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MRS. LAURA KNIGHTS REMARKABLE REALISM.

LONDON EXHIBITION.

CALL TO YOUTH.

PRIME MINISTER AND DEMOCRACY,

BEARING THE TORCH..

There has been a gront move- The practice of electing women A rousing appeal to the youth of ment afoot during recent years to as members of learned, artistic, or England to prepare itself to receive prove that women are human be otherwise distinguished bodies is in due time from the aldor politi- ings. It is true that a large num-still so recent an innovation that clans the torch that lighted the path ber of men and a fair number of each occasion on which a woman of national progress зуда made women have never denied it. But is so honoured carries with it a recently by the Prime Minister. anyhow the statement is now on mild sonention. No doubt, there Mr. Baldwin was addressing a the Statutes, and may be regard- fore, the fact that Mrs. Laura great demonstration in the Albert ed as comparatively true (writes Knight is a

woman added some Hall, organised by the Junior Im- Owen Nares, the well-known Lon-

thing to the general interest in her perial League. The hall was crowd- don actor).

It has further been discoveres election last year as an Associato ed to its capacity and, despite the of the Royal Academy, writes R. bitterly cold weather, a large that the mind of man is very like R. Tatlock in the "Daily Tele- gathering assembled also in Hyde the mind of a woman; and that

graph."

Park to hear the speech through too, both Adam and Eve and The exhibition of her pic- the medium of loud speakers. Robert and Elizabeth Browning tures, at tha Leicester Gal The vast audience within the would have granted. But go a Terica, 18, however, B aub- Albert Hall gave the Prime Minis step beyond that, and claim that atantial proof that her reputation ter an enthusiastic reception. mentally and emotionally women does not depend, even if it be a and men are identical, and there little enhanced, either on her he- life in a wonderful ago," the Prime "You are starting your political the trouble begins.

ing a woman or an A.R.A. She is Minister told his audience of young

At the next election We have our first election under complète manhood suffrage. and the -lesser term In- cludes the greater, (Laughter.) Mr. Baldwin Jaid stress on the fact that democracy had its difficul-

When you meet a woman in a certainly PAL of the cloverest people. The world over since the drawing room, and talk to her about Shakespeare and the musi-painters, male or female, in Eng war had been trying to start a new

land. By clever, I mean elever life. cal glasses and her golfing handi- cap, it is possible that the re-with her brush, in the sense of be- actions may be precisely thoseling fluent. That is her supreme between two men talking on the merit. This might seem at a first'

glance the same thing as mying same topics.

They may be. Anyhow, let's that she is one of the greatest of take it for granted! But, be that living English painters. And yet I cannot bring myself to go as far as it may, it is certain that as

as that, the relation becomes more person- Having come to that conclusion ties, and that the perfect demo- al and electric, a tremendous dif- ference is revealed. And if the it is necessary to explain and de- cracy was one in which everybody two are married, then for either fend it. First of all, Mrs. Knight played his part. There could be no to treat the other, in the course is nothing if not a realist, and has greater danger to democracy than

Her ob-

when people were careless of the of their ordinary daily routine of the realist's limitations.

representatives they chose. meals and talk as if both were secrations are always literal, and

We were greatly helped in our of the same sex may lead to quite before her pictures we

feeling that to the mind that con- the Crown as the supreme head, to progress by the fact that we had fatal consequences.

Take the case of sickness! ceived them anything more than When women are sick they like to the outward aspect of the visible which all parties could look as the

symbol of the unity of the nation. Was -comprehended. be made a great fuss of. So they: do when they're nervy and upset. marvel at the wonderful co-ordion- And so do children. But in such tion of hand and eye, but we miss desperate circumstances, mén; the hints of philosophy, of humour, crave solitude; they want to be and of poetry that account for so left completely und severely alone, much of our enjoyment of great And the bother of it is that each pictures.

It is not that she is dull, but sex judges the other by its own feelings..

rather that, as a painter, she lacks

have no

world

We

A woman will always be inclin-subtlety. This limitation is most, ed to pet a man with the tooth- often demonstrable through colour,! ache. A man's instinctive feel- and in the ease of these pictures! ing, when his wife is ill, is to lie that, I think, holds good. If we low and say nuffin. In the first turn for a moment to the picture, casd the man gets irritated; in of a negress and her baby, entiti- the second case the woman is ed "The Madonna of the Cotton- convinced that he no longer loves fields" (49), and. look at the pig- her.

ment and think of colour, we are Much the same is true of at once aware of a certain insen- health. When two men share sitiveness.

digs they keep each other at a dis- The colours themselves somehow. tance. When they are in together, lack quality, and, taken together, they indulge in long silences over they clash. It is impossible not to a pipe and a book. When one notice how grossly the blue of the goes out the other never asks ribbon is in disagreement with the whither. But I am told that two brown of the skin or how it com- women in such circumstances de- petes with the blue high-lights of pend far more on each other's the flesh. society.

Photographic Effects.

The following points are taken from the speech:

We must make democracy safe for the world.

Do not talk about rights; talk about duty. If everyone did hia' duty there would be no question of rights.

