izabeth and Queen Victoria,
which makes me wonder how it is that Salic law is not repealed in all
those countries where man alone is allowed either to rule or only
reign.

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The best illustration of the superiority of woman over man in France is
to be seen in the Duval restaurants. It is a woman who, in the
twinkling of the eye, multiplies the number of dishes you have eaten by
their respective prices and hands you the total always right. She is
responsible for the amount charged. If she makes a mistake, she has to
pay for it. And how I pity the clerk at the door, always a man, who is
satisfied with giving you a bill and seeing that you return it duly
paid before you go out! That is all he has to do besides yawning and
constantly pushing the door which the customers often leave open or not
carefully closed. In business, all the responsible posts are held by
women, certainly nine times out of ten. In most shops, fashionable or
humble, through the little square hole over which is written 'Pay
Here,' you see madame smiling, receiving the money, booking it and
keeping it. Monsieur walks about the place and sees to, or, rather,
looks at, everything. If that man dies, his wife may regret him, but
she can do without him. She has the whole business at her fingers'
ends. Instead of being the partner of the firm, she now becomes the
sole mistress of the establishment.

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The foible of most women, good wives and good mothers, is to be
monopolizers, in France especially, where woman is queen in her home,
and her empire over her children is complete and unquestioned. France
will never succeed in founding a Colonial Empire until boys cease to be
brought up and remain under the influence of their mothers. The Roman
Empire and the British Empire were made by men who had been brought up
and lived under the influence of women, but who never allowed them to
rule either as mothers or as wives.

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The great qualities of a woman make her admirable, but I am not quite
sure that it is not on account of her many little failings and foibles
that she is loveable.

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A boy is a boy--a _genus_ article. When a man, he will very often
develop qualities and defects which he never possessed as a child. With
the gentler sex things are different. A