Foreign News: Feminism

La doctoresse Pelletier, ardent feminist, created a sensation at the Faubourg Club in Paris by stating that women are as brave and as enduring as men and should be soldiers. Her suggestion was voted down with cries of: " Yes, we have no red trousers today."

La doctoresse Pelletier is the author of La Femme en Lutte pour ses Droits; Dieu, La Morale, La Patrie; L'Emancipation Sexuelle de la Femme; Philosophie Sociale; Mon Voyage Aventureux en Russie Communiste.

A description of her records that " Two round eyes light up her face, equally round and ruddy,...

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