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Show AM1-.RICAN WIVES ABROAD. Nhw York Press. Mailiuu t'lenieneeau ail I another to the flliappotnttd and licartsore American women wo-men who leave their foreign husbands and return to their native land because they tlnd the condition) ot European married life and the attitude, behavior, assumptions and demands de-mands of a foreign husband unendurable. There Is now and then a sincerely happy marriage between n foreign husband and an American wife. They arc rare. No foreigner for-eigner knows how to treat an American woman. She ia accustomed to a liberty, a freedom, an Initiative and an individual and independent life which render Insupportable Insupport-able the code and convention which im prisons a married woman anywhere on the continent of Eur tpa. The minute social restrictions re-strictions which a French woman accepts its a matter of course, and to which she is trained from her cradle, gall and worry an American woman at every step. IShe finds her husband elakuing un obedience und submission sub-mission natural to bis ideal of domestic life, but to her little short of domestic slavery. I. istly, while her foreign husband claims so much from her, the fladt that he assumes for himself n marital freedom odious, repugnant re-pugnant and unknown in this country for, Whether American husbands be better or worse than other men, they ar-, at least, less open and flagrant in their inildelities. Madame t'lemenceau might have expected to escape the loss of happiness and self-respect whic h doss so many American women in a foreign home. Here as a love match. She was w edded to M. t'lemenceau while she was a school gir and a fricudless stronger In this country, supporting himself by school li'in hing. lie lived here long enough to know our Institutions and understand Auur ican ways' He is in polities a radical republican. repub-lican. His public career has been brilliant, (t has not brought him I place in the minis-try, minis-try, but it has made him in Borne sense the foremost radical leader in France, certainly the ablest political speaker In that party. Though he has never constructed a ministry, he has destroyed many, and his life has been without gross public scandals. Neither (faa there in his ease the ghost of an old futility to sit forever In his house or a herd of cackling women of the old regime to be yerpetually telling his American wife what she could aud could not do "without com-promising com-promising the dignity of the family whose aaafe she bore." .Yet, in spite of this, separation has come, arid divorce ia likely to follow, though the eldest daughter of the unhappy home now broken up is married and there are two other children. There It, after all, no husband hus-band for an American woman like an Ameri-. Ameri-. in husband, and if she goes elsewhere, it Is too often to And that her own eouutry men are t lie only men whose respect, courtesy cour-tesy and c onsideration for women do not disappear when each comes to be demanded by their own wives, however constantly. In the en-..' of foreign husbands, these quale tics iu ij continue to be at the command of the wives of other men. |