The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-02-10

| to the king, took IL without woru. Inc
king gave It up, for said he, it was poltcness
in him TO take tho seat and not keep me
standing, insisting on his taking it, as
should have done had he refused. When 60
| ing into French theatre was stopped at
place where there was no seat for me, and
not being able to speak French showed some
uneasiness, the pit keeper seeing me arose
and gaye mo his seat This was small and
simple kindness, but whero but in French
theatre would it have been performed.
II is universally conceded that in financy
of conversation the French exccll all othor
nations. And the samo may DO said in re-
gard to their style Of dress. Their women
take the lead in fashions. The French wo-
mon keep ncarly all the shops. If you have
a bad dinner TO pay for you havo to pay a
LADY behind the counter, and il you want to
purchase an article of clothing they have a
rAonliar way nf thar own in getting out of
you any price they choose TO ask. After
hearing the price you Will not OF course object
to the price, but will rather find fault with
the color. You are told it is tho very thing
you want, for that color becomes fair COM
plexion and mild blue eyes. Who could un-
dor such circumstances refrain from making
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| difference between them and the Yankees.
This is true There is this difference =
the Yankees will labor to acquire wealth and
after he has acquired an abundance he still
labors for exercise; he wants cmployment-
| The French are not so. They are in more
haste to get rich than the Yankee, but then
when they do get rich they do not labor
morcly for employment. They are satisfied
to live without it. English spoken" is a
very common placard over their doors, and
"prefrec' is another, which l was led to be-
leve that il mont fixed purpose to take all
we can get. Partisan morals | will pass over
in haste. The majority live in unwcdded
partnership. Well organized families are as
exemplary in Paris as anywhere in the wide
world. The libcrtinc is not admitted in any
respectable family. A young English moth
er was in the habit of allowing her daughter,
girl about ten years old, to 90 to school un-
attended. This was noticed by the French
ladies, and they werc shocked at the impro-
pricty. No, do not love tho French; do
not love gay Paris.
Having seen little of Germany. I shall say
little. The Rhine is not French river
No, nor never can be. 1t is German river.
Tho Rhine is the Legend of romance. The
Seine is not the Rhine. / cannot tell what
it will be. The Rhine is complotc-perfcct.
All its hill slopes are under tho highest state
of cultivation. Every rock is in its right
place, and tree, and hamlet, and river
With liberty and unity in Germany, it would
be all its people could wish for. speak not
thus of the Swiss. Their fields are narrow.
but great battle have boen fought in them.-
The line that divides tho Republic from tho
monarchy is clearly to bo scen on the face OF
nature.
Bryon has said that TO people the mind
with nature il is only necessary to visit the
Alps. You should spend month, were it
possible, among those heights with balancing
pole, and run, shuttle, tumble, climb and af-
ter gaining tho heights, have Germany and
France before you with all their diversified
scenery, beauty, and grandeur of nature ho-
fore him, this would repay the risk. Let him
take these exercises not in homeopathic doses,
and if he is not willing to take the diligence
back to Paris. will not charge any thing
for my prescription. But the majority of the
travellers in Europe arc green boys.
They there find a clever range for the vices.
II man is carried home drunk you may
know he is an American. This is as An evil,
thoy should bo first marched round Jericho
at home, before allowed to go abroad.
would say Of all tho countries whore / have
: been, Italy is the most beautiful, the most
, enchanting have seen. But with all its
natural beauty, there is the moral miasma
: that is prcying upon the breath of its inhabi-
tants, which renders it the most wretched of
homes. What country is scourged like Italy
: / could not lingor in Italy. IL is q land Of
graves. It is we'll TO muse among tho tombs,
but will not do to dwell there. There Fa-
, bious fought, and Cincinnatus plowod, and
Ccasar reigned. All now is lifeless. Romo
: is dying city. It's inhabitants nre rs mis-
erablo savages MS those whith inhabited this
T, soil whom first discovered by Columbus. The
passion for conq uost has been tho downfall o.
Rome.
, America has too strong a love for this thing
, called military glory. A signal defeat would
. be moro beneficial to America than all the
victories won since tho days Of Yorktown.
America is yet an infant. She has yet tC
be woancd. Our march is onward. We arc
always invonting. We have done moro o
: this during tho last half century than all the
: other nations together. lF
Tho steam engine is England's, but The
: steamboat is ours, and we have moro tele
: graph and railroad now in America, than al
: the other nations of tho earth. Among vi
abject poverty is almost unknown, and yet W.
have the largest number who try to shun JUS
labor. We should welcome the foreigner a
: mong us who comes here to forge iron, benz
y steel, draw wire, these works will bo wortl
= moro to US, as nation, than the conquest o
! dozen Californias.
{, The Kings Of Europe are our enemies, bu
i the people of Europe arc our friends, ou
patrons. They love us as their brothers.
0 While tho squalid European is bowed dow
o beneath tho burden which is hcaped upol
u him, tell him that an American stands bc
Q fore him and he will riso up and smilo, anc
/ as he looks up he thinks, were this in Amor
"a -. Exo nlatlI Ixo