The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-04-03

pOrtlOH, Nc SoohS Tic dlu VI some OF his
feminine acquaintance, takes them
into his confidence, and asks them to
report to him on all manageable girls
with fortunes in their circle. No good
natured married woman can refuse AN
appeal of this kind. She was married
in that way, and she is disinterestedlv
anxious to give her unmarried sisters
the benefit of the custom. She passes
her acquaintance in mental review.
and selects two or three she thinks
likely to suit her friend Jules.
The confidential report is made.
the girl named and described, and
the swain is asked if he. would like to
see her. He probably says he would.
A meeting at the house of the amiable
negotiator is accordingly arranged, and
all the resources of French tact are en-
ployed to prevent it from compromis.
ing one side or the other. The young
lady is not to know anything of the
matter, she is simply to appear bv
chance simultaneously with her posi-
BILE adorer on visiting day. She drops
in with her mother; Jules drops in bv
himself. The mother is in the secret
and looks at Jules; Jules is in the Sc
cret and looks at the young lady, and
if neither cares to go any further there
is no possible opening for gossip, and
the affair is brought directly to an end.
The self-possessed adOrer is supposed
to judge of the girls capacity to insure
his everlasting happiness from her
manner of answering his few spirited
observations about the weather. It.
would be absolutely against all con-
Uenamce for him to say much more to
her. The French girl cannot dirt; she
has no opportunity for it, she is never
by any chance left alone during the
whole period of courtship, if courtship
it can be called. She is under the eve
of her mother or some relative who
consents to play the part of watch-d dog.
All the exquisite play of passion is un-
known to her at this period of her ex-
perience; so in common justice to her.
self she is driven to acquirethat knowl-
edge at later stage. o.
C9lebs in scare of wife is thus
familiar figure of French society. He
looks in on his friends, and asks them
in confidential whisper if they have
heard of anything in their line. Pas
sion, or even affection, is quite out of
the question as preliminary consid-
GRAFTON. The first thing thought of is
the union of two fortunes, or, more
often, one fortune and two names; the
rest, it is supposed, will follow as a
matter of course. If the qGrcon is
genital the girl is supposed to be ready
to love him at a word of command
from her mother If the young girl
has sufficient dowry, he is quite pre-
pared to give her all the affection it
would be good breeding, on her part,
to demand. The theory seems to be
that any two people are capable of lik-
ing each other where the conditions of
their living together in comfort are
known to exist. The French, like
every other people, have a very rigid
code of honor of their own. 1t would
be considered extremely base in man
to attempt to win girls heart without
having first consulted her father and
mother for their approval of the enter
prise. The usual course after these
piefs Is TO convene
Inc repressn sig 0G each party 70 q
business meeting. The m0ney question
IS olsen e1 with extreme iainutgHess
st - g-s3ae la - ~ ssssa3 sss
u8dgs lDding, tho disc y imps
stoned one is permitted to brcs,he
G1ae," This apeo&9n IL eHt1c
with a rigid formality. He visits the
lady in full dress throughout the whole
period of the courtship; that is to say,
of course, when his visits take place in
the evening, and it is hardly en- rsgle
for him to call at any other time. At
every visit he is expected to leave some
slight present, generally nothing more
than bouquet. The mother sits in
one corner, the happy lovers in an
other, getting what entertainment they
can out of talk on public events. In
due time the French girl married in
this fashion becomes the French wife,
sets up salon of her own, and, in
grateful recognition of her happinessin
the marriage state, makes her salon
kind of bureau for the promotion of
the happiness of her unmarried sisters.
The only theory on which one can &C
count for it is that which makes the
tame elephants of India so assiduous in
laying snares for the capture of their
wilder brethren, who are still enjoying
the freedom of the wood.-Pdris Cor.
N. Y. Graphic.