The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-15
Mrs. Pankhurst, 54, Today,
 Was Once Belle of England

A wonan's place may be in the home. Anyway, it seems to me have heard some such statement made. But what a drab, uninteresting world this would be if all of the females of the species SfoHowed this advice. One woman in the home may be worth a thousand on the highway, but not for journalistic purposes. AS an Irish man whose ancestors won honorable scars at Donnybrook Fair, and as a newspaper man, the main plank of my platform is, "Give us ructions. l love those who put tacks in the seats of the mighty and news on the front pages of the organs of public opln- ion. Therefore do I love, respect and admire Emmeline Pankhurst. and not a suffragette in the world is more sincere than I in rendering her fel1cl- tations and congratulations on the f1f- ty-fourth anniversary of her birth. Emmeline is the champion eatch-as- catch-can tack planter of the universe, and without her the newspapers would be bereft of much interesting reading. Therefore, Emmeline, my hand reach es across the sea to you, and my heart beats in unity with yourn. Here's how, and many happy returns of the day. I am for you, Emmeline, strong. Name your piZen!
 Mrs. Pankhurst's birthday is coin cident with4the French national holi- day celebrating the fall of the Bas- tile-which was a nifty ruct1on, Tor Trenches, although aNstorming squad of Irishmen could have added eclat hurst is celebrating the day by in dulging in "the malicious destruction of property I cannot say, not having read the latest cables from the scene of trouble. The militant leader of British suffragettes is always break ing into jail or breaking out, the lat ter process consisting of her admirable invention of the hunger strike" Not a man living, | dessay, would have the nerve to. resist the temptation of food for days and weeks at a time as Mrs Pankhurst and her followers do. And to endure such privation merely for a political principle is such an astounding thing that it is small won- der that mere men are angered and enraged Men might, and have, fought for the ballot, and bled for it, and even died for it, but to starve for it, voluntarily and with malice afore- thought. is something different. Please excuse me! We men haven't the nerve and the devotion to principle that are daily protested by the English suf- fragettes, and we know it, and that is what is the matter with us. We are jealous.
 .Emmeline Goulden was born in Man. chester, England, July 14 1858, and was the daughter of an eminent Ra- dical politician. In her girlhood she was called "the most beautiful ~wom> an in England' and at fifty-four she is far from unlovely.@ She was brought up in a center of radical political pro- paganda, and completed her ,educa- tion in Paris, where she associated with the fred republicans" and was a chum of a daughter of Henri Roche fort. She married Dr. Pankhurst, a lawyer and pioneer woman's suffrage worker, in 1879, and they lived hap oily together until pr. Pankhurst'e death in 1S99 Her husband was an associate of John Stuart Mill in draft ing the first woman's suffrage bill, and was entirely in sympathy with Emmeline's Voting aspirations The three daughters of the pair also be- came devoted suffragettes. Mrs. Plank hurst was a leader in the organization of the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903. Tn February of 1908 she and thirteen other women forci- bly, entered the House of Commons to demand their rights. Just for that she was arrested and imprisoned for six weeks Since that time Emmeline's life has been just one ruction after