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THE SEAMY SIDE.
TALES TOLD TO THE MAGISTRATE. A visit to West London Police Court seems to be regarded by many women living in the district as a necesary pre- Jude to the Saturday morning shopping expedition.
With a basket on one am and a bared baby on the other they line up for a few minutes" open-hearted chat to the magistrate, Mr. Ratcliffe Cousing, about their husband, or landlord, or lodger or the lady next door," as the case may
be.
The husband is invariably presented as Bluebeard, the landlord as an ogre. the lodger as an eternally intoxicated Bend who makes night and day hideous, and as for the feminine neighbour, the visitors find words very weak with which to describe her as she appears to them
Ocassionally, but very rarely, a titaid little husband comes along to plead for his militant. spousa, from protection There was one recently
He made his way very nervously to the witacss-box, and he twisted his cap with agitated Eagers as he haltingly told his trouble.
"Sir," he said miserably, "can I have a summons against my wife! She ran away from me some time ago, and now she won't leave me in peace.
MEN, WOMEN, AND LABELS.
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[BY STACY-AUMONIER.} The novel is conceived, written, typed, printed, and the corrected proofs sent off. The novelist sits back and gives a sigh of relief. He dismisses the matter from his mind and turns to other things. And then suddenly one day he gets an abrupt shock. It is a request from the publisher' that he should write up in twenty words or so" a description of the theme and purpose of his novel. In other words n label is demanded of him. The author goes hot and cold all over. How can he in twenty words or so summarise a work | that has probably takes him the best part of a year? He has perhaps written eighty thousand words to prove that what he has to say cannot be said in Awenty words.
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He. passes rest!ss nights, and in the end; in niac cases out of ten. he either gives it up or writes something that is quite useless from the publisher's point of view, Nevertheless, the label has to be written, and it eventually gets written by
some unknown power behind the throne. And so one day a copy of his Well, abserved Mr. Cousins. you novel is sens him. It is in jacket," can't proceed against your wife for leav ing you, you know.
and on this jacket is an illustration in Oh, no sir, hastily exclaimed the ap-lurid colours of some probably quite un plicant. I don't mean that it's the important episode in the book. And at- Annoyance she causes that I don't like. tached to this illustration is a paragraph If she could only leire me alone now-.
"Yes, but what does the do in you?" somewhat on the following lines: Mr. Cousins inquired.
The worried husband explained that his runaway wife frequently turned up and kicked up a row with him, his mother and his sisters." She says she'll drag me down to the very gutter." be declared bitterly. And she says she doesn't care for magistrates. police, courts, or anything. When I've deter mibed to do a thing." she says, 'I'll do
it'.
Mr. Cosing comfpited him with an assurance that if his wife annoyed him again she would be hauled before the court as a disorderly person.
A very tearful little woman who made a particular point of the fact that she
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The author goes hotter and colder; the reader shivers; the publisher chuck-
had been married 48 years and had ales. Nevertheless, the label is attached
son aged faltered: "And now my husband has threatened to kill me, smash up the home, and set fire to the house!
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She added that the police knew all about it," but had declared they were
"sick of him.".
and the book goes forth into the world.
But the clamour for labels is not cop- Ained to books. It is universal. Early in his career an actor has to tab him- self to denote whether he is a comedian, a tragedian, a comic or a knock-dbout. (There is, of course, a "serio-comic," but to one has ever yet found out what
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of the principal ports of the Far East have been The stupendous increase of expendi-gved by one of the most eminent Firms in on education without anything Great Britain and are annually corrected and
brought up to date. actor who is neither serious not comic.) Having once labelled himself, the actor like corresponding results is vigorously is never allowed to escape from his label criticised by Sir Henry Craik, Conser For the rest of his days he must go on
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Mr. Cousins suggested that a hint to the husband to behave himself and abana serio-comic is, except that it is an ture don his sanguinary-notions would be in season; but the applicant shook her head: That'll be no good, sir," she declared. "I shall be afraid to go home to him unless I've got a protection order playing the parts he commenced with Vative M.P. for Scottish Universities, in Tester Aria, the various Customs
Berler Otherwise the labels would get mixed up, an article on Sanity in Education" in Trade
surprising label is that from which the following extracts are Perhaps his most su
character" part. To talk of a of a character part is to suggest that there taken :-
So lately as 1900 the total expenditure are parts without character that a hero,
Lögland upon education or a heroine, for instance, have no charin
£9,000,000, of which about £5,000,000 came acter, that they are just puppets.
The origin of the label is clear and from taxes and £4,000,000 from rates. reasonable enough. If you go to an In 1994 the expenditure was nearly aquarium it is invaluable to know the £110,000,000-more than £41,000,000 from difference between a sword fish and taxes and more than £38,000,000 from rates. This represents a twelvefold in red mullet; or if you go to the Zoo it nice to know that there is a striking crease in 24 years. difference between a lion and a sea-lion In
or something that put some feeling into him, which he hasn't, any now."
Eventually, however, she was persuad- ed to take heart. "If it is proved that he ill-treats you in future i will have him before me and panish him severely," the magistrate told her.
