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Show WOMEN'S RKiHTS IN FRANCE The Way the Men and Women Hold a Conference. The Idea of women s rights In FVance! An assembly of men and women itr sitting In ne ,,f the old-fashioned flraw Ing-rooms of an ancient house In the sleepy provincial town of Iff MUX Tne are looking out on an nd nlrable landscape, from the hlRh windows, and watching the falling of the sear and ve lOW leaves. ln the distance they eee the spire Of the Meaux cathedral In which B'.ssuot PrOhed submission and obedience to women ii.- -villi, nnrrr a iuiriii iiuim urn turns, gits beautiful blonde oung woman, dressed In filmy white, who deplores the fate of her kind, the mt rlflcss she must make In rtewitlnn, In heroic acta that axe never known be ause they are a part of her .,bscure nils slon. "A woman cannot lie alone, without husband without children, without aacrifli'irit: herself to the sick to the suffering while on the contrary, a inon has his gun. his fish Ing pole, his books and his servant." Then Paul Adam, the celebrated writer, gets up from his chaJr and. standing near the window, tries to prove that th-- spirit of sacrifice In the woman Is alpi, a spcej of egotism. Bhe must devote herself tn somebody, to something some-thing for which she Is phvshallv constituted Still, there ore women who can call themselves them-selves "free women " Yen." nald the blonde woman, "the women who have an object In view, who are wrlter. artists, who throw words to the winds; but a good wuman cannot live alone, ahe Is Ignorant; everything In life prevents her from g'dng forward." Paul Adam then speaks of the Amerlfcan Women, h" they cross the ocean and tinei Over continents alone omlng to France alone, only for the purpose of "buying gown and things " Then he speaJcs about thee independence inde-pendence of Amerl. an v..rnen In their own OUUntry, for he has been there Hut the oung woman Is Ignorant of the American woman. Her circle la narrow, she only sees her Immediate surrounding and everywhere la the same conflict man taking possession of the woman In her youth, considering her as part of his goods and chattels, and woman all her llf- .-stands before hlni as an enigma, to which he does not give a thought And as the day fades Int.. twilight and the embers of the Ore In the hearth throw a lurid light over the room, the young woman continue her litany "I have een so many young women and oung men. -ouple who were alwoys In love. 8ln . the name, forever the same Neither time nor dlsxenalons have had the least effect ' n them The young woman stopa and a man take up the litnriv ' It Is the only line In which woman Is the equal of man. Lves All happiness Ilea in the meaning of that Hrord; the old walls, the twilight the moon, the beauties of autumn all proclaim It. Thera must be no master, there must be no slave, there must he only men and women who understand each other, who tolerate each other Liberty Is only a sensation, nnd If you will lend an ear to olces of the past vou will hear thm laugh and sigh over the word, 'llbertj. U'hlOD we hae continually on our Hps today, and If we listen "till more attentively, w hear voices which tell u that liberty Is a word which has no meaning. " Mrooklyn tfirle |