The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-13
BEAUTY AND LOVE IN
FAR Off FRANCE.
ID NJ. Walker, In Lsslic's-

/, France is land spilling over with
j beauty she and her people Will al
ways appeal TO the artist IN every
: man. The American who was uo-
: fortunate enough 10 see nothing De
yond Brest or s-sur-Tille OF GleVes
may dispute this, and he would nave
reason to. But none who saw them
will forget the beauties of AK ana
f. Biarritz, nor those days all sifted.
golden sunlight down by the purple
Mediterranean, To those who hah eyes
: 10 see, there was something lovely IN
/ every hamlet, from Cannes TO Caiais.
some ARCHITECTURAL gem which. by com
parison will sicken us with our home
I town monstrosities. The wonders
i of Paris will haunt our dreamsx This
is France and France was made by
the French. Yet all in the analyses
OF these people---and their most en-
thusiaSttc admirers are Americana
il seems to me there Is an implied
but" before the enumeration OF all
their charms, Too much like propa-
ganda. in fact Among all the out
standing qualities going to make up
French character, which is az dem
niteiy. formed as the French physique.
no one mentions avarice. selfshnesx
distrUst.
NJ. C1emenceau. in message to
AIlbTlGa Which proves All ! tdSt w
say is carefully analysed. has men
toned the first OF the qualities as IAN
overcarefulness about money mat
| tors" And in the same message he
adds, america Is rich. We expected
much OF America" America is rich;
make the most of it, 1t explains
! everything the French have done;
I from charging US q franc for a worm :
eaten apple to request that we sell
:
20 per cent of its value. America
is rich. let her pay,
Here Is where France misread our
psychology, Every American knows
| that the richer the individual, the
7 more exasperated he il by being
"stung" The American will give
/ money away of ms own free will
+ money in gohs-but 10 be done out
/ of so much as "A dime he win not.
America Is. commercial Europe used
10 say with sneer And Europe
: is nercenarY. And between these
two there is gulf wider than the
Atlantic.
/ 1t is not difeulf to reason why
the French have these qualities They
are beautiful because they have bred
beauty. They are witty and intelec-
tuai because they have bred
intellect and Wit and cultivated both
! OF these qualities. They are penurious
1 because they have bred penuriousn ess
/ The French marriage is as unemo-
/ tional an affair as a business partner
/ ship is II is the one place in French
/ life where 'Tamour" takes a back
seat The French never suffered
| from any delusion that marriages
! were made In heaven
When the French say we know
nothing about love they are not talk
ing the same iangua &c, what they
! mean is that we are not skilled ir
/ the teehnic of love making. We trust
love b1indly enough to base our mar
/ rage upon this eVenscent quantity
which is fAore than they do, A
French girl without a dot" TO brins
10 her husband has as much chance
Of marriage as a fat ankle has or
the Paris boulevards If she ia o,
the aristocracy some nouveau richs
may marry her 10 further his socia
ambitious. II she is of the proleta
riat and hea uttful she will prohahl,
/. contract a remunerative affair with
out benefit OF clergy, out of which
she will save enough money. through
her natural instinct for economy
with which to start "A shop when he
physical attractions are no longer pro
ductive of an income. II she i
without either good looks or a dot,
she is pretty much out of luck,