The evening world., 1911-04-12

Pankhurst family,
vi IN fact. You sea,
am assuming you
l. - will remember Miss
""' Sylvia is he second
daughter OF Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst.
leader of the militant s~uffraget;e move
ment In England, aHd tina: she came
here to lecture and possibly to write a
book about us.
But to say Miss Pankhurst has not
been in q prison since she has been in
tAis coui try would be manifestly un-
true. She has been in many prisons.
But. let ne explain. II was merely to
gather n ,terlal for a series OF articles
ana for purposes Of comparison with
the Fang'i n jai!s.
'ssturd ~ I spent the day in the Bed
ford Reformatory for Women" Miss
Pankhirs told me. and / was most
interested and much impressed. There
Is absolutely nothing Of the kind In Eng
land and | think should We desire to
estthl!s1 , similar institution we would
nave a hard fight 10 do so.
We nave NJ reformatories at all for
giTls over sixten years OF age. After
taat they must go to prison whatever
their crime.
Wouldn't Walt for Erring.
Nov. bore you have retormatories,
notably this one in Westchester County,
which - the finest o. It's kind have
ever seen where women up to thirty
years OF aEe can be sent. And ! do not
know any iner atmosphere for a girl or
woman who has erred but for whom
there IL SIN hope. Personally, so
strongly approve OF such institutions
that I SHOULD like to see sent to them,
/. II we're possible, not only the girls
VINO nave slready made a misstep. but
scne % the girls who seem destined 70
20 down urless just some such help is
afforded them"
We were IN the drawing room of Mrs.
VI MOyslI than. on West Eighty
seventh street. with whom Miss Pank-
hurst has spent the few days between
the termination OF her lecture tour and
ner sailing 'or Liverpool. Size seemed
much tie same Miss Pankhurst l saw
at the llotel Martha Washington the
day after SIZE landed In America. I'm
less I am m st1ken, she wore the same
simple gray dress-a dress that some
how suggests soclalism-her hair was
hrJhcd in ~, same painfully plain man
ns. down over he" ears and Into Il knot
at ;he back OF her head.
Tells 81 English Prison.
You see" continued Miss Pankhurst.
~ realize he advantages OF The Bedford
Reformato"y because l have been IN
prison myself.
when = served my last term for
the suffrage cauSe I had n stool 20
st on 81 my cell--no chair.
"If leaned against the wall I
caught cold in my shoulders; II I
feared against the plank bed I was
rreak'rg a rule. I did no: even
have enough water to wash with
only a little threo-ptnt can once q
Gay. Tho food. too, was scarcely
81 10 cat.
Il was called at 6 o'clock. and after
c ani1 my cell and polishing my tins
1 q ny breakfast. consisting OF six
O 90 OF bread ana a pint Of thin oat-
Nc water. For dinner, three days a
" I had six unces OF bread n "A
. # cold oatmeal porridge, the
o.I,r 1cgs I had six ounces OF suet
! ~ 'lug instead Of porrdge,
;ow. the food at the Bedford Re-
q. la;0ry g. excellent and wholesome.
! gG as Tor the sleeping quarters and
/ o a. accommodations, | cannot speak
a., .lrhly % them. Each girl has a
soon 90 oersclf and a bed, a bureau
ld chair, and Is even allowed \ few
2 rsona' ;ylnes-pc;tcd plants and pic
,res Of family or friends. Each
| rom as a door, which can be closed.
0 course, J suppose, It does not lock;
bit, anyhow, i gives some Idea Of
y lyacy.
When 7 vas IN prison I was never
b MYSELF at all. mean ! never kH"w
on some one was peor.ng through
/ o. grains AZ me- teter a bit ir sets
Is. ones ryrves.
Are Taught to Work,
"Thcu, IN the Rolforn R~eformat0ry,
Il @ girls ARC not only kept busy. ut
hey are taught some trade watch they
en- use upon leaving the Institution.
Fpr example, not only are they tausn:
hpn1 laundry, but they are taught 10
n 1us;ul1te the steam laundry ma
90 merry as well. They are taught to
{. ont excellent domestic servants, and
ary WITHDRAWING or painting to he
q ne about the place the girls carry
n rough. understand they even
p AIMED and completed a model pigs'y
tits spring. When they had finished
II AMI before the pigs were installed,
&c girls had tea there,
Most o. the reformatories IN Eng
l. inland rs | have said, there arc
n ne FOR girls over sixteen years q.
a-- arc private ph!Snthrcr!os ana ara
mn, e. sGlt the IDEAS Of one or two
Ind glduals. Unfortunately.' she cone
, c.ao d, tour institutions OF his charac-
ter are limited and inferior. and we
need one or more really I'm refOrma.