El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-31
PICTURES IN
PAPERS SPOIL
THE WOMEN?
Woman Labor Inspector Of
France Criticises Some
American Customs.
SAYS WOMEN MORE
RESPECTED IN u. S.
BY JONATHAN wINFIELDO


mirer in Nine de- la RuelIe. of
Paris, a government inspector of labor
in the Paris district. who has arrived
in Washington. She is making a tour
of the United States at the direction.
Of the French government. She WIZ
visit schools and factories for the pur-
pose of studying our methods of voca-
tional training
Commenting on a number of differ
ences between the French and Amerl-
can people as she found them. Nine de
Ia RuelIe said:
Women Respected Here.
Every woman must necessarily love
America, because women are so re-
spected here, and the American man is
so fine. 1t is said, of course, that Amer
lean men have not the time to be gar
liant to women, but your true woman.
knows what that remark is worth, for
she knows the depth of the American
man. and realizes that what you cali
little.
4 find here what suppose every
other visitor has remarked-an unusual
amount of liberty for women. JUST
whether it is desirable or not 1 am not
prepared to question. 1 think. to d
great extent your women are spoiled"
Pictures Spoil Women.
Nine. de la Ruelle does not approve CT
our custom of printing pictures or
young women about to become debu-
tantes and Of matrons already in so
ciety. She thinks it helps to spoil them
over in her country she declared. a niCS
woman has no more story after mar
riage; then it is her husband who is
spoken OF, and whose picture is in the
papers
with us" she continued, "a young
girl marries before 20 and she has had
no story There is nothing to put in
the paper about either class. I think
that this advertising of women is use
less, and 1 am sure it spOils them anC
makes them seem to be more important
than they really are outside the family
circle, where, of course, they are all in
al"
Nine de Ia RueIe. who enjoys the
distinction of being one of the few
woman attorneys of France, although
her duties as labor inspector prevent
her from practicing her profession. is
not likely to praise our factory system
in her report to her government.
In factories, you see she said. you
do not teach children as much as we
do, and in some respects, L do not think
you 90 50 in the homes. So far as the
factories are concerned, your industries
are more mechanical than ours. We
make an important point of teaching
children dresSmaklng, millinery and the
domestic arts, particularly cooking.
You know we are more artistic in
France than you are over here. You
are, so to speak, in the beginning Of
home economies. You must learn, Z
think, how not to waste so much, and
to make better food. Your food is not
all pure. For instance. your bread is
not good. 1 have gathered the impress
sion that your bread is made only with
starch. and that the gluten has been
taken out to make cereals.
French Have Better Taste.
In France. even among our children,
ON Of 81 IL To -er.
by the sense of taste that 1 gather the
impression 1 mention. I should say tha-
it is wrong to give the children of a
nation the sort of bread that L haVe
tasted and eaten here"
At this point. Nine. de Ia Ruelle re-
called the American homes In which she
had been entertained. and she began to
question the prOpriety of going into de-
tails concerning the bread she had
eaten there. So she talked of the bread
in the restaurants,
After ALL she said. at is a factory
question. and the real subject is the
manufacture of flour, isn't it, You
see, 1 am professional observer, in
consequence Of my work as inspector
of labor in Paris, and these things
strike me. that's all"
She next took up cold storage pro-
ducts. and also discussed the eating of
horse meat in Paris.
Prefer Horse Meat.
Tn Paris, she went on, there is only
one place in the big markets where colo
storage meats are sold. And there is a
big, prominent sign over that to indi-
cate the fact Only the cheap restau-
rants in Paris buy the cold storage
meats The working classes prefer
fresh horse meat to cold storage beer.
and they declare it is much more
wholesome. A horse is hurt in Paris;
there has been an accident, perhaps. and
the animal is Immediately killed and
the flesh sold. That meat is very
good, really"