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WOMEN'S PROGRESS IN JAPAN.

THINK

"Vagabonds, Robbers, and Liberals.”

I know Parnell but alightly; not mine. But if be had decided no one knew him wall, writee to decline the proposal conosto-

There is considerable. indīgs Mr. Arthur Warren, Lord Salising which he had invited me to bury did not know him at call upon him, it was not parti-nation in feminist circles in Japan all, bad never taken the trouble onlarly civil of him to take this owing to the rejection by the to cross the lobblis-between the off hand way of doing so I left House of Peers of the Bill provid Houses of Lords and Commons the House and went towards the ing for the amendment of the and look at him or listen to him. Westminster Bridge Station of Palire Regulations, so as to allow "I have nevar seên hím," said the Underground Bailway, just women to attend political meet- And it apposite the Clock Tower of St.finge, or to promote auch gather was common report that the men Stephen's Turning the cornerings. In Japan women are forbid- who know Parnell least of all by the gates of Palace: Yard. I den to attend political meetings, and karw least of all about him, saw Parnell, abendsof me, cross sicher as audience or as speakers, were his own followers. Even the street and enter the railway sor are they permitted to organisë that is possible, if it seems station. He took, an east-bound inch meetings. Under the Palios unbikely. One of his most cant train. I was just in time to catch | Regulations women, are

3200 train but not to bonds, robbers, and Liberals,” and spiotious followers, - who 'wrats | the conspicuously and talked about catch him. He slighted at it in the dears of the reactionários next station, Charing of Tokyo and the House of Pears Home Rule, I knew very well the add for years I wondered if he Cross. So did I intent on over is largely reactionary-lo main- really knew as little as he said he taking him. But there was a tain them in that stala of humility, did about his chief's ways and blooking crowd at the, exit stairs subservience and dependence work and wisdom. He made a where the tickets were collected, which is an eloquently described great mystery of them, as many and he was first away. Up by Kaibara Ekken in the standard of the Irish Members did, or Villiers Street, I followed him to Japanese work upon the subject, pretended to do. They told you the top at the Strand, where he the Oana Daizaku. This work arm's turned into the South Eastern which lays down the position of that he kept them at length, scarcely nodded to them Railway Station. This was inter-women is, we may mention, no or, if he nodded, did so in a man-esting. Why hadn't he, I wonder longer the favourite reading in or that was cold and distant d. taken the outside that led from feminine ciroles in Tokyo that it used to be, and probably very few beyond belief. They were the dast Villiers Street into the station?

"Possibly he has caught sight girls of the present day have beneath his teet... But they told you that they did not reseat of me." I thought "Is he trying read oven a tins of it. Never

theless the great majority of this treatment; it showed the to elude me? Let's see.”

He entered the South Eastern Japanese women are by tradition superiority of the mau.

Whether they resented it or station at the left-hand door. Hamd heredity saturated with its not, you may form your own left it presently by the door on the principles, states a writer in the opinion by what they did to bim other side of the cab yard Observer.

the Strand to Of recent years there has been when they.go: the chance. Bot and crossed before the squalls and gales the telegraph office, which at that a great revolt against the sub-

Room time was exactly opposite the mission of women to men.. WORD in Committee Fifteen, be bad held them toget-cab entrance to the railway. Now Women's Association" has her, they were a disciplined body.withdrew into the tobaccopiat's been formed which has a wide. No man before his day had been pavilion at the gate and there and ever-increasing membership, able to hold them together, to awaited Parnell's exit from the and which publishes the Josei discipline them, to fores his will telegraph office. But he didn't Domie (Women's League), a apon them. No other parliam-recross the Strand to the station monthly magazing devoted to WAS passing the securing the political and social]

of the weaker sex. entary leader of the Irish before A hacMORY), bim produced results. But he alegraph office door. Parnell rap freedom produced them. Elis followers out, hailed a cab, entered it, and What they desire to do is to get feared him, and they feared him drove eastward along the Strand.rid of the old Oriental ideas I took another cab and kept his derived from China which are set| because he was no unlike the m selves, so an-Irish. His 'm. In sight. His cab was held up forth in the fourth chapter of the

