The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-05-18

lier supports tins while the other touches II
IF. and when il kicks you would think Il
| mule knocked nj your ribs with both heels.
| But the Chinese women are the great at
| ractinns. Ia pow-iay is the younger, anu
ihc comes from Hong Kong. Her hair Is
traight and SOFT her eyes are like two but
| ;crnuts ont of the shell her hands are deli
ate as WAX; her little feet could get inside
, number six kid glove. They are, strictly
ipeakine. not feet, but toes only. Her
shoes are pointed and embroidered. BE
tween them and the very rich silk robe above
| you remark that the compression ol the feet
has not diminished, the fair contour Of the
limbs She moves noi$clessly, OF course,
having no pcrceptible heel to stamp upon,
md there is coquetry i'll every glance she
metes to yo,n Very wonderful is her French;
very correct isshc in making change. When
we talk of redicrces, reasoning back to the
Plymouth pilgrim, and the battle of Hast
ngs, let lis think Of little Ta'pow fay, whose
! descent is as old rs Abraham.
| Mcxcans are here in quantity with great
3omJrcroS, lringel brooches, and smelling OF
ram. They have put ny an Aztec temple III
| the grounds.
| CosNoroIITANs IN REVIEW.
| Of Gipsics and Israclites almost every
nationality is represented. You may see the
Turkish Gipsy, he who plumbers the slain on
battle,fclds, yellow rs sgt, lying on his back
under tent, rasping a yioln1 his daughters
around him, showing their melancholy accs,
and on the grass without, his boys, dancing
like COLLINS. His basket wares are exposed
| for sale around, involved and icXterous in
| pattern, and he has come from the great
slopes Of Simla, worshippiue no God 1T
home or by the way.
! The jews ore among the best exhibitors
gom every nation. Those from Amsterdam
show the process of cutting diamonds, and
| these orc thcnohlcat race of lsraelites iii the
| world, de ccnicl from the Pc 'tugucSc, and
countrymcn Of the 9ce,t Spino. Those
from Poland are famous jewellers, and from
| Prague the clcyrreat workers in class, There
| IS no empire whore they arc not. Scattered
through all lands, and thrifty and lich i'll oil.
| United in one county, they could control
the swords Of the world With they purse
strings.
Among those Competing Asiatics there Is,
rs rule, more deXterty Mt mere manual
WORKMAN with Europeans. They can weave
better carpCts, dye finer silks, tan rarcr
leather, chase gold and silver nforC refnedly
than the workmcn Of any European capital
Had they the same knowledge of powder,
steam, 81, .tricty, aul-thc mechanical pow
ors that We have, they would be masters oil
The world. Science has made Europe, the
smallest of the continents, the foremost OF
all. Here do these Arabs and Mongols walk
among our colossal engines, aud are never
impressed by them. Bigotcd i'll their belief
that they are the master spirits OF the world,
they close their eyes like the Phallscc in the
temple, and but for their incredible po?ula-
ton they would have faded ere now from the
world. The world would have been all
Asiatic by this time had a Chinaman been
The discoverer Of xunpowder, the steam
engine, and the mariners compass,
There are Tyrolese here, blowing their
mountain horns, and living in chalets with
soddcd roofs, their goats and sheep browsing
among the chmneys Savoyards, IN coats
Of Unframed shecpshln, playing on Alpine
pipes, and dining on q. chestnut apiece ;
Swiss, sin-ng forever, and warbling like a
mockinp bird with a burr in his throat ;
Romans in velvet jackets and peaked hats,
their brown.cyed women wearing splendid
scarGs, peldling images and lava carvings ;
Albanians, whose neghhors go robbing for
snort: Cossacks, cold as icebergs, who fight
without motive, aud die without more pain
Than n crawiish Norwegian iishermcnS who
live in the eternal shadows of the mountain
frs and by the lonely gossip of the cateract
[celonders. whose candles are the Northern
I,ights, and who walk upon Europe as if ii
were the burning sun Persians, very beau
trul and manly of beard; and shaven Jap
anesc that are drinking in the secrets Of the
West to make their warm island the England
r Of the Pacific seas. There are separate
restaurants for each Of these: and natlon'
hctier known to us have each their beverages
and characteristic food, But above all, al
American bar.
THE AMERICAN BAR.
5 How can | describe to you its soda waite
| (oun,oiu and the viscid righteousness of ii
| syrnns: its buckwhcat cakes and pumpkin
e pies It's oys,ers-;rlas, not in the shell! ne
not IN the shetland its chicken pot pie
| We have not fresh skad.; we cannot fin,
G clans Europe has not one clam IN all he
c boundarics-only muscles and barnacles.-
But there is now in Paris actual Bourbon
A whisky and apple inck, real biiters and bos
g ton ice. This piece Of intelligence vii
thrill the American heart and bring thous
r anda Of my countrymen to this degenerate
c land.
You should sc our bar'keopors. Ihirtee'
: negroes have been sent from the Repubi
:, to DO the Inequalities of the place. The
II were so pleased with France the first fey
days that they were in one perpetual e'in.-
Said to Ike, the most bewildere'l OF them
It "lke, how do you like Paris ?"