Mrs. Garrett Anderson made a speech at St. George's Hall
on Saturday in favour of her sister, Mrs. Cowell, and of female can- didates generally for School Boards, which was most enthusiasti- cally received. She was utterly opposed to carrying the eccle- siastical warfare into schools, " fighting it, in fact, with children for hostages," and making a bit of a• child trudge from Pad- dington to Marylebone to save some ratepayer's conscience to the -extent of a halfpenny. None but women could provide for the girls, who were the majority of those to be taught, and as to the dirty-faced boys, they were more afraid of a lady than of a beadle. She also pointed out, we think for the first. time, that women must be elected to look after the details of the Board work, for the men elf-eted had seldom the leisure, and very often, not the patience. We are told that the religious diffi- culty stands greatly in the way of all female candidates, as they need the support of the clergy, and are sometimes mercilessly cross-examined as to their religious beliefs.
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