Show CHANGED HER MIND MINDS S SEX EX emancipation never nover involved cd the tho inalienable right of a woman to o change chango her mind else elso it never nover would have haye made as s much progress as has las been made to date and there would bo be no women in the tho legislatures legislatures legisla- legisla tures ures or city councils or school boards in of tho the states that have havo n any an- enfranchised en- en franchised women Los Angeles has hns in its council a n woman member Mrs frs Estello Lawton Lindsey who knows something about personal rights and parliamentary law lav aw and is not afraid to challenge the tho ho malo of the species on either At a recent meeting of the tho Angel city ity council a c civic io purity mens measure rc espoused by Mrs Irs Lindsey was under debate lobate and the plebeians in the lobby were taking noisy interest in her denunciations denunciations denunciations de de- de- de of evil Turning abrupt abrupt- ly y to them Mrs Irs Lindsey defied them in n t these ese words If there is any imy male malo outside the rail who has any argument against this ordinance I dare daro him to como come inside and state it The chal- chal lenge enge was not accepted For having voted for an amendment to o tho measure measures Mrs Lindsay was accused ac nc- ac- ac of changing her mind Instantly Instant- Instant ly y she replied not Dot in the language a aman a aman man would have used in a like liko situation situa- situa tion ion but as follows Yes I changed my mind I reserve the right to change my mind in twenty-four twenty hours or twenty-four twenty minutes Persons who cannot change their minds are aro dead ones There you have it in terms as plain and as immutable as the tho laws of the Medes and Persians The Tho council defeated the ordinance in which Mrs Lindsay was interested but she established a n precedent on the tho right to cb change chango her mind as men have havo done since sinco time began and she put her own label on it |