Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-05-16

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sour The bread here is rather hard
baked, but other than that it is ex-
cellent. And yet, for nice, nutritious,
hunger-satisfying bread, there is
none which can compare with that
baked in thousands of New England
kitchens where these lines may be
read-those white, generous loaves,
moist and tender-the crust deli
cate brown. All! it makes ones
mouth water to think of them You
farmers of New England, although
you have long winters-although
your land is hard of cultivation, and
the remuneration of your yearly la
bors small, you sit down to better ta-
bles than the people of any other
land and although other lands may
be SUMMER, other climes more genial,
there is none under the sun where
such good living can be found as at
your ever hospitable and generous
boards and better thap all this,
there is no land so Astounding as
yours in honor, virtue, truth, and all
that can ennoble the mind and soul
EMPLoYMENTs OF WOMEN.
There is no land in which women
are so respected and honored as in
America. A woman in high life on
this side of the Atlantic is treated
with marked courtesy, but women, as
class, are drudges and nothing else
Looking down from my window, |
see scavenger's cart with two men
and two women, scooping up the off
al of the streets-the women with
great brush brooms, and the men
with shovels. Come with Inc to the
great market of St. Eustach, few
steps from the Rue de Rivoli. 1t is
an immense structure great iron
shed or sheds, covering two squares
women at all the stalls burly,
redfaced, welding cleavers, cutting
up sides of beef-fish women, crying
in shrill voice the excellence of their
sole and salmon-fruit women also
sellers of vegetables, and pretty
girls with flowers for sale, beseech-
ing you with such grace that you are
the owner of boquet before you
know it. There goes woman with
basket of potatoes on her head
another with big tub filled with
meat. There comes one with rack
on her back, filled high with bask-
cts. Another trips along with a
yoke on her neck, bearing two pals
of butter milk She is certainly un-
der the yoke, and SO are they all
High born-those who would go
down on their knees before the Ouch
ess d Angouleim, or my Lady High
fiier, would crowd every one of these
hard working women into the gutter
No respect is paid them in public
places Gentlemen puff away at
their cigars in the cars without def
erence to the presence of lady, no
matter how we'll dressed or we'll be-
haved. No Frenchman resigns his
seat to a woman. He will bow very
low and do everything for Lady So
and So, but for woman whom he
may meet in public-never
A WALK ALONG THE QUAY.
The river Seine, which winds thro'
the city, is bordered on both sides by
magnificent stone quays, begun by
the First Napoleon and completed by
his successor upon the throne. There
are nearly fourteen miles of stone
masonry along the stream, besides
the numerous bridges which span it.
The river is subject to freshets, and
the banks therefore are considerably
higher than the ordinary water level.
The river has it's ports-or, we should
say-places of deposits for goods
Port Bercy is the great depot for
wine, oil and firewood the Port Aur
T%ites for bricks and states " the
Port du Louure" for goods from Ha-
vre the Port d'Orsay for wine and
stone. But conspicuous in the river
are the immense floating bath and
wash houses. In the latter the linen
of Paris is washed. 1t is quite
spectacle to see several hundred wo-
men at the wash tubs rubbing and
scrubbing, with great kettles steam
ing, with bundles of dirty clothes 60
ing in and baskets of clean ones
coming out, borne on the heads OF
stalwart washwomen. The fee for
days washing with cold water is
eight cents !; for the boiling of ket-
tie of clothes, two cents.
The bath houses are immense float
ing structures-some of which are
fitted up in excellent taste. The
largest and best is at the Quay dor
say, which has several large swim
ming saloons, three hundred and fifty
dressing rooms, divan and coffee
rooms, where the bathers can refresh
themselves after a bath. The rates
are at moderate price for use of
towels, brushes and soap. Near the
Louvre is moored the " Good Sansar
atane" bath house, where excellent
warm baths may be had for ten
cents There are also sulphur and
medicated baths. In all there are
over two hundred bathing places in
the city, and furnishing an annual
average of 100000 baths
Most of the wealthy people have
baths brought to them. You see
man pushing hand-cart through the
street with sheet-iron tank upon it,
and carrying a bathing tub. He
halts at house, sends in his tub,
draws several buckets of hot water
from his tank, receives his fee and
goes on to find another customer.
The river baths are extensively
patronized by the poor people in hot
weather. When will Boston have
cheap warm baths for the poor The