Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-25
HoNoREo BY A NATION.
Mime. BoGelse Receives the Ribbon Of the
Legion of Honor.

Mime. Bogelot, has turned q brilliant
light on a personality whose career has
hitherto lain somewhat in the shade.
Leaving to others the care of vindicat-
ing the feminine cause in public meet
ings and in the press, Mime. Bogelot
has devoted her life to the redemption
Of female criminals. Her name is init
mately connected with that highly phil
anthropic work. the "Guvre de Liber-
ees de st. Lazare,'' of which she is now
directress, and it is mainly due to the
fact that she personally represented the
society at Ne woman's congress at Chi
cagO that she owes this public recogni-
ton of her WORKMAN honor seldom
vouchsafed to women, however well
merited. To be thus singled out from
among others of her sex must certainly
be extremely gratifying. but it is pleas
ing to find that Mime. Bogelot takes her
honors very meekly. The predominating
characteristics of the new chevaliere are
meekness and cheerfulness, combined
with excellent business capacities and a
boundless compassion for human errors
and mlsfortunes of every shape.
She Is an admirable specimen of that
class of Frenchwomen about whom the
fashionable society of Paris knows lit
tie.
'The world and I are strangers l
never go ont, never pay visits Nine.
Bogelot explained in recent interview.
Il rise early, the morning is spent at
home debating letters to my private Sec
rotary. During the afternoon hours l
am generally to be found at the offices
of the Guvre DIES Liberees de st. La
zare. At 6 O'Clock return to dine with
my husband and son, and / am seldom
out of bed after 81
This is the simple epitome of Nine
Bogelot's self sacrificing existence. In
her home surroundings there are album
dant evidences that the humanitarian
labors of this excellent woman are not
allowed to interfere with the comfort of
her husband. There Is no disorder in
her household. You feel that every
thing moves ON oiled wheels. A roomy
fiat in large house situated III small
street turning out Of the busy Rue de
Rivoli Is her abode, solidly but simply
furnished, q single, middle aged serv-
ant composing the entire staff. 1t is
pleasant to note that between husband
and wife there is complete harmony of
ideas and interests, NJ. Bogelot, who is
member of the bar, affording his wife
aid and advice on all legal matters con-
nected with her work
Few women leading more CT less Of
a public life manage to steer clear of the
quicksands of sectarianism. That Nine
Bogelot has been able TO do so is due
partly to we'll balanced mind and
amiahle temper, partly to the manifold
occupations of her busy life. She is ever
ready to give advice in respect to the
administration Of societies, q matter in
which she is thoroughly conversant
but she wisely restricts her own labors
to the special lines she has taken up,
and which absorb all her time and ener-
gies Politics never attracted her, nor
has she ever taken an active part in the
vindication of woman S rights. Still she
is ever ready to lend o helping hand to
members Of her own sex, TO fellow
workers as well rs to the disinherited
by fortune. But, although she personal
~ prefers to hold aloof from party stlife,
the woman S cause has undoubtedly her
entire sympathy. Indeed it would have
been strange had it been otherwise
ewing to the great friendship that exist
ed between her ard the late Maria De-
raismes. The connection between them
was almost that Of mistress and pupil
There was difference of some 0 years
i'll their ages, and Isabelle Bogelot,
when a weakly child, was taken under
the wing of the elder woman and her
sister, Mime. Fenisse, that she might
have the benefit of country air, and re-
manned an inmate of their house until
she married. This early training had
probably q great effect ON her SUISSE
quent career.
Not being gifted with literary abili-
ties, as was the more brilliant Maria
Deraismes, she sought to render herself
useful i'll other ways. 1t was not, how
ever, until after her marriage that she
joined the Guvre DIES Liberees de St
Lazare, with which her name has since
been SO inseparably connected This
was in 1878, and the society had been
founded three years previously by Mile
Michel de Grandpre, the niece of the
chaplain of st. Lazare, who had been
struck during her intercourse with the
| inmates Of this house of detention by
the anxiety evinced by so many of the
| prisoners as their terms of imprison-
ment came to close and they knew
| they would be once more thrown on
| their own resources and have to do bat
| tie with the difficulties Of life, heavily
handicapped by the ignominy of con-
| viction. Initiated into the workings of
the society by Nine. Emile de Mar
sier, its vice president, Mime. Bogelot
| threw herself into the work heart and
soul and was very soon elected men,
Der Of the committee, to become, in
1880, its general directress, a post
| which she has held ever since.
Queen.
| Mime. Casimir-Perler.
| Mime. Casimir- Perier married her
cousin and is herself Perier. She is
tall and fair, with a commanding figure,