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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE CALLED TO THE BAL

A Barrister writing in a home papar in reference to the call to the Bar of Miss Ivy Williams, the first lady barrister. ip England says In many repects this will prove red letter day" in the emancipa tion of

that England and wait is fisting enough

first lady barrister should

be called" by Mr. H. F. Dickens, KC, the son of Charles Dickens.

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Although the ritual of the "call" differs ig some ways in the various Inns of Court, traditional ceremonies are encried through in each Inn with punctilion exactitute. In the Middle Temple the "call" to the Par" is probably more public and more ornate than in of the three other Lans. The first intimation of the ceremony is provided by the pauis man, who sounds the historic horn frous certain points of thin an inmemorial custam horrowed Temple -- an from monastic days when the advocate was most often a priest in

holy,

orders. Entering through the Tudor Lawer of the quaius 16th eratury lull, where QUPPL

stately its wends

Pets]+v& in everler ot

Elizabeth is stated to have članeed a

dignilial procession, measure way up the magnificent buibling... by the mare, the benchers

niority, with the prospective barristers at thi rear clad in the full glory of new wig and

limit the front of the luchers they

• themselves in a silent row, aul in du order rack candidats iscalleil. The

signature which the can klate the

imkes

up the illustrious roll of his ancient lan my of a newhan simky character. es, hi is admitted thereby to the of the "utter lar: "in

in other words,

heisealed to the Bar."

1 is then that the Treasurer addresses them, and gratulations shower fron parts on the "pewly called," who sub- for the first and last time in their sequently livesine in the hall fully robed in the "Iza bit of irrister-at-law.

When dinn over the fun is invariably fast and facimus. Meurs mingle and

#Speech Schange pleasantrieri.

Specch

fruin a dozen throats after the health of each newly-called member of the Bar has Teen proposed, serundel, and drunk several times uver. it on the table is another almotion, which gets its aged, yet

So, appropriate rejoinder,

I prefer

to sit on the bench: Recruity to the Bar in the

days, however are er-sides

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compered with the festive young nien who were "illed in former tines Fifty or sixty years ago,t

the mirth and Upear cla edi night" reached such a pitch that a new harrister has been kpówa to nsernd the table to deliver n mura or lessedherent hamuge, and to be swept by the waiters together with the tablecloth into the huge linen-lasket and horne kicking outside.

Without wishing to see a riturn of the pon boisterous habits of other days, it is to be hope that the spirit of fun in the Inns 88 Court is nst dying out,

OPERA STAR IN A NIGHT.

YOUNG AUSTRALIANS LEAP TO FAME.

I Dondon musical circles recently the rge topic of conversation was the pluck. of Miss Florence Austral in making her first arqaraneo as Brannhilde in The Val- „kyrie:" at Covent Garden and the complete SUCCESS which rewarded it. Brunnhille js one of the most exacting parts in all opera and most singers have reserved it for the crowning triumphs of their caree

was born at Melbourne just, on 28 she told a Daily Mail reporter name is Wilson, but I took that of Austral for reasons which are obvious. "Until I was 17 I knew practically nothing about music, and certainly had no idea of singing as B profession But some school friends of mine pashed me into a charity cantata; and there you are. I went to Melbourne Conservatoire where I remained Afterwards to the University a year, and Conservatoire, where I studied five years.

When I was 26 I thought it was about tare did something with my voice, but there was nobody to help, and my only connection outside of Australia was the of my friends, who was in daughter of the "United

I went there and even- annuflition with the was offered a contract, but I felt lonely and homesick and" was afraid to take it.

tually

obtain

Chicago Opera

I was on my way long to Australia, and broke my journey at London to have a Trok round. This is the result."

"ENJOYMENT NOT A VICE."

Miss Maude Royden gave an address at a conversazione of the After Dinner Club at the Suffolk-street Galleries, Pall "Mall, on June Elst, on Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no mare cakes and ale!" Lady Stanley was the hostess, and Mr. H. A. Jones the host. Miss Royden combated the idea that there was too much seeking for enjoyment going on in England at pre- sent, and eaid she wished to induce people to believe that enjoyment was not a bad, but a good, thing. In Victorian times people thought that unless the clothes they wore were uncomfortable, the food taste. less, and the play they saw somewhat dull, they were not perfectly virtuous. In her opinion that conception was wrong. She expressed the opinion that the so-called moral plays of the present day were dull to distruction, and the denied the sugges

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