East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-21
Bored With Repetition.

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After many more cases OF thu
same kind / was so bored with the
repetition that / went to aa higher
lcourts case. The case on the docket
was an illicit still--a still discovered
on the top floor of a large hotel
The hotel manager the waiter, tho
cooks, the hotel guests, the chamber
maids--in short, everyone who had
lever entered that hotel seemed to be
Involved in the case. The judg, / re-
cali, was so bored that he cheWed
land slept through most of the testi-
lmony."
! / tried to push the discussion of
women in America, but Mrs. Nevin-
son refused to make any general
comments.
Il know about our own women,
but in America you have so many
kinds-very active and modern ones
lin New York, who are not bound
lby the old customs and antiquated
ideas, and strangely reactionary, seri-
ously religious ones around old Bos-
ton, and still another kind in Wash
ington.
II can't talk about them all, there
are so many. At least, you never
had the kind of militant suffragists
In America that we had here in
England" And all the o.d quarrel
of the Women's l'reedoIa I.eag e. of
which Mrs. Nevinson l., Il nIctt,,r,
with Mrs. Pankhurst and her ful, w
ers. sprang forward.
I'm not with most of the fGmi-
niats who are trying to put through
silly laws either"
do you think, then, that getting
suffrage for women in England was
worth while?" / asked.
Certainly it was. 1t was only n
fortnight after We won suffrage that
the paternal maintenance of illegi-
innate children was doubled 1t was
only a few months after suffrage
came that women sat ON the bench |
in England, and the Lord Chancellor, |
who had been most unjust to women
previously, seized the opportunity to !
state that the rights of women are !
as important as those of men.
All politicians in England agree /
with him now that women have !
votes. We have changed many un-
just laws, and We will change more. !
AT this point my friend, Mrsh Pat
rick II. Hepburn, better known in
England and America as the Austria
Ian poet, Ann Wickham, interrupted
to ask Mrs. Nevinson if she intends |
to stand for Parliament in the next |
Il have been urged to stand by |
many of my friends" answered this
but ! don't think politics
Is ever clean and decent. No,
don't want to stand"
But" said Anna Wickham, that |
Is why you should stand, and any
way | think you should stand, be- |
cause my husband says you are the .
only woman who ever made him
laugh with ironical remarks. He in
Sists that you are the only English
woman with Il sense of humor"
''Politics Is Black"
Surely it Is not little thing to
have Patrick II. Hepburn, the great
Ast living authority on the plant Sat
arm, call you the only woman humor-
st of his country; but Mrs. Nevinson
Inly smiled and insisted that poll
les Is black and mo political lead
~ can remain both honest and sue
'essful.'
she suddenly changed the subject
~ showing us Il patchwork cushion
The made year ago when she was
II, Remnants of IA good old-fash-
oned age, ! thought. But she told
is with great satisfaction that her
on, c. r. NeVinson, the modernist,
greatly admires the pollow and CON
iders II remarkable expression of
modernism. And sot 1t is.
AS we rose to go she mentioned
he Russell divorce case that is oc-
upying the minds of all London.
Think of the cleverness of that
little woman" she chuckled. They
ay that His Honor Sir John Simon,