Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-12-05

correspondent writes from Vienna Not
long ago two Engishmen, sitting opposite each
other in the magnificent dining room Of the
Hotel du Louvre, in Paris were discussing the
season in Switzerland. Il had been abomina-
BILE, SO far as the Weather was concerned; "and,"
added one of them, "the number of Americans
one meets there is perfectly intolerabe." "Yes,"
replied the other of the two, with curious
Sidelong glance at his neighboT, "the American,
nova days, is truly abiquitouS; his chin beard
as long as his purse, his ladies dressed in dia-
monds, and his children as old as Mcthusaleh,
are everywhere 10 be met with. It's a nuisance,
and l wish 10 heavens they would keep at home,
where they are nice enough" at is worse than
a nuisance" added the younger Eriton, forget
iui OF his fashionable ah-ah; "they ought to
be Kept by force from overrunning the world as
they do"
Their neighbor, who has been quietly smiling
as he listened to the thoughtless words of the
incensed Englishmen, now said, courteOusly:
Perhaps the ubiquitous American was not
quite so much of a nuisance when he discovered
DR. Livingstone The two wrathful men felt
the sting, and, with the brave candor of their
nation acknowledged the force ,of the retort.
Nevertheless, the number of Americans travel
ing and residing in all parts of the world is tru-
ly amazing, and begins TO have a visible effect
upon European society. America is daily be-
coming better known to the old world,--ts
great advantages as well as the more familiar
draw backs,-and hotels and pensions actually
Uc9lu 10 PROVIDE certain comforts ana make
novel arrangements for Americans only. The
influence of the latter is, however, most power
fully exercised by the frequent intermarriages
which unite them to French and German ladies.
We all knew how the brilliant court of
the fair empress owed no small por-
ton of its lustre to the beauty and
exquisite grace of Some of our hOme-bred dam
sells; and of late Germany also has seen, in high
and in humble places, American girls assume
their position with that marvellous readiness
and perfect 0pl0mb which struck DeTocqueville
in his earliest visit to our country. Now, it is
the wife Of a South German officer of ancient
lineage and empty purse, who restores the
Splendor Of his house by her rich dowry, and
does the hOnOrS of her new home as ii she had
been born TO purple and bred at courts; and now
it is the wife OF a Silesian prince, who, suddenly
transported from an inland town of Ohio to the
stately chateau of her husbands lllustTous
parents, surprises all who see her by her rare
beauty, and still more by the simple grace and
thoroughbred ease of her manners. Occasion
ally even the sterner sex proves in similar
manner the marvellous versatility Of our
race, as in the descendant of the old Huguenot
family of FOntaineS, who, in a recent decree Of
the German emperor, has been ennobled in &C
acknowledgement of his great merits and the large
estates he has purchased IN the soHthernmoSt
province of Prussia. Great is the surprise OF the
traveller as he cOnverseS with that naughty
beauty at the court OF Potsdam, and by sud
den magic touch, is made aware that she once
was a well known New York BELLE and still
loves to hear OF former friends, how they have
risen and how they have fallen in the fearful
malst:om of our society Greater still may he
the amazement when that dashing young
guardSman, in his gorgeous uniform with the
wasp-lilie waist and the supeTciouS bearing of
genuine Junkcr, unexpectedly reveals his
thorough familiarity with little town in New
England, and, upon inquiry, turns out to be a
Yankee of the Yankees.