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THE AGEING HEROINE.
come Empty and Meaningless. STATE AND CROWN COLONIES. What does she do? She—”
"She goes away to Labrador," BY BEATRICE WASHBURN. we answered, "and finds the whole problem the same when she comes back. And besides, H. G. Wells does make them young! Ann Veronica-"
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A few days ago we were talking with our friend, the publisher, in regard to our heroine, a lady on whom we had spent many anxiousThe only one." he insisted days and sleepless nights. The "Look at Lady Harmon and publisher was unflatteringly non- Amanda and Mary- committal.
"All right," he said, but her to change age. You'll have that."
He smiled, more in sorrow than in anger. "Why, don't you know? A heroine nowadays must be over thirty. It's one of the rules of modern literature. Lookat Mary Wing and Helena Richie, and Lily Bart and Anna Karenia, Mrs. Hauksbee and Bertha Amory-"
"They started young," objected..
"Still" we
LORD MILNER'S POLIÖY.
Lord Milner Was the chief guest at a British East African dinner held at the Savoy Hotel on July 25, under the chairman- ship of Sir Owen Philipps. The dinner, which was organised by we Brigadier-General Sir Owen Thomas, M. P., and a committee. was given by representatives of various interests in British East Africa..
"Oh, of course they all started young," he returned, "everybody "But," we protested, bewilder- does that. But they don't really
-Lord Milner, replying to the ed, "she's just twenty-four. Sure-begin to live until they are past ly that's young enough—"
thirty. Look at Arnold Bennett's toast of his health, said the late Alice Challice in 'Buried Alive Mr. Joseph Chamberlain was an she was over forty and the two example as a Colonial adminis Baines sisters in The Old Wivestrator, that he had always set. before himself. He initiated a Tale'-"
remarked, "you new system and a new spirit in haven't accounted for Helen of the government of our Empire. especially, he might say, in the Troy."
"There are many subjects that development of the non-self- a mere man is unable to account he hoped might be maintained governing positions of it, which for," he answered, with a sudden under all his successors. But as access of modesty, and the in- cident of Helen of Troy is one of far as he was personally concern- them. I have been informed, and ed he had not had time to prove himself either a worthy or, an have no reason to doubt, that the
unworthy successor to that great lady in question was forty-seven and had red hair at the time she man. During the comparatively launched the thousand ships and short period that he had been at burned the topless towers of Ilium, the Colonial Office they had been But be that as it may, if you wish all so much occupied with the aftermath of the war. Especially to inquire further into the private and social life of the ancient as far as East Africa was con- Greeks you will find that youth Cerned he had almost everything was a quality greatly sought yet to learn.
We might differ on a hundred after. Take Ulysses, for instance and a thousand points of Colonial His devotion to Penelope was administration, but no two men said to be genuine, and yet we of sense could possibly differ are informed that he left her for about the vital importance of some ten years to weave shirts
And Lady Castlewood and Emma Bovary and Guinevere and Helen of Troy, we continued thoughtfully. The idea isn't so very modern, after all."
"The men of those times liked them young.
We were about to say that the men of all times liked them young, but he hurried on: "Salome and Esther and Delilah. if you must go back that far"
Cleopatra and the Queen of Sheba," we chanted, whereupon he settled down for an argument.
It must be admitted," he began, "that times have changed since the precocious Juliet carried on her well-known affair with Romeo. Imagine a modern heroine doing
anything at fourteen except terrorize her family with her ideas on intel- lectual freedom and the relations of the sexes!
"They don't do that until nineteen," we asserted firmly "You're wrong on your dates. At fourteen they are still in boarding-school."
He waived the reply aside. "The point is the same. At fourteen the modern heroine is, spiritually speaking, in her cradle. She does not realise she has a soul until at least twenty- pine"
Twenty-nine does seem to be the magic date," we agreed, "Mrs. Humphry Ward's heroines all
while he passed the time very intimate connection and a thor pleasantly with the nymph oughly good understanding be tween the official and unofficial Calypso. Not all of it, I admit element interested in Colonial there was Circe
development. (Cheers.) He did "She could hardly be called not like to promise much, but young," we interjected.
he would always give that Ho reflected. "There you touch open mind with which be upon a delicate subject. What was sometimes reproached (langh- technically speaking, is youth? ter), and the open ear to the If it is merely a question of years, representations of those who were then how about Daphne and actually interested in and had Apollo and the slim Diana and practical experience of the life of Peter Pan, the child who will the countries to some extent en- never grow up? And Hebe herself, trusted to his care." Indeed, the the goddess of youth, who used to one thing which weighed upon carry nectar and ambrosia to him rather heavily was the sense refresh the gods?"
of the extreme responsibility of the office he held, of the enormous potentialities of that vast Colonial "Which is that Proserpines and Empire which was ours-and he Undines and Lorna Doones and might say he was speaking
"You are wandering frors the point, which is
even occasions when she has a wrinkle in the delicate fabric of her cheek and the author does not always hesitate to draw a streak- of gray in her raven hair."
