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(From Our London Lady Correspondent.) MARY ANDERSON (DRAMATIST). in collaboration with Mr. Robert Hichens, Miss Mary Anderson (Mac. de Navarre), said to be one of the most beautiful actresses ever seen on the English stagef and certainly one of the best beloved, has written a five-act play founded on Air. Hichen's story, 'The Garden of Allah." Mr. Tyler, the American manager, has secured the acting- rights for both England and the United iStates. The story is of a priest, who leaves a monastery, goes out into the world and marries. Eventually his wife learns that the man she married is a. priest, and, although she loves him, she sends him back for ever to the monastery whence he had come. It is believed that Mr. Forbes Robertson may be interested in this play, and appear in it in England. THE QUEEN AND CITY WORKERS. The Queen has shown her continued interest in the work among girls and women in All Hallows' Church, London Wall, by sending a cheque to Mrs. Montague Fowler, the wife of the rector, to be used in aid of the work. All Hallows' Church is open every morning from 6 to 9 o'clock, in order that women and girls who travel by work- j men's trains from the suburbs may have j a place where they can pass the time ! I before going to business. j They sew articles of clothing, which are smbse/iuently distributed through the j London Needlework Guild to the poor in various parts of London. ] Many of the girls, however, bring their own work, such as socks to darn and : clothing to mend. j THE QUEEN > has -consented to become the patroness ■of the National Union of Women Work- ; ors' of Great Britain and Ireland, a I branch of -which flourishes in New Zeailand. The governing body of the union. jis the National Council ot Women, which i jwas federated to tho International Coun-j U;l of Women in 1807. . : A SUFFRAGE PROCESSION !is to be held on the Saturday before the i Coronation, Mrs. Pethick Lawrence an-. i nounce.d at a recent reunion of the ! W.S.P.U., at which societies in Europe, j America, Australia, New Zealand, Can!ada, and other parts of the worid will !be represented. They will march to the ! Albert Hal), where a meeting will be ,'held, and they are to have on the platform, some of the Colonial representatives who come to this country to attend 1 the Imperial Conference. ! PUBLIC WASHHOUSE. i At the Holborn Baths (London) a public wash-house is provided, where, for the sum of 3d for the first two hours, and 2d per hour afterwards, a woman can do her family washing, have it dried, mangled, starched, and ironed ready for use, in a tithe of the time she could do it at home.