Democratic messenger., 1894-03-24
FRENCH WOMEN JOURNALISTS.
some Aro Ranked Among the Sotables
pnri. Their Work and Manners.

tome Aro Ranked Among the Sotabies Of
Paris Their Work and Manners.
The newspaper women of France are
comparatively few. They are constant
| " accused of IA total lack of the critical
faculty and of IA want of perception Of
the ridiculous. Furthermore. their ideas
OH ethics and philosophy are said to be
''stale." Nevertheless il 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 III
tatters in trying Ia prove that these femi-
nine ..ffusiuiI> We're worse than worth
| less.
The women who. i'll spite of this, per
sist ii. writing do not have sinecures.
/ Not long ago at celebrated criminal
trial woman journalist presented her
self at the court as the Judiciary reporter
of "A leading morning newspaper In Paris.
| The police are said To have been aghast
when Nine. Severine drew forth her pad
and pencil and demanded admission to
the press tables. The guards We're some
what taken aback. and. with deplora-
bic lack of French chivalry, 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
srs 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 Ia one of the streets of the capital,
an honor rarely bestowed on person
during his lifetime. II isn't much Of u
street. TO be sure, the Rue Juliette Lam.
ber but it is young and may grow some
day. Under Napoleon Iii Mime. Adam
had IA salon i'll 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 Il great
friend of Garibaldi At the close of the
Franco Prussian war she had no one III
France TO particularly oppose, So she Sc
lected Bismarck. Such phrases as these
have been attributed to her: Bismarck
and mel" 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-
litical men. and the others are artists 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.
Nine. Severine is both more valiant
and more sentimental than Mime. Adam.
Severine. as she is familiarly called, is o
well known figure i'll Paris. She has
been nicknamed Mamzelle Gavroche and
Jenny L'Ouvriere. and although she is
much given To literary floods of tears.
she writes vigorously md well. She has
her own particular &, nceptions of good
and evil. Scverine in bibes her political
views from The Cri du Peuple The Voice
of the People,. and Mime. Adam drinks
of the fountain of La Republique Fran
caisc. founded by Gambetta. Severine's
ambition is To secure the abolition of
capital punishment.
Mime. Yver is a curious figure i'll The.
newspaper world. She frequents tn"
prefecture of police. and is remarkabl,
for her persistent praise of the police
and the justice they dispense. Good"
in her mind. is represented 10y the project
Of police. the detectives and the gem
darmes. but never by the prisoners.
Gyp Is another woman journalist, but
her name-Mmc. 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. IL that lively publ
cation, La Vie Parisiennc. Gyp is popu-
lar. and. besides being IA 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
ions. But men are cncroaching some
what upon this territory, and altogether
woman's place in French journalism is
not all that could be desired. New York
Sun.