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Show VOTES FOR WOMEN. Boto'i Globe For thlrty-flce years unmarried women wo-men and widows over twenfy-fhe who are house holders or self-supporting have had the right to vote for parish and town councils In Iceland. Two ears ago all married women fn the two principal towns on the Island were given the right t the municipal franchise and the privilege of sitting In the councils. And now Iho Icelandic Ice-landic National Woman's Suffrage As-poelation, As-poelation, with 10,000 tnembers, Is working to obtain full political and civil rlgbta for women on the same terms ns men. If there Is" a country anywhere In the world In which women ought to have the right to vote If they want It that country Is surely Ireland. The women there are never Idle. They have no time for "society." They assist as-sist the men In agricultural work and In fishing. They spin, knit, weave Besides rearing and educating their children, they find lelsnro for training the mind, and through translations they keep In touch with the best of European literature There Is not an Illiterate woman on the whole Island. If such women want to vote. It would bo difficult to dispute their qualification. |