The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-08
LADY SOMERSET, NOTED TEMPERANCE
REFORMER OF ENGLAND, PASSES AWAY
Dissolution Occurs Following Hospital Operation for Appendicitis
Misery Entaled by Drink Among the Poor Enlisted Her
Sympathes; Life Dedicated to Human Uplft

crowded groups of the soldiers and
statesmen who have made America
a lonely, slight, beautiful little figure
with her plain dress and her simply
dressed hair and the full figure OF the
men around her.
An Eloquent Speaker
II never heard Lady Henry Som
erset speak in public, but | have been
told by those who did that she had a
wonderful power OF eloquent appeal
and could stir audiences to tears and
ardors and good resolves. Besides
going from platform to platform she
was busy with her pen; she con-
Quoted for many years THE Woman's
Signal" which was the record OF all
the work either for temperance or for
some other method of helping women,
and she conducted it with great abil
ity.
President of World w. c. T. u.
"She wrote innumerabe leaflets and
magazine articles. These services to
the cause of temperance and to wo-
men received world recognition by her
election to the position of president
not only of the British Woman's TEN
perance Association but also of the
Worlds Woman's Christian Temper
ancc Union, the organization in
which she had been preceded by Miss
Willard. 1t was natural that Lady
Henry should succeed her American
friend, for by her platform work in
nearly all the great cities of America
she had become almost as well known
to the women OF America as her
American friend and co-worker.
Founded an Asylum
perhaps the most characteristic
and important work she did was the
foundation of Duxhurst near Reigatc
AN asylum for the female inebriate
Her ideas though held under
the control of clear mind sometimes
were inclined to extreme measures;
for instance, she wanted to close up
all the public houses on the large es
tates she had inherited but here the
trustees OF the estate stepped i'll and
WARE lilo ~ ,ra,-a,+ ii,;e ,rooeuro -,
the interest of the property and the
rights OF its heir. Lady Henry
showed her own indifference to all
these questions of personal wealth for
after she had taken the other vows of
personal devotion to public good she
added the final vow OF poverty and di-
vested herself some years before her
deatl of all her property. She who
might have lived in one of the beauti-
full mansions of the aristocracy Of
England was content with chambers
in Gray's Inn, comfortable but tiny
rooms usually occupied either by
young law students or elderly bache-
lors without any family incum-
brances.
There is something very striking
and very characteristic in the story
told of her few days before her
DEATH i am very tired she said
possibly one of the few words of COM
plant or self-pity she had allowed
herself in all her life of fierce and
devastating endeavor. The fatigue
however, came not merely from over
work but from illness She was
found to have appendicitis and she
underwent an operation, but the heart
worn out by many labors and perhaps
by many sorrows gave way and now
the weary spirit is at rest.
She leaves one son, Captain Somers
Somerset who was for a while a
member of the London County Coun-
ell, Parliamentary candidate for
Croydon, and finally did distinguished
work during the war. Born in 1851
Lady Henry was in her seventy-hrst
year at the time of her death"