"The papers did not report one-tenth the shop windows I actually smashed."
Thus, at London last week, famed "militant suffragette" Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, now a venerable steady-going matron, reminisced to newsgatherers. Recalling the heyday of her truculence, just before British women won suffrage (1917), Mrs. Pankhrust said:
"One day I smashed a jeweler's plate glass window with a heavy hammer. Instantly a crowd of hundreds assembled, with a great uproar of shouting, thinking it was the deed of an anarchist. I ran away, to avoid violence. But the jeweler, a fleet-footed young man, ran...
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