Show HELP FOR WOMEN I WHO EARN French Commission to Consider Consider Con Con- sider Case of Starving S Half Paid Half Paid Toilers I CABLE LETTER FROM PARIS Graphic Pictures of Life in I Southern Europe for Our Readers BY PAUL VILLIERS Republican Sp Special cla Cable S Paris April 11 A A commission of ot representatives of both employers and workers will be named In In Ina a few days ays b by President Fallieres for the purpose of oC discussing measures to relieve the sufferings sufferIng's of women workers who are arc paid paltI less hess hero here than in nn any other European European European Eu Eu- c country It Is the opinion of or orthe the president that a 3 French organization tion on the lie lines Jines of the tue American National National National Na Na- Civic Federation Is very much nee needed e In France The impulse to tho the presidents president's action action ac ac- ac tion was given b by tho the facts concerning the condition of ot more mOle than unit half a million mil ml- lion women workers In this city just I revea revealed tI b by the department of oC labor statistics Judging from flom the results published the earnings of a whole lifetime of oC one of these thes unfortunate creatures would hard hardly pa pay the price of a 3 single dress purchased purchase b by her fashionable sister In Inthe Inthe inthe the Rue flue de do la In Paix Lingerie seamstresses seamstresses seamstresses seam seam- stresses earn carn on an average from 3 to 5 sous an hour but a lar large c number of them can hare barely make 12 centimes an hour or about 30 cents a day a b by working 15 or hours A writer In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Matin who fiad la the curiosity to visit these poor working women In different different dif dif dif- ferent parts of ot Paris has drawn rawn a woeful picture He reaches the sixth floor in a small garret room a young oung woman less than 30 wears wems all chess all seamstresses must wear them He asks the young woman bent over o h her r work how much she can earn carny One franc 20 centimes In American Am Am- mone money 2 22 cents a day a b by malInS' malInS making mal mak ing InS two shirts and working hard for forten forten ten hours In another house he finds a a. still younger woman She makes chains I for or childr children's childrens ns n's to toy watches and antI has Inns to tomako mal mako o chains for 1 C cents The I Imal chain is supplied and antI sho she has to cut It In 1 of oC about two Inches at attach attach attach at- at tach brass trinkets an and finish them of ofT off with a rIng or clasp She tics ties them together In dozens and nd by beginning early In the tho morning nn and working till late at night sho ho may bo be ablo to make 12 dozen for tor which she sine gets gots Just 12 s. Cents t. t Is JUI lt arl II- II eho only thib ol bals clasps to nn arid and alio sho outi a day day b before fore she Tins has a ned the same samo sUm sum At the end o oC of such buch it a tIa day she Is unable to raise her arm fl from n fatigue ue Another woman made feather Ceather boas boris and was ws proud of receiving the highest highest highest high high- est wages of all ahl 3 23 cents for Cor four and anda a half halt hours' hours work worl The making of boas has the disadvantage anta e of Inducing phenomenal obesity Tho woman so employed will become enormously fat and antI the tho doctors imagine that it must be to some powder or dust in tho the feathers Other women who make mortuary wreaths with wire an and glass beads mo may earn from 10 to 20 0 cents a a. day ay Less than thau that Is earned by others employed employed employed em em- in sewing together sacks s or ormall ormall mall mail bags baG's at one ono cent a bag S Two months ago ogo a a. wealthy Lyons merchant was tho the most cheerful man alive says a telegram from Lyons He had married a year ear ago a handsome young oung wIC wife Then came come a n. change his brightness i gave o place to melancholy He became morose and his young oung wife vainly sought to cheer him and antI to discover Isco what was the matter Finally he shot himself with a revolver re Arranging Ing her husbands husband's papers aftel af after after af- af ter tel his suicide the wife camo caine across In a n. private desk an anonymous typewritten type type- written letter suggesting that his wife was unfaithful to him The Tho letter was hated dated six weeks weela beCore before before be be- fore Core and across It In her husbands husband's handwriting was was was' written Do not l believe the tile of this letter for tor fora torn a n single lo moment but it has become such an obsession to me mo that lint I cannot sleep and unless I 1 can find the writer and kill 1111 him I 1 feel teel that I shall commit com corn mit suicide May tho the tell fellow ow be ac ac- ac cursed Tho The young wife whoso whose reputation was above suspicion was so unnerved by the discovery that she rho lost her re rea rca rca- son soil S S SA A Spanish grandee has appealed for taX divorce on tho the ground of ot his wife's temper On Sunday Sunda wee week tho the noble family were at service In tho the private chapel of ot th the tho hus husbands husband's ans an's splendid residence resi resl- dence once at Ia 1 Madrid rJ when madame fell ten furiously upon an Inattentive chauffour chauffeur chaut four Cour chased him down tho the aIsle and through a garden garen Sho She told her hor husband when whon ho In Interfered in- in that she ha had a a. poisoned dagger dagger dag dag- asgel as- as ger gel with which she meant to l kill m him an and the poor IT gentleman took tho precaution pro pro- caution of getting somo some male malo friend to take every meal with him as a n. measure of ot protection S Matters l came to a head bend last Jast weak when madame so belabored and reeled reviled re re- re- re viled her husband that he lie escaping from her clutches ran to a magis magIs- rate The magistrate mac und and two attendants attendants attendants attend attend- ants went buck back to the tIne house and Jn in madame's maame's presence the husband that ho lie went In dally daily terror of his lifo Madame was removed to a convent an and will remain there while the tho husbands husband's Inns hus bands band's divorce proceedings are arc being carried on |