Mrs Snowden's Portrait Gallery

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 293, 11 October 1922, Page 16

Mrs Snowden's Portrait Gallery

Mrs. Ethel SnoAvdea's book, "A Political Pilgrim in Europe," contains many pen portraits of women met at several conferences held in Europe since tiie end, of *lac war. We give some of tlfem here, so that our for-ward-looking women might be introduce;! to'their sisters whose work has greatly contributed to the change now taking place in workl opinion: — MARGARET B0KBFIEL1). "Margaret's bright face beamed with happiness, and her brown eyes shone like stars as she gathered up her wraps and bags for transport to the boat. She looked like a bird set free from the cruel cage that had held her for fo.ur .tormenting ye;ars. Stye suggested a warm little bird in her look and manners. Small and brown, with a rich russet colouring of her cheeks and quick in her movements., there is nothing in the world she resembles so much- as the robin with the red breast." MES. CHABLES EOBEN BUXTOm "Mrs. Charles Roden B-uxton (the daughter of the late Professor Jebb) is a Quaker. She has two very lovely children, whom she adores, and the knowledge of Europe's suffering children moved her to come to Berne to. see what might be done immediately to send aid to the little sufferers in Vienna. . "The Vienna children, were dying for lack of fats. Mrs. Buxton determined to send them a truck load of cod liver oil at once, preserved milk and milk chocolate to follow. She pledged the greater part of her private fortune in order that its going might be expedited." TEMPTED WITH TWO EGGS. "It was a Munich girl who told mc her painful story of an elderly and unscrupulous admirer • who endeavoured to buy her with food, a common experience in the stricken lands. "'I will give you two , fresh eggs every day if you will be my friend/ he said. 'I didn't know it was possible to te tempted to so dreadful a thing by anything in the world,' said this poor thing, her pale cheeks flushing as she spoke; 'but we are all so hungry, and my mother is a sick woman. , "Her lip quivered, and she played nervously with the edge of her shawl. 'But my Socialist faith kept mc pure.'" ; MISS 3ASE ADAMS ' "Miss Jane Addams, the President of the Women's International League, is a very remarkable international figure. "She is a tiny woman of sweet Quaker aspect, with her hair parted-in the middle and brushed smoothly back from her ears. She has large sad eyes, which look as though the pain of living were too great to be borne, so acutely does her sensitive spirit react to the suffering and.injustice of the world. Her dress is simple. Her manner is calm and dignified. MBS. SWAOTICK. "Mrs. Swanwick, the President of the British Branch of the "Women's International League, is one of the most commanding personalities of the wo,men's movement. She is slender and fair, with a delightful boyish mop of pale-gold hair, which, curls up at the ends," and sky-blue eyes. She is a person of quite extraordinary intellectual power, a little lacking in tenderness to those of lesser calibre. She finds it extremely difficult to obey the scriptural injunction of 'suffer fools 'gladly/ "