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Show uu Jessie Stephens Outlines Her First Political Steps LONDON, Dec 10 Jessie Stephens, Steph-ens, the former domestic servant who was recentlj elected to a seat on the borough council of Bennondsey, a London Lon-don suburb, says that municipal work is the first atep in the direction of the house of commons In an interview she spoke with quiet confidence of her future arrival in parliament and gave many instances of how work could be saved for women. She told of plans she was making for ihe benefit bene-fit of housekeepers generally ' I robbed myself of sleep at nights and rose in the morning to study politics," poli-tics," she said. "There, I believe, lay the way to reform. My first-hand knowledge of housework gae mo many Ideas to base my political plans upon." oo |