. The liner was just moving out on her voyage to Boston, but it was sug- gested that a fast rowing boat might catch her. Considerable risk was involved in the venture, for a stiff wind was blowing, a-nd there was a heavy sea. Nothing daunted, the couple offered a handsome sum to five stalwart boatmen, and in a few minutes they were racing from the shore. Crowds of people anxiously watched the dangerous attempt. Sea after sea broke over the boat, drenching the passengers and boatmen, but still they held on their way. At length the officers of the Ivernia saw them, and slackened speed until the boat came along- side. As the couple climbed on board the liner they were loudly cheered by the pa&- sengers assembled on the decks.

JIST LOOK AT THEIR HEIDS." I A Scotch gentleman lately paid a visit to a neighbouring farmer who was about flit- ting, to buy one of the horses, and, after in- specting the stock, the gentleman half settled on one, but while admiring his build and other good points said be did not like his head. "Weel," said the farmer, "I don't see muckle wrang wi' it forbye bein' jist a wee queer about tbe heid; but, man, that's naething. Just look at Gladstone an' Salis- bury. an' that three-acres-and-a-coo chap; tbeySre a' guid men, and yet jist look at their beidø t"

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I The Marriage Ban. I ♦ I BERLIN ACTRESS PROTESTS I At a conclave of actresses, which began at I twelve o'clock on Tuesday night in Berlin, the trials and temptations to which women on the German stage are subjected were described with much detail. Until three o'clock yesterday morning the audience, which filled every corner of the Philharmonic, one of Berlin's largest public halls, listened with mingled compassion and horror to the accounts of the slavery" to which, it was alleged, thousands of young women, ensnared by the siren call of tihe footlights, are con- demned. Fraulein Rubner, a young actress from the Nenes Theater, Berlin, said the requirements of actresses, especially in the matter of cos- tumes, were far beyond their incomes. It was not uncommon for an actress earning from £ 4 to El2 a month to be compelled to possess ten different costumes. Many actresses worked all night making their own clothes. They became seamstresses in order to remain actresses. They suffered from com- petition with women for whom the theatre was merely an advertisement and not a real profession. Disappointed in Love I FVau Rosa Bertens, a well-known "leading lady," said that overcrowding of the profes- sion was the main cause of miserable salaries. Formerly a girl disappointed in love entered a nunnery. Nowadays she went on the stage. Too many girls also offered to "act" for nothing. Fraulein Galle aroused a storm of emotion by explaining a system under which actresses are discharged if they marry. Herr Gustave Rickelt, a tragedian of the Leasing Theatre, divided actresses into three classes—those really qualified by nature, those "driven" to the stage by unhappy love or fantastic ideals, and shipwrecks who had lost reputation and sought to recover it amid the "magic of theatrical romance." The speaker displayed contracts under which actresses and singers received 25, 30, and 35 ¡ shillings a month. Managers who paid such I salaries, he said, ought to be prosecuted. Pestered with Attentions I Is it true," asked the speaker, that many managers pester actresses with their attentioIlS P" There was a unanimous shout of "Yeti" from the section of the audience where actresses were sitting. Society, declared the speaker, ought to enshrine with a halo of glory the actress who remained virtuous under prevailing conditions. Referring to the practice of discharging -an actress who becacme a mother, he cited the instance of the famous Ristori, who used to nurse her child between the acts of Shakespearean drama. Herr Emanuel Eedeher, a prominent actor, thought tibat actors could help to ameliorate the moral conditions of the stage by becom- ing more knightly comrades of actresses and warning them against the pitfalls of the pro- fession Herr Wauer, a Stage manager, closed the discussion. He said the artistic life was martyrdom. If the word want" were to disappear from stage vocabulary the art would cease to exist. One became & great artist only through suffering. The parliament closed with an enthusiastic adoption of a resolution demanding laws to compel managers to furnish costumes and allow actresses to marry.

