AN AWKWARD EXPERIENCE.
Lady'Jersej, one of .the most intellectual and self-possessed wome'n of her time, bad Tather ati awkward o\pßrienco the other day (reports "M.A.P ")> It was at a-moet--1115 to arrange,for Empire Day observances, and tho speakers included a patriotic and capablo ■ colonial statesman. The greatest disgrace from which England suffers at this moment is the refusal to give uomen the vote said he in elfect, and pointed out how we lag behind Australia and New Zealand "Let us hope,' , ho added fervently, "that this blot on tho fair fame of tho nation will ere long be'romoved, and that women' like Lady Jersey will bo gnen the franchise. It ]8 absurd,, it is almost incredible, that a woman with the rrnnd and attainments of Lady Jersey Should anv longer bo deprived of a right so plainly hers " Lady Jersey sat it all out calmly, and' it was only later that tho capable colonial discovered in her the head and front of tho'Anti-Suffrago party His feelings are best left to the'imagination* , x
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 558, 13 July 1909, Page 3
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171AN AWKWARD EXPERIENCE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 558, 13 July 1909, Page 3
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