OUR PARIS LETTER

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1925, Page 13

OUR PARIS LETTER

AN ENTERTAINING DEBATE

VOTES FOR WOMEN

(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, 6th May. . There was an entertaining debate in tho Chamber 'of Deputies yesterday, when the Bill for granting women the right to vote at the election of municipal and departmental councils was again under discussion. There was a comparaI tively small number of Deputies present, but there was a large gathering of eleI. gantly-dressed women in the public galleries. M. Maupoli (Deputy for Saone-. I et-Loire) attacked the measure' on the ground that women thought more 6£ their housework and children than : of- | the right to vote, and declared that most j women considered that their place was in the home and not in the forum. If. Escoulent wished .to know what would happen at election meetings and during the debates in political, assemblies if women with less control than men over their nerves took part. Just before the de-bate-was adjourned, Mi'Lafajgette' declared himself hostile to the Bill with the following pithy phrase: "Women are not' unworthy of politics; politics is unworthy of them."- ■ HEROES OF RESEARCH

Three heroes who gave their lives in trie cause of scientific research are gazetted in the "Journal Officiel" as having deserved well of their country. AH three fell victims to the-X-rays, the dangerous portions of which science now hopes^to ward off by means of niters. Dr. Barrois, who died at Toulon last year, is described as giving the finest possible example of courage and disinterestedness in carrying on work with the rays for 20 years. He underwent repeated amputations. M.. Charles Dememtroux, a former collaborator of Ourie, sacrificed his life in investigations of radium and thorium. Up to the day before his death.he was dictating memorandum for, the use of those who were destined to carry on his work. M. Demalender, another enthusiastic searcher feeling his end near, exacted a promise from his family that his body snould be given over to dissection, so as to provide medical science with information as to the ravages of the X-rays on the human frame. HONOUR FOR HEROIC WORKER

The cross of the Legion of Honour has been awarded to a Paris laboratory attendant, M. Henri Yigreux, in recognition of long services to the cause of science His specialty is the manufacture of various kinds of glass apparatus used m chemical research. At an early period of his career he was badly scalded by the explosion of a distilling flask. f *^ ii.T k to "npro^e the utensils of which he had charge, and eventually acquired remarkable skill in the manipulation of glass. He contrived all sorts of refrigerating washing, and condensing vessels which have proved of the greatest service to experimenters in all the French chemical laboratories. In 1919 another explosion deprived him of the forefinger of,his right hand, without in the least damping his ardour. He was recently awarded a g^nd prize at thl exhibition of craftsmanship.

i. BAGS" i Scarcely has, Paris "accustomed itself to the sight of "plus fours"—those inflated knickerbockers that are supposed to be the hall mark of the wearer's excellence at golf—than it has the spectacle thrust upon it of the latest "thing in'nethergarments, ,as worn by the undergraduates at Oxford. This sartorial nightmare resembles nothing so much as; a frontispiece to a W. W. Jacobs novel, unless it be a (deflated balloon, and when Paris saw it j yesterday it gasped. . It' saw it first the races and afterwards on the boule-' I vard?V A:- Poiicf man regulating the traffic caught sight of it, and the': shock' it cr a ve mm nearly led to disaster. 'The pioiieer of .extravagant fashion, who' was almost lost within. its : folds, obviously enjoyed the sensation he was creating,/and stalked about with the .air of one who had made a, wager that he would-take those bags to Pans and back/and, was determined to win it.-' ', "• . ■-.■-.;■:-..■;■ .••••;■ HEART-BEATS*BY WIRELESS Dr. Lutenbacher, a doctor attached to Versailles Hospieal, is to broadcast i^ rt-^ S by Wlreless telephone from the Eiffel Tower on Sunday at 630 p.m. This will be the first time that this has. been done in France. The doctor 'is first to broadcast the beating of a normal healthy heart and then the beating of an affected heart, both being amplified. The object of this experiment is to show that at some date in the future it will be possible for a doctor to diagnose! a heart case from a distance, •or.to follow the progress of a patient at frequent intervals without havinV to go to. tho patient's house each time" 50,000 FRANCS AIR PRIZE M. Louis Renault, who first built a motor-car as a toy, then built cars to oblige his friends, and finally built them, to seU.tq--the;..world,"is "offering a cup and a prize of 50,000 francs annually for five years for the airman covering non-stop the longest distance in each at tho years, ,on condition that tho flight he not shorter than that made by the two French airmen, '• Captains Arrachart and Lemaitre, when they flew non-stop from Etampes (Sine-et-Oise) to Villa-Ois neros in the Rio de Oro (about 2200 miles) v This offer was announced by H P. E. Fiandin, president of tho Aero Club do France, at a dinner given by M. Renault in honour of Captains Arrachart and Lemaitre. LIFE WORK OF M. VALLOT M. Joseph Vallot, whose death at >f ice was briefly announced yesterday, will bo remembered as the savant wtio carried' out the idea of building an observatory on the top of Mont Blanc. Up to about three years ago ho spent every summer in his Alpine eyrie, making observations °* considerab c value to meteorology. When his health made it unsafe for lum to remain for any length of time at so high an altitude, he took up his summer quarters at Chamonis, /where he spent his time in studying and collating the reports sent down from the observatory He continued his work in tha winter at Nice. He was- especially interested in the relation between disease and sunspots, and in conjunction with medical colleagues he drew up some valuable observations on this subject. In his" youth he wrote a curious hook on plants that grow in Paris. Ho described every variety of flora, street 'by street, not even omitting the grass in the Rue do Rivoli and the Place dv Carrousel, where the untrained eyo sees nothing but an expanse of stone. BEGGAR'S MANY "MAKE-UPS" A picturesque besgar is sometimes to be seen iv the neighbourhood of the lans Opera, wearing the melancholy air of a- fallen dude, and holding out ,his hand to the fashionable women who pass that way. The man was formerly an actor, who has adopted an easy and luwutiva jirotwsion, «n ( ! turns'to "uyd .auwunt £he skill acquired lonu a-'o of

.disguising his personal appearance. The aspect he wears on the Place de l'Opera is only one of his "make-ups." Sometimes lie appears as a cripple on crutches, a guise which is very successful further east along the Boulevards. For the residential quarter of the 1 Bouleyard Pereire, which is a third of his haunts, he adopts still another dress. Here he / boldly Haunts a cure's cossack, and it appeara that it is.m this attire that he gathers in the biggest sums.

PARIS "QUEEN'S" SAD DESTINY

Tragedy and triumph were strangely mingled in the life of a young Parisienne whose death took place.a few days ago. Her career opened happily. In recognition of her beauty, and domestic 'virtues/ she was elected Queen of Queens in 1914, and she seemed destined for a happy marriage and a useful existence, but the war shattered all her hopes. Her fiance,. an airman,- was killed, and so was her brother. Every Sunday it was her custom to place flowers on their grave's/ and now she has joined them at the age of twenty-seven. She is mourned by, all who knew her as a pattern of constancy, industry, and filial affection -.