BRITISH WOMEN M's.P.

Shannon News, 27 August 1929, Page 3

BRITISH WOMEN M's.P.

Someone has pointed out that the number of women members in the British House of Commons should dispose of an old superstition. That number is 13. 'Only by four votes, however, did a one-time suffragette, Mrs. Barbara Gould, fail to make tihat number 14. She stood for a district in Cheshire, and townsfolk, including the workers, were for her. The county, however, mustered its motor cars, and even after a careful recount, the lady candidate way still four to the bad. Concerning women M.P.'s, the more frivolous of the electors are pointing out t/bat Miss Jenny Lee is the beauty o - that party of 13, while others, more serious, assert that Miss Bondficld's appointment to the Cabinet may presage her admission to the Privy Council, the first woman (Royalty excepted) to enten an institution which has existed since the ninth century.