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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1913, Page 9

rently fainH at your feet in the street, but call a policeman immediately. Never accept a lift offered by a stranger in a vehicle of any description. Do not accept sweets, food, or <h?ink, or smell flowers offered by a stranger, as they may contain drugs. Do not speak to strangers. Never accompany a stranger (even if dressed as a hospital nurse) or believe stories of a relation having met with an accident, as this is a common device to kidnap girls. If accosted by a stranger (whether man or woman) walk as quickly as possible to the nearest policeman. Fifty thousand copies of the pamphlet are being distributed at railway stations, shops, factories, and other places. "I seem to hear a great deal nowadays as to the advisability of telling children fairy tales,"' says a writer in the Atlantic Monthly. " 'Ft seems to me,' said an anxious mother, as 1 passed her tea one afternoon, 'that I should acquaint my offspring with the real truths of life, in order that I may prepare them for its trials. For life has many tribulations, to be sure, and one of its greatest worries lam now enduring! My cook has gone I' "I am sure this lady little knew how far she wag straying, when she made this last assertion, from the straight and unimaginative course which she was advocating. . She said her cook had gone, but failed to realise the wonderful vistas of mystery and conjecture which this single and seemingly simple statement had opened. For where do cooks go? We hear of their going, even unto the thousands and tens of thousands, but only upon the rarest occasions do we hear of their coming back. 'My cook has gone !' It is final, it is despairing,, there is no beyond. Once a cook has gone she has disappeared, vanished, irrevocably spirited herself away. ' As a result of experiment's made with women as conductors of trams, the Lapid Transit Company, which operates the electric cars of Philadelphia, has practically decided to substitute women for men. The women Tire employed on the "pay-as-you-enter" cars, and the experiment has proved a success. On the new cars the conductor is merely a cashier, and is not required to aid the motorman. The chief aim of the company, however, is to do away with as many of the causes of labour difficulties as possible. By employing women the corporation has determined to rid itself of those who have taken sides in the agitation which has kept the labour situation unsettled, and to replace these men as fast as the women prove capable of conducting the cars. Thus far only about ten women have been employed, and the public has taken kindly to the change, as it is found that the women , conductors are far more polite and attentive to passengers. The men frequently will not stop when desired, and are rude and officious in hustling passengers on and off. It is estimated that the saving will amount to £120.000 a year when the plan is in full operation. The grandmothers of Chicago have revolted. They are tired of being left behind from the parties, protected fromthe theatres, warned away from all excitement, lovingly sent to bed at 10 o'clock. Nursing their rebellion, and feeding it from the grievances by other grandmothers, they have joined together and formed a Grandmothers' Club. No member is eligible who is not a bona fide grandmother, and no men will be allowed in. Games and evening parties will be arranged, and, unhampered by the watchful eyes of the younger generation, the grandmothers of Chicago are about to renew their middle age. The Toronto Globe, in dealing with the disproportion of females in the Canadian West, says that encouragement should be given to the young women of Eastern Canada as. well as tnose of the Mother country, to seek husbands and homes, on the prairies 1 . "We are prone," it says, "to laugh at the girl who goes out west to increase her matrimonial chances. Stories of the Ontario school teachers who average 'something less* than three years of spinsterhood in the West, and Whose matrimonial ventures force the Western school boards regularly to replenish their supply, are told at many an Ontario tea table, and undoubtedly have influence ujtm many young ladies other than teachers. To the West the surplus of men is not quite a laughing matter. Instead of making it a subject of jocular comment in the East it might very well be worth while to initiate a serious national effort to restore tho equality in numbei'B of the sexes by publishing widely in Europe the facts as to our excess of male population, especially in the West. Canada as a whole has 1000 men for every 886 women. The distribution by provinces shows that in the West practically one man in three is condemned to bachelorhood because there are not enough wives to go round. Such a disproportion of the sexes makes for a poor home life, and for the lowering of morals. It is not good in any sense- for man to live alone. The women in England, where there is an excess of over 10 per cent, of women over men, should be encourager to come to Canada in large numbers, and our own girls should be commended ihstead of laughted at when they go West with the half-admitted idea of securing that handsome husband who, despite woman's new-found place in business life, is still not altogether^ banished from the feminine imagination. " PIANOS. We have a new and complete supply of these delightful instruments. The latest models ! Every possible improvement included. Full and brilliant tone. We hold the largest stock of pianos in the Dominion^ and have instruments to suit all classes and all purses. It is our endeavour to give the fullest satisfaction, and to ehable anyone' who desires a piano to get one oh the easiest possible terms. Deferred payments from twenty shillings per month. No harassing conditions. We treafc all our customers with the greatest consideration ._ and spare no pains to give satiifaction. Our reputa* tion has indeed been built up on such methods. The Dresden Piano Company, Wellington M. J. Brookes, North Island Manager.— 'Advt. The following programme of music will be played this week by Godbcr's Orchestra from 3 .to 5 p.m. at Lambton-quay :— Songe D'Esperance, Romeo and Juliette, Broken Melody, Vision D'Amour, Supplication Waltz, Every Little Movement. Laces and Graces, Gavotte Maude, Sunrise Waltz, Alexander's Ragtime, Brise I dv Soir, Wedding of the Winds.— Advt. Weddings, beautiful Shower Bouquets, Posies, Bitskets, Empire Staffs, Crooks, eto., artistically designed and forwarded to tny part of tho Dominion by Miss Murray, Vice-Regal Florist. 36. WiJlis-st Parents ! Watch our windows this week for samples of many of our lines in boy wear. The good vaJue with moderate prices will do tho rest. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners-street. — AdA't. Warner's Rust-proof Corsets. In the latest models, the bust is low and full. Flexible corseting above tho waist is tho i?bult — tho lat«et figure fashion. — Advt.