The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-18
FRENCH WOMEN TODRTVE CABS
THREE or THEM HAVE APPLIED
FOR LICENSES.
others Are TaElDs 60 Practice Of Law
Nurse VINO went Through the Siege
Of Parts IL Dead Pianos to he Take
Interesting Interview with Roosevelt.
From TIE SUN Correspondent at Paris.

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Paris this week with the admission OF Mue.
Benezech and Mile. Mile TO the bar and
the applications of three women for licenses
TO drive cabs. AS yet no cochere is actually
doing business. There are now four women
LAWYERS, and the press has taken the oppor-
tunitv for a discussion Of feminism.
Nine. Benezech in an interview ~repudiates
the accusation Of feminism. She is a Rus
sian, who has lived fou years in Paris and
ia married to a young lawyer here. She
cites her marriage as proof that the pos
session OF serious science does not neces-
sarily make a woman ~repulsive to man. but
adds:
4 am not a feminist. Feminism seeks
70 dethrone man. This hostility IL the
cause Of p~rejudioes against us. One must
excuse women. though. il their learning
dazzles them. They have difficulty in as
similating abstract notions Men are shaped
TO study by heredity. habit. Many Russian
women Of a certain class are already begin
ming to show themselves to be similarly
fashioned. That is why in so many OF the
faculties the education OF the Russian girl
Is particularly wide. Ny sisters. except
the aristocracy who are educated In France.
enjoy complete liberty
Coming GOWN 10 law C8StS,N tfnf. DPueHcCU
said that the plaintiff sdistrusted women law
yers and. anyway. they could not plead cases
Of morals or some divorce cases, as there
was no equality between the sexes. Nine.
Benezech's intention is to make a speciality
OF child criminals, 80 she will be helping
her husband in business and exercising her
mother Instincts at the same time. One
writer halls her as struggling with, not
against, man.
Paul Desohanel is the subject OF much
good natured banter Just now, the charge
being that he is unknown. although a
deputy, a former President Of the Cham
Der. an academician and. as described,
q demigod Of academic eloquence and a
god Of parliamentary elegance. A letter
for him wrongly addressed was carried
TO three places and at each 1t was stamped
unknown" The joke is that the third
place was the Chamber Of Deputies itself.
Aside from twitting Deschanel. the papers
are filed with homilies on the vanity
Of glory and also excorste the administra-
ton as brainless.
The labor unionists threaten further
trouble tomorrow in the pursuit OF their
svowed purpose to brighten the proprietors
into closing their shops by demonstrations
before the windows and the destruction OF
the stock where they can reach any. In
accordance with the characteristic topsy-
turviness Of the French laws and the
means provided for their operation. the
Weekly Repose law is not and cannot be
so enforced as to close all the shops on any
one day.
Project Of Police Lepine has pointed this
out. but the unionists ignore it and want
him to withdraw the police from the open
stores. saying they themselves will see to il
that the stores are closed. The answer OF
this really great police commissioner is
worth framing by an American. He says:
Never will ] consent to such measures.
MY role is exactly to prevent them. |
would rather blow out my brains than
allow the forces Of disorder to be put at
the service of the law" This he said di-
rectly TO the Unionists.
Premier Clemenceau. who Is usually
described "a only leaning TOWARD social
ism, declared himself in the Senate yes
terdsy when he was charged with being
an individualist. Il claim to be a Social
ist,' he said.
Those present at the Academy's annual
meeting yesterday listened 10 a rehabilita-
ton OF the character OF Eleanor of Aqui-
tame. IL was declared that il was unfair
10 charge her with being Overfriendly with
Saladin, as he was only IL years OF age at
the time of the Second Crusade.
Mile. Bottard, who served Paris well for
sixty years. is dead. She was a nurse in
the Salpetrirs Hospi tai in the cholera
epidemic. She escaped when the chief
and nearly all the staff died, and went
through the siege OF Paris unscathed.
working always with remarkable sweetness
Of temper. She never deserted her post
and thousands called her blessed. She
never had a peep at the bright life Of Paris
till she was nearly -. when ten internes,
all bachelors, persuaded her to dine with
them at La Peyrouse restaurant, which
Is familiar to all OF Dumas's readers. She
had a happy evening and returned to the
hospital and never again left its gates.
Oil Bias says the Count Santa Eulalia,
the Portuguese Consul at Chicago, is here
30 buy the superb Percheron which served
as a model for Bartlen's equestrian statue
Of Lafayette, which the American colony
has offered to France. The Coun is TO
offer the horse to Chicago. where, Oil Bias
says, it will be first admired and then stuffed.
The Figaro tells hn entertaining tale
Of an anonymous American who paid 5000
% Poland for an iron relic which a curl
osity dealer told him had been used in
Jewish religious rites during the persecu-
lions. The style is vaguely Renaissance
with a handsome patina. The object has
somewhat the appearance OF a shrine.
and the purchaser was pleased until he
arrived in Paris. where he saw not without
emotion two modern examples of his taber-
nacle in every subway station for the au-
tomato distribution Of candies.
In Paris where art is supposed TO be
well supported it is strange to, find this
week that the Trooadero was closed for
lack Of funds to pro ide heat aid TO pay
eages. The humiliating reason was too
much for the curator, who to save appear
ances put up a sign to the effect that il has
closed during alterations.
An anonymous ~connoisseur has pre-
sented the Petit Palais with an important
painting by Monet, dated 1880. It is de-
scribed as one OF his best works.
After thirty years discussion it Is ex-