The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-03-01

lea are required 10 come out as n
woman Auffragist. For this rea-
son perhaps the English ladies
who advocate the rights of woman are
exceptionally strong, intelligent and
gifted. with Mrs. Laura Ormiston
Chant and Lady Henry Somerset Amer
lean women are already somewhat ac-
quain@d. Lady Somerset. handsome.
intellectual, rich and benevolent. turn
ed from fashionable society 10 do what
one person might to tighten the woes
caused by drunkenness. She was not I'm
the beginning a believer I'm the theory
that voting Is the right and duty OF
woman as of man. She worked among
the poor, the wives ana children OF in
ebriates. She speedily found that the
cause OF temperance must be re-en-
forced by the power OF law British
men would not make laws TO lessen the
liquor traffic. IL must be done, IL at all.
through women. and women could new
er do IL without having the ballot In
their own hands. SO woman suffra-
giss Isabel Somerset became. and wo-
man suffrag gist she has remained to this
day.
OF Mrs. Laura Ormlston Chant. who
has lecture toured the States several
times IL has been said that the culture
of three centuries sounds ia her voice.
Most English women who speak in pub
lie have this exquisite voice, and IL Is
revelation TO Americans OF the music
that can be produced by the speaking
voice. 1t comes through cultivating
clear enunciation and giving forth the
sound from the front OF the mouth in
stead OF from back in the throat.
Another famous woman suffragist Is
/ Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, widow
of Great Britain's blind postmaster gem
! eral. IL was through her vigorous as
I sistance that her husband was able TO
/ perform the DUTIES OF his office. She IL
| a writer and the author OF an able
/ book on social and political economy.
| Mrs. Josephine Butler, lifelong worker
| for social purity also was driven by the
relentless logic OF facts into the camp
/ Of the woman suffragists reasoning
that TO help woman 1t is necessary TO
put into womans hand a weapon
wherewith she may help herself. Mime.
4 Sarah Grand is another eloquent and
vigorous woman suffragist
| If Queen Alexandra should proclaim
| herself i'm favor of women's voting. the
feminine sex in England would have
| fun suffrage inside of five years. Such
are the British people. In our country
i nearly every president from Lincoln,
| with his dictum of the ballot for all.
by no means excluding females" down
| 10 Mr.. Roosevelt has been i'm favor Of
feminine voting. but as yet the sex has
full suffrage in only four states. which
1 shows that a presidents opinions do not
count for much after all.
But Queen Alexandra is silent on the
suffrage subject, as Queen Victoria was
before her. Several prominent ladies
of the English nobility besides Lady
Somerset have. however. come out
strongly for their sex's right to vote.
The brilliant and dashing Lady Flor
ence Dixie is one OF them. Mental
traits do appear TO run in families.
4 Lady Florence is the daughter of the
l MARQUIS of Queensberry, who devised
the famous rules OF the ring for prize
fighters with gloves She herself is an
athlete among women. an author. a dis
tinguished bareback rider and an ad-
vocate of feminine cross saddle riding.
During the Boer- British contest of 1880
81 Lady Florence was a war corre-
spondent in South Africa. She was for
wears an enthusiastic huntress and is
today one OF the best feminine shots in
the kingdom She has slaughtered liv-
ing creatures through her unerring
craftsmanship in nearly all parts of
the world.
Suddenly and unaccountably few
years ago Lady Florence saw a new
light. The boodthirsty. inhuman cruz
city of what civilized man calls sport
dawned on her. Since then she has
done her best TO go back over her trail
and so far as possible undo the wrong
she feels herself to have done in anus
ing herself by killing things. She has
written two vigorous books OF protest
against hunting for so called sport.
once after day of shooting she went
out at night in the moonlight, saw the
red. trampled snow where the mur-
dered animals had met their deaths.
saw broken winged half frozen pleas
ants that had escaped instant death
from the shots only 10 die more horri-
bly,. thought OF the manned hares AMI
rabbits that in like manner were freez-
ing to death and then and there re-
nounced hunting as a sport forever.
she even became a vegetarian in her
horror of IL.
There too, is the distinguished repreA
sentative OF the United Kingdom TO the
international woman suffrage conven-