Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-12-05

looks after YOU.
My hostess, Nine. de st. Cyr, and l
were on the best of terms Niue. de
st. Cyr was a most positive but ami
able woman, not without good sense
We never really agreed about any
thing. But we always agreed to dis
agree. And to every proposition that
| would advance, however paradox
cal, Nine. de ST. Cyr would answer
with smile, and say, sweetly:
"You are quite right"
This is true urbanity. Have yom
own way, but always agree with
everybody.
The General de ST. Cyr, a friend and
old schoo-mate of my uncle's, was an
excellent man, also positive, and for
Frenchman, singularly Independent.
However, he never thought of inter-
fering with his wife in any matter
which he thought came into her prov
ince.
The control, the education and the
happiness of his daughter, Mademoi-
selle de ST. Cyr, he left entirely to his
wife. Was it the young lady's lovely
face and delightfully."- elegant carriage,
eral philanthropic interest in the sex
which gave me SO lively an interest in
her welfare? Who shall say?
Let it be sufficient that one soft,
warm MONDAY, just after delightful
11-o'clock breakfast, Madame st. Cyr
and | were discussing the education
of young girls in general, with a lat
ent reference to Mademoiselle de st.
Cyr.
think that / have remarked that
was young. If any evidence of this
fact, other than my bare evidence was
needed, it would be the delightful
manner in which, at that time, ! was
fond of ignoring all other prejudices
save my own.
Doesn't it occur to YOU" said l.,
"that there is something wrong in
the education of young girls in
France?"
Yes"
when they should be out in the
world are they not in the convent?
And when they should be in their own
homes are they not out in the world?"
Yes" again acquiesced Madame
de st. Cyr, with honeyed smile.
"And then this thing of choosing a
husband for a girl; making the whole
matter mere transaction of money
The young girl, say, has dot of 1000
600 francs and a good character. The
young man has fortune of $4,000
francs and a bad character. Which is
he to make up, the good character in
which he is lacking, or the 5000
francS?n
The 5000 francs, of course" again
agreed Nine. de st. Cyr, with gra-
ciousnesS.
Don't you see,:: madame that your
whole system is all money? Marriage
should be the conservation of love. If
your daughter is fortunate enough not
to fall in love, why then she need
not be married. In fact it will be an
atrocity to ask her to do that violence
to her feeling
"And suppose added Nine. de St.
Cyr quietly, "that my daughter shall
happen to fall in love with a young
gentleman, and the young gentleman
shall not happen to fall in love with
her. What then?"
"Then she'll have the consciousness
of having loved and lost Her liic
will be sweetened with the ideal memo,
ries of hope unfulfilled."
But is not a girl like that in your
country called an 'old maid?'
This argument staggered me lit
tie. | freely confessed to myself that
the expression thus wickedly made
use of by Nine. de ST. Cyr did have al
awful sound
Besides, what Will you say to the
many happy marriages which take
place on exactly opposite principles?'
! continued Nine de ST CYr snaYelY