Evening journal., 1903-10-02


ever need to earn their living. They
were sent to Europe TO be educated as
ladies should be in the Judgment OF
southern cotton plantation owners
They spent considerable time In Italy.
When they returned TO the plantation
a French governess came with them
and lived IN the Kershaw family twelve
years. The proper ladylike accomplish
ments were drilled into the Kershaw
girls.
Meantime Anna got considerable live
ly enjoyment as she went along. She
was the best shot and best horseback
rider among women in that part OF the
south. II she aimed at squirrel OF
game bird IL had to come down. There
was no horse she feared TO ride. Some
times she varied the amusement by
canoeing in the magnolia fringed bay
GUS with others as young and lively
as herself. Water lilies stirred as they
padded past, hanging gray cypress gar.
lands touched their faces, and now
and then a great alligator made al
them with open mouth, swapping as
though he would swallow them, canoe
and all.
Some years passed and the old happy
life was destroyed. Those who lived It
had 10 face working for the4r bread.
that, too, with no more real preparation
than a child OF ten years has. Annals
older sister. Mrs. r. X. Walker. wild
ow, became society editor Of a st.
Louis paper and filled the place twenty
years
Meantime Anna married n titled
Frenchman. Count de Montalgu. once
Mrs. Walker took a vacation and went
10 Europe for three months. Anna oc-
cupied her chair and was society editor
till her return, and thus Countess Anna
de Montaigu entered the field OF news
paper labor. Events whirled on. and
the countess, too, found it necessary to
work. she knew something OF jour
nalistic writing by this time and began
In that path the steep, uphill road TO
success. She worked awhile on st.
Louis newspapers, then was a Wash
ington correspondent later still tried
her luck in New York, managing al
ways to sustain herself, and also by her
sweet temper and gentle. gracious man.
ners to gain the warm good will OF
those she met
In her profession Nine de Montnigu
is indefatigably industrious and ener
getic, likewise painstaking and sincere
as the conscientious woman always is
OF late years she has lived much in
Paris. Her command OF the French
language and her living interest in the
woman movement ana in all human
progress enable her to gain a knowl'
edge of the real life OF Paris such as
probably no other American woman
journalist at present possesses. In this
respect she resembles the late Lucy
Hamilton Hooper. Nine. de Montaigu
is now in the United States visiting hei
sister in st. Louis.
France is not like America, says the
countess. There everything changes
slowly, though now French women are
waking up, really trying to get oui
from the iron bondage Of the cruel old
Code Napoleon. They have won som'
success. Formerly a married woman
could not without her husbands writ
ten consent draw out OF the bank II
which she had deposited it even th'
money she had earned. She may now
do so. The woman's daily paper, L;
Fronde, still moves on. II has becom'
a cooperative enterprise, the employee
being its stockholders. Nine. Margare
Durand, its leader and inspiration dur
ing its first years, has returned to tn
stage. Ia Fronde's parliamentary re
porter has a permit from the Pari
legal authorities to wear male attire
because it is safer for her as she move
about in performance OF her tasks. He
hair is cut short. JANE STORY.