Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — “HOMINIST” IS LATEST WORD Inspired by Witty French Journalist to Describe Man-Imitating Woman One Is Fined. [ARTICLE]

“HOMINIST” IS LATEST WORD

Inspired by Witty French Journalist to Describe Man-Imitating Woman One Is Fined.

Paris. —An adenture of Mile. Luclenne Delaroche. a young sculptress whose works have several times been exhibited at the salons, has inspired a witty journalist to coin a new word whereby militant suffragettes of a certain type will be known ih France henceforward. “Hominist" is the word, and it is meant to describe the sort of woman who goeß about dressed as much like a man as she possibly can. One morning at t o'clock the night police a human figure lying In the gutter of a street In the middle of the Latin Qnarter. They lifted up what apparently was a young man in an Intoxicated condition, with his clothes badly torn and his appearance generally deplorable. While taking the offender, they were assailed by a volley of descriptive epithets delivered in a high feminine voice, and discovered that they were dealing with a woman in disguise. She was dressed in black trousers, leather spats, a man's' waistcoat and a woman's coat reaching to the knees.' The young woman. Mile. Delaroche. who was the sculptress, explained to the court that this costume she found most convenient in the stddlo. and that, being suddenly asked out that evening to visit some friends, she had forgotten to don the skirt with which she-whs accustomed to cover up her nether garments when out of door*. A hard-hearted magistrate fitted her 10 francs.