MODERN ANTOINETTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 724, 25 January 1910, Page 3

MODERN ANTOINETTES.

; : :"The Marie '''Antoinettesidf; : ; the /• /: world." .; It- was/ so that ■ a woman/speak-/ :.; mg ; recently'/at: women's-Jgathering-in ■: 'NewTork,.described;,her. country women. . 'An iAmericah iin'agazine he- : .•j.lbre published an, article iniwhich Ameri- :'. «an women werp alluded, to as "excres-;-eences upontthe;body : politic.".- "if they •.•ifere:.™;"''.''^^:;!!!^.',',^!!!^'./'^ /; tion had/been brought iaboutHthrough- no" .':., fault/.of; .theirs..''Their, work-.had, been -taken from them,;leaving.ihem with more leisure 'than-any/class- had-, ever 'had be■:'foio.V-.-.. -.:'.■"• ; ;, : ';.i.-; ; V:- ';•'■■■ ■■ '■"•- -

-.-.; TMo.ohe, ;> she;:/said,; ilittlofor what they;.receive as .American women.' /It .is/not. , so ..with American men. /.Competition'.'forces them/totcxbrt ihemBelves/,tp the,.utmost,-. amV here are .a great many//American'.widows! "This/state of j affairs? cannot '.continued Wo cannot /go - back .to the,, old/ life, 'for 'men; -would, not. let ,us.y/We must-go'forward; but -women,'are afraid to do anything lest theyj/should'lose ithis'priyileged.position: iWe/have : become/.tho Mario,' Antoinettes of, ,the; new, ..world, "and; if /we., do. hot i.vake, .up/:and-try'' to 'find /our ijilaco ns citizens, we may- eridxas the first Mario : Antoinetto did- in .revolution." ■■ ■■ ■.'•:. '..

• ."I'm afraid■ you're'.:not tall■■•' enough ; for a -nursemaid," said -the mistress, in.terrieTring an applicant at*the registry office. :. : '~"Oh, 'yes,."ma'am,-" ..replied the - girl.,;-"lfs all .tho,better-that I'm short. : The children don't,drop so far. when they* ■'fall. , '/.-;.-. ;;.?•; '-•-':..'. "]'y'.;':_ "