Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-06

lily of France has first proudly hourfshed
and then wilted in the engineering shadow,
seeing her own one engross himself in plan
ming bridges or extracting alcohol from
wood-pulp instead of ACCOMPANYING her to
afternoon teas, matinees and shopping ex-
petitions.
The mass of young Paris doctors, barris-
tiers, functionartes, professors-and all
army offtCers-can be depended on to make
model French husbands. l know the case
OF young doctor whose ambition is to
write book on the French watering places
To my certain knowledge he has three fine
girls with ample marriage portions chasing
after him The mother of one said the
other day:
= tod bd him him would make Berthes por-
ton Ss3'oto and pay my own expenses If
he would agree on his word of honor that
L should go with them
Dream of Eappiness.
"A dream of happiness!" her gossip re-
piled, Your only daughter pigeon hoIed,
a swell son-in-law, with nothing to do, al
ways beside you"
And the relations, my dear think of his
relations. (She referred to his professional
reiat!ons). We would fit from one water
ing place to another hotels at half price
douches and Limitations for nothing jump
Immediately into the best medical sets of
VicbN. Bourboulle, Mont Or Irriage Con-
trexeville, Vittel, Plombieres. What do I
know"
w ME ne Is writing his bOOk?'
Exactly, my dear. Provided he don't
write it too quickly. If he marries Berthe
I'll see to that"
She need not worry. The young fellow
will see to 1t himse'f-that book will be his
ltfe-work-that and the daily jollylng of
Berthe.
TO make a business of marriage Two
thirds of the better sort of young Parisians
of the day are doing it. Catch them marry
ing a girl without a dot.
The special type is called the z goto the
bourgeois branch of the great gigolo genus
Should you ask what distinguishes him
from the average young American I would
reply, his seriousness with women.
Secret of Their Charm.
1t Is one of the greatest secrets of his
charm. asked one of our girls who has
lived long enough in France to feel 1t:
What is In these 'zigs' that turns your
heads?"
She answered:
''They are so in earnest They look at us
with great eyes. Their voices are intense
and low They talk to us-and we realize
they know us. And they never tell funny
stories''
1 was struck by the last phrase TT is
one of our poor accomplishments" / fall
tered
Yes" she answered land how women
hate it, There never was a girl who cared
for joke When we laugh it is out OF
pohteness. At the bottom of his heart the
young American is all right, but he is So
1oSy."
1t is very much the inheritance of Htera-
ture. The Partisan from youth up reads in
novels, poems. theatrical pieces and even
newspaper editorials that love is life's es-
sential interest and woman mans chief
study.
/ said to the American girl abroad
These fellows have not the qualities men
value in America. They cannot box They
care nothing for sports. They are not ath-
letes. They are not quick of resource Take
them out of their protecting environment
and they are lost and helpless
Yes. but" she said
Yes. but
Brothers, fellow Americans, that but doth
butt Have we, indeed, come to the
muck-rake men in our own honest way, and
so intent on grubbing that do not see
the crown of glory just above our heads?
OF these crowns, SO common in France the
preferable sorts are without the decoration
of two little points protruding upward from
each side of the forehead.
STERLING HELLO.