Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06

which you Americans would call
sharp and even ridiculous, 10 add
money 20 her empty Golfers.
Some OF the stories arc true, l
know others. well, they may
be what We call les potins dc
Ia Mancurc' the gossip of the
manicure. But all these stories
went the rounds. in Paris. But
now I must hasten to the tell
ing OF few things which hap
pencd at the beginning Of that
Crussol marriage, to prejudice
its happiness.
It was mother-in-law from the
very first At the wedding, /
should explain, Duchesse Marie
Therese in her robe of cloth of
gold and silver, far outshone the
bride And the brides mother,
Madame Beziers, in her dignified
,rtrseft -trff fit-iff el7-teiFet- seemed
like a country cousin. compared
to that splendid, witty, cruel,
brilliant DuChessc dues The
mothcr-in- law dazzled her young
daughter-in-law at the wedding
Perhaps | have always mag
med this happened the little
bride then promised herself she
would be like her mother-in-law.
A great, a dazzling Paris lady,
like DuChesse Marie Therese. So,
at once. she went out to the
smartest Couturiers, the costliest
jewelers., and bought herself a
woman's weapons to help her in
the competition.
But Duchesse Marie Therese,
watching, was filled with inn
potent anger There there.
was that Sardine spending
money with careless hand while
she, the noble belle-mere, had
still to count the francs. Had
had TO count them all her life,
she, who could so much more
adorn "A fortune than this little
mouse of a Sardine.
In those early days Jeanne de
Crussol was shy timorous, fear
full, and tremendously in awe of
her mother-in-law Accordingly
she copied her, as l have said.
Again, at that, Duchesse Marie
Therese exploded. And once she
ragged to me:
Ellie yeut me COPPER, mais
c'est toujours qu'une copie men
vaut pas roriginal" - IS h
wishes to copy me, but the copy
never comes up TO the original)
THIS irritation the Duchesse
took out more and more on
poor Jeanne Soon everything
the wistful daughter-in-law said
was ridiculed, and belittled, TO
that day when Marquise Jeanne
explained that she had met. the
most wonderful man who made
the most wonderful speech His
mamie is Edouard Daladier and he
is Minister OF Education
Duchesse Marie Therese poked
cruel fun.
My dear, that was too bad of
you. Daladler. the cabbage is
Socialist Perhaps even a Boil
shevik. II he gets into real
power the price of sardines will
fall TO nothing And what would
your family do then ?"
What would your family do"
quickly answered Jeanne. After
all, the dUzcs live on sardincs,
too
1t was her first attempt at
sclf-dcfensc, with this terrible
bcllc-mere Of hers. But immedi-
atcly after. poor Marquise
Jeanne bit her lip and blushed
At first. think she was
ashamed 10 hear the source Of
her fathers fortune so con-
temptuously mentioned She re-
bcllcd And then she put that
rebellion into action as l Will
show as my story goes on.
An me. nature has made the
woman who bears a man, and
the woman who marries him,
logical rivals. Well. there was
everything in the worldly cir
t cumstauces Of those two TO in
crease this rivalry.
And SO the first years Of the
marriage unfolded on a world
that little Madcmoiseno Beziers
had never dreamed Of home in
Brittany That WORLD puzzled