Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-06

women are not allowed to be and are not
fit to be companions or comrades of young
men, gives popularity to the demi-mon-
DANES who. If not good, are often intelli-
gent American girls, who permit them
selves to entertain Frenchmen, are ex-
tremely popular for like reason, and
their free manners are usually understood
and treated with respect. Their company
IS a great treat. I have known of instances
OF their engaging in cafe firtations, and
arranging meetings, which resulted only
IN the pieasantest acquaintance with young
Frenchmen and their families.
Many OF the houses look as though no.
body lived in them or had lived in them.
ponderous prison door opens into a sort
or courtyard, and In the course of time
the favorite one finds himself upstairs in
the midst of as gay and happy a household
as his heart could desire, presided over by
father to whom all listen to with re-
spect and Is welcomed by sons and daugh-
tiers. whose old-fashioned ceremony and po-
Hteness Is very refreshing.
Parents and Dots.
OF course the fact that parents and
dots have to be considered in marrying.
and the Devil. who has not been outlawed
from France, produce bad matches and
scandal. If an ignorant woman who is
married out of hand to a man whom she
cares nothing about, later becomes more
eI-hshtened and accident throws into her
OF France and it is no French question
what sometimes results from such a state
OIL aHairs Compulsory Virtue being used
as constant prop. Is very weak without
one But the falseSt of all pictures of the
french life are those of their own scandal
morger1ng novelists.
more prudent. sober, well-behaved in
evar M and honest set of people than
sven the Partslans In quiet times would be
haro 10 md In great metropolis such as
thls. where, naturally. generations of vic
icus people have handed down their habits
ana weaknesses. in narrow streets wbosa
Pa'einehtS are seldom reached by the sun
FOR 1t must be remembered that Paris is
OLD, very old. and that the population oar
res an the moral and physical scars and
Geformities that a crowding together of
people through many centuries mist natur-
ally produce. Theirs is not a selected non
ulation like ours. The emigrant must have
some energy and enterprise in him. 1t is
dlfncult to get a coachman to drive into
some of these narrow streets. ilI-sme,Iinp
ana tortuous. oNerrun with dirty children
and overhung by high buildings of a past
age. He. like good Frenchman, would
rather show strangers the beauties and
glorfes Of the city than its ugly places.
much prefer to see the latter as thew
smack of the soil and are not Just like
sights In other cities.
Our Liberty a Problem.
have spoken of the stability of the re-
public. Frenchman does not understand.
although he tries to do So what We call
English or American liberty-the favorable
position, of the individual in our English
and American systems. That is not strange.
since not many among us really understand
1t. although so much boosted of. A learned
German has traced its development and ex-
planned it better than any one know of,
forget his name-Goenecken. or some such
name. He goes back thousand years or
more and shows how our privileges were
won little at time and what they are
But the French have a republic neyerthe-
In more than mere name. 1t is not necessary
that they should be just like u.s. To their
logical minds. craving certainty and pre-
cfsion and order, 1t seems right to have the
central head govern, however it NAV he
chosen. Government from below, instead
OF from above is at variance with all their
religious and political experiences. and
something vague and mysterious. What is
below to their minds at least in Paris. Is
the mob.
While I was last over there Paris voted
to upset the present administration, as 1t
did the election before. but the provinces
rule France now and the Paris revolution
airy effervescence which also witnessed In
the demonstrations about secularizing the
schools. Is chained down. In the Place de
la Concorde / got into the midst of great
be done or said. Women harangued groups
Of men and women In favor of and against
the school sisters and the church. Men
talked atheism and howled out exhortatiOns
to women to the general effect that the true
religion ought to be their love OF country
and of their husbands and Of their chill
dren. There were cries Of Down with the