We have no intention of attempting to catch the elusive, in spite of the title of this paragraph. It is much too vast a subject to be dealt with here, and what between the European crisis and the uncertainty of things in the Kast, there is not over much time, even if the inclination were present, to treat it even moderately fully. But we may quote from one who, by his glib utterance, seems qualified to speak, This is Lieut.-Col. Archer Shee, and the occasion was the debate in the Commons upon the subject of reducing the age limit for woman voters. Presumbly the speaker is not in favour of a universal franchise, but at the same time desires te shield himself from too hostile criticism. So we find him sayin "Women are captivatingly capricious, fascinatingly futile, irresistibly irrational, ingenuously inexperienced, politically _pusillanimous, and wholly and charmingly incomprehensible, and therefore do not want a woman to have her nose in politics until she knows what she is about." It's a good sentence, especially in places, although we suspect that some of the information contained was divulged to the world some considerable time before the debate in question occurred,
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