After the annual council meeting in London of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, a luncheon was given by the Union the Holborn Restaurant; at which Mrs. Wintringham, ™.p., was the guest of honour, and Lady Astor, M.p., Mr. Arthur Henderson, M"p., Sir Robert Newman and Mr, Clarke Hall] were among thy other guests.
Mrs. Wintringham, thanking the National Union and its societies for their assistance in the Louth by-election, said 68 percent. of the women electors in the division voted, as against 72 per cent. of the men. It was pleasant for her to come into Paz'liament because Lady Astor had done all the ''donkey Lady Astor said she had watched Mrs. Wintringham's election with tht anxiety of a mother watching the coming out of a debutante daughter. People had looked on her as a sort of accident, and said they would not have another woman in Parliament for years. She heaved a sigh of relief when Mrs. Wintringham was elected. At first she thought she was the worst person to be the first woman in the House of Commons. Lately she had realized that she had a few gifts that were very necessary. One of them was "not acting like a perfect lady." She thought Mrs. Wintringham also cared too much about real things to be a perfect ady." She thought Mrs. Wint-lady. Lady Astor earnestly appealed to the National Union to make] the question of the women police a test question at the next election. It was a moral issue and the people who did not want the women police did not want to stand for the Inghest morals.
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