The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-04-23
VIRTUES
ARE BALLOTED ON
Interesting Paris Contest
Goodness Is Most De-
sired. Vote Shows.
Especial Cable from the International
News ServiceD
BY RACONTEUSE.

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Paris. April 22-"What is the most
excellent thing in woman" a paper
with the soaring name of Excelsior. is
asking its readers. Several thousand
replies have already been received.
and the voting is still going on. The
results of the poll already furnish
SUBJECTS for doyens of sermons and
essays in moral philosophy. Sixty vir
tues have up till now been named. The
seven first have always been at the
top of the poll since the beginning of
the ballot, in the following order:
goodness, orderliness. devotion, thrift,
gentleness, intelligence and amiability
What tribute to the essential solid
ity of the French people is the fact
that it asks first of all for goodness,
and secondly for orderliness. in it's
women. The former virtue has scored
19,3OS votes, and the latter 1870.
The fact that devotion comes third,
with 17,S04. would tend to show that
many of the voters are men. On the
other hand, faithfulness. patience and
modesty, come only eighth. ninth and
tenth. Hitherto, patience had been In
front of faithfulness, but at the latest
count, faithfulness forged ahead. How
ever, willpower comes only twenty
fourth, with three thousand odd votes,
hardly more than one-sixth of those
polled for devotion; and this seems to
be sign of masculine opinion.
1t will startle some hasty judges of
French character to find that only
1926 voters mentioned elegance as one
of the ten most excellent things in
women, which takes only the thirty
first place on the list. 1t will. indeed,
surprise everybody to learn that pride
is asked for in women by only 52S vot-
ers, and that it's place is fifty-second
on the list. But perhaps the most in
structive point of all is the name of
the sixtieth and last virtue. meekness,
for which only ninety-six overbearing
men, voted. This is consoling thing
to French women.
new phase of Notwithstanding
that one object of feminists is to do
mans work-has come to light at
Montlucon. A woman carpenter has
made her appearance there. She is
Nine. Fleurier. Twenty-Five years of
age, and was formerly a farm servant.
New infantry barracks are being erect
ed at Montlucon, and Nine. Fleurier,
wearing a corduroy suit, may be seen
doing the carpentering work by the
side of her husband. She has worked
earns from $1.75 to 1925 day. 1t is
stated that at Avrilly she assembled
the weathercock of the chateau near
which fell the airship Republique. The
weathercOck was placed at a height of
nearly so feet. Nine. Fleurier is
looked upon as very skilful artisan.
One of the fashionable maladies of
the moment is an itch to lecture upon
any imaginable subject. 1t smites peo-
pie of all grades of society. l wonder
how many causeries" or 'gausettes"
the jupeeulotte has inspired; it must
be a gross in the circumference of
Paris. Every minute someone is talk
ing about aviation, punctuated with
sips of bapley-water by the lecturer
and an aerial song by an attractive
young thing with a penchant for the
stage and an independence that would
be admirable if it did not extend to
the musical accompaniment
In the old days the Bodiniere was
the great center of the conference;
in this present year of grace the The
alter Femme offers a gilded cage to
the society parrot. which is allowed to
say anything provided it's feathers are
fine and it's gestures elegant. To this
handsome little playhouse in the
Champs Ulysses have come stare of
the music-hall stage, popular actresses
in drawing-rOom comedy, black-and-
white artists, who draw Tout-Paris in