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Show ECONOMIC IltEXCH WOMEN. tltANCi: IS NOT DKVOIU OK NOIII.E WIVES ijii, MuTIIERS. A uiuliitude of observers havi notictil p. vast difference in character charac-ter ltu en the French ftiau and the French woman. So little dees this diffenuco appear to I related to the common tilstlnellmis of sex tliat it has often been said tliat in France tlie woman is the man and the man the woman. Making allowance for alsurdexaggiratiou, there Is something some-thing to support the psradox. It Is the diiilinn of the average French woman to take life much more scriou-ly tlian the average aver-age Frenchman; to realize and accept- its obligations and unties in a nobler spirit of self-sacrifice aim courageous endeavor. Women ol perverse nature, and wlrom society has moiled, still represent a small minority of their sex In France. The majority, of whom the world knows very little awl cart to know little, because they belong to the humdrum level ot humanity, are endowed with admirable qualities for lighting the lotlle of life. As married women they fight this Int-tle Int-tle so well that ill numberless Instances In-stances their ch-ar-sIghtedntssuMn-omyaud energy have saved their families from ruin. Their capfvily forbusiui-s and every kicd nf Industry In-dustry suited to tlnir physk-al strength hss without diubl isu-cd a gnat dial to be expected of them which they might have cscaicd had they Ufii m'lerw ise on-tituted. Thus the wives of small tradesmen trades-men veiy frequently do all the Iriokkceping in addition to their household dutlt; the wives oficasanls work In the tlel-Js from stiuri-e to nightfall, and the wife ol a ii.ech.inif or town Ialsjrer is ex iectcd to tiring nearly mi much money as himself to tlie house by dressmaking, artificial tlower-mak-ing. charing ir same other occii-tiou. occii-tiou. Rut this is not all. Itisui-m his wife that the town workman n-lies wlo-u he is out of employment. employ-ment. With all women soli, itmte for their chiidn-u is the gn-at incentive in-centive to exetli ni. Tile Parisian Wotkman often jsTollls by this law of natun-, and ho would proba'ily It-worse It-worse olf if he hail no family. It is no ran-thing for a French beggar to urge as a reason fur helping him 'hat he lias no wife to rely 11)1011 when he is out of tnipliyiuect. Ixisttrc Hour. |