The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-03-24
Random Notes by Mrs. ]. G. Bennett.
PARIs, FebruarY 20. l91

PAaIs, February 20, ls47.
am now, my dear Madam, preparing to leave
Paris for a second tour in italy | want to be in
Rom, for the Holy Week, to witness the mag
nifcent ceremonies on that great occasion. The
spring in Italy is delightful. Only imagine me,
my dear friend, going alone-but then cannot
say alone, for shall have my two servants, cou .
SIN, and also my little boy-but me an withou t
Mr. B.; for he disikes travelling so much. Il intend
posting from here TO Marseles, and then coast
IT along the Mediterranean. | don't know how
It is, but always like travelling in the spring of
the year. The wea her is so inviting and the air
so delicious; and then you meet many new
faces, and see so many queer things, and learn so
much of human nature
Icannot see how it is that the Americans lind
SO much pleasure in coming here, and, instead OF
travelling all the time, setting themselves down
in little cliqass, and vieing with each other who
will throw away the most money They know
about little of French society when they return,
as if they had never been here for the greater
number of them 60 into no society but that OF
Americans, or a few English, and that very
few. There is nothing more difficult than for
Americans to get into good French sociely-and
tolerable socetyis so very intolerable. There are
great many mothers who imagine their sons
and daughters education not completed till they
visit Europe, and, indeed, their own also-the
education of the mothers themselves That is a
very erroneous idea, like great many more
that the would-be fashionabes have; for
l assure you, ! have met ladies', married
and single, who have been living in Eu-
rope four or five years, and in my mind not
halt SO accomplished or elegant in their manners
some who have never left their native land, in
the United States. For my part, l think it is the
destruction OF young man or girl to come to
Europe. II spoils them for any sort of domestic
life, they become disgasted with every thing
American, and all their future happiness is de-
stroyed. heard very pretty American girl say
the other day, "Ah, what shall do Pa,
intends to take me home next spring, l can
never live there. 1t impossible shall surely
return whenever can get chance" "Why,"
said she, they have not even handsome shops
there-no places of amusement-not even any
handsome mountaineering but Broadway,
Broadway" BY the by, that is very true for
New York is the only city in the world believe,
where there are no handsome pronenades.
/ recollect, also, having met some American
young ladies, who had been away for short
time; they had actually forgotten their own lam
city of New York Broadway in. How perfect
ly absurd. Americans ought to be proud of their
country-proud of institutions, and OF their SUI
perior intellect and natural talent, superior to any
nation on the earth; the only country in the
world, almost, where money is so equally divided,
and where one third Of the population is not in
starving condition. Every one there has plenty
to eat and drink, and plenty to cover them
There you do not see one.half in spendor, and
the other half of the population in misery. Every
body can be comfortable if they wish, and if they
work for it. 1t is really melancholy to read the
papers here, and to hear of the distress all over
Europe. Even all the exertions to help the
starving seem TO have no effect, the wants are so
great.
But must turn from this subject for it is dis.
tressng to think of the poor creatures and their
sufferings. start tomorrow for Rome, Florence,
and Naples, and leave all the gaities and cha, ms
of this seductive city behind me, and its hand
some men, for believe all the handsome men in
the world congregate in Paris. H. A. B.