Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-30
&c Some Women &c

! Nine. Nordica's new house is at
numbers and West Ninth street;
not exactly out in the country, you
! see. 1t was two houses when she
bought it, but she's having it trans
| formed into one. Her ncighbors in the
| apartment building which has been her
| home for several months say they're
! sorry she's going to leave. Her sing
! ing, they agree, doesn't annoy them
in the least.
English suffragettes are happest
| when they can point with pride to the
fortitude of that remarkable suffra-
| gette near-martyr, Miss Violet Bryant.
| She is no timid, shrinking violet this
! young English woman. She's mill
! tant of the militants. Perhaps you re-
member hearing about her. She was
arrested last December for the seV-
eralth time because she persisted IN
| suffragetting on the grass in defiance
! of man-constituted authority. Follow
| ing her arrest she undertook to buck
! the prison authorities and she gave
7 them a run for their money, too
Merely as a matter of principle and
! to express her sense of the injustice
done her, she stripped the prison
clothing from her body, smashed in tho
window of her cell, thus exposing hef-
self to the terrors of pneumonia, and
otherwise behaved in a most un-
! violet but violent manner. Then, when
! they put her in a straitjacket, Sc
! curely hooked up the back, she re-
fused to cat and they had to feed her
| through, tube.
No American actress, even with a
corps of highly trained press agents
! to assist her, ever secured anything
| like the newspaper space devoted to
| this young woman. That OF course,
was lust what she wanted. She wanted
to advertise her creed and she dld
/ il most effectually. She talked mucll
of her wrongs, but the prison attend
ants. coming upon her suddenly the
first morning after her incarceration
expressed the opinion that 1t was NOT
the woman's wrongs but the woman
herself who needed to be redressed.
/ However, there seems to be a grow
ing opinion in England that the Wo-
men will ultimately gain thelr point
| that votes for women are not so very
| far away. And when that joyous pal :
/ loting arrives, 10, the name of Nlolet
Bryant may lead all the rest. AS o.
| b. S. says "You never can tell
Hungarian high society is all aghast
over the exploits Of the Countess
! Szechenyi nee Vanderbilt The count
| ess evidently has been trying to 1--we
down that name, and in trying sne mas
! got herself most beautifully talked
about The shock to conservative
| Hungarian aristocracy mas peeh tie-
mendouS.
Why Just think of it! The other day
Countess Gladys happened upon an in
competent dairymaid and actualy
showed her the proper way 10 iilllk
! cow. The girl was grateful; but so
/ ciety, by way of expostulatlon' stoppeu
drinking cream in its matinal col1ee
| A fortnight later the countess chauI-
| four sprained mis- wrist while trying 10
crank the Szechenyi car, and the
/ countess promptly exchanged seats
with him, driving the auto home her
! self That was shock number Two
and il was a hummer. But worse was
to follow c.-+
| There are extensive hardwood forests
on the Szechenyi estates and consla-
orable number of unemployed. There
/ fore the countess built and put into
| operation a furniture factory. More
/ over. she solicited orders from among
| ber society friends, for without orders
! of couse the factory couldn't proFlie
! employment for the counts people.
! That was the latest blow, and IT was d
! knockout. A Szechenyi in trade! On
! horrors!
LADY McLaren, who recently declared
| publicly that women owe II TO tleih-
! selves and to their chance Tor maIrleu
| banniness to flirt with their own nus
! bands, has undertaken the reformation
of the Church OF England marriage ser
vice. Lady McLaren declares the Wolu,
| inc of that service to be archalc anu
mendacious. She says no man and no
woman who, perforce, subscrloes 10 us
EXPRESSED obligations ever has any IN.
tention to live up to them, ana couloi I
il they would. 1t isn't merely the Woru
"ohev" that has reused Lady McLar-
ems ire. The root Of the evil Is deeper
than that. Here's one passage she
doesn't like. 1t reads:
"Wiyes. submit yourselves TO your
husbands as unto the Lord, for the
husband is the head of the wife, even
as christ is the head of the church,
likewise the lady objects to the
nronise made by the man: win an
NV worldly goods l thee endoW. quite
Justly Lady McLaren points out tnae
the average husband doesn't 40 any
such thing. - s.,.,s
she doesn't mince matters, but says
the service is making all benedlcks-
men and women-liars; and she pc
lieves and says that the wording OF the
eccIesiastica contract should NC
changed radically at once.
Miss Dorothy Bigelow, granddaugh-
ter of John Bigelow OF New DIN, o'l, lol
merlv American minister to FRANCE,
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Poultney
Bigelow. is the latest and prettlest
American girl to captiNate LONDON SO
cietv. Her yivacity and wit are de
cIared TO be charming, don't you Know
Thus much regret was expressed Wneh
Mrs. BigeloW announced her llteIICloli ,l
TO return with her daughter TO New
York i'm August and to make thaI CITY
their future home.
The Poultney BigelOWs nave sepa-
rated Roth the young woman's father
and her mother are we'll known writers
and the daughter scribbles occasional
Iv she is only 90 years of age, now
oyer and as vet has declared no pref
erence for writing as a career
Cherrv county, Neb, has a woman
treasurer. 1t leaves its money with
hor and sleeps peacefully in its con-
d6ance in her. Her name is Gertrude
Jordan. single, and, it is said pretty.
She was elected last November ON the
Renuhlican ticket. Her predecessor re-
Fused to surrender the office TO her OH
| +ha ground that g woman is not com
netent under the statutes, but the su-
nreme court handed it directly pack TO
| MIR. Predecessor, saying thal Inere ls
nothing in the constitution TO par
woman from filing such place
Iosenhine Preston Peabody, at least
the woman who writes under that
name. is not wild about woman sur
fra pc The honest truth of 1t is that
She is opposed to it. she was the
guest of honor recently at luncheon
given by the "antis." Her drama,
sThe Piper was given the $500 prize
at Stratford-upon-A Avon.