Tt is cheering to note that better Sims are coming to Shanghai these Jdays. Any number of dinner parties were arranged for the first night of "Evergreen" and the audience 1ooked nearly as smart as that at the} 'Theatre on Wednesday night. It is interesting to learn that Mise Jessie Matthews and Mr. 'Sonnie' Hale, who as most cinema-goers know, are husband and wife, have just adopted a baby girl from the National Adoption Society London. The Hales were bitterly. dlappointed by the death of their Jown baby last Christmas after a few Jshort hours of life, so. the lucky ]youngster they have adopted will do his part by filing an empty nursery. into it Probably he would most be impressed by things we never think of, as that everyone can read and write, or by the cleanliness and ex cellency of our roads. Such things as motor-cars, aeroplanes and tele: Vision would be so utterly remote: from his experience, that he would infallibly ascribe them to the Evil Soe, "Nt lepoety he would be The Elusive Domestic 'The amazing statement is made in report of the Central Committee on Women's 'Training and Employment, that every year between 4,000. and 5,000 women and girls are trained by this agency and put out} in' domestic service. What I wan! belong to was going through a drought fof servants almost as long as the Grought of rain, we applied to raining centres all over the country—Durham, Yorkshire and South Wales—as wel! as Labour Exchanges; and the answer was always the seme: nothing even likely to be ready for xwn or three months, and list for the Srst girl 1e. Feport mentioned says that as industry has begun to Improve, fewer girls are applying to. be trained 1s maidservants. So, no fare growing still longer.
I see that, at Newcastle, one of! the councillors has been denouncing. the bogus agencies. which temp\ girls up to London to situations: Where the first thing they find necessary is to get out. Undoubted-Sally Brasses" and Marchionesses: Still exist A shocking case was reported last week of a child of 17, who, since she was 12 years old, hi Wge in a house where mistress. Eventually she ran away and so was caught and brought fore a kindly magistrate; and that hould be tne beginning of a new fand happier life for her. Why her mistress': name did not come out, one cannot think.
But such cases must be rare, It you get_a girl from a Labour Ex: change or recognized training centre, you sign all sorts of undertak-Ings, eapeciaily. that you will allow her' to be regularly visited. by an Inspector, to verity that you do not feed her' on remnants of cat's meat and make her stand on the stove with bare feet when the teapot comes to pieces in her hand.
T have known people who got maids from training centres. Now and then one hears of a "treasure' Mostly they are very rough stut, with all the real training still to be done.
Women Barristers connection, generally, with work for women I noticed the other day in a list of new barristers called to the Bar, which stretched a full half column in small type, the names of only two women, one at the Middle Temple, one at Gray's Inn. The Bar, I'am told, is one of the few. careers in which women appear unable to. get a foothold. If you ever see a report of a cage in which a woman barrister appears, it it worth cutting out, to preserve with the family specimen Of the Great Auk's egg and the last genuine joke in—well, perhaps! Better of, Judges are kind enough to the women barristers, and their male colleagues, or antagonists. But solicitors are a conservative and Suspicious race. They do not beeve in Portia' and will give her no briefs.
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