Untitled

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 July 1911, Page 3

An amusing discovery has been made at Monti neon, Paris, where new barracks are being built. Th■•< military authorities have founcl, to their astonishment, that one of the cnii-pentors is a young woman, aged 29. Her name is Juliette Flucner. Her husband is a master caiipenter, and she has acted as his journeyman for the last four years. She is regarded as an export 'by her comrades, and works in a very becoming suit of dark corduroy with pewter buttons. She wears a kind of ftrousor skirt, or, rather, zoua.vo trousers, with enormous pockets, in -wliicji she carries her foot rule, her Compasses, and hier spirit-level. Just before her sex was discovered bv tlie authorities ]\[me. Fluerier had finishied her day's work on a small scaffolding, sixty feet above the 'round. Sh'e earns four shilliios a day, except when she does niecework, when she makes double that amount. > .%/ .'" /.,