, 1873-01-05
FRENCH FAMILY DEVOTION,

! The true Partisan has never been accused O.
devotion to his wife, however polite he may b.
| to other mems wives. It has hitherto beer
women whom he is not bound BY law and Gus
tom to maintain. An advertisement, however
| which recently appeared in French paper
| shows that the rule is only exceptionally true
and that the ago OF chivalrc devotion to wires il
not yet over in Paris. The advertisement runs
as follows: Eliza, you can return to the house
the boil On my nose is gone" A volume might
be written On those two pithy lines, go full Of
m mat1imonia1 devotion and tender consideration
| for the feminine feeling. There is slight ele-
| ment OF vanity in this particular French
mans composition, Us there is in
nearly every other Frenchman's composition.
Every man is liable to have boil upon his nose,
Md no man looks we'll with a boil on bis nose.
In all probability, this particular Frenchman WAS
q handsome man when in his normal condition,
aud when he wooed and won his Eliza he did
not have the hateful e-crescence On that prou1i-
nent but exceedingly usefu1 member Of his face.
II la had, Eliza never would hare accepted him.
In fact, there never yet lived 3 man with suff-
cient courage to make matrimonial propositions
to d woman in such d distressing, not to say dis
gusting, nasal condition. Marriage is q matter
Of such slow growth in France that all the con-
ditions must bo L No. to effect it. Being
handsome man, necessarily he must be yain
man. AL handsome men are. But the little
element OF vanity is net half SO touching or 30
beautiful as the tender solicitude for tho feel
ings OF his Eliza The unxind reader Will say
that Eliza herself was disgusted, aud fled from
that boil. We do not believe it. We prefer to
believe th9t this particular Frenchman was not
willing to let his Eliza see him in his sad plight;
that he was not willing to shock her sensitive
soul or harrow up her feelings with his il1umi-
mated frontispioce Gnd rather than do it ho
would even endure the panga OF an enforced
temporary separation Eliza, questioning not,
went like o dutiful wife, and left him to nurse
his sorrow and lis nose in solitude. How
differently most Frenchmen, indeed
most other men, would have acted. They would
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tious, both sacred and profane. They would
have kept materfami1ias busy from morning to
night making poultcea and administering soot11-
ing syrup Of the domestic sort, with unrelenting
exaction, aad With as little compunction ns they
would exercise in case Of fever. Rather than
do this, rather oven than have his Eliza see him
with his manly nose come to grief, rather than
banish one Of the many illusions which had
clustered about him in her gentle sopl, rather
than imperl the peace Of tho household and
bring shadow about the domestic
heartt, lie prefers to suffer In
silence. His example we commend to all hus-
bands With bo.ls upon their noses or otherwise
dis6gured. At the game time, re rejoice in this
beautiful proof Of French devotion, and Of tho
fact that there are French husbands who will
not let oven boil upon the nose prejudice the
high estimate which is placed upon them by
French wives. Unfortunately, We have no means
Of knowing whether Eliza returned We hope
she did. Such eelf-respect, such tender aolici-
tude, and such unparalleled family devotion
ought not to 20 unrewn1ded.