The Durham daily globe., 1893-10-10
FRENCH WOMEN JOURNALISTS.
Some Are Ranked Among the NOtables of
Paris-Their Work and Manners.

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 pc
riodicals are impatiently awaited and
widely read, after Which many Of the
masculine writers go into mental con-
vulsions and tear their vocabuiaries IN
tatters in trying TO prove that these felni-
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 d woman journalist presented her
self at the court as the Judiciary reporter
Of leading morning newspaper in Paris.
The police are said to have been aghast
! when Nine. Severine drew forth her pad
and pencil and demanded admission to
| the press tables. The guards were some
! what taken aback, and, with deplora-
bic lack of French chivalry, wanted to
! turn her away. But, by wit or wiles Of
some sort, she gained her point ana
! cleared pathway for all women report
ers who shall come after her,
Nine. Edmond Adam is another wom-
an journalist, perhaps the leading one in
Paris, She is politician, author and
editor. She has been honored by the mr-
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. 1t isn't much Of a
street, to be sure, the Rue Juliette Lam
Der but it is young and may grow some
day. Under Napoleon III Nine. Adam
had salon in opposition to the imperial
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
FrancO-Prussian war she had no one in
France to particularly oppose, SO she Sc
lected Bismarck. Such phrases as these
have been attributed to her: bismarck
and me! "BiSmarck was to have been
oyerthrown by me!' ''At last the czar
cOndescends to follow my political views"
She is a good speaker and can talk on al |
most any subject. Her dinners are de- |
Cidedly interesting. One-fOurth of her |
guests are usually officers of the French |
army, another fourth is composed of po- |
itical men, and the others are artists and |
literary people. The dinners are usually |
followed by receptions, which are at |
tended by cabinet ministers, deputies, |
senators, diplomats and journalists.
There are, except Oh special occasions, |
few women.
Nine. Severine is both more valiant |
and more sentimental than Nine. Adam.
Severine, as she is familiarly called, is a
well known figure i'll Paris. She has
been nicknalned Mamzelle Gavroche and
Jenny LOuvriere, 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 Nine. Adam drinks
Of the fountain CT La Republique Fran
caise, founded by Gambetta. Severine's
ambition Is to secure the abolition Of
capital punishment.
Mime. 1ver is a curious figure in the
newspaper world. She frequents the
prefecture of police. and is remarkable
for her persistent praise of the police
and the justice they dispense. Good"
III her mind, is represented by the prefect
Of police, the detectives and the gen
darlnes, 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 few ,
comedies. she is a noted contributor,
II very light Vein, to that lively publ
cation, La Vie Parisienne. Gyp is popu- !
ar. and, besides being a writer of great 6
alent, paints with success Z
Perhaps the most successful newspa- ,
Der woncn il Paris are those who write }
lbout the thing they know best-fash- 6
ons. Bat men are encroaching some !
what upon this territory, and altogether
place in French journalism is i
!ot all that coall be desired New York
sun.
Why Is It:
v ~ Is II tI,:s Il woman can struggle