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Show uu - LADY ASTOR TAKES SEA! ! INHOUSE LONDON. Dec. 1 Tickets to the! pdhlic gallery of the house of ' DO mons for today's session were in great demand) hundreds shdrihg their desire to see the lirst womrn member pre sented in the house. It was impossible impossi-ble to accommodate Uearlj all the ap piicant s Countess Georgina MarkiexiOQ, elect-i cd member of parllamt nt ironi Dublin last year, but who refused .o take her seat, owing to her Sinn Fein alfilla tions, was in London over the weekend week-end and her presence created curiosity as to whether she meant to forestall Lady Astor in taking a soat in tho house of commons by maklnu a dramatic dra-matic appearance there The countess, however, went to Man chaster and it was understood she has i no intention ol returning to divide attention at-tention with Lady Astor. The loiter spent Saturday night at her country home at Cliveden and returned to Ixm i don today to make her debut in the house of commons 00 |