At a recent inquest in Wales doctor was erticized by the Coroner for falling to attend a child until hours atter the injury from had died. -He_ protested the criticism, pointing out that the dead child's parents had paid his bills for two years, whereupon the Coroner remarked: "It is only a humane thing for medical men to come forward and assist in cases of this kind, irrespective of ills that may be owing." That is undoubtedly the feeling of the majority of peopl in fact, it is more than that it is taken for granted that doctors wil come forward, paid or unpaid, to the honour of the medical. pro-sion, and in most cases that What happens. What is not, however, so often considered is the doctor'y point of view, and his feelings when called to attend people who do not Pay their bills but who, nevertheless, seem always to have enough money'to spend upon pleasure. We not told how often the Good Samaritan performed the deed which gave him worldwide fame, nor whether he happened to be in the position in which so many doctors at Home find themselves, bare living. It is unlikely that that the particular doctor Wales who was the subject of this criticism; and if the Coroner felt it necessary to say something on the case, he might also have included a comment upon those who run up bills with apparently no intention of ever meet ing them.
The Woman Voter Stress was laid in the telegrams regarding the Presidential election fon the prominence of women at the polls, and we await with the comment which experts in the United States have to make on the influence of the feminine yote. There is reason to believe that one factor influencing male legislators denying women the vote in the past, or at any rate straggling against it, was the fear that it would totally upset all ideas about elections which could be regarded as sound. It was argued that women not understand rating, tariffs and so on, that they took ro interest n foreign policy, and that, once they were given the vote, elections would fe swayed by emotional siderations and not by hard logic. Not so many years ago this might have been perfectly true, although undoubtedly it placed the average male elector apon a much higher plane than his mentality deserved, for, judging by elections with whiett we were familiar, the body of the free and independent yoters had generally a hazy idea about what
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