The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-07

is once more clean and white. All of which is being thrifty with food and with kitchen help, saving as it apparently does the labor of dish washing. But, to Frenchman, an Englishman once said: ''In England my dear fellow, one never uses ones
 bread, for, CT, mopping up gravy
 ''In England. Monsieur, you have no sauces worth mopping up.'
 Yes. the average French household gets @ francs worth out of every francs worth of food it buys. Also, because it has defed the palate, it has acquired the art of taking very cheap and tough cuts of meat and i by clever cooking and the use of sauces, turning this cheap meat into veritable delicacies.
 In France there is no such thing
 as 'have one on me" The expres-
 sion Dutch treat'' is not confined to Germany. If two women go out to
 tea, each pays her own way. If you 1 drop into a cafe with a man for a cup of coffee he pays for his and you pay for yours. Also, the pocketbock l loosening qualities of John Barley l corn have no influence upon your I true Frenchman for he can sit and drink the awful vermouths and ami
 settes and triple secs with his friends
 without ever uttering have one on l me-" Were he to ''treat," his friends | would think him mad. The French are a. "pay as you enter" people.
 Because of the governments action some years ago against the Church in in France there is a belief that the French are not very religious. Not a village in France, but you can come upon those wayside shrines, built by | some greateful farmer in a year when he had a particularly good crop. The religious element of France who arc most devout, are the peasants.
 The French like churches They
 like very much a ceremonious form
 of worship; it excites their imagina-
 ton. But there are no such things
 as Wednesday prayer meetings in
 France. Rather they begin their 1 thought of religion about the time the
 bells are tolling on Sunoay and they
 cease it about the time they descend
 the church steps. It has been very pleasant hour and religion Is good for everybody. tIt is Sunday and : the country is very beautiful, so lei us take our families into the fields and gather flowers and be happy" Ii is not a moral crime to laugh in
 France on Sunday, to go into an ice cream soda store, or a cafe, which 1 never had a shipload of Purttans make landing on her shores. There is no girl in the world who is kept so much in a glass case as 1 "Madamoiselle." In the average small city of France it is unthinkable
 for a young firl to be seen in a res taurant alone with a young-or old man. Were a girl to be seen, she would be taboo in the town. Gossip among the French is a terrible thing
 To go out to dinner or to the theatre . in the evening, a girl, if she cares what people will say, must inf1ict {
 chaperon upon her escort.
 There is no romance in the French marriage. It is a very cut and dried affair, arranged by the parents. ant Icontracts are signed stipulating how 5 much poodle Is going to be put up.
 It must be true.
 We have seen this situation uset , in our wonderful American theatre.
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 There is about as much romance il a French marriage as there is in an! . other. Parents who attempt to ar ' range the weddings of their offspring ! rarely meet with success.
 But the French are a very cam. 5 people. They can show even tn D Scotch a few points. The Frenel : have a theory that love anu a napp. ' marriage cannot always exist on low ? alone. They admit the possibility o : their being such things as rent am butchers and grocer's bills Of cours
 l this is not sentimental but then tn ' French are an unregenerate fmmora
 peop1e---aren't they so interpreted il = our musical comedies? The averag Il French parent has an idea that youtl < in love is ant to be idiotic. The aver = age French parent, therefore, seek e to do everything in his power to nak II II his sons or daughters marriage happy ones-shame1essly believing a " he does that economics has somethin = to do with happiness. We, of course being a very superior people, don't ad
 init that. Love will find a way. , MADAME TASSAUD.