HISSES FOR KING" PATAUD M. Patmd's star, whioh has been growing gradually dimmer for some time, threatens shortly to undergo total eclipse. The notorious strike leader had a reception which was too warm to becomtortable on Tuesday night at the Tivoli-Vauxhall, Paris, from a mass meeting assembled to protest against the sen.tenoepasseod on M. Gustave Herve, the Anarchist. When "King" Pataud appeared on the platform he was hailed with cries of "What about your two stalls for 'Cfoan- teoler,' eh, working mtMt?" This was fol- lowed by hisses, booing, and general dis- order. M. Pata/ud stood his ground, but after a va.ia1 attempt to make himself heard he resumed his seat. The meeting broke up witb-tSMrfcinging of the "Internationale," the manifestants having oompletely forgotten about the original resolution wihich they came to pass.

THE RAT MARKET I The rate of the Paris sewers, driven from their homes by the great floods, have in- vaded some quarters of the city in such numbers that special means for their des- truction have had to be taken, says a Paris correspondent. The regular band of muni- cipal rat-oatchers were quite overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task, and their mumfoers have, therefore, been doubled. The occupation of rat-catcihing in Paris pays well. Those animals which are caught aJive are sent to London and Brussels, whence numerous orders arrive from breeders of rat- catehinsg dogs. The "Figaro" says that the exportation of Parisian rats at present amounts to between 1,500 and 2,000 a day. They are sold for about 4s. a dozen.

AN INDIGNANT FATHER I Peter H'DoameU was summoned at Lam- betli Police-oooirt yesterday for assaulting Frances Clarke, headmistress at the %arrey- equare Council School. Miss Clarke said she ordered the defendant's child to stand in front of a desk for inattention, but did not puniah her. The child was broagiht back to school by her parents, and the defendant, after saying, How dare you chastise my children?" aimeda blow at the witness. The defendant emphatically denied aiming a blow at Mies Clarke, and in answer to the magis- tmtid sa-id that he spoke indignantly but was not "raving." Mr. Hopkins: I fine this exceedingly ill-tempered gentleman 4CB. and 23s. costs.

WOMAN'S 38 YEARS IN PRISON Mary AIm Frost, an emaciated old I of 74, was charged at MaryLebone yesterday with stealing and receiving a, black skirt, valued at 8s. lld., from the &hop of Messrs. Hairvey and Tboraipeon. "Detective-sergeant Parsons described tihe prisoner as a very old thief, and said she had served no fewer than 38 years in prison. In July last she was bound over for stealing a. padr of boots, and simee then she said she had been selling flowers and watercress. She was anxrioae to be sent to the workhouse. Mr. Plowden: I reaily thimik you have had enough of prison. You will be discharged on the understanding that you go to the workhouse.

LIGHTS WHICH DAZZLED I The manslaughter charge against Edward Ealey (57), a motor-cab driver, was inviteti- gated at Lambeth Police-court yesterday. Ealey, it will be recalled, was driving a. motor-cab along Brixton-road at two o'clock on the morning of the 23rd. ult., when he knocked down Mordamnt Kent and William Forster, two conduit-cleaners, who were at work on the roadway. Kent, a young men of twenty-two, was killed, and Forster severely injured. Robert Jones, another conduit-cleaner, who was a witness of the accident, said, after the men had been knocked down, he ran after the cab, which stopped about 90ft. away from the boxes. He then found the dead body of Kent doubled up beneath the cab. Witness said to the prisoner, "Where are your eyes?" The pri- soner replied, "The lights dazzled my eyes." The prisoner was remanded for another week, bmt was released on bail in £ 44.

A TRAGIC COINCIDENCE I A strange coincidence has occurred at Stockton, Warwickshire. Mrs. Evans, aged 80, fell downstairs at her house, with fatal con- sequences. The funeral took place yesterday, and among those assembled at the house was Mrs. Evans's married daughter, Mrs. Barrott, of Leamington. Mrs. Barrott was leaving her mother's bedroom, when she also feU down the stairs, and sustained concussion of the bra-in. The doctor entertains little hope of her recovery.

DUKE OF MANCHESTER I The Duke of Manchester, who keeps hia thirty-third birthday to-day, succeeded to the family honours as a schoolboy of fifteen. He married, at three-and-twenty, Miss Helena Zimmerman, of Cincinnati. The little Vis- count Mandevdlle, the duke's elder &on, is now in his ninth year. While paternally he is of the Anglo-Norman house of Montagu, his mother is an American-German, and his grandmother a Spanish Cuban; while his great-grandmother was the lovely Hano- verian Countess Louise von Alton, suc- cessively Duchess of Manchester and of Devonshire.

