25 HOURS IN A CHIMNEY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13738, 20 May 1910, Page 6

25 HOURS IN A CHIMNEY.

Miss Emily Wilding Davison, a mow* |" ber of the Woman's Social r.nd Political <~ Union, who was discovered hidncn in a' •'_ hct-air fine in the British lioures of '£ Parliament iast. month, gave- tho fol- \, lowing account Of her exneriemof to a . •_„. representative of the. "Daily M_ '.' --H - 1 <: f went, to Westminster on \ |

of the crowd. I • »f'<\ sixpenny guide-book, and ap- '*- i&&} Jntotw-lv interested in. every - how I might hide until Mon- *' pi* Bßin A, I proposed to reveal myself •' 3tf- ff ' \L\ tell Mr Asquith to set ■-' d£ " y honVe in order by giving votes ~ ' l-» otf "„ h Tnstead of bothering with the J »'" ?m «f Ss. About half-past three ■'.' fl«f!. wore becoming scarce, and I I**" thl central lobby between the »* I" of Lords and the House of Hoasf l " j w . c „ t i n to the corridor ♦*??*?«_* to tho m-_mber_' diinng-i-d arcing only a policeman, to^Jif-not watching mc, I darted ••»■ \ -i door which had 'Private d- roU '_Vn it The room was empty. « jrk »■«" a small glass door in the . flSttoit two feet, from the floor. I * f-D 3 f°" ~n d saw a sort ot chimney ' **v .n iron ladder let into the waif*M Jed in and mounted tho lad•/K"- about thirty steps, and came en .' narrow platform. Ihcrf was "Cle window opposite which looked *' «to the Victoria rower. Here oBftoB ;Sd hidden. My small stock ' * ""riSns onsistod of two bananas, ." ' ! tf A,. «nd a few Senses * Sent coughing J <yas suon diswl ffiwith * terrible thirst. . I distttt8 J that I w.-n in a hot-air flue, beat began to get oppressive. 1 rf« absolutely begrimed »',t soot was desperately unJ .Jrt.hle l'' f,r t.v--nV-!our hours ?*fl_ied on the little platform, until ■••.ft I could ™ 1 "™ the r^T >' f w longer, % . I descended the f-lt vi search of water. On reHSa "the room by the g as:- door, fSf a water tap and drank copou,-------l Then I returned to the platform, '• after four more hours descended f ««■« water. In my haste I Slid Mine on the floor and this led fffiv discovery, lor f had no sooner -?,,dled into the chimney .-.pun than i'Siceman na.iled mo out and saw mc off the premises.'

HOW PICTURES ARE "HUNG." Through this week (Sir Henry Lucy Aita'in the -'Sydney Daily Telegraph") j tfe Council of Selection of the Royal j Academy have been hard at work judg'jßtt pictures in anticipation of the '-wning of the show next month. Upends of 12,000 pictures have been ■'aided-for review, and there is room far only 2000. The council consists of ."do-to R-A-'s. ivith thc P resident '" t _,e chair. Their work begins at 10 o'clock in the morning, and continues isjfssantly till 6 in thc afternoon, with » fcjef interval for hasty luncheon, frery picture, curried in by v porter, 'is pfacocl on the easel in turn, and moat remain there 'for a minimum jMigth ot time of 60 seconds. The practised eye is able at once to tell »i«t_er it is bad enough, to bo straightway excluded, good enough to be acept«l, or whether in generous mood * it might he> regarded ns doubtful. In ' conversation with one of the committee I was struck by his insistence on tho , wgerncai with which the judges seek »fter modest "merit. Nothing gives them greater delight than to discover it in a new quarter, nothing is more learty than their appreciation. If the picture is unmistakably b«d. the president,curtly says, ''Rejected." Whereupon thc porter chalks the fatal letter Ron the back of the canvas. It goes down to the cellarage, and by and bye a polite letter will announce to the hapless artist tho regret of tho presi- . dent and council that they could not find room to hang it. It may bo marked "Doubtful" with a Vvs T>, in which

case it has a chance of getting in. • When all the pictures h<ive been gone through, the Hanging Committee come on the scene. The first thing they do is to hang their own and their fellowmembers' pictures, with any others by outsiders that have passed the Council of Selection. This done, there generally rt-mains considerable space, and then " comes the opportunity of tho D's. Tho ! best are picked out, and even the rest L have a chance.. Tbey cannot all be I hung - . As a rale, tho Jittlo ones that m jail Ml in odd corners have the best I ijance.