The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-24
Picture of Married Life in Paris,

This is Taine. A young man has mar
ried Partisan beauty: "Before she was
married her life was confined to this
seeing her friends, paying visits to five or
six grave people, behaving herself proper
ly in drawing-room, playing upon the
piano, etc She continues this life, and
would think it strange to have to change
it. He did not know her, and could not
we'll have known her. When I courtcd
my wife each visit was an inspection;
cousins male and female, uncles, aunts,
passed me in review. Nothing but cerc-
mony, no intimate conversations. or our
future projects no chance for aword. One
must DC gallant; l had to follow my wifc's
wishes, and that is why our furniture is in
such bad TASTE The void is made, and
now all conversation flags between them:
She Is waiting for visit from a friend
before she makes up her mind whether she
shall put green stitch instead of yellow
takes advantage of tho diversion, seizcs his
hat, and runs off. Impossible to interest
her In his prcoccupations, Ills thoughts,
the difficulties which he must surmOunt,
and which are too special for her under
standing. Sometimes he lowers them to
the level of her intelligence. But they
make no impression upon her; her intclli-
eencc and education afford no hook on
which to hang them. She listens to their
recital as part OF ordinary conversations
and thinks no more of it. They disa:.
gree on the very groundwork of
lite-about religion and society. He
said out loud-rathcr imprudently, too
that many a man has become a
! priest to avoid being soldier; that before
tifiya woman has no other ideas than
those she has learned from others, etc.
She contratictcd him-no Difference or
submission, even in matters of intellect.
lie tries to instruct her, and finds a resist
ance in the soil, which is hard because
uncultivatcd. In fact she has been
brought up without ideas Or solid reading,
Just as all young girls with their little
manuals of facts as dry as pebbles, and
the Catcchism of perseverance, laid over it
| as Il stucco and varnish. All the intellect
ual formation stone of France, all the ma
! tional bed above which grow the special
tics and supcrioritics of Paris, are the
same rs in the Middle Ages. The little
books of the Name Library give the tone
to French education. Their two lives re-
main divergent, and he feels it. They
Will always remain so, and he feels that
also. lie will not initiate her; he cannot
make of her the second in his life and is
resigned to It, Tho evenings already
seem to him very long and void. How oc.
cury and amuse woman forever? She
sits at tho piano and plays; passably we'll
Or only ordinarily well, it is all one-a
goldlinch in a cage. You cannot forever
be telling it to sing and putting the little
bucket in its claw. lie fortunately per-
ccivcs that she has an aptitude which is
developing itsclf-the talent of housckccp-
ing. She had never known what louis
was. She learns and practices economy.
No other outlet for hcr-that is the only
one proportional to her education and her
intelligence. Could one have believed it
Of her, with that pretty face so expressive
in its saucy and original grace? In thia
way at least she will be useful and will
feel herself useful. it is a good house.
hold, and both of them belong to that mid
die bouryeoisie where good households arc
to lie found in greatest number"