It was said that a crowd of 200 people gathered menacingly around a middle- aged parlourmaid who made uncompli mentary remarks about policemen when they were attending to a man who was thought to be in a fit but was really drunk..
garden it is pleasant to be able
It is to be remembered that the num "Are these what we pay rates "and
ber of children in attendance has very taxes for?" she wanted to know, so one
Has.our intel- of the policemen took her to the station to differentiate between various cults of considerably decreased..
roses. To students in museums, and lectual development advanced in propor to convince her on the point
I. see you are described as a parleur galleries. and laboratories the label. is tion to this vast incream of cost? Ever But when it comes to if it has, are we prepared to face the maid," Mr. Cousins said. As a par- indispensable. lourmaid what rates and, taxes do you tabulating human beings we are on dif- fact that a few years more of similar ferent ground. You might have labels advance will ses the educational exped pay t"
The woman averted her eyes. I don't to let you know that one man is a China- diture increase far beyond the limits
man and another a Swede, but you can of our total present Budget? pay any," she admitted
It is just for this reason that it be No-I thought not," said the magis hardly have labels to let you know that trate, so you are stupid to talk about one is a good man, and the other collects comes the bounden duty of those who rates and taxes. Other people pay them postage stamps. For to-morrow the good have the real interests of education at so that the streets may be kept clear man will have done something very wick heart fearlessly to raise their voices of such people as yon-that, people like ed, perhaps, started a collection of post against this bloated expenditure, to urge you may be prevented from creating, aage stamps himself, whilst the collector the necessity of placing a curb upon the nuisance in the streets and disturbing of postage stamps may have already sold faddjats, of discarding many of the his collection and be indulging in some supefinities that are often just as hurs other people.
ful as they are extravagant. secret vice.
You
"Now you can go," he added. have been rather more stupid than usual, that's all."
The mob loves labels. It has no time
To hint at any reduction of it money for profundities, and it is suspicious of spent upon education is not only re- The parlourmaid stammered, "I'm subtlets or change. It demands that the actionary but criminal. We have abun phenoment of its observance shall be dant expression of this view in the very sorry, sir," and bastened away.
Going his rounds in Shepherd's Bush carl-idexed. tabulated, and pigeon-holed, House of Commons, and, backed as it before dawn the other morning, a police. so that at any moment it may pick out is by an overpowering sense of self- one of these references, and say: "Here righteousness, it seems hopeless to fight man, heard screams and wounds of a 10-
we have the second best portrait painter against What is most serious of all is lent quarrel. Presently a young woman rushed out of a house with a baby in her in Europe. This man is a vegetarian that it receives encouragement from each arms. "I will leave you!" she cried. and a fanatic, but he makes £20,000 a successive Minister of Education, what- Then came a torrent of bad language year out of his plays. People in Aber ever the party to which he professes to from a man and lurid retorts by thedeen are mean. Mr. Baldwin is a kind, we allegiance.
Windows flew up and neigh-honest man, these professions it ignores bours' heads popped out. The quarrel By making Bome ones were husband and wife, and the fact that the true genius of humanity they now faced the magistrate very lies in its power of reaction to the label, sheepishly.
Evening Standar
woman.
"I have no concern with your domestic 'differences,'
"The told them, "but I am very much concerned when domestic quarrels disturb other people." And he find the husband 20s, and bound the wife "over,......
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Summoned for a similar offence, ap- other husband asked the constable in the case "Where was I when you woke me up at five in the morning"
The officer explained that the quarrel was at about 2 am, and that he return ed at 6 to ascertain defendant's name.
"I had a little drop of drink," the noisy one told the magistrate.
It wasn't a little drop!" said the Latter
"
bat dull." And so on.
THE TANGO WOMAN.
NEW DREAMY TYPE OF DANCER
With the introduction of the new French tango will come a new type of woman dancer says & home paper.
This Tango woman" will be rather dreamy and low-voiced-reflecting the sighing philosophic quality of the music to which she dances. Har dance-frock will have a flared skirt, edged. in many in- stances, with a trimming of heavy fur, the weight of which will give a great sway to the dress adding to the grace of her mo
At this stage a sharp-featured woman at the rear of the court suddenly inter! vent. rupted: Excuse me, sir, but my hus Often, too, her frock will be of Tanzo hand didn't do any harm he was too colour that autumnal shade of golden intoxicated to know what happened, brown named after the dance. The heels And be's the father of my twenty-one of her sheer will be bigb, as much, per children, sir. Twenty-one.. she re
one lips, as 24 inches, and her may be of a peated proudly,
"Pay ten shillings," said the magis trate to the father R. E.. CORDER in Daily Mail.
different colour from the rest of the shor
Her hair-so Fashion dictaten should be inclined to earl rather than to wareho
We can turn up any speech by Mr. Fisher, by Mr. Edward Wood, by Mr. Trevelyan, and by lord Eustace Perry'; and without the guidance of Hansard we could not possibly tall which of the four was speakingN
WHERE COSTS CAN BE REDUCED. Lord Eustace Perey, President of the Board of Education, speaking at Nor. wich on public expenditure on education, said:
Twenty per cent of the cost of ad- ministration is for the Board's ex- penditure and 80 per cent for local authorities. It is here, if anywhere, that we must look for substantial economics,
Of the 243,000,000 appearing in the Civil Service estimates for the Board of Education, only £815,000 is spent on Civil Servanta, but I think there is undoubtedly some duplication of ad- ministration as between the Board and "the local authorities, and the time bas como when we should throw more res ponsibility on the teachers themselves and relax aomewhat the control exer- cised through administration and in- spection
I can promise local authorities that if they will do their part in this we at the Board will do ourE,
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