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ITO-DAY'S FASHION.

Decline of the Love Story.

Thore are signs that the love- story is no longer supreme in the world of fiction-that the average reader, the average playgoor, is not, as aforetime, entirely under its thrall, writes Cloely Hamilton to a London journal.

The eternal drama of man

and maid-ar man and matron

will always have its thrill for the normal human being; but to the

present generation it is only one

thrill among many.

A few years ago a, play with- out love-interest was, if not

unthinkable, a pluy that did not

zef itself produced; the audience of to-day is "more catholic in its

tastes, and Lo longer insists on

plenteous love and kisses when it pays for its evoning's entor tainment. On the contrary, some of the most successful produc- lions of the modern theatre have boen characterised by an absenco of the 'romantic, affectionate siemont. "St. Joan" and "Outward Bound" are outstand- ing examples of plays which the public has flockoď to see, in spite of their paucity of love-making,

Nor is the tendency confined to the theatre; an inspection of the lattor-day bookstall bears: witness to our changing taste. The output of choap, sentimental fiction has decreased perceptibly during the last decade.

com-

There is nothing unnatural in this modern roaction against tho love-story-which

until paratively rocont times did not monopoliee the realm of fiction and of drama. It was only in the nineteenth century that it took possession of fiction and drama and ousted the other thrills and interests,

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Among the curious anachron- ine which lingor in our laws is the privilege possessed by ra husband to claim damages from the corespondent in a divorca suit, irrespective of the fact that, as in a recent case, his object was merely to regain his freedom in order to marry another woman, says a Home writer,

On this occasion Mr. Justica. Shoarman refused tho claim on the grounds that the husband had suffered no damage whatever, and ho added "In these days we do not sell wives with ropos round their necks."

So'rovolting is the ides that a husband aliou'd 412088 his damaged honour in £8. d. that the majority of divorce petitioners make no such claim. When they do it is usually alleged to be made

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and trous than might have been ex with us. From time to time, marriage have not kept paco "Macbeth" "King Lear," and the pected, says a London writer. nearly loveless "Histories."

however, we are reminded by The old-time pedagogun who And the classic novelists of a said "learn this has been re-cases arising in the courts that, the romantic string their man or woman who says "What woman's Property Act and the was modified by the Married babit was to touch it would you like to learn ?" If

Jackson-Clitheroe decision, the lightly and almost indifferently, competitive rewards have been Law of Coverture still exists and Jane Austan's characters moved abandoned, so, too, have the

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STATES OF WIVES. A-Bill to abolish its more ob-

the colourless young people-tho The psychologist is at work solete clauses has been drafted Willreds and Rowenas-who among the budding scholars, and by the National Union of Societies eventually marry and live happy he divides them not into classos: for Equal Citizenship, and is to aver after, but bis roistering but into colours. Those, he tells be balloted for during the life of Balafros and Friar Tucks, and us, who respond to sound and can the present Parliament. bis Glasgow Bailies.

be affected by the stimulus of music are "blue" and must be The proposed measure does not Dickens's reputation was not developed along the line of their deal with questions of nationality made by his handling of love-omotion and intation; those who or of income tax, because these scenes; his lovers are frequently are found to be less sensitive to are purely statutory. It is con aa colourless as Boott's, and their music than to colour belong to the corned with the personal status trials and adventures merely an crimson clars, and demand a of wives in regard to marriage excuse for the introduction of special measure of love and and domicile, and legal procedure Dickens's roal heroes and affection from all who train them, applicable to both sexes in regard heroines, the oddities whose because the road to their capacity to propety and contracts. names are household words. lies through the affections. Or- If passed, the Bill will absolve And who would struggle ders mean nothing to them, butthe future husbands from liability for through Vanity Fair" if it had persuasion of those who. show a the "toris" of their wives. Sauce nothing to offer us but the topic real interest will stir them to for the goose muat în justice be romance of Amolia and her faith their best efforts. They are said sauce for the gandor, too, Wives ful Dobbin ?

to be the most attractive pupils will thenceforward have to pay of all.

their own debts, as in logical

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None but the incurably senti-

The intellectual onos, those in equality they ought to do. But mental will lament the compar- whom the emotional side is never it will also sweep away the legal ative decline of the lovestory dormant, are classed as yellow, remnants of the antiquated cor- The fiction writing author is hap- and the very active ones as green caption of women as property. piost when he has many subjecte

to choose from, and his fancy

CLASSIFICATION.

can range where it will; and the In schools where the principal fiction reading public is hap-is a psychologist, and there is no. piest when its stories and sen- lack of these for those who seek sations are of various kinds, not them, the preliminary classi all turned out to one pattern.

And that is more than worth the

sacrifice of the debt-paying bus

band.

LONDON'S BUSES,}

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fication decides the precise nature of the instruction, the aducational bais, so to speak. You do not follow the same lines for a blue FEAR OF BURIÁL ALIVE,

child and a yellow, one, or for a Lest he should be in a tranos rad and a green. and seemingly dend, Mr. Alfred Underlying the principle of 000 miles in a year, equal to Augustus Georgo, of Graham differentiation is the belief that 19,000 journeys round the world. House, West Ealing, made provi-evory child is in embryo an in- eion in his will for the reward of dividual, and that, if the in £1,000 to the doctor who should dividuality can be brought out restore him to life." Inoarly in life, the road to com- be memorandum attached to his will plate solf-expression wli! he directod that on his supposed shortored and made easier to death three doctors should travel

esparately make an examination! There is nothing here to offend to find out if he was really dead common sense, but what would' The reward would be given to the the old educationist say? Hio doctor who discovered signs of successor points out that by lifo and ravived him.

means of selection and proper! environment the gardonor has DOLE WITH £30 IN POOKET..

raised In the past few years For obtaining the dole for bis flowors of a boauty unknown to wife and child-by anying that the generation that precoded him, they were living with him when, and that the breeder of prize in foot, they were not-Herbert trains, whether animal or vege- Kitching was fined £10 at Brad-tablo, has excelled himself by

DAILY HUMOUR.

ford the other day. Undor cross-studying with a goal bofore him. Governor of Prison (to released examination he admittod, that "You can cultivate fine minde conviot); "We have kept you a when quoueing up for the dole heas readily as you can cultivate wook too long!" had £30 in his pocket, and he fino rosas," ho says, "if you will Roleased Prisoner; also said he had £400 in a build but discover their special, bont all right, air. You can take itoff ing society and over £100 in the and give them the surroundings next time-London

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