A HINDU ON THE SUFFRAGETTES

New Zealand Tablet, 13 February 1913, Page 62

A HINDU ON THE SUFFRAGETTES

Here is a quaint letter by a Hindu, published in the Times of India, on the Suffragettes:—'lf Suffragists allowed in House of Parliament they make the world topside down,' he says. ' First of all they make Mrs. Pankhurst Viceroy of India and Mrs. Pethick Governor of Bombay. Your St. Paul is very clever fellow. He knows all the foolish things of the womans. He says very strongly womans must shut the mouth. No talking about business or anything. Everything must ask to the husbands and he will tell you. Shame, shame for womans to talk. But what the womans care for St. Paul. He is poor fellow and not passing M.A. and B.A. like them and their husbands, perhaps only passing fourth or fifth standard/