The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
JAURES GIRL
 TAKES VEIL Daughter of Radical . Leader to Be Nun. A SENSATION IN PARIS Socialist Cannot Control Religion
 of His Family. Edmond Rostand's Eccentricities Said to be Due to State of His
 Health-Gossip of France.
BY HENRI DUBOIS.

fdTlS, June 6,-A CurlOOS sensation has been caused here by the annouce- Inent that the daughter of James M. Jaures, the famous Socialist leader, is about to take the veil. The news has thrown a bomb into the camps alike of the clerical and the Socialist Party.
 Jaures the redoubtable Socialist is one of the most determined freethinkers in France, and the leader of his party and the editor of the "Humanite," he has, although he attacked Clemen- ceau the other day in the Chamber as. indeed, he Is frequently doing-been foremost in the fray against the Radi- cal Party -a
 Nevertheless, the women of his household-hts wife. mother-in-law and daughter are all pious Catholics of a somewhat austere and mystical type.
 Madame Jaures fully approves her daughters intention to follow a religi- ous vocation, in fact, the Socialists s wife herself has resolved to retire and devote the rest of her life to a more or less strict regimen of meditation and devotion.
 Emperor a Patron.
 Among the great art exhibitions that are going to take place in Paris during the coming summer, one is to receive the very august patronage of the Elm peror William himself and the Czar of all the Russ1as.
 This is the exhibition of works by the two greatest of the artists known as the French masters-Honore Frago- nard and Chardin. which will open here next week.
 Ever since the sale of the Cronier pictures eighteen months ago, when Fragonard's Billet Doux" was bought after a spirited contest for America, at price hitherto unprecedented for eighteenth century work. even includ- ng Vatican. Works by Fragonard. Chardin and their contemporaries have gone up by leaps and bounds in pubic esteem.
 Now even apart from the charm, of the pictures themselves, the coming exhibition is to have a send-off that very few picture shows get. It Is a sign of our democratic times that the autocrats of the world are willing to lend their artistic treasures for the delectation of the multitude.
 Kaiser Wilhelm possesses three specimens of the work of Chardin, and he has promised to lend them all to the Paris exhibition. the immediate excuse for which Is the commemora- tion of Fragonards bicentenary.
 Emperor Nicholas will also lend several frames Che already contributed to the. exhibition of Russian pictures Tn the SpTlnSD ana other lOdnSTS arc to be the King of Sweden and the | Prince of Lichtenstein. Little Chap "NO use." 'He was no use! He was only | useless mouth to fill!' Such was the cynical utterance of a man who is charged with the deliberate murder of a poor little chap of seven years old by drowning him in the river, as one does superfluous kittens The hideous affair has just occurred at Chinon, in the center of France. A woman living with her husband and two young sons in a kind of gypsy booth. in which they went from fair to fair, took to herself a lover, and the husband some time back compound ed with the lover, sold to him what he considered the goodwill in the busi- ness, wife and family to be worth. and cleared out. leaving the field free to the newcomer.
 The elder child worked, but the little boy who has been killed was too young. He couldn't work, and he was of no use Why should we keep him? said the monster in his confession to the magistrate.
 T took him to the river and threw him in, he must have been pretty wasted because he sank almost at once and with very little struggling, so he could not have suffered much" The elder brother gave information of the crime, and the mother confessed that the child was in the way and they wanted to get rid of him.