The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
MOTHERS SCHOOL IS
 A GREAT SUCCESS Established By Mme. Girard
 and Professor Pinard TEACH LITTLE SISTERS
The Care of Babies Is an Important Matter and Many Things Should Be Learned By Mothers
 and Others.
BY PAUL VlLLIERS.


 Paris, October 26.-(Special Cable.)- Mime. Jeanne Girard and Professor Pin ard of the Paris Academy of Medicine, have founded a school for little mothers here which is developing with great sue cess.
 For, after all, maternity does not of necessity bring knowledge with it, and not only the mothers of the babies of the poor, but often, too, their little sis ters, have solid need of teaching. We all know how many accidents occur daily to babies, owing to a carelessly adjusted pin, an ill-washed bottle, fruit given for treat. draughts. dirty sponges, which cause 25 per cent of infant blindness and many other things which nursing edu- cation would prevent.
 And when the baby grows little older the little sister should have learned to teach it. and this teaching is of no use unless it has been practically taught to the teacher.
 The school for little mothers has been started in the very thick of the working quarter of Paris, and is run in connection with L Union Familiale, which is a school for older mothers. Here these are tauSh. household economy and hygiene They are taught how to feed themselves, thelr husbands and their children, and how to make their homes pleasant ones. The union has reduced economy to so com plete system that it has proved by numerous experiences among its pupils the possibility of living, and of living well, at an expense of $5 a month for food. And food is considered dearer in Paris than 1t is in London.
 In the school for little mothers little rIt. of tofa a the case of babies They are taught how to attract baby's attention, how to bring his memory into play, and how to make him think. A visit to the school In the Rue de Charonne is most in- structive.
 The children sit in groups of five or six round little tables, and every little tabls is in charge of little mother. An older mother, a class mistress, sits in a corner of the room, but she is only there for reference in case the little mothers need assistance. There is a hum of enjoyment in the room for the babies are learning to model fowl in clay, and children love pottering about with anything messy as much in Paris as they do in New York or San Francisco.
 The new play in Paris which is making most talk is "Joujou Tragique' Ca Tragic Toy) in which appears Mile. Polaire, the
  ous eyes, who made her name as Claudd- ous eyes. who made her name as Claud- The play is written by younb girl, Je- bene d'Orliac, but it is not necessarily written for young girls. "Jouiou Tragique" which is drawing good audiences at the Gymnase, tells love story with a tragic ending. Poaire is a charming lady with nonentity Of husband whose nephew falls in live with her
 The nephew accompanies the couple on e tour of Europe, at the invitation of the husband who is too stupid to notice any secret attachment between his wife and his nephew. tender love scene oc- cure in the moonlight at Venice to the strains of Wagnerian music. The young man declares his passion for his charming aunt. but is interrupted at the kissing stage by her husband. The wife tries to excuse herself by telling the outraged husband that it was not a real scene or love he surprised her in,i but only the ef- feet of Venice. moonlight and music. This so enrages the nephew that he murders her then and there.
 Parisian audiences refuse to take this play seriously, and laugh in the wrong places What attracts them is the ap- pearance of Polaire, who is a great Ia vorite.
 Thee Paris detectives, there is no doubt, are the finest in the world. Little escapes them. Perhaps it has to do with the in- herent inouisitiveness of the French char acter. but at any rate the Paris detectives have Just accomplished another remark able feat in the recovery almost within e4 hours of another picture stolen in Brussels.
 pastel by, Alfred Stevens, and worth a great deal of money. had been tenn porarly placed on a piece of furniture in the lounge of the Alcazar theatre at Brussels, and was mysteriously stolen. The hue and cry went forth, and the picture has been found in Paris at a dealers shop and the presumed thief and receiver arrested.
 M Camille Saint -Saens. the famous French composer, is one of the few men