The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-01

nave seen
gress In full session, attended BY Q gambler.
doctor OF divinity. two or three bankers . genera
omcer OF the army and one or two fraudulent
oankrupts. the members were harmonious and
dscoursed In company, and (all but the divine,
ursnk OUT OF the same wine bottle and talked &C
INC Top Oh their voices and almost quarreed as TO
VINO should pay at the end. But as the Summer
uies away the congress thins out Some hurry
nome others 20 to the south, and whoever enters
'he hieh ana stately hall towards November win
see painful spectacle. The last American
Oh the season. deserted by his companions sits
over AIS third bottle OF wine, vainly look.
ing for familiar face. smoking q mammoth
olsar MS ieet spread over chair, his eye looking
dismaiiy at the carving and the decorations ana
the equipages that come ana go. The familiar
races have Ned. There is no one to whom he can
express his contempt for the French nation-no one
to whom he can impart his Information as to what
Bismarck will do. He Is dreadfully alone. He may
visit the Legation, and talk to the black.eyed
young Washburne, or be entertained with the most
absolute politeness by Colonel Hoffman but he dis
covers that the Legation people have ''views" and
DO not express them. He may go down to the Con-
sulate and see General Read; but the General, who
Is politeness and official courtesy embodied has
also habit Of listening, ana of combining his visit
ors to their business, which soon exhausts q va
grant American who has ''views" and desires to
discuss them. Even the circus has closed.
Bowles, Brothers Co., famous as a conversation
saloon, has closed Also He stranded and alone. On
mail days he has his NEW YORK HERALD as COM
tort, and the eagerness with which he reads that
famous journal would delight its editors. Down to
the last, the very last items marriages and deaths
ana ship news and advertisements, beginning with
the personal column, he Eliminates and reads again
and again. until nature summons him to his cham
payne.
WHAT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN THINKS OF FRANCE
AS have said, our average wandering country
man IN these lands has positive views on one point
the utter worthessness Of the French nation. The
men are oil towards. The women are all-what
shall we say OF course the French would be whip.
ped by the Germans Why. regiment Of Ameri-
cans. well-drilled, and under the command OF
Sheridan, could march through France from Nice
to Lille. Under Napoleon 1t was different, because
he was great man. But when he died all
valor died with him. In addition to being
towards. the french will steal. No one
win deny that and II you did our
compatriot would utterly confound you by produc-
ing series Of hotel bills, every one Of which had
some exorbitant charge for candles The narra-
tives Of the rapacity Of hotel keepers would make
an Had, and the conclusion reached is that French
men are made to rob and Americans to be robbed;
and there 10 no help for 1t, except by system OF
determination or general deputatlon. In addition
to this, there are other evils. He nds the French
man vastly overrated In the accomplishments
which all the world assigns to him. No French.
man, strange to say, can cook. He may make
frultess little salad, some inefficient sauce but
for q "square meal" give our American friend
good old-fashioned Virginia negro grandmamma,
who understands how to make hoe-cake. There
cans" that may be had for their weight in
hard money are q poor consolation for the
body accustomed to Saddle Rocks and Blue Points
Our friend will confound you on this cookery ques-
ton by showing that there is not oyster stew to
be found In all this great city. Another luxury he
misses Is green corn. The absence OF green corn
is an indication OF the worthlessness Of the French
taste. There is champagne, to be sure, 80 dear to
the heart OF the American abroad as well as at
home; but champagne, according to his theory, is
made by Germans and German capital. Cheese Is
grievance to him. How any human being can
eat French cheese, and why every French waiter
will insist upon Offering our compatriot cheese at
various stations OF the meal Is something he cam
not understand, unless there be some hidden in
suit to all the world In the composition Of the
cheese-a circumstance he is disposed to believe.
And as to the women, his opinions on this matter
not dwell .--yse.-ss---.
r .r JARDrN MABILLH. .ofrl-.
But while passing hurriedy over the woman
question and the views entertained by our average
fellow countrymen upon the ladies OF France, why
Is 4 that he believes that, as general thing
French ladies are In the habit Of dancing at the
Jardin Mabille Have described Mabille lam
half afraid Of that shrine. Well, Mabille Is gar.
den just on the Champs Elysees, where you pay On
unusually large fee for entrance. There are one
or two small fountains, wooded walks, shooting
gallery, little alcoves where you may sip coffee or
what not, and profusi0n OF colored lanterns blaz.
everywhere and painted canvas, that looks like
endless forests, and innumerabls mirrors
nashing the light to and fro In the
centre IL band OF musicians and o
boarded dancing floor. This Is the Jardin
Notwithstanding himself at the door, with his keen,
Oriental face, taking in the money. 1t Is a Summer
garden, and the music and dancing are under the
stars. Well, Mabille has in his employ several
young women, with hard, leering faces, and sew.
eral young men, with shiny hats who mingle
around In the crowd as though they had paid to
come in and are really visitors. When the music
commences generally the music Of that harmo-
NOUS imp Of Satan musician Offenbach) these
young men and women, evidently in the easiest
and last stages Of virtue. rush upon the boarded
floor and dance peculiar dances-tne lean. cam"
among others-not much more indecently, how
ever. than have seen 1t on the New York stage.
Our Paris-American Congress, assembled in
circle, believes that 1t sees the ladies' of Paris
at q common evening entertainments I could
never see the Jardin Mabille except AZ q humbug
OF the most transparent and dazzling kind, and
why our American friends should visit it and give
it fame cannot imagine, except that Mabills is
said to be very bad place, and they attend ex-
pecting that something outrageous will certainly
happen. Then, as 1 remarked, in studying the in
situations Of the country and the habits and Gus.
toms OF nation Mabile Is fine lesson. 1 do not
imagine that 1t occurs to one out of ten Of our
observing countrymen that Mabille is simply an
institution kept by q Frenchman for English and
Americans to visit. During the first season the
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