, 1873-08-24
AMERICANS IN EUROPE,

si.''s VII. 1'le u intercourse notwoeh ti't
:., I''s .i'' uogu"3 70 het III foRnlafi9 baok TO-
wara tut old VOID as tho Gulf Stream. Theat
cabnfuls Of roHpoctnbio nn.sonrora ~ w.
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sato nsrcn',r % 4on ,e .. s .,so, =. a''uss M eonpon
sroo Tor .he ra'n ot tho povory
Hamburg or Bremen. Tho Americans nre nal
tho ,,conjo To ho tvt,., I,r,,,aa w .,,a.s ,,a,,
DIV ~ thot, ,avo e onn9 aat ..siu y. snsf noli.
It. ond ,n:n, ,'.se w . ple' @ aos ,ilolr hoarts upon
thoir minds that Vionna WAS MI excellent
oxcuao for leaving homo, ,rho r,,a, ~ r,ro,,o
Ind fairlv aot i, I,ofor, .,',,,,. ,,so ~ .p
eton IT, T,o sat ea.,es.a s."s nu osot.ou 70
enfforing from tho horrible soathor which kopt
europeans who Ind boon on tho brink of ilopart-
ufo ahlvorinE over their Htart. Like tho foxoa
Or tho fable. in their communications with their
no5nes the Americans who Lad already commit
and touched very lightly on the drawbacks md
nlsagreeablos. 1t is certain that tho 1ottere Of
d Inc correspondents Of thoir 1eadtng journals de-
llcted things worry much in roso-color. while tho
every, ono else were, pcrhnps, almost
nh in1uccmcnt to Americans who had
| ST. aside "pilo" Of dollars that must bo
ai5sipatoa .l d., bstlng brokor from Wall street
ladios Of Ills family have mappod out Tor lin, lnl
but none the loaH is he yory grateful to tho nd
cidontH which may precipitato bis roturn to tho
business q Of hfs atfectiona; while as for tho H.
alGs, thoy are are IN !oyo With spending for its own
going On without remission, and steadily gather
ing volume, Btoamors Of tremendous tonnage
have boon starting almost oyory day from Now
1ork nth Now Englaud; yot their borths have
hoen at promium, and thcir saloons crowded
to s11focation. So great has beon tho influx
TINT ono OF tho ]cading transatlantic steam
computes has very eenBibly opened Offices
IN London, whore holpless customs
timc upon onr shores nlay bo furnished
With advice Ut to thoir future proccolinge.
Whoroyer you travel on a loading Continental
llno, you might, if you woro to Judge by your
fe1low-passongers, fancy yourself seated in tho
cars Of tho Union. while somo of tho moro pre-
tontouB Continental hotels Lave become as
transatlantic in their tenants aa tic Fifth Ave-
nuo in Now York or the Grand ut Paris
As is tie way with selfish human natnre. vo
naturally ask in the first place, how Ills for-
lnldabe incursion is likoly to affoct ouruolyos.
There Ia O good deal Of truth In tho old Bayiuu.
Tho more the morrior," when there iB plenty
Of room for cyery ono aud il might In espnmo1
that people socay disposed. startne 20 on aIn'l
MGR holidny, would rather welcome tho prosnoct
OF plenty of society Of similar epeooh and
kindred origin. Lot Foreigners say what
thoy wll',-and we must confess that
thoy do,-wo know that the Driton is not the
misauthropo thoy believe him. If he ofton sta
silent when trnyoling alone, it iy bocauso hn il
ahy Of strangers, with whom, as ho fancies, ho
volublo or oven civil with the fow broken wort1s
tint rattle loosely about among his tho1rhta.
Ills birthrighs did not comprehend tho eift Of n
kind Of lngunl Kaleidoscope which can arrance
precision in IN endless yarioty Of pretty % tboueh @
meaningless patterns. But whom lie has paasnlI
twonty-four hours in communion with hlmself %
500 how ho bEghtons up whom ho is launched
somehow in talk with countrynan. Tho
auatoro man grows playful aud facotious, the
Ioserved man becomes ofruaiYe, while faatid-
io,1sness itself ceasoa to stand upon trinoa.
and oyorlooks tho most glaring dstinc-
t,ona Of /, caste. The habitue Of bow win
aifablo to tho honest dryealter from Lower
Thames street, who Is bound for tho Nhfno and
tho Obcrlana with tho gool-humored partner Of
His joys while tho rtualiBtic curato conlaoa his
4 ha Of scenery mud foreign forms Of
brewer from tho midland counties. Such being
really tho inveternto groEariousuuss Of our Eng
ilsh nature, thia American incurson should auro-
y odd I'll attraction to summon travel on the Con-
with whom VIC could exchange small talk if we |
Glanced to DO socially disposed, aud If NO felt |
!lnhociablo they need not bore us. Further, our
intercourse with Intelligent Americans would in
VIC take to bo one Of the groatest onjoymonts OF |
rational trayol. Perhaps it naay come to this in
time, when tho two nations got used to each |
other but for the present there nro very fov Of |
US who arc ablo to look upon our cousins in tho |
lishs OF acqulaltonBt and the absence Of attrac-
tion would appear to be mutual.
1t Id not altogether easy to oxplnfn the reason |
to our satisfaction. 1t Is true that. regarding
the matter from our English point Of view,
there are certain ealient pocuHaritieB about our
American friends which 1t is impossible
to ignoro, and which aro naturally dig
tasteful to uH. To begin with, there
is that unmistaAablo Bhibboloth Of speoch
Wc object to nasal utterances; VIC nre inclined
to shudder at aome OF tho fresh and foroiblo ex-
praBHions With which Americana taiEft the springs
of carly Euglish although we may smile ut these
Amoricanisme in tho New York journals aud in
tue droll writings Of tho humoriBtB OF the Far
West. In female mouths especially. thoy jar
harBhlY on our aen6ibitios. It may be that we
feel certain responsibility for tho mannors and
behavior Of people. who uso our own language,
who resemble liz III features, and are sprung
in great measure from our English stock,
For It is ccrtain that q worry. slight experience
'f travel makes us accept with tolerable
or at oastrosignation, tho German
ady who Bhoyols down hor peaH with tho knifo