London, Mar. 12.
Biting winds from a "Russian corridor," worse than all the depressions of Teeland; an afternoon by the fire: papers full of anticipations of Jubilee festivities—and somehow my mind turned back to life as it was in 1910 and the enormous gulf' that separates us from the year when King George came to the throne.
Whatever these 25. years may have done for England as a whole, the change they have brought {n the position and outlook of women must surely be greater than all the rest of history can equal.
'The suffragettes had not yet, 1 think, gone the length of hurling themselves urder the Derby racers' feet; but they were already the daily sensation of the newspapers—tying: themselves to railings in Downing Street while they shrieked "Votes for Women" till they foamed at the mouth; invading Parliament; kicking and biting the police who had bodily, to carry them out; going on hunger strikes and being fed forcibly through. the nose in Holloway gaol.
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