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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 trne "and only interesting type of womanhood ara finding the amiable Lady Henry Somerset, Somer-set, brilliant as she is, something of an ogre and bore. It is a saddening test of the taste and character controlling American journalists today in our cities. Miss Willard says that the current 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 in struct a wnoie 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 recent crusades in London against 3agxant indecencies in low class theaters, thea-ters, and expressed her hearty wish thai all such evils might be abated on hoth sides of the sea. At once it was said, and it has been ceaselessly repeated, thaj 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 be 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 light 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 accept ed and honored the exceptional and intellectual in-tellectual ability and rare devotion td publio ends of Miss Willard, and it in with pleasure that in her name we asV of it fair play and gentler courtesy for that most interesting and admirable example ex-ample of the "new woman," in the best sense of that abused term, L?dy Henry Somerset |