The Washington herald., 1918-06-30
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Of the National woman's Party. Mrs
o. II. P. Belmont, from New York:
Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles, of Del
aware: Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, and
Miss Caroline Katzenstein of Phila-
delphia: Mrs. Townsend Scott and
Mrs. William Spencer Murray. from
Maryland: Mrs. Robert Adamson. of
New York; Mrs. William Kent. Miss
Lucy Burns, and OF course, Miss Alice
Paul.
The whole performance was rather
disappointing-nothin like the thrill
that attended the discussions and the
final vote on the resolution in the
House The two notable European
feminists who were looking on must
have had their doubts about the gen.
uineness of this democracy which they
had been taught to revere as the
great and original liberty fount.
f~heard the other day that Lady
Reading said that war has abolish
ed the distinctions OF caste. 1t has
abolished idleness. and therefore it
has abolished also the nerve special
list. Ladies'. she says. work side by
side with scrubwomen and no such
thing as a class difference can OBJ
trude itself into that awful daily
tabulation of killed. wounded, and
missing" Here. at least. we have
democracy. II nowhere else. Here. at
least, We have equality. and so
there must be a sort of reflected
equality among those at home who
read the casualty lists. War is a
leveler and a radical. since il re-
duces US all to first principles. The
bullet Is no respecter of persons,
and the lord and the lackey. side by
side in the trenches, are reminded
Of these bodily equalities that are
not disturbed by rank nor titles.
The impartial bullet gets them all.
The society women OF England.
says Lady Reading. have to work.
and she seems to mean that they
really work. and not merely fit
around in silly uniforms and make
nuisances of themselves. They work
with their hands, and when 5 o'clock
comes they are so tired that they
want nothing so much as a light
meal and bed. Lady Reading does
not mention 1t, but we have all read
Of the society girls Of England who
put in eight hours a day in the
charging sheds of the munition
works, where they are not only like
ly to be blown to pieces-and are
actually blown to pieces sometimes
but where their hair and skin are
dyed a bright and a permanent yell
low-canary birds, they call them.
One wonders whether. amid the de-
struction of the old castles, a new
caste is not being created. a sort OF
aristocracy of national servitors
with the canary bird girls as an ex-
elusive inner circle.
Lady Reading makes a practical
suggestion that she says has been car
ried to a triumphant success In Lon
don. They have q shop as big as q
department store furnished by con-
tributions from wealthy people, who
are invited to send all the objects OF
value that they want, but do moi
need, and you will notice that there
Is delicate distinction between thess
words. Something of the kind ha,
been attempted In America, but the
chief result has been a mass of juni
that neither the donors nor any other
human being can possibly either
want or need. painted
china. ancient numbers OF the NeS
Republic, domestic eye-sores that ons
does notfexactly like to Destroy -yoJ
know. and that would be the yer,
thing for those POOR dear Belgians