Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-22

WOMAN In FRANCE.
Substance Of an Interview with a
French Lady In New York.
A Glance at a Partisan Family and Fami-
" Matters, Together with q Compare
son with American Usages-Man
and Wife In Business.

tThe woman in France she carry tho
purse. This make her economical. The
husband he give his whole time to manage
the business, and he not have to worry
about the little things. The wife, she know
that all the success depend on saving the
little things, so she keep close watch on
every thing in the: store, the work room,
the kitchen. She do not work with her own
hands, she hire, but she see that the work
is done without waste. She not get tired
with work, so she able to think all the time
Her see the competition of business, so she
know how hard it is to make money, and she
very careful how she spend it.
"The American woman she know moth
ing of the trouble of business; the man he
carry all the load She ask for money, she
not like it if she not have it, and be give it
her, and he go up. Then they all come
down together-father, mother, children.
He not ask them to hesp, he go to work
again. Yes, the American woman not
knowing trouble OF making money, she
shovel it out" The gesture here was in
imitable, says the New York World re-
porter who conducted the interview.
Forming scoop or shovel with her hands,
she went through the motion of shoveling
with graceful swaying of the body from
side to side.
''No, the French way best way for all
man, wife and children.
1.-THE French children expect to help the
father. They sent to best school, what give
solid learning, that the father can pay for.
At fifteen they must graduate. The French
child not graduate at fifteen, no good for
school any more; must do something else.
The father, the mother sorry, but they can
not help it. School cost money and can not
be wasted. The child go work for the
father, boy or girl, no matter. There they
treated like stranger. Have wages just the
same, and must do the work as well. No
favors. Keep same hours. II they not do
work as well as stranger, then they must do
work lower down, they must learn Of stran
ger how to do that work. They feel ashamed
not able to do better for own father an'
mother as stranger do. They soon learr
or another place found for them. No wasted
time; they must earn money and be ready
to care for themselves.
"When they learn business they given
charge of some part, so the father and
mother lave more time to enlarge their
business, and the child have place to build
for himself or the girl just the same. 1t is
all for the family, and they grow together.
What Is it in this landa The father work
outside, and grow old young; the mother
work and worry for more money to spend
for show and she grow old inside; the chill.
dren all this time sit and clean their nails.''
The scorn, the contempt, expressed at this
point as the woman, with blazing cheeks
and flashing eyes, used in Imagination Q
nail-cleaner, would have made a triumph Oh
the stage.
81, is wrong, all wrong" she went on
presently. ''The French man and woman,
by bringing their children into their bust.
ness are able to save money for them. Nc
girl marry in France without a dot. She
have something which is her own. She not
on her husband, and he know it.
The money all go for his business, but she
go into the business and have her share, she
know where money corue from, she know
where 1t go to, and she great help to her
less she foolish woman; they are
In every country"
"But there are many kinds of business in
which wife or daughters can bear no part"
was said timidly in the presence of this
sit is strange kind when the wife or
daughters could not keep books or be cash.
iers, or look out for the clerks. She can
ma Der place II Snc want TO 40 IL. one
have foolish pride in this country, and
when the husband or father die the mothers
and daughters like babes, aud strangers
come In and take the business out of
their hands; sometimes the business have
good foundation, and another man make
fortune, while wife and children work for
wages.
''In France a woman know the business
and she carry it on. You been in Paris?
You know - -" mentioning con-
fectioner of world wide reputation. "His
wife is his head clerk. She my most init
mate friend. know her. We go together
to big dinner in Paris. She carry in her
hand box Of lions to the carriage. l
say what for? We promised to have il at
-" mentioning hotel connected with
an American name famous for great pos
sessions. lat seven o'clock 1 find it for
gotten and too late unless deliver it, and
she in her carriage go to the hotel and her |
man take it in. Would clerk be so care
full? No.
THE American man and his family be
happier when they work together. And the
women worth more as she have something
TO do. Only one thing l like better here;
the woman she able, no matter how pretty,
to 60 about without anybody Ito care for
her. The American man pect the women
ind care for them like his own