Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-23

hammock in order to reach the port
where Mrs. Cats ship was to land. AS
this is horseless country, long distances
from the interior are made by hammock.
which is carried by the natives.
I'VE found" says Mrs. Gait, suffrage
sentiment unculuvated among the masses
OF people, but the leaders in every town
are exceptionally superior, well educa ted,
intelligent and influential. The one him
drance, in my judgment, to a speedy en-
Reimbursement of women in South Africa
is to be found in the suspicion and dis
trust of Briton for Boer, and Boer for
Briton.
1t was painful, for l met such charm
ing, intelligent women on both sides who
were striving for better order of things.
Yet there are forgiving and forgetting
Beers and Britons who take broad
minded view of things and who wish to
work amicably together for the common
good With these people rests not only
the future of woman suffrage but the fu-
ture Of South Africa.
But when one by one the members of
the executive boards of women's clubs in
Cape Town declared they would devote
themselves to the enfranchisement OF
their sex in South Africa I knew our
cause was safe. l found this spirit in
other towns, and it was owing to it that
We were able to end the work in South
Africa with that splendid delegated con-
vention, the first in the country. 1t was
held at Durham, 1000 miles from Cape
Town, but we had delegates from nearly
every part of the country, and l never
met more Intelligent suffra gists than
these"
a visit was paid to Port Elizabeth. the
metropolis of the eastern portion of Cape
Colony, and the port through which
feathers from the great ostrich industry
find their way to the worlds markets
1--WE visited ostrich farm" writes
Mrs. Gait. by way of demonstration of
the far-reaching influence of our British
militant sisters one especially refractory
bird was named 'Suffragette.' .
At a suffrage meeting in Kimberley
Mrs Gait tried to arrange a debate on
suffrage, but her opponents had urgent
calls out of town.
They do that in my country" Mrs
Gait told them.
A day was spent at the gold mines of
Johannesburg, the largest city in South
Africa, and meeting was held, as was
the case in all the towns visited. In
every place Mrs. Gait was entertained by
the mayor and may oress"-the latter
very important functionaries
One of the most interesting excursions
was that taken to Victoria Falls, one of
the greatest natural wonders of the world
said to be two and a half times higher
than Niagara, and twice as broad. On
the way there Mrs. Gait saw from the
train several hppopotami bobbing their
heads out of the water in ungainly fash
ion, while a crocodile summed itself on a
nearby bank
At the falls the suffrage leader drove
to the hotel from the station in a jim
riksha drawn by Kaffir boys.
One small Kaffir boy to whom l had
given a tip still hung around. evidently
waiting for something" she says. Il
saw him eying my woman's suffrage
party button SO l took it off and gave it
to him, pinning it on his coat myself. He
was hugely pleased. l expect that is the
furthest from home woman suffrage
party button has travelled.
Mrs. Gait sailed for Port Said October
%. Ten DAYS were spent in the Holy
Land and suffrage meetings were held
at the American missions
II shaIl never visit the Holy Land
again" declares Mrs. Gait, decisively. 1T
is a land Of disenclantnent: dirty in
sanitary noiSome. though the country is
nict,Iresoue and the people most effective.
But the discomforts lar outweigh the
joys"
1t was the plan to go direct TO Cairo
from the Holy Land, but owing to a death
aboard the steamer, a cholera suspect.
Mira Gait and party. with the rest of the
1000 passengers. were held up at Alexan-