New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-24
No, Declares Madame Maria
Verome, French Z erminisGs
May Adhere to Party
Truce, bsatThey Are
Still ON Guard.

1914 into a home OF relief Skilful Partisan
workers create underclothes and outer gar
ments for refugees and woollens Tor the SOL
diers while others-veritable falries-trsns-
form into charming knick- knacks or sumptu-
Gus doll costumes the theatre gowns wnioh
actresses OF great talent such as Madame An
dree Begard or Mademoiselle Lueienne breVai
bring there
AS far as the latter work is concerned, Amer
lea has wished to help the efforts OF the freneh
feminists, who while doing useful WORK nave
held to the honor of maintaining the artistic
renown of their country. Mr. John Wana-
maker, of New York, acquired several eollec-
tons of dolls representing the history Of wo-
mans clothes through the ages and in all
countries The Jeanne dare Statue Commit
tee Of New York has ordered many dolls wear
ing the various costumes Of the Good Woman
Of Lorraine. made after the frescos in the
Pantheon and the paintings in the Louvre.
WHAT OF WOMEN AFTER THE WARP
And now another question arises: What VIII
the feminist movement do after the war; UT
rather, what is going to be done for IT.
The argument that women are incapable
which was hardly dared used against theni
before the war, will become absolutely impos-
sible after the war. The desire TO hinder tie
women from leaving the hresde will no longer
exist; first. because of the necessity to employ
female labor on account OF the searSity o.
men, and second because the women them
selves. no longer having by their side men ca
pable of supplying the needs OF the family VIII
be forced to do so themselves. Finally, the
argument which had always appeared inc
strongest. that woman cannot participate IN
the national defence will vanish along with
the preceding ones.
In fact. did not the government itself say
that the manufacture Of arms and munitions,
the service Of the commissariat and the ambu-
lance-obviously less dangerous than the ac-
tual presence in the trenches-were not how
ever. less useful to the defence of the country
Well and good! Do we not find side by side
with the men Of the auxiliary army and OF the
modified specialists a great number OF wo-
men? Are they not performing their task as
the others' Then why refuse them the same
rights?
HONORABLE MENTION NOT ENOUGH.
In the most desperate situations the french
woman has known how to show her courage
and her energy. The women have renamed
TO face the enemy SO as not to interrupt inc
work of the municipalities while the men were
gone; under the hellish noise OF bombardment'
under the breaking of shells, the women postal
workers have remained stoically at their places
10 transmit the mail, the teachers continued 70
hold class in Easements and cellars the nurses
remained calm and smiling beside the wounded
Honorable mentions and military crosses have
been granted them as recompense Tor great
heroic acts. That is good, but that isn't
enough.
That which will be needed tomorrow VIII
be 70 permit woman TO join her efforts with
those OF man in order TO repair in the most
rapid way possible the harm done by the war
10 organize again the moral and social lie
Of the country and to give it back its economic
prosperity.
The French teminists, who nave never
fought against men, but have always asserted
their desire TO work together with them, nave
confidence in the future.