FRENCH GIRLS MAKE GOOD WIVES. “The French, bride/’ says a writer in Cassell’s Saturday Journal, “is incomparably less extravagant tlian her British sister. Where the latter requires 15s a head for weekly housekeeping, the former will manage on 10 francs. The Frenchwoman does not regal’d her husband as a mere mo-ney-making machine and her house as a place simply to sleep-iu. As soon as she is married she. is her huso and s partner in business ias well as m private life. She considers it her duty to make herself acquainted with every detail of her husband’s business. NoFrench husband would dream of ta Icing any important step without consulting his wife, and her advice is often amazingly shrewd.’ A billiard table,- originally belonging to the Emperor -Napoleon, has been sold in Edinburgh for £2O. . -
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2401, 16 January 1909, Page 3
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135Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2401, 16 January 1909, Page 3
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