New-York tribune., 1912-03-13
COUNTESS ON CHILD LABOR
Suffrage Movement Also Feature
of Her First Lecture Here.
CHARMS HER AUDIENCE
Stories of Gladstone and OF Eng
lish Royalty Run Through Dis
course on Many Topics.

From her environment OF English aris-
tocracy and her association, with the kings
and queens. not only OF her own country.
but of most of the nations of Europe, the
Countess of Warwick came last night be-
fore an audience of plain Americans, AT
Carnegie Hall. to tell Of her experiences
in that other sphere with all the simple
ity and absence of self-consciousness or
her high rank or achievements that one
.night see I'm the most unaffected traveller
Of ordinary rank telling his neighbors his
interesting experiences.
But for all that the countess was as
stately as a queen as she stepped forward
after the Introduction by Chauncey VI. De-
pew. No less striking than her looks was
the lecture the countess delivered, for its
scope reached all the way from personal
hobnobbings with the rulers of England
down to a burning appeal for the emancl-
patton of children from labor.
What would l do if had Wealth. she
said. Il would perfect two ideals would
ioin all the women together to abolish chlld
labor now and forever and to put an end
10 all possibility of war. Child labor Is
nideous blot on our Cvilizaton-it Is a
horror in our midst. And war? woulu
band women together to refuse to bear sons
IN he targets for powder and shot oh,
should like to call all YOU women mere TO-
night under the old gray walls OF Warwick
Castle. itself the scene Of so much STRIFE IN
the past. and lead YOU in movement
against these two things
''When women care enough about any
thing IT can he done. / was told New YORK
likes lots Of jokes. hut | have been just
serious woman tonight because feel the
responsibilities that rest on us women, and
life is only a short span
Tells Story Of Gladstone
In her personal recollcctions Of famous
reople she told many amusing stories i
remember seeing Gladstone rush out ana
get a bottle Of nervine" she said. land then
rush back and with great gusto apply II to
the aching tooth Of one of his political op-
ponents And II was in the courtyard ot
our castle that / saw Balfour instructing
Asauith to ride a bicycle.
TT is sport that is the great leveller In
English society" she said. although 1t is
surrounded and surmounted by royalty and
is essentially aristocratc. court ceremonials
are empty forms that must be observed. but
mingles in a spirit Of comradeship with all
conditions Of men, In England. after ALL
we take life less seriously than you do here.
IF I might venture to criticise Ameri-
cans ] might say that you all take your
selves too serousy-every one is hurrying
TO business with a big 'B.' Material things
are needed but we must have ideals Amer
leans are reglecting their opportunities for
the cultivation of art. literature and Ideals.
Among the great persons that passed
Familiarity in review In the countess's words
were Queen Victoria. King Edward VII.
Lord Reaconsfeld and Winston Churchill.
The countess gave a familiar sketch or
the great salons in London. But IT was
toward the end Of her lecture that she
passed naturally to the subject nearest
her heart the cause OF women.
Woman Movement Broad.
Il was surprised to see how great an
interest you take here in the woman move
ment." she said. The woman movement
means something more than obtaining the
right to vote for woman. Judging by the
use men have made of that right II is not
a very important thing. The woman
movement is an insistent demand on the
mart of half the world TO take equal rank
with the other half. What women do de
demand is their full right OF citizenship
and activity in government IT, as our
opponents say, women are different from
men. that is all the more reason why that
difference should be represented In civic
Ufe They have been treated either as
pretty kittens or as drudges so long you
can't expect them TO go out ana exercise
full Judgment Immediately.
Motherhood as a profession must he
emancipatcd from that patriarchal system
called the family. Since mothers do all the
phvsicaI work of rearing children. she
should be paid for it,
The lecture was held under the auspices
of the Mount Holyoke Alumna Association
NJ New York, and was the first appearance
Of the countess in America on her s'N
wceks' tour Of lectures. The money she
earns Is to be applied to the human better
ment movements supported by her IN Eng
land.