Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-05-01

But the people of Europe are not lg-
norant. A man who does up shirts may
perhaps know how to speak four differ
ent languages. The masses in Europe
are more refined than Americans. They
love beauty more. a Yankee won't
look at grape unless he can taste it
In Europe, in the most splendid parks,
the pcople walk without hindrance, and
none of them will pluck single flower.
In Europe. the people are careful not
to trample on each others rights. An
American traveller in Paris knocked
down a woman in his hurry, and she
arose and asked his pardon, for she was
sorry to be in his way.
He had saw a cOrpulent woman IN
! Boston try to get into an omnibus and
| fail. and every one on Washington street
who saw her laughed. He had saw a
corpulent woman in Paris, on the con-
trary. try to get in an opera box, and
the servant girl even tried to get her
in by pushing her, but there was no
/ laughter.
In France. forty years ago, it would
have been impossible to get passage for
four people in a coach. There are not
the means of travelling that there are
found in America. In Europe there is
more economy than in America. Econ
omv here is a skulking virtue. In Eu-
rope one finds himselfin a nation ofsub-
iects. Here he is in q nation of 'sOver-
eigns. In France the speaker had wait
ed at an inn Gfty-fve minutes, because
the driver had gone away, and no one
could tell there why he did not return
but he had seen, in Chicago, men pass
through the cars locking both doors.
when a Yankee Immediately arose, pull
ed out key, and unlocked them, be
cause the men had not told him why
they did it. In Europe, when men get
into a car, they seem to think the seats
they occupy belong to themselves.
In Europe. the churches arc always
open. The people don't need family
prayers, for they go to the churches and
say their prayers there. Men and wo-
men, passing a church, 90 in and fall
down before a picture with great defer
ence. They do it carnestlyan honest
Ily. The high and low meet and kneel
there together. The real devotion OF
/ these prayers Is apparent. In Italy the
worshipcr may hear English talking in
the cathedral but he Is not avertcd
from his prayers. Let the same italian
meet the Englishman on the street and
lie will be deferential to him, for Johr
Bull bullics his way through Europe
trcading down all that he does not buy
M. In the cathedral, however, the wor
shiDer may he in the midst of dukes, bu
he heeds them not, for he is in the pre-
sencc of one who is greatcr-his God
In Europe women does all kinds Of work
| She is everywhere present in all scenes
She does more than her share of work
even. He had not been able to find thai
this had done anything to demoralize OF
lower women.
tits said that the French have nc
home, no word for 'h0me ;" bnt in that
country grandfather. grandmother, ehil.
dren and granrhildren all live together
and think it great calamity to be sep
arated. In America the boy is anxious,
on a gala day, to get out of sight of his
mother. It is not 50 in France.
In America a man must have his
pleasure boiled down and taken in half
an hour. But in Enrope a man will en-
ioy the smallest details Of a landscape
for a whole day. On Mt. Holyoke is a
railroad running from the base to the top
of the mountain, up which people ride
instead ofclimbing the mountain as for
merly. The truth is, the Yankee skulks
the primal curse; he desires to get bis
bread without the sweat of the brow.