LESSONS IN LOVE-MAKING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 81, 1 May 1909, Page 4

LESSONS IN LOVE-MAKING

AX INSTRUCTRESS IX LONDON". The beautiful old oak-panelled For-, tune Plavliouse in Breiwer-strect. is to become a' School of Love, and Mine, de Perrot, a fascinating Frenchwoman, is going to give her English sisters weekly ( lectures on the art of love-making all through th ( . London season (reports the Daily Mail). Bank and fashion sat at the feet, of Mnie. de iPorrol, who has eloquence and the art of the elocutionist at her command, at the Kit/. Hotel last season, when she lectured in French, hut English is to bi! the language spoken at the Fortune Playhouse. ''So many brilliant and clever women in England' seem to lack the chnrin of womanhood, and 1 want to tell them that the qualities of the heart, have been uppermost in the greatest and most brilliant women of all times." explained Mine, de Perrot, Intellect, Intent, accomplishments, wit, are no barrier to charm and to the power of loving and being loved. 'This i< surely where the 'suffragettes' make a mistake," An; remarked. "They do not cultivate charm. 'The other day at the British Museum a young lady knocked into me as she passed. 'Pardon me, T said to her, 'but may 1 ask n question? Are you a "sutfragette"!' •Why, yes,' she 'said. 'How did you know? Are you one?' 'Because you have such manly maimers, mademoiselle,' I said.

"Englishwomen have had no opportunity of hearing some of the great. I'Vcncli love stories. There is no (rood Inmslation, for instance, of the loveletters of lleloise and Abelard, which arc in Ullin. What I here is is hut the shadow of the real lleloise. Later t will tt-11 the love stories of the women of the French Revolution, a fascinating record."