The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-16

mostly the blouse and trousers of an
ordinary laborer. The pale little wo-
man came to be very well known wher-
ever 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 re-
porters' gallery. With the facile adap-
liability of the French mind, it was de-
cided 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 a 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 archaeologist. 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 it 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.
Mime. 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 a
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. Among
her various writings is a brilliant de-
scription of the palace of Artaxerxes
IL, which she and her husband I'M
earthed at Susa, in Persia.
Mime. Dieulafoy and her husband are
models of concentration and persist
ence in a pursuit. Talk of a woman
being scatter brainedi Professor and
Nine. Dieulafoy write and study in the
same room, their library. At o'clock
in the MORNINGS regular as the
clock, in truth-winter and summer,
this happy, congenially mated pair be-
gin their writing. They have a 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. ''Undisturbed thought
is the one guarantee of good literary
work. says Mime. Dieulafoy
At IL O'Clock the two scientists, we'd
ded to each other and to their work,
breakfast, read their mail leisurely and