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Gertrude Atherton writes from Paris as follows:
Nothing could be greater than the contrast between the Paris I visited in 1916 and the Paris of to-day.
When the siege of Verdun was at its height there seemed to be no prospect of our entering the war, but during the three months Ispent in the French capital, I encountered nothing but the high- hearted tranquillity and security of a country at war and calmly waiting developments. Oc- sionally, when I asked if there Was any real possibility of Verdan falling, the answer would be:
"It is possible.”
But even then there was a firtu faith in the eventual victory of civilisation over slavery.
"I am told this was the attitude. during the last dreadful period of the German offensive, when there were nightly air raids and visita tions from Big Bertha.
PEOPLE ARE RESTLES 9. I knew when I arrived, Decem. ber 12, that I was too late for the wild rejoicing following the armistice, but I did expect to find another order of tranquility, not the lofty serenity of a tempered people with much yet to endure. but a happy and possibly radiant temper that would create As memorable an atmosphere as that 1916. I find nothing of the
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the back.
With the sole exception of the twenty-four hours immediately after President Wilson's arrival I have found the French people restless, dissatisfied, anxious. The air of winding themselves up and pushing themselves along was
Every now and then a deputy noticeable in the throngs on the armistice that leaves the enemylifts his voice in favour of the street and in the great shops, crippled bur slapping himself on franchise for women, believing even on the day and night before Ten days more and there would that if they are granted the power The shops were blazing with have been a victory that would to vote and alter some of the electricity, both within and with-bave crushed Germany to the musty old laws they will give less trouble in the end. It certainly every earth avenged out, in the fashion of our own
wrong
will require all the tact men and insured external peace Broadway, The people were
for France for a century at last. possess to divert these fires seeth- Buying and promenading, but their faces were grim or sullen. No Is it to be wondered at that they 10 at present below the surface, fed by memories of the agonies of where did I see the joy or the light resent the armistice?
the years of war and the appre- irresponsibility of the season.
hension of what yet may be in store for France.
Christmas.
It is true that very many wo- men were in black, that no one thought of the living without sad. bitter memories of the dead, and there is probably not a household in France without a gap at the
table.
WOMEN ARE TERRORS.
These women have been inten-
As
It will be remembered that the women of the lower classes of France were more vicious and sely loyal to France, but they fearsome than the men during anw have a strong inclination to Reign of Terror and even during by loyal to themselves and to the Commune. Mingled with the those dependent upon them, fear of what would happen if the many cf whom are legless, But, although one can almost Socialists got the upper hand and armless. and tubercular. see the legions of dead pressing demobilised the troop's abruptly men in all countries are not- eagerly among these black is a growing apprehension of theoriously stupid where women are throngs that must carry their stand that the women of the concerned, and as Frenchmen burdens for so many years, their working class may take.
are, perhaps, the most conserva- There are grievances past and tive of all, and the most deter-j sorrow by no means is the secret of their deep diacontent. par-apprehended. The soldier in the mined to keep women in her sicularly among the women. The trenches received 5 cents a day, place and maintain their own men who have spent four long his wife 20 to 30 cents a day, assendency, we may see some years at the front, and even the with about 15 cents for each lively times as soon older men who have worked for child, in Paris, and 10 cents in mobilisation is complete. France far behind the lines, are the provinces. Good Socialists, One solution would be back to more philosophical. But the on the other hand. in favour with the soil restored homes and small the Albert Thomas, were withdrawn farms all over the rest of France, from the trenches and placed inbought from the large proprietors munition factories where they willing to part with the land they earned from $3 to $4 a day, their can no longer find the men to till, families receiving the same allocation as those of the soldiers risking their lives for 5 cents day.
women armistice.
bitterly
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Our impression in America was 'that, given another month, the Germans.would have been forced to surrender unconditionally. Hera they tell me that ten or, at most fifteen days, would have seen a
as the de-
But here again the women step in. They don't like farm life and are not going to be tempted by the landlord's high wage, much
complete and ignominaus defeat, To use a good old American less when they must do a large upon which the French had set phrase, the women of the latter part of the work themselves. They their hearts. An armistice seems division have been "growing perfer the towns, where they can to them a contemptible com- madder every minute," for some go to the cinema and Wear promise.
time past and the unpopular tight skirts and high heels. The Germans have saved their armistice
has brought their They do not object to work immense army intact, their hated grievance to a head.
if it is remunerative, for and is inviolate and the people,
Many women of both classes, they are an energetic and indust y from admitting themselves moreover have made high wages rious race, but the time is gone nquered, are giving daily proof themselves in the munition by when they will work without at there is only one kind of a factories and find this source of reward, and after the most trying serman, of which the scapegoat revenue abruptly cut off. They war of modern times, during Kaiser was the Egurehead. are demanding to be taken on in which they have made.
the factories for agricultural im- acquaintance of far more than plements and other necessaries loss and grief, they propose to of peace times, refusing flatly have their full share in the vast numbers ef them, to slide rewards of peace. backward to dependence and in- significance.
On the day of mobilisation in ugust, 1914, the men of France ent to war saying: "It is for our children. We fight now that there shall be no more war for a century."
The women said: "Go and con- quer the Germans once for all. We must suffer that our children shall be happy.”
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They have found themselves, and if the men are wise they will yield with what grace they can muster; otherwise they will have their eyes scratched out.
The women whose husbands had fat jobs in the rear have saved a good deal of money, but those upon whose exertions the
History has taught us that the family was practically dependent, French woman's nails are the But to-day there is no such for an allocation did not go very sharpest. But how much have assurance. The surrender of the far, could put little by, and there the men learned from history, feet means little, for the Germans is naturally bad blood between anybow? were too cowardly to use it. The those who have sacrificed much act remains that Germany is still and those whose only hardship mighty boastful, venomous and has been highly remunerative planning for the next war. Her work.
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