HOW THE SUFFRAGISTS RAISED FUNDS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 163, 3 April 1908, Page 3

HOW THE SUFFRAGISTS RAISED FUNDS.

'; . WOMEN CROSSING-SWEEPERS. ' Tho "Daily Mail " gives an interesting account of ono day of the suffragists' selfdenial campaign. The enterprising ladies with the'.little white "Votes for Women " buttons were here, there, ' and everywhere, demonstrating their extraordinary schemes for bringing grist to the suffragist' mill. 'Quite: early in the day the railway station collections ..werb, pronounced to be a great success. -The crowds of fashionable women who went to Kensington High Street to {study spring millinery for'l9oß found themselves; assailed by - four.!'elegantly dressed ladies, who politely but insistently ■ rattled " Votes, for Women " oollccting boxes. • Not even tho opponent of the claims of ,adi/aiicwl womanhood could resist the' smiles of Miss Evelyn. Sharp,. Miss Violet Hunt, Miss May Sinclair] and Miss Clemence Hous•manj though'but few of the passers-by who dropped silver and copper " into the collect-ing-boxes recognised in the collectors ' four .distinguished women writers. . At tho Brompton Tube and dotting Hill Gate Stations there were more collectors, and another highly ' successful , stand " .wasLiverpool Street Station. .'. At" the headquarters'_ of the ' Women's Social and Political - Union, fresh', schemes matured every hour. " To-morrow night I am going to sing outside the West End clubs," one young lady: who is the possessor of a very fine voice remarked. "I shall'try Pall Mall and, Piccadilly, and possibly the West End squares. I shall sing Abide with mo,' and other songs likely ;to appeal to tho public, and, of courso, " I. shall 'liavo collectors with mo."' , ' / Several announced their of singing in.front of the theatre'queues,: and other means adopted, said Mrs; Pothick'Lawrence, were organ-grinding,''-crossing-sweeping, and boot-blacking. The street artists : are awaiting fine weather to begin their efforts. Ono enthusiast was living' On prison .diet for a week, devoting tbe'< difference-= : in': cost between that and her': ordinary- fares t-o tho fund. , •

. The object at first .was, to .raiso £ipoo, but a quarter of this' sum : was realised on tho first day. _ Several thousand'collecting cards woro distributed among' tho' various branches of the Union all over tho country.