Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-05
FRENCH WOMEN JOURNALISTS.
Some Are Ranked Among the NotabIes oi
 Paris-Their Work and Manners.

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 Paris-Their Work and Manners. > The newspaper women of France are comparatively few. They are constant ly accused of total lack of the critical faculty and of want of perception of the ridiculous. Furthermore, their ideas on ethics and philosophy are said to be stale" Nevertheless it is true that their contributions to magazines and pe- riodicals are impatiently awaited and widely read, after which many of the masculine writers go into mental con vulsions and tear their yocabularies Ill tatters in trying to prove that these femi- nine effusions were worse than worth less.
 The women who, in spite of this, per sist in writing do not have sinecures. Not long ago at a celebrated criminal trial a woman journalist presented her self at the court as the judiciary reporter of a leading morning newspaper in Paris. The police are said to have been aghast when Mime. Severine drew forth her pad and pencil and demanded admission to the press tables. The guards were some what taken aback, and, with deplora- blc lack of French chivalry, wanted to turn her away. But, by wit or wiles of some sort, she gained her point and cleared a pathway for all women report CTS who shall come after her.
 | Mime. Edmond Adam is another wom- an journalist. perhaps the leading one in i Paris. She is q politician, author and 1 editor. She has been honored by the mu- nicipality of Paris in having her name | given to one of the streets of the capital, an honor rarely bestowed on person during his lifetime. It isn't much of a i street to be sure the Rue Juliette Lam i Der but it is young and may grow some | day. Under Napoleon III Mme. Adam had a salon in opposition to the imperial 1 government, and there she reigned. She was young and handsome then, with soft, pretty hair and bright blue eyes. She was an intense republican and great friend of Garibaldi. At the close of the 1 Franco-PrusSian war she had no one ill France to particularly oppose, so she se- lected Bismarck. Such phrases as these have been attributed to her: Bismarck and mer' Bismarck was to have been overthrown by mel" At last the czar condcscends to follow my olitical views" She is good speaker and can talk on al
 
 cidedly interesting. One-fourth of her guests are usually officers of the French army, another fourth is composed of po- litical men, and the others are artists and literary people. The dinners arc usually followed by receptions, which are at tended by cabinet ministers, deputies, senators. diplomats and journalists. There are. except on special occasions, few women.
 Mime. Severine is both more valiant and more sentimental than Mime. Adam. Severine, as she is familiarly called, is a well known figure in Paris. She has been nicknamcd Mamzelle Gavroche and Jenny L'Ouvriere, and although she is much given to literary floods of tears, she writes vigorously and well. She has her own particular conceptions of good and evil. Severine imbibes her political views from The Cri du Peuple (The Voice of the People,, and Mime. Adam drinks of the fountain of La Republique Fran caise, founded by Gambetta. Severinc'> ambition is to secure the abolition of capital punishment.
 Mime Yver is curious figure in th'. newspaper world, She frequents tn" prefecture c: police, and is remarkable TOT neT lSISlSltlll IT1lSc OI tue fbIltt and the justice they dispense. Good, in her mind. is represented by the prefcct of police, the detectives and tine gen darmes, but never by the prisoners.
 Gyp is another woman journalist, but her name-Mme. de Martel-is better known in connection with novels on Pa risian high life and as author of q few comedies. She is noted contributor, ill a very light vein, to that lively publi- cation, La Vie Parisienne. Gyp is popu- lar, and, besides being writer of great talent, paints with success.
 Perhaps the most successful newspa- per women in Paris are those who write about the thing they know best-fash, ions. But men are encruaching some, what upon this territory, and altogether woman's place in French journalism is not all that could be desired.-New York Sun.
 Why Is It?
 Why is 1t that woman can struggle until she is red inthe face and worn our both ill temper and body by window il d railroad train in her vain endeavors t close or open it when all that man Ina. , to do is to walk up and go over exactly . the same line of action that she has al ready exhausted, and down comes the re window 5iffD-- t. ,,,,z