The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-09
A SUFFRAGETTE HERE.
Mrs. Philip Snowden, Wife of a Dis
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tinsuished Member of Parliament.
Mrs. Philip Snowden, who recently
arrived in this country from England.
is not only the wife Of distinguished
member Of parliament, but is famous
on her own account as a suffrage
and a lecturer. During her stay in
America she will talk on the subject
nearest her heart, woman's rights, at
a number of colleges and women's
clubs.
Mrs. Snowden is young and passing
fair, of the dainty pink and white
type of English beauty. She Is not of
the most militant variety of the suf-
fragettes. She has never been in jail
or smashed a window or chained her
self to a park railing SO the police
couldn't make her move along, but she
marched at the head Of the first mon
ster procession in London last June
between Lady Frances Balfour, sister
in-law Of King Edwards sister, on one
side and Mrs. Henry Fawcett, widow
of Victoria's cabinet minister, on the
other
1--WE have hundreds of titled persons
who are members and contributors to
the movement" said Mrs. Snowden
when interviewed the other day. AT
one meeting alone, attended mainly by
ton of $4,000. l don't know what
ne Duchess Of MaJhnroucs is
going to take, because she Joined just
before came away. think she was
Influenced by the Hon. Mrs. BERTRAND
Russell, sister-in-law Of Countess Rus
sell, who Is also a suffragette. Mrs
Russell. who was formerly Philadel-
phia girl, is great friend of the
duchess.
annie Kenney has brought more
fashionable women into the movement
than anybody. Annie Kenney is the
little factory girl whom w. T. Stead
has called the Joan of Arc of the
movement. She started the whole
thing with a question to John Burns
at Albert hall one night soon after
the Liberal government came In. Be
fore an audience Of 1000 he was out
lining what the Liberal party pro-
posed to do for the various classes of
men. Annie Kenney leaned out Of a
do for the women? The audience
would have torn her in pieces II it
could have got at her. At the same
time Cristabel Pankhurst was doing
| the same thing at meeting in Man
| chester, and she was put out Of the
hall with her clothes torn half of her.
The things that have been done to the
sufragettes by the stewards Of polit-
| ical meetings in which they asked
| questions would not be believed in
| America"
Her Searchlieht tho Best Vet.
Women have not achieved much in
the field Of invention. but for the i'm
provement of the searchlight Mrs.
Bertha Ayrton is being honored by sci
entiflc bodies In England. She is the
only woman who holds membership in
the British Institute Of Electrical En-
gineers and the only woman who has
received a medal from the Royal So
ciety Of London for original, unaided
research In electricity. She succeeded
with the searchlight where men the
world over failed. After experiments
carried over several years had failed
to increase range and illumination the
British admiralty called in Profess
or Ayrtcn in the hope of making the
searchlight more effective Ayrton was
puzzled, as other experts had been.
His wife watched his work. and she
finally expressed confidence in her
ability to make an improvement. Ayr
ton gave her free hand. engaging
himself in other work. A couple of
weeks ago the admiralty heads grew
enthusiastic about the improved search
light he exhibited before them. When
they crowded around to congratulate
him the professor said: Congratulate
| my wife. She's the inventor; not II
Do You Comb Your Hair Property
My hair is coming out by the hand
full" complained a woman to her hair
dresser recently.
How do you comb itT' was the re-
ply. Half of my patients who COM
plain of falling hair really are pulling
1t out by their own barbarous use Of
the comb.
Never pull or tug at long hair; use
q lone sweeping stroke IL there are no