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MOTHERS IN FRANCE-|SOLVING WOMEN'S NATIONALITY PROBLEM

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"A WILL AND TESTAMENT" FOR WOMEN Sior ectcermncTsycmat phic Bhlfee Seat othe voman's Pag ut ores Strom Boece ntenlieatesether terearcel Next year for the first time in histers, recording to information: Chairman of the Inter-Ame Women, th G. B Shaw's Guide. To Socialism and Capitalism—{ssity; and'on motherhood as the move -Lavecan ill of women marzving. diferent nation The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Sosistiam and Capitan," [important of all events. Teterese Gs intense tangles as the result of women marrying different nationalities, whicl gorge Herntrd' shay London: Cotstase @ Coy Ltdy ion net. er children are her children all} The Learue of Nations bay call-Wher own country as a foreigner hee-If for no other reason than to again of income; whether in elabo-them go. From the cradle until stie of International Law at the Hague id ent Gs. their lives, She never really lets ed a Conference on the Codification self, and being naturalioed know the exotic glow of clarifying rating upon the "spartan routine of|9F they die' she associates herself) in 1029." Member and nom member Some countries the law wort her ideas on the catchwords of the the idle rich" whose code of ife With their lives. states will send plenipotentiaries, mit Nass. A native woman wile times, every woman should read' riding to the hounds, ets. etc. is as She and hor husband take a per- There are only three pointe on the matties a foreigner takes his na-George Bornavd Sh vigorous, if not more so, than the Sonal interest in the studies of agenda, one of these being National. Wonality: a foreign woman who modulated reve poor man tied to his daily grind; or|thelt children when at school. The ity. marries a native man takes his na-wheen dedicated to intelligent women, whether launching forth into Trade daily: Lyeée is the usual thing; but The scheduling of the Hague Con- {ionlity. This, is true of Haiti, Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, the local Unionism discussions Mr. Shaw is Provincial parents who send: their ference and the eceation of the Inter: {2% instance. On the other hand Booksellers, are responsible for|optimistic about the outcome of it children to school in Paris have to American Commission of Women tute ae countries in which the Taw aving provided the "Woman's all. "At 70, he stil fy if ironical, ace them in a boarding—achoal have been practically simultaneous WOTKS, ORIS ove way. Again a Page" with this somewhat formid-|uncwervingly convinced of man's|and: suffer azonics at parting—At the Hague Conference, covscau, Guatemala, a woman is given able: sounding volume, and now it ultimate victory. By the. time of especially the mother who foresees ently, the Commission of optinas ae te: ber sationalty must be-confessed, as one woman to} ultimate victory, one naturally [only disaster for her children wher representing the Pan American MY see? her own or take her Huse men another, that to'remain in ignorance supposes, mao" will have be- away from her. 2g] Eoveynments will ake its own pro- e"Yognite otoment to this eect the "Guide" henceforward would: vme superin, But the prest Home tasks and school tasks are posal on the Nationality of Women. bbe sheerest ally. of this optimism is to be foond watched over by parents or by al" The Inter-American' Commission *M® M#rriage agreement The suspicion creeps in that the}iz Shaw's decurrent argoment coverness provided by them who is of Women was created by the Sixth The English Dilemma title is just a shade misleading, un- against revolutionary socialism, answerable to them for things going Pan American Conference to in- "qn some miaiect ale less woman {s expected to have a Labour v. Leisure right in the schoolroom. vestigate the status of women be- lamentable of ally a women has. Softening influence upon an other 44 a." There is companionship between fore the law in each of the Ameri- ramentable of all, a woman has: ne wise awe-inspiring subject. Why. a "ESbour," he says, "is doing what [children and parents from quite an can republics, ud consists of one ality, An Eaglishwomsn; "woman's gulle,""exeept that the] "e must. Leisure is doing what we early age, Children come to meals woman from' each country. The] Ceasen to enjoy English sactonality feminine pronoun is used through-luke." And it must be taken for] s soon as they can sit up at table. Commission has undertaken a re- ceesedive te Writer nae Bee dee out, and the book pronounced by its ranted that should every man be|They-appear at dinner and eat al search on the nationality of women nor linene Argentine be Acwoneine: author to be "the best answer I can|SPPortioned his share of labour] carty meal before going to bed. ard their children throughout the {wr There ieee remedy weheteee ake" to. the intelligent' woman, (capital implied) much lea ure. f0¢ tq game families the English nurse Americas. 'They are making a com: {Ny ihT6 00 remedy, Whatever Stay Glavrart Celessndaly, Shaw's awit pss ally on the allot prevails against this custom, but it parative study' of the Old and New howe Acquitiea iced the woman sister-in-law, who raised the ques- ment. still holds good in many. homes, World laws on this subj warori, Araaline 2 4 tion in the frst instance, Telsure is to learn the art of living:|poen in Paris and the provinces: first act of where tassers tee her passport and diplomatic facil: But all thio is quite beside the Socialism of a higher order-|°Whon the time comes for a git! is, but she is beyond the pale point, The book can open incompat= it is, after all, less at to make her debut and the boy to] Miss Steven" says further, "will be cowntee Sid sat, cee ten by he Women of the western worl," - shee can able stretches of thought a} fat prepa i the average woman—thousheul Hut however ithe Intelligent ligh slckencg of parental ae next yer teeugn fe warori Go nies the more to be recommended to Woman will not be bored. She may) thority, but no lessening. of per- aissloners opreoe in the. nil There are a few countries sucks the world at large because neatly ever lumninating bits to change sonal interest, on the side of the governments, when they appea is Brasil ad Uruguay, which. have Den be aves 2 Be A: representing the several arranged for on hee Gatlonk, which ontsateainen 10 Bali mud on that of the mother} fore the Hague Conference, Na- %7 enlightened lave that marriage sft te, Shavian tle, clad Toe Unaliy or elherwie the ree ality las of the diferent Amer Laat teck ce, apteneley lo, santo ican republics ae at variance, fre- Women Chere, onto, atin, and to ays Ted Lil: biey ins fi quently creating difficulties which] In the United States, a woman: ide Wo slit ta ip [tian Woman wh oh rin itt CAN" lin he hi eet" ie Sain fee a Shavtan theorias, excot that not no OR important of these things are ai! gequainiances which ate not in regard. to nationality so_that lose her nationality upon marriages gist of th th can buy, she sta he looks askance at] must be uniformity of legislation ship. In other words, a woman mage to have, gleaned bie that pud gens eng sire a} tendinions of the family for which situation erics out for relief, There is Beet eligible for U. 8. citizonhave read"the others on the publish= Nee anotto tage made through her; she is not] women can no longer—as sometimes a man never does,

