A LEADER OF WOMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 19

A LEADER OF WOMEN.

The lato Dame MilHcenl Fawcett, G.8.E., LL.D , who has been described in England as the "Mother of Women's Suffrage," was extraordinarily happy in her married life. Her blind husband, who never saw her with his bodily eyes, was vory closely dependent on her. Without tho aid which the entiro community of opinion and sympathy between them enabled her .to give, he could scarcely have so succeeded in his political as to earn the title of "Member for India" and become a remarkably successful Post-master-General. For years after his death it was noted by one of her' intimates that any allusion to him in her presence caused a pallor and rigidity which showed that the wound was still too deep for even the gentlest handling. She did,not, however, even at tho first, allow herself to fall into a. selfish lethargy, jln spite of her age sho was far from "Being oldfashioned in her view*. Less than two years ago she paid a glowing tribute to the modern girl, including the _ silkstockinged legs and the short petticoat*, then, as now, so much in evidence, in her admiration..