A remarkable woman in many respects is Lady Frances Balfour, sister to the Duke of Argyll, and sister-in-law to the ex-premier.

Any movement for the advancement of her sex has her whole-hearted support. She has championed many causes, notably those of the suffragettes and the barmaids. She has led a procession of the former through the streets, and fought strongly in the cause of the girl behind the bar, being one of those who believe that a bar may be made as proper a place for a girl as an ordinary shop. She is keenly interested in the Salvation Army, is president of the Society for Befriending Girls, and when the Royal Commission for inquiring into the Divorce Laws was appointed, in 1909, she, together with Mrs. H. J. Tennant, wife of the member for Berwick and sister-in-law to Mrs. Asquith, were appointed on that Commission. It was Mr. Balfour himself who once remarked that if his sister-in-law had been a man, she would certainly have been a great political leader. She is an eloquent speaker as well as a clever organiser. Her whole life is wrapped up in securing the betterment of the conditions under which women live and work to-day, and, above all, she is an optimist, with a firm belief that the world is daily improving. To deny a woman of Lady Frances Balfour's attainments the opportunity of exercising her rights as a citizen is an anomaly that future legislation may rectify.

Lady Frances Balfour

Elliott & Fry