MRS. PANKHURST'S STORY.
Those who went to Carnegie Hall last evening to hear Mrs. Pankhurst in the expectation of seeing a bold, coarse, aggressive, unfeminine woman of the kind so often caricatured in the comic weeklies,   found  themselves   listening   to  a speaker   of  attractive  voice,, of  refinement, and of rare ability.   For an hour and a half this gentlewoman, who by her leadership has forwarded her cause throughout  the  world,  held  the attention  of a  critical  audience,   not   on'y by her eloquence, but by her closa and sustained reasoning.   There was no exaggeration of statement, no ranting, no sentimentalism, and no appeal for sympathy because of hardships endured or to    be   endured.    The    leader    of   the "screaming sisterhood," now on parole with a three months' jail sentence hanging over her, turned out to be a genuine and at times convincing political orator.   If the audience had been men and the chief speaker a man"who had pleaded  for the political  rights  of Armenians or Turks, or Russian Jews, the occasion would have admittedly ranked as one of the most notable public meetings in the city's recent history.
This it undoubtedly was, whether one agrees with Mrs. Pankhurst or not. It must also be frankly said that no one could have stated her case better because of her great restraint. Even if one is convinced, as are many earnest suffragists, that the militant methods of Mrs.  Pankhurst are  doing more harm