The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-12-17

while infants, and afterwards upon his shoulders
He obeys his bo,pie, and this is pertecr obedence
he only eats when his bonnie makes him, he only
drinks when his bonnie allows him. he rises and goes
TO bed, at the command OF his bonnie even the dog
Of his boane he must take out to walk, and woe be
to hum, II he iorgets 10 csress her Cat. Poor man!
And perhaps you think these are all histyrantsl I'M
deceive yourself. There is below al the door of his
house, yrant, a spy, calumnator, always ready,
always awake, always preiudced against the ctl-
zen This tyrant, this spy, this calumniaor Is the
FORTRESS, or The porter OF the house; sometimes II is
both combined
The FORTRESS leaves home after the bonnie, and
when The waiting woman has returned with her
milk. The waiting maid is too Young and has 100
many pleasant and fine things TO do, to sympathize
much with the 6onne who IL forty years DID, and The
FORTRESS, .who is sixty. There are some virtues
which u seems natural and therefore easy, for youth
TO practice. Thus the young servant condescends
to take very little part in this dirty babbng this I'M
derhand SANDER Llsette julie is rather the
trend OF her mistress than her servant; she knows
her most conce aed secrets she naturally initiated
into the mysteries OF this boudoir which she shares
IL Is she who dresses her mistress in the morning,
who undresses her at night; she sees the tears in
her eyes, she hears the signs that issue from her
heart, she not ces her joyous smie she is always
her mistress SIDE that is, for the lover, and against
| the husband. These the employments, the
pleasures, and the business OF Lisette. Young wo-
men understand each other, so easily and so well
they are so fond 81 any thing connected with love
Love equalIZes ranks SO quickly How then could
Lisete JON with these two rapacious, disconnected
Jealous old women--the Fortress and the bonnie (?
Lisette, when she has obtained her milk SLOWLY as
cends the staircase, and gees to prepare her own
breakfast and that OF her mistress, recalling mean
| time that Madame returned yesterday very late,
and without her bouquet that she had forgotten her
| right hand glove, and was so agitated, SO happy
| Lisete and her mistress breakfast, this morning
from the same bread, from the same supply of milk
| and perhaps from the same cup People at twenty
years old eat 80 little
Do you see that equivocal being, with inquring
| looks, slanderous mouth, and twisted hair! That
Is the Fortress The FORTRESS is naturally malicious
being Every house in Paris has its FORTRESS nestled
bottom OF this hole this bloodshot and malevolent
| eye observes all who go in, and all who go ont.
These ears OF King Midas listen TO all that is SAID
ana all that notsald; she questions, she expounds
even silence; and from the bottom of its hole, this
poisonous serpents tongue casts It's venom, the
| most irreproachabie people in the house The por
tress Is calumny personifed; she tears, with her
black nails every reputation that is entrusted to her
| Listen! Hear her repeating, at the corner of the
street, to the mlkwoman, all the histories true or
false, othe house that is under her care On the first
hoor, the baiff will pay visit tomorrow; this
mother beats her chidren those children beat their
mother this gentleman guarrels with his wife; that
wife steals her husbands clothes Do you know
why the people on the third floor have bought pot
OF flowers? And that person the fourth who came
home the other day, in hackney coach with the
| blinds down! Every day, food OF caumnies pours
| round the milkwoman, ill not say like her milk,
sut IKE the mud IN the streets. The bonnie, not to
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OF the latter The bcnne knows fewer histories than
the FORTRESS, but then she knsws them better. She
sees her victims nearer. She recounts then how
her master, the other day, pawned his plate, how
her mistress narrowed shawl or VEIL of one of
her friends, to wear to the theatre And these hor
| rlble Meseras descant principally, on the misery of
their masters 1t seems to be their greatest delight,
TO Calculate the rum OF the man whose bread they
eat and under whose roof they dwell Is it not
sad and painful, to see such debate carried on
every morning, round can of mikl Milk, that in
nocent beverage that drink of the Idyl, that poet-
| cal emblem OF purity: milk, so often sung by Thea-
critus and Virgil; milk, which thus becomes In every
| corner OF Paris, sort of muddy stream, round
which are collected all the ante-room faisehoods,
| aud all the kitchen ISLANDERS OF the neighborhood!
And what will surprise you not little is that in
Pars, all the houses q mean the richest and hand.
somest, and best inhabited,) subjected to this
irightful despotism! Here is the hotel Of nobeman:
The exterior IL magnificent gold and silk gsten in
the drapery OF the windows; the court s full of Eng
lish hor es and richly emblazoned carriages Enter.
betore seeing the master and mistress of this beau
tful place, you are forced TO come in contact with
dirty FORTRESS, who is washing her linen in tub her
chd who Is roasting meat the corner of the fire
or her husband, who is making shoes in the dark EST
corner of his den; all which proves that nothing ia
l perfect under the sun.
And when each house has thus received its supplv
OF milk the stove Is lighted the morning coffee is
made and 1t IS not until the coffee has been spped
| that the Parlsian day begins.
To speak the truth, this cafe au lait is sorry stuff
and very difficult of digestion II is composed of a
little het water, resembling milk, black roasted
powder, pounded and pulverzed at the grocer's and
beet-root sugar anu IS accompanied by small piece
| OF bread. Such is the current and daily breakfast
of cts and cltesses, servants and masters great
politician has calculated, that the surest method of
| stopping revolution or suspending Partisan tn
multi, would be to close the barrier against the milk
| women. The passion for cafe au lait is so great
that under the empire, and during the continental
war, the Partisan paid eighteen francs pound for
coffee, and much for sugar, that he might not be
| deprived Of his usual breakfast At that time he
who was rich enough, still to have his coffee and
sugar, breakfasted at his gate window, from va
ty Many took their coffee without sugar, as the
Arablans do Even now, when coffee and sugar are
very common commodities, you may see placarded
in Paris, chesnut Coffee beet root coffee and all
sorts of coffee, in which there is every thing but
coffee. This horrible decocon has the double ad-
vantage of affording susenance to the man who
drinks II, and giving 10 the affected women who
take il, ivid and sickly paleness, which much re-
sembles the jaundce. hope these are details a la
Trolope, sufficient to please you.
What amused me most, in this study of the little
Partisan world was, TO see the milk woman at last
when all her milk was exhausted, put her cans again
INTO her ttle cart gather up the rens OF her horse,
whistle TO her terrible bull dog and set out at hand
rot, throwing, as she passed, ironcal glance of
contempt, at those foolish houses, where the young
servants are as coquettish as their mstresses, and
| where the old servants many Unsuitable des-
pots. Stupid houses that take Seine water for pure
milk, and that nourlsh at their gates those venom
! Gus reptiles called porters.
l fancled could near the milk woman, n robust
and Intelligent peasant, speaking thus to hersef-
| "Fools! take from your city, two things, which
you would never receive from us peasents-I carry
| of your money and your secrets"
| The CafE de Totoni-Sfock Brokers Breakfast-
The Hour for the Bourse.
| II is granted, then, that the Partisan takes but
little breakfast. He has too much to do, and then
his business is too important. He is persuaded that
| a more substantial breakfast would take from him
the free exercise Of his ambition, his projects, his
avarice, and his passions II Partisan wishes his
head to be clear, his stomach must be clear also
The precautions Of the man machine are not pushed
farther than this. There 10, however, one place in
Paris much frequentcd, where people breakfast in
earnest or at least appear to do so. Ii is the Cate
/ Torton.
The Cafe Tortoni is known throughout Europe.
Il 10 h. hn..la Al.