The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-18

ly make the observations necessary
for her stories while she was dressed
as woman. Thereupon she simply
got the cheap trousers, hat una blouse
of poor artist and went about the
streets of Paris day and night and
year after year without her sex being
suspected. Her hair was cut short,
and there were no fancy touches in her
trousered costume. Her secret was
known only to a few intimate friends,
and thus she gathered material and
atmosphere for some of the most pow
erful romances that have ever been
penned.
There, too. was Rosa Bonheur, the
greatest animal painter of her time.
perhaps of modern times. She, too, was
hampered beyond all endurance by the
ordinary garments of her sex. She Pc
titfoned the French government to let
her wear the dress of man, and leave
was graciously and gladly granted, for
Rosa Bonheur was appreciated in her
own land. In the country, in the re-
gion adjoining her estate. she wore the
dress of a peasant farmer; in Paris
mostly the blouse and trousers of an
ordinary laborer. The pale little wo-
man came to be very well known
wherever she appeared.
On the newspaper La Fronde, pub
lished- by Frenchwomen, one of the re-
porters obtained permission to wear
the regulation mans dress. She noted
for her paper the proceedings of the
French Senate and chamber of depu-
ties. One who does this in France is
called a parliamentary reporter, and
no woman was allowed to enter the
reporters gallery. With the facile
adaptability of the French mind it
was decided that a woman in mans
dress might go into it. and thus the
difficulty was got over In france
there Is more in dress than in a name,
it appears.
Today the literary and musical social
circles of Paris are graced by the pres
ence of fair and delicate woman in
masculine attire. She is said to look
too cute for anything" in the full
dress coat and low cut waistcoat which
she dons on evening ceremonial occa-
sions. This lady is the eminent Nine
Jane Paule Rachel Mayre Dieulafoy,
the Archaeological. Except Nine. Curie,
Nine. Dieulafoy Is today Frances most
illustrious woman of science.
In 1881 the ladys husband, Professor
Marcel Dieulafoy. went to Persia to
make explorations for the French gov
eminent. His wife went with him. In
terested in archaeology before. she now
became so enthusiastic that she shared
all her husbands days of digging,
watching, searching. finding and max
ing notes. She could not do this in wo-
mans dress. so she abandoned 1t for
masculine attire. Five years short
haired and trousered she lived and
worked, then experienced an uncon-
querable repugnance at returning to
the slavery of woman's dress" On her
formal petition. therefore, France gave
her the right to wear trousers.
Nine. Dieulafoy has worn her trou-
sers from occident to orient and back
till she has traced the origin of pres
ent day oriental art to ancient Babylon
That is one of the most important of
her discoveries. She has been allowed
to study and even to photograph n
number of rare pictures and art objects
in the cathedrals of Spain, treasures
which before her time had been per
sistently kept from the public. Aomng
her various writings is brilliant de-
scription of the palace of Artaxerxes
II, which she and her husband I'M
earthed at susa, in Persia.
Nine. Dieulafoy and her husband are
models of concentration and persist
ence in a pursuit. Talk of a woman
being scatter brained Professor and
Nine Dieulafoy write and study in the
same room. their library. At & o'clock
in the morning-as regular as the
clock. in truth-winter and summer.
this happy. congenially mated pair be-
gin their writing. They have cup of
chocolate previous to this; nothing
more. Each has desk in the library
There in utter silence. without either
speaking, they sit and write and study
till IL. Here is at least one woman
who can keep her mouth shut. They
have found that no time is so favorable
for mental work as the early morning.
and during that five hours of most in
tense intellectual labor and concentra-
ton not even a telegram is allowed to
be brought them. "Cndisturbed thought
is the one guarantee of good literary
work" says Nine. Dieulafoy
AT IL o'clock the two scientists, we'd
ded to each other and to their work.
breakfast, read their mail leisurely and
converse, then to writing and study
again till or O'clock after which
the lady in trousers and her husband
are free for the day. They work much
In collaboration. So the ideally mated
pair labor year in and year out