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Show 1 v " . . ; j u.;y. , r-i- ..,1 j j ! Barometer .of Embassies Shows American W omen More Anxious To Vote Than Their Foreign Sisters 4 ; 1 WASHINGTON". D. C. Aniri,. . women arc more anxious to vote than arc foreign women That's the conviction one gets after 'talking with the women of the eh hassles nt the capital. This in spit-I spit-I of thr iiot that ni(ir than -" t Tfign countries had enfranchised iht- women of their rare before Tenhoasee ratified nut the kmericai) women connected with thef oreign diplomatic represen-t represen-t tlons, and disfranchised in America j because they married foreigners the i are the ones who rejoice at American suffrage, even though the laws forbid them to share In this light There s Bin Robert Lecslle Craigie. wife of the first secretary ol the British Brit-ish embassy Mrs. Crnlgle Is the daughter of PleaBOTlt H Stovall, former for-mer Savarl'nah'i Gs editor and later minister to Switzerland Incidentally, she Is said to be the mosr beautiful woman In "diplomatic circles here. SUFFRAGE SUCCESS IN ENG1AND I'm an American atid proud of it," s.is Mrs. rralgief I have always been strongly in favor of woman suffrage. suf-frage. It has bpen a great success in Ungland. In Switzerland women vote In municipal elections, hut they ire not very interested. In Hulgarla the movement for suffrage is Just start ing mil tew Worn. Il re seeKing Mil i ; vote. Any nation that enfranchises! its women will reap n J ist reward 1 n better government in Bngland the women helped so much In the war that there was no opposition to giving tin ru the vote." The Case of Mrs Elizabeth Hyde ( Sir vcd t, privat? secretary to the Ar-jgcntlne Ar-jgcntlne aifribaMadbr, Is oven more pom- plicated than that of Mrs Craigie She , married Jose Sirve-ni. chancellor of I the Argentina em ha sy, .'- natie of Spain when the ceremony w as ,t j formed She was a native of Mlchi-i Mlchi-i nan. Then he became naturalised In Argentina. Her marrlaKe to him i would have made her A Spaniard, but i his naturalisation wouldn't make her an Argentine. So what Is she" She says she i6 an ardent suffragist ; i n i , wants to vote and will If legal tangles! I do not stnrtd In the way. , FRESHER 1 1 I M s : "This will be a new conscioum a ' , j for women." says Mrs. Slrvynt; "fresh-i "fresh-i cr and more closely connected with clear Ideals than Is the- present po-I po-I Utlcal consciousness of men Men have had power so long, and so mu h as a matter of course, that the freshness of It to them Is dim. and the keen competition of business has forced it into more or less jsejfisfi channels They have done the best they could, no doubt, working alone." Another attractive member of the diplomatic social circle, who Just missed being nn American girl. Is Madame Marie Reneo dt- Aramayo, f wife of the prospective minister of, Bolivia. Although born In France, she was Marie H Zuckerman. frcm me of the oldest Iloston families, before be-fore her marriage. After the death f her parents she lived In Buenos Aires until her marriage two yean ago to Carlos Vlctdr Aramayo, distinguished distin-guished politician and diplomat in Ho- "Yes. I was rooting from the a)d-llnes a)d-llnes for the women of AnierVa In their fight for suffrage.' says Madame-Aramayo. Madame-Aramayo. Madame Van Cronbrugge, wife of tho chancellor of the Belgian embassy, em-bassy, is Indifferent, "The women can vote if they w.mt - ! I I s& ft I ieie. ftgrs, Robert Leelii I ralgic; center Mrs. Rodger Nielsen and her children; left below, Madam Bcnklevsky; riiibt, Madame Marie Rchcc ic i am. i . to. Just to their liking, but 1 was never very interested in it." she says. "Suffrage "Suf-frage is not universal In Belgium yet, and the W'omen are not clamoring much for It." Madame Cronbrugge has three little girls and a boy to absorb ab-sorb her attention. M WI.1M BS IM ( T Mrs. Rodger Nielsen, wife of the press attache of the Danish legation, has seen suffrage tried and knows it works all right. "It is hard to say If politics In Denmark Den-mark have become better and cleaner since the women obtained the vote. I But one thing is sure, the Danish wo- ! mm are Just as womanly today ns they were- before they took part In the po litleal life of their country " .I idame Benklcvsky, wife of the I naval attache of the Kusian embassy. Was found not -to be interested. This mbassy represented the Kercnsky regime. re-gime. "I'm Just a wife and a woman," says Madame Benklevsky. "1 don't expect to vote. I don't know whether the women in Russia are voting. I think it Is nice for the American women to vote If they like to do IL" |