Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-23
PURELY FEMININE.
SOME INTERESTING TALK ABOUT FRENCH
WOMB
How They Are Educated and the Uses to Which
They Put Their Lsarning-Ths Drinking
Habit Among Englhish Women.
Notes Of PaShion-Fem-
mine Nutss.

In studying the ideas Of the few great
French authorities on the education for
women, one is impressed with the domi-
nant purpose Of the whole French
scheme of education as q preparation
for practical life. The important feat
ure of these French girls common
school training is preparation for man
| aging her private accounts In busl-
ness-like way, those of her household
| when she marries, and those Of her hus-
bands business as well. Men in France
go In for high art; women for art ap-
piled to industry. The wife Of the art
ist takes upon herself the whole COM
mercial work of the association, draw
ing buyers to the studio, calling on in
| fluential journalists, making out the
bills, thus relieving her partner from
the prose of life. Nine. Coquelin in
vests all the money made by the famous
actor, who calls her his Chancellor OF
the Exchecquer.
The last great step in woman's educa-
tion in France-the opening Of girls col
eSes by the republic---was made be-
cause it had been demonstrated that wo-
men could use 10 good advantage
higher instruction than she was receiv-
ing, and not at all from generous de-
sire to give her larger intellectual
life. In the course laid out in these
| colleges by the State there is work re-
Quired during the last year on common
law as related TO the affairs OF women.
There is also obligatory instruction In
domestic matters, including household
book keeping, lessons on purchasing, on
useless and useful expenditures and the
like. The good results OF this system
are shown in the Frenchman's reputa-
tion Of making something out OF moth
Ing. A French woman will make a
charming toilet out Of odds and ends
that an American woman gives her maid.
She will make course dinner out OF
material an American woman would
consider insufficient for lunch, but most
of all is her superior advantage shown
in her important commercial position as
partner in her husbands business or
manager of her inn. In the small shops
the husband seldom employs clerk; in
the large ones the wife is an equal part
ner, and should the husband die she car
rieS on the business successfully alone.
The fame of the Bon Marche IS duo
to Nine. Boucicault, who helped found,
and at her husbands death controlled
and enlarged the great business, carry
ing il on with such nice and considerate
system that the Lady Of the Bon
Marche" is looked upon as a patron
saint in many French households. The
Duval restaurants, which are found in
all quarters OF Paris, have been for
many years under the management OF
the widow of Duval, senior, who has
lately increased the number or her es-
Establishments. Nine. Jaluzot, wife Of
NJ. Jauzot, the Deputy made the name
for his grand magasin, LIE Prtntemps,
through her perfect taste in dress tex
tiles and coorS. She was, previous 10
her marriage, an actress in the Fran
caiSe.
Madame de Levigne, left widow,
with an estate impoverished by her
husbands bad management, made large
fortunes for her children by her skill
and industry. She was a fine lady by
birth and education, writer and an or
nament Of the most splendid court that
ever existed. 1t was she who wrote the
dlctum to a naughty daughter, "My
child remember that politeness is the
small change Of Christian charity"
SO important is the place which the
French woman occupies in commerce
that the Chamber OF Deputies and the
Senate have agreed in the present Year
to allow her to assist in electing MEM
bers to the tribunal Of commerce. We
are practical and educated people with
women who yield the palm TO none for
ambition, energy, and cleverness; but
the economic idea is TO US not exactly a
well-defnei one, and the French system
OF developing it is certainly worth our
consideration.