Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1919 — Why French Girls Prefer To Wed Yanks Instead of Natives of Own Country [ARTICLE]

Why French Girls Prefer To Wed Yanks Instead of Natives of Own Country

To win an American husband seems to be the ideal of more than 40 per cent of the Parisian young women. At all events that is the result of an inquiry conducted by L’Oeuvre, a Paris daily newspaper which publishes a series of letters setting forth the reasons that have guided the writers to give preference to Americans over their compatriots. Those who would rather marry Frenchmen base their predilection largely on patriotic grounds, but a large percentage of young French women confess to a wholehearted admiration of the average American’s breezy good humor and courtesy of manner toward the other sex. Several French girls ■who have had opportunity to observe American home life appreciate the easy camaraderie between the sexes, and they come to the conclusion that a good comrade must make a good husband. Some fair writers say that French lovers are given to talking overmuch and are too fussy about their personal appearance.