WOMAN M.P.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1911, Page 16

WOMAN M.P.

DEBUT IN THE NORWEGIAN PAELIAMENT. For the first time a woman has taken her seat in the Norwegian Storthing. The new legislator is Miss Anna Hogetad, who was elected as a "deputy M.P.," according to the Norwegian custom, in 1909. The first representative for her constituency being absent ou leave, Miss Kogstad took his place in the- House at the end of March. She is a member of the Conservative Party. There was -eager competition for the public places in the- House to witness Miss Eogstad's debut. Many of the applicants weie ladies. The greater part of the public gallery was reserved for friends of members, and a large crowd failed to obtain admission. .Alter thfr oppmng of the session the president (Speaker)) Mr. Halvorsen, made tv speech, while all the members stood. % "It was, he Baid, one of the mont important, 'daya in the. history of Norway. . . "For the first time, he observed, a woman was sitting in the Storthing, and though the members were not unanimous that this wan the right moment for such an innovation, he was convinced that posterity would regard it as a reform which brought honour to the country, and, further, that the progress of the country would benefit by it. The Premier and a number of other members then greeted Miss Eogstad'. Her house was filled with flowers sent by political admirers, and she received numerous telegrams from many parts of the world. Miss Bogctad was born in 1854, and is a teacher by profession. She lives in a little cottage of her own on" one of the hills near-Christiania. She does all her own. household work, gardening, and wood-chopping.