You do not go into politles for what you can get, but for what you can give and do.

The truest patriotism is that which is grounded in the love of home.

Patlonce is necessary; evolu- tion in the political as in the natural world is slow; cataclysma can only lead our people to starvation.

It is essential for world peace that this and world progress country stand like a rock in the waves, however rough they may

be.

Mr. Baldwin concluded his speech to youth. "There with a tribute never was a time," he said, "when there were more people in this coun-

Think, then, what may happen Apart from eclour altogether,try of ours, and especially among when a couple marry, and the one the scenes are observed and depict the young, who are determined to party demands close companion-ed without much selection. It is make whatever sacrifice is neces- ship and the other solitude with as if Mrs. Knight were indifferent sary for the advancement of the a companion within call! What to the appeal of beauty in nature, well-being of their country."

A feature of the demonstration

is needed, of course, is mutual ao that she is rather like someone was a speech by a school-girl mem- understanding and tolerance; and going about with a camera and

that is what you get.

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in the case of a happy marriage "napping anything that happen- ber of the League.

Something But in order that a man may be led to come his way. able to put up with that strange down It goes, just as if it were quité incongruous may appear, and creature (a woman) about the as relevant as a horse is to a cart, house, and a woman to put up or steam to an engine. When I with a man, it is necessary for have added that her compositions each of them to have frequent also often lack finesse I have add- opportunities of seeking society ed all I can by way of a criticism quite free from members of the that may seem like ingratitude. opposite sex. That does them

PASSPOE CONVENTION-

DISREGARDED.

Paire, March 25, The pictures in the exhibition New and vexatious regulations good; but the oportunities are seem to divide themselves inevit-affecting foreigners in France have dwindling.

Men and women are together in ably into two classes the deliber-been brought into force by a decree Easily the published in the "Journal Officiel." offices, they are together in clubs late and the casual.

Any foreigner changing his ad-

yes, the innermost ramparts most notable example of the for- are down, women have passed the mer class is the picture of the head dresa or moving from ons locality most exclusive portals, with the and shoulders of a nude female to another must before his de- and Gold" parture go to the nearest police last of the majors glaring in-model, entitled "Blue

(36). Here the artist has taken station and obtain a visa. A visa |dignantly in the silence-room.

Now, I am of opinion that immense trouble to achieve unity must also be obtained, by a foreigner] though women are all the better and she has succeeded brilliantly. before he leaves this country. The painting of the flesh is mas- Fines will be imposed for non-com- for getting away from men oc- casionally, they rather like the terly, the drawing of the features pliance with the new regulations.. new state of things. I am sure better than we have any right to; Identity cards which must be ob anyhow that man is suffering expect. Very few masters even of tained by every foreigner who more from it. I am sure that the English eighteenth century women brought it about. In fact have this special gift so fully deve remains two months on French sell, must, says the decree, be presented to we are to-day suffering from the loped."

the administrative authorities dominance of woman.

whenever asked for, and, if such a request is refused punishment will follow.

Man is the chattel, and, as in a play now on "somewhere in Eng- land," the man tears at his chains. In extreme cases he may decide

to lose his memory and seek

(Continued at foot of next

Column.)

DON'T BE IRRITABLE.

The new decree is utterly opposed

to the Franco-British convention, which mutually abolished visas.

A British subject resident

In

fresh woods and pastures new, But he will carry his chains with

It doesn't pay to be irritable. France-or a visitor if he remains him! Unless he enters a monas-No one wants to be bothered with here for two months-must, accord- tery! I gather that there he is the ill-tempered or morose. When ing to the decree, obtain a French safe.

Probably the present state of you feel gloomy, ill-tempered, ready police permit before he can go to things is merely what politicians to "fly off the handle" at the alight England. call the awing of the pendulum. est provocation, blame it on to your In a remote antiquity, which no liver-where most likely it belongs modern man can belleve ever to-and make a mental note to take

bed-time, In a drawing competition be- have existed, woman was the couple of Pinkettos at chattel of man.

She is now hav- It's really wonderful how quietly tween Romney and Mrs. Knight, ing her revenge by joining our and efficiently. Pinkettes work, the old master would find himself clubs. But the pendulum will Just a little dose to-night, then a humillated every time. Two other | swing again—and the club. :-. long sound sleep, and your liverish-pictures in the exhibition 'surpasa And.. well, do you know, ness, billous headache, constipa-"Gold and Blue" as designs, which I have the idea that even as it is tion, will have vanished by morn-is what matters most. They are most marriages are tolerably ing. Chemists everywhere sell Pin-"A Study" (95) and "The Bed- happy,

kettes, or post free, 60 cents the room" (52),

By a boundary treaty which has been under consideration between Colombia and Peru' since 1922, and which has, just been ratified, Colombla, cades to Peru the greater portion of the strip of territory known as the Commissariat of Punta Mayo.

vial, from The Dr. Williams' Medi- The former of these, as its title cine Co., 60, Kiangse Road, Shang- implies, belongs to what I have hai.

called the casual group. They are the most satisfactory pictures In the exhibition, perhaps because

PINKETTES through them the artist makes no

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