DELIGHTFUL HOLLOWAY

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1354, 3 February 1912, Page 11

DELIGHTFUL HOLLOWAY

There seems to be a genial conspiracy between the Home Office and the gaol authorities to treat all militant woman suffragists in future as though they were spoiled children (says the English correspondent of the "Argus"). The courts continue to pass sentences for disorder and window breaking, with the usual option of a fine, and tho women invariably insist on going to prison, but the punishment is made in every way as light as possible. Nor are the majority of the suffragists any longer averse from making themselves comfortable during their confinement in gaol. They go to the court to receive their sentences with almost aa much luggage as they would take on a holiday trip.' The i>lace is like a railway station. When a "Black Maria" lumbers off to Holloway, with a load of suffragists its roof, piled high with leather bags, portmanteaus, and travelling baskets, rgest.s the reassembling of a girls' school uiicr the vacation. In the course-of a private conversation just before the latest demonstration outside the' House 01 Commons, the secretary of one of the L:t our members said she wanted to go to gaol, in order to "get a week's rest." As an employer, the Labour champion appeara to bo something of a sweater—possibly without being aware of it. The lady realised her wish quite comfortably. She laid ber hand on the arm of a constable when he was arresting one of her friends. That was "obstructing the police," and the M.P. lost his secretary for a week in tho middle of the autumn session. ' Holloway, she now declares, is a most agreeable place, with brilliantly lighted halls, cells provided with electric bells, and every reasonable comfort, a liberal diet, and good-tempered officials.