New-York tribune., 1873-06-12
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conId me- Sctter Pcrbaps il is trGe long Out your
/ foot is so little that" 49,. or,, and narrow"
pardon, madame. but Il you observe ciOS0'' '''
see that your te ore nonsense about my little foot
! wbich isn't little You know perIcct5 "anotbeT nair
| boot does not 1T; and unless you sno" NV
"B5 uIaGme the whole you are ea rlsXS yopr meas
the only way 10 lit you properly Is " "'Ao
this change OF base is made without ousn, I n az
th coolest possible mannerl Tue man ieu ~ a. i ia of
m e nd and when he found it imposs3e 70 gCS r
me m ready made boots, told the truth ms Is S oNP0
renCo ~ men arc the truest and nobest In the World
according 10 our travelled little lady Ihey nave 'no9'
faith in woman and deserve most from her III ie'un n
German she says. has no respect Tor "oin'n o'u
and for her TO make direct attack upon his reason
ucde Let her appeal to his heart ana his eye ana no
/ riolds without knowing it. Woman in Germany Is an
i,frior animal Frenchmen have still less real respect
for women IL is only the English liberal Whom MISS
Field finds worthy Of comparison with "eH-orou
American. Between them, the Eaglsh liberals ana 'o
American gentleman, X. F. sees no dherence' except
that the En- -lishman Is often more cultivated EhSSh
women she finds usually not attractive. They are less
interesting less vivacous less original than their Amer
lean cousins She comes last TO the conclusion that
the best thing is to be an intelligent, weleducated
American.
Re cultivated American loving your country, not so
much because t your country as because you reale
that Is after all the most enlightened OIL couIoS'
Offering the greatest good 70 inc gIeaest hiyI, tin,
TO the genius of older nations and Will meyer can
Europe home" Europe is the place to VISIT AmeIot t
field for activity and for intelligence there you nIeatne
the purest air, there you are least IaaSGu WY ~
YentOuaes there you have the Iacst cham Va p0io
| a whole man, and yet more, whole Wouah'
The Atlantic Monthly for July Is to be as attractive
rs usuaL Ii opens with "a Roman Holiday" from the
brilliant pen of Henry James, jr who was in Rome dur
ng the last Carnival The Carnival OF to-day is not
quite the Carnival Of the past The festival used to be
/ lortf wifi n
in happiness of which an American can hardly conceive
an American who says to himself that for month IN
wear IL must have been sweet to forget" To forget
perhaps the chief blessing OF the world 70 the mature
Apgo-saxon; but the Latin races love TO live and TO
remember They are trying, however TO govern
and ciyze the old oyOusness out OF the poor Romans
/ As Mr. James says "Now that Italy Is made, the
Carnival is unmade, and are not especially tempted
70 envy the attitude Of population who have lost their
relish for play, and not yet acquired, TO any srlRinR
extent an enthusiasm for work. traveller who had
seen old Rome going back now after some years. Wou
know at once by the appearance of things that some
thing had happened that hostile to pcturesqueness
The scarcity OF newspapers used TO seem to nave uch
to do with the extraordinary leisure Of thought and
! stiffness of mind TO which Rome admitted YOU But
now papers are for sale everywhere, and, says MI
lanes for every subscriber 10 the Ltbsrte am IN
cned TO think there is an antique masker anu reveler
the less" There are throngs now OF Italian dahtle'
fine fellows they arc5 DdV tnt1 are dh l9l-
fcen com pensaon for the absent monstgRort ueadlng
the streets in purple stockings and followed by the
solemn servants who return their masters behalf the
bows Of the neaner No longer do you see the Car
duals coaches g,itterng with scarlet and heavy with
| footmen clngng behind-no longer, by the hapllest
! chance, will Won meet tho Pope, sitting deep
| in the shadow Of his great chariot, with
uplifed fingers, like some inaccessible idol in his
shrine" II is true that in the POpes stead you may
chance TO meet the Kings and he ugly as an idol,
though not inaccessible His people present their pc
ttons to him as he drives along and he takes them with
a good natured air, like an easy-going man accepting
hand bills at street 1t is easy to see that
under this commonplace regime much Of the glory OF
the Carnival must have departed-st there is plenty OF
fun and froc and round IL all for setting, the pic
| turesque solemn grandeur Of Rome. To read Mr..
Jamess article is like walking through gallery OF Ro-
man pictures vivid and varied, and always charming
In this number Hialmar Hjorth Boyesen commences
| a Norwegian tale, with the title Of "Gunnar Morse
Romance" II very quaint and charming so far; and
makes one long to sit by the Norwegian hearth, and
hear the old grandmother her tales Of Huder aud
! Trold and Mckenzie sad, plying Necken who has
known sorrow. For, SAID the old woman:
Love is like fire. child; love is like fire. Wounds Of
fire are hard 10 heal harder sti arc those OF love
Necken loved a mortal maiden far was she Ike the
,,ornIng bnt fcke as tle sea wind II was q nidsum-
mer morning he her last, and midsummer night she
had promised 10 wed him. Midsummer night came Dut
She came 1t is SAID 70 be years and years ago but
still the midsummer night has never missed hin, as he
raises his head above the water, looking for ns BRIDE
when the midnight hour strikes. strangely, them 40
the ournful chords trembe through the forests in the
lonely night for he calls for his bride; II t1ey ever
reacied her ear no knows but that lad or that
maiden who COMES 20 the cataract az the mid
night hour will hear tho luring music,
and he who loves in truth ana loNes
M will never 20 away uncontrolled Many iaT
maiden has spoken there the desire OF her hef anu mas
been heard; many rejected Wooef cane lheIe WIZ
heart thrubbug with love and heavy with sorrow ne
has called FOR help ana helP ne uas Quit NT m1s
worthy thereof For Neckeu knows the ledI Oh lhlu'
he rewards hm who is worthy OF reward, ana puhlshe'
maiden, but loves ner gold Snch alsO nave Sought tuc
cataract al the midnight hour; tneY nave never since
been seem f1r they never returned An lnNlsDle arm
has hurled them down INTO te WhIllng poOIs, 'uu 3
cries have been heard from adr as they were se%eu Oy
the seething rapids.
Parton discusses "The Presidential Election Of 1900"
and as usual proves himself the most entertaining OF
historians Mrs. Lynn Linton writes three or four
pleasant pages about g An Old English Home,' and
Robert Dale owen, in his Chapter of Autobiography"
describes his experiment in Educating a Wife" Al
ready in these chapters several loves have hgured-the
little girl for instance with whom he used TO roam IN
the fields when he went, n little boy, 10 visit
his grandfather; and the daughter Of the Ger
man baron in the last number. But the
girl whom be undertook 10 educate" was
perhaps his first serious attachment "Jesse" was the
daughter Of humble people Her father was foreman OF
room in one Of the owen mills, ordinary man; her
mother seemed 70 be, In beauty, demeanor and taste,
quite above her stations and 1t from her. doubtless,
that Jessie had inherited certain naneless grace and
native refinement which distinguished her, child Of
ten from all her mates in the village school, and won
| the admring interest Of young owen.
Her complexion was fair and OF unrivaled purity,her
face a perfect Grecan oval the eyes deep blue and
filed with a dancing light when she smiled the chest
nut hair long and silky. Every feature was cut with
| singular delicacy the Only devations from strict
regularity being that the mouth was, in proportion,
ae larger than that OF the Venus Of MILO but then the
teeth dazzngy white and perfect, atOned and that
he nose was jast little bit what tue French cali
retrOuSSG-thOuglI need not have recourse TO
French Tennyson has coined Just the word To Jessie,
| as to Lynette, the lines apply: