deserve and elicit brief comment.
Mr. Wakeman writes from London, that a noted Eng-
lish leader, whom he quotes without naming, avers that
the “cursed barmaid system” in England is evolved by [5]
the same power which in America leads women “along
a gamut of isms and ists, from female suffrage, past a
score of reforms, to Christian Science.” This anony-
mous talker further declares, that the central cause of
this “same original evil” is “a female passion for some [10]
manner of notoriety.”