VARIOUS NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 740, 12 February 1910, Page 11

VARIOUS NOTES.

A Chioago theatre-announces,- instead o! the ;usual -babies', in arras -not admitted, that ,'ample - provisions are : niade for; iifc., fants. A big nursery -is. attached to.j the theatre, where children- can. bo safely. left during the . performance, ,and • many ' a mother ; ,is now. enabled ~to, ;'seo - a play wliich, would otherwise have to be missed. A woman's paper, contaeuting oh ,this iu-, novation, suggests, thatvchurches -should adopt;th« plan, M-that.mothers, of: young babies should net, lie dobarred ;;from attending services,' as they so often/are.'■ -

/'The.-itoiucn of;New,,Orleans are; solidly, 'hesisting an effort: to ■ exempt! "first-class, theatres' from the provisions of the.child ; labourjlaw. .The mothers-, declare, that .'the - late, hours, .and excitement; of-'the stage must' be. bad for children,, no, mat-, ier, in', what sort;of -theatre, they, perform, , and on this belief. .they,. are., taking. a strong stand., • ■■- . . , The-French Academy .■ of. 1-Moral.- and Political Science h«s,-o£fercd, a, piize of. .£IOO for. a thesis "The Right of Suffrage: Should it-be. extended, to Women! In what circumstances , and to - .what ex-, tent? The history of the movement, and its application, in Frauee'.. and: in foreign countries." The prize will be awarded in : 1913;ih0 competition is open to men and women, and there is 110 condition that competitors must be Frcnch subjects. ■ Dr. Gertrude Hallcy (a Victorian) has done excellent work as a health inspector : of scholars in; Tasmania' J (says •a' MelI bowii'owriter. - Dr; Gertrndo, Halle-y -'Usually' follows, up the - infection of .'the children 'with a talk on - elementary hygiene -to: the, mothers.:. Tasmania. - is ahead of 'Victoria in., this Tespcct,- andclaims to havo madean end of the dirty child. 'Also,to have-led Ministers to provide for mentally- defective , children, who .were: not -altogether,', .idiotic, but dense enough to require special consideration and training.