The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1921, Page 10

OTITROW Lee 2 ee PAGE 10 DAUGHTERS OF TRAGEDY ARE AIDI ix Women in Dail (2a ae SEs rama) | =] P Suffer for Freedom Will Help Guide Destinies of Free state if Treaty Is Ratified BY DORIS STEVENS (Copyright, 1921, by Beattie Btar) DUBLIN, Dec. 26.—Six women who sit in the dail eireann ‘will help to guide the destinies of the new Free State of Treland, if the treaty is finally ratified. These women have been in the forefront of Irish patriots who have fought so hard for independence. They are the Countess Markievies, Kitty Murphy O'Callaghan, Kathleen Daly Clarke, Ada English, Mrs. Margaret Pearse and Mary MacSwiney. I met Countess Markievics, the first wom- an elected to the parliament, in Dublin at the home of “A. E.” (George Russell, poet, painter, philosopher and leader of the co- | operative movement in Ireland). England} had just offered her first peace terms, | \ ’ The people adore her. No one could be : insensitive to the romantic background of a > countess who has voluntarily abandoned a weed Doris Stevens life of luxury and faced the death sentence for her ideas, “Just thing,” said a stranger next to me at a session of! the dail, “‘the countess could have all the comfort of riches Women members of the Dail Eireann or Irish parlia- ment. Left to right, Kitty in the family castle at Sligo. And she chooses to tight _ For generations her family has held this castle. er still lives there. Constance Gore-Booth—that was family name—had traveled about the world, being in-|“'S7US'T" © troduced at foreign courts and dazzling all with her beauty,| | and brilliance. But she abandoned it all for Irish|() iijican tendencies. When he dence. came out, he participated in the was Dublin's poor who elected|ts what happened to Mra. O’Cafa-| Fenian rising of 1867 and was again | her to the dail. lehan. Add yet this frail little wom-! imprisoned. | As minister of labor, she has the /an says: HER HUSBAND | @istinction of being head of the only| “I shall always be thankful that WAS IMPRISONED @epartment of the government) I sw Michael die, J know now at! see husband came to America “which has never been raided. She least how and by whom it was ont when 19, stayed until fl and ieeet her Gepartment always ea the/ done. returned on a revolutionary mie ‘move. Before the fina) tragedy she and! sion. In London he was arrented COUNTESS STARTED | her husband had been raided week-| and sentenced to life imprisonment ARBITRATION COURTS }ly. Alwayn the raidern retired| after serving 14 years at hard labor | It was the countess who started| Without finding anything. |in Portland prison he was released, | the Sinn Fein courts of arbitration! | Her | een Margaret Pearse. | was imprisoned in 1865, for} “But we knew It was only a/ then 37. j to settlc industrial disputes in ethics|/ question of time, when In their] MMre Clarke met him and they father than cold law Unionists | desperation, the crown forces would| became engaged. He returned to Ihave been known to come to these|take Michael without ceremony,| New York immediately, where she Outlaw courts for redress. aes they could find no cause for! joined him in 1901 for their mar ‘The countess’ mother was Eng-|¥hich to arrest him. | riage. They lived in New York Beh, her father Irish. “The night of the tragedy I was/ until 1907, both taking part dn “1 did not go to school when 1/ first to answer the knocking at the | the activities of the Gaelic league was young,” she says. “I had Eng-|“0or. My husband had just reached of New York Vish tutors at home. Later 1/ the last step of the staircase when! “Then came the first war scare Wtuidied art in Paris.” She has| the ghor few open and two masked/ of an impending confilct between had a painting in the Paris Salon. | Oe rushed in erying, “We want) England and Germany.” says Mra. } “It was there I met my Polish/ O'Callaghan tonight? Clarke, “and my husband thought! husband, Count Markievics. “My heart froze. But I pleaded| we ought to return at once to help “after our marriage we came to as I stood between the men and my Ireland get ready to take advantage Ireland to work together in the | husband. In @ twinkling they threw |of England's difficulty } Dublin theatres. My husband man-|me aside, shot him dead, and fled) “I worked quietuy with him until! aged the production of Shaw’s|into the night | the Master rising, My husband was ‘Devil's Disciple,’ for instance, in| “I had just persuaded my husband | the first signatory to the proclama- Which I played Judith, the lead. to come with me for a fittie helt | tion. Immediately after the sur “Soon after our marriage, came|day on the continent. Our bags| render of the Irtwh volunteers my my first urrest for rebel activity.