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Evening Star, Issue 7168, 23 March 1887, Page 3

Divines in England appear to be may liberal minded on the question of Sunday observance and amusements generally than some of their brethren in the colonies. The ‘ Globe ’ states that the success of the, exhibition of prints at the Rev. S. A. Barnet’s schools in Commercial street, Whitechapel, has led to its continuance during each succeeding Saturday and Sunday until the 21 st February. St. Jude’s schools are open free for this purpose from 10 a.m. lo 10 p.m,, and hundreds daily have availed themselves of the excellent collection of prints which Mr Barnet has obtained on loan from the British Museum and the leading print-sellers. A somewhat similar experiment, but one on a more extended scale, has been carried out each Sunday afternoon in the Mechanics’ Theatre, at Hull. The object is to provide some rational form of recreation for the masses apart from mere Sunday school teaching, and the method hit upon seems to have answered the purpose admirably. Good songs and good music form a large proportion of the entertainment, which is made up of extracts from the best poems and interesting books, and no reading exceeds fifteen or twenty minutes in length. All the work is voluntary, and there seems no difficulty in obtaining any number of halls and suitable rooms for the purpose, although some objections have been made as regards Board schools. The ‘ Pall Mall Gazette ’ reports that on Saturday evening, the 22nd January, at Auderton’s Hotel, Fleet street, a Cinderella ball, got up by the members of the Rev. H. C. Shuttleworth’s congregation of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, went of with much spirit, the rector, several other clergymen, some gentlemen of the long robe, and several actors and actresses being present. A stately minuet was danced. Mr Shuttleworth gives “at homes ” at his own rectory, where on clit dancing lessons are given without charge, because lie desires to afford to young men and young women engaged in warehouses in the City the opportunity of innocent recreation and society, without having to seek them in places with dangerous surroundings. In saying good-night to his friends on Saturday Mr Shuttleworth expressed his confidence that the Sunday’s devotion would not be the less real because of their Saturday night’s pleasure. Nor were his anticipations falsified ; for at all the four services on Sunday there were large and devout congregations.

“Does the dress make the lady?’’ asks an exchange. From the description of s iclety receptions it appears that absence of dress makes the fashionable lady. A young man thought that he could tike a cow’s calf away from her. He is now wearing a beautiful costume of lint and old sheets, gored across the shoulders. Tho corset is a paradox. It comes to stay, and at the same time goes to waist.