Frenchman has become a sug ridiculous anachronism, even 7 the feminine point of view. Tz modern stsle_ of short ski generally scanty clothing origin:
unconscious desire for against masculine indifference, has failed in its object. The ber of Frenchmen whose interest in Rife is the burst woman and the cultivation of mea? to make themselves more attrac to her, steadily is diminishing, modern habit ecems to be to re state of connubial bliss and fant enjoyment of the soci the beloved object, The idea of matrimony is jected, but is held in abesezce, th the reservation that prudence may he abandoned should exceptionally attractive person of the other sex come within rang: but modern materialism sees that this form of attraction much less hold on the Frenchman of today than it had over his father and grandfather. From quiries made among priests, school. masters, university professors, and others in touch with the rising masculine generation, M. Marcel Provost comes to the conclusion that continence is the rule, rather than the exception, among young Frenchmen of the educated class jon which no observer have drawn a quarter of a century ago. The classic type of Frenchman, such as one finds in Ouida's books, for instance, rapidly, is becoming extinct.
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