Show Until Oscar Wilde burst upon the world as the apostle of sestheticisni the family which he belonged had hardly been heard of in this country Since then occasional paragraphs have appeared ap-peared in the papers regarding relatives d the divine Oscar and now attention has been called to his mother Lady JWildtL becansa nf a novol movomoiifc in which she has taken a leading part This has for its object the securing from I the crown of honorific distinction for women of the samo character as those granted to members of the sterner sex Lady Henry Somerset is also a leader in the movement and the disinterestedness of these two ladies in this crusade seems to need no affirmation when it is remembered re-membered that each is already the possessor pos-sessor of a title The advocates of then the-n w idea declare that while a man be made a baronet or a knight because of a notable deed done no such honor falls ito i-to the lot of women and they urge that titular honors be conferred equally upon the sexes When it is pointed out to them that Miss BurdettCoutts was made a bareness by way of reward for her many public benefactions the new crusaders retort that the case of the baroness bar-oness merely proves the rule EXT change |