An international marriage bureau to find husbands for—2,000,000 French women who were left without mates is proposed by Dr. Paul Carnot, a Paris—physician, He believes that many Americans would like to marry French women and that all that is needed to bring sbout that desired result proper machinery for bringing wifeless Yankees and husband mademoiselle together, says a "New York Times' correspondent.
Dr, Carnot, describes hig idea in the "Matin." He has received from California and other States, and from Canada and the Argentine, he says, letters from hundreds of young mien who want French wives 2ut the problem is not one of transportation. What France needs ig men who will settle and marry there and rear families of French children.
"Every one admires France," writes the Doctor, "so surely, with a wife thrown in,' we could attract, immigrants."
From his experience in America he says he is sure that there are many men who would prefer to settle on this side of the Atlantic, and he urges the establishment of a bureau of information about wives and work. A beginning should be made, he says, with correspondence between the made-moselles and their admirers. They are the best people to give all necessary information about the prospects and habit they would find here. Once a beginning was made in this way be is confident the rest would be easy.
"Letters I have received," goes on, "are filled with "energy and expressions of love for oltr country and admiration for our women. The writers all ask what kind of a reception they would get and if they came whether they would find work and be able settle down and found a family. Alas, my laboratory cannot changed into a matrimonial agency, bug someone else should take on the work. What a race might we not be able to raise here in France of children by our women for whom the war has left no husbands and those magnificent Californians!" modern girls—however intellectual—want a husband, a home, and children:
They resent the partiality, of the law and they will resent it more strongly as time goes on. But they marry—under—protest—and make the best possible wives for the right man."
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