The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-01
French Authors Attack on the American Woman
until she reaches the age of puberty.

until she reaches the age of puberty.
Polygamy is common in the United States.
and | do not refer to the Mormons only.
noted case of reverend clergyman of Sioux
Falls who when arrested was at the head OF
harem o: twenty wives. all regularly married.
He observed the precaution not to take them
all with him. He scattered them along his
path while pursuing his holy ministry. They
discovered in Cincinnati. another in Provi'
dence. one in Texas, one III California one In
Colorado, one in Utah. and
Americans marry so hastily that sometimes
they do not know one another's names when
the marriage ceremony is performed.
The instability of marriage In the United
States Is due to lack of unity In family inter-
ests. In France marriage means the union Of
two sympathies, two eXistences. The life or
the couple is one. with all its hopes. efforts and
thoughts. Its good fortune and misfortune. In
the United States husband and wife pursue
separate course. 1t is not union but part
nership. in which the has the greater
share of the profits. The table and the living
room unite them sometimes, but the private
life of each is separate as before marriage.
The witty artist, Johnson, has shown cley.
erly in cartoon how American wives and hus.
bands go through life. The husband, bent and
grooming painfully, staggers up a hill, per.
epration dripping from his forehead wrinkled
by fatigue and labor. while his back com.
fortaby seated in an armchair, the wife reads
book entitled, THE Career OF Women" with
box of candy on her knees While turning
the pages she remarks. Cant you go a little
faster Henry?"
The dress OF American women often Is a
ridiculous imitation of the fashions of Paris
If our hats are large the American woman
must have them larger. If the Parisenne has
openwork in her shirtwaist, the American
woman must have openings two or three times
as large.
The wardrobe of the rich American may be
handsome and costly, but that of the woman OF
the middle or poorer classes is very scanty
1t can all be packed in valse Each of the
essential articles Of lingerie is represented by
Two or at the most, three pieces-the hemise
being entirely lacking. Americans have not
the French womans love Of lingerie They
find it troublesome to carry. on account OF
their habit of constantly moving and fatiguing
to repair.
Young unmarried girls OF the wealthy
classes often have establishments of their own
away from the family home. Miss May Van
Allen. the granddaughter of Mrs Astor. set the
celebrated financier, j. p Morgan, has bun.
Galow on the summit of the Rocky Mountains
where she lives alone in the Summer and hunts
the bear. She passes for an intellectual wom-
an and says that her mind cannot develop in
house full OF people. She passes threequar.
ters of the year travelling, and when she
comes back to New York she lives alone in
her own home
American women study music to an appall.
Ing extent They learn to play every instru.
ment. including even the cornet and the from.
bone They practise whistling with the mouth
and lips. They employ this accom- pshment to
applaud their favorite actors at the theatre.
California is the State which furnishes the
largest number of musicians. But even there
they can hardly be called artists. The Amer.
lean ear is defective, like the American sense
OF taste. Music. believe. will never have an