Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-12
Carrying Girls With Money
Considered the Only Way
to Secure Happiness
for Both Parties.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
BIARRITZ, October /. 1907.
4 x FEAR Biarritz, in his splendid
I up-to-date Basque villa, lives
/ the poet Rostand. a recluse.
4 To Rostand came two reia-
| tives, q youth and his father
| for advice The young man desired &c
marry a poor girl for love.
The sun was setting In the vale OF
| Cambo From his high-perched terrace
the great soul of Rostand swan out 10
where the golden light turns rose; and
back; and he spoke:
"a serious family question. The boy
| has not enough for himself. To marry
| poor girl. he must earn for both; and,
preoccupied by work. he will not be able
to cultivate the lovely parasite. But
when a girl brings money to the part
| nership, she has an exaltfng sense OF
aiding her protector; where springs en-
during married love. No no, France IS
| full of lovable girls with money!
The young relative of Rostand ac-
quesced-he had been trained for marriage
as a profession; they are going to wed
him to a pretty maiden with $4,000 year
| and a widowed mother in her Biarrltz
| villa glad to enter the distinguished poet
distinguished family; but do not imagine
| that any snoozer without this boy train
ing would have been acceptable; among
the French bourgeois youths are prepar-
| ed for matrimony instead of for work,
as carefully as are girls In other lands!
Physically, they are not foot ball play
| ers. The mass of these smart young EEL
| lows still limit themselves to horseback
riding and fencing.
| Horseback riding and fencing, however,
| obligatory and daily from childhood up,
| produce type of young man, healthy:
f,,J tsf1i he ideal
the French girl and her mother-by whom
she Is guided in technical matters
Dance Your Wife.
I emphasize physical vivacity, quick
ness, readiness and grace. For instance,
these Frenchmen all dance beautifully
and like 1t. I have known three French
girls who chose their husbands for their
dancing taste and manufacturers
through life; and they actually dance
their wives to this day!
Do you think that wo king business
man who has been killing himself nt the
office all day Is coming home to change
and dance? No, he will eat dinner, d.
gest. and grow fat.
This is one of the poor girls punish
ments" whispered Rostand to his young
relative: "it Is to see her husband physi-
cally deteriorating Do you want to de-
teriorate?"
Marrying a French girl with money will
be an assurance against it for him; for II
you think that such an one will allow her
hero to lie around and swell up, you
know nothing about these determined
creatures.
No, the social atmosphere itself keeps
the young Frenchman who has married
money down to his life-work as active
husband; for, it Is obvious. there are two
kinds of husbands, active and passive.
The passive husband. In this French
sense is he who goes out, spends his life
In wrestling money from the world. and
brings 1t back to his wife. Then he may
rest But he is a dead 'un, a cause Of
unhappy marriages.
The active husband IL his wife's COM
panion and amuser. To this Biarritz villa
where 1 take tea-there are visiting the
widow who will enter Rostand's family
FIVE such couples where the wives deal
out the money.
In one week, observe what these five