The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-21
VICTORY FOR FRENCH WOMEN
THEY can DISPOSE OF THEIR
OWN EARNINGS HEREAFTER.
Paris Proposes New Plan to Punish Auto
s~peed-Freaks OF Motor Buses-Wtne
Frauds I'm the Midi American visitors
and the Things Paris says OF Them.

after thirteen years oil enort, lhe l1Dor oi
women's champions has been crowned in
France by a law giving married women
the right 70 the fruits Of their work? Do
the mightier halves Of the multitudinous
menage exclaim disdainfully that they
should have had it before. that II is only
tardy Justice
VIVA. matter? They have this right
now and did not have it before and with
the slow mental processes of men 1t re-
required the ominous plumber of thirteen
years 70 bring about that state Of ration
atty wherein this act OF simple justice
could b. lone and this new milestone
erected on the way 70 Utopia.
II il IS the money that makes the mare
60 and the gray mare is the better horse
there are likely 10 be some pretty little
skirmishes on the high road to progress
in La Belle, France. in the halcyon days to
come.
Behold the role that women have played
throughout French history; weigh their in
fuence to-day. Let those who hail France
to-day as the leader in beauty. in enter
prise and airships enroll themselves at once
beneath the p~ettiooated banner and never
again decry feminism.
For Frenchmen are ruled by women.
VINO OOpSn 7 KNOW IL VINO 80 QUICK 10
Frenchmen to recognize their masters?
Who honors genius more? And now at
last Frenchmen. W h heretofore used
women TO save money for them or to give
II TO them in exchange for the right to say
hubby" have consented to permit those
terribly able personages TO dispose freely
Of all the money they can make by their
own hands.
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breaths Of the Chamber of Deputies, not
only applies 10 future married women, but
those already shsckled in the sweet bonds Of
mstrimony may profit fully byit provisions
and these may reap who have not sown.
Wives may buy. may sell and may dispose
of TO their heirs property real and personal
independently Of their husbands, provided
always the interests Of the menage do not
suffer. Frenchmen, who have so often
declared that they AVE no word home, .
place their household above women's rights
still and preserve TO the hubby one chance
TO check a hayward wife.
If, rustling in the wings of her new liberty,
abe seems 10 her husband to be menacing
the interests of the menage, he may apply
TO the courts 10 clip her s%prouting feathers;
otherwise a wife may have. may hold and
may dispense not only all her earnings. but
all the increment thereon and all the profits
Of investment and the husband may sit
down and twiddle his fingers. She 10 not
even responsible for his debts unless they
we're contracted in the interest of the
menage.
The family rights being thus secured by
law. whom will the future acclaim as the
best guardians Of the family, the men who
framed the law or the women who under
10 enjoy greater powers h in the past.
TO MEASURE MoToR SPEED.
The automobile as a factor in daily life
claims continuous attention not only from
those who want to live a little longer.
those who don't motor and those who do,
but from the authorities everywhere, and
even in this home of motoring new meas
ures are constantly being devised for the
better regulation Of devotees of the sport.
Although in the p~aternal application OF
the republican laws Of France there is
better control of automobiles here than in
many places, this control is so far from
being satisfactory that new regulations are
being constantly demanded for the safety
Of pedestrians.
VI. Billiard. a municipal councillor for
the Nendome quarter, roposes more
stringent control than anything that has
heretofore been tried. His plan is to place
on each automobile when application is
made for authorization to circulate in
Paris. without which authorization a
driver is liable TO instant arrest. a tachy-
metre register which shall record on ruled
paper the speed of the automobile at each
moment. These ruled sheets must be
deposited at a commis3ariat every month
and verified. and ummonses will be issued
against owners where violations are shown.
Prosecutions will follow.
The commissaries will issue twelve cards
yearly, specified for each month. TO Zach
owner. A greater speed being permitted
outside of Paris than within, the octroi
officers will be required 20 inscribe the
time Of passage through the city gates
from either direction on these ruled sheets,
similarly TO the present practice Of these
officers in measuring he petrol in motors
at their exit from and entrance to the city.
NJ. Billiards. rule. il adopted, will also
apply TO auto buses. much to the satisfaction
ofmany pedestrians and would-be quiet cafe
patrons. A Broadway car, a~ggravating
as il may be under various circumStances.
is a toy train compared with one of these
laundering, laundering. two stored auto
buses. A Paris car usually remains on
the track. but these are not a bit particular
70 stay in the roadway. One cafe in the
Rue Montmartrs has had it's front smashed
In four times by auto buses. Somehow
people do not like 10 sit on the sidewalk
where an auto bus makes a habit of coming
at full tilt. and the proprietor of the cafe
referred TO claims that his feelings and
those Of his patrons have been damaged.
The tachymetre register required by
VI. Billiards. proposed regulation already
exists for railway trains. and his supporters
ask that II such an instrument is required
for trains that follow a track how much
more so is it necessary for automobiles
which ave the freedom of highways
where pedestrians and drivers necessarily
are all the time and which often exceed
railway speed.
SEEK cYRANo DE
That terrible fellow who would fight a
duel even with a monkey and was not
thought much Of when alive, Cyrano de