Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-15
Special Gable to The American.

Special Gable to The American.
PARIS, June 1.-THE papers are
forever writing about the new
France" and telling Of how our young
men have changed, but nobody seems
to have discovered that our young
women too have been transformed.
The young French girl of to-day is
indeed entirely different from the
timid. shy and coquettish maiden of
a few years ago, who had nothing to
do but to accept the husband her
parents picked out for her. She IS
now asserting an independence, that
would have been shocking at the be-
ginning Of the century. and she has
become a great lover of sport as her
American sisters.
Gets to Know Other Sex.
As a matter of fact it is her new
love Of sport which has transformed
the French girl of to-day, for play
ing tennis and hockey she came into
free and easy contact with the OPP
posite sex and to her utter amaze
ment she learned that men were
neither the mi-gods nor the utter
villains she had been taught in the
convent schools, and that a nearer
acquaintance robs them Of much Of
their romantic glamor. The frank
comradeship which games make pos
sible is making her better able to
hold her own and to protect herself.
Yet the transformation of the
French young girl cannot be wholly
ascribed TO sport There has been
a great universal awakening and as
the result our young girls are no
longer satisfied to sit at home pa
tiently waiting for their parents to
catch a suitable husband, but want to
paddle their own canoes, marrying if
they meet the right man but doing
very well without a husband if they
remain single.
Formerly French society has look
ed down on girls who made their own
living, but no one thinks Of doing
such a thing any more.
Miss Pankhurst Stunned.
Independent and self -reliant though
our young women have grown, they
look with horror and disgust upon
their suffragette sisters in England
and If Miss Christabel Pankhurst re-
ceives female visitors at all in her
exile here, there are certainly no
French women among them and not a
single feminine voice will protest
when the Government shortly con-
ducts he English champion Of wom-
ems rights across the frontier, which
am told will happen very soon.
The feminine population of Paris
is firmly convinced that the English
suffragettes are monsters and to the
other ctrOcious crimes add that Of
wearing ugly clothes. Some Of our
worst freaks of fashion in hats have
been named after them.
Nevertheless" Jules Claretie writes
in lie Temps, Il like the name 'suf-
fragette.' II sounds very pretty and
one seems TO wear IL on the ear like
the bonnet Of Mimi Pinson. Yet the
suffragette is the contrary Of the
grisette. She does not smile, she
fights. Instead Of carrying lilies OF
the valley in her hands she carries
a little bomb. God preserve us from
suffragettes IL they are going to at
tack men and animals as well as
buildings"
Rose Brides Crowned.
The villages and small provincial
towns of France are busy electing
and browning their rose brides Of the /
year and Parisians are making long
excursions 10 witness this old cere- |
mony.
OF all these rose coronations none !
is more famous than that which takes ]