WOMEN WHO KEPT A SECRET

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1816, 31 July 1913, Page 2

WOMEN WHO KEPT A SECRET

According to Miss Hodge, who recently visited New Zealand, and who has lately taken an active part in tlio' Suffragist movement in England, that old standing tradition which lias regarded the inability of woman to keep a secret as ono'of tlio. sex's chief characteristics, can hold good 110 longer. Tlio English Suffragettes have succeeded in knocking top, bottom, and sides out of tho theory. AY hen Miss Christalwl Pankhui'st suddenly disappeared from London as though she had been carried away by some passing spirit, tho polico very badly wanted to know her hiding place. But they never found out. For months arid months they inquired without any success, tut Miss Hodgo explained to a woman's meeting in Sydney recently that hundreds of women knew hor hiding place during all this period, and never revealed it. She was in Paris all the time. The Suffragettes knew, but the police did not. Tho loyaltv of women ono to tho other was quoted by Miss Hodge as one of the sublimest features of tho women's movement.