A NEWSPAPER CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 752, 26 February 1910, Page 11

A NEWSPAPER CLUB.

;""• The '/''Sydney';' .Women's - /Newspaper. ißeadirig, iClub';'-'-pledges 'itself; to''devote iat ileast' an';ho'ur' a day' to .'the reading "of 'the. daily/newspapers,'and more..especiallj the' political neits, at Hpme and. abroad. ;Qnce ; a month an "at'-home":is held at different houses, arid - ;topics of the day diKinssed;o.ver-a-cup of: tea; -Tbo idea is : said ;to: have: .originated among - two' busy :.hbusewives ~who. exchanged",'" newspapers |-'oyer.i,the,. ; fenoe" when , the . "morning Lrush" was , : over. . It , not only takes a wo-, .man's mind off ..the': monotony of ; house-i-.hold'work,-.but opens:up:interesting disIjcussions. tp. be indulged' in with' the head ■ of y.the: household..in,- the iyeyenings; :<'■:.. ■■■':■

ViFor.: many/i'months.Usays ,ian.; ; English' writer) .we ~■, have i, been - what would .follow-, when;- an ; ,ardent> suffragist found- her '.political sentiments, in;coiiflict .'wili 'her )Wifely;duty.; Which.iwouldi be. l sacrificed : 7 ; cause? ;It ;has ; .fallen'to .the,lot ; of ■ Mis.;.J.r-A. -.Bryce,. i a:sister-in-law.': of ..the -British .Ambassador 'atj'Vv'asKingtbhi;to answer theoiddle.; Mrs.: Bryoe,''is>uie. wife lateral- rnein■iber.iof ■,; for,.:.the ■;■;■ Inverness. '■■ Burghs!'..'Bi'■'former .elections'she,.helped •'hef ..husband's .candidacy in:,,evory;,,,pos-. sible.way; :But.Mr. : iTv : A. Bry.ce.happens 'to -be,; an \ anti-suff fagist.,,.' :True, .ihe... does riot .oppose-the, grant..of..:a-.'vote < :to'.women, on' the^grouhd'.of their intellectual; .'inferioriij.'■ But'jhe ;dbes-,belicfe:,that ,wo- ; men'. are.',innately; coriseryatiy'e, and ■' that if.'wbmen: secured 'the'.. i right;'to,' vote ..the .Conservatives' would -be .kept .in \ power in': defiiiitely.;".Sp;-he',.will , riot hear .of. giving .them:the'ifranchise.,,'Plead:as'.6he would, Mrs: Brycercoiild only.;&ttract a'-passion-;less;"no.'. r from ;her ihar'd-hearted epouse.': ■Finallyjroii the,'.eve of "the/.election,. ; she "departed.'.to, America-,'.and'.has' been' stay-' ing. with'' ber^ , brother-in-law at-,; Washing-' ton 'ever ' since;.., As: she'; has.' eiplainea, "Jly , . suffragist-.'associates hoped, that '■' I iwo'uld be 'able -tb v wiii ? rDy' husband to the cause.:"l did not succeed,',and 60 loyalty lo our'cause ,, .prevents.'me assisting'him. •Nevertheless, with ,the-pretty'.logic "of; a woman;.- Slts.'; Brjce •-could not•',refrain', from .adding,;''But.l.hope he}will win."'