75 Years Ago Today

Aug 7, 2008 by Suzy Ogé    No Comments    Posted under: Entrepreneurship, Just for fun, Women

A tiny article in the International Herald Tribune (In Our Pages:100, 75 & 50 years ago today) caught my (French) husband’s attention on a flight back from Prague this evening.  He couldn’t wait to show me this gem from 1933.

1933:Girls Happy in America

PARIS: Life in America is more favorable for the happiness of girls than that in France, according to an interview given yesterday [Aug. 5] by Marie-Louise Soupalt in “Paris-Midi”.  Mme. Soupalt, who has visited extensively in the United States, explained the characteristics of collegiate and business life there.  “It seems to me, in comparing French and American girls of the same age, that the latter are both simpler and more mature than the French girls,” she declared.  She considers that both the freedom in co-educational institutions and the insistence of American girls to have careers contribute to developing them.  “To lead an idle life is considered almost a mark of weakness by many women in the United States,” said Mme. Soupalt.

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