THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 97, 19 December 1912, Page 3

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

PILLAR-BOX OUTRAGES

London, December 18. The suffragettes tampered with

every pillar-box in Tunbridge Wells

MILITANT MADNESS

London, December 18

Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, addressing representatives of suffrage societies, said that they must he prepared to smash and be smashed. “We must,” she added, “be prepared, if necessary, to break and destroy the material substance of life, and acquiesce if the material substance of our life is destroyed.” . . i

WOMEN AND TROUSERS,

WILL THEY?

(Sydney ‘Sun’ Representative.) London, December 8

An American suffragette named Carrie Catt, has struck a new idea to bring the cause more before the minds of the people. She is urging women to abandon their millinery, their corsets, 'and their skirt's, and asks them to wear trousers.

“Revolt against the fashion creators,” she says, “Kick yourselves free from the swaddling of draperies, and give the money that heretofore you have expended on millinery to the cause of women’s suffrage.”