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First, an unnecessary duplication of 
reports. This, the leagues says, is a 
point of minor importance. 
The other point and the principal 
one at which duplication is alleged is in 
the matter of safeguarding machinery 
and the prevention of accidents. This 
is the only point of importance made 
by the Governor’s message and is the 
only point upon which the Industrial 
Accident Board has laid any stress. 
The possible duplication of efforts 
is an insufficient reason for handing 
over to a specialist board the whole 
department of labor which is to as- 
sume the big, broad, comprehensive 
powers of enforcing all the labor laws 
of the Commonwealth and inspecting 
all the industrial establishments. 
The transfer is opposed by the exe- 
cutive committees of the following or- 
ganizations: Massachusetts Consum- 
ers’ League, Massachusetts Child La- 
bor Committee, Women’s. Educational 
and Industrial Union and the Wo- 
men’s Trade Union League. 
When one considers that at the last 
election in Boston but forty-one per 
cent of the voters registered, it is no 
wonder that here is a host of criticism 
in the affairs in the Hub. If men do 
not have interest enough in their own 
immediate government and in their 
right of suffrage to vote, it is perhaps 
time for the women to have the bal- 
lot. The women are not over-inter- 
ested, however, for in Revere last 
week but forty-seven per cent of the 
fair sex registered, and but forty-four 
per cent in Boston. 
Japan has no use for the three- 
decker apattment house, but its seven- 
and-a-half million fire in Yokohama 
shows that it is following this country 
in the matter of conflagrations. 
King George of England and Presi- 
dent Wilson vied with each other in 
their messages to the people. 
It is up to Bryan to keep the 14- 
inch gun on the Texas named “Wood- 
row” quiet. 
The suffragetts are turning their at- 
tention now to spring hats. 
You can get some good points out 
of any paper—even a paper of pins. 
A woman seldém has time to listen 
to more than half she says. 
- Any woman will tell you that imi- 
tation is the sincerest form of cattery. 
‘The Breeze $2.00 per year post- 
paid to any part of the country. 
HAIL TO SPRING 
(Original) 
Hail to spring, lovely spring! 
Now the birds begin to sing; 
Pretty little birds in gray, 
Singing, fly from brae to brae. 
Hail to spring, vernal spring! 
Merrily does the plough-boy sing, 
While his horses jog along 
To the music of his song. 
Hail to spring, gladsome spring! 
Loud we'll make the welkin ring; 
Life’s ascending from the earth; 
Fields and trees are giving birth. 
Hail to spring, blithesome spring! 
With your advent we now bring, 
While the birds and plough-boys sing, 
All nature’s simple offering. 
—Marcaret L. Rust, 
22 Bridge St., Manchester, Mass. 
HELEN KELLER TO LECTURE AT TRE- 
MONT TEMPLE 
Edwin Bower Hesser announces the 
first Boston appearance of Miss Hel- 
en Keller and her teacher, Mrs. Macy 
at Tremont Temple on Monday, 
March 24th. Miss Keller will deliver 
an address on “the Heart and the 
Hand’’—really, the story of her re- 
markable life. f 
Helen Keller has been known to 
the world ever since she was seven 
years old, when the first reports of 
her education were published, telling 
how a deaf blind child had learned to 
read and write in six months. Her 
life has been an unbroken series of 
triumphs over obstacles. Deaf and 
blind at the age of nineteen months 
she remained in intellectual darkness 
until she was nearly seven. Then 
Mrs. Macy (Miss Sullivan) a gradu- 
ate of the Perkins Institute where Dr. 
Howe had done his great work with 
Laura Bridgman, went to Helen Kel- 
ler’s home in Alabama, and began 
her education. At the age of ten Helen 
Keller learned to speak. At sixteen 
she was preparing for college. She 
graduated from Radcliffe College in 
1904, receiving the degree of Bachelor 
of Arts cum laude (with distinction). 
While she was in college she wrote 
“tne Story of My Life,” which has 
been translated into fifteen languages. 
During th past year she has taken 
another step forward in her remark- 
able career. Under the instruction of 
Mr. Charles White, a teacher of sing- 
ing at the New England Conservatory 
of Music, she has greatly improved 
her. speaking voice. During the sum- 
mer of 1912 she spoke before a con- 
vention of teachers of the deaf at 
Providence, R. I. This was the first 
time that she stood alone! on a public 
platform. A few months later she ad- 
dressed an audience of physicians at 
the Otological Congress held in’ Bos- 
ton at the Harvard Medical school. 
The success of these experiments has_ 
encouraged her to appear before the 
general public. : 
“PINK LaDy” AT THE COLONIAL 
Never has a musical comedy re- 
ceived a warmer reception on a ‘re- 
turn visit to Boston than did ‘The 
Pink Lady” at the Colonial Theatre 
last week. All of the old favorites of 
the original cast were remembered 
with enthusiasm. Of course the four 
particular favorites are Frank Lalor, 
Hazel Dawn, Alice Dovey and Alice 
Hegemen, but all of the old cast were: 
warmly welcomed. 
The Herald said: “It was received 
with the same _ satisfaction which 
greeted its initial appearance. It was 
received with the cordiality and en- 
thusiasm which its merits deserved.” 
The Transcript after much praise of 
the principals spoke of the perform- 
ance as ‘As effective and pleasant an 
entertainment as Boston has witness- 
ec 
The Traveler says that “The Pink 
Lady” is funnier than ever. And so 
it went. It will be many a long day 
before a more popular offering will 
be seen in Boston. 
Seats are now selling two weeks in 
advance and mail orders will receive 
the most careful attention if accom- 
panied by remittances. ie 
New York HIppoDROME 
“Under Many Flags” the wonder- 
ous new series of world famed spec- 
tacles at the New York Hippodrome 
has passed the 320th. performance 
and is still the most popular and fas- 
cinating entertainment of the metrop- 
olis of the Western Hemisphere. 
There was recently added the dramat- 
ic spectacle “Gypsy Life” in three 
picturesque scenes, set in the hills of 
Hampshire, England. In the second 
scene there is presented a three-ring 
mammoth circus and the third scene 
is the greatest thrill of all, The Plung- 
ing Horses. . 
Thirty-three Indian chiefs, the last 
leaders of the Redmen of the U. S. vis- 
ited the Hippodrome after the Presi- 
dental ceremonies at Fort Wards- 
worth, Staten Island, last week. It 
was their first visit to the great play- 
house and they applauded long and 
loud when the Plunging Horses came 
on the great stage. and plunged into 
the big tank. They were under the 
guidance of U. S. Indian Commis- 
sioner Abbott, Major T. McLoughlin 
and Major Burke, eo poem 
