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Show APPEAL OF THE WOMEN OF FRANCE After their years of suffering, grief and privation the women of France are still able to set a notable and pathetic pa-thetic example of courage to the the women of other war-stricken lands. When the rationing of the important import-ant foodstuffs was announced recent ly for that countr., the following pat- . riotic appeal wa sent out by the National Na-tional Council of French Women, typ-fying typ-fying their noble spirits of endur-1 ance- "These last months of the war will be the hardest French women know it and bravely they will go through the necessary ordeal. They will ac- 1 cept all restrictions in order to obtain victory which will allow their children chil-dren to know the joy of life and ben-cfifirmt ben-cfifirmt pe-ace. "Each of us must simplify her mode of life. Deprive yourselves, economize, econo-mize, and you are working for your country. Let those whose material well being is assured set an example to render the hard privations of the hour less grievous to their sisters. "W ork women, like us. you are weep- ing for dear ones, like us you hate war. It is in order to render war impossible impos-sible henceforth, that we must hold out to the bitter end." |