Show Do Fr French Women Bathe Bailie Flirt Smoke Or Boband Bob and andAre andAre andAre Are Their Hubbies I True These Are Arc Questions Asked By Vis Visitors tors and Declares Men and Women in France Are Pretty Much Same As Elsewhere War Var k Down Ancient Traditions 1 By lly WILLIAM JI BIRD Special Correspondent of of The Standard Examiner E Copyright ight 1926 Consolidated Press Association pARIS p ARIs sePt Kept ept Do lS-Do 18 Do French girls flirt t 7 Do I French girls girls- nice girls nice ones of go course course go out alone atone with young men meat t Donice Do T 1 14 1 9 nice A French Frenchwomen women ninn smoke 1 14 4 Do hair hair Can a a French woman trust her I husband out ot of o sight I ht Do the Fre over ever marry for tor love loveT 10 Is la It true truo that they never bathe but bUI w 00 perfume Instead Arent Aren't the tile the French awfully And arent aren't they awfully on themselves thinking that lint ev ev French i Is just right richt and andI everything foreign Is terrible I These are arc a few questions asked every day by the American visit visit- visitor visitor oro or now returning homeward an and l anxious to carry carry all II the information tl tion n available on these burning sub sub- sub sub jc They have bavo their minds pretty petty well mado up on the tho an- an an answers and are 1110 Inclined to sot got areu e It if you disagree nice nice nic They They believe that French girls never go so out without their mamma or their and that therefore ther tore all those scon seen on or in tea room rooms belong elong to the he faster taster well bred well clas that French women would never think ot or cutting outline their hair hall that marriages are aro made for tor floney alone except among amone tho the working classes that th thc perfume atomizer Zer replaces soap that every crane irano Is squeezed till the rooster squawks and that lint III in their blindness the French aro are unaware ot the of ot American customs man man- manners nero ners and civilization What nr aro the facts The Tha first tart fart is that French Frenchmen Frenchmen men and l French women women are peo generalIze pie Ile and you OU can no more general general- iso Ize about thorn them than you can gen gen- een about Americans Tho French flapper ot of o tOday often otten ha tas all plenty ot of o liberty var broko broke down old Institutions Institution I cl on Fine I FRENCH FRENCH WOr WOMEN EN ARE DESCRIBED Continued From Page Pace One Sonic Some families try to cling to an- an an ancient lent dent standards but most nIce French girls so go 0 about as aa they please Some ot of them flirt Some of them go BO motor riding with young men In the Ibis Bois de Bou- Bou Boulogne Boulogne Bou logne Stoat Most of them smoke and so do their mothers mother Smoking In tact fact has been common among fashion fashion- fashionable fashionable able women In France Franc longer than It ha has In America Most of ot them bob their hair and especially In inthe Inthe the upper reaches renche of ot society Can French husbands be he trust trust- trusted trusted ed cd Most at them of-them them are and appear to deserve it At any rate di- di divorce divorce di divorce vorce Is relatively Infrequent mar mar- marItal marital marital ital friction comparatively rare Marriages are ar usually made for love though not often for tor puppy love The The legend that they are mad made for tor money grows row out of ot the fact that the family Is still a re- re respected re respected Institution In France and the French belle believe that the family Is likely to be b more mor solidly found founded ed when husband and wife equal term terms and are aro of equivalent financial and social status The Tho legend ot of is based on the tha rarity of ot bath tubs tulls But the French cant can't readily see seethe the tho connection between bath tubs and cleanliness Th They y dont don't be- be belie be b bIleve lie e total Immersion Is necessary to cleanliness The notion about perfumery is duo due to the th elegant French womans woman's woman penchant for bathing herself with ecu ecu-dc- dc cau cologne which Is la recognized to be bemore bemore bemore more cleansing than water The French do sometimes appear stingy tincy but that perhaps I Is be- be because be because cause they believe in spending within their means and it if possible laying something by for the future anti for tor their children Yet If it wo we compared our frugal Henry Ford lord with his French com corn competitor competitor pouter Andre Citroen who Is one ot of the noted gay cay liters lifers of oC Paris or orIf orif orif If we compared the Jolly and gen gen- genIal genial cen cental Ial tal President Gaston who loves a Rood good least feast and a good time with but with but why Insist |