The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.11, page 248, July 1911, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers responds to and reflects the progress of every other man in a way to bring about a healthful, wholesome condition of national and racial life. Worlds Work, 22 (June 19~), ~4486 94. iNikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (~783-~87~. An Article in Outlook THE WOMEN WHO WORK IN EUROPE July I, ogle Several times during my stay in London I observed, standing on a corner in one of the most crowded parts of the city, a young woman selling papers. There are a good many women, young and old, who sell papers in London, but any one could see at a glance that this girl was different. There was something in her voice and manner which impressed me, because it seemed to be at once timid, ingratiating, and a little insolent, if that is not too strong a word. This young woman was, as I soon learned, a Suffragette, and she was selling newspapers —''Votes for Women.'' This was my first meeting with the women insurgents of England. A day or two later, however, I happened to fall in with a number of these Suffragette newspaper-sellers. One of them, in a lively and amusing fashion, was relating the story of the morning's happenings. I could hardly help hearing what she said, and soon became very much ~nterested in the conversation. In fact, I soon found myself so entertained by the bright and witty accounts these young women gave of their adventures that it was not long before I began to enter with them into the spirit of their crusade and to realize for the first time in my life what a glorious and exciting thing it was to be a Suffragette, and, I might add, what a lot of fun these young women were having out of it. It had not occurred to me, when I set out from America to make the acquaintance of the man farthest down, that I should find myself in any way concerned with the woman problem. I had not been In London more shall a few days, however, before I discovered that the woman who is at the bottom in London life is just as interesting as the 248