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Show Objected to Knitting in London Co. Council Knitting needles may not click :m Accompaniment to the debates In the London county council. This unwritten Jaw was laid down with emphasis by an Irate mascullua objector when Dame Beatrice Lyall, member for East Fulham, produced u pair during nn nll-r.Ight session and proceeded to click off interminable hours of debate witli as many Indies of v;arm woolen sock. No woman has yet had the hardihood hardi-hood to produce . knitting needles In the house of commons, but in the past men 31. P.'s have done so. The most famous knitter In parliamentary parlia-mentary annals wns one of the Wasoa brothers, who were well known to a former generation at Westminster. They were such big men that they were prominent figures wherever they appeared, and the spectacle of one of them, a man sis feet tall and proportionately propor-tionately hefty, plying his knitting needles throughout debates In the house must have been Incongruous. Ills fellow M. P.'s Apparently thought nothing of it, however, for there are no chronicled objections in parliamentary parliamen-tary archives. |