The morning call., 1893-07-23

the great radical writer, known as
Jacques Vingtras."
In this room are bust and portrait of
Vales; bust Of the republic. with the
face of Marie Antoinette, is signed Cour-
bet. This is the only piece of sculpture
made by the great painter. On the walls
are bullets cast by the Drcazeville miners.
and given by these miners to Nine. Sew
crime.
There is a curious collection of photo
graphs. The young Duke d'Orleans is
beside General Boulanger; Cardinal Man
ming is opposite Padewski. the Pole who
murdered in Paris the ex-chief of the Rus
sian police; the Princess of Monaco is the
neighbUr of Antoine. manager of the The
atre Lbre, and Felicia Mallet the comic
actress. is beside his Holiness, Pope Leo
XIII.
In winter Nine. Severine goes to the
south of France. and in the summer to the
Hermitage OF Vllebon. but she prefers to
write at her Paris home. She is an inde-
fatlgable writer and spends most of her
time at her writlng-desk. Before commit
ting her thoughts to paper they are care
fully arranged, and when ready she shuts
herself In her library and walks The floor
or at least fifteen minutes. After" ard
she writes very rapidly and seldom makes
any corrections. Only her four dogs are
permitted 10 bein the room. and thess peis
are so trained that the moment they see
the pen IN the manu- VI CucIT u1lSlI0SS tHey
take their places In the armchairs and
sleep.
Every day Nine. Severine cuts from the
pa ers all that she thinks may be Of serv-
ice in the future. These clippings are ar
ranged in observation-disclosures, science. so
ciallsm. politics. etc.-and all placed in
special cases.
Wien her WORK is finished Nine. Severine
goes to Bellevile or Menimontant quar-
ters to visit her oor, ana she always finds
time to be present at the first representa-
ton of every play and to take part in every
fete.
For some time Nine. Severine has in
tended TO found sOcia liStic, literary jour.
nal. II shall not edit this paper" says
the eminent journalist, because an editor
has too great responsibility. And then.
the fact that | am woman does not pre-
vent me from being siandered and INSURE ed.
| shall tell my collaborateurs, Say what
you like, but say it in good French, and re-
membe your words are often read by
simple minds that implicitly believe exag-
gerations of form, and at your insti2ation
may commit some crime. 1t Is very easy
10 cry Forward! and afterward when
your hearers have gone forward. to say.
1 ain not responsible.
Niue. Sever.ne has original ideas about
dramatic authors. Il am preparing play,
and / select all my characters among the
people. But | make them speak as they
should speak; never yet has a play been
written in which workihen talk as in zeal
life"
Nine. Severine has bronze brown hair,
dark complexion and china-blue eyes. She
was born in Paris, at "a Rue du HeIder,
and her father and grandfather were beth
men of learning. 1t was her father who
superin tended her early educati0D. When
she was only years old he read to her
each evening a chapter from the Retreat
of the Ten Thousand" in the original,
simply 10 arcustom her ear to the euphOny
of the Greek language.
At that age she looked upon journalists
as heroes and eagerly watched them as
they were shown TO her on the streets.
Nine. Severine'S peculiar political ideas
may be explained by the fact that her
grandmother was rOyallst, who taught
veneratlon for a sovereign. The child's
political education was completed, un-
known to her parents, by an old carpen-
ter, WHO explained To her the revolution
Of 1S40. and by a seamstress, VINO had
worked for the fami. y OF Ledru-Rollln, the
radical of those days.
1t WAS in 1880 that Nine. Severine met
Jules Wales in Brussels; and for him she
had filal affection that became wotship.
With Wales she worked. copied his arti-
cles, corrected his proofs, and with his en-
couragement published sketches written
by herself. Together Nine. Severine
and Jules Wales wrote ''Iusnrge.' Wales
rem nj cences of his life In New Caledonia.
where, in 1871, he was sent with the other
communists. aud "The Slums OF London"
one + the strongest but most repulsive
works of the age.
When Valles died in Paris Nine. Sever
| inc undertook the management OF lie Cri
! du Peupie. and for two years she carried
on this journalistic venture.
| In May. 1883, Nine. Severine wrote her
fr,t article for the Gil Bias; in June she
published a chronique in LIE Gaulois, and
| from that time the woman who had been
considered literary outlaw had one sue
cess after another. and now is celebrated.
| have said that Nine. Severine defends
with ardor all whom she considers op-
pressed, all whom she considers treated
with iDj tstlce.
Louis XVII is by some supposed to have
escaped from the Temple, and certainly
tn pretender's claim to the throne Of
/ France was recognized by the King Of