A league to "combat the grow. ing physical and moral masculinity of woman" has been founded in Pari aul Valery, the distinguished poet, and member of the French 'Academy, when asked what hho thought of this organization, replied that, "while not being indifferent to the needs of modern life, he deplored the tendency of woman to ape man.'
The word "Indy," he went "once a title of honour, is losing caste, and will soon survive merely as. a philological relic in the dictionary.
"In social life the lady' isa vanishing figure, and I am afraid that the twilight of the woman is at hand."
Unfortunately, ho added, woman's! successor—"the unsexed caricature of man"—was not devoid of pre-stage, and was even gaining widespread support.
Tt was a sign of an epoch fertile in paradoxes that a league should bbe necessary to persuade women to remain women.
Tt was certainly the duty of French-women, he added, to participate in a crusade "to free woman from an invasion of a masculinity which compromised her womanhood.
"The aim of woman," concluded the poet, "should be to participate fully in' social and political life without losing her femininity or departing from the natural rhythm of her nature."
Eminent Frenchmen have joined the new league.
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