PARIS FASHIONS IN LOVE AFFAIRS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 22 September 1920, Page 4

PARIS FASHIONS IN LOVE AFFAIRS.

WILL WE POLLOW IN THEIR LIGHT FRIVOLITIES?

Recently the English girl was compared to the French girl. On the whole she came out unfavourably, but tin opinions were a Frenchman's. It was

said that her sister in France is more intelligent, more strenuous in her desire to attract, and there is more active, demonstrative poetry in he soul.

Nevertheless, the English girl is much superior as an Englishman': lover. Her conception of life is thai st. is something more spiritual than physical. Her Continental sister know love as a happy pastime, a familiar pleasing thing, not to be taken to' seriously or necessarily to be a.-so dated with matrimony.

When the English girl realises skis hi love the immediately thinks of marriage. Love is a thing apart for her. Real Jove to her is not to lie classed with light frivolities like theatres and dancing, but is solemn and wonderful, a thing of romance oj which she must be worthy. The French girl kisses as lightly a-

she smiles, and loves as easily as she laughs. There is, of course, the natural racial characteristic of friendliness in the French girl—and this shows itself in a manlier bewildering to thg English visitor. Mimi will kis~ her Georges in a crowded cafe as freely and openly as if they were on ;v desert island. Everybody is friendly with everybody else in a manner passing English comprehension.

It is the French fire and spirit which Brakes mademoiselle seem more wonderful, riroro friendly, and more charmingly vivacious than her English sister. It needs nothing of an effort for her in Hash a smile at her male admirers, unlike the English miss. who must first know something of the man she thus favours.

Beyond doubt the Frenchwoman is the mast patriotic in the world, but this is a pari of herself. Love, however, to her is very often what hockey and tennis are to the English girl. She is making love and playing ail the artifices of her wonderful se\ when tins English girl is developing her mind and muscles by healthy

But the "cold English girl" is &X fresher, and breathes of the open air, M j and strong, cold, bracing British jf fei-£ezes, ' Much of the ebarhl of the & "• I'rench wiroaji i; Artificial, like much S 3of her complexion. ■¥%s?& & e Er, S _ S lish girls scores over p is that she has a naruifii, outdoor j| freshness which the French woman S i».n rarely attain. ' "»-