Paris of to-day : an intimate account of its people, its home life, and its places of interest . A FAMILY ON THE STREET, FRENCH HOMES. 69 been granted me. I recall the expression onthe face of a French wife of the type of one ofthose in the families I have described, at theanswer of a pretty young American woman,who had come abroad alone for a year tostudy French and art, when asked how herhusband was going to get along without , well—we didnt see so very much ofeach other when I was home. My husbandwas away all day—and we lived in a hotel—and at night when we didnt go out we
Paris of to-day : an intimate account of its people, its home life, and its places of interest . A FAMILY ON THE STREET, FRENCH HOMES. 69 been granted me. I recall the expression onthe face of a French wife of the type of one ofthose in the families I have described, at theanswer of a pretty young American woman,who had come abroad alone for a year tostudy French and art, when asked how herhusband was going to get along without , well—we didnt see so very much ofeach other when I was home. My husbandwas away all day—and we lived in a hotel—and at night when we didnt go out we gen-erally had people in. By far the most satisfying thing in this line,however, was a conversation between one ofthose French mothers who know every hourof their daughters lives, and whose familyrepresented the concentrated essence of theFrench culture of seven hundred years, andtwo American girls of nineteen and twenty-one, respectively, who had come abroad aloneto make original investigations, as theytold us. It was only one of them, however,a pretty creature like Daisy Miller, whoexposed her past and
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