Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-17
FRENCH HOUSEWIVES REBEL
Sharp Rise in Cost of Living stirs the
Women TO Anger.
FORMULATE DEMANDS ON PRICES
Merchants Notified that MIX. wheat.
Bread and other Provisions Must
BE Kept within a Certain
Maximum Coat

PARIS Sept ls-The cost Of living in
France. which has been creeping upward
steadily during ten years, has risen with
jump this summer One OF the principal
reasons is the three months OF extraordi-
narly dry and hot weather whitening and
drying up the vegetables consumed in
large quantities by all classes in France.
String beans OF the most ordinary descrip-
ton, for example. sell for 10 y cents a
pound and lettuce at t2O the hundred.
Wholesale.
Discomfort OF housewives has taken
violent form in the north. where attacks
upon farmers, butchers. storekeepers and
other vendors by hands OF viragoes are the
daily excitements in towns and cities. The
revolutionary labor party has thought this
good occasion to take part, but the
women manifestants oppose this, and keep
the agitation in their own hands A loose
organization spreads over the north al
though example more than anything else
keeps the market places in uproar in half
hundred cities and smaller centers. Some
times there is a meat boycott for a couple
of days at a time as q warning TO the
butchers, OF three OF four hundred women
will rush a market. tipping over all the
stands and half destroying the eatables.
Housewives Formulate Demands.
Demands Of the housewives are for milk
at 5 cents a quart. butter at 30 cents a
pound, bread at IS OF 10 cents for the five
pound loaf and plain meats at % cents a
pound. SO far as bread and dairy products
are concerned the women have been gen.
orally successful, but the butchers utterly
refuse to give way They affirm that selling
at 20 cents a pound would cause an actual
loss. Farmers have not been able 10 COM
bine as the butchers have done, and they
are yielding. although increased prices
from their point of view seem justified be-
cause fodder Is dear and scarce Most Of
the cows are stable-fed and the milk
supply is possibly third less than usual.
The long drought has burnt up the second
crops OF fodder.
The Parisians hear of these successful
raids on prices in the northern provinces
with the hope that something will happen
to check the rising cost Of everything in
the capital. where living is 30 per cent
dearer than it was at the opening Of the
century.
Edison on HE Travels.
Edison has been automobiling in short
stages through France and Switzerland He
intends to continue his holiday through
Germany to Hamburg. sailing from there
for home. Everywhere Edison receives i'm
pressive attention, being spoken OF some
times as the great American" He has a.
vivid and delighted interest in all that
he sees. and likes to talk about his i'm
pressions.
who is the shabby little man with the
crowd around hirn?" inquired Partisan
woman in the lobby at the Beau RlvaSe
at Geneva. Upon being told that he was
Edison, she looked again and replied:
His clothes look as though they had
cost about 50 francs but he has brain
great enough to make him emperor OF
France"
Edison feels the charm Of the old. pleas
ant and rich countries through which he
passes but he admires most the delicate
and intelligent skill of Swiss workmen. He
attributes their fine precision to the gen.
erations of watchmakers. MY chief man,
wurth, whom have psnsioned," said Ed
son, rs Swiss, and I have employed
more than one thousand of them
The only correspondence Edison bothers
with on his holiday is TO autograph the
photographs of himself that people present
TO him.
Set on Fire by SUN.
The chalet and beautiful botanical gar
dens at Sainte Ssvine, near Troyes have
been burned by the concentration of the
suns rays through an accidental arrange
ment Of windows forming burning glass.
Work of Paris PawnShOp,
The Mont-de-Piete Of Paris, the govern
ment pawn shop, has issued its report for
last year. showing that nearly 100000
we're loaned on ei011s articles, more than
100000 being upon iewelry or objects Of
art The experiences of the government
pawn brokers in Paris, and the report says
in the provinces also. show that people
pawn more during periods of prosperity
than during depressed times, because in
prosperity small business people need cap
itsl and do not have sufficient standing
20 borrow from the banks Hence they
avail themselves OF the government pawn
as security Pawning has been diminish
ing in France since 1892 among the work
ing classes, due, the report SAYS, probably