The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-10

and most influential women in England, who are opposed to the whole thing" How does woman suffrage in England compare with it in America?" I asked anxious to learn from an eye witness the conditions.
 "I can't say much about the question in America" said Annabel, "but from the looks Of it in England it has surely come to stay. l believe they will begin shortly | to make history over there, and they need it more than we do You see the mistake in America is liberty instead of license. whereas over there they want the lib- erty that we already have, and which they are fighting for. The English wom- an does not have our independence of ac ton and expression and her legal status | is not as good as ours" Do you think the Englishmen as at- tractiye socially as our American men?" I asked.
 Yes l do," said she. apologetically. They are not so chivalrous or consid crate as our men, but American women get along famously with them. You see we are something of novelty to them They are not accustomed to being met on equal ground. for it matters not how wen informed or well trained an Eng lishwoman is, she keeps it to herself. for she has occupied for ages one kind of domestic position, and it is hardest of all Tor an Englishman to adjust him. self to dislocation of his fixed ideas. He has been for centuries most important person-tO himself"
 suppose you saw and heard many of ue suHragettes In their parleying and rolitic-ing?" I asked.
 One thirg that amused me was ot Mme. Tassaud's. where there is always cause Tor fresh amusement as well as a rev rev tears to the ime ginative." said she
 Right next to the glass room where queen Victoria sat writing was group
 Fancy the dear ladys' attitude had she been borne dowr upon by a crowd of sunragettes." I laughingly observed |, mat would have been an impossib- ity,' said An, abel
 Why?' I asked.
 Merely because even a suYragette would have respected Queen Victoria" tinued: s0
 1 wish you might have seen the suits oi Grmor worn by Henry the Eighth. all the way from the slim. graceful shit Gemascened with copper worn at the Field or the Cloth of Gold to the shapeless tens Of steel which covered his latter in- hrmities. How could all those women standing guard ever Elm at Tsssa,,d,s bring themselves to marry him? Only fancy how short the life of a suffragette would have been in the time of Henry VIII"
 Joan of Arc was the first suffragette, wasn't she?" 1 asked meekIy.
 Tt sounds terribly irreverent but suppose you are right" said Annabel, only more artistically so. Gracious, was glad l was an American when saw aii those wax wives claiming big old fat liehry the Eighth! I have an awful lot or respect for Katherine Parr, for, in spite of him, she kept her head"
 Those old kings were a wasteful. mer- ciless sort of set" I suggested, as she recalled history of the long ago.
 indeed. they were,' she replied "Why, there Is the most exquisite ruby now set In King Edwards crown, which Henry the Eighth actually wore at the battle of Aeincourt. in his helmet. Just suppose fhe French had gotten it.'
 "Horrible!" I exclaimed
 And speaking of jewels. I don't care Tn the least for the kohinoor diamond; do you?' asked Annabe
 said that I had never had the pleas ure of wearing it. but was under the Impression that 1t was rather a respecta- ble little stone.
 
 sit up and take notice,' related Annabel, and that is the Cullinan diamond sent 10 King Edward from South Africa and which l saw at the Regalia at the Tower It Is the most wonderful thing I have ever seen, and had to be cut into two pieces, each as large as the Kohinoor It seems to me 1 would have waited un- til some lapidary came along who could have polished 1t without cutting it..
 Perhaps they thought If one piece should ever be stolen they would still have another left" l suggested.
 ''Of course; l hadn't thought of that" said she. But there are some things just the same. too valuable to be divided up-like the affections of Henry the Eighth. for instance.
 T went to scores of meetings of the Society of Psychical Research" she con tinued, and would you believe it, they didn't do thing spooky or stranger
 1T just envy you all the wonderful things you saw and did in England" 1 said, flor there are so many things 10 do and see there"
 "Yes, it's a grand old country she said as we finished our tea. "but we are way ahead of them in many ways. They don't have our delicious things to eat waffies and cakes and hot rolls and all that-and when all is told believe Amer lea has the best of it. and l am sure that the American woman has,