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ut ) W Mr, to M it n D in O ht »1U8B nk to in "I' al y m 1y d dow in el It t} W n )y t en in n _ our clients are losers: f them are bad losers, of °y don‘t win always the fair. But we have some who take a more sporting proved. Medlicott came to with a graver face than stomed to wear, and pullâ€" v with the air of one who matters to discuss. w the share market has " he began. "It‘s a bad _ everybody, but it may ind some capital for the West W I don‘t quite see how," n was an epidemic of forced shares and securities, which all dabblers in share specuâ€" 0 country escaped, and Lon. first to suffer. In the office n Medlicott the immediate the panic was feverish acâ€" ho only department not in as that with which Eve Gil. d made acquaintance. There winners to congratulate and th cheques; and "Glad Tidâ€" disbanded, for the time beâ€" itaif being turned on to corâ€" ce of quite another kind. v_tips have gone west," xplained to Eve. "We have nt who isn‘t losing money. ones are those who are able le,‘ her friend explained. ers over there have to _they can and wherever 1e whole world wants to "o are no buyers. Prices lown; and the silly sheep ur advice blame it all on as gone too far with to stop," Frankie said put all his back into v the market has gone egitimate _ speculation e more likely to take wildeat risks," t talk as if it were a ¢." Eve said coldly. : tall girl agreed readâ€" ‘aven knows we could er now, if ever. But I ear all about it from an very day, in Wall Street, the overâ€"inflated â€" share llapsed, and there ensued panic which affected all Exchanges of the world. developed with the reper. d speed of an earthquake, middle of the week, hun. thorsands _ of Americln‘ TK ng venture in for a s i1 1C ‘rescott and Gordon Westerby 1 in the arid bush of Australia. ake their claim and start the irney to the coust. tby has a fiancee, Gladys Clemâ€" England. but when they arrive °y he marries a pretty blonde. 1â€" forwards a photo of Dan to lancee, Gladys . Clements, in and when Dan arrives she beâ€" : is Gordon. EÂ¥e Gilchrist, a btains work in Medlicott‘s ofâ€" broker who is floating _ the some bod y ne. and & are those who are able d know â€" what they‘ve thing will be the comâ€" orget the money they advice; they only reâ€" we helped them to n Us that not a word shall pass t," Dan stipulated. * wrong; and even if I hap. ight I don‘t want it to go ru i say ittend ruined th that be my own got a good job nture," Frankie ‘ a slack time, h is over. I worrying about SYHOPSIS y raided the mine| not told swooped off with the "I thi Westerby and I ex.| doubted id we covered it up| ted. ts that Westerby is "Prob: on his honeymoon,| "That‘s panic spread London?** Eve rid sober. go no further Mr. Gordon f "Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world."â€"Mrs, Jameson, f __It is only imperfection that comâ€" plaing of what is imperfect. â€" The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."â€"Fenelon. +o _3 They are Clara M. Wilson, a school !Gem‘ From Life‘s teacher, and Katharine, a stenograâ€" Scr.p â€" B ook pher. They started out on the first â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" |lap of their journey aboard the Briâ€" "God never made His work for tish freighter Harmatris, on which work for man to mend.‘"â€"Dryden, ; they signed as members of the crew, seniprmicer | early last month. The Harmatris will Te He" uce wiclove snan T 10% L2 op t "All right then," came back the chairman, "I‘ll say waltzes, foxâ€"trots and tango. Yes, and the rhumba." Trustee Joseph Jeffery, who had asked that the teachers be commendâ€" ed for their extraâ€"curricular activity, said he wouldn‘t use the word "ballâ€" room." !¢| to stop her when he felt that her as A:::;r:;se n;h;esL:;(?;:edT:;ne:hi; ve | sistance. was needed. * s S § nâ€"| No student of medical books and gfdrt:e 011130 Ifii‘zmzz?stru&t;zzhesxx- *y| wenerallv obliged to work in some » I » eâ€"| lonely little To# cabin, poorly heated Gloucester, C?d?alof. Sterlet, Bltt;ern, to| and lishted only by a coal oil lamp, Sheldrake, Kittiwake, Gleaner, Plovâ€" "Grandma" Lindstrom has never lost er and Research. The three ¢rusers d|a single baby, and on none of her which receive the names of English eicases has she ever had the assistance .