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

aches and emotional anxiety. In the end
they had to spend $1,000 in travelling to
get her health back. Now Paul no long er
works. And all Is We'll!
| know another couple of this kind
who live with splendid French economy
en- $500 a year, making a show that
represents the double.
The baby-faCed young wife goes about
dressed like Partisan doll. She really
does make her own hats, copying the
newest models of the Rue de Ia PaiX; she
is so elegant that the shopkeepers show
heI their best, imagining she will buy.
She manages to get swell tailor gowns
as low as $50 from houses that are just
beginning while for the flou garments
She directs a dressmaker who comes to
the house for 60 cents a day. And she
dresses her Guillaume very smart in $50
suits made by a London tailor who comes
four times a year to Paris for orders.
Yes. silk-lined.
You can bet that Guillame does not soil
his suits,
She buys him an imitation Panama. sews
a new band on it; and it looks just great
Panimali Qullaume's patent leather shoes
have got to last two years! In summer she
compels him TO wear white canvas pumps
and pipe-clay them Immediately white
each night. They make a swell effect and
save his brown feathers!
Must Jolly" the Wife.
Do you know? This don-faeed little
FIou-F'lou holds the common purse, gets
groceries from f'pllnS 10 prevent the scr
ants rake-oT with the local dealers, dis
counts all bills for cash and burns al
cohoI incandescent lamp to save electric
light bills?
GuiIlaume has 10 cents a day for cigar
cites. The rest she buys him:
MY little heart" / heard him say once,
Il spent il on cab faresN
He was explaining the disappearance of
| a 81 gold piece she had given him to carry
| in his pocket.
"Chou-chou! my little cabbage, it all went
in cab fares-to get back to you the quick
Did you notice-"to get back TO you the
quicker II was that saved him!
No other country has anything like this
| proportion of incomes from long family ac-
considered a crime. One consequence Is
that women quite as frequently as men
have their own revenues.
Now, as jules Simon 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 certainly prefer q
husband bringing the same or more--on
condition that he be "serious"-say at once,
obedent. But, having a sure income Of
her own of, say, $3.50 she will Just as Ger
tainly prefer obedient young husband
earning SO per week in a government office
with short hours and a moderate pension,
to a hustler who might double or quadru-
PIE lei capitai. AiG il SHt nave Sit0tD per
year. she will still more certainly prefer
an obedient young husband earning moth
ing. to a wonder OF enterprise who Is al
ways at his office!
Profession Of Perfect Repose.
This explains the immense vogue in
France Of those professions called ."of per-
feet repose." The phrase refers to repose
of mind that these professions seldom
tempt men to risk capital in uncertain in
vestments; but repose of body is stran-
ger TO their walks. They are army officer,
government functionary zone French voter
I'm ten is a government functionary). bar
rister, doctor. engineer and university pro-
fessor.
Engineers, either Of civil or military spe-
cialties or of private enterprises, are quot
ed high, but rather special. Often they
are men who work. Sometimes they have
opportunities to invest money advantage
| ously. 1t is trife too uncertain, too en-
| ergetic too masterful. So 1t is on the bor-
| der line of temptation and many fair