New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-08
By Constance Drexel

GENEVA, June Ills not this worse
than fighting for the cause of women
in the British Parliament? ~ asked Lady
AstJr as caught sight Of her Sunday
in the motley crowd of passengers from
a Paris train, struggling with the in
tricacies of luggage and passport in the
station at Geneva.
Indeed it is" she said, laughing
back gayly, land this is the fourth time
I have gone through the performance
since leaving London, though I came
the quickest way" .......-
Marjorie Shuler and I were the only
Americans to meet the train on which
many delegates of the international
suffrage congress arrived. Among them
were three Indian women in pictur-
esque costumes and Justin Godart, the
Aston were Mrs. Oliver Strachey, a
British delegate to the convention, and
MISS Matheson, young woman who is
the secretary of the first woman men,
Der Of the British Parliament.
Most of the British delegates had
gone. to the Cathedral to hear Miss
Maude. Royden preach from the pulpit
made famous by Calvin, so we had Lady
Astor to ourselves during the half
hour or more at the station before the
bus to the Hotel Beau Rivage was ready
to depart. 10
"Better Stay in Switzerland"
"Was Lady Astor tired and peeved at
the annoyance Of struggling with the
crowd through the narrow passage
leading to an Office where the Swiss
authorities seemed to be writing the
story of each passengers life before
any one was allowed to leave the sta
ton 2" I inquired.
chartered merrily on, with witty re-
marks about 'guessing" that 1--WE al
had better. just stay in Switzerland fol
the rest of our lives, it seems so much
trouble to get in and out"
She jollied with the photographers.
"Now, really, Pm a perfect sight,
she told them. II haven't had a chance
to wash my face this morning, and yor
really should not photograph me look
ing this way"
!. But, of course she smilingly con-
AS matter Of fact she looked much
better thar. one might Judge from the
She now is in Half mourning and HAD
on a perfectly plain tailored suitr,pt
Black serge with 4 Hue white stripe;it
it, "a fluffy white silk blouse; a. small
black straw hat trimmed with aYrNT,:n-
curled ostrich feather almost, hiding
her wavy blond hair. She, had q small
scarf Of sable and slargey purple
chiffon veil for the voyage. From the
very first she: talked about women in
politics. ~ ;|.51i.sW w.
Trouble Is with Women"
''The great troublG is with the women
themselves,' she'said. "They seem to
think that Legislation will do every
thing. That is not so. Women must
change themselves first. They have
got to correct them selves before they
can hope to better conditions. That
Is largely what l am going to say in
my speech here,
81 look at the way they Dress" she
said, pointing to some young Swiss
women with skirts up to their knees
andl heels like stills. ,"Is that common
sense And are women thinking
enough Of their responsibility with
their own children? They must begin
in their own home in realizing their
responsibilities for education and es-
pecially for, the morals of their chill
dren. They allow their boys to grow
up with all sorts of wrong ideas and
blame them when they are men.
People talk against war and believe
in the league of nations, but l tell YOU
that war is better than injustice, and
you can't stop war until the individual