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Show Fair Play For Lady Somerset, The Boston Transcript says editorial ly: . It stands to reason that newspapers to whom "Gaiety Girls" are the true 'and only interesting type of womanhood aro finding the amiable Lady Henry Somerset, Somer-set, brilliant as she is, something of an ogre and bora It is a saddening test of the taste and character controlling American journalists today in our cities. Miss Willard says that the current paragraphs par-agraphs about this brave and brilliant English woman's so called "crusade" in this country are very nearly cruel to a woman who came to this country avowedly avow-edly to study quietly our customs and politics, and with no intention to instruct in-struct a whole country or to attack anything. any-thing. When the New York reporters flocked about Lady Henry Somerset on her arrival and quizzed her, she spoke of the recant crusades in London against 3agrant indecencies in low class theaters, thea-ters, and expressed her hearty wish that ail such evils might be abated on both sides of the sea. At onco it was said, and it has been ceaselessly repeated, that Lady Henry came here to organize a crusade, to cultivate a fad, and so forth. She is certainly deeply and practically practical-ly interested in all that has any relation to highest cultivation and freedom of humanity, and she is daily found in good works, now at a convention, now at a meeting at Mrs. Bull's house, and she speaks on suffrage whenever she can b& of service to the cause that she and Miss Willard have at heart. Titles are however, how-ever, a sort of natural romantic bait to our democracy, and a fiercer liht than ever beat upon a native born reformer like Miss Willard inevitably falls upon the lady who is associated with her. The American press has long ago accepted accept-ed and honored the exceptional and intellectual in-tellectual ability and rare devotion td public ends of Miss Willard, and it i? with pleasure that in her name we asi of it fair play and gentler courtesy for that most interesting and admirable ox-ample ox-ample of the "new woman," in the best sense of that abused term, Ldy Henry Somerset |