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    VIII.—OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT.

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    ' y Paris, Feb. 17, 1863. winter turing ...

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    Viii.—Our French Correspondent.

    VIII . —OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT .

    ' Y Paris, Feb. 17, 1863. Winter Turing ...

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    work mas been to live almost by op , thank daily Heaven felt in . this for the part genial of the sunshine world which ; and peop the has since desceuvres Christ - of fashionabl displaying e life superb grumble winter at dresses it because pretty they ankles have not and had ility a sin in gle skating opportunity on the

    ponds in the Bois de Boulogne . , The labouring , classes ag in Paris and the Departments have displayed which a far do greater not suffer amount from of the generosity effects of in the answering civil war to in the America appeal ,

    than which the was bourgeois made to ie the or nation the aristocracy on behalf . o _£ But the starvin none g were population more forward of Rouen in t The contributing he strug relief gle committee now to the going fund of on the raised in S the eine to _^ _Tew Inf modif World erieure y the than hardshi the ouvrieres ps in of its those reports of the victims cap regret ital of .

    that the wages of females here are , as a general expresses rule , so insufficient to mainhopes tain life that decentl when y , national much less instruction to enable ceases them to to come be a to misnomer the aid of and others becomes , and

    one * ' national of her , " alread they y will very be popul more ar liberall lectures y , remunerated alludes to this . Mdlle circumstance . Daubie w , ith in Thursday great upon effect la question evening . That des talented Several femmes hundred and in the distinguished salons of the chiefl lady presse continues literary scien or tifique to belon discours every ing e

    hearin to the liberal the bacheliere professions . des lettres , assemble . She there persons has discussed for , the purpose y the theme of seeing which g and she selected g with a logic that , a short time ago , would have been called truly

    maso culine ccasions , and her an auditors eloquence showed which that may such well was be the termed case b touchin the mann g . On er in several which y they aroval abstained till she from had ma concluded king any her demonstration lecturewhen of the either hands dissatisfaction of the greater or

    p pp art of those , present were clapped till they must , have been almost blistered . It is a signal proof of success when a public speaker wrings applause from

    encored his hearers as fee he l addresses assured that them he ; or and she an has actor exercised or an considerable actress who is violentl over y the feelings may of the audienceBut there is encomium great that power silence

    . no so as the in wh most ich , as the hl proverb ifted who says can , A command pin fall can it be and heard when . " It is seaker only orators rivets ; any p

    d so iced fast against the attention g the y g cause of he a advocates crowd composed or defends for , the it wou most ld part be idle of p eop doubt le preju tha - t

    S he has feels gained deepl a y si the gnal importance triumph . Mdlle of the . s D ubject aubie is about very which earnest she in speaks her m . anner She . ossesses the advantae of makiher felt without making any effort

    to p that do not so . a Her word fluency she g s is g is reat ever ng , her lost vo presence ice She good is , an her agreeable articulation -looking so distinct * ,

    ays . young woman I should , and bears th e im be press abou o t f g i ht sense and twent upon her When physiognomy lecturing . Her her

    relapses fe age at , ures into are ver private guess y an , imated life and , alt silence houg h , g she they looks are not one very y of . the mobile most . unpretend When , she

    in ing her persons appearance that it indicative is possible of to pedantry meet . or There of French is not vanity at any . tim Her e anything face is ,

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/58/