The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28

higher title Countess of Warwick The
intellectual development of the Coun-
tess of Warwick is a psychological
study. 1t follows indeed, stage for
stage, the soul development of the
whole feminine sex. First is the infan-
tile phase, which lasts through the lives
of millions of the sex, notably in the
orient; then the girlhood stage ar
rives, wherein the feminine creature
cares for society. for fine clothes, for
spectacular social shows and looks to
the masculine sex for the means to
crafty these aspirations, such as they
are. This phase, too, lasts through the
lifetime of millions of feminine crea-
lures.
Finally the bitter disillusionment, the
end of all things apparently. when the
feminine sex and the individual belong
ing to it wake to find there is nothing
in anything-no lasting happiness or
satisfaction to be found in any of the
objects the world covets most. Then
the real woman awakens. Her soul
grows in proportion as it is stripped
of everything the woman once thought
was the lend ALL and 'be air of ex-
istence. She learns then that on wo-
man the divine power has laid the task
of lifting the race to higher levels, only
that woman hitherto has shamefully
shirked her task
Lady Warwick had her awakening
some years ago. Suddenly. or so it
| seemed, in the midst of life as bril-
| liant and favored as woman's can be,
| she, one of the most beautiful and
sought after women in England, turned
her back on all she had known and
said:
Society consists of two classes, the
| bored and the bores. I give it all up
| ioI fO,-
| cial Democrat Labor party and was
admitted. She became identified with
labor leaders, who speak of her as "our
| comrade." In an automobile she tour
/ ed Great Britain from one end to the
other, making propaganda for her
party. She discovered that the poor
! est classes in Great Britain are not
/ half fed and the race is deteriorating
| in consequence. She walked up the
| British nation by pointing them to the
vast number of recruits who are re-
jected from the army because they are
| physically unfit, mot even fit to be
shot at She started the movement
for giving free food to the hungry chill
dren of the public schools. Lady War
wick's own younger son. Maynard Gre
| vile, is called the most beautiful child
in England. She went in powerfully
| for the enfranchisement of women. she
| duNCcdlSS the dDOHllOii Ol the mousse OF
lords. the disestabIishment and olsen
/ dowment of the church and the ma
| tionalization of the land.
While yet a member of aristocratic
| society she interested herself enthu-
siastically in the industrial education
! of her own sex, striving for enlarged
opportunity for them. She has main
tanned for years upon her own estate a
horticultural school for girls. She is
| very beautiful her manner is mag
| netic. and it sounds startling enough
/ when this high bred aristocrat and
/ friend of royalty itself stands upon a
! public platform and says in voice
like an angels:
present conditions can only be rene
died by the collective ownership of all
/ means of production, distribution and
exchange and by the institution of a
/ cooperative commonwealth
| Verify the old order changeth!
LILLIAN GRAY.