| Show SER BER 1 1908 I PAGES 1 1108 TO 8 I iN I NEW v USE Of OXYGEN IS SU SUGGESTED fOR INHABITANTS OF or OVERCROWDED LONDON BRITISH WOMEN IN WORK OF CHARITY Celebrated Criminal Case Is rs Attracting Wide Attention in England PETITIONS FOR DAISY LORD Freedom I Is Sought for Girl Girl- Convicted of I Infanticide Infanti Infanti- cide BY LADY LADI HENRY nY SOMERSET Republican Special Cable London Oct There have Q been several aral lately discussIng n the tho Is value valne or ot n to athlete athletes and d I It s even proposed that It shall be given to race raco c hor horses to add to their power to do heavy y W work rk durIng prolonged prolong K d l pen period Tho experiments may bo ho very Interesting Inter- Inter esting ol scientifIcally hut but It sewn seems a almost al- al most n a a. waste waRte of ot energy mind nd of or oxygen to use it for tor such purposes while HO so many nany human compelled beings are b by their ln overcrowded v homo homes and surroundings to do their dall laity dally work K with n a Ver very Insufficient supply ed Perhaps In in the tho the doctors who vho are interested interest interest- subject might be bo Induced to ministered tr try PV the tho effect to of ot Periodical doses dose administered administered administered ad- ad some of ot our anaemic em and overcrowded workers home whoso whose breathing power flower ls la diminished and lun lung uns power destroyed h by long hours In stoop stoop- P jn lag over sowing machines it Jt they could also give Ive them a 1 little sunshine and nourishment It mt might ht save eave the trouble 0 ot of further I le on the subject of f hours conditions ot of work ork or rates ot of wages ages wages wage's Statement leaned Issued As AI a r result sult ot of many Petitions received rec received d at the hoie mie office for or the time release of or the tho girl Dais Daisy Lord who was sentenced to o death a sentence after commuted to o penal servitude for tor life lite for tor tho the murder of ot her Infant child an InterestIng interesting Interest Interest- Ing ng statement has hns been Issued b by the homo home secretary While 1 giving hopes that the law un un- un- un der ler i which t tho the death sentence can be bo passed for tor offenses of ot this thin class may shortly be bo amended he notes notee that there seeing In some sonie Cases caseR an undesirable tendency to Ignore the gravity o ot of the tho crime of ot Infanticide lie He goes gOCR on to state state- that the death sentence Is 13 commuted to one for life lite In time the first Instance In order to give Ive th the home office a a. free freo hand in dealing with each case on It Its ita merits and It Is very rarely that m more r than three years ar are served If It time the prisoner re responds readily to I wholesome somo Influences and has halll friend or n. n home where ehe Con can be received d- d ho le 18 soon n conditionally released i I. I 1 t or n. n t. but P r g J to t- t V VT r sv A lI 1 Al C ly Iy satisfy t the tine reasonable hopes of 01 those o who ha have e appealed In Iii her behalf Gladstone View Among tho h helpful Influences brought to bear on prisoners Mr Gladstone note notes tho the keen interest shown bown and ami valuable help given by the committee ot of ladles ludle who do not hold nil aim official I Vo We why women mu must tt always work Apropo a avery very vory article Jn tn the th Century this r month by by UIs s I Ix Low vr In Jn which she J Inquires why winy the thousands thousand ot of interim interim- I gent women omon Whom horn wo we arts told tord tir are yearning to help their poorer sisters sister I lo io not b begin fIn Let them start rt at once I I by hy studying studying- tho organization of ot th the German V and form tonn I branches all over tho timo kingdom of ot a a. aI I similar organization to holp help these theBo poor I mothers in fn their hour of at supreme need I and nd above all to help bell them thern to keep I their children not as la Is so 80 wrongly I encouraged encourage 1 by the foundling lon ion and amid so often otten by private persons willing ng to adopt children to give up their heir claim to them thorn It If they thoy do they icy would do something to disprove a statement that was wae being made th the theother thet thor other t day that t Daisy I Lord Larch was being mado ado 3 I Into a at heroine o le because e she 1 killed I her ler child by b- women who would have overwhelmed her hor with shame and reproaches reproaches re re- me- me for tor giving birth to it ha had ah she allowed It to live U This Is not of ot course entirely tru true I but It Is 18 true that hundreds of ot girls girl whoso whose conduct was neither more nor less blameworthy than this girls girl's meet with vcr very scant cant sympathy when thor thoY brave bravely take up th the th burden of tho tha lIt lIt- lit little the tle life which Is the result often otton of a a. short abort hours hour's folly tolly Interchange of T Teachers An arrangement likely to prove pro he- he helpful help ful In time the teaching of or languages ee In England has baa been concluded by th the board boord of ot education by which an n exchange exchange ex ex- ex- ex change chango of teachers with France and Germany Is made The n agreement with r tho Iho French government Jo has been in tn force since 1906 1905 but that with the German German lenman Ger len man ministry of ot education is only just Juet Continued Ou Page Trio o BRITISH i WOMEN VO EN ENIN IN WORK OF CHARITY Continued from om Page Oll One concluded Such exchanges ought to do much toward towar breaking down tho the barrIers barriers barriers bar bar- between the nations which on only I Ignorance has kept up and anti It If carried out on a sufficiently generous scalo Ecal should help to bring us ono step step nearer to the tho federation of or tho world It Is doubtful It If tho the managers of ot London opera houses will bo be In a hurry to Install Mr tr Lee de do Forests Forest's new ap ap- apparatus for wireless telephony If ns It-ns ns he claims It It will make It poss possible ble for tor forthe forthe the music to be bo heard aa os far Car as thirty miles round London at an any rate not at tho the price he mentions as ns the maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum cost namely cost namely four shillings a month Tho The installation of or the tho receiver Is priced at not more than three pounds If It Is not at present used to save us tho the trouble au and expense of or going goin to the theater there thero will probably bo be no no lack of or persons however howe who will be I eager cager to use It for tor the business of ot dally daily 11 lifo life fo There appears to be bo plenty of or new excitements and new dangers to those thol in search of them who have havo money to pay for tor them Tho newest craze It Ir Paris seems to be bo ballooning and women especially appears to bo be taking to the pursuit with enthusiasm A now new society the tho Femina Club Clab has hus been founded toune andas and as Its name Implies Its members must be women Mme the wife wire of ot ill tho g celebrated aeronautical en engineer has hns a made many ascents and now fre tro- frequently takes her callers to Have ove ten tea In tho the clouds two or three thousand feet above e the tho ground Surely Sureh much of tho original coziness of ot the tho five Ova must be lost at this altitude |