Ligh tness and Digestibility are noted points in all cakes, scones, rolls, tea bread, &c., made with | Paisley Flour" —the sore raising powder. Try it to-day and note how quick and easy it is to use, and how much cheaper than using cake and bun mixtures. Made by Brown A Poison and sold in ji. 3Xd. and id. packet*, id* nirlm k nfiwttK araae x Ik^f floor.

Humorous Catalogue ON THE SURNAMES OF SOME OF OUR M.P» With the new Debrett's House of Com- mions and Judicial Bench," a careful refer- ence book, the publishers, Messrs. Dean and Son. send us the following curious analysis of the names of M.P.s. Colour is represented by a Black, a Greene, a Grey, a Heddy, and six Whites or Wlhytes. Culinary matters are well Looked after by two Bayles, a Oooke, and a Kettle; while Burns keetp them company in this depart- ment. The animal kingdom is extremely mmnerous with -its Bird, Craik, Dawes, Fox, Haddock, Leach, Martin, Roches, Roe, and Wolff, not to speak of a Bull and two Homes. The surface of the earth is well defined by a Beach, Cave, Or-an?, Fell, Field. a Heath, Hill or Hills, Moore, Jxnugih, Mount, Parkes, R-ockes, Sandys, Weir, and three Woods. Of places there are the Clyde, France, Hol- land, Holt. Jordan, Lincoln, Lundon, and Snowden. Agriculture can claim Barnes, day, Oroft, and two Hodges; horticulture its Primrose and two Thames: %Port a Falconer, a. Fiser. Bowles, Hunt, two Hunters, and two Walkers. Clothing is represented by Brace and Ooalt, nautical matters, by a Helme, EICIOle-1 siastical by a Bell, a Peel, Chaplin, Chappie, I and a Churchill. II There are two Kings, a Chancellor, a. Duke, a Barran, and a Knight; while there a Long and a Shortt cf it, a Thynne, two Youngs I a-nd two Youngers, the humour of the House being looked alfter by a Smiley. ■

