MADAME FALLIERES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1384, 9 March 1912, Page 11

MADAME FALLIERES.

In other European capitals, the daily drivo of the King and Queen is a feature of the life. But one misses it in Paris. President Pallieres takes a walk every morning, out Madame Falliores takes neither walks nor drives. . A witty Frenchman once said that Paris was invented so that foreigners should know nothing of I'ranc*, and Madame Failures belongs to that France of the provinces whose life is a sealed book to most strangers. It is the type of the Petito Ijourgoisie, or lower middle class, of the South, descended from 'generations of women, honest and modest, whose existence has been centred in the home, in keeping it in order, overlooking tho servants, and linn!! close to the children, a type conserved through generations and seemingly as littlo impressed with tho march of time as the Sphins of Egypt. Educated in the convent,-mid preserving throughout her life the convent custom ot dressing in black, a devout Catholic, even if married to a politician of the Radical party, the woman of this class looks upon her home as a part of her religion, the most important part, and she lives in it almost as in a convent. Any kind of pleasure, oven a promenade, is unknown to her. She is always in the home, nml early incite loses'the desire for anything else. "When von arc in the home, the outside world does not trouble you," is her motto. Tho products of the vegetable garden, the best v/ny of turning draperies that have Income Vorn, recipe? for jams and jellies, theso mnfco up her life. She speaks when spoken to, and makes a few shy remarks to her husband until he internints her with an authoritative "Stop, that is enough." The husband is often a grent talker, but in his home he talks on heedless o£ his listener, and is astonished if Eho exhibits powers of observation. He will then show n certain respect for his humble companion, and may even ask h»r advice at times, although seldom acknowledging it before the world.-From "Intimacies of Court and Society, Dodd, Mead and Co. Tho New York City Fire Department is to bfi eciuipped with an apparatus which, by thi> \kc of a blast of combine, oxygen and acetylene gas, will sever steel bars an inch thick in five minutes. During the recent EqnitabU Bmlding fire it took an hour and twenty minutes to cut. with a hand-saw, similar bars that held three men prisoners.