Show BLACKO MAN MANA A CHAUFFEUR c Backed by Paris Suffragettes Rita Yape Late of Senegal Africa Does Thriving Thriving Thriving ing Business With Taxicab MME P ME DURAND MAY GET SEAT IN PARLIAMENT Movement Be Behind Behind Behind hind Her and She May Be Bethe Bethe Bethe the first of Her Sex to Sit in High Councils of Country LATEST FRENCH FASHIONS Special Cable to ARIS April 28 In some directions PARIS P the question of woman suffrage IB Is making lar greater headway In France than in the United States We Ve not only have a woman running for the chamber of deputies but women are actually competing with men in acting as li ft irs ars w of taxicabs for hire on the public str ts Recognizing the superiority of 4 the white race let us take the case of Mme Marguerite Durand Duran who has bas an announced announced n her candidacy for the tha cham chain chamber ber br P M IS Paul Mme Durand I has behind her a really well or organized movement In which women of course coarse are the central figures but whose influence is undoubtedly great and nd who are entering on a campaign n In Ina i a J L businesslike way which chih may nifty well result In the election of or their leader It H will be a strange sight Indeed to see Ee a woman sitting in the high councils if f Prance France but this thie Is I an era of advance ment mont de d world do move as Brother Jasper wisely and truly observed and women are we constantly taking a more Live and prominent part in the affairs cf life lite What happens today would have been regarded as a wildly improbable Improbable able but a few lew years ago while It if a 3 woman had declared herself to be a suffragette and had announced her can candidacy candidacy candidacy for office In the early days of New England she slie would Quite likely I have hae been condemned as a witch and If it not burned at the stake at least hare hae been pilloried or placed In the tucking stool What will be womans position in the world a dozen years ears hence Who can an tell Female Chauffeur Turning from white to black from Mme Mine Durand to Rita Yape Tape a from Senegal Africa we still find Ind the eternal feminine Miss Rita was vas brought up in the family of ot a French officer in Senegal and Is quite a superior and educated woman speak speaking speaking ing log French like a native even if It her face fae Is as black as your boot The suf suffragettes suffragettes suffragettes admiring her br force of char character character character acter and pluck have taken her under their collective wing so to speak and enabled her to learn the trade of ot chauffeur chauffeur chauffour four She has passed the chief exam examination examInation required in France before a li II license license cense is issued to drive a car and sev several several severa eral era influential suffragettes have rented a public automobile for her which may be had for hire She is i 1 the target for no end of jeers and insults from common coachmen chauffeurs and passersby who take no Leed of the fact that bat she is a woman seeking to make a living in an honest bonest way wa When she stops her car which by 1 y the way wa she drives as well as any h in Paris a crowd Immediate Iv I gathers and stares at her as If she were some wild animal She bears It Continued on Page Pago Two BLACK WOMAN NOMAN A CHAUFFEUR Continued from Page One Oneall Oneall Oneall all apparently unmoved but suffering Inwardly Her friends tell her the tide of at public reeling feeling will wm turn and that In time the French public which admires courage Intensely will recognize her pluck and she will become a 0 fad with those who use public taxicabs A union consisting of ot professional strong men may be regarded as the thelast thelast thelast last word In unionism In Paris Pari such an organization organisation exists These TheS men handle the produce and meat supply which is brought Into the city from the country late each night and which Is Intended for tor consumption the following day ay They carry supplies from point to point In Immense baskets which are balanced on their broad muscular shoulders One member of ot the union It itIs IB Is boasted Masted can carry on his back as much as seven horses incredible as It may seem Frequent contests tako take place between members o ot of tho the union at which cash prizes are offered for those carrying the greatest weights French Fashions Fa Wider and still wider grow the brims of hats hate shown by leading milliners Thank goodness since Easter day the greater number of or taxi and other cabs are open the tops being let down in View of ot the warm weather Were It not for lor this one would surely have to walk for It would be absolutely Impossible lor for women to tn enter the door of a closed vehicle Y when wearing the new style hat Actual Alphonse and Gaston of an ancient cleat clent memory scenes take place fre frequently freQuently frequently on the boulevards of ot fashion fashionable fashionable fashionable able streets when one great hat makes way for another hat when both are about to enter some conveyance and there Is a polite but decided giving place on both sides The same condi condition condition condition tion holds good when passing In and out of shops or tea rooms moms where no one wishes to run the tho risk of having their new spring hat Jammed or crushed by some porno other fashionable headgear of huge uge dimensions Such situations are truly funny Smart frocks tracks are ore much In evidence One seen s en at the races re recently recently recently n which attracted much attention was of ot soft sott bright blue satin which shade by the way has the lead Just at present The short skirt was very nar narrow narrow narrow row and trimmed with many buttons of the same colored satin The coat was also short with a rounding effect The revers rovers were of changeable silk of ot that lovely shade known as pigeons throat thront With this costume was worn a largo large straw hat veiled with black chiffon chitton held In tn place by an Immense bow of black lib liberty liberty liberty erty silk sUk Plaint of Manufacturers Nevertheless the simple lines while undoubtedly solving many man problems as asto asto asto to the average womans appearance has enemies on all sides The manufacturers ers complaint of the small quantity of material required and the complaint follows down the line of designers dressmakers embroiderers and work workpeople workpeople workpeople people of all kinds Hence one may look for some decided sensations In dress during the la a grande grando semaine as the week devoted to races In Paris Is called winding up with the tho running of the Grand Prix or principal prize race which It may be remembered the of Paris last year peti peU petitioned petitioned the authorities should change the date of running from May to June in order to prolong the summer or rather last spring season True it Is that a feeling of unrest per pervades pervades vades vadea the tho world of dress at the mo rue moment moment nu ment nt Experts are of ot the opinion that the present tranquility Is but the har bar of a storm La grande se semaine mains maine will prove If this belief bellet Is well founded The craze for veiling materials con continues continues continues and very charming are the ef eC effects feets produced particularly in blouses One especially lovely model of or Rondeau shows cluny lace with bands of gold embroidery the whole being veiled with soft sort blue |