egs, and artificial
teeth! Others are taught nursing, bookkeeping, stenography, dentistry.

One of Madame Goujon's most picturesque revivals is the dressing of
dolls. Before the Franco-Prussian war this great industry belonged to
France. Germany took it away from France while she was prostrate,
monopolizing the doll trade of the world, and the industry almost
ceased at its ancient focus. Madame Goujon was one of the first to see
the opportunity for revival in France, and with Valentine Thompson and
Madame Verone, to mention but two of her rivals, was soon employing
hundreds of women. A large room on the ground floor of M. Reinach's
hotel is given over as a storeroom for dolls, all irreproachably
dressed and indisputably French.

It will take a year or two of practice and the co-operation of male
talent after the war to bring the French doll up to the high standard
attained by the Germans throughout forty years of plodding efficiency.
The prettiest dolls I saw were those arrayed in the different national
costumes of Europe, particularly those that still retain the styles of
musical comedy. After those rank the Red Cross nurses, particularly
those that wear the blue veil over the white. And I never saw in real
life such superb, such imperturbable brides.

V

Another work in which Madame Goujon is interested and which certainly
is as picturesque is Le Bon Gite. The gardens of the Tuilleries when
regarded from the quay present an odd appearance these days. One sees
row after row of little huts, models of the huts the English Society
of Friends have built in the devastated valley of the Marne. Where
hundreds of families were formerly living in damp cellars or in the
ruins of large buildings, wherever they could find a sheltering wall,
the children dying of exposure, there are now a great number of these
portable huts where families may be dry and protected from the
elements, albeit somewhat crowded.

The object of Le Bon Gite is to furnish these little temporary
homes--for real houses cannot be built until the men come back from
the war--and these models in the Tuilleries Gardens show to the
visitor what they can do in the way of furnishing a home that will
accommodate a woman and two children, for three hundred francs (sixty
dollars).

It seems incredible, but I saw the equipment of several of these
little shelters (which contain several rooms) and I saw the bills.
They contained a bed, two chairs, a table, a bu