Show american opportunity A bulletin from the bureau of mann tac turea of the department of corn merce and labor shows that while the united states has made extraordinary progress in many directions there belll are fields in which this country Is greatly excelled by others the manufacture of laces especially of the finer varieties appears not to have been developed here as abroad the statistics are interesting the people of the united states last year purchased laces worth no less than for american women are among the most prodigal buyers of this form of adornment of this total more than 90 per cent was imported this Is a fine thing for the european lace makers who find their best mar ket in the united states but econome cally speaking the showing Is most un satisfactory lace making is one of the arts and crafts that should be capable of development in this coun try and thus a highly important adal lion could be made to our industries the bulletin in question hints at something of this sort when pointing out the fact that the various old world countries make very handsome profits out of lace although the cotton and cotton thread which are the raw ma serials te rials are bought abroad and imported subject to duty the united states Is the great cotton growing country of the world and with an abundant supply of such material at home should be among the foremost in producing and selling fine cotton products such information as that in the bulletin from the bureau of manufactures should set americans thinking lawyers are not BO prominent as legislators in great britain as in this country sir the new premier Is the first eminent lawyer to hold that office tor almost a century lord melbourne it Is true was called to the bar and was a lawyers clerk but neither of them practiced lord salisbury and mr balfour were landed proprietors and their probes elon if any was that of statesman ship public life attracts men of means in angland a large proportion of whom regard it as a duty to give their time to the service of their coun try neither the members of the house of lords nor of the house of commons receive compensation for their ices and although the irish national ast 1st and members ot the labor party are paid from funds privately subscribed bed the amount they receive Is quite moderate the ordinary english lawyer Is so busily occupied making a living that he does not often seek an election to parliament until middle life in this country young lawyers enter public life as a means of making themselves known and thus increasing their clientage that tips are wages has just been decided by the appeals court of eng land the case came before it in the claim made under the workmen s compensation act in behalf of a wait er who was accidentally killed in a dining car it was contended by his dependents that the true basis of reckoning was tha mans wages plus hlll tips the lower court denied this but on appeal it was held that tips are to be regarded reg ardad as wages bhea the giving and receiving a them aro open wad notorious |