The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-12-01 00:00:00

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VoII:LPSS PuLITICI ANS.

The activity atnoing thrTfeiniiiine part of the coin ,
1111 l nity during the prieent electoral campaign in an
eliriug foretaaLu It( What I .olitical coeite•Lo will Ix:,
whi•is "lovely woman" in endowed with the ismer to
k a,. Vithout venturing to deny that there are 111411 y
tal“sit,,l ladies of property who would lie quite an
wttiafactiory meeker., and quite OA useful in the
Douse oof Commoons as their slower.witted husband.
tloc accounts o of canvassing .4 the Mile.
fatighl,i,. claines of the Primrose League may well
canto. odd fashioned folk, to tremble. It is true that
there is 11. 'thing new in the exercise id the feminine
prerogative to elation. ; our fair "sitters, coniaina and
Cro• lout mildly imitating the slanted example
of many besides the notorious Duchess of Devonshire,
wlee, famous exploits la behalf of Mr. Fox, lost a
c.•:itury ag.., have born chronicled in a perfect library
.4 sere., lairlatory and libellous. We may be
thaiikful that we do not live at a time when it t.Fok
seven weeks to poll Westminster alone, lint we
ii aufficiently unfortunate, we might almost are.
with the ungallant gentleman, who 'nested, that
" Ladies Ought never to come out iof th, nursery,
except to make a pudding for dinner, and that if they
have any Piens time, it should be occupied
in the stitching of chair-covera." Mr. 11• r.
bert Gladstone and Mr. Lockwood would at
least have felt the force of these rensark'i when
they wire so unexpectedly interrupted loy the to
devoted sinter who anight, unsucee.efully la..wever,
to 'dead Yrrderiek Milner's cause at York in the
very teeth of a crowded Liberal meeting. f hi.• of the
London newspapers given tin an a 1111 l sing areomit of
all interview wlll Lady Itandodpio Churchill, wlei
gives an entertaining insight ml ill. u,.luaer iti a kith
she and her eatellitem
"Strove the neighhourlessl
With manners wondroila wi 111 l

hufure the !tinningliamconts,it The l'ritisrotie 11.eagite
opened by her luvlyship enrolled :int) natio.* ulna it.
list in a very brief space ; each neinilier then mail,
herself risgton-iblii for a certain district, th • licisiilent
slescritiing henielf " wurlcin har.l ut 4..414 hil
ca. 44." Lowly (Ameba!, it appears, them what
,air sift° thinks of the ipie.tions of tho ilty -it MI). hr•
the Church, it an ty Psis Trade. or it icily lie the
latel, and, WI I my, they ~ro-e with us- or not, iss the
case may lie, I trieit that they :Lure..." she Si of
opinion that "iii the.- tit itu•ra a woinsis evinces in lre
tact than • man," awl, as fir a, I.tet she is
pianilily right, for that subtl,, attribute ii ion- in which
aha masculine organisation iu proverl•i:tily deficient.
larly Churchill alma.n sistiitene,.• in her beli..f that

"little chide with the electors or their wi form aii
unewtant medium for ii..litical, ,1111,1•3.,71. Th-
feeeinationa of a bevy " Dames" turid. lie great
indeed if they cui sway the ileop-ra iaiiniinis
thine obstinate politicians—the llir,niiih sui newly•
enfranchised ; but i•VPII April I thy accompli•li this
feat, it ill greatly to be ipiestiotiod whethor they will
do much with the wives of thew, sturdy Radicals. The
arrival tit a richly-dres.oil lady with a political leaflet
premising a feast id fat thing. to them who rote on
that strange nivistan's land, known to both ciinteielling
parties as the "ri4ntsi.le,"iAaptta.Calirwth..j...r.llll,ll.pi.
who live such hopeless lives of ispialor and joylessness
in ~ur great factorins, and often scarooly less li,o'er
country villages, to ask with bitterness wl,y their It
in vs. different, awl to see with unwonted rlearnes4 I he
cruel cimtrasts between rich and poor. They are tired
of ierotnises, and of that stone which has vs p many
times been given them for bread, and in these times of
distress and ilepr.•siion stretch forth e..r hands ti
that who 1.1.31 110.1101. t4l til,•lll4,•lvs. 01311 then
gracious s,uihiu.g ladies. ()it Ow wholti, Ow, is bide
drolibt in :wig initel. that women are Ismsr away
From the hlll.llllll Id political skirenideir4, more

especially they are so abundantly abli• to influence
their husbands as it is. The shrieking sisters who
clamour for imancipatii in (nun that tyrant man,
awl strenuously demand an equal share of what
are as erroneously termed rights, exercise far IC.II
power than tie., clearer-sighted onie who ride with
a silken thread in thii privacy of lionie. Mks Recker
awl her party ari• prep trlo4 the tri 1111 l ph riong which
shall had the first M.P. of their eux; bat 011.11.1 it
eV.t In riniiloyed surely dm persistence of a w.noan
orator would make confa•iiiii worse conficiteled in the
Parliament which has already been the some of wi
many tinitignifesl ACllfil..*. That ininwinorial ;wive
lege of having the last word would leul to a length
ot debate fearful to contemplate, whilst the imagination
fails altogether to picture the liittermiss of a contest
for is disputed neat between two determined ladies.
There is nobler work than party strife for the hands
of the mining, cap:dile women nager to he of service to
their country's children, to educate and resole ;
sorrow and suffering hi alleviate. Let them follow

the exquisite advice given by Ruskin in "Ilesaine
and Lilies," and go down into the garden of the
n,r1,11 outside Lllll nes-ll...Ages of their ham), 11..111.,
1.0 i 0.11,1 the I an flowers which are withering and
Ltek of the gracious rain ate' sinishine
of I a:. loviog-kitoltte..