The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-24
The Foreign Legion and
 It's Soldiers Of Fortune

''oid scoundrel," and hoped the day would soon come when patriots would strike higher than Silenus dis guised as President of the Republic, and would aim at the Constitution" An anonymous speaker cried that; in- stead of striking N. Fallieres. Mathis ought to have blown his brains out with a revolver, and was enthusias- tically applauded particularly by many fashionable ladies Zpresent. Paul de Cassagnac, congratulated the Royalist students on having laid violent hands on one of their mas ters and added that certain preju- dices in, favor of polite manners were out of date in these days" The last speaker was M. Gregori, the man who shot at Major Dreyfus in the Pan- theon. He was carried in triumph af- ter his oration and kissed scores of times on both cheeks by men and wo- men. At the close of the meeting shouts were given for Philip the Bighth"--that is to say the Due d. Orleans.
 The Gypsy Schools.
 Mile. Bonnefois, the foundress of gypsy schools, is about to retire and to hand her work over to others. For years she has been one of the most picturesque and benevolent characters among her peculiar people. What habitue of the Neuilly. the Saint Cloud, and other suburban fairs has not seen her curious wagons with the sign writ ten over them of the "Eeole Foraine," or gypsy school? A few days ago, in speaking of the proposed registration of Gypsies, 1t was said thai they could not read or write, but this statement must be modified as far as the younger generationus of gypsies and showmen at the popular fairs in and around Paris are concerned. Owing to Mile: BennefoIs, most of them have become acquainted with books and alphabets. She has to a certain extent revolution ized them. She has endeavored to in- fuse a little more civilization into their wild and rowing natures, and has to great extent succeeded.
 Born in the wagon of her father, wandering snowman, whose whole life was spent in amusing children with his Punch and Judy tn eatre, her only occupation as a girl was making the little dolls and puppets that figured in her fathers show. She finally had wagon of her own with a panorama. while her brother inherited her fathers cart and doll theatre. The war of 1870 came. and, being shut up in Paris. there was little use for her panorama, while shells were flying about and the Communists set the city on fire. She became 8 Red Cross nurse for the time. and spent her days and nights on the ramparts among the soldiers. During her leisure hours after the siege she studied reading, writing and arith- metic, all by herself. and was so de- lighted with her acquisition of knowl- edge that she began to instruct a group of small children belonging to her neighbors, and show people or gypsies like herself In 1873 she set aside a part of her wagon behind the panorama, where she kept school, and after a while the whole panorama dis appeared and gave way to her ciass- room on wheels. It usually took up central position in all the great fairs, at Neuilly. Saint Cloud, Saint Germain, and along the outlying boulevards, moving from place to place with the show people and gypsy tribes. Not be- ing able to do all the teaching her self, and her school becoming a very popular institution, she had to hire first one and then several lady teach- CTS to help her. and she often had as