The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-18
FRENCH TAFFY.
Max O'Rel1 Talks About
Her Royal Highness,
Woman"
MRS. JoNATHAN's SWEET WAYS
Recipe for the Mother-in.Law
Says Adam Was a
Perjurer.

platform of Hasbrouck Hall on Saturday
night to lecture on Her Royal High
ness. Woman" he must have been newly
inspired, so well was his subject repre-
scented in the large audience assembled
to greet him. There were men there,
too, but then, as M. Blouet says he does
or most occasions, poor old Jonathan
took a back seat" He took it good hu-
moredly, however. and applauded quite
as heartily as his fair companion when
her various projections were pointed
out and when 1t was proved beyond a
doubt that he should thank Providence
daily for permitting him to inhabit the
same sphere as such an ideal creation.
1t is hard to do justice to NJ. Blouet's
abilities as a lecturer, for he is one who
should be seen as well as heard. His
manner is so infectious that the laugh
and the applause often precede the point.
which is, indeed. not always where 1t
was at first located. This is more par
ticularly the case with his compliments,
which he sometimes maliciously spells
by a little af~terthought as, for instance,
when ne said that
"An Americans are intelligent-in APP
pearance." There the applause was quick
ly turned to a laugh.
M. Blouet opened with a confession.
He declared solemnly that the French
were the most densely ignorant people
on the face of the earth of things out
| side their own country. They knew moth
ing of foreign affairs and cared less.
The news that a dog had been killed on
the streets of Paris was of more import
ance to the ordinary provincial h that
a Presidential election had taken place
4 r. H. III }o<@- nasn~ n1c~ a His
tinctly modest people. they considered
their country equipped with everything
necessary to human happiness and wholly
independent of outside influences. They
didn't care a rap what others thought
of them. md. therefore, no book that had
been written about them by a foreigner
was read or even known in France. He
illustrated these peculiarities by an an
AN ANXioUs MOTHER.
town, which she had never left or ex-
pressed a wish to leave. When he was
first invited sa to visit IT, Am nrabsS,. he yo W5ste
that he was the victim Of sudden in
her Of his SOUND mental condition. What,
c coun' ssu as Hs A nera He 81 aaI "a he ss msant
spoke, as M. B1ouet says. Fairly well.'
She babe him return to Paris and aban-
don a project which was hardly respect
table, and when. after an interval, he
again wrote. to say he had signed a cen-
tract for a lecture tour. she replied more
most ladies' letters do. ended in an i'm
p~ortant postscript which told him that
hinss hi his h sisn aasnsa { 5u f'h he eoul q Do %u So
be spared At least one result 81 his rash.
Ch4 NJ - 6nr rynr1 fhof -hA
Important village that be lar embarked
on 50 J S~SmP5sDfs IN e Po ssysH Hpxmi.
tie ef ieetu ass SAID assl'i both men and women@
R M9msn on ssps which all m0 great Aa Events Dfsn h aad
turned since the days when Eve had
snonopolized the attentions of the entire
of thai very time M. Blomet expressed a
fine contempt for Adams conduct as
described in the Scriptures. He preferred
to read the story in the Vedas, where,
although Adam succumbed to the temp
tation offered by Eve. he. perjured him
self like a prince to shield her and did
proach to his Maker.
Frenchmen regard women as equals,
and 50 in FRANCE there is no New Won
a great disdain. A Frenchman makes of
his wife a ~conidante and a friend. and
tells her all his affairs with absolute ~.
Ii = = ~ - ~ 49,
BIouet does not lecture of the Upper
Ten, she keeps his books, advises him
in his investments and takes charge Of
the heart and not in the pocket. His
clerks, accustomed to his wife's control,
f s1e os IS yrs nim. * & g French her w "a sne has we an
assured position. and does not have to
take service as governess. housekeeper
q PET PETTTcoHT GoVERRNMENT.
The French woman is supreme in her
household. She rules her husband. even
when he does not KNOW It. and she rules
Frenchman is indeed subjected to three
generations of petticeat government-that
Of his mother + io OF his w Tife Er ana !. 81 wo ms
and makes her subjects happy while
to sne be attractive. interesting. and if she
can, pretty. When she can't be pretty
she is the other things ito such a degree
that Aeh gsaye dis apneags. he eye man fo her St O sns-
band III Hndress uniform and on the prin-
-ciple that variety is the spice of life. h
plan. SO that Monsieur has not the faint
est idea from one day to the next in
what guise Madame will turn up. M.
Rlouet defends heartily the French con-
ventsona1 marriage. and says that II a
sFr@nehraan has to win his wife after
marriage, the process is very pleasant.
He forgot to say what happened when.
fhe eentleman failed to win the lady,
and there was no road out of the scrape.
The only discordant element M. Blouet
could find in French cOnnubdal bliss was
,fhe much abused mother-fn-law. This
lady was evidently too much for him.
for he gave most advice
indeed for her treatment.
RECIPE\FOR A M0THER-IN-LAW.
"If," saidShe. there is in the audience
any Young man who soon intends to
marry. and there is nc alternative but
10 shoot himself or have his Wife.s
mother i've with him. let him mol hest
tate 4 moment but Shoot her..
M. Blouet's chief admiration was re-
served for ~JacaueMne. the French peas
Ant woman who. with her husband.
JACQUES Bonhomme forms the mainstay
Of France. Jacqueline's industry, frugal
ity, modesty. Kindness and patriotism
were the subject of glowing euiogy.
The land in France. as elsewhere; sup
tenant and fhe laborer, but In France
these three are represented in one per-
son.and this is one reason why france. Is
today. the richest country in the world,
and her people stay contentedly at nome
and are not found in Castle Garden as
restless, unwelcome immigrants
Here M. Blouet paused Tor q rev nlln-
utes before discussing the second part
of his subiect-the American woman.
on resuming he said that ne had trav-
e1led over All America, from New eng
land 10 Florida, and westward to san
Francisco. without discovering a typical
American. All sorts and conditions or
men and women had presented rnem--
selves but no type. One thing he had
fyarticu1arly noticed, and that was me