The San Francisco call., 1906-07-01
French Wife's S Loyalty


I ing the newest models of the Rue de Ia
Paix. She is so elegant that the shop
Keepers show her their best. imagining
she will buy She manages to get
swell tailor gowns as low as $40 from
houses that are just beginning: while
for the flou garments she directs a
dreSsmaker who comes 70 the house
for sixty cents a cay. And she dresses
her Guillaume very smartly in $40 suits
made by London tailor who goes tour
times year to Paris for orders. Yes,
silk lined. You can bet that Guillaume
does not soil his suits.
She buys him an imitation panama.
sews new band on IT, and il looks lust
great. Guillaume's patent leather shoes
have got to last two years. In su-nne-
she compels him 10 wear white canvas
pumpS-and pipe clay them iinmacu-
lately white each n 'ght They make
swell effect-and save his brown Ieath-
srs.
Do YOU know2 This dolI-faced little
Elou Flou holds the common purse. gets
groceries from Potins to prevent the
servants rakeof with the local dealers.
discounts all bills for cash and burns
an alcohol incandescent lamp to save
electric light hills
Guillaume has 10 cents a day for
cigarettes The rest she buys him.
My little heart.' I heard him say
once. II spent il on cab fares,
He was explaining the Disappearance
of 81 gold piece she had given him TO
carry in his pocket
"Chou-chou! il all went to cab fares
to get back TO you the quicker.
Did you notice-"tO get back 20 you
the quicker" 1t was that saved him.
Yet it was his capital as much as hers.
No other country has anything like
this proportion OF incomes from long
family accumulatiOus where breaking
into capital is considered crime. One
consequence is that women quite as fire.
quently as men have their own reve-
nues.
Now. as Jules Cambon pointed out. the
French married woman wishes. above
all. security for the enjoyment of her
little man. She fears change and is
an enemy to enterprise. A French girl
with $4,000 marriage portion will GER
tainIy prefer husband bringing the
same or more-on condition that he be
'-serfousr-say at once, Obedient- But.
having a sure income of her own OF.
say. $3.50. she will Just as certainly pre-
fer an obedient young husband earning
$40 per week In a Government once,
with short hours and moderate pen
sion, to a hustler who might double or
quadruple her capital And II she have
$500 a. year she will still more GER
tainly prefer an Obedient young hus-
band earning nothing TO wonder or
enterprise-who is always at his once
This explains the immense vogue IN
France OF those professions called or
perfect repose" The phrase refers 10
repose Of mind in that these professions
seldom tempt men 10 risk capital in un-
certain investments; but repose OF body
is no stranger to their walks They are
army officer. Government functtonary
zone French voter in ten is a Govern
ment functionary). barrister, DOCTOR.
engineer and university professor.
a., of rfy
specialties or of private enterprises are
quoted high. but rather special Often
they are men who work Sometimes
thev have opportunities TO invest money
advantageously II is a trifie too un-
certain. too energetic. TOO masterfuL
The mass of young Paris doctors.
barrfsters functionaries. professors
and all army oficers-can be depended
on to make model French husbands
know the case of young doctor
whose ambition is to write a book on
the French watering places. To my
certain knowledge he has three hne
girls with ample marriage portions
chasing after him. The mother OF one
said the other day:
II told him 1 would make Berthe's
portion S65.00O and pay my own ex-
penses il he would agree on his word
OF honor that / should go with them"
"A dream of happiness" her gossip
replied. Your only daughter pigeon
holed. a swell son-in-law. with nothing
10 do. always beside YOU"
And the relations. my dear-think
of his relatiOnsl (She referred TO his
professional relatiOnsO We would fit
from one watering place 10 another.
hotels at half price, dOuches and In
halations for nothing, jump Immediate
ly into the best medical sets of Viehy.
Bourboulle. None dor. Uriage. Con-
trexeville, Vittel PlOmbleres."
While he is writing his book?"
Exactly. my dear. Provided he
don't write it too quickly +, II he
marries Berthe. iii see TO that She
need not worry. The Young fellow will
see TO 1t himself-thet book viii be his
life woik-that and daily jollying Of
Berthe.
To make a business Of marriage,
TwO-thirds of the better sort of young
Parisians of the day are doing H.
Catch them marrying girl without
dot.
The special type is called the zigotO.
the bcurgeoise branch of the great
gigolo genus. Should you ask what
distinguishes him from the average
young American. / would reDly-his
seriousness with women