Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-27

Jnmos Darmcstetcr. The book which re-
cciNed the prize u q coh'ctoh OF shoft
"Old Time Daisies" and the prize WIS
Slu0. The prizes usually run between
500 and 500
Only hus recognized is known personally
Ia many Americans, Madame Henri Gre
VILE Her early writing was done ~ nus
STA. and FOR a long time she WAS uueblt
10 secure amy French puhlishrrs AZ last
she lctt 81. Petersburg, where hrr huHhuhl
and father were both professors, enhd
came to Paris with her manuscripts. size
was soon before the public, ana Ia 1913
the academy gave her a FIRST prize.
While no American woman has received
prize FROM the academy mrs Mary
Muprs Dodge has been Indirectly crowned.
IL came about IN this way. lrehch
adaptation OF hel Worla- lApn. H., n,
Skates" was presented to the academy IN
1870 and the work received prize Mrs.
Dodge lthC academy reports put II 'ilhuEe,l
being recognized as the original author
ACADEMlCIAN MAKING IN THE
FRENCH SALONS.
The real point az which the French wo.
| man has always Ia the puat touched the
/ academy and 10 lesser degree doca so
| todayls the SALON
| IN women have never hlled the coveted
! easy chairs they generally have SAID WHO
! shall sit IN them Before the end OF the
Seventeenth century the grade OF aghue-
/ mlCinn making wns established by MpuNule
! DE Lambert and up to her death she cntrl-
| ed Il on successfully,
] II was useless to try for the academy
| I'm Madame Lambert's day unless received
/ ia her salon and supported by her one
| of the best authorities ON the period de-
claros that she made half OF the academl-
But the women who founded salons after
| Madame dc Lambert soon heitucu the
business. she had been, on the, whole. GU
| honorable woman and had pushed merit
| hut the women OF the later salons were
many of them mere lntriguers, they plott
cd and combined 10 push mobiles and abbes
] sssNt.. HHFfN NHl Nn n
rule succeed ID. Men were elected some
tlmca whose sole claim 10 literary WOih
was a collection OF very doubtful society
OF course the election OF these "poudoli
ucadcmiciuns' IA they were oulcu pro
vented stronger men being receivel. Vol
mire was several times candidate before
nc succeeded IN getting IN and then hl
suoces0 was due 10 Midnn de iompa
Voitairc's conclusion wns iust n hor'
on the academy. ut Il more valuable q
bc on good terms with the kings mistress
than 10 write a hundred volumes
However not everyone " dwr dc Lam
| hert'a successors cOndi scehdcu 20 petl,
| Intrigue. Meadamcs ONnrln penanl an
| NoHker ana Mhdetnoiacll0 Lcbplnhsst eNef
cised powerful sway among learned nh
| literary mau without compromising them
selves from an Eighteenth century poin
Today the influence OF French women %
the academy Is much less. Nevertheless
there are now In Paris salons Wher
WNhuNtAiNioiA'i' "AANh s''" W" N''
HOW A. II doneq Who can tell how
woman eXeits lnnuepref
HOW FRENCH WOMEN WORK TO
THE MEN OF THEIR FAMILY.
rhe picture which AlphOnse Dadet draw
IN his famous Llmiuortcl undoubtedly ma
llgneH the part frcnch-woucn take !
academy elections because he dcScubo
only vicious ana ridiculous actions. IL,
Il Is undoubtedly true that men have pee
made aCadcmlcians who like Asilpr-Reh
"a tho story would have broken their neui
IA trying to succeed II 40 had not been II
the Wit3 OF their wives,
There are daughters and wives who lil
the pathetic Mile Aioacr try 10 secul
yotcs for their fathers or husband
~ whiting on acRdemicians. copying Il
them, correcting proofs and making no
ana thou loF them some faYOrite dchcNcN
There are stil others who. IKE the my
of strength TO carry ON a salon IN viii,
an ambitious brother or husband may has
u Geld OF his own IN which 10 make b
campNign.'
MADAME ADAMS SALON.
Among the fow famous salons where q
fuenee y e2criod on ne political ana =
cal lie OF Paris a. well ~ on the ncud
MY -excfted, too, IA perfectly iegitinN
ways Tor an 4 know or hnve the right
lntlmate-ls Thar VI Aladame Adam.
Republican ia politics ana liberal ~ lhVs
ture Madame Adm keeps open house Z
T, nearly All the world froin ner SAT-
she dircctoh lho campaign of llrffe in
: How successful tAe world knows, he haW
iaken his easy chair among me inm3fi'
| IN April OF last year
Madame Adams held OF influence
not. however, confined 10 her salon
includes her logo az the Ccmedlc ilN
calfe, where. between acts, she fVtsis
s,body from the president % shg cha