Foreign News: Name Perpetuated

Sturdy, moral, beef-consuming Britons know who Miss Sylvia Pankhurst is—know her as a famed "militant suffragette" who smashed windows, was often arrested, and repeatedly hunger-struck until British women won the vote in 1918.

Last week the smug beef-consumers decided that they now know what Sylvia Pankhurst is. They made up their minds quickly when she displayed to reporters, last week, a chubby, black-eyed man child, and announced that he is her natural son, aged four months.

Interviewed, Miss & Mother Sylvia Pankhurst said:

"I have not gone through a legal ceremony. ... I do not consider that marriage ought to be the subject of...

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