The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-18
FRENCHJU'RIES.
S0FfHE]A|RI |
=. TO WOMEN
BY MILTON KRONNEll
KEA ScPa,irp Writer

:. London, Aug. lB.--Thc most soft
hearted juries in, the world, up to
nov, have been those, Of France and
Anlc RIGA, Especially when it comes
to- women defendants. y ,-
Lately; in the United States, how
ever, there has bccn,a healthy reac-
ton against ladies" who kill, and
some prison sentences have result
cd. Not SO in France.
There is Zizi. for instance. She
has another name, but the jurors
knew her mainly as Iii.
She had lover He was jealous
and one evening he beat her up and
then drew knife as if he were
going to finish the job.
Somehow, TO translate the French
literally, "a revolver found itself in
her hand" Also it went off and the
lover bit the dust. ~
So Zizi, poor little Zizi, was up
for murdcr. ~. - ~ r..
And then she sat in the prisoners
dock while the jurors studied, her
oval. face. in which there cleaned
tho ssddest of sad black eyes, shad-
cd by long, silky, black lashes. When
these, eyes filmed with tears, tho
french jurors wept.
And they promptly brought in a
verdict acquitting Iii. poor little
Zizi., y
MONDAY meditation: Strange
people, these English! They keep
Onc-third Of the theater orchestra
seats snrcserved, and. sell the places
ten. minutes before the c1rtain goes
up TO the first c0mers for one-third
~f .<os
Renee the queue. Britons love the
queue They don't mind standing
up. .,ssl -. Z. ~.
These people have been in line
since = o'clock this morning. They
still have two hours more in which
to stand up. ~ -:
:. Some pass tho time reading. Some
women arc knitting. Others are
gaping ut mountcbanks who seek to
entertain them on the off chance Of
getting stray penny. ssis { !
And when the doOrs are finally
opened, xolpc Of these qucue-itcs will
not b.. admitted, because all the
places are filled. Six hours waiting
strsnse people these. English!
French papers arc always funny
| when it, comes to information about
America and England. They never
! seem able to master the spelling OF
Anglo Saxon names. ~.
And when it CONES to >, plain
things like statistics, they Mufl
things up drsadfully.
For iHstancc, pick snp "a big
Parisian newspaper AMI [ read the
latest dope about american cities
New York is first iii population, Chi.
cagO second and. Philadelphia third
Then the FIenchln1n trips. !,
His readers are told that Balti-
more, with 100000 people. is fourth
city, Boston. is fifth with. $4,000 and
San Francisco is sixth with 100000. \
! This will indeed be news to- Be
trOit, Cleveland and st. Louis, which
| fondly i,uaginal they, occupied
fourth, fifth and sixth places respec'
lively. !. - -
! The "new- rich are. an oldt story
The "new- poor" is a newer tale. it,s
the term the British like to apply
| to the mse1vesr baeause of the high
taxation TREY eil1ure aud hecsnse
Of the high cost of living. 8. ~
Hut ipst the same this. new poor.
! ishnesss doesn't seem ~ preyent them
huMnx Whist, they stake 4 fancy to.
:. For .instancc,, the other day In
! Fleet street m .anetioneer sold
book Of Syrian. stamps. And in. these
hard timex al il. fetched was $500
(CoryYight, 1925, NEA, Service, Inc. }