The daily gazette., 1880-04-10
nothing. In Louis PhinInne,. |,

nothing. In Louis Phillippe,s time
when people nevertheless flsttered them.
selves on being moderately clean, wash.
ing used 70 cost very little, because much
less linen was shown than is now the
case, and then again 1t was the custom
for ladies', even If they were princesses,
to look attertheir- own linen. But ali
that has been changed, Nowadays there
Is not q petite b0urge0ise who does not
spend fifteen nundfed francs q year on
washing. l therefore propose this figure
Of the risk. of maklag my . contempo-
raries irradiate their countenance with q
smile Of pity"
"Fonrtcen thousand francs is oui pres
ent total.r 9fs al tfa1 rl1H
swat During the winter madame
will have been In society, at the theater,
at dinher parties, al races. Summer
comes. All summer 10 vacation time
for the women Of Paris. Paris rivals
Zanzibar in heat. IL would almost be
indecent for q pretty face to be seen
t1ere, and 50 we must 60 to watering
places--to Switzerland, to Meudon, or
to the seaside. Madame will throw
her arms around the husbands neck
and remind him Il At 1t Is the usage 10
leave Paris in the summer. To 20 to
Vichy or Etretat, to stay simply 4
month, with your wife and the insep-
arable chambermad d, will cost say 1900
francsr defy you to do It for less.
we have now gone beyond our income
Of 10 200 francs, and leave you to be
the Judge Of figures. Well, this is
hOtninKs 1850
Sixteen thousand francs for having
committsd matrmony do you call that
mo, my dear fellow, 1t is the be-
ginning. Just think for a moment of
the almost Inevitable consequences of
marriage. By keeping str1ctly to the
that l have traced, by using
the income Of the dowry as have sup
posed, by working, by spending nothing
on superfuities on his side, by providing
for the household expenses and so forth,
man might find no reason to repent
Of having married. But you are aware
why society advocates marriage B; 1t is
IN order to perpetuate the race. Let
US suppose that you have only son and
daughter, or what the bourgeois call
kings desire. Gracious Heavens
dave you reflected on the series Ii ex-
penses without name which this pater-
nal feeling involvesp The nurse, school
ing, professional training, a dowry-no,
not enter into delails. 1t would make
POUR helr stand on end. mol no Let
others Gull the white rose l am not
marrying man." The two .yonnx men
'etired to the buffet aud left me to think.
Whose fault is ii il my stockbroker
riend Is not q marrying man Is it |
he fault if the girls of modern socie-
W, Formerly young girl of II used
% eiope with Q handsome musketeer or
,scape from the con vent school with
he help of silken ladder. So the
iovels Of those days were full of con-
'ents, musketeers, ladders aud elope-
nents. III those days the heart spoke at
he age Of 16 nowadays it waits before
! becomes the home of tenderness.
The young girl of to-day, ambitions and |
ain, marries at 18 for position, and
axes her revenge at the age of 25 by the |
means Of combination known in
france as msndge a trots, or triple |
household. As the conversation of my
wo stockholders would lead you to |
nppose, these dreams of the young girl
II modern France are dreams of pride. |
She marries q young man only on
he condition that he gives her posi- |
ion In society, a handsome fortune and
. fine house. A young man who has
iopes Is refused an old man who has
10 longer anything to hope is preferred.
C'est trist naais c'est CONNIE ca.