The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-05-10
FEW TRIBUTES PAID TO WOMEN
AMONG MANY MONUMENTS
OF ENGLAND'S GREAT.
81 LADY HENRY soMERsEr-

LONDON, May st is very siguih-
cant OF the way Ia which women have
been regarded in past times. that as
you wander through the streets Of Lon
don and look At the monuments erect
ed 10 men for ever. conceivable kind
Of achievement-soldier sailors. states
men. poets. kings. philanthuopists. bene-
factors-ive women only have monu-
ments erected TO their memory. that
any visitor TO London may see. And OF
these FIVE, four are queens. and the
NTH Is Mrs. Siddons. modelled from
Reynolds portrait o z her as the Tragic
Muse"
II goes without saying that statues
Of Queen Victoria are found in our
highways. that Queen Anne also IS rep
resented, II would be un likely that such
great women could occupy the throne
without being thus Ied-but
where IS Eliza betb2 where is Mary by
the side OF her consort William where
are the innUmerable women who have
helped 10 make the greatness Of Eng
land2 True. on Westminster Bridge is
70 be seen the Boadecea group. but
that is more a NEUROLOGICAL representa-
ton Of England's great beginnings than
portrait Of any Individual woman
And yet there is one monument 10 a
woman which always speaks 10 ire as
pass It, and that is the gothic cross
outside the station which bears IT'S
name, as Charng Cross. The cross
originally stood on the site where there
e now a statue Of Charles 7. and was
one Of many erected by Edward I % his
wife Eleanor, for when she died in the
North, wherever her body rested On i;s
long journey southwark 10 the AbDey.
the King raised a cross
Erected Twelve Crosses.
Twelve I'm an marked that solemn pro
cession. and Of these three are siu
standing-Geddington Northampton and
Walton.
IL was a tribute OF gratitude. for she
was the woman who sucked the poison
from his wound when he was stabbed
by a deadly dagger
In various parts or London there are
about 109 tablets fixed 20 various
houses. four Of which commemorate
Fanny Burney. Joanna Baiue. Elizabeth
Barrett Browning. and Mrs. Siddous.
But probably the most typical example
az the way in which woman was re-
garded during some Of the most brilliant
ages Of English history IS 20 be found
in Westminster Abbey. where few Wom-
On are laid 20 rest save those OF royal
birth or great family
But Mary. daughter Of William Green,
rests there. and over her grave IS writ
ten that she was more adorned with
virtue than high birth; she married VIII
liam Bulmer gentleman. 20 whom she
vas no occasion OF trouble except by
leaving him at her death"
When VIII the time come when some
women viii raise a tomb 10 her hus-
band who was 10 trouble 10 her. and
gave her only such slight cause for
annoyance
At last G. grateful public has ralse0
a small monument in the Poets Cor
ner" in Westminster Abbey TO Jenny
Lyud. but the famous singer IS not
buried there. nor has any woman been
found worthy to be laid within the
shadow OF the great English Cathedral
for any merit Of her own.
Against Liquor Traffic.
Probably no measure IN recent years
has ever drawn down such thunders OF
hostile criticism as has been raging
round the licensing Oil during the last