Show THE TYPICAL FRENCH WOMAN max okell writes concerning ter her homo home ure peasantry the crench woman has a genius pcr ius for cookery and is thol to tho the fact that it is good policy in married life to seo that her husband din dines eswell well the politics of matrimony is s A science inborn inbok in our women let at a frenell woman bo be rich or poor the mistress of a mansion in the champs elysses or of it a poor fifth floor lettla flat at montmartre or batig sho she las always the charin of she is always smart always alert all and lias has a little flut fluttering flutter terin inK g bustling way ith her that is bound to leep beep awake your interest in all she doab slie she may lie be sometimes a little affected but she is never vulgar on sundays and holidays she dresses still a little more ele gantly than usual but she bho net er appears to bo be in sunday dollies clothes the aule middle d le 11 c class 1 ass french woman is ladal ladylike ike not hit only in her dress but in her blee speech you will rever never seo see her loaded with ell cheap jewelry this great stamp of vulgarity ind and when she die speaks to you cannot guess whether she is the wife of a gentleman or of a small tradesman I 1 have often heard french women c called frivolous but this is tho the height of absurdity it if frivolity consists in trying to remain young and at attracts 0 as long is as possible then tho the french is fr frivolous holous if again frivolity consists in making a home cheerful and gay ind and preventing tin a husband from being absorbed by the cares of business then slie she is frivolous if this woman bere w ere frivolous how could you explain the adoration for the mother which even to the lowest of the low you find in 17 french rench children bow could this be unless she were the example of all domestic 1 virtues if a frenchman Fren climan of 40 would hesitate to take an important step in life without first consulting his mother burely it must be that lie he i recognizes in her a wise guide it would be no mere on oil my part to dwell longer on oa the absurd charge of frivolity tale now the classes there you will see the wife tile active partner of her husband lius band behold them both as the commercial tra traveler ieler displays display Ts liis his goods on oil the counter slie she is not a mere housekeeper with or without wages she is a partner not medely a sl sleeping eeling 1 partner this thia not only enables her if slie she happens to become a widow to carry on a business without her husband but to bo be independent and bring up her children she has not to obtain her living on oil her husbands death to become a working housekeeper or a nurse she is tho the mistress of her own house as before and now the laid head of the flim film you cannot obtain a pet feet notion of fi ench industry indu itry unless you pay a visit to our peasantry I 1 must say that now the woman ceases to be attractive she does not even attempt to look so BO yun burnt bale an and d hai heaitly ty behold her dear english tourist that is the fortune of 17 franca rance she does not wear fringes on her forehead forebee nd I 1 will admit she does not wear flounces on a second hand or a hat flowers and feathers and she totally i ignores 0 one franc diamonds slie she lias has a coarse serge gown on and simple snowy cap she is clean and tidy and the personification of industry I 1 do not doubt however that thanks to the blessings of gratuitous and compulsory education tile time will soon come when slie she will want to imitate the ladies of the town in lirar habits and dress dregs and that her sons will despise the dear land where they beia born ind and will all want to be clerks and swag swagger 9 er in town with high stand up collars tight trouse trousers is and sticks lis chank goodness goodne ses this his spectacle is not vot vet to bo be been in france this good liard hard working woman is the backbone of the count country rv the amount of she can call get th through ou 11 is simply prodigious you will always see her busy either cither forking in lier her field selling the products of her little farm in the marketplace of the nearest town or engaged about her little household site she is not attractive but she is the picture of health and contentment shares or bonds may go up or down without disturbing her peace she holds none she trusts her savings to nobody Ban bankers lers she thinks company directors and stock brokers may maybe be very respectable verson persons 3 but when the lie old stocking iss is swollen with fire f franc rane sho rounds off lier her litt little lo 10 family domain and buys another field ehe ii i quite aito sure to find in i its place when slie she wakes up in tale morning let at me give on oil an example of lier her frugality and allow r ne to to take it from a personal recollection my mother has a housemaid who has ben been with lier her years not long alg ago while in franca I 1 took alside this tin s old servant sen ant 11 1 I know low devoted you have beben to my mother I 1 said to her you are not strong and ami 10 I 1 taro arc say bay you will not vish to go into service again but make inake your your beli easy casy about this if anything fun thing should happen to my luv mother I 1 free bee that you arc forthe for the i iafet L st of cf your life but I 1 said inquiringly 1 11 I have no doubt you of your own by alii titi time 1 bere iere imagine my sur eur bribe I let I 1 awl hot her tell ine boblie moblie she hai wed over fr francs it cs about c 2000 di all vell including ono diara in jh the suez canal company max orell On ellin in press |