Smyrna times., 1874-07-01
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Americans in Paris.
WHAT MRS. HOOPER HAS TO SAY OF THE AMER.
ICAN COLONY IN PARIs-WHAT PARISIANS
THINK OF 1T.

Mrs. Lucy Hooper writes in AppletOn'S for
June 90, of The American Colony in Paris.
She averages that their are about four thou
sand Americans who have taken up their per-
manent abode in the French capital, and after
describing the quarter of the city they most
affect, proceeds to tell of their manners and
customs, and how they are regarded by the
Parisians. From this part of her interesting
paper we make the following extracts:
The American residents in Paris may be di-
vided into several classes, first among which
being that formed by those wealthy and nsthe-
tic persons who have sought and found in this
marvellous city that satisfaction for their ar
tlstic aud social tastes which is scarcely yet to
be obtained in their native land. Rich, cult
waited, and refined, the representatives of this
class have seen unbarred for them the SEEM
ingly imperviOus portals of the best Partisan
society, and among them Tay be cited we'll
known Philadelphia family, whose splendid
hotel on the Rue Francois Premier is one Of
the finest private residences in Paris. The
lady OF the mansion has for many years resided
in this city. Endowed with great personal
lov1lineSs and rare distinction of manners she
was welcomed at once on her advent here as a
real accession to the most recherche salons of
the capital, and, while her sister regned a
queen Of society in Philadelphia, she dlzzled
Partisan society with the lustre of her stately
settled here, SO she will doubtless never return
to reside in her native land.
Besides these permanent residents, there are
many families who take up their abode in
Paris for few years, in order to give their
children the advantage of such instruction in
music and languages as is not easily to be OBJ
tanned in our own country. Admirable teach
ers not only of French, but Of German, and
music and drawing, can be secured here al
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accomplished professors at home, appear start
lngy small. Therefore one meets daily with
groups OF brlght-lOOking young girls, taking
their daily walks on the Champs Ulysses, Of
vending their way homeward from thei
classes, bearing music rolls or well-worn schOo
books, and accompanied by a watchful bonnie
stearn governess, or perhaps mamma herself
for, in this country of universal politeness
young ladies must not walk out ungarded, 70
fear Of insult. This popularity of FrencI
manners is felt by the young American girl
as sad and OnerOus restraint when first the
arrive on these shores. Accustomed to travers
the principal streets of any one of our grea
cities, alone aud unmolested, the young new
conner chafes sorely against the regulation tina
prohibits her from even running out alone fO
a few squares to make a purchase or to pay
call But if, in her lemerity and her remem
brance OF the universal sanctity of modes
wcmanhood in our own more favored land, sh
ventures to try the experiment, she will probs
bly, be called upon to repent of her bodne:
by such insolent treatment and such impert
nence as an American man would scarcely il
fict on the vilest Of lost women.
1t is true that young American ladi. a.
not always as careful In their dress and depor
fnent ia the streets as the strict laws of Par
sian etiquette demand There are many mar
of the United States, for instance, and | 5,
it with great regret, where rouge and pea
powder form component portions of the toll
of even very young girls, and the appearan
of some of these fair damsels, pretty as tn
almost invariably are, dressed in the extrer
of fashion, and with black lace wells dra'
over the cheeks aud brow, whose tints are
palpably artificial, is not calculated to reI
the nocturnal impertineEEce Of Psrlsla9
recall the answer of an American motf
to French lady who was exhorting her
adopt the Partisan method ia the training
her daughters. Ibid for one moment +;
cy," she said, "that my girls needed spy
watch them every moment to keep them fir
evil, | would pray that they might die
morrow"
To such an extent is this system carried Il
it is considered improper in Paris for you
lady to walk out alone with her own broth
How do people know that it Is her brother
they argue. Still more revolving is the
that it is considered highly immoral fo
father to kiss his own daughter on the Ep
she must offer him her forehead or her che
The rnonstrous sindelicacy, of the ideas hide
behind such social laws need no comment he
1t cannot be wondered at, therefore, that p,
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