ABSTRACT
General Bodlanger's Election.—The Pall Mall Gazette says: "The Standard correspondent at Paris sends some curious observations concerning the part which the women of Paris are taking in the election, Frenchwomen have not votes, but they have influence, and their influence in Paris is, it is said, to be cast almost soiidly on the side of General Boulanger. The fact that women in Paris almost monopolize the newspaper-stalls is a factor of no mean importance, and one which must be taken into account in estimating the political future of France. When Mrs. Lynn Linton and othere of that class lift up their voices and moan concerning the monstrous regimen of women, it is well that they should honestly face the fact that even in those countries where women suffrage is scouted, and the most strictly masculine ideas prevail as to the monopoly of the franchise, women are able to exercise an irresponsible political influence that may be decisive in a great crisis of national history."
