The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-10
GEORGES REVENGE
Il Was Carried Out at the Big
international Suffrage Mass
Meeting.
By MARIE LA ROGUE.

tain F1axworthy the ward leader O
the suffragists, militant and otherwise
whose picture appeared at frequent In
tervals in the evening papers on thu
occasion of any suffrage demonstra
ton, whether Captain Georgi
ana had or had not been involved
This was the individual who rode
like duchess in smiling complacency
at the head of the suffrage parades
who feared neither the law nor the
policemen the jibes of her friends
when doing picket duty for her strik'
ing working girl sisters" and who
spoke with the conviction of veter-
an at suffrage mass meetings and
made her listeners wonder as they sat
under the spell of her voice whether,
after all, "woman's sphere was not
outside the home" whether there was
not In store for women broader, more
comprehensive destiny than that
bounded by the selfishness of hus-
bands, the rearing Of children and do
nestle drudgery."
Captain Georgiana F1axworthy was
the suffrage beauty That is why
though you wouldn't have dared to
tell her-her picture appeared with
such persistency in the evening pa
pers, why she was appointed to ride
at the head of the suffrage parades.
why the police and the law allowed
her to picket unmolested and why her
audiences listened willingly to her
long-dra wn-out speeches.
Then there was the other individual
known as George F1axworthy. Her
knees used to tremble and lips 60
dry with stage fright just the minute
before the illustrious Georgiana was
about to make Il speech, and used to
rebel against Georgianas predictions
for picket duty. On one occasion es-
pecially, when George had been look
ing forward for Il week to spending
a Saturday afternoon on tn" golf links
with Roderick Clayton G"orgiana had
intrrferpd al the last mirue Be
tween Georgia and Rodrric! th"rc was
the understanding II an engagement,
but Georgiuaa was cOMuc,L Of Rod
erick's inability to comprehend the
"indep"ndrnt aspects Of urr nature"
Goorgiala had intnwrrti Tor the
sake OF suffrage mass meeting to be
held for thp ei'.co'ipn OF the Anal
Pin Makers l'uion where
Georgiana had been asked to make
speech. She had her way but George
planned revenge
There was TO be big, record
headline. international suf-
fragc convention in the early autumn
at a seaside resort near the city where
Miss FlaXWorthy and Roderia& Clay
ton abode and for a few weeks Georg-
lana had been carrying out her share
OF the preparations, ehartering a ho-
tel, uslng her influence to secure
parole for famous window smashing
from London who was com
ing to America for the sake of a thir
tyminutc speech, and using her tact
and wits to allay friction in the vari-
GUS suffrage camps All this time
George had been in the background
But George asserted herself the
night before Miss FlaXworthy left
home for the grand convention. 1t
was late and she was just about to
pack the requisites of apparel into her
small trunk a trunk much belabeled
with Votes for Women pastors Sud
denly George had an inspiration. She
had not seen RoderiCk for week. his
letters had been glanced at hastily and
tucked away unanswered Georgiana,
not George, had been Indifferent, but
now George took the letters and read
them over slowly, It. was late-mid-
nght-but still there was time.
She hurried to her bedside telephone
and called up Roderick's club where,
until he could persuade George to
marry him, be made his home He
had gone to bed, said the club at
tendant. Roderick, not being so aware
of his own day-and,nisht importance
to the community rs Georgiana was of
hers had no bedside telephone. but
Georgia insisted thar he be- called from
his room and after five minutes Georg-
lie was speaking to him, sleepy and not
quite sure that he wasn't dreaming.
Cant You come down to the sea
shore for o.. week end? The conven-
tion cant take all of my time.
couldn't stand it all the time. | want
YOU to be there to play with-to break
the monotony of 20 many, many wom-
en-. You can stay at the hotel at the
other end of the beach" this in an.
swer TO Roderick's protestation
against being mere man in such a
feminine tmosphere-"and then when
| have time you can take me motoring.
Please"
Roderick, even in his sleepy mood.
needed no long sustained persuasion.
He would go anywhere. even to a suf-
frage convention, to be with George
and that was all any man could do
George was having her inning. She
passed the mirror as she went toward
her trunk and cast at herself glance
Of animated defiance, defiance that
dared in spite of Georgana
Then George deliberately went to
the trunk and took out almost all the