Show Honors Honora Paid Lead Leader of 01 W Woman n n SuRra Suffrage R Representatives Representative of ot women's rations in Norway recently nUy gathered red together r to pay tribute to the memory of the birth years ago go of ot Aa Basta Auta t t n. n one of ot th the pioneers r of If the womans woman's movement In that country countr and a o personality so original that she ehe has been beeD the mo model fur for Nora tan dramatists and sculptors Rasta was wag the 11 I daughter of Prof Irot Christopher HanSteen Han Han- Steen of the UHS University of Oslo formerly la A university c career career ree was was nt at that time of ot for a t woman and tile he only car career egr r which was wae was possible for a wont Von woman wom- wom 11 an n was was' art writes the te Oslo 0 C correspondent corre correspondent r eB e B of the Hi the Christian Science Selene Monitor Aasta therefore became became be be- came a painter parater 1 grid and rid studied d nt lit Copen COpell hagen hegen t ness ld wt and Parts Paris Paris- but bat she lIbe he hewon won soon left teft palming painting Tor literature and also to work for tor the liberation lon t er f t womanhood In her her Her ner point was 09 that woman as alt well as ns' ns than Is created In Gods God's Image md and this slie ebe argued with her t seemingly narrow narrow- minded ed contemporaries Aasta lectured publicly on OD this favorite Idea of hers here and people scorned h her r and mid ridiculed her In those aa days s 's It was us an nn unheard-of unheard thing for women to speak In public and the doors of her friends and relatives ps therefore became closed to her It was then that she felt she most le leave leace ve her native land and she went to the United States where she stayed d In Boston Doston for nine years ears between 1880 1889 and 1830 1880 hile Norwegian women beame became became be be- came ame active suffrage fu clubs and societies so so- defies were formed and when Aasta heard of what was going on she rt returned to Norway zest rest and In fighting mood When the he womans woman's suffrage movement was Wall pro pro- pro progressing gressing Ansta Aasta became less militant antI and when she heard In to 1807 1907 that women had took got the vote Tote she the news at first with an aa Impressive silence Later she said Bald Remember Demember that th the womans woman's movement mo goes roes further than to get the vote It alms aims at the spiritual liberation of all humanity hu hu- manity inanity It now seems hardly possible that fifty years eara ago a woman was outlawed outlawed out out- la ed In hi Norway because the she spoke In public certainly seems m. m to have been rapid |