DEAF AND BLIND DRAMATIST.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1911, Page 14

DEAF AND BLIND DRAMATIST.

» Paris is making some remarkable literary discoveries. The sensation of tha other day was the novel written by a poor blind seamstress, which has been compared for its style alone lo the work of that master of style, Anatole France. Equally surprising is the play just produced at the Odeon Theatre. "The writer is a girl stone deaf and nearly blind. Against all Parisian custom, the Odeoa audience vociferously demanded the author on the final fall of the curtain. A girl of twonty-five was led forward to take the applause. She had not heard a word of the play; the applause had faintly sounded in her ears, to be transferred by her deafness into the similitude of hoots. The play is said to be quite unusual, the situations dramatic, the dialogue brilliant. If the audience kuew the author was afflicted as she is, tho knowledge would no doubt add to their enthusia-sm ; but we do not suppose pity; would stimulate them to their exceptional delight- and approval. The truth is probably that the poor girl, cut of? to so great an extent from the outside world, has produced something fresh — something unaffected by the petty tides of literary and theatrical fashion. And something fresh is what both Paris and London are ever ready to welcome with, rejoicing,— St. James's Budget.

In Denmark dairying and co-opcrativa bacon curing are the two most important forms of co-operation, but there are also tocieties for testing the quantity and richness of milk yielded by members' cows. The co-operative sale of produce is extensively practised in the United Stales. Japan has assimilated the co-operative principle ac thoroughly as she has assimilated many other Western ideas. la 1909, there were twenty-one co-onerative agricultural societies in Japan; "in 1909, the number had risen to 5149, and the membership was nearly half a million. NO MORE COLDS THIS SUMMER.. Those little chills one takes in summer often lead to very nasty, stubborn coughs and colds. If you have the slightest suspicion of a cold about you, it's wisest to secure a bottle of Baxter's Lung Preserver from your chemist today. Price Is lOd the large sized bottle. — Advt.