The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-20

contempt Of future ages. Wfde-awakes and sinh
hpanarnas are the rule, along with shooting.
coats and waterprools; the ladies practice alb
seriousness or heroic scaae and only change
dresses three times day. The town Is pleasantly
ianked by two cliffs, and offers the unusual advan.
tagc OF standing below the level Of the sea- 80 that
in 1912 what little there was Of S then was Gle an
swept away by a food like bread crumbs OF table
CLOTH This imparts to high tides, gales and slmi-
lar entertainments degree Of interest which does
not always attend them in other places; but po-
litco-economist proved to me by b this after.
noon that ravaging flood could never occur here
again. quite believe him, and can well picture
the man retreating before q headlong. surge and
shouting:-" say there you're advancing contrary
to all the rules Of algebra" Indeed, Ihaye always
thought that algebra would be the finest thing In
the world il you could only teach it to eqninoctia
tides steam boilers and explosive chemicals as you
do to schoolboys.
SOCIETY AT ETRErAT
do not think this is quite q place to bring your
wife or daughters to, unless, In truth, you enjoy
the privilege and excitement OF being married to
French wife. l noted the conversations at the
table .dh0te dinner, ana found them to consist OF
NJ. Belots Femme de Feu," the Shah's diamonds
ever engrossng topic) rise In the price OF trues
and the humiliation OF being governed by an um-
brela Il. e., man OF peace instead OF by sabre,
u
The diners were for the better part exhaustive
though by no means exhausted leader writer's, who
notice on any TOPIC You Would sseres om tss
last cataclysm in the planet Mars down to the
working OF the American constitution They know
habitants OF New York dress in yellow nankeen,
live on peaches and sherry .cobblers, and comb
their hair with bowie knife. The fashionable
bathing place OF the United States is under
Niagara Fans, and nd the popular pastime steam
bacon hams to make it 60 the faster. As to
social customs, every citizen in the States has as
and the next candidate for the Presidency will be
Mr.. Barnum, who stands good chance, however,
Womans Rights CONVENTION. lent one Of these ese
good fellows NEW YORK HERALD and he Crap
advertisements, which highly delighted him. He
was good lnguist speaking German like
Spanard and English like a Dutchman; and
found that he translated timber post as Hn,bTe
pOSte
FRANCES INSTRUCTORS ON THE RAMPAGE
The casino OF Etretat looks like a pie that has
been sat upon, its squashed roof being due to the
picturesque instincts Of the nhabitants who feared
that II the building were reared too nigh they
should be excluded from all view OF the sea. Like
other casinos 1t has its concert, billiard, reading
preposterous voice howied a dirge about the
woes OF Poland this evening, while OF US were
to go away but discovered that he was bass Of
the Paris opera, VINO had sung to please ballet
dancer with carnation IN her hail. and rejolced
At nine the main room was lit up, dddes began TO
squeal and learned there vas 70 be ball, though
| coat. rhe ladies made up for The omission by
streaming IN presently dressed, or rather un-
and Paul Juillerat's "valse des Feuilles' soon
got the better of leader writers and
artists pianists and poltco-economists, who
had come with any thoughts OF being lazy. Now
1t occurred to me that ii you were to take SUBJ
stantial British householder rom Chaplain or any
other eminent locality ana lead him, say to the
Brighton Pavilion, remarking "You see those
men with wild hair Skipping round that room with
|
| they are the men who drive you to make war. vote.
invest, buy, sell, shrek, groan be virtuous, indg
| all-the writer's on your best papers, the gentle
men whose learned views on current events you
purchased Tor a penny or three pence, as the case
may be- every morning, and whose austerity OF
principle is constant subject OF amusement and
| would collapse without loss Of time at such har-
rowing picture. Not so his. French brother. The
French bourgeois who finds his way to Etretat like
Jebusite among the Philistnes looks on without
perturbation OF spirit at the antics cut by his in.
structors Ii peaseS him to think that these gifted
beings, who pelt him with their prose, splash
ink at his prejudces and riddle his government
with quilts are men OF Ike clay to himself, and
| indeed, In many respects less reputable members
OF the community than he. He shrugs his shoulders
and goes home feeling the taller by cuDit for the
diminution which journalism has suffered In his
eyes, and you may be sure that he concludes
treaty bargain with bis inner SELL vowing that be
will no more let MS opinions be supplied him by
men who tread the ways OF transgression. Unfor-
| tunately nothing Is long-lived here below, NOS
| When your bourgeois returns TO Paris he will bat
dimly remember the cancan danced by M. Plume
dcie OF the Ctg1re newspaper, with Nile. Casta2-
metre, of the Folies Comiques playhouse and NJ. Plu
msdoie will continue to lead him by the nose, as he
has done heretofore, to the greater glory OF reck-
less wars, loose ethics and periodical revolutions
Yes, yes, Nj. Pumedoie and his friends are the rea,
masters OF France and those aflable ladies yonder
| are the masters mIstresses. Take them oil In all
| they have their good qualities Ike other folk and
| would sell themselves dear II bought az their own
| valuation. But the first duty OF man Is to prove
| his sense OF enjoyment In life by making holiday
| OF 1t and dancing; and while france pays the
| debts which her Journalists have helped 10 heap on
her these amable patriots waltz happily TO the
strains OF TOUR adde's, ciarlonet and two cor
nepeans, 3. g. GRENViLLE MURRAY.