Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-21

there must have been something strange
about this fellow and Mollie that | never
could find out, SO Ill have to let it slide as
1t is.
French Women What They Mar
ry For, and How They Act When
Married. ...
Paris correspondence Of the Philadolphis Home
Woekly.l
What wrptched wives French women
makel They certainly are less fitted for
matrimony than an women the sun shines
OH. Fond of excitement, devoted to pleas
ure, loving dress, delighting in company,
ONE and its duties are confinement In jail
nd irksome drudgery to them. The best
I them wear tho breeches, haggle-as only
Jomen can haggle-about centimes and
)us, reduce their husbands to hardship,
rive off his friends. reduce his eXpendi-
ares, diminish his pleasures, place money
yer and above everything else, make their
''ill, their wishes, their whims, their ca
,rices the law of the household; and think
hey ought to be adOred rs angels because
ley keep buttons and shirt from parting
Ompany. r....
These are the Jewels of married women
/ France. But even these think lightly OF
jcial life, where society is everything and
I'll else is nothing, nobody thinks of refus-
x anything which may add to the enter
,inment OF company. As husbands are
eros in the best houses, any complaint
hey may make of invasion of their rights
commonly disreg gIrdsd, or If Insisted up
n is answered by suit of divorce. Those
animals" have no rights except so far as
ne union of buttons and shirt Is concerned.
There are no women in the world more
rgreeable to strangers in drawing-room
IAN Fren 3h women. FalsehOod and truth
re things Indifferent to them, consequent
' such thing as principle never checks
leir desire to be agreeable. Their natural
haliciousness and their natural spri4htli
'ess, Whose quickness and sharpness have
'een increased by the continual attrition
i'fcompany, make their conversation enter
lining. Their satisfaction in finding them
Ives in what they may not unjustly consid-
r their proper sphere dimples their cheeks
it'll smiles, and kindles light in their eyes.
Hheir vanity, which continually g0ads them
struggle tor applause, stimulates them to
Xert all their powers OF pleasing. They
nsequently are the most agreeable draw.
lg-rOom companions to strangers in the
.Orld.
1t is almost impossible to avoid falling in
We with them. Fancy pursues them be-
ond the drawing-room, and uses her
,armest colors to draw pictures of the
appness of the men who constantly pos
.ss such bright, vivaciOuS, amiable, and
tscinating creatures. Fancy-that will. o.
le-wisp of life e!-deceves us here as is her
yOnt. and, were we to follow her glittering,
Try flame, would surely lead us into most
ainful morass.
The rocket, which lies in the artificer's
,boratorS black, sullen, unattractiye in its
ulgar pastebOard case, resting on an un-
Orned, unpublished, rough stick, does
OF more differ from the fiery bolt which
lakes mobs stare as it seems to scale the
ighest heavens, than the French cyno-
ure of the drawing-rOom differs from the
iife in her husbands or her tamily's COM
any.
The restraints of domestic life oppress
nem to an inconceivable degree. The ideal
.appiness of all of them is to enjoy moth
rless widows freedom. To have no ac-
Ountto give of their time or their purse
,r their body. TO have no conscience
I'VE only to keep unknown deeds reproved
ny public opinion. Too cold to be licen-
ous, they are never immoral, except to
:ratify an agreeable companion; and were
love to listen to their prayer, mems de-
Tres would be of the same temperature all
through life rs they are at three score and
Yen.
1t is neither wonderful men and women
marry here, nor wonderful they separate.
Marriages are contracted solely for money,
or for social position, or for both. Wo-
men marry for these advantages and to be
free.
A woman is ward, an infant, Until she
marries. She must not be seen at plays,
where the dialogue is thinly and sparse
]y draped as the leading actresses who
keep its shuttle cock ofcOnversation flying.
She must not go into the streets or into
public gardens alone. She must not dip
her nose into books which are only tlC for
the shelves of married coventry. She has
the worst seat at table, church, theater,and
in carriage. She must be SILENT mo1est,
respectful.
All cnanges when she marries. She was
q girl-she Is woman. She may go
where she pleases, when she pleases, rs she
pleases. The slave Is tyrant in turn; the
husband $50 free while unmarriedD wears
the discarded manacles; the ball aud chain
for his ankle. She reads what she pleases,
hears any play, sees any sight. Her iath-
er may have had no matter what title, she
was uODOuy' her nuSOdnu JlJle OeCOmeS
feminine, and is her property as much as it
is his. The opera box, the carriage, the
town and the country house are hers.
She engages and dismisses the servants.
The table is laid to suit her taste. She has
all the keys. Therefore, women marry.
If matrimony does not suit them, despite
husband, father and mother, she sues a di-
vorce. Her husband is obliged to give her
an income in keeping with their rank in
society. She is free as air.