The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
SHE wEARs TROUSERS.
Mme. Dieulafoy Found Them So Mue
 More Convenient.


 Mime. DieuIafoy Found Them So Much
 More Convenient.
 One enjoyment the entree to ex- elusive circles in Paris is likely to meet at any time a couple before whom everybody gives way and whose ap- Dearsnce wilt profoundly impress the newcomer. Professor and Mme Dteuiafoy!" the word is passed around Surely there must be some mistakei That tall. well-built. fine looking man. with the gray mustache and beard, may be Professor Dieulafoy, but his i frail, beardless companion, dressed in an irreproaehable frock coat and fault less trousers, cannot be his wife! And yef more searching look at the re- fined and sensitive face a single glance at the delicate, tapering hands suf- ice to dispel the illusion created by clothes. It is not only a woman, but one of the most womanly of women.
 Perhaps what causes Madame Dieula- foy to be often taken for man by those who do not know her is that she wears her masculine garb without af- fectation, She wears mans clothes not only because she considers them ration- al and convenient, but because she is thoroughly accustomed to wearing them and acquired the habit in excep- tional circumstances. Consequently short hair and ties and coats and trou- sers seem quite natural for her because she is perfectly at ease with them.
 The first time that Madame Dieulafoy dressed as man she was far from in- tending to renounce feminine garments forever. In 1881 the French govern ment had intrusted Marcel Dieulafay with an intrusted Marcel Dieulafoy with an important archaeological mis- sion to Persia and Susiana, and Mad anne Dieulafoy, whose tastes were lite- rary and who had always taken keen interest in archaeological questions. de- eided to follow her husband The re- suits of their joint labor were of inesti- mable value to lovers of the antique, for they found the sites of the palace of Darius and of Artaxsrses. and after five years of toll brought the principal yestiges back to the Louvre Museum in Paris.
 The work was filled with fatigues, difficulties and dangers, and Madame Dieulafoy, after tearing her skirts on prehistoric stone and tripping over her petticoats in Persian fields. decided that woman's dress was not devised for archaeological pursuits. She envied the ease and immunity with which her husband moved about, and presently it occurred to her that if she initiated J,s,,. q, tt,. x,,;I5e ,,f fha nrianf y4n 0,,a would be the wiser when she returned to Paris.
 So one fine day, not suspecting that she was preparing a great decision in life, she cut her hair, donned suit of mems clothes and went to her work. For the first time she was free and happy, and accomplished so much that she decided to continue dressing as a man as long as she remained in Persia. But when she was finally ready to re- turn to her Paris home she lacked the courage to resume what she had come to consider as the slavery of woman's dress. To face public criticism was far less trying an ordeal. For five. years she had dressed as a man and to dress as a woman seemed as antiqua- ted and absurd to her as 1t would be for a London stockholder to parade the city in a Roman toga. And she there fore flied a formal petition to the French government asking official au- thorization to wear men's clothes in fu- ture.
 Rosa Bonheur had received one of these rare permits and Madame Dieu- Iafoy received another. Hour Glass.