I saw it recorded that in addition to invited guests 40,000 tickets had been purchased for the meetings of the Church Congress which ix being held this week at the Albert Hall—the first Church Congress ever held in London. I can quite believe it, as everywhere one goes there seem to be Clergymen, accompanied by their sisters, cousins' and aunts (a good many aunts). Even at The Degencrates (Mrs. Langtry's successful Fifid's clergynten next tone. and say lay xt the Haymarket) on Wednesday
another quite close by—it isnot a highly moral play. I wondered what the gentlemen of the cloth thought of it. On Monday which wax a kind of grand re-hearsay day the Bishop of London gave an address to women only. There were between five and six thousand of us present, but his Lordship did not seem in the least embarrassed. He gravely announced that "Men are very stupid people compared with women." 'There I must venture to disagree with him, however, it sounded nice, though the air with which it was said' failed to carry conviction. 'The address was mainly for the benefit of married women, or those meditating matrimony. The Bishop gare a very tell-jo description of the married man He comes home tired and worried, may be something as gone wrong in' the city, or he has mothing on his mind." "He grumbles at his wife, complains of the least thing for which she can be held responsible and makes things generally uncomfortable. "Do not mind him,". says Dr. Creighton, "it's only his way of beginning a-conver: tion." As regards tiffs his Lordship urged wives to "always be the first to make it up." The whole discourse aimed at showing the overwhelming influence of the won ian in the well-being of the household. From the days of my childhood I have always heard that to "feed the brute" (a quotation, not mine own) was the panacea for all the shortcomings of married ife, but_now to that must be added "do mind him, it's only his way of. begining a conversation"—we are getting
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