The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-11
Partisan Ladies.

"Spiridon" gives the Boston Atlas
chapter on the ladies Of Paris, among which
we find the following:
"Hard by Madame Vanard livcs-Madam
Vanard is =esteuse. She married young she
was very pretty; but six months after her
marriage her husband died, leaving her no 9th
er fortune than small distiIcry, where he
used to work for the perfumers and confcction-
ers. She continued his business as far as her
limited knowledge allowed her she recollected
to have heard her husband say one day, as he
stumbled over a squeezed lemon in the street,
that an intelligent man might make his for
tune with the squeezed lemons and oranges
thrown away in Paris. The next morning she
set out with basket on her arm, and began
her explorations with the Rue MOntorguel the
street OF the fish restaurants of Paris, phil
lppes celebrated fish restaurant is on this
street.) After the chifoniers had taken all
they wanted from the piles of refuse, she would
examine them and put into her basket all the
lemon and orange skins she could find in few
days the walters, observing pretty woman
following in the traces of the chifon,ers, asked
what she was seeking, and promised to keep
for her the refuse lemons. When she had made
some Roadway towards forming capital, she
made contract with the theatre sweepers
and at the last, she rented place for her man.
ufactory, and hired male and female pickers.-
Her mandatory is an immense room, filled
from the floor to the ceiling with immense yell
low baskets containing heaps of lemon and
orange skins in the middle of the room and
around long table, are some twenty girls,
singing and talking, and busy testing these
squeezed skins. They pack them in bags and
in boxes, when the refuse skins are called zest );
it is then weighed and sent to the different dis
tillers III Paris, or France, or abroad, who
transform it into Curacao, Orangeade, CitrOn-
ade, Essence Of Lemon, etc. Madame Vanard
is now woman of fortune, and has her box at
the Francois, the Italian Opera and the Grand
Opera once week.
Her neighbor is Madame Veuve Thibadeau,
and her profession is to farm the right of sweep
ing staircases. She was a porteress of house
in the Rue de Temple, which was occupied by
two jewelers.. A very rude winter having set
in, she had the economical idea of burning in
an old caudrOn, which she used as hearth,
all the litter collected by her broom. She
found it burned very we'll, mixed with coal and
peat, and when the spring came round, and she
began to decorate her lodge to suit with the
summer season, by emptying the cauldron of
its cinders, she fOund-to her great surprise
gold Jumps at the bottom of the old cauldron.
1t was not long before she resigned the cor
don, and farmed the right to sweep the stair
cases of houses inhabited by working jewelers.,
and in this profession she has laid up so much
money. she is now able to carry on the not
less lucrative occupation of landlady she pur-
chased an immense tract of land near Paris,
while it was cheap, and built quite village
OF Swiss cottages on it, which she rents ont to
Paris shopkeepers DESTROYS to breathe the dir
once week.