bis stery" lay in ime ease little to the west of Wellington Oana Daigaku." Here they are: A woman bas no particular lord. [capacity for bolding

his Street, where a long strekm of!" tongue; in

aloofness traffic was crossing to Waterloo she must look to her busbard as his in his concentration. He knew Bridge. Parnell left his cab in the her lord, and must serve him with how to gat from the rest of the crash and disappeard in the all worship and reverente, not the pack of humans and vehicles. despising or thinking lightly of United Kingdom, from English and Scotch, and so on, left my cab, walked back him. The great lifelong duty of what he wanted; as a rule, bis abort distance along the south woman is obedience. In ber followers did not. He knew bow side of the Strand, and there dealings with her husband, both to play the political game in the turned down by the Savoy the expression of ber countenance British way, with additions of his Theatre, lingering a little, and and style of her address should be owe, his followers did not. They then down the steps to the couriecus, bamble, and concilia- had not the patience; they may Embankment, keeping inside the tory, never peevishand intractable, was right. never rude and arrogant-that have had o her qualities more garden. My guess

A woman captivating than his, but ther Parnell passed within a few feet should be a woman's first and Yad not the patience or the art of me. He was walking westward chiefest care. of command.

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I walked inside the gardens, he should look on her husband as if There was a time when I was outside and well in advance, he were Heaven itself, and never loubted that be was really so He reached the Underground weary of thinking bow she may elusive as political persons said. station again, passed through it yield to ber husband and thus Villiers Street, walked up escape celestial castigation." By And if he were so, why? It could to

wooden Japanese custom and tradition not be for the mere pleasure of Villiers Street to the

of the South Eastern.she is not even allowed the pri

jealousy. inderd. elading or defuding people. There stairs would be very little pleasure in while I remained at the entrance vilege of that. Well, one day my doubt of the Underground. Then I took jealousy is the fourth reason for a cab to my Club in Piccadily. divorce. Alwaye must she submit was dispelled,

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Parnell had made an appoint-

me the slip, be her husband as "my stupid wife." Commoas. It was not for the given

The real reason at the bottom purpose of a newspaper interview bad another opinion, probably

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JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the for be would not have given him when, as he was about to enter of the parsistent rejection of the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during salf the trouble on that account. suburban train, be was approach Bill-for this is by no means the Hot Weather; (2) LACTOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods If was not for any purpose ored by a courteous young man fest time a rejection has occurred of Infants and Dyspeptics; (3) MILFORD-McGRATH FLUID interest of my own. I bad con- who introduced himself as myis a threat to the proprietor-INSECTICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Flass, Mosquitoes. veyed to him a proposal from an assistant and said how fortunate ship of their feminine chattels Bags, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days; and (4) American editor. It was a pro-it was meeting him like this, which political freedom might JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA posal which Parnell had not because it gave bim the op mean. There is no possessiou the APS for keeping everything clean' in Houses.

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I would send me the reply which women folk, because in the Eastdially invited. considering with some favour.

a wife or dangbler is a real asset was to meet him again and discuse he had promised for that day, as

The it further. The time and place I wished to cable it to New York.hy, means of which the family

"Parnell didn't turn a bair," fortones may be advanced. were of his choosing. I was pun- ctually there only to be met with said my assistant, when he re-system of turg nubes of Austria is she message: Mr. Parnell is ported to me at the Clubs fax the system of the Orient. The minutes later. "If he were sur-marriage market is an acknow. of altaining not in the House."

That may have bean techoic al- prised, he didn't show it, but he ledged method

Mrs. A. may be narrowed his eyes and said, in saccess in material matters, and ly true, as technically not at home" to frigid way that brought down the more so in the country, where Mrs. B. But he was somewhere the temperature of that cold the feudal system still survives

write." And and where ler-marriage is a re-SINO-JAPANESE ECONOMIC |trol China as it pleases. It cannot on the premises, because I saw station, I will

cognised method of upholding the im enter them. There were then the train started."

clan fortunes. "And be with it?" I asked." good reasons for assuming that

"No. It left both of us on th

mne:

I made no comment, but calling for a cable forms, wrote on it this message for New York:

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ALLIANCE.

