TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12647, 10 November 1906, Page 8

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

La Milo, tho young lady La Milo's who pones .»s classical Poses. statuary, md who will be remembered as appearing in Christchurch, has received a splendid advertisement from that -tern-ret of moral censors, Mr W. T. •Stoad. Mr Stead visited tbe Pavilion

music-haJJ in London recently ~\ condemned the entertainment wiiV'SJ whole forco of his vigorous vocabtdiS? with the exception of La Milo?* ' whom he had wirm praise. Tn__»^ r is su-7gost«l that had the r«t olf _fc •"* entertainment not bored him so ■»».«!.' ho might not have been so plea«^!£-, tho poses. Tljo rwult was tW tv '. whole theatre was placarded ont_iu ;i with extracts in huge typo f„ m article, extolling La Milo, tho W_! wa 9 packed every night to wo Montague's poses, the young ladj jZ been engaged for an uidefinite j*pSn and living statuary has pra._t.ca_l*, . ceived a formal blessing (rem & sternest censor of muaie-hall monk. And, of course, the advertisement • tends in some degiw to th© rest _t the programme, which filled Mr Bt___ with boredom and disgust mJ Ormiston Cliant, a well-known lead» in tho anti-music-hall crusade in don, has also been criticising La M_v performance, and protesting that it k not right. Why tlio living ofeoJl at all. she asked, when the managM**! had to suppress it so carefully » ynl\ not have a marble statue? It w * £l a matter of decency or indecency, but of reveneneo for womanhood.' I» - reply the manager of tie Paviljo. said that a statuo would not do t*. cause the fact tiiat a woman waa'aM. to represent cold marhlo was tbo em! of the whole thing. As to U My© herself, thero wero not ten peraooa ia Ixmdon who had spoken to b_r ; was sufficiently old-fi-shioncd to com. der smoking unbefitting a ladyj «U was contontod with lvome life without bridge, and sho did not approve of th*" ultra-deoolete gowns which are now tha mod© in society. Finally—the «,,. rcepondenco waa most courteous oa both sidos—would Mrs Chant favour ' the Pavilion with Tier oompany whoa. ' ever sho liked P Wo do not know whether Mre Chant haa aooepted ti» invitation.

™_ m . M one of the str*ft£ Tho Tenderness ost sects of vegetti ior Beasts. rians, tho IncUajJ Jains, had boon «»f tho Show Grounds, as a sworn friend #! animals ho must havo rejoioed, at fiNkl sight, in the spectacle of so many tIM weH-carod-for, and contented bea-tttf: Takine into account, however, the mate destiny of a largo proportion, if 1 might feel bound to remombor tbtt-tffi was an assemblage of show cattle wkfflffi first moved the founder of tho •octSl his religion of ruth. Tho earliest JiS. was a prinoe, to whom it befell thrt'r on his way to marry a beaut® princess ho passed by an cn<rkjsw£ where animals of various sorts irtm oagod or penned. Why, he «dt«B were creatures which naturally vriatglt to be free and happy thus cDdmtit His charioteer answered in Mttrwl style that they were not to bo pjjjmff —they wore the lutiky animals wW'B been chosen to make the great |3| for bride and bridegroom and hu&dSß of loyal guests. But the prinoe, wm| apparently, had never enquired html where roast meats oame from __ad* *j| reflection:—"lf for my salce all mm living creatures are killed, how ahiiH obtain happiness in another wo_4ffll So ho arrived a reformed prinoe,''w|i had renounced pomps snd "ranity.'H tho bride retired to a nunnery, mkm she became a model of pei-feoißl while he fulfilled his new law by i|k|H ing gnats, flies, and other riinnfirwMl insects to walk about on him for WH months, without disturbing his sabwll calm. It is to be hoped no mait-iBB prospects were disturbed this ws_-|B|l too deep philosophy upon tiie of roast beef or breakfast ba_Jß All sacred books of Jain *_381 munities teach pit? for WjM suffering world of animah; on *fll other band, they never realise <jBB an animal may be beloved. An -ifll li_b.man visiting a HL_doo found him inoonvcoiently by rats. "Why don't you kilt tl**i§| he asked. "Why should I kill thWfJI said the sage, and the niwHl illustrated tbe human types. Y«t |H| Jain, respecting th * life Principle jiflH in. rats, -oould never understand r ,fln Engli-haian'a affection for a dog, mm his patient oare for ths *1i(MB animaar* beheld on Show days. 4§lSl the Jain hospitals for animals, ia tW§| apparent tenderness, havo, m tmiWs side—the bare life being ptO-OaplS a merciless disregard of bopekit IuWIM

One is iW-uidad.-n "Wild West" "Journalism in M Journalism, nessee" by • *f|| whioh baa been waf|(| in the Nevada mining oattps KJJjHL Tonopah and Goldfield bstwess. Jmm mining camp union, that styks ft*4f9 the Industrial Workmen of ta'lfaNi& and the two papers of the lo<_4Hiw|| Several months ago two men w«»<iw« bed to death in Tonopah. some time before refused to job* f-fj-jfj 1.W.W.,-and tbe Tonopah i fm§ ventured the editorial opinion **s|l members of the Union were goiHyrwp both crimes. The editor rßfsrwd;-f& tbe members as anarchists, and cowards. The GoldfisM * I *3si§ also attacked the Union, and that WW warned the two editors that changed their attitude they W_W»Jffil boycotted and "run out" or th* fflffl§u Tho Tonopah editor's reply wal * ■%|j fianco occupying half a page, headed "Come On, Too OwM ardly Curs I" The other . •■gl at once walkod into the * M *2« quarters of the I.W.W. on WW main street of Goldfield, with t*o «§|| vofvers held loosely in tho pocket* mm his coat, and quietly told the toWmffl forty members that if there was them man enough to "want troOM%Mj he was ready for him. Not -*■ stirred or spoke, and the editor* ing delivered a parting and Utt {_3§|| able shot, backed out "*!Bpj and strolled to his office. *g!$M day both papers hurled fianco at the I.W.W. Ji Union retaliated by frightening *T« tradesmen of Ooldfield and Tonflgfa so badly that they dared not •^ in either paper, while for weeks JfM newsboy had the courage to noil imjßß papers on the streets. The editor!£*l|j reporters of the two "Suns" weot *?2H with armed guards. At length, "**j|| ever, the journalists secured th«Y*M vices Of John Davis, a well-known ***Si| fields character, as newsagent. "*2H had a grudge against tbo Uniol *Y was once sentenced to bo h* ni **!jjM Idaho for tho murder of two roeß £l|| of the Union, and was reprieved. •Pflfl when tho State authorities telegraph th© reprieve they found UW|| the wires had been cut. and "'* "tSS was round Davis's neck when th* j£jjß prievo reached him. Davis • M *2§|| ingly contended that tho I.W.W. ,Wfim tbo wires, and when he heard 01

•war in Tonopah nnd Coldliehl he I vnluiiteeri-d bis services in the cause of a free Press. His reput at ion as a "terror" and a "human ("aihnu; gun" iv-is such that when he went, down the street with his papers, the I'liiori men fled. 'He Mory is tod by a correspondent ot the "New York Post" on the spot, and at tho time of writiim the better elements of the camps w-t re organising ;u;ainst the 1.W.W., aud the j advertisers had announc*. d their in ten- j tion of di-fyin-.*: the (Yiioti. Rut the j (tverage slaughter for the camps in the district is about two a month, and the rorrespondent remarks that "before the I.W.W. war with tlie earup dailies \<t ended thero may bo more sharp gunfighting."