THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 15, 15 May 1912, Page 2

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

In London Truth tire modern Bepys discourses with wit on the suffragettes in court and the search for ChVistahel. “! to Bow Street tin’s day, where, I am told, the organisers of these wild women are to lie indicted for conspiracy. But all the forenoon was taken up hearing charges against the rank and file; see ’tuas after 2 post medidiem ere the ringleaders were brought into the dock—to wit, .Mistress Be thick Lawrence and her man. Mistress Take, and Mistress Pankhnrsf, both these two looking mighty sick and jaded, soe that they had to be furnished with ehayrs; and I could not but feel sorry for the poor misguided old things. But the fayr Chrlstabel was not there, and I learn have not yetbeen apprehended ; which did disappoyut me sore ; she having a shrewd saucy wit and a roadie tongue withal; soe had promised myself a pretty entertainment, and divers breezy passages betwixt wench and bench. But, Lord! To see Mistress Bankhurst wepiug and clinging to the dock-rail, the while slip did hysterically demand legal facilities for the preparing of her defence; and mightily ill-used she was when the Magistrate told her this was noe concern of his, but must arrange it herself with the prison governor. Then, she persisting, did order her, albeit with all gent.ilnesse, to lie removed, which she appeared to deem a tyrannical! outrage. Yet an she will assume' the man’s part, must expect the man’s shrift; the poor old dear being now to learn that she cannot hace it both ways.” Regarding the cpiest for Miss Cbristabel Bankhurst, the modern Bepys waxes exceedingly facetious; “To the club, where all the talk is of the elusive Cbristabel and distinct authentic versions I heard of her present place of hiding; to wit, ’ that she (1) is disguised in a parlourmaid’s cap and apron at a house in Frognall Gardens, Hampstead ; (ii) have crossed the Channel to Dieppe in the habit of a Little Sister of the Poor, with badge, beads, and breviary all compleat; (iii) have taken temporary advantage of a misleading Glory-Be coat and ski it and Hallelujah bonnet, and now singing Sankey’s hymns- at a Salvation Army mission in the borougV.; (iv.) have shorn her head and taken service in Harley Street as a buttons; (v.) is soping chinas as lather-hoy at a penny barber’s in Whipping; (vi.) have been smuggled away to Liverpool in a poultry crate, labelled,-, ‘Live ducks, with care—this side up.’ ”