Foreign News: Women of Paris

In their Palais du Luxembourg last week, crusty old Senators belabored the bill giving votes to women recently passed by Deputies in their Palais-Bourbon. "What the women of France need," cried Senator de Las Cases "is not the right to vote but a reputation for being faithful housewives. It is no exaggeration to say that America might have entered the War two years sooner had the women of Paris had a better reputation in America!"

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