GEEMAN AND BRITISH WEALIH.
Bixty yours ago Great Britain possessed the most prosperousraral Industries in the world:
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are no longer safe and desizable investments their dainty and abarming persons into this tong | pose those will come in with the other abaurdi- | The shengess of money in Barland is not a | shanthiiks being who is alewaddy conquering the ties) and marvel that women could ever look so foolish. Yes, I suppose we shall have to suffer sign of our wealth, but of industrial stagnation world, and doesy. Our vast foreign trade represents
the singla agy glass and the tall cane with a big besides, who raind three-quarters of the world' say's foreign investments seem to be sinsost s things to watch was the growth of the ruff in turnover, not préfits and wealth. Even” Germ-
One of the most peculiar and interesting bow, and the Greek sandals, coal, she produced three-quarters of the world's
TEN GIBSON GIRL. iron, the converted three-quarters of the world's rge as those of this country. Tan Tear ago England. At first it was nothing but the top. And yet another on the page of fashion, ful- sotton into muufsctures, the owned three the drew £80,000,000 a year from that worse
moet tack of a chemisatie raming from lowing on mang alone.
shoulder to shoulder. You can see it grow in really on the peculiar people, following quarters of the world's railway she pos The sad fast is that Gormany is growing the pictures of men and women slowly but the atrasts were full of them not very long ago. of the girl. Du Mourier drew nemed 'three-queriore of world's shipping richer and Great Britain poorer the deasy of surely like a great livem dower opening its For moment there is a passing vision of an She was the world's manufacturer trader, our agriculture sions has osused a lest of pleated petals. When Henry VI1, ded it was awful perion called The Now Woman. A shipper, and ergineer. She was nudonbtedly 22,000,030,000 and the economic decay of in its infancy. In the reign of Heary orestura determined to kill grace, bauty, charm, the righearnation'in the world,
She is so no longar. She has lost her economic rest Britain in likely to contine until our VIII. it began to grow on men's shirts, bad all those gifte by which women i vis the world; monopoly, and eres bar industrial predominanceering industries will be given that protection reached well up to the asok, and was begin a creature of short hair and long idear; a bas disappeared in all except two or three which they require.
ning to stand out a little. Those were day creature who were mulñe, boots and tweed traden. Most of her industries are stagnant ori
of very střiột fashions: to wear black ganet yon multa and stiff shirtṣcolara."-- decaying, and the result is that the wealth not
must be royal; to wear sable you hid- to rank To kill and end this being came rather. only of the United States, but even of Germany
abové s viscount; to wear marten or velvet lovable person trim-waisted, short-frooked, is greater than that of Great Britain.
trimning you had to be worth over two hundred brownshined open air, with a fearless face are various testsof natioml wenlik,
marke's year.
and a square old. The streets were full of The reigns of Edward VI, and Queen Maryber, ove never knew there was so much health Elisabeth and hundreds of imitators began to passed without much event, but enddenly Queen in England before her day.
Missress Dingham Van der Plasse, of Flanders, an astonishing girl who sccupied the street. Bhe
TME, ÝLAPPEE, appear. In 1564 the raff came into fall bloom. Her day went, and only yesterday there was taught the art of folding, outting, and pinching was wonderfully young, her bair, was still tied cambrio and of making starch at 21.
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THE COCKNEY ACCENT,
, AND THE AMSULCAN TEANG.
The assertion made by Professor Alois Brandl, the most distinguished German that Fagliek is quite as well spoken in America anthority on English language and literature,
just as competent to teach English as Eugllab in England, and that Amarion teachers are achers, has aroused keen criticism in eduen tional circles,
Dr. J. Furnival, one of the walls at £5 a lesson, and the art of starching at the back, her short skirt 'revailed dainty
•1000's
until, on a day it seems, she vanishes, sad thare of every house, and
We may meet this beruffed lady in the strouts petticoats, She had a vivacious sir, and was
apparently asy
since she poured out in her sisad is a lady with bare neck, broad lace
la certain chit which was collar over her shoulders, no whalebone round and was invented, I imagine, in some musical very ostobing She was contillys Cockney, her hips, no hoop in her skirts, no padding on comedy. Anyhow, there she was, only yester her shoulders-s lady dressed in a sort of im- day, very young, pert, pretty, small. maculate carelessness, talking to a gentlem looking like a glorified-art student.