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find themselves on their twenty-Babbies, the Tesses and Hetty rather of that Empire which was avoiding waste (hear, hear), but keenly interested in the countries ninth birthday. Never а day Sorrels and Juliets and Ophelias, more or less administered from he remained impenitently con- they were going out to administer. before. But, comparing them to are yielding to a new type the home, and pot at all in those vinced that wise expenditure, It was not so easy to do it because Juliet, you might say that the woman who has passed her thir-interests of the self-governing expenditure on development, was we had not enough men to go Southern climate-→→→→
tieth milestone and has lost the Dominions of its vast potan not waste, but economy (cheets), round-men of the high quality first bloom of youth. There are fialities and of the fact that we and he felt that more especially which we wanted.
If living was to remain bad so far, so to speak, only with regard to what Mr. Cham- scraped the surface of those ter-berlain once called "our great costly as it was the pecuniary in- For ex-ducements we offered were totally ritories.
undeveloped States." penditure and sound development insufficient. That was a matter our Colonial Empire presented to which it was not possible to almost an unlimited field. It was shut our eyes. He hoped none of a question of fostering the spirit those in the colonial service would of enterprise, of giving help and think that be believed that money support to those who showed that was their principal inducement to do their duty. He believed what they should have it.
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'If you were going to remark that the Mediterranean climate hastens the development of heroines," he interrupted. "I mast beg you to desist, for, while
It was true that in some re- this may hold true of such classic examples
Juliet
and
"If this is true," we demanded, spects a great work had been Beatrice"
"then what is to be done with accomplished. We had through "And Carmen- we interpos- our heroine? What shall she out the Crown Colonies and the ed.
do for the next six years before Protectorates in all parts of the There are still Desdemona she can emerge ready to cope world established peace, order, and Beatrice D'Este and Cath- with the demands of modern justice, good and humane govern- erine de Medici-ell the Medicis, literature?" Convents
no ment. On that side we had a fhe velopment in our colonies would opportunity of producing those in fact, who did not attain the longer in existence and she is record. But as to making the in the future, as in the past, be great results which & really able progressive mah could complete use of their remarkable strong, beautiful—-”
most of their material resources carried on mainly by private in-and talents until well past thirty.“
"She might take up suffrage we were only at the beginning dividuals fisking their capital, produce in new and growing "That is history," we reminded
or run a car for the National In the vast problems of develop putting in their energy, not lean countries. him coldly, "not literature.”
"Ah," he cried, "that merely League for Women's Service," ment which lay before us, with- ing unduly upon Government Lord Milner, paid a tribute to out great improvement in trans- support. He should be the last the men of the Colonial service he suggested brightly." proves my point While the con-
portation by sea and land, to wish to see the Government who had stuck to their posts dûr- "She is not athletic," were shipping, temporaneous ladies of the day
roads, railways, attempting to do everything, or in ing the war under circumstances may have been, to put it mildly, turned firmly. "and besides, she no great substantial prorrass any way substituting Govern- of peculiar hardship. East
has been to college." middle-aged, the fact remains
could be achieved. That ment activity for that private Africa, he said, was an Empire in that the heroines of their litera-.
"How about interior decorat was not everything, but it enterprise and energy which had itself. We were holding it ander ture, were all in their teens. !" ing 2" he hazarded. "Every well-was the foundation of all great been the mainspring of our Ima mandate from the Great "And the moral of that is?”. regulated heroine takes a course material progres. Yet there was perial development. At the same Powers. That did not trouble- "That the man of to-day," he in interior decorating and some not one of our more important time, the Government coud, him at all. There was nothing zasist; and an in the conditions under which we exclaimed, warming to the sub- of them even get a job Or she Colonies and Protectorates which and must, ject, "wants woman as a compan- might have a studio in Greenwich was not still very much behind enormous deal depended upon held this territory which was ion, helpmate, friend. He no Village and cultivate Vera Libre. hand in these vital matters. And having governors, ad opposed to the principles on- longer is tricked by a Dora or a Teaching has gone out of fashion, that was all the more remark- ministrators, and chief officials which we administered our doll baby. A modern heroine is and so, unfortunately, have the able, because whatever had been men who were not merely content existing Empire. He never as the often married and the mother of arts. Time was when a heroine done in that direction for in- to carry on, without discredit, to desired to see, several children. Indeed to-day, could adopt a brilliant career as stance, in railway development do their daily work fairly and result of this war, a great, ez- it is almost essential for a heroine an opera singer or portrait had been so rapidly and com- honourably, to play for safety pansion of British control of to be married."
painter, but nowadays—"
(hear, hear) but who exhibited a territory. We had to pletely successful.
"That is not so very original, either, we reminded him, "the French-
Business Man," we hazarded, and find out ofter a few years that marriage is a disappoint ment and the she must Lead Her Own Life
as,
"She might marry & Tired This was a question of money real keenness about the develop because it was a dut
and of men. He was almost ment of those countries and about world afraid to speak about money, be getting the very most out of their cause in the House of Parliament Imperial resources. He thought to which he had the honour to we were fortunate in having men
nolo belong he had to listen day after of that, He shook his head, sadly, day to the most lugubrious repre- services, many
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not shy
Again be brushed us aside. "In adifferent sense, altogether differ ent To-day a woman may be happily married and at the same time find that her country houses, |“ Even that is Permutator TOBLAW Andra devoted thing to do husband prevent her from Expres~AHIL have it)
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