Wales v Ireland I CHANCE AT THREE-QUARTER The match committee of the Welsh Rugby Union met at the Queen's Hotel, Caa'difFt (as repojted in a &<cond Pink Edition of the "Evening Express" last night), and selected. the following team to play against Ireland, in Dublin, on Saturday week, March 12:— Back: J. Bancroft (Swansea). Three-quarter backs: W. Spiller (Cardiff), right centre; L. M. Dyke (Cardiff), left centre; J. L. Williams (Cardiff), left wing; R. A. Gibils (Cardiff), right wing. Half-backs: Percy Bush OCardiff), T. H. Vile (Newport). Forwards: Tom Evans (Llanelly), Ivor Morgan (Swansea), B. Gronow (Bridgend), E. Jenkins (Newport), H. Jarman (Newport), J. Pugsley (Cardiff), D. J. Thomas (Swansea), J. Webb (Afcertillery). Deserves:—Back, Stanley Williams. Three-quarters, either centre, W. J. Trew (Swansea); second reserve, J. P. Jones (New- port); either wing, Phil Hopkins (Swansea); second reserve, R. C. S. Plummer (Newport). Half-backs, W. J. Martin (Newport) reserve to Bush; failing Vile and Bush, Frank Rees and Shon Evans (Neath); failing Vile, Shon Evans and Percy Bush. Reserve forwards to be selected from the following:—W. Perry (Neath), W. Morgan fPreorky), and Ben. Davies (Swansea). Captain: R. A. Qibbe- i "Forward's" Comments. I The Welsh Union members must ha.ve been in one of their capricious moods in selecting the team to play against Ireland, and at least one of the changes from the side which defea-ted Scotland so handsomely at Cardiff will meet with the unanimous disapproval of the bac multitude of football followers in South Wales. It was generally anticipated that not a single change would have been made except that rendered necessary by the injury which has incapacitated Melville Baker from playing on the left wing, but no one had dreamed for a moment that Willie Trew above all men would have been placed on the reserve list. That a mistake was made was only too fully realised by the Welsh Union members immediately after the meeting was over, it being recognised that a better policy would have been adopted in selecting Trew for one of the tving positions rather than leave him out of the team altogether. No one can question the right of L. M. Dyke to a place in the side, but at the same time everybody will regret that a player like Trew has been dropped. Nothing is so certain as the fact that if the team ,had to be chosen over again a place would be found for the Swansea captain in the three-quarter line, but, unfortunately, the die has been cast, and Trew is not one of the elect. For the first time in many years the national three-quarter line will consist entirely of four players from the same club, and on present form no one will deny Cardiff the distinction of bairns thus represented except that a place ought to have been found I for Willie Trew. He has played in 22 inter- na,tion,al matches, and has never been known to fail. On the other hand, he has distin- guished himself in nearly every match, and I have not the slightest doubt that against Ireland next Saturday week he would not be found wanting. Another change which was surprising- was that of substituting T. H. Vile for Willie Morgan, and the surprise will be all the greater when it is known that the change was made under a misapprehension on the part of the selectors. It was reported in the room when the team was being chosen that Morgan had been injured, and that he would not be fit to play against Ireland, and when some of the members of the match committee were assured at the close of their conclave that Morgan was perfectly fit they made no secret of their regret that they had been led into such an unfortunate mis- take. Willie Morgan played suoh a fine game against Scotland as to entitle him to a farther trial, and he is to be sincerely sympathised with in being the victim of an inexplicable error. Still,'the team will not be weakened to amy appreciable extent by the change, and those who have any know- ledge of the Bush-Vile partnership in pre- vious maatohes will beat appreciate this fact. No fault can be found with the re-selection of the forwards in a, body after their magnificent display against the Scotsmen a month ago, and it would have been an injustice to any one of the eight if he had been dropped. With regard to the prospects of Wales winning, it is hardly possible to form any definite opinion until we know what ohan.gee, if any, will be made in the Irish team. It is fairly safe to assume, after what happened at Belfast last Saturday, that some changes will be made; but, in amy event, I feel perfectly sanguine that Ireland cannot produce a side this season that will be equal to the taek of beating Wales. My confidence would be all the gTea-ter if the regrettable mis- take had not be made of leaving Trew out of the side. It is to be hoped that Jack Ban- croft will ma.ke such a speedy and satisfac- tory reoovery from his injury as to be able to play his first game on Irish soil; but in the event of his defection there need be no apprehension as to the efficiency of Stanley Williams as his deputy. I Cardiff's Absentees. I There will be serious alterations in the Cardiff team to play Newport at Cardiff on Saturday next. W. Spiller is suffering from a mild attack off sciatica, and is not expected to be fit. This was the reason why he went on the wing in the second half of Wednes- day's county match. L. M. Dyke has obtained the consent of his captain, J. L. Williams, to stand down in view of his selec- tion to play for Wales against Ireland the following Saturday. W. L. Morgan is suffer- ing from an injury, and is practically cer- tain not to play. and Percy Budth has an important business appointment in London, which he cannot possibly avoid keeping. Thus there will be four internationals out of the Cardiff team. It is likely that Culverwell and Reardon will be the substitutes at half while Tom Evans, Who has recovered from his injury will be one of the centres, and it is probable that R. A. Gibbs will be the other, with Ewan Davies on the wing. Fortunately for Cardiff, the reserves are a very capable quartette, but the teein as a whole will have to play remarkably well if they hope to inflict the second d-efeat of the season upon the Usksiders. Scotland v, Wales. I The teaan selected to represent Wales in the I SomLr international match at Kilmarnock on Saturday will be weakened by the absence of Lot -Tones and George Wynn, the "crack" Manchester City forwards, who will be play- ing for th?ir club against S.wun in the Eng- ,,a Cu,p tie. Theh- pla.c wnl be taken by W. C. Davies, of West Bromwich Albion. and BVan Jones, of Chelsea. Merthyr Forward for Australian Tour I Merthyr Northern Uirionites will he pleased to know that D. B. Da vies, the clever and popular Merthyr forward and Welsh inter- national. has been nominated for tho Northern Unrion Australian tour. History of Cardiff Rugby Club The ourrent ieea? of Meaita and Strength." oontains an Ms?rK'a?I sketch of the OardiS I &a?by Cinb. from the pen of F. J. G. Hodson I (" Pendragon ").

