Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-01
PLEADS FOR RETENTION
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1 OF MAIDEN NAME
Baroness Helene Gingo.d Thinks
; Plain Mrs" Is Enough
Z Change.
sUFFRAGIsT AND THE WRITER
Lady Mary Describes the Beginning
of the German Plague-War by
killing OF Heirs to Pccragc> Rt.
duces EligibleS.

LONDON. November &0.-We women
certainly get hold of queer ideas now
adays. don't know whether It is the
result OF war conditions and the con-
sequent oadeninE OF the ideas as we'll
as the shoulders of the feminine ct-
zens of the world. but certainly some
= Of the "ag;,ations" OF the gentle sex
In Great Britain are passing strange TO
those OF us who still have a remnant
'of old fashioned idcalism left to them.
In an important newspaper this week
the following letter has appeared. and
IL seems sufficiently interesting TO quote
in full. IT runs az follows:
"Sir,-Now ! that women arc cmcrE
ing from their chrysalis stage and
freeninE their wings preparatory to a
flight into freer atmosphere. why
should they be bound TO take the name
of the man they marry. any more than
he should take theirs
Surely tho atiiX of Mrs TO the
maiden name should be sufficient.
Let the married woman of the flu
~ture retain her own name.
OF course the reasoning quality of
this letter is somewhat handicapped.
owing 10 the fact that the writer al
gold" is actually and legally Mrs.
Lawrence Cowan. She has, however.
never made. use OF her married name.
but has prefer red t. he known as TN"
Baroness Helene GinEold.
| am told that she has always re,
fused TO drop her maiden name and
The title that was, II is understood.
for years been known as an extremist
in the matter OF female suffrage and
woman's rights. generally. She is also
xent follower in the footsteps of Ella
:P gems of PASSION mat would test
the Sindns 81 II The aSssStS"
SIS also playwright. an actress. both
on the stage and for the movies
Whether she will ever succeed in rep.
resentng Il constituency II Parliament
remains to be seen. but fancy that
should she continue her present adj
vocacy Of women refusing 20 use the
names best owed upon them by their
husbands she will not achieve com
plete popularity either in politics OF
in the, dome site world.
MANY WOMEN HAVE NOT
TAKEN THE SIRNAMES
In England there are mary women
who have not taken unto ihemSelves
husbands. The late Lily. Duchess of
Marlborough, was case in point. AL
though after the death of the duke
she continued to be called by her, ducal
title. The Countess of STAFFORD. who
was Mrs. Sam Colgate. of lew York.
lis another example Of this state of af-
fairs. After Lord Strafford's death she
married again. hut she is still known
az Lady STAFFORD" The evergreen
Lady Randolph Churchill has also
chung to her first husbands title. al
though for q short time after her mar
r;age to Mr.. now Captain. George
CORVALLIS West, she dropped her title
But now that she has taken unto her
self third husband tMr. Montague
l!orch): she ha = once more reverted TO
the old familiar name, and as Lady
Randolph" is sim power in the land.
The only well-known woman OF title
having abandoned the handle" to her
name presented to her on marriage is
the charming lady once known as the
Marchioness Of Anslcscy. who after
the annulment OF her marriage to the
marquis twho subsequently dicdl, mar
r.eu Captain Hugh tilla;t She at
once made il known that she wished
10 he called Mrs. Gilliatt. and had no
desire to wear coronet that no longer
was hers. Now that come 10 think
Of il also, the first Countess EoSSlyn.
VINO was divorced from the earl and
married a commoner, MIR Thomas Jar
S>estt preferred 10 become Mrs" al
though ] believe she could have re-
tanned her title II she had desired to
do So Her husband. by trc way. was
the Earl Of RoSslyn Cb.oIhcr 10 the
Duchess OF Sutherland) who married
the pretty American girl. Anna Robin
son. who died a few years ago under
sch miserabls. circumstances in New
Z ,rk.