, 1879-05-25
scenes Of real life he has studied In preparation
for this realistic drama. It ia we'll known that
lie went to the 1nadhouscs to see how men died
OF softening OF the brain.

for this realistic drama. It ia we'll known that
lie went to the madhouses to see how men died
/ OF softening OF the brain.
WOMEN WORKERS IN PARIS.
Harper's Magazine for June.
find in my notebook humorous entry that
I have seen no country In the world where the
right to labor Is more generally conceded to
women than In France. In the early morning
one is helping to sort the refuse from the
houses. See that basket with bits Of paper.
Here is pile Of nice green salad-leaVes, and
there basket Of bits Of bread. Perhaps they
have little donkey-cart to haul these out OF
tile city. where they will feed the provender to
rabbits, chickens, etc. These people In general
have not the degraded look OF our rag-pfckers.
How few people in France have degraded
lookl Perhaps two-ffths Of the women in
Paris wear caps, and did not note dirty one.
See women helping to sweep the streets with
bip heavy brooms made OF twigS- Other
women hard-looktng but tidy, / see waiting on
the Place st. Augustine for some one to come
heavy basket Of bread and takes Loaf into
groccr's; another has great load In her apron.
her long apron whose ends are tied oTer one
shoulder. In her hands she has three OF those
long slender loayes that are cut into Dts at t1e
RESTAURANTS. The loaves are about two yards
long, looking like poles or stakes She wears
no bonnet, and to rest herself she sets the ends
Of them down on the pavement, or rests Inen
against the wall. How much they carry bread
uncovered in Parsl Once on the street saw
one OF the infinite number OF cap-Women seated
behind the little box On which she cleans shoes;
She had fallen asleep. and her knitting and
folded newspaper lay on the boz before her:
see woman walking the street and Emitting
Did some Of the women of Paris really take
their knitting and sit down in the street to see
the heads cut of in their great Revolut1onf
Paris is the grand hotel OF the world 1t Is now
full Of guests. Paris is content. But what Il
desperatea
At the Restaurant Duva1, at the Exposition,
notice the force Of walters with black dresses
and white caps and handkerchicfs. One says
franc and half, but now they must pay two.
On bench In the Garden OF Plants sits woman
working button-holes In machinc-made collars
military false collars. She is working them
beautifully, five in each collar: She gets ten
sous for the dozen collars, and she can earn
thirty SOUS day. Poor woman! In the same
neighborhood go into little creamery and get
a bowl OF chocolate for five sous. a woman
says that the shop ia hers, and she has small
custom. Her husband works on the railroad,
aud her two children are boarding with ncrr
parents, who are alone near the Fosges Mount
aims. Not far OF, upon the street, a woman is
frying potatoes very nicely she has .
stove in which she burns coke She sells
and sells q good many at breakfast
and dinner time. She has cubby-hole or recess
in the house front, and paws ten sous rent day.
Riding Oh the circular railway to the Exposition
basket and can. She buys milk and makes that
soft cheese Of which the French are 80 fond.
She puts hers mp in bits Of cloth, and lays each
pat into bit Of basket. She has custom ut
the restaurants outside. OF the Exposition In
her can is the cream to pour over and make
.tronaage Ia crenae. She has been married
YEAR and her husband sells flowers near the
Madeleine Church. How many women are
helping to pull hand-carts, or pushing them
themselves! Hero is one loaded With flowers;
there another with meat and fish, In the cor
ner of courtyard sits woman carding wool
tor mattresses. They can open the mattresses,
card the wool, aud put it into clean cover Ny
is mixed with . halr. I 60 one
morning to the grocer's and find only d
woman there; and when I 20 to the office of to-
bacco near us the Government otllce-to buy
postage-stamps. what pretty woman IS at one
taxed weed! I go to the druggtst's, and find
Mrs. Apothecary at the desk on ono side with
her crochetng, and the account-book open be-
fore her. After her husbands death the law
allows her one year to settle his affairs. Il
At the Exposition see my FREUD Mrs. CO
from "the Provinces" Her husband exhibits,
and she explains that she must see that the
salcs-womeu are polite. visit public school |
where three OF the tour teachers are married. |
The Drectress or head teacher tells me that she !
has taught In the public schools seventeen
years, and has been married fifteen. Her son IS |
IL, nnd attends the College -, where his faith |
er'is Professor. She tells me that living IL very
dear.
In the Louvre gallery, among the artists at |
work, there are number Of women. One Of |
them is drawing from Paul Veronese's picture |
Of The Marriage at Cana in Galiee-"
Widows are engaged in business at Paris 7 |
go into bookstore and find woman. She says |
that she is all alone, and gives me her curd- !
Widow. -.'' She asks me to send nv |
friends, and sells rne pretty note-paper at two |
sous for six Sheets At the Exposition, In 9 |
plantation Of trees, / see board set bearing |
" Widow Durand. Bourg-la-Reine." On hand |
bill In the strcet arc the pames OF widows |
Renon, Maulde, aud Cock, printers, Rue dc |
Rivoli. Ny landlord jestiugly says that their
husbands we're printers, and that after having |
well wcpt them, they continued the business.