TON PENTRE v. WEST HAM (Cup team), At TON. on MONDAY NEXT. Kiok-o& 4.15 p.m. Admission, fid; le66 SHANBOX VIILA A.F.C. ha re following date* Open:-March 5th, 12th, and 19th; have permit for to* 12th,-R. Shelley, 81. Albany-road. eaõOOu3 L YNDONS R.F.C. require Fixture for Saturday next (-ayy; guarantee preferre&-Ap I at once, W. J. Macey, 13, Bedford-stieet. Cardiff. e3484u4 CARDIFF V. NEWPORT, Cardiff Arms Park, SaUit* day, Jiarco 6th. Kick-off 3.30 P.M. ell42

I THE RUBBER COW "Weil," remarked a gentleman, as he courageously attacked a particularly tough steak served up to him at a restaurant. "I have heard of the iron horse and the golden calf, and now I seem to have encountered the indaianrubber cow!"

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[Should Parsons SmokePI HABIT BENEFICIAL TO MIND & NERVES I The condemnation at the annual meeting of the Anti-Narcotic League at Manchester of ministers wbo smoke has raised a very lively discussion in religious circles. Should mdn-istoers smoke, if, as the league say, their I example is one of the most diffioult evils to be overcome? The chairman of the league answers the I question emphatically in the negative, and says that religious leaders ought to deny themselves the little luxury of "the weed" if there is any possibility of that luxury lead- ing the youth of the country astray. A pressman found yesterday that many London ministers had already seen or heard of the statement, and were very shy about expressing an opinion with regard to it. A London clergyman, whose name is a house- hold work, laughed heartily when the subject was broached, and answered enigmatically, "N o, thamks." Asked for am explanation, he laughed again, and then added, "I mean that I wouldn't touch the subject with a barge pole." A prominent Free Churchman was equally non-committal. "I prefer not to commit myself on the subject," he said. "It is of much too personal a nature." Archdeacon Sinclair was the only clergy- man the press representative was able to find who had the courage of his convictions. "The majority of the clergy certainly are smokers to-day," he said, "from bishops and archbishops downwards; but I don't see how it can be said that they set a bad example to the youth of the land. "Smoking is a habit, and, like every other habit, requires moderation. Smoking in moderation is undoubtedly very beneficial for the mind and nerves. The law protects the young from many things, and smoking amongst them, and how clergymen can set boys a bad example in thi,s respect I really j can't gee. "Clergymen don't smoke in the streets, and. while it is confined by them to the house, 'how oa.n it set any example at all to the youth of the land? The law to check juvenile smoking in the streets was a very ralutaiy one, and one which I very heartily sup- ported through the Anti-Cigarette League."

