Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-19

NNRlS, March S.-One enjoying tho
Dentree to exclusive salons or erudlt,
circles in Paris,is apt to meet at any
time a couple before whom every.
body gives way, and whose appearance
viii profoundly impress the newcomer
Professor and Madame Dleulafoy."
the word Is passed around. Surely,
there must be some mistake? That
talI' well-built, fine-lookine man with
the gray moustache and beard may be
Professor DIoulafoy; but his frall
beardlcss companion, dressed in an lr-
reproachable frock-coat and faultless
trousers cannot be his wife! And vet
more searching look into the re-.
iined and sensitive FACE, a single glance
at the delicate tapering hands suffice to
dispel the Illusion created by clothes,
II Is not only a woman, bat the most
womanly of women.
Perhaps what caused Nine Dleulafoy
to be often taken for man by those
who do not know her, Is that she wears
her masculine garb without either al.
recitation or false modesty. She wears
mems clothes not only because she con-
slders them rational and convenient
but because she Is thoroughly accus.
toned to wearing them. ana acquired
the habit In exceptional circumstances.
Consequently short hair and ties and
coats and trousers seem quite natural
for her because she is perfectly at
ease with them.
HOW 1T HAPPENED.
The first time that Nine. Dleulafov
dressed as a man, she was far from
intending to renounce feminine gar
ments for ever. In 1861. the French
government had entrusted Marcel Dieu-
lafoy with an important archaeological
mission to Persia and Susiana and
Nine. Dieulafoy, whose tastes were III.
erary and who had always taken keen
interest IN archaeological questions, de-
clded 10 follow her husband The re.
suits OF their joint labors We're to be- of
in6stlmable value TO lovers OF the ans
tique. for they found the sites of the
palaces OF Darius and Of ArtaxerXes.
and after five years of toll brought the
principal yestiges back to the Louvre
museum IN Paris. The work was filed
with fatigues. difficulties and dangers.
and Nine. Dieuafoy, after tearing her
skirts on prehistoric stones and trip
ping over her pettic0ats In Persian
fields, decided that woman's dress was
not devised for archaeological pursuits.
She enyied the case and immunity with
which her husband moved about. and
presently II occurred to her that If she
initiated him In the wilds of the orient
no one would be the wiser when She re.
turned TO Paris, So one fine day. not
suspectlng that she was preparing n
great decision In life, she cut her hair
ionned suit Of mans clothes, and
went 20 her work. For The first time
she was Free ana happy and accom- |
plIshed so much that She decided TO |
dressing as a man 80 long as |
she remained IN Persia,
LACKED COURAGE.
But when she was finally ready TO re-
urn 20 her Paris home, she lacked
he courage TO resume what she had
'ome TO consider as the slavery Of wo.
was far less trying
IN ordeal For five years she
rad dressed as man, and 20 dress MS
woman seemed as antlquated and alb.
iurd 10 her as 1t would he for a New
Fork stockbroker to parade Wall street
n "A Roman tOga, And she, therefore.
He'd a formal petition to the French
government asking Official authorize.
ion to wear mans clothes in future.
The question Of dress IL one of tho
many little details Of life regulated by
french law, and the man caught IN the
treets wearing woman's clothes or the
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