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on an alien soil. The struggle for exist ence on their native islet must have been severe. The island is exposed to the full force of the Atlantic breakers, and although not more than a mile distant Edinburgh Town Council are consider- from Ardavuran. Point on North Uist, it propojal that all cats in their area is often out off from the larger islandhould be licensed. The subject has been, brought to their attention through the for months at a time.

The Boreray fitting resolves a ques large number of stray-cats in the city.. tion which has presented itself to the The proposal is that licences should be minds of many people in connection with required for keeping cats, and that a the problem of the livelihood of the fee of one, shilling should be charged people of the remote islands of Scot for each cat. Any person keeping a land. Is not this the ultimate solution cat without a licence would be subject to of the problem of all the scattered com prosecution, and police officers would be munities who have been striving for cen-empowered to seize stray eats. The pro- turies to wrest the poorest of livings from blem of keeping dogs and cats in Edin the barren und unproductive soil of such burgh is complicated by the fat system. out-of-the-world islets? The tragedy of A large majority of Edinburgh poopla live in three or four-storey tenetnents, Some of these island peoples has always with common and restricted ground at been intensified by the apparent hopeless- the back. In spite of these difficulties ness of any really remunerative lot ever

becoming theirs, after all their struggling the city is noted for its large number. and the efforts of sympathetic cutsiders of cats and dogs. The dogs are usually woll looked after, but cats are often left to afford them relief in particularly try to shift for themselves in holiday times.

chance ing times. If they can be given of doing better elsewhere, their cen- How licensing would abate this evil is turies-old home need not be altogether not too clear, but the supposition is that lost to them while they preserve, in their anyone taking the trouble to take out, a licence would be sufficiently interested in new situation, their own sentiments, cus-

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risk of keeping cats without a licence would probably lead to the readier and more general dispatch of kittens- ABOUT PEOPLE",

SCOTS AND SATIKE,

The rowdy reception accorded to Mr. Caradoc Evans's Taffy" by the Welsh clement in a London audience is likely! to secure for his play an even greater vogue than the Abbey Theatre disturb Recipes of auces secured for Synge's "Playboy" tains a contribution on the prepara Sage's play is really a subtle aatire on tion of haggis, by Lady Oxford and

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of sheep, having been well washed and

this country were unable to see what particular ground of offence it gave in Ireland. Mr. Evans's satire is of a more obvious and direct nature, and it is tim- ed at defects which are supposed to be characteristically Welsh.

then soaked in salt water, is turned, in side out.

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"Margot's" usual style.

I note that a number of Socialista, in. Galloway, South Scotland, have sent to Mr. David Kirkwood, M.P., "a. new. wooden spurtle to stir the porridge which. to feed oa when Scottish M.P.'s are Parliament re-opens The spurtle is to be patented to the House of Commons

Kitcheña.

A young friend fresh from, a, holiday, tells me how he met George Bernard Shaw. He saw the great man approaching on

Scotsmen feel, rather out of it in auch matters. But it is unlikely that a Scot- tish play on the lines either of the "Playboy" or of Taffy" quld lead to riots in Glasgow theatre or make the fortune of the Scottish National Players. The thin-skinnedness of the Irish, the Welsh, and, of several other peoples one might name is in striking contrast to the St. Sebastian-like placi Ionely Highland road, and as they dity with which the Scottish people were about to pass he gazed at the well- accept the darte of satire and defama- known figure with pardonable interest tion. We have discounted all such at and curiosity. G.B.8. remarked "Yes, tempts by making capital ourselves out you are quite right," and passed on.

Apropos Shaw, to-day he is accepted by of the less admirable characteristics everybody but Mr. Mencken. That Ame ascribed to us Therein we have shown ricad critic regards him as a Scotch ourselves better humorists than our eritics, who fail to perceive that the blue-nosed Presbyterian disguised as an

Irishman," and in his prejudices Scottish nature is concealed within

"in his theory that he (Shaw) serts that, of

His very resilient and impenetrable armour pride. That "armour could be pierced is Irish I take little stock. only by a Scot, and a Soot of command-name is as fcatch as haggis" ing genius and his portrayal of his fellow.countrymen would be strikingly different from anything that has hitherto appeared in novels or plays.

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LADY BAILIE WITNESSES A HANGING.

Bailis Mrs. Bell's attendance at the for execution of a Glasgow" "Keelis " murder is in some respects a notable event. It was the first time a woman magistrate had attended a hanging as an official witness, this duty falling on her as the junior bailic. The advisability of Mrs. Bell undertaking the trying ordeal forined the subject of much dis cussion in Glasgow since the trial, and it was at one time suggested that prob ably she might desire to relegate the duty to another member of the Corpora tion. Mrs. Bell, however, contended that as she had undertaken the ordinary duties of magistrate of the city she would not shirk the responsibility on that occasion. I think it is only right that I should prove that a woman can carry out ber duties equally as well as a man, was how she put it. And again-- When the executioner, pulled the lever; someone beside me whispered, Shut your eyes-turn your head! But I did neither the one nor the other. I was there sa the city's representatives to see. the thing through so I kept my eyes As wide open and saw "everything. woman magistrates, she went on" we are called upon to listen to all sorts of unpleasant details of evidence in the courts. We do that" as a matter of duty, although it is a thing that we naturally dislike. In this murder case thero were nine women serving on the jury, which necessitated their being confined for four days and nights. And those women jurors bore that ordeal and brought in their verdict because it was a duty they had undertaken

A WESTERN ROOM IN CHINA.

Fedden Tindall writes in the Women's page in a Glasgow newspaper-1 heard' of a touch of genius which illuminated this wife of a British official in China... When other women were vying with each other in collecting genuine curios, she arranged a room that was absolutely Western down to the smallest detail Not the choicest bits of China or mest.' beautila Eastern hanging was allowed: inside it: Everything spoke of bome, an ordinary tasteful British home, and the white men in the town simply delighted ia her inspiration. It gave them the rest they needed.

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