Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-26
Horace Greeley in Paris.


Horace Greeley, now in Paris, writes as fol-
lows concerning the customs of the Paris
ians:
any windows overlook the Boulevurds
for considerable distance; and here are
many OF the most fashionable shops, "res-
taurnnts" cafes" &C., in the city. No one
in New York would think of ordering his
bottle of wine or his ices at n fashionable re-
sort in Broadway and sitting down at a table
placed on the side walk to discuss his reiec-
ton leisurely, just out of the everpassing
throng vet here it is as common as TO seem
the rule rather then the exception. Hundreds
sit thus within sight of my windows every
evening, dozens do likewise during the day.
The Frenchman's pleasures are all social TO
eat, drink OF spend the evening alone would
be weariness TO him: he reads his newspa-
per in the thoroughiare or the public gardens
he talks more in Que day than an Englishman
In three: the balls, theatres, concerts, &cp
which to the islander afford occasional re-
creation are to him Il nightly necessity he
would be lonely and miserable without
them. No where is Amusement more sysie-
matically, seduously sought than IN Paris;
no where is il more abundant or accessible.
For boys just escaped from school or puer-
nal restraint, intent on enjoyment and un-
troubled 10y conscience or forecast this must
be a rare city. Its people, as community,
have signal good qualities and grave defects;
they are intelligent, Vlvucious, courteous,
obliging, generous aud humane; eager to en-
Joy, but willing that all the world should en-
Joy with them; while at the same time they
are impulsive, tickle, sensual and irreverent.
Paris is the Paradise of Senses; n focus Of
Enjoyment, not Of Happiness. No where
are the Youth and its capacities more prOd
gally layished nowhere is Old Age less hap
by or less respected. Paris has tens of thou-
sands who would eagerly pour out their
hearts blood for Liberty and Human Pro.
gress, but no class or clan who ever thought
of denying themselves Wine and its kindred
simuIans in order that the Masses should
be rendered worthier of Liberty and thus
fitted TO preserve aud enjoy it. Such notions
ns Total Abstinence fsom All that can In
toxicate are absolutely unheard OF by the
majority of Parsians, and incomprehensible
orridiculous to those who have heard ofthcm.
Tue barest necessaries of life are very cheap
here: many support existence quite endur-
ably on a franc (lS "a cents) day; but of
the rude labouring Glass few can really afford
the comforts and properties of an orderly
family life, and the prvation is very lightly
regretted. The testimony is uniform that
Marriage is scarcely regarded as even re-
mote possibility by any one of the poor girls
of Paris who live by work TO be, for a sea-
son, the mistress Of man of wealth, or one
who can support her in luxury and ideness
is the summit of her ambition. The very
terms "grisette" and "lorette" by which
young women unblest with wealth or social
rank are commonly designated involve the
idea Of demoralization-no man would apply
them to one whom he respected and of whose
good opinion he was solicitous. In no other
nominuly Christian city IS the proportion Of
the unmarried so great as here; nowhere do
families SO quickly decay; nowhere else is
the proportion of births out of wedlock so
appalling. The Poor of London are less
comfortable as class than those of Paris
that is, they suffer more from lack of employ
ment, and their wages are lower in view Of
the relative cost of living; but Philanthropy
is far more active there than here, and far
more is done to assague the tide of human
woe.-Ten public meetings in furiherance of
Educational, Philanthropic aud Religious en-
terprises ure held in British Metropolis to
to one in this, and the number interested in
such an undertaking there, as contrasIed
with that in this city, has an equal prepon-
derance. shall not attempt to strike bal
ance between the good and evil prevailing
respectively in the two Capitals Of Western
Europe; the reader may do that for him
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