IN PRAISE OF WOMAN

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4407, 13 July 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

IN PRAISE OF WOMAN

Max O’Rell has discovered only twp countries where men are ip leading strings —his own and the United States. Of the woman of both lands hp discoursed with enthusiasm, The French wife, he spid, is her husband’s friend, confidante and business partner. To this circumstance is due, in his judgment, the fact that France is to-day the richest country ip the wprld that js, ip evenly distributed wo-llh, 72 per cent, of the population outside Paris owning their homes. He went pi} tp affirm that French women are supremo ip the politics of nptrimopyi She knows It is a nuestion of remaining, not beautiful, but interesting; hence her little bustling ways and her varied man■ner of doing her hair. In this country marriage was lopked upon as the end of love-making, but in France, after marrying your wife, you had to win her—a process very pleasant. If so many kieses were pot indulged ip before marriage in this country there would ha more afterwards. In France not more than one man in every 500 belonged to a club. As for women’s clubs, ugh! Having seen the way the poor American millionaires lived (they being tod fired on Sundays to tell their children stories), the advice he felt compelled to give everybody was: ‘ Live well, and live as long as you can. You will never have another chance. Beads of perspiration on the Yankee’s brow crystallised into diamonds on the necks of hjs women folk. American girls Mr Max O'Hell praised -without stint. The animation of their features, the brilliance of their conversation; their freedom from

affectation, the picturescueness of their —oh. they v.-gi’G glorious aud "unique. The American girl of 17 or 18 was allowed almost every liberty, and she too* the others. Europe was surprised that eho had a latch key, aml_ stayed out late frith voung men. Dear old Europe—<iear old museum! The most vulgar American raan could, in the matter of how to behave to women, teach a lesson to the men of the Old World—even to Frenchmen. His compai riots, in that matter, were liyinc too much on the reputation ct then ancestors. A Frenchman, when he made way tor a lady, looked at her; an American in similar circumstances, lowered his eyes. The former sighted the miss; the latter missed the sight. In conclusion. Mr mux UMtell enthusiastically remarkea ♦ hat of he could be born anew, selecting ids sex and country, he would say, ‘ Please make me an American woman,