New-York tribune., 1912-02-10
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NEW YORK IS TREMENDOUS
Lady Henry Contrasts Conditions
Here with Those in England.

Lady Henry wife Of Sir Charles Henry
! 7 liberal member for the Wellington divis'
ion of Shropshire. England, says that Eng
lisbwonen are better organized than Amer
lean women-and she went 10 the last con-
yention of the New York City Federation
OF Womcu's Clubs. too. But Lady Henry
means political organization
! So thoroughly convinced is she Of the I'M
portant part women. through organizations
auxiliary to the parties, play In Engliso
politics that she doesn't take much inter
est IN woman suffrage, though she says
she thinks II is bound to come.
! When she came to America few months
/ ago on the visit from which she returns
/ to-day, somebody or other announced that
an English philanthropist had landed on
these shores. But Lady Henry said yes
terday at the Ritz-Carlton, where she has
been staying. that she wasn't that at all.
| II am on the boards of several homes
and institutions in London, and | try tc
! do something for the poor among my hus-
! lands constituents IN Shropshire, but
there is nothing to talk about" she insist
ed. And ] didn't come to America 10
study the phllanthropists here. l came on
a visit TO friends though I have been tre-
mendously interested I'm secinG some OF
your settlements and trade schools and Sc
on. | am American-born myself, by the
way, and lived i'm this country until my
marriage.
! There is no such poverty here as there
! IS in England. 1t is not only in London
that it strikes YOU in the face; II IS I'm the
agricultural regions In the part Of Shrop-
nv ha nd d
ment the agricultural laborers get only a
few shilling week. on which they must
live, and they have such big families, 80
many children.
"Of course, what We do TO help them IS
but a plaster, as 1t were. Some time, per-
haps conditions will be changed-the gov
| ernment will change them. In the mean
time, il We didn't apply our plaster the
suffering would be much worse
During her stay here Lady Henry went
to the Henry Street Settlement, the Man
haitian Trade School for Girls and many
similar places, and she came away from
them much impressed She said: Your
settlements arc wonderful We haven't the
same sort OF settlements in England az all.
But what I liked best was the trade
school and the things they are doing FOR
girls there.
i've enjoyed my visit here tremendously
though New York Is rather strenuous-too
strenuous, something happening some call
! upon one. every moment II tires one
Lady Henry doesn't look as if she ever
got tired. though; she looks too strong ever
TO he tired. Maybe It IS from living In
England. but she has the appearance OF
| blooming health that so many English
women have. and so few Americans, COM
paratiyely. She has blue eyes. and dark
hair and regular English color, and a
tall. straight figure that looks as II she had
taken d run share in the sports or England
as we'll as i'm its politics
Women can do much In the political life
there" she said. AS 20 Tn" suffrage
well. as { said it win come TO us. but
think many Of the women who are asi-
tating for II In England are doing The
cause harm. By their drastic measures
they are putting the clock back"