The Mena weekly star., 1919-02-27
lOO,OOOANERICANS. WE'D FRENCN GIRLS.
American Navy Nurse, Confessing Some Jealousy, Yet Declares Rivals Are Wonderful Wives and Moth
 CTS, and the Bravest Women
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 American soldiers may be homesick most of them are-but they're not showing any lack of appreciation of French femininity for all that, if a letter from an American Navy nurse, who confesses she is just wee bit jealous, may be taken as authority.
 This nurse, who writes to relative in New York, confirms the story car ried on the cables that thousands of marriages between Yankee boys and French girls have already taken place Somewhere in France" and utters the gloomy prediction that there will be more of them before all the sol diers come home.
 She admits she is jealous, does this nurse, after her year and half in France, but she praises her rival as a woman, as housekeeper, home mak- CT and mother and as fighter.
 Here is her letter in part:
 French Women Delightful.
 "You seem rather incredulous about so many of our American boys having married French women. Why, won der? don't see any reason why they should not. The French woman is a delightful creature. Even we Amer ican and English nurses can see that, much as we should like at times to see otherwise, for we're still human and still feminine, and it goes rather hard with us to see some of the finest of our soldier lads marrying pretty little Alines, Maries and Ninettes.
 "We think we could find better mates for them, and some of us think that a few could be found without go- ing outside of France. But still they're being captivated-we call it captured when we talk among our selves-by the French women. Louise told me last night that she had it on positive authority that about one hun dred thousand American soldiers and sailors had married French women over herel
 "Still, don't blame the boys. These girls are really almost irresistible, and they understand the art of flirta- tion better when they are born than the average American woman under stands it after her fourth divorce. They know how to dress too, to bring out the very littlest as we'll as the greatest of their charms. And they know how to talk to our soldiers with their eyes and hands and shoulders better than we Americans can talk to them in their own United States. They speak a universal language-the language of appeal and they never fail to make themselves understood.
 She's All French, Too.
 Besides all this more or less su- perfscial charm, the. French woman is truly woman. They are wonderful wives and mothers. I've been here long enough to see that. They make even better wives and mothers than they make sweethearts. They're won derful housekeepers, altho, except among the upper classes, they do run to too much furniture in their parlors and too much garlic in their kitchen to suit my plain tastes. But how they do understand food conservation and economy Mir. Hoover could learn quite a few lessons from them if he cares to study them.
 And on top of all this femininity, they are fighters. They are the brav- est women, as class, believe have known, and the most consistently pa- triotic.
 "So, why shouldn't our boys love them, and marry tnem? Anyway, whether they should or should not, they're doing it.'