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SIMPLIFIED SPELLING,
SOCIETY'S APPEAL TO HISTORY.
PETITION TO THE PRIME MINISTER.
Again and again the Women of Shake-
The petition to the Prime Minister, speare have proved "as attractive in the promoteur by the simplined. Spelling lecture room as upon the stage, and re-ociety, for a Moyal Commission to ex cently at the Royal Institution, Prof. Gordon added to our delight in them.
I believe it to be almost as true of Shakespence's "play as it certainly is of daily life be said, that where the woman is there also probably is the root and heart of the matter. Shakespeare's portraits of women have never been sur passed-women of all ranks, of all ages, from the queen to the dairymaid, from fifty to "fifteen; and if you think of it, from: Cleopatra to Miranda, from the
amine the question of Eaghsh spelling. was discussed at a meeting of the soulety held at University College recently. Dr. University College, Oxford, presided. Beginald Macan, former Master of
Sir Max HUNTER, the organising secretary, gave a concise account of the activities of the society during the past " year. As the close of 1933 his committee reviewed the atuation, and came to clie conclusion that the time bail come far make an organised effort to induce the authorities to institute a public inquiry into the whole
princess of courtesans to the most inno-ling It was too English snei-1
cent and virginal of all the daughters of women, what a range it is; he has the whole Empire of femininity at his, com- mand"
resolved to take up again the petition to the Prime Minis- ter, which was promoted before the war. When first launched, the petition receir edi, about 6,000 signatures, including many naues that carried weight. was resolved to make appeals to particu lac bodies and classes of persons, Becom panied by pamphlets and to meet
the abjections at those addressed. This had constituted a great part of the work is the
Touching upon the chief weapon of woman, her tongue, the lecturer remark. ed that he learned from Shakespeare that if that failed she can always scratch and if they turned to the plays with Shakespeare's medioral women. they would and they very often mentioned past year, and he thought he could say that the respouse bad Beed gratify. their nails. They called them their ten
ing. The general result had been that commandments, and they would also ob the signatures to the petition had been serve that, though they often threatened raised to 10,000. te scratch, is a rule, it would appear to Universities had raised the amber he be unnecessary; their tongue was quite select names from 299 to over 500, and enough. When Queen Margaret meant most of the Universities in the Empire business she used the knife. It was u were represented. The appeal to the hard world in those days both for women Public Schools, with one or two excep
Oa and children. There were more children tions, had been disappointing. the in the English history plays than a Departments overseas had t
other hand, the appeal to the Education with others Shakespeare wrote. They were charming, these little earls and princes, gratifying success. The support, both and they were nearly all killed. Here ladi, and the protected States, had from India, the provinces of British and there some woman finds it just pass been extensive and significant. ible to be womanly and just survive.
IN THE LAND OF ARCADIA.
When he continued we come to the comedies of Shakespeare we enter another world. Here in this land of Arcadia, this stage Utopia of Shaks speare, mere man lays down his arms There is never any question" really who rules in these latitudes; it is woman all the time.
No man er grudged the glitter ing heroines, these Rosalinds and Par ting, their success. No more witty, charm. ing. Invable rebellious, and. I would add, more level-hended young women ever
And Shake danced across the stage. speare himself seems to more with even new grace and vincity when one of them enters, for there is no denying that though he respected all woman, it was the young ones and the pretty ones he liked best."
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On July Uist a depatation, led by Dr. Macnamara, waited on the president of the Board of Education, whose reply, though it did not satiaty sanguine ex pectitions, was nevertheless now unsatis- factory. in the course of the discussion,
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WILLIAM BENNETT, Headmaster of more normal marriage. Of Miranda the intermediate School, Bridge of Allan, with a mother it was not even easy to Scotland, gave an account of the ex think, a Madame Prospera magician periments that had been carried out in with a wife was not easy to concesse he said, was becoming more and more Scottish schools. The cry for reform. And ́Prospero Pir waionanette suggested | too violently the Swiss Family Robin insistent. If things were allowed to go son" with Caliban is a native servant! A as they were, English could never be Portia, Beatrice, Rosulin! needed Gladstone bad shown that 27.3 per cent. come the commercial language. Prof, mother, and had little use for parents of either sort. A good many of Shake speare's women had fathers who were preferred no doubt by Shakespeare be- Cause they were less in the way.
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