(-me}?. will 'ma]ke ulka total ‘;f exgl}t of the doctor. in this new class. An innovation is | made this year in order that Manâ€" $ searn chester may have a representative p # ship in the Fleet. > Danc"'g In SCh?OI. k Cachalot will continue a series of s Can’t Help D(;c(phne. marine monsters. Iike.Grampus and y ’Narwhal, submarine mineâ€"layers. The ; T name of Sterlet will be the twelfth, LON.DON' Ont.â€"London Board .°flall beginning with "$" and all namâ€" Education decided recently that its‘ es of fishes, which have been chosen | |young women school teachers shOuld'for patrol type submaries since 1930,. j not be commended for teaching olderi Bittern is a convoy sloop. Sheldrake, ]. boy .students the art of ballroom a name going back to 1806, and Kittiâ€" dancing. heip | Wake, new in the Navy, belong to 4 Teachers who spend much of t ©!* | coastal sloops. Gleaner is appropriate q spare time teaching boys in their for a surveying ship, C classes how to dance could scarcel)" Plover, bestowed on a costal mineâ€" : expect to rg:aintain d!sglp fine in fiée{ layer, co’mmemorates the capture of 8 Peeneloey, N ith opiniee sof 0. 0. | N990e on ship Kievit (peewit. plovâ€"| : Carrothers, retiring chmrma_n of_the er) by the Morning Star in 1653. A|[ board. .It was his sp'eech whx;h knl}ed gunboat Plover was concerned in the a motion 'com'mendmg‘r teachers for Boxer operations of 1900, and there i their dancing instruction. a was a destroyer Plover in the late t Chairman Carrothers said he w2"| War. Research, borne by three earlier | p unalterably opposed to teachers g'n‘v-,smp’ of the Navy since 1846, is a £ ing lessons in ballroom d,‘",c"’g‘ ItH‘itting designation for the new mag-,C] certainly car‘t help discipline," he jnetic survey vessel. C said. _ _ LONDON, Ont.â€"London Board of Education decided recently that its young women school teachers should not be commended for teaching older boy students the art of ballroom dancing. : hm e evie | _ She came as a widow of 62 from Sweden. From the time of her arâ€" rival Mrs, Lindstrom has been in deâ€" mand as a midwife. Twenty years ago, roads in the Athabaska district were not what thevy are today, but no weather or roads were bad enough to stop her when he felt that her asâ€" sistance was needed. No student of medical books and wenerallvy obliged to work in some lonely little lo@ cabin, poorly heated and lichted onlvy by a coal oil lamp, "Grandma" Lindstrom has never lost a single baby, and on none of her, cases has she ever had the assistance of the doctor. | This is the record of "Grandma" Lindstrom of the Athabaska district, who, now more than 80 has given up her work of love and care for others which has taken her, at times into bitter winter weather over miles of icy roads. _ No call from a franâ€" tic husband, whose wife was lying alone in some lonely shack has ever been ignored by the olq lady who is known and loved by all the residents of the district for many miles, NO letters after her name, nor a specialist in obstetrics, yet she has the credit of having brought more 100 babies into the world suceessâ€" fully since she passed her 60th birth day. Aged Swedish Nurse Assisted At More Than 100 Births Grandma Lindstrom Never Lost A Baby ‘Probably," _ Medlicott _ agreed.| UD@vian countries, but it 1 ’ "That‘s why I‘m not mentioning the t¢"est for all of them rather matter myself. You seem to know how leadership of England‘s that to handle him. _ And I want you to | following. make him see that what seems pmof' "‘These countries all see t of his genuineness to you may give | hOPe lies in collective securit strangers the idea that he‘s just a | ASgression. They know that plain liar and worthless imposter," of them might be some othe: (To be Continued) Ethiopia." "You can ask him to modify his imaginative flights when people quesâ€" tion him about Australia," Medlicott answered. "I‘ve not heard the last of the yarns he told Burdon, by any means. Burdon