FROM "JULIA FRANCE."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1618, 9 December 1912, Page 2

FROM "JULIA FRANCE."

Probably one of the most subtle analysis of. the psychology of the suffragette today is that which. Gertrude Atlierton puts into' the nioiith'of one of. her characters (a manl in that brilliant book of hers, "Julia Franco and Her Times." To anyone wishing to grasp the spirit that is animating the minds of so large a portion of the women to-day in 'England, this book may be recommchded"as"bediig' one that reveals vea-y clearly the'strugglo that is prowseding'to-day, the advance it has made, and the i.motljods.: ".that'' both .sides are pursuing. • M TlliS ! 'iß"what-'the • man in the book: says:"They're hero to efcay," he said. "I know sir or eight of them personally; Wefl&n'akinffia study of them though they <M" not know it. They're like no otheif women under the suu—nor any sun i tKat has. ever shone. They've a new group of brain-cells, and something new and big is coming out of it. Tho only historical analogy I know of is those old martyrs that died in the causo of some new departure in religion; those that make such excellent subjects for stained-glass windows. . They vo. got the same look those old martyr-leaders had when they were ■ chained up to the stake and waiting for tho faggot. the. same grim patient mouths, the same clairvoyant eyes as if looking straight at the unborn millions liberated: by tho martyrdom of the few. Their enthusinsm is cold-and eternal. They aro as deliberatet as death. There are no better brains in the world. Precious .few as good, i'hoy never take a step that is not calculated . beforehand, and they never take a step backward. - Discouragement and tear are sensations they 'have experienced. When they arr, hurt they dont know it. They fear injury or death no i more than they fear the brutes that maul them. In short, they're a new force let loose in. the world; and tho geese outside put them down as hysterical females. But if th«s SKy old world had always been quick to see and wise to act we'd have no history. So there you are."