Why Women’s Suffrage is Unknown in France.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 21, 21 May 1913, Page 3

Why Women’s Suffrage is Unknown in France.

An apparently- well-informed Paris correspondent gives us some of the reasons why woman’s suffrage is practically- unknown in France. The reasons are some what disturbing to that altitude of ca-nt. with which we approach everything French, with the exception of French millinery. Summarising these reasons, it may- be said that the Frenchwoman. is indifferent to the suffrage because <his still a. woman. First of all she retains her piety until after middle age. Second ly, she has entire social freedom vuiless she has a dot and is therefore desirable from the marriage point of view, and no one wants to interfere with that freedom. Thirdly, she has a prejudice against whatever robs a woman of her sex, ami she believes that the suffrage wiil do just this thing. And. fourthly, there is “the general success and happine s of marriage’’ in France. Of course tliere are other reasons, and among them the will ingness of high-grade Frenchmen to do political work without remuneration. In other words, the Frenchwoman finds that the fact of her sex will give her everything that she needs and more than she could ever get by any expedient whatever that robbed her of her sax. -—San Francisco Argonaut.