Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-02-01
PARIS WOMAN IS
AMERICAN Liked
French Inspectress of Labor
Tells of Interesting
Things.
DEGREES OUR FOODS.
And Also Says That the People of This
Country Waste a Great Deal
in Handling Food.
BY JONATHAN WINFIELD


American man has warm admirer in
Nine. de la Ruelle of Paris, France,
government inspector of labor in the
Paris district, who arrived in Wash
ington recently. She is making tour
of the United States at the direction
Of the French government. She will
visit schools and factories for the pur-
pose of studying our methods Of vaca
tional training.
Commenting on number of differ
ences between the French and Amer
lean people as she found them, Nine.
de la Ruelle said:
Every woman must necessarily
love America, because women are SO
respected here, and the American man
is so fine 1t is said of course that
American men have not the time to be
gallant to women but your true wo-
man knows what that remark is
worth, for she knows the depth of the
American man, and realizes that what
you all 'varnish' amounts, after all, to
very little.
II find here what l suppose every
other visitor has remarked-an unus.
ual amount of liberty for women.
Just whether it is desirable or not
T.
think, to a reat extent, your women
are spoiled"
Nine. de la Ruelle does not approve
of our custom of printing pictures of
young women about to become debut
antes and of matrons already in So
ciety. She thinks it helps to spoil
them. Over in. her country, she de-
clared, a nice woman has no more
story after marriage then it is her
husband who is spoken Of, and whose
picture is in the papers.
with u.s." she continued, "a young
girl marries before twenty 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 useless, and l am sure it spoils
them and fakes them seem to be more
important than they really are out
side the family circle, where Of course
they are all in ALL"
Nine. de la Ruelle, who enjoys the
distinction of being one of the few
woman attorneys of France, although
her duties as labor inspector prevents
her from practicing her profession, Is!
not likely to praise our factory sys-
tef in her report to her government.
"In actories, you see." she said.
"you do not teach children as mucn,
az we do. and in some respects. l do
not think you do in the homes. So far
as the factories are concerned. your
industries are more mechanical than
ours. We make an important point or
teaching children dressmaking. mill
linery and 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 economics. You must learn,
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. have gathered the Inn
preston that your bread is made only
with starch, AID that the glare has
been taken out to make cereals. M
"In France, even among our child
rem. our sense Of taste is quite strong.
It is by the sense Of taste that !
gather the impression ! mention.
should say that it is wrong to give the
children Of nation the sort OF bread
that l have tasted and eaten here"
At this point Nine. de la Ruelie re-
called the American homes in which
she had been entertained, and she be-
san to question the propriety Of 50
ing into details concerning sns
bread she had eaten here. So sns
talked Of the bread in the restaurants
.After all" she said. 1T is q FAC
tory question. and the real subject i
the manufacture Of flour. isn't It! Yo'
zee. am ! professional observer. \