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Show Tbe New Woman In France. The Pall Mall Gazette has been gathering gath-ering the opinions of some of the French novelists concerning the new woman. "In woman I see only the mother," Bays Daudet and this is exactly what the advanced woman has been complaining com-plaining of. She wants him to see the citizen as well. Dumas cries, "A man is a being of more value, but a woman la a being of better value." Mendes, being asked if woman was superior or inferior, replied: "She ia neither. She is only different, and that is an equality." equal-ity." Mirabeau exolaims, "flow can the men estimate her political worth bo long as we are blinded by her charms?" "When she condescends to becom equal with man," says Loti, "the rac will die of shame. " "She is braiding silken whips, " says Zola. "By and by Bhe will put them in the hands of the man she loves, and he will whip her back to subjection with laughter." |