has been hard hit durâ€" ing the past few days; but he would not complain to me if Prescott had not told him those idiotic cuffers." \ "I think you began it when you doubted his true story," Eve sugges-l' ted. "What can I do? seems very real to m Dan Prescott will not licott said quietly. "The share are not listed on ‘Change. I‘ve taken a lot for granted with Prescott. I‘m ready to gamble on him a good deal further; though it means a permanent black eye for me if anything goes wrong. So we‘ve all got to put our backs into‘ it." ?" Eve asked. "It , me; and I‘m sure not let you down." m to modify his when people quesâ€" The sisters said they had no speâ€" cial motive for undertaking the adâ€" venture, except for the def}; to "see the world." F ?%" From Sydney they hope to catch a boat for India or the west coast of Australia, work their way to South Africa and up the east coast of Africa and then go through Euâ€" rope and England, returning by New York and Montreal. 1 tal:e then_x to Sydnef, 'Iâ€"W*Q"V; An attempt to we around the world in made by two young ters. Work Their Way Around The World | _ Names For New _ Miss Wambaugh said that Germany appeared to be eager to maintain frieldly relation with England at this juncture, and that the German pub lic has manifested cansiderable feel. ing against Mussolini ever since his interference with the Austrianâ€"Ger. ma affairs at the time of the assina. tion of Chancellor Engelbert Dolifus. "And I do not regard it as merely threatening Lake Tsana or her Afri. can lands but as threatening her whole prestige in the Mediterranean." , Miss Wambaugh said she saw a number of posters in Italy a few Iweeks ago which might be construed as threatening to England‘s African territories, one of which proclaimed : "To Whom is East Africa? To Us!t" "I believe that the Italian program is the greatest threat to British power that has ever occurred in my lifetime," _ Miss Wawhanol"~ cliz | the world in ships is beiné by two young Vancouver sisâ€" , ‘"‘The fact is that England is ab. solutely committed to the principle that any action must be League acâ€" tion," she said. As a consequence, she added, the present situation must de. velop either a war, a satisfactory agreement between Italy, Ethiopia and the League, or a complete yield. ing by Mussolini. hope lies in collective s asgression. They know of them might be some Ethiopia." | That the League of Nations is irâ€" ',revocably commifted to halt Mussoâ€" ‘lini‘s invasion of Ethiopia was the . opinion expressed in .an interview _ with Boston Transcript by Miss Sarah , Wambaugh,. who â€" has just returned from the League‘s Geneva sessions. 1 Technical adviser and deputy mem. ber of the Saar Plebiscite Commisâ€" sion and for many years an authority on various European questions, Miss Wambaugh said Eng‘and‘s self.inter. ‘est coincided closely with the present trend of League activities, but she scoffed at what she said is a frequent allegation that England controls the League for her own purposes. "No one pretends that England controls Russia," Miss Wambaugh | said. "But Russia is firmly supporting | the League today. So are the Scan. ' dinavian countries, but it is self.in.|1 terest for all of them rather than any ] $u08 0 0k WO I 1 ‘One Canary for Each Convictâ€" | New Limit Set in U.S. Collective Security Against Aggression Sought By Nations Woman Who Attended League‘s Recent Sessions Tells of 1 European Situation earch. The three cruisers ive the names of English make up a total of eight ‘ class. An innovation is year in order that Manâ€" have a representative calest threat to British has ever occurred in my Miss Wambaugh _ said. not regard it as merely work thefir â€"way collective security European questions, Miss said Eng‘and‘s self.inter. d closely with the present ague activities, but she hat she said is a frequent 1at England controls the her own purposes. pretends that England issia," _ Miss Wambaugh | ussia is firmly supporting | today. So are the Scan. } ntries, but it is self.in.