Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-29

sound, and expressed an institution al
real, as dear and sacred as our own much
Wanted household life.
We hear much from tourists and novel
lists OF the outdoor life of PaIisisDs; Of
their spending long hours sitting enc
strolling In parks aud gardens, sid re-
posing and refreshing themselves in family
groups in front Of suburban csfes-"al
ct which l saw and part Of which
l was,"-but came to know also in
Paris some Of the brightest, cosiest iDte-
riors, some Of the most loving, united,
and harmonious family circles have ever
known. Too many untrsvelled Aneri-
cans form their ideas Of French domestic
life and relations from French romsnces
and plsys-foreetting that our translators
and sdupters seiz, upon the most senss
tional and sensuous dramas and novels,
IS most likely to mske hit and pre- a.
Ethical questions are not considered. In
truth, these products OF depraved taste,
morbid sentiment, and gross sensualism
do cruel injustice to French society OF
the better Classic French morality, thus
wounded in the house of its friends"
The novels of Msdame Henri Greville
give proofs Of the existence Of that higher,
more refined moral sphere,-show how
human and humane 1t Is, how noble and
simple are It's types and Whist pure and
wholesome domestici.Y 1t unfolds.
In French homes have remarked Ger.
tain quiet, orderly procession of affairs,
crest apparent harmony, wstchful rather
than doting parental affection, and fllisl
pietY almost out of fashion in cur free
and progressive country. French chill
dren are usually unobtrusive and qusint.y
grave, natural and simple in their hab-
its and tastes, but hardly SO in
their manners, which show marks
Of tutoring, and are little
too acrimonious. Nssrly all girls of
Catholic parents, not taught st home by
goverpesses aud masters, are educated in
converts as pensionpeires or as day schol-
srs Io such Institutions they are Sc.
verely drilled in the catechism and in
polite manners; in history, sacred and
profsne, with the profanity which mill
tstes agsinet the church left out; are
taught little OF the natural sciences and
less Of geography, which, by the way, is
the weak point with most French people,
tor whom all lands beyond their frontiers
especially across alien sess, are re-
solved into hazy, undetermined regions,
Inhabited, principally, by races
more or less inferior snd barbaric.
While boys are suffered to &C
quire not only Greek and Latin, but 8
modern language or two, for girls, except
those belonging to high circles of society
one lspguage-..heir Incompatible verns-
culsr-.s held suffi;ient; but they are
taught to speak and write that Excellent
roll
clans, and are we'll instructed in muse,
drawing and dancing. Not the equals of
English girls in outdoor accomplish
ments, such as riding, driving, rowing,
skating and swimming, they, when really
in society, eurpass item and sill the other
young lsdies OF the world In the art of
entertaining and the grace of
being entertained; in courtesy and
tact, in taste and propriety. aud that in
describable something, called "chic," in
dress and appointments. But their
crowning and most potent charm is Just
-pcliteness. Iacu.ca,sd m their ear
lest years, this virtue becomes hsbit +,
and sometimes takes the place and does
the work Of several Christian grsces.
Very young French girls are only
charming in q demure, shy way. They all
ssem ingenious, and some are really So.
Tney are all light-hearted, aud many
iignt-headed. They passionately love
amnsements and are easily &mused-e
little pleasuring going great way with
them. The wnclesomest thing l know
-oout them is their intense love of the
c untry and its simple avosations and
pss'imes.
The French girl can hardly be said to
"come out" in.society. Sac Is brought
out, and is never seen without her mother
or some other respectable and wstchful
chaperone. Everything, to the last min
Hde of dress, is planned and managed for
her. She Is not supposed to have will
or Judgment Of her own, least Of all, in
the matter of her marriage. am speak
ing, of course, OF the average French girl
of society. have known some excep-
tions outside of Madame Greville's novels
some remarkably intelligent girls whose
hearts chose for them, and whose hands
were allowed TO go with their hearts.