South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-08-20
Greenwich Village Entrances
Famous English Investigator

courts case. The case on the docket
was an Illicit still-a still discov-
cred on the top floor Of large ho-
tel The hotel manager. the waiter.
.ae cooks. the hotel guests. the
ham ber-ma ds-in short everyone
who had ever entered thar hotel
seemed 70 De involved In the case
The judge. I recall. was 80 bored
that he chewed and slept through
most Of the testimony"
tried 70 push the discussion Of
women in America. but Mrs Nevin-
son refused 20 make any general
comments.
II know about our own women.
but in America you have so many
Siuds-very active and modern
ones in New York. who are not
bound by the Old customs and anti
quated IDEAS. and strangely reac-
tionary seriously religious ones
around old Boston. and still another
kind in Washington.
Il can't talk about them all.
there are 90 many. At least. YOU
never had the kind % militant SUI
fragists in America that we mad
here in England And all the Old
quarrel pf the WOmen's Freedom
League. Of which Mrs Nevinson IL
member, With Mrs Psnkhurst
and her followers. sprang forward
I'm MT with most Of the femi-
nistS who are trying 10 put through
silly laws either"
DO you think. then. that getting
suffrage for women IN England
was worth while7~ asked.
Certainly 70 was II was only a
fortnight after we won suffrage
that the paternal maintenance Of IL
legitimate children was doubled. II
wns only a few months after suf-
frage came that women sat on the
bench in England. and the Lord
Chancellor. who had been most I'M
just to women previously. seized
the opportunity 10 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. Mrs.
Patrick H. Hepburn, better known
IN England AMI America as the
Australian poet Anna Wickham, in
ttrrupted to ask Mrs. Nevinson II
she intends TO stand for parliament
IL the next elections
Il have been Urged to stand ~
many Of my friends" answered
this feminist. but don: think
politics Is ever clean and .cent.
No, I don't want 10 stand.
But" sail Anna Wickham that
Is why you ehonld s-and. an any
way 1 think yJI should sta ID. be-
cause my husband SAYS 70 are
the only woman who ever made
him laugh with ironical remarks.
He insists that you are he only
English wom'n with a sense Of
humor."
Politics is Black"
Surely t. $ not a little thing to
have Patrick H. Hepburn, the
greatest living authority on the
I planet Saturn. call you .he only
/ woman hum7r.st OF his country
/ But Mrs. Nevinson only smiled and
insisted that politics is black.
and mo political leader can remain
both honest and successful"
She suddenly changed the sub
/ ject by showing US a patchwork
cushion she made a year ago. wher
she was III. Remnants Of gooC
old-fashioned age. I thought. Blu
she told Us with great satisfaction
I that her son. G. r Nevinson. IN,
mcdernist, greatly admires the pill
low and considers it a remarkabl,
expression Of modernism And 8,
y is
As we rose to go she mentioned
/ the Russell divorce case that is oc
/ cupying the minds Of all London.
Think OF the cleverness OF tina
little woman" she chuckled. The,
say that His Honor. Sir John Simon
counsel for Mr. Russell, Is turnin.
white haired through his effort t,
! compete with her"
She fairly gurgled with tn
thought OF one OF her own sex thu
confounding tho male dignity o
The courts, and so. too. did we.