|i of them rather than any | 1 England‘s that they are |‘ 1 intries all see their only f ieWiruustul t c s onl : Warships curity against that auy one other nation‘s "The public can st motion pictures than the opportunity to _ G. Wells, _ We can well be grateful that more and more of our people understand and seek the greater good of the greater number‘"__Erankli. m oowo osevelt. °" _ â€"" + "°" becoming a lost art, | People nowadays are looking â€"for : new ideas in the way of amusement; the endless round of teas, bridge and dancing becomes monotonous; amaâ€" teur plays demand practice; musical: affairs, unless fairly high class, do not attract. Why does someone not try the oldâ€"fashioned spelling bee? It would be a drawing card, for instance, to stage a match between the City Council and the Board of Education or a picked team from the Board of Trade. The Service , Clubs might fatten their exchequers by an interâ€"club tournament, Even a city spelling league might be orâ€"] ganized. Perhaps a restriction might]. be put on that school teachers and ; public school pupils be barred or '] handicapped. They were good fun and it was .| next to marvelous to look on and | see difficult word after difficult word | spelled correctly until one wondered when someone would slip. And there | was always a long battle at the end, often ending in a draw, when the star spellers were left alone to upâ€" hold the honor of their side. Nowaâ€" days one wonders how long a spellâ€" ing contest would last; for one of the penalties we seem to have pail for progress is loss of the knackâ€"â€" or giftâ€"of correct spelling. The average business man has not time to bother about the correct spelling .of a wordâ€"he dictates it to a stenoâ€" grapher and leaves it to her to do| the rest. And the stenographer, â€" if ; she is wiseâ€"and most of them areâ€" c keeps a dictionary in her desk for| j use in cases of emergency. Spelling| ; is rapidly becoming a lost art. P “we The Rotary Club of the town â€" of Simcoe staked something new in Norfolk county when a picked lot of champion spellers from all parts of the county participated in a spelling match to determine _ the county championship, _ senior and junior. Something new in a way; but really a revival of a very old fashioned form â€" of entertainment. Back in the »lden days spelling matches, or spelling bees, were quite popular; but in recent year _ they have practically disappeared as a Friday afternoon feature in some of the public schools. THE OLDâ€"STYLE SPELLING BEE From the Chicago Daily News BACK of prison walls the abundâ€" ant life has never been a ruling theory, and achievement of â€"the ns more abundant life through the deâ€" structicn of wealth would seem to be e‘s|too subtle an idea for the eminentâ€" ly pragmatic minds of criminals and their keepers. Nevertheless, the principles of Aa A have taken firm root in Stateville râ€" | down Joliet way. There Warden Joe Oâ€"| Regan has decreed a reduction _ in °/ the canary crop. It seems that W|many of the lads have been raising A}canaries for sale. What more fittâ€" d|ing occupation _ Who shoulq know , how to raise cage birds better than iâ€"] jail birds? And could a canary born iâ€"|to live in a cage find a more conâ€" Â¥|genial birthplace than among caged ] s | men? t â€"| The warden, however, thinks that , t|2,000 canaries are too many for ; e | Stateville. He has limited canaries;g t|to a quota of one per prisoner. Obâ€" A >| viously one canary cannot produce ; more canaries. So the revenue of M 1| the canary raisers who have been 0 |selling the birds for $2 each is likely‘o1 ; |to be cut off,. ’B |_Of course, Stateville‘s appreciatâ€"| |ion of music is likely to suffer, too.'s' For the restriction edict is said to it have been caused by a violent quar-fm rel between two canary raisers over R the respective singing abilitres of tgl their pets. The warden, it appears, h] will have no primadonna stuff in his "© "stir" â€" even among the impresarâ€", * ios of the feathered songsters, ’to This is doubtful policy. Some obâ€"! _ servers, noting the popularity of av: Philosophical works and belles lettres !