SAYINGS OF LADY ASTOR

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1923, Page 1

SAYINGS OF LADY ASTOR

ENGLAND'S FIRST WOMAN -M.P WITTY UTTER ANt ES. England's first woman member ol Parliament. Lady Astor. i- stiff B'c best-known, and that she has added to her reputation since she entered ime House of Commons is due piineipalh to the fact that she is a skillul sponsor, and that her utterances, while showing a depth of thought. a:e marked with a bright spontaneity which gites them considerable charm. 1 liese speoo.ies. as i- demonstrated by the Billowing aphorisms gathered from thorn, are lull of good and sparkling common-sense: I can conceive .of nothing worse than a man-governed world- -except a woman-governed world. Y7e are new brooms. Let us see that we sweep the right rooms. Envy and hato arc the most blinding tilings on earth; it is only people with vision vho never perish. You cannot be material in your domestic lib: and bo spiritual in . vo: " national life.

The most practical tilings in the world arc common sense and common humanity. It takes a good deal *-t prayet to keep me humid*. The British fought their first battle against autocracy in 1 L 4. King John learn then what the poor old Kaiser had to learn in B>lß. If volt really love people you can say anything you like to them. Women are young at polities, hut ihoy ar o old at suffering. The more 1 sex- of life the more I see that the only way is the narrow way and the broad view. Having at polities may he till rightwhen there is nothing seriously wrong with the world. A fool without fear is sometimes worse than an angel with tear. It is a poor thing to preach hatred and it is almost suicidal to nourish it. America is no more a mere country of business men then Ktighuid is -■

nation of shopkeepers