Although, undoubtedly, the duy will presently come whea the presence of women in the British House of Commons will be no more noticeable than that of men, that time has not yet arrived, and the fourteen women who are members of Une new Government still hold a somewhat unique position.
Of the career of Miss Margaret Bondfield, who holds the distingnished position of first woman member of the cabinet (she is Minister of Labour) and whose family was for many years connect-fed with China, we recently published an account on the "Woman's Page," and a wonderful record of spirit and determination it proved to be. A keen trade unionist, who never forgets that for 10 years she served behind shop coun ters, the first woman Chairman of the General Council of the T.U.C., and a well-known figure at Genev: Miss Bondfield has been a Socialist organizer since 1898, and her distinction lies chiefly in her practical, experience.
Miss Susan Lawrence, Labour MP. for East Ham, mapy predicted, during her impressive handling of the financial complexities of the De-rating Bill, would be the first woman Chancellor of the may never at-already her hair has gone grey in the service of the public. Since she left Cambridge Miss Lawrence has worked as a suffragist, a member of the London School Board, and was one time vice-chairman of the Miss Ellen Wilkinson, re. turned as Labour member for Middlesborough, has had her erstwhile position of youngest woman MP, taken from her by Miss Jennie Lee, Labour member for North Lanark. Miss Wilkinson has a fiery personality, courageous and dashing, and it is typical of her that the book she wrote and published this spring, entitled "Clash" is a novel of political conflicts in the heroine is an able organ-izar and a passionate and impulsive speaker.
Miss Lee, the youngest member became a teacher, a lawyer and a Member of Parliament in her early twenties: but she has still to prove her ability to a wider audience than has hitherto been watching her movements, The three Conservative women members have all been in the House before: Lady Astor is exceptional. ly well-known, the Duchess of Atholl, as Lady Tullibardine, led the anti-suffrage movement,' and Lady Iveagh, made her name by famous maiden speech on the sub-Ject of the Revision of the Prayer Book.
The rest of the fourteen, all new=* comers, are made up of Mrs, Mary Agnes' Hamilton, economist, novelist, and critic, who is famous in the' socialist world as biographer of the present Prime Minister Lady Cynthia Mosely, who beat of her title and family has found it difficult to make people treat her Socialism as anything but the whim of an eccentric aristocrat: Dr.
Marion Phillips, an Australian eco-nornist, elected for Sunderland (Labour): Dr. Ethel Bentham, one of the first women magistrates in England: Miss Picton Tuberville O.B.E., who made her name as ai organizer of the Y.M.CA. in Indi and is a writer on religious themes Miss Rathbone, author of "The Disinherited Family", and one of the most original economists of to-day, who, although she comes of a famous Liberal family, has for 18 years persisted in calling herself Independent, and lastly Mis Megan Lloyd George, who has fol-steps and is an ardent Lil Sixty-four was the total number of women candidates standing during the past election, and as time oes on and women continue their interest in polities and gain the confidence of the voting public, undoubtedly that. figure will increase by leaps and bounds. For the pioneers in the field have definitely proved that women may be no successful than men in the po cal world, and thus, more and more women who wish for carcass, will turn to polities, an occupation "hi-thereto unthought of save courageous few, until the men and, women of Groat Britain shall ultimately ce-operate on equal foot ing, each bringing the best of their special talents, for the ruling of their country. full of broken ice, adding a cup of new milk, an egg, a tea-spoonful (or more) of brandy, whisky, rum, and a little sugar. Shake well, strain into a glass, and dust. with nutmeg. Other variations of egg shakes can be made by lemon syrup, chocolate syrup, or vanilla-flavoured syrup instead of the spi and a very excellent vai of a rum egg shake is to leave out the milk, and add a tablespoonful of ice-cream, and not quite s0 much ice.
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