By zabeth Pepys.
For a long time women had no souls. Without a husband to pass her into Paradise the most pious and virtuous of her sex was denied the joys of the hereafter. For a long time women had no country. Then in a war time emergency the usefulness and convenience of women was discovered and women were allowed to enter into the kingdom of patriotism. Finally women were not only permitted to do their bit for their male relatives' country but to vote for her, Having acquired a soul and a vote women became even keener about possessing a citizenship that should be her own. Having acquired a country through the accident of birth she did not wish to lose it by the accident of marriage. Up to a short time ago most women marrying aliens (ook upon themselves his nationality just as they did his name.
It mattered not that this woman might recoil from the political institutions of her husband's country or that he himself might be an exile from that country because of his differing views on' government. She automatically became an alien just the same, and was exclud=4 from citizenship in the land in which she was born and which her ancestors may have helped to build
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.