suborities on the English Inngange, disoned the matter with an "Express representative, impressed with Professor Brandl's assertion Dr. Farnival was apparently not very much the influense of the cockney that owing to accent and the various dialects the English no purer then the English spoken hers is epoken on the other side of the Atlantic. at any time talked with a cockney accent," he "The educated oles in England bare never said, "and the English spoken by the English to-dey is far better than it was twenty years ago. can twang is rapidly dying out, and that it will
"When Professor Brand) may that the Ameri -altogether..
THE LEACH GIRL
it. The Early Victorian face has vanished at The fasen change, that is the peoliar part of
oresture with sloping shoulders, dancing ring
Where is that pretty, demare, dove-like
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A MATRON of the Y.W.C.A. HOME
Neuritis, Lassitude, Neuralgia-
The principal wealth of a country lies in the productive power $3,000,000 inhabitants; Great Britain has only of the people, Germsay has 41,000,000 inhabitants. In manpower which, rightly considered, is more important than machine power, Germany is 50 por cent. stronger than Great Britain. However, sot only has Germany 50 per cent, more workers than Great Britain, but her wockeen ero more fully employed. While on an average 5 per cent. of our skilled workers (trade unioniate) sud from 8 to 10 per cent. of our unskilled workers, about 800,000 in all, and socording to t
the
mont reliable statistics and estimates, permanently out of work, unemployment is practically unknown Germany. While Great Britain sufers per-
Now one is just aware of the cow girl with manently from scarcity of work, Germany
present and fiuable has taken its place. And suffers permanently from a scarcity of workers,
her lack of pottiarat, her awathed body, her enormous bat. Chie is dead, and something as our Consular uporte show. The demand for mon regulates the supply of men, and a
new face will appear, a face of the correct become mysteric nely slim and elegant, and you will find that after the first shock, women prosperous country with spanding industries in time become a thing of the past, he is prolete, and big, baby eyes? She has gone so date, a face that will fit the clothes has room for additonal workers
At the time of her great prosperity the popa-
bably right." lation of Great Britain increased more rapidly Rectory, Walworth, who for many years liss utterly one can kill a fashion. We are just invention of dressmakers, and are forced to go The Rev. Canon Horsley, of St. Peter's utterly that it must seem one can kill a types It would seem that we have exhausted the than that of any other country. Now, every re-been trying to get the girls in his schools to far enough away from the Leech girl to think back over our tracks and oopy old styles. The word can be accepted unquestionably-well that is what the writers of these lettes. port of the Registrar General establishes a new the difference between the Walworth and the them quaint, picturesque, even try and only really new thing the last ten years have Law record of the birth rate, which is rapidly English tongue, declared with smile that it stainly, crinoline and all, wonderfully charm-seeb is the motor outfl, the big cat, the veil, sinking to the level of that of France, seemed like a vase of pot calling the kettle in Gone they most certainly are; no longer and the cap, and women look very delightful Additional men would not increase the national black" for Americans to criticise the Cockney whiskered guardsmen. The chignon is as dead itself or not, woman looks delightful in any do these graceful creatures play cat'saradle with in them. But then, whether history r. poate wealth, but only centuate existing unempley- twang, mont and poverty in Great Britain. Already we have to maintain more than a million panpera. bis stay in London he was distressed to hear
I noties that Professor Brandi saya during the bustle, and the awful hage jewellery thing truly feminine.
out of date as powdered hair and paanlered While the population of Great Britain increases school children, mispronouncing words while
skirta. only some 300,000 a year, the population of reciting paanagan from Shakespearo," he said. Germany increases by more than 900,000 a year. This deadable test; school children in Yet, not withstanding the slow natural fuorase the poorer quarters will mispronounce words of our population, between two and three I generally find that they pronounce & Towel hundred thousand English people yearly leave correctly, but when asked to say, for instance, this country in search of work. From Germany the word hshy they say bibg, or dye for only between twerty and thirty thousand men dag migrate every year, and immigration irta Gor- many is greater than emigration from Germany. For every German emigrant par million there arc eleven British emigrants.
