“VOTES FOR WOMEN.”
MOTHER-IN-LAW TRAINED DAUGHTER AS SUFFRAGETTE. Application was made to Justice Putnam in the Supreme Court in, New York on behalf of Mrs Nora Blatch De Forest, for alimony and counsel fees pending the trial of her suit for separation fioin her liusband, Lee De Forest, the wireless telegraph inventor. The affidavits on: which the suit is based allege desertion. In his answer the defendant entered a general denial. He alleges that she was unduly influenced by her mother, Airs Harriet Stanton Blatch, the prcrminent suffragist leader. In answer the defendant says that Airs Blatch’s views on suffrage extended to the bringing up of the two-year-old daughter of De Forest- os a future suffragist leader. It was alleged that the child was taught to cry “Votes for women,” before she learned to say “papa.” Justice Putnam reserved decision.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3348, 14 October 1911, Page 4
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140“VOTES FOR WOMEN.” Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3348, 14 October 1911, Page 4
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