Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-01
By AUGUSTIN LARDY

New York, Nov. 30-Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait made a statement
exclusively to the Universal Service
wherein she expressed her delight
that Lady Nancy Astor had been
elected by a wholesome majority to
the British house of commons. Mrs.
Gait is president of the National
Woman's Suffrage association, and
alsoGpresident Of the International
Woman's Suffrage alliance, which
did much in England for Mrs. As
tors campaign, Mrs. Gait said.
II am delighted at the recognition
given by England to an American
woman who has been prominent in
suffrage work IA this country as well
as in England.
1--WE suffragists congratulate our
selves particularly upon the fact that
woman of Lady Astor's type has
been chosen. Back of her pretty
barrage Of repartee, which has
caught the public, Lady Astor is
substantial woman, thoughtful
woman and one who has at heart
the interest of humanity as we'll as
that of her sex.
Dawn of New Era.
"Her election Is practically the
dawn of a new era, 4 new epoch.
Undoubtedly it will give added stinl-
ulus to the recognition Of the fit
ness of women for public Office in
America and in England"
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, sister
Of Lady Astor, and one of the most
beautiful society matrons in New
York, tonight said that after Christ
mas she expects to go to England
to visit her sister who, since par
Lament is in session, may be able to
assume her seat December |.
ITS great" said Mrs. Gibson
I'VE all knew she would win. No
greater honor could have come TO
my sisttr than that of being the first
woman to sit in the British parlia-
ment. Nancy will make of this as
great success as she has with
everything she has undertaken.
She'll be a credit to America. AS
for myself, | am content to remain
a silent member of the family"
America Led World.
I'VE can no longer poke fun at
England since she has admitted
woman to her councils" said Miss
Rose Young, editor Of the Woman
Citizen, the official organ of the Ma
tional Woman's Suffrage associa-
ton. "But it's happy to know that
America, in sending Miss jeanette
Rankin to congress from Montana
two years ago, led the world.
Woman's day has come. All the
Scandinavian, Teutonic, Ang1o-Sax-
on and Celtic races have enfran-
chised woman. SO have the slavs, in
Guiding the Poles, the Czechs and
the Serbians. France, Italy and
Spain-the Latin races-remain uu-
conquered, and within a month
Italian women will be given the
vote, the French will have it within
a year, and before the International
Women's Suffrage alliance meets in
Madrid next spring, Spain, too, will
have freed its women folk"
MY God, what kind of a state do
I come from which sends Brother
Bud to the legislature and refuses
Aunt Eliza the voter"
Lively Assertion.
That's the latest lively assertion
credited to Lady Aston, according
to Mrs. Raymond Brown, vice presi-
dent of the N. A. w. S. A., who re-
turned to New York after speaking
in Virginia for the ratification of the
suffrage amendment. Lady Aston,
formerly Miss Langhorne, famous
Virginia beauty, was referring to
her brother being returned to the
legislature while her aunt, Mrs.
John Lewis, prominent suffragist,
ragged because she was being denied
the ballot.
"Virginia's prejudice against wom-
en- voting has been overridden in its
pride that Virginian is the first
woman to sit in the House of COM
mons" said Mrs. Brown.
Nancy Langhorne Aston is re-
membered in Virginia as a lively
little girl with elfin black locks and
very long black stockinged legs.
which she could never keep still
while seated with her family in the
high old pew in the church in Rich
niond.
Because Of her election Virginia