New-York tribune., 1909-01-19
THE TALh or THE DAY.

Writing from England to paper in Hamburg, a
woman says: 1t will take me days 10 recover
from my Aylesbury experience. I had never before
seen the inside OF a prison. unprepared for the
scenes, and. possibly for that reason this place.
where women criminals are confined, made such a
terrible impression or course the poor
creatures would be there IL they did deserve
1t. but the cells blank. bare and unnecessarily
chceress: the court, nclosed by high walls, pierced
by little grated windows the only place where the
women may exercise; the painful silence which
may not he broken except at the risk of punish
and denial OF what is called 'priviIeges'-all
this is horrible. But there is work there also-re
deemine work-and l fancy that the silent, wool
clad figures, with their shapeless shoes. go TO the
workshops more cheerfully-I smile at the word
than to their cells when the days task is done
Admirlng Constituent Senator. your name has
been mentioned in connection with Cabinet posi-
Senator Greatgunn-Er-yes. I believe IT has A
weekly paper in my home county remarked the
other day that any President who would offer me a
place in his Cabinet would be darned hard up
Chicago Tribune.
A reader of The Tribune referring the on
performance OF the Passion PLAY in New York
Of which an account was recently written saws
The writer Of the Passion SaImi Morse-not
Morris-and the music was written by oscar We'll.
I still have the programme Of the performance.
which place February Is. 1889, at the place
in 2Gd street arranged a theatre Morse which
he called the Temple There seven parts to the
dreary play: The presentation In the Temple; the
massacre of the innocents; the death of St John
the brook Of Kedron the Ga den of Gethsemane;
before Pontius PLATE. and IT is finished Tho
Passion never presented again. although much
money had been expended in it's production, and
the eccentric author. after ne found he had
become bankrupt because Of the venture COM
Fuitted suicide
Uncle Billy had taken his niece to the races
She had never been TO one before, and quite
placed a bet one of the horses in the first
There seemed he trouble with the horse she
played. for il turned and went IN the opposite
Look Nellie ~ your a,G money is G gene s.r for your
oh, that is all right Cousin Bob told me to
ppers pe Weekly.
Members Of an English organization known as
the Association for the Prevention of Premature
Burial are eldeavorng TO form similar societies
in this country, and great numbers Of circulars
containing grewsome statistics being sent TO
persons in all parts OF the country, II is pro-
posed to take from relatives and undertakers the
right to make the death diagnosis and to allow
only physicians to do this and to apply the tests
for the establishment of the fact that the per
son Is really dead. The society proposes also TO
establish waiting mortuaries." lighted. venti-
lated and pleasingly furnished where bodies
may be placed under observation until there Is no
longer any doubt as to death.
Redd-whats the fastest Marathon that you ever
Greene can't give you the exact tln1et buC i
know It was made by m? gas meter!-Yonkers
Statesman.
The Political Equality League of Chicago has
begun billboard campaign for woman suffrage
Every available space is being plastered with
posters bearing the symbolic figure of Chicago
carving in her hand the woman's ballot. The
Ieague hopes first TO obtain for women the right
"a vote in municipal elections, and is bending all
its energies toward that result just now.
Mrs Grimshaw (while the visitor is removing
his wTans)-What did you bring that here
to dinner for, when the house Is all torn up and
fulI OF the smell Of paint? Besides, you've told
me y thousand times, that he's bore and you don't
like him. . -,
Mr. C;rImshaw-I know ii, my dear. That's why
I brought him.-C Chicago Tribune.