French Girl of To-day Prefers Auto to Babies

Perfectly Upright and Essentially Practical, Description by Marcel Prevost

By the Associated Press

PARIS.
     The after-the-war French girl has been analyzed mentally by Marcel Prevost, who is universally accepted in France as a specialist in the psychology of his countrywoman.  In an article headed “Modern Marriage and Love” the Academician describes the typical girl of to-day as a perfectly upright and essentially practical person.  She takes no stock in general ideas, which she calls “guff.”  She is far from being a feminist, and has not the slightest desire to take up drudgery.
    Men’s occupations seem to her “mainly the direction and management of the civilized world, giving men a position manifestly inferior to women’s, who enjoy the world as thus directed and managed.
     M. Prevost notes that feminism is generally on the decrease, and that women rarely take up men’s callings because they like them, but only through necessity. [. . .]
M. Prevost sums up the modern French girl as not very romantic, nor very intellectual, but very keen for money, risking an old age of childless solitude rather than do without an automobile.

[New York Tribune, March 2, 1924, p.10]