| Show AX AS OLT Tum In olden times a tariff ot of matches match tree established In FranCe In which the vet VA rious degrees ot of wealth necessary for fora n a gIrl to enter the dIfferent ranks rank of at French society were set et down as tel tol tollOw lows lOw lOwA A young oung wom woman n with a dowry of to 0 france a year was a match for fora n a retail dealer IL a lawyers clerk or 1 a a dowry of francs franc entitled one to aspire to a dealer In silk a tra ra raper per nn an Innkeeper a secretary to a great lord one with franca tranca mIght look II as high a as an advocate or a JOV gov officer ot of considerable rank all one with from to france might hope bope lor br a marquis a of parliament a per peer of Franc Fran or a aduke aduke duke It sine she had she would pt probably not be beso so ready to lit let her daughter marry n a Frenchman with a title and go and live In his hll country who hats han keen Hen awakened look to the United States State as AI a 8 shining and a beacon ot of hope beckoning them on In their et ef efforts forts fort to secure for their sax lit In their own land the rights and the opportunities we have 1118 In America the congre ot of works and institutions does not take the petit politIcal Ical bull by the horns born boldly and dl di In a talk recently a prominent official of the organization told me ins that In fact tant she wu rather rathe doubtful whether er It woUld be wise at present to confer suffrage on Tine The organization of feminine works and amI Institutions Is II strIving for tor the IId ad van cement of women Industrially edu rationally and morally for tor giving mar married ned ried women control of at their own earn earnIngs Ings and inheritances obtaining for tor forthe the woman oman child In France such lIuch edu educAtion education cAtion DB as every high school girl In the I gets tree free of cost and sometimes I values all too lightly The lad ladies I too tco are agitating for tor raising raisin French work workIng lag Ing which are so 80 low that it is almost almOtt albie for 1 a young youn woman In the lower IClal walk ot of Ute life to earn farn an living The convention w was divided Into NC eec each presided over by a chaIrwoman chairwoman man arranged for or by II a committee of oC la 1 I who and with the I enthusiasm ot of women for their ular branch branchA A ot of their operations operation Is II before me printed In dainty and I cx prelve French In our ruder the five section may be desIgnated as follows First philanthropy and amI I social economy second Ind legislation and inc Ino third fourth labor Ibor fifth arts artl lette letters and nd sciences Under the department of at legislation and mor moral morus al us one I is glad lad to notice top topics like Uke these for of ofa a Womans J After flights ot of the Father and ad Moth Mother er In the Children and especially tbt Abro of All Distinction Between Mn Men and Women In Hegard to the tho Standard Of f Morality doram The fhe section ot of education the nice French sease of classification thus social lOCIal and nd pedagogic Under the heading of 01 edu education cation pedagogic we find a hint that place should be made far I In In instruction ash In the Inspection and administration of all scholastic sits ot of every grade frade a II of at Itself calculated to take away the I breath of a Under the la a abor bor section among other subjects dis discussed cussed wu was that of at cooperative pro a branch of oC that has haa hitherto lagged d greatly In France much nuch ot of the labor Ibor In the IteMs is II dome by women the farms being vel very small mall tor this reason any aDr meeting consider considering II ing woman In Prance would deal eal at some length with the work of woman on the farm fann We find that thue thea ex excellent ladles ladle here her IU as elsewhere going to the bottom i Of things encourage the 8 spreading ItC at I agricultural Information among their tex MX upon farms They would Me have e schools of agriculture and likewise fArm schools with halt time labor 0 open to girls as AI aswell well 11 as boys bore Such schools work for forthe forthe the advancement agriculture IR ins an say country although comparatively tw few farm people In the United States have found It out yet Some of oC the ablest ud and mOlt moat I I I I II I i I heartbreaking The ot of which Mme Lime Is director tits hen done untold good for tor the condition ot at olen prisoners In Prance wits s very terrible It Its II name nanne Is L de St Izare Mme Mm Is hand handsome some IOme end and white haired full fuU ot of the true I trace grace and animation Lime so well known as IL a writer ot of moat admirable fiction over oer the name hAme ot of Th Tb was Wat ono ana of the Ire presidents ot of the congress and read a pAper on the work and In influence nunce fluence of woman oman In the arts art during the tho thelast last hAlf of the nineteenth century The secretary ot of this the congress was waa Mme Lime to whose whOle energy and ance AnC tine erection of at the Palace ot of Wo Women Women men In the exposition grounds was due One Is III glad Clad to note too among the names of the general committee that of at ofa ata a young Oung AmerIcan wonton woman known to both who wont a young California girl to Paris Pari to study mathematics Inn In Inthis this branch of oC knowledge she he proved such uch an adept adapt that she eti ed the attention of her professors The result was WaB that nt at the close ot of her schooling n a place was Willi offered her among the distinguished oal and mathematicians of If the observatory ot of Part She accepted the post and antt still holds U It I Among Amon the gifted and rising riling young ot of I France tn lb h ollie Marie llan Au Aubery bery berr whose bose nom d the Illume Is II Albrich Alberich Chabrol line Bhe I Is a native ot of the warm bright south of France but she ehe her sister both highly witt cultIvated ted aspiring young women fame came to Perle to make nake a ahome ahome home for themselves They wre atoms alon I and their Id 1 wu was to build IL a home bom which should be attractive In a social and literary wa way The They had however hower to tomake tomake make the home hom pay f Its Wet wa so 0 each took up the line of work for tor which she was II adapted Mile Marie sits In her room smut spins out roman romances which hlen bring her In hOOd good hard money Th The t sister liter is II tIme the housekeeper and she lakes some IOme boarders and gives Ivel lee lea lealIOn lIOn eons to American nd D 13 tween them they have llave realIsed their dream of a 11 pret pretty attractive home has hall been one of the faithful Workers tor or the womans ton con gross at the exp exposition The leading Paris larl newspapers wh whose le CUlt custom om It is II isto to publish every verr da day an installment of ofa a serial 1 storY tOI print hr her tahoe first Aft Att she h publishes them In book torm Two ot of hr her novel nol Ate are The Way of lAve and The Gla Gleam M Hr Her career I is ot of course cours before her hII yet t hr her books book ha have received favor tor favorable able notice from the beat Tb n d desk and nd hope of Mile lie Alberich Chabrol ire aN In time to form torm a womans oma 11 club of oC tb the pattern so o common In America At present there II not one OM OMIn In all But Dut the new woman Ii h slowly In slowly but certainly even Ia here The wretchedly defective of Frenchwomen is II In the tho way which I is a rat great pIty for tor there therea a are no more re capable women living than those of at Prance 1100 Im I am told tala that girls at here are not bot made mad to learn oven even the multiplication table They can oan all sew NW and embroider bough ev cv evry cry ry moths mothers daughter ot of them ant damn and do twisted and things that In America went out ot at date or were left to machines machine to do aeu ago alO thank hen n The French girl lisa haa been taught that learning this sort of I education It II French women not flot know how to sow lleW at all they would bo 1141 ocee bUr better o ARCHARD Park larl France |
