The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-11-07
AoNoRED BY A NATION.
Nine. Bogelot Receives the Ribbon of the
Legion of Honor.

Legion of Honor. "
The French government, by awarding
the ribbon of the Legion of Honor to
Nine. Bogelot, has turned a brilliant
light ON q 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 "Euvre de Liber-
,ees de st. Lazare, !" of which she il now
directress, and it is mainly due to the
fact that she personally represented the
society at the woman's congress at Chi
cago that she owes this public recogni-
ton of her worth-an honor seldom
~vouchsafed to women, however well
merited. To be thus singled ont from
among others of her sex must certainly
be extremely gratifying, but it is pleas
ing to find that Nine. Bogelot takes her
honors very meekly. The predominating
characteristics Of the new chevaliere are
meekness and cheerfulness, combined
with excellent business capacities and q
boundless compassion for human errors
and misfortunes 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. I
nnvoYa on ont raoxyoVu nav x4sc1Ac - MEvnn
Bogelot explained in o recent interview.
81 rise early, the morning is spent at
home debating letters to my private sec
Rotary. During the afternoon hours T
ann generally to be found at the offices
Of the Guvre DIES Liberees de St La
r AT 6 O'Clock I return to dine with
my husband and son, and I ann seldom
out of bed after g."
This is the simple epitome Of Mime.
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 o large house situated i'm q 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. It is
pleasant to note that between husband
and wife there is complete harmony of
ideas and interests, NJ. Bogelot, who is
q member of the bar, affording his wife
aid and advice on all legal matters con-
nected with her work.
Few women leading more or less of
o public life manage to steer clear of the
quicksands of sectarianism. That Mime.
Bogelot has been able to do SO is due
partly to a well balanced mind and
amiable temper, partly to the manifold
occupations of her busy life. She is ever
ready to give advice in respect to the
administration Of societies, a matter in
which she is thoroughly conversant,
but she wisely restricts her own labors
to the special lines she has taken mp,
and which absorb all her time and ener-
giles. Politics never attracted her, nor
has she even taken an active part i'm the
vindication OF woman's rights. Still she
is ever ready to lend a helping hand to
members of her own sex, to fellow
workers as well AZ h the disinherited
by fortune. I,ut, although she personal
~ prefers to hold aloof from party strife,
the woman's cause has undoubtedly her
entire sympathy. Indeed it would have
been strangs had it been otherwise.
owing to the great friendship that exist
ed between her and the late Maria De-
raismes. Tho connection between them
was almost that Of mistress and pupil.
There was q difference OF some 10 years
in their ages. and Isabelle Bogelot,
when o weakly child, was taken under
the wing OF the elder woman and her
sister. Nine. 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 snbse-
qnent career.
Not being gifted with literary abili.
ties, as was the more brilliant Maria
Deraismes. she sought TO render herself
useful In other ways IL was not, how
ever. until after her marriage that she
joined the Gnvre DIES Liberees do ST.
Lazare. with which her name has since
been 30 i~nseparably connected. This
was In 1878. and the society had been
founded three years previously by Mile.
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