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fuch as the friends of the movement regret these violent extremes, they seem to have larsed furies they can no langet |cantes) and if those tactics, are kept op Graduated in America at the Moler there is certainly no saying whether in this generation women will enter the polling System of Colleges.

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We seem to be at the parting of the ways far as athletics are concerned. Either

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Not that our poor showing at Stockholm

has really surprised thuse in the knox, but the results are no less unpalatable for al that. The fact is we still strain very hard at our amateur rules while the Americans openly use subscribed money to maintain and in their teams. Mo eover they specialise. Moreover they are now profiting by the fusion of the races and the area of Chief Manager. their choice. If we roped in the whole 1099 British empire and sent in a British team

instead of an English one, a Canadian ane a South African one and so forth, we might do better. But still this little island used to lead the way but it is not always a good

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"And now" he continued "I have seen all the countries of the globe and there are none that I want to see again. Civilisation has destroyed everything that picturesqe in the countries I once loved. What a horrible thing it would be to see China and Japin covered with telegraph posts and modern villas! And I will write no more. All I want now is peace and

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Those who intend learning the Chinese language are requested to write care of solitude. My little house at Rochefort in China Mau office or direct to 97. Holly. quite inaccessible and 1 intend to end mywood' Road, 1st floor. days there."

Hongkong, May 17, 1912,

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RICH WOMAN'S THOUGHT. LESS SCHEME.

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taken it into her head to adopt, for ten- days, twenty young working girls. Thes girls are to be taken into her magnificent home to enjoy for ten days all the pleasures that wealth can buy. They are to be given benutiful clothes and delicious fond In short, what mast seem to them, a fairy palace is to be their home for the time being. Then they are to be sent back to their homes and their work. Mrs Andersan, (this is the Indy's name) is said to be a writer of

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sportsmen, for wego into it for the love of good feeling to really produce such a de sport and not merely to win. Bat to win lightful work of art. one.. wonders that is to crown our pleasure with success, and she would not hesitate about trying an as one correspondent puts it, "if the experiment, the consequences of which Americans have tricks, we must either are likely to be the reverse of happy. train in those tricks or learn some way of While the girls may enjoy their holdiday, countering them." Any way you look at it is scarcely possible that they will be it the athletic world at home is sore as Sore contented to back contentedly to a life of teil and poverty from which

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