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Show Objected to Knitting in London Co. Council Knitting needles may not click an accompaniment to the debutes In the London county council. This unwritten law was laid down with emphasis by an irate masculine objector when Dame Beutrlce Lyall, member for Kast Kulham, produced a pair (luring an all-night session and proceeded to click oft lutermlnuhle hours of debate with as many Inches of warm woolen sock. No woman lias yet had the hardihood hardi-hood to produce knitting needles In the house of commons, but In the past men M. P.'s have done so. The most famous knitter In parliamentary parlia-mentary annals was one of the Wuson brothers, who were well known to a former generation at Westminster. They were such big men that they were prominent figures wherever they appeared, and the spectacle of one of them, a man six feet tall and proportionately propor-tionately befty, plying his knitting needles throughout debates In the house must have been Incongruous. Ills fellow M. P.'s apparently thought nothing of It, however, for there are no chronicled objections Id parliamentary parliamen-tary archives. ! |
