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Show Brides, American and French. Tho Amcran B'rl Is brought up to think much more of herself than of her marriage. If, In tho natural courso of ovents. It suits her deslro to confer upon some ardent suitor her good graces, then she will mnrry; not otherwise. oth-erwise. The French girl Is brought up to look upon marriage as an obligation in Itself, something she owes society. She has no choice In the matter, nnd, Indeed, so confined and narrow is her jeuue Alio life, that marriage withvno matter what young man her parents may select p.vpears to her as the sea-same sea-same of emancipation. We do not mean to InB1. unte that marriages now, as in the eighteenth century, are consummated con-summated against tho will and Inclination In-clination of the bride, who appears under such circumstances ns a victim; but wo mean clearly to Bhow that, i whereas with us the suitor Is looked upon with condescension, In France, i when accepted, he Is considered verl- tably as the Lohengrin, the knight i who has come to free a Sleeping Heauty from her enforced and useless i Idleness.-r-Mrs. John Van Vorst, lu AInsIee's. |
