Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-07-19
THE BEADLE OBJECTED.
RN Pluck aud Per~i>teneN the Ameri-
can W oman Gained Her Point.

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can Woman Gained Her Point.
An American woman who has made
many trips abroad and studied in differ
ent European capitals was relating her
experiences.
1t was il Paris" she ss.il. tibet !
made the boldest experiment | ever at
tempted and had them most signal success.
had been spending the summer in Swift
zerland. studying certain branches Of
philosophy in which was interested
and had come up to Paris with view
to pressing my work still further.
had, even beyond the Alps, been regard
nag with q jealous eye the Sorbonne and
had tried to lay my plans to gain en-
trance 10 the famous lectures which We're
given in its old halls. There was to be
one course in philosophy which dove
tailed perfectly with my needs, and |
made up my mind that if persistence or
diplomacy, or both, could gain me ad
mittance to those lectures nothing short
Of an interpositIou of Providence could
keep me away.
"Of course | knew that women were
not admitted knew, too, that French
gallantry is trait much circumsCribed
in its exercise. The only thing | had to
help me in the carrying ont of my plan
was a letter from my professor in
Switzerland addressed to certain man
of letters in Paris. | lost 10 time after
my arrival IN going to present this let
ter. but the man of learning was ont of
the city. would not return soon. and in
the meantime the lectures were goins
on. | turned the matter over in nv
mind that night. ana as the result Of nv
meditafions took nv way to the Scr.
bonnie the following day at the hour APP
pointed for the lecture.
BY inquiry outside. | found the stu.
dents entrance. and as was a tritie late
made INV way in without exciting any
attention. The lecture room was am
phitheaterlike. the benches they had ne
backs rising in tiers from the SPEAKERS
platform. | entered at the back of these
tiers and looked about me. Not an aisle
was there in the hall. The way the front
seats wer,, reaeh he'd was by sterI1,ir11, down
from one tier Of Anches to another. |
was out Of range Of good hearing. SO
there was nothing for me 10 do bit nick
nv WAY over those benches to a seat near
the front
The narrator paused and drew a dt.4f,
breath. She was So low voiced that her
listeners had drawn clos. to her in order
10 hear her. and she was as sweet and
wonanly and gentle in all things else as
she was in voIee,
Well she laughed a little and twist
ed her handkerchief as if even the reco,-
lection was a trIfia en- barrassine, II SAT
down and took out nv notebook and
pencil and began taking notes. but was
conscious that several hundred pairs Of
curious ewes. all masculine. were fixed
upon me. | didn't hear the lecturer
very distinctly because there was sucb a
ringing in NV ears. but | made a good
pretense Of taking notes and thought the
shock would wear off directly But snd.
denly l became conscious of something
red and brown and hig beside ma I
locked around and there stood the beadla
the very augrirst beadle Won ever saw
His face was relder than the facings ON
his gorgeous coat. and the hand that
held his tall stick fairly shook with re-
pressed excitement.
...Yct, 1nust leave here. 1uaaenoiselle'
he said in French.
Il tried to look calm and asked why l
must 90. The beadle got a shade redder
and trembled little more violently.
Ladies are not allowed here he
WHISPERED Such lond whisner too,
".But.' said. 4 wish very rnuch 10
ONE
You cannot stay. You cannot stavr
said the beadle. Ladies never come