Of course, the purest English is, strange to my, spoken in Inverness," continued Cason Horsley, "while. Billingsgate and Pettivent Inne are popularly credited with languages of their own. Belgravis, too, enn cossionally get slipshod in its talk. :
TRANSLATION Boon to take her home, Hi fn't at no kike.
Been having game. I haven't had any oska. Biby's nime's Jimes, Baby's unme's James,
plain James.
Jimes
lined one real, puzzle,” added soon
THE TEST OF WAGER. The German Secialists are not likely to paint the state of employment in Germany in too The oboloest gene I have come across iu roseate a colour, for they wish to impress "upon Walworth, however, are the following su the public the misery the workers. Never tenge theless, we read in the election manifesto of the COCKNEY. German Social Democratic Party, which was Biator tikey rome. pablished in the Vorwarts on January 15, 1907 : Binnavinagime. *If we look ahand as far as we are able, wesball not suffer from over population in Germany, We have in Germany not too large, but too small, a number of workers. This may be seen from the fact that foreign workers by the handord thon and are imported is to Germany." The ory of over-population is not heard in Germany.
Since 1879, the pear in which Protection was introduced, ages bave practically doubled in Germany, and are, senording to some of the load "Egʻauthorities, now higher on an average than British ones. Gerpan working men are certainly better of than English working men. While our trade
unionists, who number only about two millions, earn about thirty-five shillings a week, our unskilled workers, about eight millions, ́earn on an average only about one paund wook-many laboarers earn from eleven tai Afteen slags and from this amount 10 per cent. must be deduoted for unemployment.
While during the last for yours British wagen have remained almost stationary, German wages have rapidly risen. Richard Cairer, the leading German, Booislist statistician, who is, not likely to exaggerate the prosperity of the German working man, wrote istely: "Daring the lagt thirteen years the German Empire bus experienced a time of greater prosperity than probably any other sountry: Hetween the yours 1895 and 1958 the average yearly enrologs of working men have risen from £37 7., to £51 85, or by 16 per cent. During the same period prices have increased by 25 per cent, to that the working men are 12
or 13 per cent, betler off than they were twelve years ago."
THE TEST OF PRODUCTION,
It is obvious that €3,000,000 fully employed Germans produce more than 44,000,000 ill-om- ployed Englishmen, especially as the former ara better organised than the latter, and as they employ the must actantifie processes and the most parfact maglinery. It is true that the three British show-industries, cotton, ship building, and shipping, are much larger than the corresponding German ozes, but Germany has proportionately for greater predominance in other industrie Her chemical and electrial Industries, for instance, are foremost in the world, and in the production of steel she has rapidly overtaker Great Britain, as the following Agures prove :—
German Steet Profiction.
British Bleek Production. 1880 624,000 tons. 1,342,000 tons 1906. 11,135,000 tons 6,462,000 tons. Sinos 1879 the year when she introduced Protection, Germany's supremacy in steel over this country has become overwhelming,
We are only too familiar with the stagnation and the decay which prevail in nearly all our industries. The abounding prosperity of the German industries may be seen at a glance from the following figures
"His power of In dustrial Steam-on- ginos fo Prussia. 964,00 horse-power
1870.. 1900 ***... 4,048 036. 1907...
.... 6,043,567 Corresponding official figures for Eng
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Horsley with a laugh: "There was onge a school-girl in the borough whose name Fa either Ads Payne, Ida Payos, Ada Pine, orida Pine. Which it was I don't know to this day, as I could never tell from the way was pronounced.***
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In conclusion Canon Horsley stated that in his opinion-English was spoken in England by the mares at the present time much more per featly than in the time of Charles Dickest, sad that people were not so fond of dropping their aspirates to-day as they were a few yours
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HERSELF,
Woman, whatever she wears, is always oherm- I bow. But what woman wears is often the reverse of obarming. The world is for ever being suprised by its women. They are Classic one day and Pompadour the next; after that, who knows! Nobody,
At the present moment we are noticing sa extraordinary person at restaurants, at the theatres, in the streets. She bas sprung up is the night. Her waist has vanished, her hair le not as it was, her hat has ont matinéed matinie Thure is scarcely a woman in England who is bals. The Lirectoire Lady has appeared.
not aware of the fact. There is scarcely- woman who is not looking mentally at her wardrobe and wondering how to model last year's dress to meet the fashion, for fashion iss sovereign power, and I will bet that even the Indy, I forget her name, who rings a bell at political meetings is thinking about her hats.