*‘ with longâ€"term and life patrons of ** prison libraries, have voiced the hope 89 that, during the present dark ages, PW philosophy and the fine arts would !9 somehow be preserved in state-main“"“" ed monastic retreats like Stateville. | "€2 But what chance has musical critie.| WO ism under this new canary AAaA? 1"0‘ * ine greater good of the number.‘"â€"Franklin D. Roâ€" (Owen Sound Sunâ€"Times) stand a 1lot better in it has received appreciate,"â€"H, , A CANADIAN HEADMASTER by Watson Kirkconnell, (Clarke Irwin, Toronto) is a brief biography of the late Thomas Allison Kirkconnell by his son. Dr. Kirkconnell taught in the schools of Ontario for fifty years, chiefly at Port Hope and‘ Lindsay, ‘f' This is the history of this little ( book: A young minister in Winniâ€" , peg some forty years ago decided, ‘after two careful readings of Victor 4 Hugo‘s Les Miserables, to tell the ‘! story in his own words in place of ‘a scheduled lecture. It was received ;'with such enthusiasm that before he | had once committed it to paper, he had repeated it more than 800 timâ€" es to our 100,000 people, and had been obliged to reject one invitation in every four which crowded upon him. From so many of those who ' have heard Dr. Cleaver have come requests for his story in permanent form, that he has been prevailed upon to have it published. By good fortune an excellent screen version of Les Miserables was produced reâ€" cently in France, and the publish ers have been able through the kindâ€" ness of the Compagnie France Film to include fourteen scenes from the photoplay. These are but JEAN VAL JEAN as told by Solâ€" omon Cleaver, (Clarke Irwin, Toronâ€" to will delight the audiences all over Canada, who heard Dr. Cleaver tell this famous story. ‘ I ‘| _ "A VISIT To AMERICA® by A.G. ‘ | Macdonell (Macmillan‘s, Toronto) is | delightful readingâ€"one of the best, |I think, of impressions gathered of | that vast union of states, by a visâ€" |iting British author,. Mr. Macdone!l has a deep sense of humor combined with a keen insight of human naâ€" ture. One hilarious chapter â€" deals with an afternoon‘s attendance at a football game. He covers a vast amâ€" ount of territoryâ€"New York, Baltiâ€" more, Chicago, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and back. San Francisco evidently captured him completely, His recounter of the mad dash by auto, travelling at the rate of nineâ€" ty miles an hour from San Francisâ€" co to Los Angeles is a hairâ€"raising |â€" episode. A perfect gift to any Anâ€" ] gloâ€"Saxon. Mme. Dyhrenfurth explains, how. ever, that if there is one thing great. er in her life than her dislike for mountain climbing, it is her love for her husband. The latter, born in the Aips and commencing a distinguished cimbing career at the age of ten, entertains the belief that tha a»an. 00 o e tee e CC "reason I went on up and broke the women‘s record was because I could. not get back without having some of the men take me back. So I went on. I could hardly breathe, When we got to the top we could not even see the view. I did all this for what? To break a record? Nonsense! And when the photographer asked me to smile for a picture I boxed his ears, I was so mad. _ For nine days we stayed there, with avalanches roaring down the moun. tain, the snow so thick we couldn‘t see, no aleohol to cook on and the air so rare we could not make kindling burn and it took hours to bring water to a boil. We went around puffing for air. I tell you it was awful. The only reason I went on up and broke the :l (From Edmonton Journal) | ‘The ho‘der of the women‘s moun. tain climbing record hates mountains and climbs them only to please her ~busband and children. This is not {gossip. It is the frank statement of Mme. Hettie Dyhrenfurth who, in 1934, reached the summit of Queen Mary peak in the Himalayas, a glant of 24500 fset and outdid the mark | of 22,900 feet set by the late Mrs. !Bullock-Workmann in 1906, | She says she thinks records are silly. Sports should be for the fun of it and, in her opinion, there is no fun in mountain climbing. She gives a graphic description of the blizzard that caught the party at 24,000 feet on her recordâ€"breaking climb and which ‘ resulted in ten Germans being frozen to