Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03

ganda and have mingled with absolute
freedom in the best which London can
offer. The American woman reigns in
her own way in London Not supremely.
as has often been stated. but she obtains
a fine social position and her life can be
made most agreeable. Money is, of
course, necessary. but the worship of the
golden calf is not so apparent as in the
United States
'One explanation is that vast wealth is
not essential for creature comforts
and one may live elegantly on what plain
living costs at home. Then the quiet and
ease which the somewhat stolid British
brings to the ,nerve-racked American is
soothing, and one gets to like 1T. The
intensity of life in this country is more
observable when one has been away from
it for some years. But the viriity the
inspiration, the sense of being alive. ex-
lists here. as one can never see under
older civilizations. l come back to the
land Of my birth with increased rever-
ence for its mission TO humanity. Texas
is my native state. and some of the ex-
pansiveness of that big commonwealth
seems given to all its children. WASH
ington l have known and loved from my
early girlhood. 1t is one of the most
beautiful cities of the world, and it will
soon become one of the most delightful
of capitals. Compared to London, Paris
or the cosmopolitan cities of Europe, it
scribed But it will not be many years
before the Capital city of what is now
automatically called America will be one
of the mighty social centers of the uni
verse, it is now one of the important
political and industrial ones
Mrs. OConnor is the daughter of the
late Judge George W. Paschal of Austin,
Tex. She received part of her educa-
ton in Georgetown convent after her
parents had removed from Texas TO
Washington She had been. however,
her own teacher along almost all the
lines which are comprised in the word
education. Just now she is deeply inter-
ested in the question of suffrage and is
devoting all her best efforts to promote
all its tenetS.
Though | find this admission rather
questionable in Washington, said Mrs
O'Connor, Il am a militant suffragette.
l believe in carrying banners, in resisting
all legal opposition to our wishes to the
fullest extent. What suffragsm will
mean 70 England in particular and to all
civilization in general is something not to
he computed in mere words. Progress is
something which cannot be stemmed by
the artificial barriers which British pub
licists are erecting. They are swept
away as relentlessly the torrents crush
the iron and the mortar of bridges in
times of floods l believe in the militant
methods because they are necessary. l
can imagine American women and south
ern women in particular, for being a
southron I understand them best, shrink
ing from the methods implied In the term
militant sufragette. / find the suffra-
gettes are looked on with horror in Wash
ington Now If it had not been for these
courageous women. suffragsm would have
slept like Rip Van Wrinkle for another
score of years. They vitalized the propa-
ganda, and when one becomes q martyr
for the principle be assured humanity will
become impressed that it IL something
worth suffering for. The women will