Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1917 — The Women of France. [ARTICLE]

The Women of France.

The women of France have won great honor by great service, but their work has been woman’s work. They have kept their hands on the details — the things that make the difference between profit and loss in trade or agriculture, and between paths of pleasantness and bad going in our daily walk. They are wise in the technique of living —not for themselves alone, but for France, her men and. her children. If France is pleasant and Frenchmen love It, it is Frenchwomen who have made it so, writes E. S. Martin in the Atlantic. If life Is pleasant to Frenchmen, and they love it, it is French women who have made it so. If Frenchmen love France more than life, it is because In a conquered France French life could not flourish, or Frenchwomen train it and make it worth living to Frenchmen. It is a great office to make life pleasant; to make it worth living. So far as it is done, it is done chiefly by women, but not by women whose motto is “Women for women,” or “Every woman for herself.”