Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-21
FRENCH WOMEN JOURNALISTS.

Some Are Ranked Among the Notables Of
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-
WILSON'S and tear their vocabularies in
tatters III trying to prove that these femi-
nine illusions were worse than worth
less.
The women who, in spite of this, per-
sist in writing do not have sinecures.
Not long ago at celebrated criminal
trial woman Journalist presented her.
! self at the court rs the judiciary reporter
OF leading morning newspaper in Paris.
The police are said to have been aghast
when Mime. Sevcrine drew forth her pad
| and pencil and demanded admission to
the press tables. The guar:s were some
what taken aback, and. with deplora-
y
| 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 shall come after her.
Mime. Edmond Adam is another wom-
an journalist, perhaps the leading one in
| Paris. She is a politician, author and
| editor. She has been honored by the mu-
! nicipality of Paris in having her name
| given to one OK the streets OF the capital,
an honor rarely bestowed on person
| during his lifetime. 1t isn't much CT
street, to be sure, the Rue Juliette Lam
Der but it is young and may grow some
day. Under Napoleon LII 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 G:ribaldi. 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 beer attributed to her: Bismarck
and me" Bismarck was to have been
| overthrown by me!' "At last the car
| condescends to follow my political views"
She is 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-
| htical men, and the others are artists and
literary people. The dinners are usually
| followed by receptions, which are at
| tended 10y cabinet ministers, deputies,
! senators, diplomats and journalists.
| There are, except on special occasions,
| few women.
Nine. Sevcrines is both more valiant
| and more sentimental than Mime. Adam
/ Severine, as she is Familiarity called, is a
| well known figure i'll Paris. She has
! been nicllnamed 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 imbibas her political
views from The Cri du Peuple The Voice
of the People,, and Nine. Adam drinks
of the fountain of La Rerubl!que Fran
caise, founded 10y G1.nbo;ia. ..everine's
ambition is 10 secure the aLJli,Ion Of
capital punishment.
Nine. Yver is curious figure in the
newspaper world. She frequents thu
prefecture Of police, and is remarkable
for her persistent praise of the police
and the justice they dispense. Good
in her mind, is represented by the project
| of police, the detectives and the 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 few
comedies. She is noted contributor,
in very light vein, to that lively publ
cation, La Vie Parisienne. Gyp is popu-
lar, and, besides being Il writer of great
talent, paints with success.
Perhaps the most successful newspa-
| per women in Paris are those who write
about tine thing they know best-fash-
| ions. But men are encroaching some
what upon this territory, and altogether
woman's place in French journalism is
not all that could be desired.-New York
Sun.