THE LIVING PRESENT ***
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THE LIVING PRESENT
BY
GERTRUDE ATHERTON
NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS
[Illustration: THE MARQUISE D'ANDIGNÉ President Le Bien--Être du Blessé]
TO
"ETERNAL FRANCE"
CONTENTS
BOOK I
FRENCH WOMEN IN WAR TIME
CHAPTER
I MADAME BALLI AND THE "COMFORT PACKAGE"
II THE SILENT ARMY
III THE MUNITION MAKERS
IV MADEMOISELLE JAVAL AND THE ÉCLOPÉS
V THE WOMAN'S OPPORTUNITY
VI MADAME PIERRE GOUJON
VII MADAME PIERRE GOUJON (_Continued_)
VIII VALENTINE THOMPSON
IX MADAME WADDINGTON
X THE COUNTESS D'HAUSSONVILLE
XI THE MARQUISE D'ANDIGNÉ
XII MADAME CAMILLE LYON
XIII BRIEF ACCOUNTS OF GREAT WORK: THE DUCHESSE D'UZÈS; THE DUCHESSE DE ROHAN; COUNTESS GREFFULHE; MADAME PAQUIN; MADAME PAUL DUPUY
XIV ONE OF THE MOTHERLESS
XV THE MARRAINES
XVI PROBLEMS FOR THE FUTURE
BOOK II
FEMINISM IN PEACE AND WAR
CHAPTER
I THE THREAT OF THE MATRIARCHATE
II THE TRIUMPH OF MIDDLE-AGE
III THE REAL VICTIMS OF "SOCIETY"
IV ONE SOLUTION OF A GREAT PROBLEM
V FOUR OF THE HIGHLY SPECIALIZED: MARIA DE BARRIL; ALICE BERTA JOSEPHINE KAUSER; BELLE DA COSTA GREENE; HONORÉ WILLSIE
ADDENDUM
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Marquise d'Andigné, President Le Bien--Être du Blessé
Madame Balli, President Réconfort du Soldat
Delivering the Milk in Rheims
Making the Shells
Société L'Eclairage Electrique, Usine de Lyon
Where the Artists Dine for Fifty Centimes
A Railway Depot Cantine
Delivering the Post
BOOK I
FRENCHWOMEN IN WAR TIME
If this little book reads more like a memoir than a systematic study of conditions, my excuse is that I remained too long in France and was too much with the people whose work most interested me, to be capable, for a long while, at any rate, of writing a detached statistical account of their remarkable work.
In the first place, although it was my friend Owen Johnson who suggested this visit to France and personal investigation of the work of her women, I went with a certain enthusiasm, and the longer I remained the more enthusiastic I became. My idea in going was not to gratify my curiosity but to do what I could for the cause of France as well as for my own country by studying specifically the war-time work of its women and to make them better known to the women of America.
