Notes and Comment.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1797, 18 May 1912, Page 2

Notes and Comment.

We Second This Motion. In reply to the question, Who was the greatest woman in all history? an American writer says: "The wife of the farmer of moderate means who does her _ own cooking, washing, ironing, sewing, bringing up of a family i of boys and girls to be useful members of society, and finds time, for intellectual improvement, is the greatest woman in. ell history." j Complex and Stupendous. I Americans claim that they are the greatest folks on this footstool, and they use a magaphono in saying so. But the Canadians can give them points—and they are not boasting about it- Just look, for proof, _at the way Canada is catching immigrants from all over the world. During the last eight years more than 1,225,000 settlers have entered the Dominion ! the high-water mark in a single year having been reached in 1907-8, when 262,469 landed on the Canadian shores In 1909-10 the number was 180,794. Of these immigrants, nearly one-half in the former year, and mere than fourth in the latter, were British. This great influx of people of all nationalities streaming into tlie Dpminion—chiefly; over the Eastern seaboard and the International boundary, but also from Eastern lands via Vancouver—has imposed on the Canadian authorities a task infinitelj ramified in its complexities and stuof its winter. But, there —advertising will do anything for everything— from making a fortune but of a pill to filling a _ country overseas with population. "* Wells for Not-too-Easy Divorce, England is still exercised over the ■ divorce question, and there has been [ an enormous quantity of ink spilled upon much paper in the comtro- ' versy. The latest contributor on the subject is H. G. Wells... the novelist. He has a special article in that >new mammoth in magazines, pendotis in its demands. And alljhis flocking to Canada despite the rigours Casselrs ' Magazine of Fiction. Mr AVells does not like the idea of top easy divorce; he holds that it is

better to endure than to obtain freedom over readily. ' 'For my own part, I do not think the maintenance of a marriage .that is indissoluble, that precludes tlie survivor from re-mar-riage, thai/ gives neither party an external refuge from ithe misbehaviour of the other, and makes the children the absolute, property of their parents until they grow up, would cause any very general unhappiness. Most people are reasonable enough, good-tem-pered enough, and adaptable enough, to shake down even in a grip so rigid; and I would even go further, and say that its very rigidity, tllie entire absence of any way out at all, would oblige innumerable people to accommodate themselves to its conditions and make a working success of uiious that, under laxer conditions, would be almost certainly dissolved." (<rtainly America is the (Standing disgrace at the other extreme -ihe too easy-and-oheiap system of divorce.