The National tribune., 1908-11-05

nal energy and originality, have been
regarded with sort OF good-humofed
tolerance by the authorities, nothing
more serious than an occasional arrest
and perhaps few days confinement in
iail resulting from their vigorous at
tacks upon Parliament, etc. Their mon
ster professions and mass meetings,
showing wonderful executive ability on
their part, have not been interfered
with, and the movement has certainly
gained ground. Parliament being actual
ly forced into an agreement to give
their cause consideration. But in their
recent attempt to rush the House OF
COMMONS. just the other day, it is said
they went a little too far, and that dras-
tic measures will be taken TO prevent q
repetition of such a disturbance of the
public comfort and prerogative. On
this occasion the enormous mob which
surrounded the Houses of Parliament
stopped traffic for some hours, hindered
business. entailed serious disorder, ne
cessitati ting double duty on the large
police force already sufficiently hard
worked. In the great city of London
it can readily be imagined what this
would mean and how serious might be
its consequences. The suffrag gettes have
done this very thing before, it is true,
but the authorities now feel that they
have done it Just one time too many,
and that this must be the last. Abso-
lutely nothing was gained by their rush
the other day. One woman actually
did get in on the floor of the House by
q trick. and had the satisfaction of
yelling out few words before she was
seized and carried out bodily. The
leaders in the movement, Mrs. Pank-
hurst and her good-looking young
daughter. Miss Cristabel, together with
some 20 other suffragettes, were arrest
ed for inciting breach of the peace,
and it seems to be the expression of
public sentiment that they should be
sternly dealt with. Mrs. Humphrey
Ward and the Countess of Jersey, who
are important members of the National
Suffrage League, say that they
have received hundreds of letters since
this last attempt of the suffra gettes,
from all kinds of people, expressing dis
gust and disapproVal of the irrational,
indecent and anti-social methods of
these agitators, and it is the general
opinion that their cause has been set
back a full generation by these antics.
AS Prime Minister Asquith is the special
bette noir of these militant ladies. he has
hardly ventured out for some time
without special police protection. Never
since the days of the Duke of yelling
ton. who was specially out of favor
with the people on account of his op-
position to the reform bill, and who
has Ensland's Prime Minister been OBJ
liged to call upon police protection to
the extent Asduith has on account OF
the suffragettas.
Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who has taken
the title of Car, did so to revive the
ancient title of the Bulgarian Kings
a:.d not with the idea of assuming the
absolute power of an Emperor, as the
title would indicate. He is content 20
be King simply to his people, but as
it is well known that he dreams of re-
storing Bulgaria to her old-time glory
and power by absorbing SerYia and the
other Balkan States, his adoption of
the old title is supposed to be the first
step in this scheme. Seryia is nursing
the same little plan for her own future
glory, 1t is said, and her ancient rulers
were also called Cars, so she is very
much enraged that Ferdinand should
have gotten ahead of her by his astute-
ness in appropriating the old title. AS
until now we have had but one Car TO
burden our minds with-tfe Car of
Russia-everything has been plain SAIL
ing, but now with couple of Cars,
Czarowitches and Czarinas on hand, we
are apt to get quite mixed up.
Think of poor Mrs. Russell Sage GO
ing thru her whole married life with
only one parlor carpet Isn't it tragic
when one realized all the money her
husband had? This carpet, purchased
when they first went TO housekeeping
was of the vintage of some 40 or more
years ago when the brightest of bright
colors and the biggest of big figures
were all the style. 1t was very good
Brussels. it is true, and seemed quite
elegant to Mrs Sage at the time but
as the years went on its color natur-
ally faded, then the nap wore off so
badly that the brown warp showed thru,
and Mrs. Sage was ashamed when her
friends came to see her and wanted a
new one very much. But it was still
good enough for Russell, and the only
thing she could get to take its place
was some straw mating. To the last
day Of his life, too, the hideous old
black hOrsehair furniture, for which he
reluctantly spent out his money when
they were first married, kept that par
Tor carpet company. Now Mrs. Sage
has beautiful velvet carpets all over her
Fifth Avenue house. carpets that her
feet sink into as she walks over them,
and expensive modern furniture has
taken the place OF her worn-out old
fashioned things, and yet they say that
the first time she went over her house
after these changes had been made she
admired everything, and then sat down
and had good cry. Poor Mrs. Sage!
1t had all come too late. Russell Sage
was very kind husband, devotedly at
IdchtQ 10 ner, ana tney Were, as the
world knows. a very happy couple but
during his lifetime she had almost nc
money to spend. He would pay her
bills, but would give her no money
When approached for contributions to
the one or two charities she was con-
nected with she was obliged to confess
she could give no money, but could give
supplies, for" she said, Mr.. Sage al
ways pays my bills" Fifty dollars a
week is said TO have been the amount
her husband allowed her for all her
personal and house expenses, and she
never thought of asking him for q cent
more. Their absurdly economical man.
ner of living was well known to ALL but
altho Mrs. Sage was often mortified by
her lack cf money, yet so great was the
sympathy between her husband and
herself that she was never made UNI
happy by it. But she would have liked
new parlor carpet all the same and
looked longingly at those displayed in
the windows of the shops whenever she
went down town (Which wasn't very
often), just as any other woman would
have done. and it is pathetic to thinl
that she should have been obliged tc
wait till she was a sad, old woman OF
So bowed down by the weight of hei
$65.000.000. able to indulge herself IL
any extravaganza but wanting nothing
before this wish of her early woman.
hood could be gratifed.
And now comes the interesting bit o.
news across the water that Gladys Van