Some years ago when I lived in Eng-Isnd I was tremendously interested in the efforta made by the County Council to Premote an interest in the art of butter-the county town, in which three or four hundred competitors took part, amongst whom there was but one solitary man. And, alas that I should have to relate it, that one man was found putting colouring in his butter in order to gain the points given for the correct colour, and '60 was promptly suspended from taking any further part in the competition. Nevertheless I fear the palm must iven to my sex for little piffling unpremeditated double-shuffling, but for cold-Dlooded deliberate swindling she is not in the running with mere man. Yet should she ever, as a class, enter into serious competition in that particular line, then surely it will be a case of " Woe be unto man," as he is almost certain to gettth worst of it every time. As for example the Humbert case.
The Growth of Feminine Influence.
In the columns of a contemporary attention has recently been called to the growing influence of women in lic matters, special reference being made to the large amount of notice given to feminine affairs in the columns of most of the daily newspapers. That they are deemed to be important as well interesting is surely evidenced by the vast attention given to Miss Roosevelt's doings on the occasion of her visit to the St. Louis Exhibition, when the newspapers there averaged fifteen calamus of space a day in recounting the details of In round numbers Miss Roosevelt's affairs consumed something ike 120 columns of newspaper space in at days, and the photographs that been printed of her occupied an average of from one to three columns. It is therefore apparent that the old idea, that a good woman name should appear but three times in print—in the birth, marriage, and death columne—is rapidly dying " natural death.
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