Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-26
AMERICANS IN PARIS.

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It is known th;t the Worlds Fair has attracted
to Europe an UNUSUAL number of our countrymen
and conntrywomsn and hence the publication in
our journal of numerous letters from the other side
of the Atlantic. From epistles now before us we
make the subjoined extracts for the amusement of
our readers.
The correspondent of the New York Tribune writes fol-
lows, under date Of PARIS, JULY 8.
Marvellous is the humber Of Americans in Paris. It
gives the shopkeepe ideas Of the greatness Of country
to find such quant the natives Ane
can ladies', who ole devoted to the fashions and pay like
martyrs The money spent in this way put into bushels Of
wheat sent from the INTERIOR would make fghtfu figure
and should cause to pause in the career Of spending
abroad. Theie s among ladies away from home kind
of supposed wager which shall lay out the money
dress, SO as toput the finest figure on her return.
The French fashion mongers not slow to avail them
selves Of this miabe weakness and, accordingly, fair
peripatecs "don find French things cheap" The dame
de comptore il beauty that has parallel of
Paris If she marry, it is fair business ransaction-so
much additional custom; she love- the less that said
the better For example, American lady Of acquant
ance, who ge her fine things certain shop was inform
ed by the head Of the establishment Of her he head nten
ton get married. am making great preparations for
the events it will extend my business" One day the Anne
rcan lady found carriages at her deor and out got the
BRIDE leaving her husband. The bride walked up stairs
ssMadame I've lust been msred-am returning from church
do look at my these laces this the style
do things in Should any American ladies want trosseau1
at pagnzin-his is the new mode now-charnng for
blonde as well as brunette. very trying ceremony
getting married but this dress is so much admired-the
church service was so stock will be opened next
Monday-I am quite agitated assure youes Amecaines
are as aiable as beautiful and may count the
plaisance Of Madame and her friends I" DC.
The following paragraphs in reference to the poleness Of
the French we find the editorial correspondence Of the
Albany Epeaing Journal
ssWe had not been in France twenty minutes before our
ideas of French polteness received shock. Frenchmen
permitted ladies to Chamber into the diligence unasssed
and compelled them occupy the poorest seats when in the
cumbersome vehicle. have never yet met with an Amer-
can-not even in the wds Of the Weswho would not offer
lady best seat in stage coach. But Frenchman does
not carry his poeness so far as to dscommode himself for
lady, either in coach, car, omnibus They may be po
lite in ball room but they not polite in that for which
Americans are celebrated and which, In poor opn
ion, affords the most conclusive evidence not only Of true
eness but Of goodness Of heart nation which has an
instructive veneraton for Gods last best gift to man., and
which manifess that veneraon by the most delicate aen
tons on all OCCASIONS cannot be far from the Of cv
zaion
I took particular notice of this characteristic Of what
had been taught consider the most polite nation in the
world have stand ten minutes at railroad
Office (iosed on all sides by musachioed gentlemen
deavorinp to procure ticket No seemed to feel called
upon to make room Tor ner or to AID her In any way to get
out Of the crowd have another struggling to get into
car with child and satche in her arms, surrounded by
score of Frenchmen, who cooy watched her uess efforts
but made por Of assistance have others roughly
pushed back that polite Frenchman might first make his
exit out Of omnibus. But did any offer
assist lady, either in her descent from any pub
lie have ladies roughly josed from tho
sidewalks the Bouevsrds-where if any where, You
might look for politenesand in crossing from Dover Os
tend and Boulogne to Fokesone, have seen French
men stretched full length upon sofas while ladies could
6nd no places to sit down. But never saw Frenchman
dscommode himself to obge lady. All this may seem
spocryphaand SO would have deemed it but for the evil
dence Of my own senses.
"Americans may be ignorant Of many Of the higher
branches poteness but if of the Universal Nation
should women as cavaery Frenchmen treat bem
there is not backwoodsmsn of the Rocky Mountains
who would not volunteer pitch him into the Mississippi
Nor is this inattention induced by any Of sppreca
ton on the part of the adiess never saw gratitude
generally expressed than when venerable Phadephian,
with genuine Yankee promptness, excated lady, with
pretty little responsibility, from crowd railroad sta
ton When he had procured cab for her he held her little
one until she seated She thanked him in Frenchnot
word of which, however, he would have understood but for
her eyes, They were perfectly ineligible In reply to her
thanks the knd-heared old gentleman said It's all right,
my girl and just what any gentleman would have DONE
sADgss inquired the little French woman. 'Not by
long Shot I'm Yankee sl over .