Into the sea of effervescence that is the intellectual world of France, the public school girls of Paris have just thrown a veritable bombshell. The London "Times" reports that they have beaten the boys at examination results! Now, even if this were an isolated occurrence, it would have aroused comment. in France, -where even a seedling event grows a harvest of speculation. But it was not an isolated occurrence. For several agitated years France hati seen a mew world of women driving automobiles under fire, repairing motors, manipulating skeins of telephone and telegraph wires, and knitting them together as fast as enemy shells tore them, performing surgical operations, and conducting offices, shops, and factories, and a thousand other pursuits hitherto reserved for men.
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At first the French, like the rest of the world, put these disturbing changes down to the insanity of war and withheld comment—comparatively—till all should return to the normal. But now that peace is nominally returned, what, among other changes, docs it reveal? Complete woman suffrage in Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Russia, and other countries, woman in the British Parliament and for the first time in_history admitted to the Bar in England; woman mayors, judges, juries, legislators in America: and everywhere in the world woman invading domains hitherto sacred to man. For the French, the feat of the girls in beating the boys at examinations hag, in their own phrase, "given furiously to think 'As with them to think is also to talk and to write, once more there is raging the ever-old, ever-new question, "Where is modern woman going?' With it, of course, goes the companion question, "And what is to become of the modern man
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