The sun., 1900-09-08
Young, GoOdloOking, Rich Pari-
sienne, Has Mania for
Keeping COnSumptives.
UNIQUE WORK FOR CHARITY
Mile. Noualhier Says Her Work is
Purely Sentimental and a Pious
One. Issues a Statementas
to Her Strange Conduct.
From The suns Regular corrcsp- ndent.

frain from telling it. The heroine of it
is AIademoiselle Noualhier, young,
goodlooking and rich, and she has very
peculiar mania, for can call it nothing
else. Her mania is to bring carriage
loads OF incurable consumptives from the
Paris hospitals to die in her hospice at
Limoges, because there sLe can be cer-
tain that they will make good Chris
tian-that is to say Catholic-ending.
They are dying in the hospital, their
lives are not prolonged by three hun
dieo mile train journey, it may be in the
depth OF winter, and ae rule, to which |
there are few or no exceptions, they do
die shortly after their arrival at Limoges. |
To compensate them for their journey |
and the added suffering it entails, they |
are sure OF receiving the last sacramento |
surrounded by nuns and priests. With
in the last three years six. hundred con-
sumptives have been thus brought from
one Of them is now alive. This has been
going on for the last twelve or fifteen
years.
Needless to say the Limourins have
long been shocked and scandalized by
this unique work OF Christian charity.
Crowds nave gathered at the railway
terminus to see the poor incurables come
in, and on one occasion the mayor was
induced to 60 up to Mile. Noualher and
demonstrate with ler. The only result
of his Intervention Was that Mile, Noual-
hier put on a look OF surprise and in
quired the mayors name; and there the
matter dropped. As time went on, how
ever, other circumstances began to move
the people. 1t was noticed that in the
quarter which contained the amateur
hospice deaths from consumption became
alarmingly frequent while the death rate
from consumption in other quarters OF
the town stood still. 1t was noticed too,
that houses ia the hospice quarter were
falling out OF occupation and that the
region was gradually turning into soil.
tude only broken by daily and some
times hourly procession of funerals from
the hospice door. The result was that a
week or two ago the townspeople woke
up, their patience at an end. They form
ed a committee, organized noisy meet
ings about the hospice doors, had stont 8
thrown at the windows and appealed to
Paris.
The appeal has met with only partial
success and the matter will probably
have TO be fought out before the Supreme
court OF appeal. The Minister OF the In
iCiAOi Gald ilt lIaO lh DDhtt DllJEtll w
order the hospice to be clossd, nor could
he forbid Mile. Nouahier entering the
Paris hospitals on certain days like any
one else. All he cou,u DO he did name
~, recommend the mayor to issue lot.
ice that any institution proved TO he en-
dangerlng the sanitary state Of the town
/ should be closed. Nile. Noualher, how
: ever, seeme to have good ground techni
: cally as urg as size adopts all the pre-
i cautions prescribed by tile sanitary au
, lhorities, and this, OF course, SHE takes
good care to do.
But what, it may be asked, is Mile
Npualhler's own Justification uf her con
duct. she came TO Paris the other day
! and publisht d a statement of it, 1t is
+ as might be suppose d, purely senti
mental and pious one--that as the form
I Of unhappness and lines are mutitudi
, nous, the iorns OF benevolence "a c9l
,lJh them must be multtudiuuu- t,
Size alleges, moreover, that in the las
,ltee Years sixty patients have Tee,
euied by her or sent mnch improved il
heanh to their homes. Against thi
there is the fact that before the hospta
lets the patient 60, the patient is declare,
. incurable. Mile. Nmualhler also assert
that the houses on either side uf the hos
! PIC" are partially occupied, but un TIN
/. other hand there is the testimony L
\ numerous house owners that their house
:, once lull, have now ceased To let. III
rase on the hole is, as anyone can see
tXitemely curious one and unique i
/, tiIe annals and methods of beneyolenct
i. Let me correct and at the same tim
be expand IL statement published by til
Of Also ciated Press to tie effect the
ut "Amerlcans who were in Paris durin
4 the Spanish American war state that th
., impression in the United States ths
nd France was anti. American was unjust.
3a Tnis is not correct statement OF tn
4 'act. Right through the wAl Fra re- VI
y u man u.SpAri>l ~ aLtt-An.eiI.,
IL and PROOFS vi II from tile mouths vi til
= people we're to be gathered in the Fat
bourg st. German as well as in til
n quarter OF St. Denis. True the Frenc
government was neutral in its publ
20 policy and 1t deserves every credit for il
attitude, but when the man diveste
~. himself Of the minister over an afte
!. dinner cigar, with no Americans preseI
=, neutrality was not at all his attitude
+" The feeling OF soreness man now happil
= passed away aud no nation is mol
)h popular than America. But that Lati
~ SeUllIellt VIII ever De ODpleVely al oil
I'd Nth American sentiment is an extrem
he y doubtful thing to say and why pr
5" end that France is friendly at heart
ro any people but the French?
Ol-
The "House of Moliere" as the Com
lie-Francaise is oiIen called is begi
ning quite ro1nd OF visits, not to "a
ed undergoing series of eyictons. VIE
he It was burnt ont II went across the Sell
NO TO the Odenn. Now it is recrossing i
cd water to the Nouveau Theatre in the !,
od blanche. It's new home is really ii
~. theatte Of the Casino de Paris bpst
gu Shicli IL stands and is decidedly sns
hs 'or The C,m-dle Franca 81. he aconst
IN Properties hOatvtr. are 81 good tina, VI
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ne eri FINANCES OF Tristan and Ieeull
Of hat WI = Il, tteir perfection rAn-,.d
at "nch Sensation l. g lnckv one can he
er- @ell III lh- NJnveau Theatre tur the di
Gioh oi thr a. tors ns The Cime,i'- Fra
caise is fa.nons or its purity and dstin
h Sion ahu nuL muIu vi H nnvu.u
missed,