death,. ' evajese I. Un y C it ie a)m it i Bilm Climbs Mountains To Please Husband bare facts concernâ€" Jt n mm o o e m e beliet that k. San Francisco him completely. the mad dash by the rate of nineâ€" ‘rom San Francisâ€" is a hair-raising‘ gift to any Anâ€" Tea at its Best the great. T BA Dad says he‘s He looks as n But I wish he 1| °77 PALLOUUNS by Florence Steiâ€" ner (The Ryerson Press, Toronto) | brilliantly illustrated by Elsic Deane. ‘ | Contains some verse for children ‘| that is quaint and delightful. Florâ€" |ence Steiner in this volume of verse | shows a deep understanding of chilâ€" dren‘s whims and whimsies. All her work is based on actual happenings in the bewildering life of children.} For instance take this one: Our rover seems just right to me There‘s nothing missing I can see But he doesn‘t show a pedigree, The pup next door has one I know, For Bob, who owns him, told me so. I wish our Rover‘d let one grow., | He has two ears and eyes deep blue, | A cool, soft nose, and four paws too, And a little tail he‘ll wag for you. | 1 on. got the To CHAPPED HANDS? NO# T he APPLY HINDS See how quickly it soothes Issue No. 52 â€" BY MAIR 1. MORGAN |.£x.‘.”fH.III"!.':A1f.'JL.".iiul-n‘hi.lllil.:'i."..‘:" @ ing an unusual character of derstanding. All pupils and throughout the country sh it. TOY BALLOONS by Whenever His Majesty gets away from the affairs of state at Buckâ€" ingham Palace and retires to his country estate at Sandringham, one of the first things he does, his health permitting, is to ride out to the fields in search of grouse and pheasants. And it takes a fast man to reload the King‘s gun. ‘ London. â€" Despite his 70 years, King George still retains the keen eye and the steady hand that made him one of Britain‘s best shots, and certainly the best shot among the world‘s monarchs for years. King of England Still Crack Shot How many public heroes would have failed the mark had they not feared a dressingâ€"down â€" at home more than they did the perils to which they set their faces? How many games have been won because of love for another person rather than love for the game itself? \ iys he‘s finished perfectly ks as nice as nice can be, wish he‘d grow a pedigree Unquestionably, back of her pro. testations, there is more than the obedience of a dutiful wife. Apart from record breaking, Mme, Dybren. furth has made distinet contributions to the world‘s knowledge, and there must be a real satisfaction in such work whether one cares for the sub. ject or not. Her frankness, however, | causes one to wond<r how the me.l moirs of the majority of men and women who have done things would read were they recorded with wch‘ unsparing honesty, ~ re Book | Shelf â€" i So his wife goei o;. B;-elklng records just because she knows it makes hito happy, est sport in the world lies on the peaks that have never been scaled. t and delightful, Florâ€" n this volume of verse understanding of chilâ€" and whimsies. All her 1 ue m ‘ Hiieiuss0lm!0 â€"~sIacter ol rare un-' pupils and teachers | country should read! mem _*sychnologists are still discoverâ€" ,lng things that everybody knows and â€"_ ‘calling them by names that nobody 27 knows."â€"G, K. Chesterton, _ But dogs still lead the field. Eng. lish dogs, it was brought out, have swallowed coins, stones, rubber balls and brooches, There is authentig record, moreover, of one swallowing a silk stocking, Bo the dog, a leading English vet. erinarian pointed out in a recent lec. ture, is not the only animal which acquires illness through swallowing foreign bodies. ~ There‘s the story of the Scottish farmer who found that the mortality rate among his cows increased sharp. ly when he began _ to employ milk. maids. The milkmaids dropped hair. pins, and the cows, innocently en. ough, swallowed them. Hairpins Don‘t Sound At All Palatable "Psychologists _ In Scotland, indeed were admitted as lo equally with men n ago but they did not have been admitted to membership. ,more strange that, in the following centuries, women should not only be ,banned from Parliament, but re. fused to yote, and that the long struggle for the fomale franchise which