Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-30
FOR WORKING WOMEN
What Paris Will Do for Their Comfort
During the Exposition.
how THEY WILL FIND GOOD HOMES
A Club for the Use of Girls After
the Busy Day.
lie PALAIS DE LA FEMME
LIE PALAIS DE LA FEMME

hung around its neck. may be abandoned
by its mamma in all confidence. to play tag
ir comfortable nurseries with any quantity
of other left-to-be-called-for Juveniles of
every race and complexion. while she takes
an untrammeled whirl through the more
crowded portion of the exposition grounds
Who knows? The cosmopolitan acquaiht-
anCes thus made by visiting infants may
prove of the greatest utility to them in
after life. All this takes in the much-talk-
ed-Of Palais de la Femme, a coquettish
piece of architecture very French and mod
ern, very fiowery. very decorative. in the
Champ de Mars between the Eiffel tower
and the Iona bridge.
This Palais de Ia Femme is only one of a
number Of exclusively 'feminste" institlI-
lions of the exposition of the dawning CEN
fury, whose promise some declare to be the
feministe millennium. The Palais de Ia
Femme is their declared center. But there are
the wOnen's congresses. There is the Pal
ace OF Costume. There is the institution Of
the friends of the young girl-a peculiarly
delicate and graceful conception. As Mad
anne PICARD, the woman's rights Gemiste)
champion. admits. they have all grOwr out
of the wOInan's building of Chicago. True,
there is official board Of lady managers
a title that would be impossible anywhere
but in the United StateS-and no lady arChi-
We're intruSted with the buildings and their
oTnams ntattOn. but the essence OF the thing
IS here. and man-in France too gallant to
permit woman to do anything alone-Las
somewhat marred the first idea OF Madame
Pesard and her sisters in the cause. to
make the Palais de Ia Femme a palace OF
protest fe!as tor woman rights Ihey
have made the building 50 distinctly. CO.
queStiShly and luNuriously feminine that
the fair ones refreshing themselves in its
perfumet toilet rooms, lulied out of vigil
lance under It's gaiIy striped awnings FOR
get AT tht same time their rights ana their
perSNTlnS husoandS stalking up and down
the gravel walks outside.
Human and Comfortoble
ts -.
II must therefore, De frankly ADMITTED
that the Wonan'S palace Is very WOMAN
ly concern. While. as the program says it
''respnn.!e to multiple needs" almost the
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"ti'lS ~ ~ SI"u'L'tAi"'I - SVEN up 70 the
srlaftt-$l KIND OF Ntt4e neauty-work-Shops
saloons de toilette spacieux ct confortables.
where serrantes expresses and barber
haS'rl = repair inc insults OK the Gust, the
r,Z r0- h.. as 80 as :, 80 h,,t rs me
of women find in very human and confort
abb. T" set off female charms nothing
potter than the Louis Nv style has ever
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TIas SHOWN through ms. frs,IIt-renairir,o
halls I.f,r. rba ry7g,,i,e- ,,-La, a,.ar,-,E -
VS. IL, Mac AMI r..,,i,- for +b irr,,,tt;S -
tbt. wa5riaI fair. ana what Win tbair rov,s
of marble v-ashsta0ds barhars' cn,,ntsrs
loaded down with cologne SPRAYS. alc6a1I
laplT,s crin,T,ine irons rouge nots and
DoSCer nors and Duffs and Ts,hbits, fo,ts
and black and brown and hfstra ,anri1s
pins and hairDins and All manner If roI-s,
terious engines and occ11It annIfapca. har+
known to the ladies' maids Of pari, IN
utter feminfnity of the REIMBURSEMENT ac-
cused intsaIf in no uncertain voice IT ie
trIIa thar there arr. several .scorrasnordarra
rooms on the first floor where some
strongminced sister may be now and then
nIisis-iLtu "othHns up iler dlary. Upstairs,
nent places, For tha rest boUaver al NE
see within this palace is in the good old
Key OF Louis XIV, and the very exposition
vi, .tJ VIE VIE. VI "oliien mas 70 90 win
hold ard ~ ner a., u ner mouse
tbfngs s,arna1s 5a-a,i - =, ii I W
shades ar+ cbiffo,age a,,b-atIar ,
estry lace furnftura and household Iaoorp
tion Heals FOR tha ar1ancira to- 81 - &c
"a '- 'N-
In the Old style.
Indeed. the very diable of peryersity
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- -is'' Sc eN epl4'ioi VI 'ne fdidis
oe Ia shlihe 10 Keep IL Louis Nv Up
stairs in the great sale de conferences
where shows and tableaux vivants a1,ar-
nate with s1oc,a,oz &c Ia. ,...,,su. 49,
w" 04Ne"Ne VI id'is lecturers' the
tendehcy Is utterly old-fashioned. The
Inns piclLreS that are causing most
"a
those oLu painters OF the eighteenth CEN
tuf! whose lieiiI OF women was the CO.
guett,SH ana caPriclous shtpherdess-
6ouChTF' 'IreuZe, w atte2u. Fragonard,
ttrdlh anu LafsHhera- True, much of the
music eHeclted Is by woman composers.
oman writers may deposit their books in
the IDTaJ. But IS 1t not curious to note
again that the most popular lectures. even,
are th,Se OF the eminent artistic conferen-
c'ere, Madam Thenard, on the Parole Fran
mr. Vel 81 VII 80 - 'ii0 at VI 9Peah-
Eor w,.,r
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' 't Nil7 "'4iidil-oul OF "hlcn
comes the organization of the Friends OF
the 1pGnS Giri. W lille the Young Wo-
man : christian Association is not I'M
known IN r rance-lt mas trail transplant
ea existence as has the Salvation Army
the ldea uf this exposition adjunct marks
a real frgsrSss- The condition Of the work
ing Slrl IN Paris Is deplorable. In partic-
nIar the shop girl. the wage-paid milIiner
am am :" ltiS-1nachlne girl are forced to lead
Nv Nv may are continual temptation The
hI"'t 81 tdkihS poarders simply to help
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