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be denied that it is very important that the two countries should be brought into intimate Nevertheless, Miss Ichikawa,

ril.t'ons, economically, thongh the appointment had not slipped

there must certainly be many his mind or his memoranda platform. I bade him good after the President of the New W

Southern Leader Challenges

dificulties in the way of conclud And so I thought that the person noon and came here. I suppose men's Association, and her assn ciates are by no means going to

Viscount Takahashi's Plan.

ing the so-called Sino-JapanEBE who told me Parnell was not in he took the next train.”.

be deterred from their agitation the House might have invented

With regard to the view of economic alliance. la the past, the reply he gave. He knew of

by the rejection of the Bill. They already have the support of the viscount Takahashi, the Finance there have been many economie the appointment, and, though be

entire Lower House of Represe Minister, in favour of the con loans, but as these were economia did not know its purpose, knew

"PARNELL DECLINES."

clusion tatives, and, so doubt, in dne

of Sino-Japanese loans simply in name, being used for political· 3 certain actually that Parnell bad wished to ser

"But be basn't declined," my course will be able to persuade

economic alliance,

of the purposes, they did not prove then should be wby,

indaentist the House of Peers to grant them give a reply which might por assistant exclaimed,

"No, but he will You can their demands, for, as Confucius Southern Government is quoted beneficial to China. They actually his chief in the wrong? But

hostile attitude then, why had not Parnell sent keep that cable message in your writes, "The charm of the felin & Canton dispatch to the Asahi tended to drive the Chinese people

minine overcometh."

astating that although it is to be to word or left word making another pocket until be does."

recognised that. the Finance towards these loans, to may The reason I had not followed appointment? Be would scarcely

Minister is actuated by a sincere nothing of intensifying their have declined the proposal from Parnell into the South Eastern America without the courtesy of station was that in the train from WEDDED HIS WIFE TWICE. desire for the promotion of suspicious regarding the countries another meeting. Indeed, he had Westminster to Charing Cross 1 promised that,

"Very well," I said, "I will and where I thought Parnell was Brother of An Earl Regrete whether the radical policy of the Government is determined on the

going

had told my assistant what to do.

Divorce.

member

assume a

motual interest in making such a which concluded such loans. 50 proposal, it is problematical long as the policy of the Japanese Japanese Government towards lines of helping China to beconte a stable State, there will be no wait."

For Parnell's reply I didn't But the agreeable gentleman

It is reported from Beverley Chias can be so easily alt rad.

It is also open to question great dificulty in cultivating could not assure me that Mr. care one way or another. But I Parnell would be at the Hause thought that I was even with Farms (Mass) that Mr. Archibald

him for his evasion of me at the Lindsay, brother of the Earl of whether the Minister's view in friendship with the Chiness people that day.

House, of his treatment of an Lindsay, who was divorced 16 based on an expert knowldege of The Japanese Government mus "Has he been here?"

China The Chinese people have eat Poking Government has no appointment which he bad made years ago, was remarried there the conditions prevailing in however, remember that the pres **I believe so.”

Mrs. Lindsay (formerly Miss long been doubtful of the true in-power as a Central Government It was too early to go away and of a courteous proposal. My yesterday to his former wife. Question time was not over, method of letting him know, deciden to wait Mr. Parnell's without having said so, that Ethel Tucker in the interval haitentidas of the Japanese Govern- sad that to give help to that representative withdrew, After was not entirely ignorant of his married again and become a ment, whether it intends to help Government can only and

or whether ils desire is to con-bureaucrats.. while I thought there had been reasons was, in the circumst widow. The first urriage took Chios as an independent State rendering the situation wors

place in 1900. a mistake somewhere. Then lances, quite legitimate."