|¥ere packed. We were ready to| house wae raided and I was taken ‘Then my husband was called back | start on the morrow. But the mor-/to Dublin castle where I was im ‘to Poland to fight for Polish free| tow for him never came.” | prisoned. When I learned that my dom. Since then we have had yery| Mrs. O'Callaghan is a woman of| husband was to be hot, 1 axked to Tittle time together. jculture and singular ability. [be allowed to see him, “My last imprisonment was for/ Fee | “At 1 o'clock the morning of the 31 months. I came out with the! Kathleen Daly Clarke, widow of execution I was taken to hin cell general amnesty of dail members|Thomas Clarke, the first signatory as a prisoner, where I was permit fat the time of the truce. of the republican proclamation at) ted one hour with him in the pres “What I regret “most ie that 1| Easter, 1916, who was executed by|ence of guards. That was the end. fost several teeth while in prison| the Briti#h for this offense, iw one| At 4 o'clock he wae shot. © *¢ © this time,” she said, humanly.| member of the dail who has wuf-|‘The next night my only brother, “You know they fust fall out in| fered two-fold; the tragic lom of! Edward Daly, the youngest of all Prison, and there is nothing to be loved ones and imprisonment for) the 16 men executed (25 years), waa done about it.” her own republican activities. shot. 1 was not allowed to sce ees She was born into the Irish| him.” Kitty Murphy O'Callaghan, widow | Movement. Her fatherthen a iad| In 1918 Mrs. @f the murdered lord mayor of Lim-!| oe Seeman oan = erick, ix an exquisite person whose} Bilent heroism wrings your heart. | Bhe ig young and slight and dell cately beautiful, with huge blue| eyes that show intense suffering. TRAGEDY MARKS BEAUTIFUL WIFE I wonder if anyone can realize! the extent of a tragedy which takes | & beloved fhusband and shoots him! dead in the vestibule of his own! home, while his wife struggles help-| lensty to protect him from the mad eas of two masked assassins! That Clarke was again To all new owners of Victrolas— Congratulations, and an invitation! Mothers You can’t beat these prices $10.00 Coats for 2 to 14-year girls. Coats of Broadcloth Coats of Velour Coats of Polo Cloth Coats of Plush This Week $10.00 $15.00 Fur-trimmed, high- grade coats, ages 2 to 16 years. Values that sold as high as $32.50. Miss Olivers Baby Shop, Inc. 500 Union St. JONGRATULATIONS to all | | new Victrola owners! A | splendid possession is iS yours—a joy that began with Christmas and will last for many | | a year. And now that the whole world of music is yours, with every dance floor, concert stage and | opera house opening directly into your home, | remember that the only limit to your enjoy- ment is the limit to your records. A splendid Victor record service is maintained by this House. Trained demonstrators are } always happy to play Victor records for you, ss) |bNe et | SN Come in Any Time ond Hear Your Favorite Records Victrolas, $25 to $890-—Conwenient Terme Sherman |Glay & Co. Third Avenue at Pine SEATTLE Tecoma * Spokane * Portland €. THE SEATTLE STAR 4 | o3) Women's council, the organization} She is am © increase edu-|from the | which anwists the volunteers in non-| cational op; in Ireland, |Thereafter abe eapacitie | |echool, whieh » they mided my home | Ming Mary MacSwiney, dail mem nfluen January of this year and arrested| ber from me with having onjence, mi pine grow | wix |1 was tried by court-martial and sity of Medicine |prociamation at the Kaster rising MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1921, G IREL under the Dut a rewult of the warfare in{ first wor ix a court which nettle and Mr final j tren debtors’ canes Jecisions are 6 senior medical officer | n Asylum for Men She is pre Pallinasioe branch of the grant But that w incriminating docu of which ondy phe laughed What documents wore they? 1! = asked. “A copy of the constitution and| by-laws of the council. 1 was held weeks in the Galway prison before any charge was given. Then Corn Meal and How to Use It yeast corn bread? Ever make any corn meal muffin corn meal mush with cream ao maybe you'd like to try Italian All these and many other excel as a food—and the farmers are ¢ because they can't get a decent five-page pamphiet tion bureau from v If you want it, fill out carefully and mail the coupon below: rentenced to nine months. While in prison I was elected to the dail,” Dr, Pngtish ts & graduate of the National University and the Univer at Dublin eee Mrs. Margaret Tearse in the mother ®f Patrick Pearse, aise one of the signatories to the republican of 1916 Washington Bureau, Seattle Star, After heriis an American citizen. 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