aacioteeseged spend all her money at once, if chat [ta Promote marriages after he Inter-American Commission of Again, in the United States, a needlessly of much of the] once" case, and should she fit in her household; she is literally without a country, The U. 8. Ralings would have been to deprive pleased when foreigners get a foot- happens to-day—find themselves

Distribution of Wealth liking, though she no longer forces] Women will submit a proposition woman who marries a foreigner and:

aspect of national and follows chat the. gulp wel tion fa to PAZ amughiers and sons, to mars; embodying its conclusions on Na- lives two. yours in. bet, Husband' all is proportionately small, etn tte ce Sr eat ary "ae [ete ts lp it rp neue os owe S acca tionality to the Hague Conference. y fe presi Toco keg "See ecennse semen ME a] Shed oiaag Eat") The ae of wroaseaon 7 we itin te Uae fon of, came "How mach/runs through the ethical and s04'her tact to gude ati in the isn, A woman may" ud beret marie © foelgnr, and ive, wie is enough)" Is the question asked in economic pattern. Tt would requir i a variety' of Not poverty asks goodly portinof fe: Shaw's 500] WAY i which she would have them possessed of several nationalities 0) or, country, according 10 UT: poverty but poverty as degradation pages of "Guide" even to outline the r i of mone! In some countries of out jaw she ie again presumed to have {s the smarting hypothesis that salten: ideas of his discussions, for: 4 Western Hemisphere, a married) jest her nationality.

Tuxary asked fo confront squarely. few are tacking. religion, mar. 22% but, ft is tr: woman takes the nationality of her] W™™t Mer nationally mother in France and in Sometim Wealth consisting of perishable riage, children, the toleration claim on her children than in the Dominican Republic avtioles cannot be saved, and that dissitent opinion, education," be: England, There are exceptions. A locas her natio abroad, the country. will give na~ among them—when a of Id i borw everybody should save is proposal] those subjects implied in the title, amall minority of the upper classes, emed tionality to the child only it, the nich too ludicrous to miss tha] And one does not tire of his dis the newly rich, have broken away wrtey gives her father has that nationality. Thor Shavian thrast, What then is the euisions any more than it would from tradition, and have let their can eieteien country: ives the mother's nation-alternative? And the answer {s possible to tire of the conversation Eiildven go more or less foe, but se in Beuador, she loses her. nec] ality 0 the child in such eases only tional control of "the runaway ear of characters in one of his plays—in the usual custom is to observe in tionality. on ga foreigner when the child is illegitimate? Capitalis Heartbreak House or Candida, or decidedly impressive and not alto-! when the bravos die down in the E ties and] country to live and if that countts Commission of Women will il All this sounds on the surfaceist. Joan or Mnjor Barbara, "But modified form the okt roles which] only if she zoe" to her, hunband's) The work of the Inter.

