The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-12

women engage in mercantile pursuits
in France, to the exclusion of any gen
uine home life, home being at best a
room or two, stone paved, dark, sitting,
in the rear of the shop which COM
passes the woman's whole existence.
AS rule" she adds, 'the children of
these women workers are taken from
the mother Immediately at BIRTH and
sent away for rearing. OF such rec
ognized Importance is the purely eco
nomlc production of women in France,
peasants renting a farm are commonly
obliged to write in the lease that no
child born to the woman shall be reared
at home. This is to insure that the
proprietor shall suffer no possible loss
resulting from the wonan's labor being
IN the least diverted from the farm to
the care of her babies"
There is something very attractive
to the American who is fond of ami
mals in the way the japanese treat
dumb creatures. The Youths Com
panlon gives Prof. Morse as the au-
thority for this pretty description of
japanese feeling for animals: Birds
build their nests in the city houses;
wild fowl, geese and ducks alight in
the public parks; wild deer trot about
the streets. He had actually been fol-
lowed by wild deer in the streets nib
tame as calves and lambs on our farms.
A dog goes to sleep in the busiest
streets; men turn aside so as not to
disturb him. One day beautiful heron
aughted on the limb of a tree, and the
busy, jostling throng stopped. No one
attempted to injure the bird, but sew
eral began sketching him.
o
while I sympathize with the Japa-
nese in their victories as heartily as
any American said a New York wom-
an the other day, my heart goes with
every fresh one that is reported to the
poor czarina. That she has been ter
ribly shocked by the disasters to the
Russian arms is not surprising. All
suffered intensely. But there is no
woman in Russia who has been sub
Jected to more abuse and unl1ind criti-
clSm than the cZarina, and years of
this treatment have naturally worn
upon her nerves. For a considerable
period she has been in a deplorable
nervous state, and every fresh reverse
piunges her anew into the deepest grief.
| hear she is in the hands Of several
great nerve specialists, who are kept
in a constant state of dread over the
war news from day to day. To me the
czarina is very much to be pitied.n
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Royal Sl1amrock"-thati is the new
est thing in perfumes in England,
where the visit of royalty to the En-
eratd Isle has drawn popular attention
to Ireland and tended to popularize it
with the English. OF course the name
is q misnomer. Shamrock has no odor.
to begin with. and royalty, it is said.
has neither adopted the new scent nor
shown it marked favor. Queen Alex
andra. gossip says, remains faithful to
her own private and particular scent.
the name and manufacture of which
are kept profound secret. 1t is de-
scrihed as delightful perfume by
those who have shifted its royal fra
Srance. and people who know. or think
they know. say it is expensive which
IS not unlikely. The queen, however.
is no more extrayagant or self-indul-
gent in her personal tastes than was
Queen Victoria. The young czarina
on the contrary, is popularity credited
with spending $4,000 year on scents
and soaps. It hardly seems credible
unless such things are far more ex-
pensive in Russia than they are in the
United States or Western Europe. Her
fancy is for violet, and SO fond is she
OF this exquisite perfume that her
rooms are every morning filled with
the freshly cut flowers, while her
Wardrebes are vaporized with the