New-York tribune., 1907-05-19
POPULARITY OF MINISTER
BRAND.
Especial by French Gable to The Tribune

mentary debates obtained tremendous per-
sonal popularity throughout the country by
the Napoleonic manner in which he nailed
10 the counter the false doctrines or the
Jaures-Herve groups of socialists. Is no"
regarded by the masses as the strongest
man in French political life. He already over
shadows his veteran chief NJ Clemenceau. and
enjoys authority equal TO that OF the late wal
deck-Rousseau. NJ. BRAND, a man OF extraordi-
nary eloouence and magnetic sympathy. has the
great majority Of the women Of France with him.
Yesterday he delivered address 10 ten thou
sand young women and girls assembled In the
Trocadero Palace on the occasion Of the silver.
or twenty-fifth. anniversary Of the public schools
FOR girls, established by the late Jules Ferry.
''The Marseillaise" sung by eight hundred
female voices. The energetic young Minister
received an ovation and forthwith pro-
claimed the absolute intellectual equality Of the
sexes and urged his enthusiastic audience TO
adopt 'feminis1n," tempered by the vocations of
maternity and household happiness. NJ BRAND
paid tribute TO the grand work accomplished by
Nine. Pierre Curie. not only a Sorbonne lect-
urer in the highest departments of science but
z teacher at the Normal School for Girls at
Sevres where she formed five hundred compe-
tent school mstresses, who are doing splendid
national work in educating French girls all over
the country.
VINE GROWERS RIOTS
The agitation and riots of the small wine grow
ers in the South Of France elicit from NJ Call
laux. Minister of Finance new measures 10
suppress fraud in the artificial fabrication of
wines and against the addition of sugar or giu-
cose in the. fermentation process. The leading
wine merchants Of Paris. however, say that all
such measures will be of no use because the
hard fact is that cheap wine a popular bever-
age is each year in less demand. People now
drink larger proportion of mineral waters.
The wine growers of the Herault and the Aude
where cheap, low grade wines are produced,
have made the fatal blunder Of devoting their
efforts TO quantity instead Of quality The ex-
perts declare that French wines OF good flavor
taste and body are always in demand. AS mat
ters stand. France produces ten million
hectolitres Of cheap wines more than the con-
surners require. Consequently and owing to
this solely Is due the present cisis in the course
Of which the wine growers feed wine to pigs or
give il away rather than sell it at loss.
FRENCH Colonial EXHIBITION.
The French colonial exhibition. which will
remain open until September at Nogent. on the
Marne, near the Bois de Vincennes, is likely TO
interest American visitors There are huts vii
lagos and bazaars of Madagascar, Indo- China
and the French Congo. with real natives and
quaint productions of colonial industry. Among
The popular attractions are ten tobogganing eIe-
plants, who, after their morning work of draw
ing wood, water, etc, gather together on a vast
toboggan slide Of creased planks and go down
gradually for distance of fifty yards into q big
pool of water. The feat is keenly relished by
children from all parts Of France and is i'm
rensely enjoyed by the elephants.
Two talented American singers have each
made decided hits in Paris. Miss Olive Frern-
STAG who created Salome in New York, sang in
the same part at the Chatelet on Friday night |
and her success was fully equal to that of Frau
lein Destinn. of the Berlin Opera and at the |
Opera tonight Miss Geraldine Farrar received
the acclamation Of a smart audience in the part |
ot Marguerite.
ANERIC4NS At FRENCH CAPITAL.
Paris is so full Of Whitsuntide visitors that it
IS difficult to find rooms at the hotels. For in
stance Enrico Caruso, the tenor, during the few |
days Of his stay here had TO put up with small |
windowless room on The sixth floor. Among the |
Americans IN Paris are many who put in an ap-
pearance at the dog show in the Tuileries Gar |
den where two thousand finely bred animals |
are 20 be seen. Some Of those here are MI and |
Mrs. George Gould. Miss Yznaga, Mrs. Edward |
Luckemeyer Mrs. Baldwin. Mr.. and Mrs |
Henry Kipp, Mrs. Pierre Loriliard. Miss Louise |
Taylor, Mrs. Burden, Mrs. J. G. Breckenridge. |
Mrs. Ingalls, KimbalI Mrs. c. G. Clark. Mr.. and |
Mrs. Haggerty Peu. DR.. and Mrs. John T |
Mason Mrs. Clinch Smith Mrs Walter Kings
land Mrs G. H. Holt Miss Mildred Stillman and |
Mrs. Scott Grant, Mrs. W. p. Douglass and |
Nrs. John Munroe. ]. p. Morgan intends starting |
shortly for Italy. Mr.. Morgan. by the way, pur- |
chased recently in Paris the earliest known |
autograph letter Of Napoleon Bonaparte. 1t was |
written when Napoleon student at |
Brienne 10 his uncle Chanoine, afterward Car |
oinal Fesch. and IS dated June %, 1884. Mr. |
Morgan also bought Napoleon's first book or |
arithmetic, annotated IN Bonapartes handWrit- |
nc to-day for New York Mrs Cornelius Van |
oerbilt is taking the waters at Bad Nauheim, |
where the hereditary Princess Charlotte or |
SAKE Meiningen sister Of Emperor William, |
rived and dined with Mrs. Vanderbilt Thurs |
day. The Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Joseph Carey Of |
Saratoga Springs. have left Paris auto 1
mobile trip for Geneva, Milan and Venice.
IN THE BOOK WORLD.
Honore Champion publishes lie Theatre au |
College du Moyen Age a Nos Jours," by l.. V.
Goffot. with preface by Jules Claretie. Of the |
French Academy. Il Is a complete history of |
dramatic representations at the universities ap-
pealing 10 all who take an interest In the stage
and in college life. The work contains pict-
uresQue descriptions Of student perforrna nces
OF Ronsard's plays at the College OF France and |
OF Racines Esther" the Girls College OF |
saint Cyr In the presence Of Louis XIV and |
terminates with accounts Of plays acted by
members of the French Club OF Harvard Uni
Eersity with views the influence of the
frencn stage on that OF the United States
flon Nourrit Issues Louise de La Valliere ct la
Jeunesse de Louis Quatorze," by Jules Lair a
nernoer or the Institute, from letters recently |
olscoVered In the Chateau de Bures In the
saA,eg o, Chevreuse, written by the Duchesse
oe "a sinsre 10 Marechal de Beefonds an ad-
llraoie description Of Louis XIV as young
man The book contains a dozen excellent