The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-06-19
~Wherea Love and Marriage the Fhwonn Order
Husband Uses Almost denable
Before Everything Else Justice and Fidelity
New Feminine Type An Image of An Extraordinarily Clear Spa Relief
Type That Is Unique and SURPRISES sin Intensity

natural spleudors Of their country and BY the
artistic education. through which both In
Europe and at home they have cultivated their
minds. repeat, it would be Z great pity II
they became similar in appearance to other
women, even to those who are the most xraca.
ful and the most attractive.
One can only lose by not being entirely one
se!r, especially when one has a quality SO per.
sonal and 50 strongly developed.
But perhaps this tendency to simplicity. to
self-effacement In dress. is not simply the de.
sire to be like others; perhaps It Is already
the expression OF . little lassitude, of q cor.
tain melancholy arising from. safety in the
good things OF the earth--a desire to nay less
attention TO external pleasures and to turn
more exclusively to the things Of the soul and
the spirit. Everything that we know Of the
present wonderful intellectual etfervescence Of
American women leads US to believe It,
This Intellectual efervescence is what in.
terests me most ardently in the character OF
the American woman. Her passion for gen.
erous IDEAS her vehemence in discussing them
ana IN defending them is the surest indication
OF her dominating power. OF the new light
which she Is to carry into the world
When I was in Paris a young American
friend with whom was chatting, said to me:
People have very false ideas about Va
American women. They think US taken up
entirely with fads. with dress. and with
beauty treatments The fact IS that what
appeals to us most passionately is intellectual
discussion. When you 60 over there do not
cerned with your life story with your
celebrity, with your successes. They will talk
OF these things perhaps for two or three days.
then there viii be an end Of it. What would
interest them most deeply will be what you
think on every subject; they will inquire into
your ideas and your opinions; they will not
accept them all, certainly, but they will re-
spect them and they will Judge them, for the
America"
What my friend said pleased me very much
ana have since been able to observe that II
was the absolute expression of the truth
with the American woman the abundance
OF sensations shows itself Immediately by an
abundance OF cerebraion from which there
mainly
TO these general characteristics which Oh.
servation OF the American woman as have
met her in Paris and on so many travels has re.
vealed to me. l may add some more intimate
revelations surprised during friendly CONVEX.
satlon. l have been able to learn believe,
American woman.
In this case also there is a contrast with us
An almost total contrast
whereas IN love and in marriage, the French.
woman IN order to conquer and hold her hus.
band uses almost indefnable sentimental
methods, the American woman demands. be-
loTe everything else, justice and fidelity.
In Paris recently q charming American
woman connded to me anecdote which
sne told me was not the only instance of its
kind and which shows how these qualities ap-
pear essential and superior
One of my women friends" she said. "dis.
covered that her best friend had taken her
husband from her. She had no feelings against
the husband because she believed that in such
cases from the American point Of view. it is
always the women who are guilty and who
have begun the evil.
This is what she did She brought to1e+hs.
all her best friends and relations at a largo
dinner party and went through the dinner In
me IL e., customary us manner: At the end Of the
the treachery Of her woman friend. Then she
ordered the latter to leave the house immedi
a a1 ana s never to come back. In a word she
guests"
The young American woman who told mo
that story. woman full Of goodness of heart
and keenness OF mind. whom I like very much
approved those dramatic proceedings entirely
She could not conceive any other solution to
the situation created by the guilty woman.
Yet, with US such a solution would be i'm.
possible for In similar circumstances we
should consider the husband the most guilty
ana, therefore having the chief responsibility.
moreover, to act thus would be for a French
woman the surest way OF losing her husband
ana II with her, love were stronger than zeal.
ousy, and she wished to win black and keep
him. she would use other means less direct
ana more complex to win her object
had a great deal Of difficulty in making
my friend understand this reasoning, and even
then she did not accept it as sound
This lack OF directness shocked her pro-
toundly and could not make her admit that
It Is useful sometimes In love to be willing to
appear WRONG nomentarily even when one is
But it Is none the less true that the fne
[rankness OF the American manner IL praise
worthy and impressive. and that the happiness
81 humanity would be more easily attained II
things could always be managed with such
honest simplicity.
This loyal and noble sincerity which would
perhaps constitute a danger in love, II it were
applied to = man Of different race, 10 a SOW.
sreiEn quality In friendship.
Friendship is virtue very rare among
latin women. and that is deeply regrettable
latin women are much more often rivals than
riends; and believe one can say the Same
u Slav women. There are. indeed, contrary
instances. but in most cases they are not to
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