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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 101, 30 April 1909, Page 9

Miss Sara Dean, the author of "Travers," which dealt with the San Francisco fire, has been absent from America for a year and a half, and is now in Australia gathering literary material. It is f>aid that her next book will be an historical romance. The most effective result of the suffragette disturbances in England has been the forming of an Actresses' Franchise League, with Mrs. Kendal for president and Miss Gertrude Elliott (who was a member of Nat. Godwin's company in Australia years ago) a.s a leading light. Even the stupidest old , Tory has to admit that a popular ac- ' tress is a more intelligent person than the average male voter, writes a lady in the Bulletin. Also he perceives, the absurdity of 'denying her the franchise on the ground that "a woman's proper place, js her homo." His cant phrase sticks in the throat of the lord of creation who is discussing Bernhardt's latest production at his domestic tea-table, or feasting his eyes on a "principal boy" at the panto. In the face of his favourite mummeress the hard-shell Tory drops his argument against the extension of the franchise to women. If she can eavn a large salary and support a young family by appearing on the stage and stopping out late at night, it is evident to the slowest understanding that her proper place isn't at home. The leagued actresses are the most forcible champions that the suffragettes have secured in London. At their first meeting the other >week ' one of the speakers remarked that the people who wouldn't let a woman leave her "home" j to record a vote "seemed to look upon the ballot-box as a sort of residential club," and as for the silly objection that she wonldn't know what to do with a vote if she had one, they might as well protest that she wouldn't know what to do with a baby. It is a very interesting illustration of the new spirit awakening in China, says one writer, that the native Government have iusfc_ opened a hospital for women in Tien-tsin which is to be entirely man- j aged and officered by women. A. j Chinese woman, Dr. Kin by name, who has received a complete medical educa- ! tion in America, has been placed at tho head, and the Government have just appointed an English medical woman, Dr. Lillie Saville, to co-operate with her. Dr. Saville, who has had long experience of work in China, in connection with the London Mission, left London on Saturday, and will travel overland, through Siberia. Mr. Seymour Hicks has made a spirited defence of the actresses on whom Lord Guthi-ie passed some scathing stric- | tures in his judgment in the Stijriing divorce case. "Neither economy nor domesticity was to be expected," the learned judge remarked in giving his decision, "in a wife selected from the Adelphi chorus." "Taken, generally, and not in exceptional cases," said Mr. Hicks to a London representative of the Sunday Chronicle, the Scottish judge is considerably beside the mark. Happy marriages to titled and wealthy people have been the rule and not the exception during recent years, and the stage has nobly and honourably filled high places in the land. And of those girls who have wedded fiom the chorus into good families, I know that their strength of character and intellectual ability was much above the average. The very fact that they had to play parts which were a great deal more exacting, both in mental and physical strain— to say nothing of the necessary educational training — than the average well-to-do English girl in her daily routine, proved their jitness to manage domestic affairs. A chorus girl has many serious difficulties to overcome. The lessons she learns protect her from the position ill-defined by the Scottish Court. Nowadays there is more hard training than Bohemianism in her life. A more delightful set of people than the hundreds of actresses and chorus girls that I know who have married into good society, I never wish to meet." The new era in Turkey indeed ! It is not only the sons of the Piophefc who are throwing off old restraintst; the Daughters of Islam are emancipating themselves also, and in some cases rather faster than the reformers Kke. In this agb of progress they disdain the time-honoured seclusion of the harem, and are claiming all, and perhaps rather more than all, the privileges of their Western sisters. In some towns they have thixnvn off the yashmak and go abroad unveiled in the open streets — a thing which might have mea-nt the sack and the bow-stiing not so many years ago. But they do not even stop at this point ; as may be gathered from the fact that the local authorities of Smyrna have found it necessary to enact penal ties against the practice of conversation between the sexes in public places. In future any man convicted of talking to a Muhamada woman in the street will be heavily fined ; and the behaviour of the lady ■will be officially reported to her husband, father, or brother. Presently, no doubt, we shall hear of Muhamadan suffragettes. — Standard of Empire. How many a lady there is to-day whose hair has turned prematurely grey through some great trouble, overwrought deep seated nervous affectkm, etc., and while she deeply laments this fact, she objects, and rightly so, to use a dye. But that course, which is naturally repulsive to you is altogether unnecessary, for by the use of the wonderful "Milos Hair Restorer," you can completely restore your hair to its natural shade, in a natural way. 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