e-apt to forget the provocative man- way, whole list of books ox! Waisike Ecuador. veller a bat li "gover ther hot-venter reading, but one reader's mind, after, by. the 7 espe epee bora ne end nor of Shaw at his best. He is at socialism "fe. quoted in case Speny In Mater fog fast her nationality ty marriage frankly in a quandary "under the is best here, a best burnt down to) the Intelligent Woman has had Girls may mow go about more aion of the] hardship entalled. fe almost unbe-the essential crystal. Whether in her appetite whetted, the theorizer freely than they did, they may have Some: itevable, and has led the Lenguo' of dealing with "eugenies" and diseuss- on sacialiem might' possibly friends among both sexes when the bose een trog pence eral ing the pros and cons of a healthy forced to confess that there are no families of both are connected by Te auch of nationality prominently on thy young woman's chance in the present new theories advanced. Yet.: t|biood or old acquaintanceship. They: ty sith oF natlouabty prominently century of "following the prompt remains that to have ce-ordinated may follow sport, in moderation, ith a fenelguers sha can agenda of the Hag tings of her heart" and of "mar- the existing theories in answer to ax fut either directly or indirectly they ely: Fevain {€ by coming: back into! International: Law, tying the dustman or the duke" as intelligent woman's question iz!>|are chaperoned wherever they 0 her instincts tell her, only to find have made a startlingly brilliant con- before they are married. that this is impossible rigmarole be- tribution to the present decade.) At " dance given in Paris not A TREAT con TEA [is nothing more refreshing at taxe ace time than a halved yetruit witch' cause the duke or the dustman of Surely no one—man or woman—can more than a month ago. at which has been prepared amd sueetet Ther choice may not have identical] afford not to have read this book.|only "sheltered" girls were present, en home for the early in the day so that plenty o€ manners to her own, a question once TL.BiW, there was a row of chaperones THE NURSERY CLASSICS—[armplo—aut the old-fashioned stories! away, and they did not dance. recently been the ease; for, whil ceptable are fruit tate ami No bridge tables tempted them! Portant event in the day than has ult tarts-—ar round the wall of the broom. hokey fos amore im juice has accumulated, day than has "Easy to handle and always ate fare "holding their own" to say the] When a young man marries, fis the grown-ups are generally satis-[of plain short crust Slled very Toast. The modern child evi- mother has a gond deal to say about fed! with a cup of tea, a thin pices] stewed and sweetened trate, (Oe If there ie anyone wit believes that [dently Inns not relegated "The Prog te She may. not prevent. him of bread and batter, and occasional) kind that is seneonable); the wee the modern-child is too sophisticated Who Would aweeing Go," "Alice in making a match after his own in cake, the soring people being reboiled. thickened wit to enjoy the old nursery classies, let Wonderland," and "Peter Rabbit" heart, but she does her best to see look for something move intevestite little comfonr, ad poured Oct im visit the children's reading room to the shades of an unromantic past] that her own candidates get a good between 4 and 5 ovcock. In the fest. Aiese tis ateila cad in the New York Public Library, 'in which he has no interest. chance, and the Frenchman is tradi- winter and spring hol a iene when quite cold, wit unit we are' told by the "Christian and: not the lerist remarkable tionally fond of his mother and] difficult to cater for their tas 1 set.

Science Monitor." thing about the exhibit is the way] anxious to fall is i th her wishes. supply a sweet cabes being a that Another suaeaton fs the sand pigvetithumbed pages of A APEC i ye" themselves at. home in, it] troublesome. daughters in France, Pevally during a beat wave, sweet bananas sprinkled with sugar Vell " in whi very little children 'There are rebellious sons is needed, but it the summer, €3- wich, and for this peeled and' steed Tal the Menst'™ and "The Story of [without even stopping to" inquire as elsewhere, bot the link of alfec- ches are rather too warming 2021 specially good. Those who ks, The Three Bears," over which dark whether they are welcome. There is tion and duty between children and bale rie tre: us something of aa are and flaxen heads are poring at the no "Please Walk In" or "Open to the their parents is firmly forged and "ature is require will prefer skinnes a stie low conttal table-of the exhibits will Public" sign, but just as soon as the shows fewer signs of weakening matees between the slices of bro vernind him of his own first literary [children spy the Tong, low oak table [than might be expected in, there Gr white bread and butter, thrills and" he will come away con- strrotmded by yutive chairs they|days of societ upheaval—"Morr- and serves and consequently makes Shelled and halved hard-hoiied! vineed that "the modern child: isn't know it-all belongs to jing Post" is the melon. A slice Mf Tightly sprinked different from the' old-fashioned simply proceed to uso it. Fa served with soft white rolled in a thin piece" products after all." Of course, there are books for would interest parents, but so far sugar is very welcome in the warm/ of white bread and butter, mak Mer boys and girls in the cxhibitythe palm must go to the tiny tots] weather. Another idea, also unfor. fascinating tit-bits fox shldren a too; and numerous pamphlets on a{for the measure of interest display- tunately requiring extra plates and are really' hungry at ten-tine—Now We Are Six7" for exweltiotdered reading schedule which ed. Spoors, ts the grapefruit. There! G. M. Mf, in "G. Ferald

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