One more type may be mentioned, though truly a strange one. At the age of 22 Mary Glenn goes to prison ior seven years as a dangerous and determined member of the Irish Republican Army, deeply sunk in the bombing conspiracies which have burst out in England so violently.
By her picture she is rather a pretty girl with quantities of soft hair. But looks are nothing. Some of the worst murderesses in history have had the faces of baby angels As a child in Claremorris, Ca. Mayo, she was brought up to hate the English and was an active member of the LR.A. in her early teens.
Three years ago she become a barmaid in Manchester, and thenceforward she led an extraordinarily double life, a popular barmaid by day, a relentless conspirator by night She came to be regarded as an equal by the men and there is no doubt that she took an active part in the conspiracies. One thinks of Prince Florizel's words to Clara Lux-more in "The Dynamiter,"
"I am not here to be a judge of men, still less of women. lives and limbs you have endangered. A woman (he repeated solemnly) and children. Perhaps, madam, you are yourself 'a mother, you will feel tu ite of that antithesis."
One wonders what Mary Glenn's future will be when she comes out of prison still under 30. Although one cannot feel that anything but the severest punishment is proper for the beastliness of bombing—one of the conspirators' crimes was to start a fire in an excursion steamer full of English holiday-makers in the Irish Channel—one almost wishes some other treatment were possible for a girl of such strength of character, Will not prison only make her more savage?
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