Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-15
ODD WOMEN
SOME INTERESTING NOTES ABOUT THE
FISH WOMEN OF BouLoGNE.


A SINGULAR LOT OF AMAZONs IN FRA NOE
The fish women of Boulogne, says
!, correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
are peculiar people, who are to them
!, selves and of themselves apart from
i the rest of the world, save in the bust
ness of money-making. These women
. are Amazons In strength and in mus
D cular development. For some reason
they have the right TO one france apiece
! for every article Of luggage landed at
: Boulogne, and dozens Of them stand in
waiting when the boat arrives, not
only TO collect their dues, but to act as
porters as well for those who wish
,, trunks, &c., carried TO hotels or rail.
!, way stations. Size or weight seems
never to deter them, and such Saratoga
trunks as our country women travel
with, and such as mark them at once
to the European eye as Americans
trunks heavy enough to demand the
sweat of the brow OF two or three Eng
lish porters in lifting, and "tps" all
around-are to some Of these women
seemingly mere bagatelle Old wo-
men and young take such trunks upon
their backs as il il were but chid's
play, and probably wonder much at
the unmiiigated horror and surprise
with which American women, the most
petted and tenderly-reared women in
the world, look upon this desecration
o, m womahhood INTO beasts oil burden.
Ihese women are the wives and daugh-
ters oil ilshermen, themselves not fishers,
save OF shrimps, but venders OF fish
rom door TO door, and keepers OF stalls
IN the ilsh-market. They live entire
" py themselves, IN nelghborhood
conpieteiy apart, ana are as separate
IN haplts, interests, social and domes-
'ic relations, from the rest OF the world,
as II they were a different order OF be-
ings' 30 strong is the feeling OF seclu-
SION among them that II glrl ventures
10 receive the attention OF other than
hsnermen she s reprlmanded and
MADE 10 ieei the Indignation and scorn
of all the people among whom she was |
born. II one marries outside the com
munity, which is so rarely done MS
scarcely to be known in their history
she is from that time forth ostracised
from her people; their contempt is
upon her; their hearts are closed AGAINST
her; and the places which once knew
her know her again never more
In the fish market NJ Boulooue soma
of these women and girls stand hy the;r
stalls for n lifetimc many Who now
occunv them baving followod orand
mother and mo,hor II, ,ho so,,e sn,
These stalls ali hea,. no nao oe tI
dealer bnt the Christian nomo oni,,
such as Adele Isabelle Caroline tme
lie Elise. Ata stall marked nCorol;nnn
standsa woman mon whom oncc tell Tho
curse of hertribe and who Torvears vas
condemned as other sects condomn ono
fallen from grace She was wilfni and
pretty in her youth She was wooeJ
secretly and married clandes,;rol,, hu
an employe of A railway Ue was 6,r
better born and bred than she Inn, sbe
had -n,arr;ad sas OF hos. o~da. 4. IL
said that no other than n fisherman can
live with these women, for, in spite of |
the cleanliness which is the boast of !
the best OF them, and is exhibited in
marvellously starched and bleached l
caps with immense fluted borders, in [
handkerchief white as snow, and 0
Sleeves stainless US cioud-drlit, the j
~ ~. '" 'no hsn "ui'nS wnivn .ncy
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,nas ,ha ra",hou '..oa oe ~. ns,, n.i a,'o' sno
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sertod IL 10 ,non,,I ~ p,I' ~. a''nouE1 h us ?
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,od uoror ,on" a",n,,. 9 Thn ioos a.
vos nv, a r5IIa;n % ns. a. ny ,a'ner u
narr;aos 81 L. INA In -. SO'"Is .ts " 'no tt
,ompanions for lifo from tbe FIX. G mon' r"v ? ?
,crs' Association. and although he "
lever at other times enters tbe sirong ~ ~
y-scented ncigbborbood be givsss ,, 81
,acb a oenorous m oorr;ooa oor,;on ~ s''' u
'''' '"s' po' ''O''' IT
At ahother stan, marked isabelle,
nay DC seen another woman who has