Monuments To Women

Hitherto in Frailee Joan of Are has been almost the only woman to mount npou a niarble pedestal, but the privilege is being extended. At Vitres a statne is being raised to Mme. de Sevigne, and at Valenciümies a similar honor is in store for Mlle. Duchenois. Apropos of these facts a Frenoh writer observes, "Woman being, even in marble, so much more decorative than ourselves, one can only rejoice over the advent of f eminine statues. ' '