Untitled

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12459, 8 February 1909, Page 1

When a woman with an infant in her arms was detected in the act of stealing a shawl at a. shop in Paris she pleaded that she was utterly destitute and Jiad taken the shawl to keep the baby warm. But the latter proved to be a hollow tin doll containing numerous stolen articles. Bishop Bldmfield was led into a controversy one time with a learned man as to the mental superiority of the East over the West, and his opponent, as a parting shot, said, "Well at any rate, you can,'t 'dispute that the wis.e men came from the East." "Surely that was the wisest thing they could do," retorted the Bisnop. 3 The Humanitarian League of England has addressed a petition to King Alfonso of Spain, asking that he ' should put a stop to bull fighting, as a barbarous past time, unworthy of I the high position held by Spain among the nations of the civilised world." j London, which used to boast of beJ ing the quietest and safest capital of the world, has become noisef than Paris and more dangerous than New 3 York. Nearly three hundred persons ars now killed annually by street accidents, and how many more just escape with their lives cannot be com- '' puted.— "Outlook." Miss Lillah M'Carthy, who was leading lady in Australia to the late Wilson Barrett thinks very highly of '' the' stage as a profession for women. 7 An interviewer' 'writes in the Westminster Gazette : — ' 'As for its being overcrowded," said Miss M'Carthy, ™ "that seems to be an altogether mistaken idea. Look at the splendid field that one has. Not London or England only, but abroad — Australia," Africa, Canada,— oh, everywhere ri one finds theatres, and where there h are theatres there is the need for ac- * tresses.". Miss M'Carthy is careful to explain that she means real qualiie fied artists, not the girl with the n pretty face and figure and an inor- ' dinats vanity, who desires to exploit all three at the expense of $he pub- „ V lie. "An untrained actress is offer- * ing an insult to her audience." . • ■ . !