THE DARK WAR BRIDE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1598, 15 August 1916, Page 4

THE DARK WAR BRIDE.

FRENCHMEN’ FEAR FAIR GIRLS

There were never so many weddings as nowadays, writes a Pari* correspondent. Mars and Venus were ever the best of companions, and this war has proved it over

again. But this is not the point we wwh to emphasise just now. What we want to know is, How is it that so many more dark-haired girls get married than their fair-haired sisters?

The answer may be because there arc more brunettes in the world than blondes. Officials brought into daily contact with wedding parties say this has nothing to do with the matter; indeed, they do not believe there is a predominance of brunettes among women.

They declare that, men do- not marry blondes because they lote them too much.

Rightly or wrongly, the Frenchman, they say, takes this line with regard to marriage; A man should be^master in his own house. The law calls him the head of the family, and Ire always should be the chief in everything. When a man is passionately in love, he becomes the slave, if not the plaything of the woman who is life’s all to him. One cannot be a slave and a master at the same time, and as, despite his romantic temperament, a Frenchman almost always has a solid foundation of good common sense to his character, lie fights shy of the blonde as the permanent sharer of his joy’s and sorrows. What have English girls got to say to this?