Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1917 — ARE MORE INDEPENDENT NOW [ARTICLE]

ARE MORE INDEPENDENT NOW

One Effect of the War on the Women of France Is to "Americanize” Them. In a general way one might say that the war has tq some extent Americanized the women of France. That in the sense of our current expression “a I’Americaine,” it has given her more freedom of action, more independence mated —especially as far as young girls are concerned—many little couventions which really tended to become 1 less rigorous anyway, but which the strong winds of the last two years* happenings have entirely blown away. Some twenty years ago the daughters of good families began to acquire the right to take a walk without * chaperone, something unheard-of, unimaginable, to their mothers. NoW they fare forth unattended to the hospitals, to their works of charity, which have multiplied greatly during the war. But it is their relations to the young men that have undergone the most radical changes. Mademoiselle keeps up a correspondence with her “godsons” and with her childhood friends in the army. The ever-present thought that these young men may at any moment vanish out of the world has rendered them inexpressibly more dear td everyone, and so parents have accorded this liberty which tradition up t« now had refused.—Cartoons Magazine,