EUROPEAN WOMEN AND THE SALIC LAW Several years ago a woman of wealth and social prominence in Kentucky, after pondering some time on the inferior position of women in the United States, wrote a book.

In this volume the United States was compared most unfavorably with the countries of Europe, where the dignity and importance of women received some measure of recognition.
Women, this author protested, enjoy a larger measure of political power in England than in America.

In England and throughout Europe their social power is greater.

If a man becomes lord mayor of an English city his wife becomes lady mayoress, and she shares all her husband's official honors.

On the Continent women are often made honorary colonels of regiments, and take part with the men in military reviews.