The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-12

result of the Council's labors. They are petitioning and visiting Cabinet Ministers to seek redress for two grie- vances- The first is that the entire the famous Medoc country lies. has not been included in the privileged area. The second is that. on the con- trary the latter overlAps into the two neighborfng departments Of Lot-et- Garonne and Dordogne. comprising . few communes from both. Now to have excluded portions of the 0ir- onde and included districts of the two above departments Is considered by Bordeaux to be an insult. The Coun- cil vainly argues that it has shown no fear or favor. as Is proven by the fact that privileged districts of the Lot-et-Garonne do not include one been taken in, and which is illustrious if not for It's wine. at least for it's owner. The Council has not enclosed Loupillion, M. Fallieiere's vineyard to the privileged area. and the President of the Republic therefore is not en- titled to label his wine Bordeaux.
 But vinegrowers refuse to be molli- fled by the impartiality of the Coun- ell of State. and are daily visiting Min isters. One of them, M. Cochery, French Councillor of the Exchange. has actually found c means of pacify- ing them and what Is more marvellous still, a new tax which the taxpayers hail with delight. He proposes a Government stamp on every bottle of Bordeaux wine coming from the privil- eged area. This stamp would be Q warrant of authenticity for each bottle bearing 1t, and would mean that the State vouches absolutely that the wine has been grown in district the vines of which produces legally gem uine claret. The growers jumped at M. Cochery's proposal. and the details of the scheme are to be worked out at once. As the State will naturally make a charge for its guarantee. the lucky Minister of Finance has doubly scored. He delights wine-growers and he rakes in money for the Treasury.
 Ballot Girls Union.
 Trade unions Is once more can- wasting among ballet girls. The National Spectacular Federation" which includes syndicates of musicians and stage hands, invited all profess sional dancing men and women to a meeting this week in a cafe to Hay the foundations of a ehoregraphic syndicate" But ,canvassing, among "choregraphers" does not seem to have been a success, for twelve ladies and twenty gentlemen of the graceful pro- tcSstou tuFuc0 up, anu " WNS nut ht all clear that even that small number took the propsoal in earnest. The ladies seemed more amused than ex- cited by the idea. Some of them re- membered Q union of ballet girls six years ago, and then afiliated to the labor Exchange, where navvies brick layers, grocer boys, plumbers, and 50 on hold their meetings. The ballet girls syndicate did not last long. The Ia hn Aaa o% vies and plumbers a trifie oppressive and soon fled back to the more polish ed surroundings of the Foyer de la Danse, where opera subscribers are admitted as guests.
 One most imposing matron, who said she had danced all her life and knew all the hardships of the profession. and who looked as if she would be 2 match for two bricklayers at least took the lead of the movement" at the meeting just held, and called authoritatively upon the haIf-dozep other ballet girls" present to elect her president. At the close the meet ing voted the principle of a Chore- graphic Syndicate" When the corps de ballet will get beyon theI princi- pie of the third cannot be foreseeen.
 A statistician has figured out that there are 3.000 women writers in France Fifteen hundredof them are novelties 300 write school-books and. 800 are poet esses. The remainder are miscellane- ous authors. Among them are s6O journalists of whom, however, only twenty. write on either topics than fashions. Fifteen hundred women be- long to the French Society of Auth ors and sixty to that of Dramatic Authors. The statistscians's discovery does not seem a very alarming one Three hundred poetesses. 1t is true, is rather @ high figure, but only I,500 lady noveltists for 6 population Of over forty millions seems quite mod crate.