The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-14
FRENCH WOMEN
ARE BECOMING
SUFFRAGETTES
MOVEMENT THERE IS BECOMING
A LIVE oNE-HARvARp UNI
vERsITY MAY GET LIsRARY OF
INTERNATIONAL LAW FROM
MARQUIS OF oLIvART.
sneclaI Id rha InurnaI


Paris, January 13.-French women
are showing steadily growing inter-
est in women't suffrage. This has not
by any means reached the stage of
the movement in England or the
United States, but it has advanced far
enough to bring about the formation
Of organizations devoted to the cause.
American women are explaining the
progress Of the movement in America
Among these has been Miss Lucy
Davis, of Philadelphia. who recently
addressed a French society for wom-
ems suffrage at the city hall at Passy
on the present state of the suffrage
question in the United States. Miss
Davis, who spoke in French. is a great
grand daughter of Lucretie Mott, a
Quaker preacher of the earlier days.
French suffragists are planning to
present women candidates for elective
positions in several places as a test of
their strength. This is of doubtful le-
gality. Although the law does not spe-
ci1cally prevent the nomination and
election of women, it is regarded as
probable that If elected to any ONCE,
they would be seated. At the last
election for deputy in Paris a woman
was nominated, but she received
very small vote.
DIR. Walter Lichtenstein, the libra
rian of Northwestern University of
Illinois, who has been spending some
time in Madrid in investigation and in
purchasing for Harvard University the
library of international law Of the
Marquis Of Olivart, has had a number
of experiences common to supposed
wealthy Americans in Madrid.
The hotel where he was staying was
crowded with people, all eager to sell
him anything from a painting to a
mine. Jewels, paintings, truthfully or
falsely attributed to MurilIo and Ru-
bens. tapestries and works of art of
all varieties were offered by the score,
and men even followed him on the
street importuning him to buy or to
invest money in industrial enterprises.
This -as all the result of the an
nouncement that Doctor Lieftenstein
was buying a library. The serious
lesson from it all is that Spain has
much to sell in historical objects and
that there is lack of capital at home
to develop new industrial. enterprises.
French millers have discovered a
simple and effectual method of pre-
serving their stores of grain from tina
inroads of the grain weevils. 1t con-
sists in placing small quantity of
hops is profoundly antipathatic to the
weeviI; at the same time t has no
deleterious effect on the grain, even
should small quantities happen to get
ground up with the wheat in the pro-
cess of milling.
The National Aerial league. author
lied by the Minister of Public Works,
has Commenced the work of marking
out the air roads of France in accord
anee with the system drawn up by
Rene Quinton. The first of these roads
joins the great Aerodromes of Saint
Cyr, Bue. Villacoublay. Etampes. Vim
cennes, to the camps at Chalons and
Yerdun. Large guiding signs, visible
from a considerable height, have been
established at all the principal points
along this route.
The time is nearly due for the Eiffel
tower to have the ravages of time
and the weather removed from its
mighty form. This operation, which
takes place every six years, entails a
cost of some $4,000, and keeps a
special company of painters busy for
three or four months distributing
10000 pounds Of paint over its $4,000
square feet area. The color OF its new
dress has not yet been chosen. Hith-
erto new tint has been used at each
re-painting: orange in 1889, red in
1898, golden yellow in 1899, white at
the summit and chrome yellow at the
base in 1907.