Though the Senate has not yet given its decision on the question of woman suffrage, adopted three yeara ago by the Chamber, there is little doubt that the answer. will be in the negative. The Senate represents the hard common-sense of the French bourgeoisie, which is essentially conservative and opposed to constitutional experiments and would feel very unsafe if 000 women were Of all the arguments used against the measure, the foremost, is that French women themselves do not desire it. There have been no signs of any strong desire on the part of the sex to obtain electoral rights. Agitation, of course, there is, hut it docs not seem to have any real support. If French women want the vote, they will get it, some day. "Ce que femme vent, Chew vent" is a French proverb in which the manhood of the nation admits its weakness where the other sex is concerned, but the time is not yet ripe.
Either the great majority of women are satisfied with the social influence they already exert, or they do not think the vote worth fighting for. In France, a married woman cannot even open a banking account without her husband's consent, but, on the other hand, a husband cannot disinherit his wife and famuy, and, if we compared the laws of England and France, we might find that the family rights of a wife and mother—which, after all, are more important than political rights—have as much consideration in France as in England. sion was a sonal right which could not be bequeathed. The arbitration commission gave Mme. Cain an extension of two years. She appealed against this decision, and the higher commission has now decided that she is right and that. the period of five years must run ite course. A similar judgment was given in the other case, in which the claimant was the son and heir of a deceased doctor.
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