Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-11-09

Paris Special: How do we spend our
time? Why, in admiring our hus-
bands!" replied the wife of a British
prime minister TO q visiting Frenchman
fifty years ago. Jules Cambon, in a
recent after-dinner speech, used the
story in comparing French and English
women.
''Our women do not only spend their
time admiring u.s." he boosted, but
they also sustain and direct us through
our entire lives" And while he did not
say it, the thing is well known to for
eignerS in France-French men would
sink into innocuous desuetude were II
not for their wives and mothers. Paris,
in particular, is the paradise of the in
competent and lazy good locker.
A Country of incomes.
The central aus Of the phenomenon
Is the incredible number of moderate
but sufficient incomes from investment
that distinguish France from every 9TH
er country; and when the young hus-
band brings a capital equal to that Of
his wife's dot our American ideal re-
mains shocked, but we find it hard to
criticise with logic.
Pretty little Agnes B, for KAN
pie, has 500. 900 marriage portion from
her mother-and she was engaged to
Paul.
do you give her only 500, 000?" asked
Pauls mother. Make it $4,000 n /
will give Paul the same" But Agnes
mother remaining o~bdurate, and Paul's
refusing to make ar unequal bargain,
the young couple started life on $40, 600
each in gilt-edged bonds. procuring a
joint income of s1.500-and here comes
the point.
Paul had promised Agnes not to
work.
"If I quit father and mother, it will
not be to live my days alone" she said;
while to Paul she murmured: you will
rather be with me all day than go out
and make money!"
Paul Fell from Grace.
After marriage it was up to Paul TO
make good. But we AVE only 81, 500
a year." he argued; and, being tempted
of the devil by the offer of a good posi-
ton, he fell. And observe the outcome.
He was earning SIS per week at con-
genial employment; but his mother was
uneasy, his mother-in-law frowned-
and his young wife fell sick of it.
His congenial occupation ought to be
to jolly Agnes.
Agnes pined and grew anaemic, with
sleeplesSness, headaches and emotional
anxiety. In the end they spent 81 200
in travelling to get her health back.
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/ know another couple of this kind
who live with splendid French economy
on 81, 500 a rear. The baby faced young
wife goes about dressed like a Partisan
doll. She really does make her own
hats, smouching ideas from the rue
de la PaiX she manages to get costumes
out of a dressmaker who comes to the
house at 60 cents per day; and she
dresses her Guillaume very smart in
$40 suits made by a London tailor who
comes four times a year TO Paris for
orders.
Domestic Economy.
o can bet that Guillaume does not
soil his suits. She buys him an imita-
tion Panama-and sews a new ribbon
round 1t. GuiAaume's patent leather
shoes have got to last two years. In
summer time she forces him to wear
white canvas pumps-and pipe clay
them Immediately white each night
before retiring. So he saves his brown
leather shoes.
And do o know, this doll faced lit
tie Flou-Flou old the common purse,
keeps the accounts, gets groceries from
Potin to prevent the servants rakeoff
with the dealer and burns an incandes-
cent alcohol lamp to help save the
electricity? Guillaume has 10 cents a
day for cigarets. The rest she buys
him-or buys with him.
My little heart" / heard him say
once, Il spent 1t on cab fare!"
He was explaining the disappearance
of a 81 gold piece she had given him
to carry in his pocket only the week
previously.
"Chou-chou! my little cabbage! II all
went in cab fares TO get back to you
the quicker, chou-chou!"
Did you notice? ITO get back to you
the quicker!" the phrase saved him!
Yet. take notice. 1t was his own money.
income from his capital as much az
hers!
No other country has anything like
these incomes from family accumula-