The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-27

"A Fronch Woman ON America.
From work by Madame Foutenoy, on american
Homes"
"The life of New York business man
is either that of brute or a mercenary.'
His face, clean shaved, resembles zero /;
his eye looks figures and calculation His
person smells Of dollars American cook.
cry has neither smell nor taste. The food
of the country is so much boiled hay, straw
and bran, without even q pinch of salt to
season it. Americans know no soup but
oyster stew they eat with knives !; break
eggs into tumblers esteem ham above
trufled partridges, and whisky above Bor-
deaux wine they never eat supper and can
make no pastry but apple pie. Americans
have no opinions they only have needs.
They live without principle and without
moral guidance, recogniz ing no political
compass but their own appetites. Ameri.
can actors swallow half their words, and no
foreigner can tell what they do with the
other half. When there is any music to be
heard, be sure that the Americans will
shine by their absence. Americans have a
great taste for confectionery, but they exer-
else no judgment in gratifying it. Huge
ness seems to be a quality most esteemed
IN candy, for sticks are to be had as big as
horse whips. If it we're not for the French
confectioners, and pastry cooks, Americans
would not be, to this day, beyond apple
pie. OF American girls, generally, She
says that they laugh continually, not that
they are naturally expansive and gay but
that they consider it symbol of pleasure
exacted by considerations of propriety and
politeness. She often sought in the United
States, an amiable and young physiognomy,
ont she never saw even one. An American
ball is hit off thus: The ladies, young and
pretty, dressed exceeding low in the neck,
were whirled about by sombre Yankees,
dressed in funeral black, like Malbrook's
page. These girls under their frank man.
ners, their ingenious forwardness conceal a
profound dissimulation and a remarkable
egotism. Out of three thousand, there is
hardly one capable of love- The family
relation is not known in America. Fire.
side intimacy, household ties, are singularly
neglected.
"a boy of fourteen, clerk, often pays
his parents for his board, if he continues to
live at home if he does not, he occasion.
ally asks after his father in the terms,
How's the old man in another place, the
authoress quotes Talleyland's epigram with
appreciation, American women do not have
children-the have young Upon the SUBJ
lect of marriage she makes young lady
speak thus :-'LOve is ridiculous in Amer.
lea. A man, in our eyes, represents Ger
tain amount of money-that is to say, of
comfort and luxury. We do not marry
men, we marry fortunes. Your wit, Mr..
Julien, your intelligence, your amiable, your
handsome face, will never obtain you an
heiress in America. We never ask of
marrying man any other question than this:
How much is he worth? A husband is not
a lover-he is only man that pays our
bills, keeps up our house, and showers upon
US wealth and the luxuries that wealth pro-
cure. In return we give him baby every
two years we are cold and positive, we
give no occasion for jealousy, for al our
youth, health and fire were dissipated in
flirting; we live until we are married, and
at the altar our life ends
thus far l have been repeating small
ISLANDERS, but l recommend the following
paragraph to all whom it may concern
Miss Caldwell was nineteen years of age,
celebrated for her luxurious prodigality, in
telIigent and handsome. She was hand
some as American girls are handsome; pos
sessing regular form, splendid hair, deter
mined and rather forward bearing, an invit-
ing eye, white and red skin, fine mouth and
teeth-;n short, she possessed all the charms
which make the New York ladies exceed
ingly pretty, from fifteen to twenty-five
years Of age. After this period, while a
Frenchwoman beauty is developing and
ripening, the American woman becomes
unexpectedly plain. The causes are the
excessive use of hot biscuits and badly
baked cake, and the abuses of balls, dane
ing, late hours, and the usual designations Of
a city life, at an unduly early age. No COM
plexion, no health, no teeth, can resist so
terrible an ordeal.'"