Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-12-09 | Page 33 | Others Join Lady Astor

OTHERS JOIN LADY ASTOR Eight Women to A Answer House of Commons Roll Call LONDON LO Dec The G S 8 W The Th spotlight ht of attention that used to tobe tobe be focused upon Lady Astor A tor no as she sat eat In the house of oC one commons commons little woman in the midst of big little and middle sized men men-I men men- men will 1 have tp tj to diffuse It Its III beama beams to all s sections of ot the chamber when 1 parliament convenes con for tor thero there Billbe be eight women to answer the roll three three labor labor- laborItes laborItes labor Ites and two t 0 liberals Lady Astor talked her Plymouth constituents Into sending her back to Westminster this week and so did the other two women who sat eat satIn salIn In the late parliament Mrs Mar Mar- Margarot Margaret Mar Margaret garet garot liberal and Mrs Margaret conserva conserva- conservative conservative tive Five Flie Fh e other women on U n fights with male opponents Twentysix Twentysix ty six of o their sisters Bisters wore were beaten but considering the tho total number ot of candidates tor for the seats the women omen who stood tor parlia parlia- parliament parliament b ment ent fared little worse proportion proportion- proportionately proportionately than the men No Xo longer loncer will Lady Astor be the tho only noble lady among the corn com commoners com commoners In the tho house 1 PRESS DRESS A FACTOR Two other peeresses won on on their way to Westminster this week week- week I the Duchess Duchessi of oC Atholl the first woman to be sent to parliament I from Scotland and Lady Terrington ton j ton who like Lady Astor Is 15 witty Itty and but tout who unlike the member from Sutton division of oC I Plymouth says she Is fa going to neal boar 1 ear earthe the best clothe she aho has haa when she earI I enters the house housa of oC commons The Th 1 Virginia born lady all nays al-nays as a's galls galls- satis tied fled herself by appearing In her seat In a plain black frock with a s demure demure white collar 1 Lady has another 1 point of ot similarity to Lady Astor In her lose loie 10 e for horses and her hor abill- abill to ride well She made her cam cam- cam palm n among among- the es villages of Buck Busk- In the saddle Her victory was 8 a the tint the liberal ral party had won In her constituencY since Ince the tho free trade tight fight against protection In 1006 1906 I f I FINE FIO SP SPEAKER KEIt The Tho Duchess of o Atholl who bears benr I a a slight to Mrs Mra Calili Coolidge is 18 1 one of ot the best beat women 1 linguists In the land and Is la a a fine fin platform speaker The three women who will sit sl with the opposition on the tho labor Ibor benches are all aJl converts con erts to the ta- ta laI labor tabor la bor couse couso ss Mies Susan lAwrence I Joined the labor ranks in In 1912 a the result of oC distress she eho had seen see tin 1111 her In Ini estimations of thing lit Ih Ing In and an j I working conditions condition among amone tIle the pooler Miss Mies Ml g Dorothea Jewson most prominent of oC tro tiro the younger lounger women In the tho labor movement li is I the daughter of ot a 0 wealthy Norwich farmer and a graduate graduato of Girton e college Cambridge I To acquaint herself with the joyS and ond sorro sorrows Borrows s of domestic ants servants ants she sho filled tho tha post poet of ot cham cham- chambermaid In a large London hotel win nine lift bits Margaret Marg-aret Bonfield In win win- winning winning ning defeated the seat tor for Northampton de- de de the tor former mer cabinet minister C A McCurdy liberal She was wa I waI the first woman member of oC the th trades trade union congress of oC who whose general council she ahe Is chairman It was as largely through her labors and nd influence that the recent holier boiler boilermakers boilermakers I makers strike was settled Milled