UNITY.

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UNITY.

Madame Avril l)e Ste Croix, of Frame, who is President of the In-

tetnation.d Socictv for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, and one of Furopc’s most eminent women, has just paid a fixing visit to Canada in the interests of Social Hygiene. While in Toronto she delivered a touching message from the women of France to the women of Canada, appealing particularly for unity of action in order to overcome the effects of war. t’nity of all allied women was indeed the key-note of her address, and the dependence of French women upon the united a< lion of all their women allies was repeatedly emphasized. in France,” said Madame Avril, “women refuse, to recognise differences amongst themselves of creed, class or political opinion ; we are all French women hound together for France, to repair the moral and ph\sic al and social ruins brought upon us by the barbarism of (iermanv. Women of the* old Catholic families, Protestant and Hebrews, and the working wome n of our countrv all stand to get her for reconstruction, a-. the\ have done In the past four years for sacri tire.” “Woman’s Centurv.”