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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 406, 15 January 1909, Page 5

.Redress of a great wrong is; what women are' fighting• for to-day. ■'■■. For this they, are.. enduring imprisonment as. common criminals and malefactors.:- The womenHn. this movement have not taken up this question of women's emancipation to play with it. AVe I mean-business—"Votes for Women.". The game of.statistics and comparisons is an elementary device.of. financial eloquence. Frenchmen would be ill-advised to believe that they are all rich, aiid that the financial'. situation of Franco is ideal simply because Prince Buelow says'so.. : Everything is re- , lative.—' Journal," Paris. : - '■Anything'further from the truth than the fanciful picture of "Afric's sunny fountains", rolling down their' "golden sand"—unless, indeed, we except the equally imaginative conception of the diamond that "lights up the secret mine"—it would bo hard to suggest.—" Diamond Fields Advertiser,"' Kimbcrlcy. . The peculiarities of the hunting field are ; disappearing. At one time half the coats were pink j now. tho proportion is ono in ten. '. Formerly the', scarlet coat was. considered | tho; thing, now black or grey is taking.its place.—"Tailor . and i Cutter." '. This paradox—spoken the other day in Lou- ' don by a native prince—represents the opinion j of many experienced men in. India. Sympathy ' has not kept pace with responsibility. Tin 1 ' ever-increasing and absorbing duties of Indhn • officials have tended to widen the gulf between '. the British administrator and the native. Ef- , Hciency has ex-icted.its peually.