Romance of Stage MISS ALMA CRIFFITHS'S ENGAGEMENT The announcement that Miss Alma I Griffiths, the well-known musical comedy artiste, is to be married to a very wealthy South African gentleman will be received with great interest among her many friends, and especially by those residing in South Wales who- have followed her successful career as a vocalist. As is, of course, well known, Miss Griffiths ia a Cardiif lady, her father being Mr. W. Ben Griffiths, who resides at 68, Kyder-street. The gentleman to whom Miss Griffiths has become engaged is Mr. Douglas Chrietopdierson. mo,naging direc- tor of the South African Consolidated Gold- fields. He resides at Parktown, a short dis- tance from Johannesburg, where Miss Griffiths is at present appearing in the prin- cipal part of The Geisha," with Mr. Haydn Coffin, the engagement being in connection with the Wheeler-Edwardes combination. Miss Griffiths is expected to arrive home about the third week in April, and after a stay of two months she will return to South Africa, as the wedding is fixeu to take place at Cape Town in July. I Her Stage Career I Only 21 years of age, Miss Griffiths has had I a remarkably rapid rise in the theatrical profession. She received her vooal training from Madame Clara Novello Davies at Han- over-square, residing at the Academy in Lon- don, and it is interesting to re-call that her first appearance in operatic work was at the Cardiff Operatic Society's performance of "The Mikado" in February, 1904, her inter- pretation of "Peep-Po" on that occasion meeting with warm encomiums on all sides. Miss Griffiths continued to appear on the concert platform with gratifying success— parenthetically, her work in support of chari- able institutions may be re-called—but it waa not until about three years ago that she first entered the ranks of the theatrical pro- fession, securing an engagement in D'Oyly Carte productions. It waa through Madame Clara Novello Davies, with whom she continued to study, that she made her first appear- ance at the Shaftesbury in "Lady Tatters," understudying the principal part. At the MISS ALMA GRIFFITHS. [Photo. Akkersdyk, Cape Town. end of the first fortnight she was called upon at a moment's notice to play the part, in which she continued with conspicuous suc- cess for a week. Then she went to the Prince of Wales' Theatre, where ahe was understudy to Miss Isabel Jay in Miss Hook of Hol- land." Subsequently, in December, 1908, she was engaged for the part of the Fairy Queen at Mr. Chute's Jack and Jill" pantomime at the Prince of Wales' Theatre, Bristol. Miss Griffiths subsequently joined the Wheeler-Edwardes tour, which oomamenced in April last, all the South African capitals being visited. In a recent letter to friends in Cardiff, Miss Griffiths describes a narrow escape from death which she had a few weeks ago while bathing with two other mem- bers of the Wheeler-Edwardes company at a bathing enclosure near Johannesburg. She was carried into deep water by the current, and had it not been for the promptitude of the attendants, one of whom swam to her assistance, the worst might have happened. As it was, Miss Griffiths suffered badly from shook, in consequence of which she could not appear at His Majesty's Theatre that even- ing. It is noteworthy that a few months ago in a beauty competition promoted by a London journal Miss Griffiths came eighth out of many hundreds of the candidates who went to the "poll."

EASIER DENTISTRY I A new method of administering gas, whereby the patient can be kept under the anaesthetic • wi^j perfect safety for five minutes or more, instead of as formerly for only a few seconds, has recently, been per- fected at the Royal Dental Hospital in Leicester-square. Under the old method tihe patient was given enough gas to become unconscious, and any decayed teeth had to be hurriedly puHed out in the moment elapsing before recovery. Under the now method patients with a number of teeth to be extracted need only be subjected to one an as sthetisation.

Mixed Family Bathingl BATHS SUPERfMTEMDEMFS OBJECTIONS Mixed family bathing is a subject brought to the front by the adoption by Kensington, Stouthwark, and Holborn of schemes for the I permitting of family bathing at the muni- cipal swimming baths. Mr. Derbyslhire, sutperinitendeni of tihe Man- ohester Corporation Baths, entertains strong opinions on such proposals. To a press repre- sentative last evening he mentioned several objections to family bathing. "One has no right," he said, "to admit Tom because he happens to be married, and to refuse Harry for the reason that he is single. I hold that there ought to be equal rights and reasonable conditions for all; my difficulty is how you can arrange to admit one family and refuse another." He was at a loss to understand men who seemed so anxious for facilities to teach their wives and daughters how to swim. Why did they not start and tea.oh their sons and their brothers, where there was no let or hin- drance? "I look ugxm it," he said, "M hum1mg.! For a man to say he is the father of a family does not guarantee his mind to be purer than that of the man who is not. These men never ask their sons and brothers I to go to swim, but they do not object to ask some council or baths committee to open the baths in order to teaoh somebody else's wife to swim. Why should they be so anxious to teach females and not males.? "1 want to know whether the people who are talking about, teaching their wives and daughters and sisters to swim have ever thought of the question as to how they would teach them? What method would they adopt of teaching anybody in water? How would they teach somebody else's wife? To a sensitive woman it would be hateful." It was explained by Mr. Derbyshire that all objectionable methods of teaching females to swim could be overcome by teaching them out of the water.

