Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-13
AMERICAN MANNERS.
Plea for Higher aud Purer Home
guIture.
DIS AS AMERICAN wou,> ABROAD.


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DIS AS AMERICAN wou,N ABROAD.
From The Springfield Mass Republican.
Since mv return from Europe, have re-
pcatcdly been asked what, IN the course Of
luy travels had made the deepest imprc--
iuu upon me. answer promptly, the
manners of NV own c0untrymcn and women
From the time of setting foot IN Europe
until ] landed again ia New York. hardly
% dlv pI-sed but / grieyed and poulered
over this subject IL is longer than the Gu
nice Road, wider than the Coliseum, more
multitudinOus than the spires of Milan
Fearing that my own judgments might be
hypercrilical, / conferred among hundreds
Ul American acquaintance, with every one
whose manners were such that the inquiry
would not seem a personal admOniii0n, and
never once. usysr once failed 10 receive the
answer, 81 am shocked, grievcd, astowuded,
every day Of my life,' or something akin.
Further, the one lOudest IN her structure
upon American manners had herself the
worst manners OC the whole; and ! doubt
81 /, who record this lamentable state of
lhings being myself i'm every fibre an
American, should not be condemned on
the same count by European court.
Itishe1oming seriousq question how much
ul the iutcmper1nCc and insanity, which
are $50 icariullv ON the increase in America,
proceed from the want of early home Tee
lnints. IL happened that, in q crowded
boarding house at Paris, an American lady
of education assumed such hrusuue and
angular manners, that one of her friends
remarked 90 physician who was also
boarding in the house at is q plain case
ul insanity" Not IN the least. Madam,
aid the old doctor "shc is nomore insane
than Won or 10 Is lit of bad temper, and
! have too many such In my American
practice. The Young lady only needs SELF
control, and q spirit of christian courtesy"
Whether from Incidence or mistaken ten
dcness. many mothers have an idea that
children should not be controlled or inter
icred with, and among themselves should
settle their own quarres.' Said q lady
to her sister, "Why don't Won separate
those children See how Annie is abus-
ing Lily" (thc two iair-haired suoh-is-thc-
Northumberland were fighting like cats
aud dogs GO, ! never interfere. Lily can
defend herself - ] saw her Yesterday with
awhole handful Of Annie hair, which she
had torn ont They will settle the question
you'll see' The mother ls a more gentle
aud refined woman than one often meets.
VIII 10 he strange If these two children grow
nap 90 call, shrilly, in some public vcstibule,
"a did a Young girl in the Hotel de Rome,
last winter. Come, mother, quick Come
or stay: we won't wait another instant.
Come. say % Or what shall hinder their
husbands from remarking, as ! heard an
I'm OH Q lI#
Young wife. who had addressed him impe-
rinuslv. " Nuu treat me as ii ! were @
Niger" 81 waited for yon." "Gou didn't
" did" You didn't CO say J did.
re-. tell Won I know better Such were NOT
rare or secret conversations between nus
band and wife last winter, in the Eternal
CITY. Miss -, / say lthis Is shout
ed across hotel table, have you written
tothe Republican lately" Condemning his
victim 20 the gaze Of a tableful. After a
.lv nod In the affirmative: Well, did you
saw any thing about Rafy-yelrs Trans
dgger-rashun saw You was up there
Iookin' At IL. Is there, too; cost me tiy,
hundred dollars" etc. This IL a frequent
.iyle of conversation and at Paris, at IN,
Grand Hotel: SIS ont terdrivin in Shang.
IHzzv's Champs Elysees) and Louis Ma
pulcou. he looked mighty curious gt my
horses. You see. Louis, he wants Co hul
EN-: hc sent his agent 20 me; bat ] car
tell Louis Napoleon he hasn't got none,
enough to buy my team
The way our language Is mispronouuced
hy even educated Americans, is startling
when one hears IL an contrast with the clear
.auarous enumeration Of the English. No
only DO we speak through our noses Iustca,
uf our throlts, lat the muscles of the throat
and lips seem wanting in heNibllIty We
du NOT give the delicate shades and DAINTY
nHrSions of the language / thought TIM
came partly from our use of stimulant7
tobacco. whisky, etc. which seem 90 thicker
the lips and parolyze the throat, and ais,
from the neglect 20 study other languages
and thus acquire practice In modulauns
the voice We met very few educated Eng
I-h persnns who did not speak French o
Italian. or both, as well as their owl
language. Also. we drawl, and are adtyte,
200 uur speech / met, in Paris, a strange
who introduced himself thus-hrst gazing
% me from head 60 foot and speaking
through the whole length of her long nose
aaifit were "a trumpet $50 You've Kun
from Eawstun. ] have friends there u
Won know my cusins ther, s, The
live iu Beacon street They re- one of Oh
ma families in Bawstun, didn't vcr2
Yes hut NOT lately; We have NOV
come from Imremc. "Oh-h. vol
don't saw Well I'm goin' Their
soon. Whats 10 like, now Is Ter ham,
sum place raound yer know, the lakes am
hills. and all, han-um scenes Before
could answer. her attention w3s drawn
the remark of AN old gentleman beside m
and screaming like q hawk, she attagkc
him. well pawkler DR. what Is u
faaiv,rg ANY kinder hotels Auyjm
10 trr rcat" II It's Switzerland yer carr
live uu scenes. yer know The doctor 81
llgglcd 10 me as q more recent traveller
lhr muoled region, and j ieliln % cnnye
-ltim with him, pitching my voice
nearly as possible 90 the same hight as do
of our u-I-us. l Supposed him Go hc
deaf aa Beethoven but after q day or On
am amused look on his face led me Co cNI
,ElPut iu lowering my voice, and ] tom
l...p.1r urntlpman's sense of hearing
E.,n as nv own. said, al q .Th.. d" %.
..p sri-togratic New Yorker, whom J Dol
.- Rome How much have YOU seen
4--a moi half somuCh as /, lR bet Con
rs ,,raDsre nodes We drove 1n Q
gmpacna, and stopped al the 4
nm, wasn't that glory enough
.pr daye" 50 you are one OF Q
r..y,ap-nlsd sort, then Nov, | ain
.,nI saw that see much in kor
..,rspf Stone walls. We could build as go
,.,lfs.st home. only we've something bet
faJo Why. locker orr railroads
,r,e American. I believe iu prugrl
and in keeping things up trlg and nae
p,t 40 won not care for the pictures
oGo 30. ia aslieyes have one Of thurg
.r Gidoras as any Of Raphaels.
- ,bese thing so a. not 10 be bored "
-, ybat I've lost, after I get hon
I'M made short work Ct II. Let
Today did the Capitol, ST. Peter s.
Vatican liz needs ten DAYS 70 walk lhrog
tbr Naticanl, the Forum, the TRUMP