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 NOTES BY THE WAY.

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��QUEENS MEMBERS OF THE OEDEE OF THE GAETEE.

Triith for February 21st, 1901, does well to make the following i901,March2, contradiction of the mistake made in most of the papers that Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra are the only Queens who have been members of the Order of the Garter :

" Queen Alexandra is the first Queen Consort who has worn a blue ribbon, but every Queen of England, from Mary I. downwards, has been a member of the Order, as a sovereign, on ascending the throne, becomes ipso facto a Knight of the Garter. William IV. had intended to confer a blue ribbon upon Queen Adelaide, but for some reason or other the idea was abandoned."

��Queens

members of

the Order of

the Garter.

��PUBLIC MOUENING.

A remarkable feature during the mourning for Queen Victoria 1901, March 9. was the retaining of the black shutters at places of business on the day after the burial of the Queen at Windsor ; and in some cases they were not taken down for several days beyond. There seems to have been a general reluctance to remove these outward signs of sorrow.

��Public mourning for Queen

Victoria.

��THE FIEST LADY BAEEISTEE.

The Sphere for March 9th, 1901, contains a full-page illustra- I 90 *. Mar - 1 6 - tion of the swearing-in of Mile. Chauvin, the lady barrister, who The first made her first appearance on the 23rd of February before M. ^y barrister, Magnaud, the President of the Tribunal at Chateau-Thierry. The J Sphere states that the judge, in welcoming Mile. Chauvin, said that

" the law which had accorded her the right to practise had not been received with equal enthusiasm by all her male confreres. The Chateau- Thierry Tribunal, on the contrary, applauded that law, as it would energetically applaud all measures tending to emancipate woman. That was why he entertained the hope that at an early date a law would be passed which would allow women to sit in the ordinary tribunals as judges. It was with this hope that he welcomed to the bar of his court the first woman who had come to plead before it."

��VANISHING LONDON: CHEIST'S HOSPITAL.

The Standard of March 7th, 1901, contains the following :

" The beginning of the end has already been commenced in grim 1901 Mar - 16 . earnest at Christ's Hospital. The Lenten suppers of this year will be Vanishing the last that will take place in the historic building in Newgate Street. London : The coloured windows have already been removed, and a few weeks Christ's hence the fine organ will be dismantled. It is intended to overhaul it Hospital, thoroughly, and then to erect it in the large hall at Horsham. The organ an old Blue has promised to present will be placed in the chapel in course of erection."

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