FOREIGN MAILS. To be despatched from London to-marrow, Mar. 4:-1 OUTWARD.—.Morning-— To Lisbon, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentine Republic. Clul-e, and Peru, via Southampton, per a. Aracron. To Canada, and Newfoundland, by Canadian packet. To Iceland, via Lerth. To Portugual, Uruguay, and Argentine Republic, parcel mails, via Southampton, per 5. Aragon. Afternoon— To China and Japan, via Siberia. To Argentine Republic, .1tio de Janerio, and Uruguay, by German steamer. Evellli ng- To Egypt, Cyprue, Jaffa, and Beirut, via Brindisi. To India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, China, Japan Australia, Xew Zealand, &c., via Riindiei, per s. Morea. To Teneriffe, via Plymouth. To Turks Islands and OaJiialca, via Bristol, per s- Port Royal. To Teneriffe, Gambia, Grand Canary, and West Coast of Africa, via Liverpool, jer a. Benue. To Cape Verd Islands, by Portuguese packet. To United States and Bermuda, Paxcel mails, via Liverpool, per s. Campania. To Turks Islands and Jamaica, paroei maile, via Bristol, per s. Port Royal. INWARD.—Due To-morrow— From Australia, Japan, China, Stratta Settlements, Ceylon, India, and Egypt, via Brindisi. From West Coast of Afrioa, via Plymouth. From Mauritius, via Ceylon. From Uadted States and Bermuda, via Plymouth.

LOCAL OVERNIGHT CHARTERING*. I OUTW^BJ>-STEAiMEaS. I Cardiff to:- Madeira, 7s 6d, 2,300 tons (OoIry Bros. and Co., Limited) Venice/Anoona, 6s 3d, 4,300 tons, Maroh 14 (Italian State Railways; Port Said, 78 6d, 6,000 tons (J. P. Haoquoil and Go.) Torre Anminaiata or Oivita Vecchia, 76 9d (option Newport loading), Asia, 2,400 tons, March ID (Italian State Kaiilways) Constantinople, 7s 3d, Skipsea, 4.300 tone. March 14 (Austrian Lloyd's) Barcelona, 7s 6d (500), 3,400 tons (L. Gueret, Limited) Tarragona, as, 1,000 tone (Arthur Andrews and Co.) Copenhagen, 58 6d, 1.200 tons (Royal TWnijcft lNavy) Chantenay, 5f 62Jc, llaum, 1,900 tone (Yalette and lowrie) OaeK, 4s 9d, 1,100 tons, Maroh 3 (Lysberg, limited) Caen. 4s 1, 1.100 tons, March 7 (P. H. Coward and Sons) Swansea to:- Stockholm, 6s 3d, 1,400 tone (deeves and Oo.)

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SCOUT MOVE MENT AT BARRY To consider the advisability of establishing a Boy Scouts' Association for Barry, a. well [attended meeting, c nvened by Mr. D. Lloyd, J.P., chairman of the Barry District Council, was held at the council dhamber yes. t-,day, t&e Rev. H. H. Stewart, M.A., rector of Batrry, presiding. The Cflnainman said the movement not merel-y ke-pt the boys out of mischief by occu- pying their time, but trained the faculties that were apt to fall into disuse. It was not intended to make the country a.n armed camp, wiridh probably would mean more war, but prevented the danger of impurity, of vioe, spreading amongst unoccupied miinds. Colonel Wilson (7tfe Weteh Regiment, Cydiste) ez-Akjz-ed the eoheone. On the motion of Mr. D. Lloyd, seconded by; Alderman the Rev. D. H. Williams, it was agreed to form a committee, representaftives to be elected from all prominent organisa- tions in the' town.

GOING BACK TO "BRUM." Clara Louisa O'Neil (28) was charged at Otir- diff to-day with keeping a disorderly house at 32, PeeL-ffltreet- Polioe-constable Thom-as Simmons gave evidence, and prisoner, who bailed originally ftrtnn Birmingham, urged that the women insisted on entering her house and even burst- the door in. She wae bound over on promising to go back to Bir- ininchean.

BOXING AT ROSS. The event of the evening at an aesault-at- arms at Ross -as the six-rounds exhibition bout between Jacit Ward (of Gloucester) and ILarry Jones (óf Barry Dock), the latter being winner of 50 contests and acknowledged to be a coming champion. This was a fine exhibi- tion of scientific boxing, and was much enjoyed and frequllnt17 applauded by the large afudience present.

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