Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-09-08
WAR WORKS BIG
CHANGE AMONG
FRENCH WOMEN
From the Highest TO the Lowest
All Are Working fer Their
Country.
GET NEW OUTLOOK ON LIFE
They Have Seen New Vision and
Have Learned the Joy There is in
Doing for Others-Ail Find
Work to Do and Are Do
ing It Well.
Rx EDWARD g. CLARK.


Stan Correspondent of the Western News
paper Union
Paris.-It is to be wondered If the
world knows Of the work Of the wom-
en- of France. In this great City of
Paris every woman physically capa-
Bile, is at work for her country 1t
may be true that the thought of the
nations on the women of Paris has
been that they are given to frivolity.
In a large sense this thought never
was true. To-day it has no shred of
truth in it, for the women of Paris
from the humble quarters to the ave
nues of the St. German district are
working for the cause of the country
which they hold to be holy.
The st. German section Of Paris,
spoken of usually as the Faubourg st.
German, is the residence district of
the men and the women of what some
times is called the old regime. Here
dwell the titled people of Paris. the
counts and countesses and even the
princes and the princesses who, under
the old system of government, held
not only titles intact but the honors
which went with them. The women
of the Faubourg st. German today are
working side by side with the shop
girls, the milliners and the dressmak-
ers in an effort to do what they can
for their country
All Is Different Now.
Always in Paris the housewife
bushes herself with domestic affairs for
some hours each day. This was as
true of the titled woman as it was
of the wife of the Seine boatman, but
beyond looking after her domestic af-
fairs the woman of place and fashion
in Paris did little other work. At
night the opera or the ball claimed her
attention. 1t was the life to which
she was born.
Now all is different. There was an
awakening of the fashionable women
of Paris at the outbreak of the present
war. They found that conditions had
changed since the last war with the
Germans in 1870. Then the sisters of
charity did most of the nursing work
1t was their work to look after the
poor and the needy. There are not
as many sisters of charity in Paris
today as there were years ago, and
those who are left are able to do only
a small part of the duties which to-
day confront the women of the city.
The women of fashion and title in
Paris last August went out rather tim
idly to work in the hospitals. They
were not trained nurses, but they
could do something. They found an
interest In what in many cases was
real manual labor. They got a new
outlook on life. Today some of them
confess that they hold their past lives
wasted. When this war is over the
women of Paris will continue to work
for the good of mankind.
Find Other Fields for Endeavor.
After the first work in the hospitals
the women of Paris learned that there
were other fields better fitted for their
endeavor. The trained nurses came
from all parts of the earth to take
their places at the bedsides of the
wounded. What else can we dor"
This was the question that the wom-
en- of former leisure put to themselves.
They realized suddenly that all the
able-bodied men of the city had gene
to the front and that they mad left
wives and children behind them who
needed help and guidance. and in
many cases, work.
The women of the Faubourg st. Ger
main went into the byways of Paris
and ministered to their more lowly sis
tiers. Many shops in Paris have closed
because Of the war. thus throwing
many women and girls out of work
The women of Paris blessed with
wealth, used it to start workshops of
their own where the unemployed could