This is woman's strength, that she is always coming out in some fresh al'urement-like children who make surprising remarks and
drew all attention.
THS HELEN - GIEL-
Trete is no doubt that Troy, in those dim and distant ages, woke up one morning to discover a new woman taking the air in Trojan streets. The advent of Helen, although mark- by ao milliner, made, I am sure, a terrible atir among the Trojan ladice. Thor became affected by the Greek idea, they developed Greek figures, and adopted a Helen walk.
ed
One can notice theseffigs by casting an are over the pageant of history one can see the change come over the osve ladics" bezda over the style of wosting a walfskin, see the British woman Weysing the ooiffeur of Roman matroar, ses Norman ladie astonishing the Saxon with their Fronoh fashions, and so come down straight down the peth of history, strewn with cast-of garments, and arrive at to-day, and notice how women of to-day are looking over their shoulders at the figures of the ladies of the Directoire,
THE CLEOPATĦA GIRL.
There is something about indigestible things that is always most appetising: olathes, if I xay say so, follow suit. It must have been a moment of anxiety in Egypt when Cleopatra's deriuating personality pervaded everything. The slim brown ladies of Egypt had to consider horse-power should have Increased by two their gures very onrefully. The pleated. millions, or by 50 per cent.
almost transparent, drapery they wore showed very perfectly the moulding of their bodies,
It is ominous that between 1900 and 1907, in the short space of seven years, German industrial
TEST #1 BXPENDITURE.
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Egyptian jewellers were busy making org meste sud embroiderers busy se log things is the very last mode. It was not a fashion which could suit everybody, but it had to lo followe for some rolle resson which ha always, been at the pack of women't brains.
The shounding yealth of Germany may be I am willing to risk a statement that neon from the expenditure of the State and of Egyptian streets were fall of mock Cleo jatres individule. Germany has spent about is a ver abort space of time, and that £50,000,000 on worthless Colonies she is spending a similar amount on the resettlement giber Polish provisons; she is spending more than £30,000,000 on her canals; abe is spending £20,000,000 per stoum on her feel, and £35,000,00 per antum on workmen's insurance, The marlon that Germany is poor is ridion. less. Morey is dear, in Germany chiefly be cause the rapidly expanding industries absorb
One talks of news travelling quickly in the East, of arros sprung up in a night as 6. 2450 with a faming torch ruas from village to villaga
all the liquid ́ ́ fanda. Moneyed Germans wall, the length and breadth of the country is, invet their cash in the national industries | Towed. But this is small in comparison to the and makes 6 per cent. Moneyed Englishma | torob of Fashion, whost fire lights the world us invest their cash in Stock Exchange Lecuri. soon as it is lit. Even those Japanese ladies who tion, and expegally trustee stocks, wer European dresses are talking of the Dires Oise our shranken and decaying industries | tairs figure, and wondging how they can torture
THE GREENEY-TALLERY GIRL.
rag-bag of Tiuis ore curious things, and none mers curious than the asthesis young person who has but lately died. Those fall throats, those I mp, bonelers bodies, those faded art colours that look of intenseness gone. The drawing rooms that welcomed them would laugh at them now. The Directoire lady would stare through her long spy-glass (1 sup-
One thing I feel most deeply, and that is that the world, from a picture point of view, will nover be portent until every woman has a fashion of her own, a fashion spolužaly tied to her That day will come when taste will be con to her face, to her own individuality. sulted before fashion, and we shall see the streets fill of varied types of beauty, of hundrede of different styles, of multitudinous forms of coiffare, of all the clones of the main bow, and the fashions of every age.
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