SUFFRAGETTE RHAPSODY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10066, 6 February 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)

SUFFRAGETTE RHAPSODY.

The current issue of "Votes for Women," the journal of the Suffragettes, contains a rapturous euloey of Miss Christabel Pankhurst. who wfti be released from Hollowav Gaol next Tuesday. The writer is Mrs Pethick Lawrence. The folio .ving are extracts from the article:—"Chrbtabel! Christabel! As the dawn to the waiting earth upon whose breast liave lain all night the chilling mists of tears, »o are you dear to the hearts ot women. Long, lons, we waited for your coming. Too well have we learned the- lesson of sorrow and patience. Fear was upon us, and the ansuish of womanhood had subdued us and brought us under submission. There you came like the young Siegfried in his maiden might. Li£e him you took the broken pieces of the weapon of destiny, and welded them into 'Needful,' the magic sword. Like him, utterly without the knowledge of ■ fear, . you have gone forth to break the curse of a terrible domination. Child of destiny! Spirit of the dawn! Y'ou will emerge undimmed even from the black recesses of a common gaol, for until the appointed time you are immune from the griefs which pierce and wound the hearts of those to whom has not been given at birth your magic armor. .Dauntless champion! Herald of the com- - ins day of deliverance, whose story is already ."written in the book of Fate. We glorv in your courage, ih.your overcoming vouth, ill the nnshadowed morning radiance of your spirit, that has never known eclipse, in your laughing zest for conflict that has never experienced the check ot failure or defeat. Maiden warrior ■ _We Kive vou rapturous welcome. Go forth with the fiat of the future, strong in.tho gladness and youth of your dauntless spiritto smite with your sword of destiny the forces of stupidity and unreasoning prejudice and blind domination."