Mrs. Philipson

A third woman was elected to the House of Commons when Mrs. Hilton Philipson (Conservative) won a by-election at Berwick-Upon-Tweed with a majority of 6,742 votes over Labor and the Liberals.

Mrs. Philipson was known before her marriage as Mabel Russell, pretty and attractive Gaiety Girl. Her husband (National Liberal) was elected at the General Elections last November to the seat she now occupies, but owing to alleged illegality on the part of his agent he was disqualified.

Lady Astor likewise captured her husband's seat after he had been elevated to the peerage. Mrs. Wintringham, the third member of the femiine trio at Westminster, was elected to her husband's seat after his death. The last two ladies, however, kept to their husband's party, the former being elected as a Conservative and the latter as a Liberal.

The only other woman who has been elected to a seat in the British Parliament is the Countess Markie-vicz, Irish Republican, chosen by a Dublin political division; but she, like all the rest of the Sinn Feiners, refused to take her seat.