The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-22
FRENCH WOMEN JOURNALISTS.

Some Are Ranked Among the NotabI-- oi
~Paris-Thcir Work ard Manners.
The ncwspa:er women Of France are
comparatively few. They are constant
ly accused of a total lack of the critical
faculty and of a want of perception OF
the ridiculous. Furthermore. their ideas
on ethics and philosophy are said 10 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 80 into mental COLI
WILSON'S and tear their yocabularias III
tatters in trying to prove that these femi-
nine effusions We're worse than worth
less.
The women who, in spite of this, per-
sist i'll writing do not nave sinecures.
Not long ago at a celebrated criminal
trial a woman journalist presented her
self at h court as the judiciary reporter
of a leading morning newspaper in Paris.
The police are said to have been ayhast
when Mime. Severine drew forth her pad
and pencil and demanded admission to
the press tables. The guards We're ONE
what taken aback. and, with a deplora-
BILE lack of French chiyalry. 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
ers who snail come after her.
Mime. Eimond Adam is another woin-
an journalist, perhaps the leading one in
Paris. She is Il politician, author and
editor. She has been hoIored by the mu-
nicipality OF Paris in having her name
given to IL of the streets of the capital,
an honor rarely bestowed on a person
during his lifetime. 1t isn't much Of a
street, to be sure, the Rue Juliette Lam
Der but it is young and ma grow some
day. Under Napoleon LII Nine. Adam
had a salon III opposition to the imperial
government, and there she reigned. She
was young and handsome then. with soft.
pretty hair and bright blue ewes. She
was an intense republican and a great
friend Of Garibaldi. At the close of the
Franco-P russian 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- Al last the car
condescends 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-
litical mei!. and the others are artist, 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 on special occasions.
few women.
Mime. Severin- Is both more valiant
and more sentimental than Nine. Adam.
Severine. a. she Is Familiarity called, is a
well known figure III Paris. She has
been nicknaned Maiuzell@ Gayrocne and
Jenny LOavriere, and although she il
much given to literary foods Of tears.
she writes vigorously and well. She Las
her W particular conceptions Of good
and evil. Syerine iMbiDes her political
views from The Cri du Peuple The Voice
Of the People, and Mime. Adam drinks
Of the fountain Of Id R~epublique Fran
tdloes DAL.AV - 'clLo1iLd. orN II
ambition il To secure the abolition Of
capital punishment.
Mime. Yyer l. a curious figure i'll TIL
newspaper world. She ~trequeuts the
prefecture Of police, and Ii remarkabl-
for her persistent praise Of the police
and the justice they dispense. Good,
III her mind, II represented by the project
of police. Tie detectives and the gen
darmes, but never by the prisoners.
Gyp II another worua journalist, puL
her narue-Mme. d. Martel-is p-tar
known i'll connection with novels un Pa
risiau nigh life and ar author IF = few
comedies. Sine Ii d noted contributor,
III d very light vein, to that lively publ
cation, La Vie Parlsienue. Gyp IL popu-
lar. and. besides UeIng = writer Of great
talent, paints with auccess
PERHAPS the most successful nesapa-
per women III Paris art THOSE vino write
about the thing they know best-fash-
ions. But men are encruacnIng sofue- .
what upon this territory, Il altogether
woman's place Ill French Journalism is
not all that could De desired.-New York
sun.
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