began in the middle of the last century and culminated in the Suf. fragette movement in the years be. fore the Great War s«fhnnld huws Laam | _ "] "~_°FC vVape tle iadies were chos. llen to appear in Parliament, and there | was no escape for them from their duties. If by any chance they could not take their places they were bound to find proxies to appear and vote for them. Women were summoned to Parliament also in the time of Honry III and Edward I. These were gener. !ully abbesses, as in the period of the Saxon Witas, ’ AFTER A LONG DELAY Considering | ai1 this, it is all the more strange that, in the following centuries, women should not only be banned _ from Parliament, but re. fused 10 yObK BBA CBBF Ks Aams een, Reverting to women in Parliament de 600 years ago, it is a fact that wo. nd;‘men did act as loaders at Wost. he'mlnster: and there is an unvsusily interesting coincidence between the i. | reign of Edward III. and our own time s.|in that connection. _ As every one ng | knows, the Duchess of Atholl was the ig first woman to be returned to Parlia. ment for a Scottish constiiuency, ,y10ne of the lady legislators of the ;. |reign of Edward III. was Cartharine i,’Countess of Atholl, who was the dauâ€" e ghter of an English nobleman, marâ€" g ried to the eleventh Ear] of Atholl, p and mother of the twelfth and last q | (Celtic) Earl of Atholl. That four, teenthâ€"century lady â€" of Atho‘l was q |probably the first Scottish womnx M.P. of all time, as the present lad of Atholl is certainly the first Scot. "|tish woman M.P. under our modern franchise and Parliamentary systems, But the difierence brtween then and now is that Catharine Countess of Atholl did not seek to be elected to Parliament, but was forced to sit in that assombly. So were at the same time Mary Countess of War. wick, Anna Despenser, Alienor Coun. tess of Ormond, Philipa Countess of March, Johanna Fitzwater, Agneta Countess of Pembroke, Matilda Coun. tess of Oxford, Mary de St. Paul, and Mary de Roos. ’ In those days the ladies were chos. en to appear in Parliament. and thore PAMOUS ASSEMBLES Actually women sat in Par â€"Or the equivalent of that As â€"even eariier than the pesi referred to. So far back as t ‘694. indeed, ladies of the nobil aristocracy sat in Council w Saxon Witas; and in Wigh Great Council at Beconeed they abbesses sitting in deliberatior with the king, bishops, end | and five of them signcd the "¢ drawn up at that assomb‘y + come candiCates for Parliamentary honors. It is possible that had thore jbeen no female franchise today we lwouu have had the sUggestion that , women were being deliberately kopt out of Parliament, Actual‘y, however, it seems that women have always needed a good deal of porsuasion to make them legisiators, There is an instance of this away back 600 years ago. Incidentally, it may surprise some readors that there were women in Parliament so long ago as that, since it was only in 1918 that Mr. Llioyd George and the Corli. tion Government made it possible for women to vote in Par.iam mtary elec. tions and stand as candidates for Parliament. Wou‘d there be more women M.P.‘* ’or fewer of them in the new British Parliament than there were in the last one, asks Mary Gibson in the Glasgow Herald. That question has now been scitled. Some people are surprised that more women have not been seizing the oppo.tunity to be. omme canfifatas bre <gullgel c Way Back In The Fourteenth Century Countess of Atholl Sat In Council. BRITISH WOMEN _ IN PARLIAMENT 2"0, indeed, our women tted as local burgesses th men many centuries ey did not seem ever to admitted to Parliamentary TORONTO °" ramiament so long ince it was only in 1918 d George and the Corli. ent made it possible for e in Pardamentary elec. ind as candidatas fa~ Beconeed there wore in deliberation rong bishops, end nobles, _signcd the ‘Mecreos t assemb‘y. omen in Perliament is a fact that wo. °C more women M.P.‘3 m in the new British i there were in the Mary Gibson in the â€" That question has in Parliament that Assembly e period just k as the year Pnrliammury hat had thore tilucney, of the irtharine the dauâ€" gutfricd‘s nd