New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
Jersey LILY ARRIVES STRAUS At LAWN PARTY
Says All Women Want to Vote;
Men Mustn't Dress DismalIy.
DON'T YOU THINK S0?"
Doesn't Approve of Hammer
Throwing, but Isn't Crit
cising Mrs Pankhurst.


Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey Lily" who
arrived I'm New York yesterday to tour
the country In her suffrage skit, For the
Cause" believes that men and women
should be equal In everything except In
violence.
They should be equal at the polls. she
says. and equal at the milliner's, for she
holds that men ought TO dress I'm bright
colors just Ike women; but the fact that
Englishmen have broken windows In po-
litical causes doesn't I'm her opinion ex-
cuse Englishwomen In doing It,
I'VE shouldn't seek equality in vio-
lence." she says. It's a mistaken meth
cd Of argument for women. Don't you
think so?"
Her little way of saying Don't you
think SOP" after she has expressed an
opinion is one Of the incest things about
the Jersey Lily" 1t sort OF takes you
into her confidence and then makes you
feel as If you were doing the talking
When the Tribune reporter saw her at
the Hotel Beleclaire yesterday she de-
claTed first of all that she hadn't an idea
In her head She had risen at o'clock
that morning. and she felt III. and the
minute the reporter left she was going
fright to ped And she hadn't a thing to
say. Then she proceeded to say a great
many things
"Of course. | have always cared about
suffrage" she said. II haven't taken
part in the movement because ] have my
own work 10 do, but | wan, the vote.
believe that every woman in her heart
wants the vote.
"AII Women Want TO Vote
position OF an inferior. II is humiliating
to her: don't YOU think so?"
THE antis don't want the vote"
I'm their hearts they do. though they
may not know IT, said Mrs Langtry.
And when will women vote in Eng
land?"
"Oh, how can I tell? II is Just a ques.
tion Of when the government Will give
in But the militant suffraglsts are alien
ating many persons from the cause. I
don't mean Mrs. Pankhurst-l wouldn't
think Of crtiCising her. She If wonderful.
and so are some OF the women associated
with her. And II all the violence was
dropped end the suffraglsts trusted to
saner. calmer methods such as are en-
ployed here in America. | am confident
that victory would come much sooner.
For | have heard so many men. men OF
position aui ability, speak with the
greatest admiration Of Mrs Pankhursts
powers Of reasoning and Of Oratory. And
Inc nj, no
day In England. Don't YOU thing SO?
American women would never go about
smashing windows and throwing hammers
at people, and they are gaining the ballot
by degrees
Perhaps" the reporter murmured.
the conditions are different In England"
Mustn't Throw Hammers
NO conditions said the Jersey Lily,
could excuse woman for throwing
hammers. 1t is too bad that a few ire
sponsible women over there should 80
about doing those things, thereby preju-
dicing untold numbers Of persons against
the cause.
The skit H. which | am to appear at
the Colonial Theatre on Monday is hit
hl sum Ncll'il- Clls N'i : Nhiiih NhfhN
suffrage Is responsible for these women.
They are type. ana II they weren't be-
ing violent In the interests OF suffrage
they'd be violent In the interests OF some
thing else. Don't you think so?"
The reporter murmured nOn-commit-
tai murmur, and Mrs. Langtry turned
from the subject of suffrage to dress. She
was very well dressed herself by the
way. and extremely well corseted, and
she looked anything but Il dropping lily.
though she had said that she was eX-
kausted.
1t wasn't womens clothes that Mrs.
Langtry talked about: IL was mems
clothes She thinks men are an ill-used
race. forced by public opinion to wear
gloomy coors. barred from the cheerful
tints I'm which women revel. And she
wants them TO break their shackles and
blossom out I'm fancy waistcOats and pink
and green and yellow and purple socks
and neckties.
They would feel far more equal TO things
II they would cease looking like under
takers and grave diggers. she declared.
Part of Mrs Langtry's twenty weeks
tour on this continent will be in the far
West.