FRANCE: Minister's Morning

Minister s Morning

That respected, venerable statesman Minister of Justice Louis Barthou visited, last week, the prison of St. Lazare and there presented one Sister Marie Perpetue with the Order of the Legion of Honor for her 50 years' work among fallen women at the prison.

Soon M. Barthou, impeccably frock-coated, issued out into a courtyard where the children of certain women prisoners were at play. Rushing in a merry group around the Minister of Justice they shouted "Oh, Papa! Papa! Give us a sou, papa!"

Horrified, the Warden attempted to hush these shrill...

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