The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-27

the English fashion with the French ideas: that
is, he, has the Englishman's manliness and the
Frenchman's courtesy, the Englishman's good
looks and the Frenchman's exquisite neatIiess
He is nearest to perfection man can get unless
he went up and sat on pillar and made all the
women in the world unhappy. Years ago this
type was unknown in France, but it is curious to
see how the men have seized on the English vir-
approval the women look on. Even Madame
Bernhardts great desire was to have her son look
like an Engshman.
TACT OF FRENCHWOMEN.
Whenever we Engish.speaking people get
among the French we ought to kick ourselves
metaphorically, if we are women, and physically
if we are men. Why? Because if French
woman knows ten English words she will do her
pest to help you out II you don't speak much
accent, and she will encourage you until you
think your words, which have flavor of South
added to them are the pUrest Parissn Them
you grow courageous and pitch IN, and after that
you have very good time, In a similar situa-
tion an Engishwoman thinks it's very funny
when Il Frenchman tries to speak English, she
doesn't hesitate to laugh, and she shows no SYM
pathy whatever in his struggles to be polite to
her.
THE MODERN FRENCHwoMAN.
Englishwomen do not compare well with
French ones. The latter is civilized, the other
is on the road to it, with the odds against her
getting there. Her idea of wit is practical
joke; her idea of after-dinner conversation is an
otf-color story. She mas few big virtues and no
little ones. The Frenchwoman would die for a
cause or a belief, would work for it, would in
trgue for it, and would be capable of enduring
almost anything for the sake of friend.
She understands the art of small talk without
indulging in scandal, and gossip to her pos
attraction unless it is witty; for beauty,
brains, and Drawn she has great admiration,
but she can be gentle and kind, sweet and SYM
pathetic where none exists.
She reverences blood, and an Impoverished
lady from the Faubourg is treated as guest OF
honor where milllonaires, whose titles are re-
cent are counted of little worth. The American
woman is nearer to the French than is the Eng
tate her in some respects advantageously. Here
are some of her virtues:
She looks well, which means not in a fussy
way, after her household.
She is the best of mothers and the most atfec-
tOnate of daughters.
She is patient with her husband, giving him a
smile when she knows he deserves something
else, but believing that 1t is always better
weapon than a cross word.
She can talk for ore hour in a pleasant way
about things and places and never say disagree
able word about people.
She may be the centre of attraction at the din
ner table or in the ballroom, and she is beauti-
fully unconscious of it,
She can wear d cotton frock so well that you
will wonder why you ever thought SILK or velvet
worth consideration.
She shows respect for every mans religion; all
that she shudders at is lack of IT..
She has read the last new book, seen the last
new picture. heard the last new opera, but II you
haven't she never makes you conscious OF her
greater advantages.
She rules in a country where Salic law does not
her father love her, and her husband respect her
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