The St. Johns herald., 1901-03-16
FASHIONABLE PARIS.
The French and Their Training
 from Birth to Marriage.
rssepce of the System. Is Exclusion of Everything COUtaninating to tae Youthful aIfn<i--QuicL
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l'SLOUS CLASS Is OSSGtA ADSNA VI 1tI t-SOi e Y pcec:a1iCn of it's weaknesses from the AEglo-Saxcn point of view by Richard Waiting. ii Century.
 "1he training for trifes begins at birth yi5h 1ile infant of fashion. It is very much the bGsiEcas Of his nurse to see that Ig,lt a4J air do net visit hin too roughly. lis swadGling clothes are n-ar.5I Of co2FIeteness as non ccnCue1c-5 o4 Ji.c gs.-::,:s C. heaven. As seen as hc is clG enough 9 understand things, ycu see him tol.GBng out with h.s tutcr, ( grave ecclesiastic, who wa-1ncs Cvcr him at work and play, aLd pats tiae r;gkt notions into his Ia.4d. The t:es thus formed gre never ! wholly severed. The priests attend to al Ihe eciGEs cpt and colnings in. Nhea t... is the game, he is there to see that h. charge does not hurt him self nor LuGt the ball. He makes the lad grar-ly polite, and grounds him in tl.e 1ecoc .'::-y religion of the salute, on he r Ec;lle ct no game of shuttle clccl. u.ta2at a low to your partner. lie also, Cf course, grounds him in th e huIaani3;cs. At this carly age the child is not>sent 10 school. He is coached at home by the P1icst, and taken once CT twice q week .t0 what is called q cour. an establishment where private teaching is tested by public examira- ticns. Ihe cour directs the studies, and determines proficiency in them by question and answer. Tutor and pupil prepare as best they can in the inter- val.
 ''The essence of the system is the ex- ciusian of everything from the boys E4ad that ought not to be there. So he is under the str:ctest. supervision from first to last. The priest takes I:m to the cour and fctckes him away again. When he goes to the lycee, CT rubiic sChccl. it iG 1cucl the sane. The valet takes the place Of the priest, and fetches and carries, with due rrovi- sion Of mufler and umbrella fer rainy days. Sc 1t goes cn until thc tine Of tke great change. when, perhaps. the yot:n%5tcr is sent t. Sa-nur, tLe great cavalry school. Tkcn, fer the first tine. he les to stand alcne. and father, mother, nErse, valet ard priest have 10 say aood-by. It is always an anxious Iaozasnt-esp specially So for the neo- 'pbyte.
 "Ihe bound from tutelage to the very license of liberty, moral and in tciiectual, is 8 marked cEGractcriet;c' e the Erscch system. b.u1s:a.s, 1aa!.cs the trembling Ginny of a girl g t.Iiehcd woman Of the world. 4 first shave con- verts the G4Tky schoolboy into the ape of bouleyaIl:icr, vices and en. ' The traaStoI IllatiCl is as sudden IS anything in eastern magic. He vas boy after his time under tLe tut2lsge system. He becomes Q mau befc-a lis time at Saumur, ana he generaEy goes through q stage ofIuppy ism which is q trial fer lis friends This is thc re- riod of his first duel. a thing done CT the sly. and revealed to his korril;cd mother only after. the scratch h2s healed. Y and by there nay be ether esc2TaGcs Cf Q more serious nature. But he mother is sill there tc find cut GN about them almost before they hap pen. and tie watchjul father is at hand to see that they entail a minimum of scandal.
 Al this stage his people begin to think cf marrying him, and here again all is provided for by the evcr-Ny2 tch ful system. It is the mojher's business to learn the whereabouts CT iEEeLUcs dou6ly Cowercd with virtue and with millions. The marriage is arraEred- the term has more than usually deep significance n FrCrcc-ard tkc pair have a cEaEce of living harnily ever after if they know hcw 70 I-ake tae besrof ii. !t $ no i,ad ch@rc". 21cUCh the Frergl rcarriaTe is net. in thc .;r.t instance, EGe,d Cn lore, it ie zarpcscd never to taLe place until liking. at least. is assured. The rest iT expected to come as a matter Of growth,
 "'rhe wife has been still more care fully brought up, in her way. Nothing can exceed the more than E.nCu s7-c- tity cf cV-Loth,nC nCiEra iE Wh.c2 the { mind Of the young French girl i2 sllou5od from birth. At tle ccnFe1t she has had the wal betwee- EcI and q wicked world. Her whole a-t cf polite conversation with man is Ett.o l.icTe than 'Oui, monsieur, Non, monsieur After dance she mus Ee sa;s!y and swiftly derosited-a sort of returned elnptv-by her mCthcI's s.1o, and dur inc th1t brief iIutter CT freedom u is not good form to take advantage of the absence of the parent bird. \ few observations cn the weather and the picture galleries are cons idercd to mark the limit of taste. 'Gyp has &s- sured US in many cyuie page that the inCenue is not half such q simple ton as she looks. Tat t must not be forgotten that -Gyp' has largely in- vented tyFe for her own business uses. The real article. while it is not exactly lamb in innocence. is still happily unaware of most Of the evil going on in the world. Here. as nili- tarv fife was the great change fer the boy. marriage IS the greater change for the girl She passes at Cnce into a sphere in which she is considered fair game forany allusionto anything with in the bounds of good breeding. She rises to her opportunity, CT to the stern duties of her station, whichever way you choose to put it. and in a sur pr;sirqly short time comes out as the finished woman Of the world. This is the French way. neither blame it TOT defend il; I do not even try to account fer it. I simply say what it $.
 Pa;agonia's Future.