Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-04-03

which as been kept steadily in view
through infancy. through childhood
and during her school days-her
marriage.
The French woman. unless she
should belong to family holding
very advanced ideas-and these are
steadily multiplying, even in France
remains a minor all her life. If
she teaches or embroiders. or en-
cages in any permissible business her
earnings can be claimed by her
father, and she is allowed just what
he sees fit to grant her. After mar
riage she still remains a minor, UNI
less this should he stipulated In the
antenuptial contract The latter
has been legaliZed under the republic.
and by its provisions the wife retains
her Independence. transacting bust
ness, managing her own property,
but never acquiring, even then, a
right TO the custody of her own chill
Gren which are still supposed to
belong to the father exclusively.
The wCmcn of France have no
political privileges of any sort The
Sale law, which excluded women
from succeeding to the throne, has
influenced all politics, and it is
field in which the women of the
nation have not Interested them
selves. except as it has afforded
themes for discussion in the salon or
motifs of intrigue in the court
Those who, Ike Nine De Stael, knew
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ment, have been very few. and in this
! respect they have been in marked
contrast with the women of the
/ higher classes in Great Britain who
are expected to be thoroughly con-
Nersant with public affairs.
| In every French household the sup
plies are regularly purchased each
day, even to the sugar and coffee.
Nothing is wasted and nothing left
over: even, >.,e bones of joint, and
chop are bronen up and placed to
simmer in the pot au feu-the stock
for innumerat.e soups, The water in
(which the cauliflower and other
, strong favored vegetables are
stewed is saved in the same manner.
and such a menu may be prepared
in the closet-like kitchen, over a
handful of charcoal as would hardly
be undertaken in large American
kitchen crowded with new inventions
of every description
| Almost all French women are
natural cooks. and cookery is part
of every girls education-except
among the very highest classes.
Even these, reduced to poverty, have
exhibited surprising aptitude in what
might be called the national vocation
In the country. the peasant child,
who must work as soon as she can
walk, begins by caring for the
lICultry OF herding cattle in the
fields: then she secures a place In
the village, progressing from dish
washing and preparing vegetables.
to cooks assistant, and finally, be-
coming very proficient, able to under
take the most difficult and com
lplicated dishes
Aside from supervising their house
holds. French women OF the middle
and upper lower class have a decided
talent for business. As In England.
many of them manage-and manage
admirably-hOtels and large pensions
Others are competent bookkeepers In
such establishments, and they are
employed in the same capacity in
| many of the large shops
Stenography and typewriting have
rot been mastered by French girls
SO generally as by American and
English girls, but the demand for
their services in this capacity is in
creasing. Hundreds are employed a.
saleswomen in the shops and oc~
casionally as telegraphers.
Nursing. heretofore, has been al
most wholly monopolzied by the re-
religious sisterhoods, of whose work
II was considered a legitimate part.
But of late years the profession has
commended itself to intelligent young
women with he approval Of the more
liberal OF the French medical pro
fessioE.
Strangely enough. for many years
women have enjoyed special OBJ
portunities of studying medicine, the
sciences and arts, in Paris, obtaining
degrees long before such recognition
was accorded them in London.
&c legal profession was the last
to yield, and within the present year
Nine Petil was admitted to the bar
and is now practicing in Paris. Or
the occasion OF her admission she
was highly complimented for her at
tainments by the Judge before whom
she appeared.
Journalism has also proved a field
in which ciever French women have
distinguished themselves. No editor
IN France Yields wider influence
than Nine. Adam Of the NouveIle.
Revue.
The successful woman artist in
France, in Paris especially, enjoys
tho most distinguished privileges and
honors. She is a law unto herself.
living like a princess in sumptuous
apartments where she receives the
dignitaries of the government like
sovereign holding a levee.
1t is doubtful If any woman of the
stage-even the great Sarah SIooons
hap