Show A FRENCH VIEW OF HER HERIn In one of ot the current magazines a Frenchman of ot evident culture and keen observation records his impressions of the American woman and her in every phase of ot national life Some dome of ot his sentences will sum summarize summarize marize his opinion derived from con contact contact contact tact with society in Washington and other large cities clUes From our viewpoint your social fabric Is all upside down in America Unless he the foreigner stays among amo g you long enough to become like yourselves he leaves as I am doing with the notion that man Is merely a minor factor a sort of ot supernumerary In your hustling scheme of life Ufe I She the American woman Is the head of the family I hear that behind the scenes she often otten runs rims her husband manikins business She is the chief spender of or every household She Is not only the arbiter of ot socie society socIety ty but the one from whom puny om ofil official cial man takes his orders In all ques questions questions questions relating to public or private mor morals morals als ala Sunday observance and temper temperance ance She decides what shall be the religion of ot each family runs the churches and one of ot her number has become the supreme pontiff of ot a 8 new and powerful creed Her personality Is potent with ith the solons of ot the country and arid I am told the laws of ot the land have been changed so that the femme sole today owns vaster Inalien mallen Inalienable Inalienable able legal rights throughout America than anywhere else on err earth Besides these rather broad Indict Indictments IndIctments Indictments ments he be drops phrases now and then such as bellicose recklessly ly persistent proclamation of ot feminine Independence pampered I children overIndulgence In every whim masterly female all applied to her whom American men adore This critical Gaul does admit that the American woman Is naturally Intelli Intelligent gent beautiful witty alert In the quality of ot her brains but he be harks back eternally to her dominance of ot the American man as proof that something Is wrong In her makeup Bless the dear Frenchmans innocent heart Like all other foreigners he has been taken In and done for by super superficial superficial superficial appearances He Is right about her beauty and brains and wit he may maybe maybe maybe be right about her domination of ot mere men but he must have been associating at ing with a peculiar and limited type to believe that the American woman Is spoiled So long as she is not called on to face tace facea a great emergency calling for tor subordination subordination subordination of ot self for sacrifice and suf sut ering she may be autocratic and usual usually usually usually ly is because the American likes her so But when trials come or when necessity necessity sity arises for her to efface herself and forget her own wishes no woman on the broad face of the earth Is less spoiled more willing to take her share of ot the burden and abandon her role rolo rob as ruler of mens affairs There may be such women In Amer America AmerIca ica lea as the French critic describes but if It there are they are happily few In number and of ot little account In the na national national national character The real American woman Is all that Is attractive and de desirable desirable desirable and antt that may account for tor the supremacy of ot her sway which so as astonishes astonishes astonishes the foreign observer |