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Southland Times, Issue 3341, 6 March 1879, Page 3

Wht Fbench Wojien abe the Neatest m THE WORtjd. — On our way, - writes a French correspbndentjwe indulged in a brown study [as to why Parisians have reputation "above every ath6r nation in matters of the toilet. It is not because they are extravagant in the choice of materials as a people. The Americans and English probably spend twice as much in this respect. Therefore we have come to the conclusion that the secret of success lies in these two points : taste in selection and combination and extreme attention to .those,, niceties other nations consider unimportant. , Then, too, a thorpugh Parisian lady is so excessively careful of her • wardrobe... She -bestows on it nearly as much carets on her children. One who can afford to bny only two or three costumes in the year will make as good an appearance as an American -who runs through half a dozen. The French woman's bonnet may be simple and cheap, but never Qut of keeping with the rest, of her toilette, and, however she manages in the matter of dresses, shabby boots are never reckoned among her shortcomings. The gloves may be of an inferior quality, but they fit 'well, and never lack a button. The color of her costume may be trying, but she so lightens it with buDches of lace and pieces of ribbon/she leaves nothing: to be desiied in the way of effect. What she wears on the street she does' not wear in the house, for. eager little hands' and tiny little feet soon tarnish its freshness. "Each article is carefully brushed, mended, orjfolded, as occasion may require, and brought out as good as new when next to be worn, One sees no sweeping dresses on the, streets of Paris. That filthy spectacle of petticoat and pavement sweeping is reserved for our own sublime' American cities. -French women have been reproached with untidiness in their homes. " Yes," says -Mrs Grnndy, " they live, for the world."' "Perhaps the reproach has some foundation, hut.this is also, time : An American, when" she marries, unless moving in the best (we should say the monied) circles, becomes negligent of those little womanly coquetries in matters of dress that helped to win her a husband." The Parisienne nQvcr does. She is as anxious her husband and every one else should think her " jolie femme" at 60 as at 19. A little of this spirit is very good. A woman neatly .and becomingly | dressed is Jcertainly a preferable companion -to one indifferent to such affairs. — S. ,F. Bulletin. ' . " Yes, Job suffered some," said an Illinois deacon, ".but he never knew what it was to have 'his team run Jaway and kill his wife right in the. busy season, when hired girls' want three dollars a V7eek, n