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Show I lady Constance lytton Tells How She Became a Suffragist BtiKDON, April 25. '"'How I bo-BTa bo-BTa suffragist" was the themo of an Htrpstinj; address delivered recently by. H Constance Lytton, granddaughter Bo novelist and sister of the present K.ab un "At Homo" of the iNnLional Eicn'a Social and Political union R'at Queen's hall. Hrfy Constniiec confessed that un-kTic un-kTic became a suffragist she had Hk3 her opportunities in life, and al-gh al-gh she had tried she had never sue-crt sue-crt in anything. The whole social fundings of her life had been re-Httht re-Httht to her. even the publicity of the xobm having a sort of terror for Hr:' She had never cared for books, jfnovor cared for the society of in-Hfctuul in-Hfctuul people. Hbdy ConBtance went on to sav that Blmd perhaps been an especially dif-H?t dif-H?t convert to the" cause, because Hj were one or two things she Home three or four years ago she was a great hobby the subject of HHnals nnd prisons. However, she Kregards it as obvious that the suf-nstfi suf-nstfi who had boon iu prison were Bbrhninals iu the ordinary sense of Kword, and she realized that she ft'very ensil' satisfy hrr taste for pus bv .-joining the cause. She had t' "irather what was termed a fad-Hjfon fad-Hjfon reforms, perhaps out of regard che fact tliat she hnd led so many Krm movements which came to Rtit; but in the beginning she was unatc enough to meet the leaders Bic suffragist movement, and she had HN'd them to be particularly human fcsyuipnihetic, and in the' end she tine a full-hcurtcd convert. She was K?struek by another trouble, for she mjthnt overyono connected with the tentent was of a rather peculiar dis-Mtion dis-Mtion and capacity. Their ability K. aroused her admiration at every turn. Then came the question as to what she could do. Lady Oonslnucc then 1 old of another of her hobbies, which recalls her recent re-cent complaint when in prison that she was not allowed to wash the floor of her cell. When first she went to the suffragist meetings the word washing was always recurring. She heard the people calling out: 'Go home and attend at-tend to your washing." This made her prick' up her ears, because it so happened that she had always boon found of washing, although she could not sav that, she had over been anv thing of an expert in that direction. If she had had to do it week in nnd week out. and year after year, she would probably have grumbled at it a great deal, bul at any rato she never could get lime sufficient' to follow up that hobby of hers. Thus she thought that she really ought to .-join the movement, if only' out of sympathy for the washer. Shortly after coming out of Holloway prison she received a great many letters, let-ters, including one from a man," indi- caiing that ho had thought that the fact of her belonging to the nobility would have boon sufficient to bar her being put into prison. But, said Lady Constance, surely if there was anything any-thing in nobility, it must bo nobility of action. She herself was no believer in any horedifary principle of honor, as recognized by the state. Tt seemed to her that there were things which could not be handed down by law and prestige. Evoryono had to feel that if they had a parent or ancestor who had distinguished himself or served his country politically or intcllcetuajly, or in any other way, it was a thing to bo proud of indeed. Tt was a thing which should inspire them iu every moment of their lives, and it was an incentive to follow in their footsteps. |