The Red Cloud chief., 1875-06-03

All their gold some day
Will melt sway
Like the selfish savings Of Solomon Ray.
Horne LIE IN France.
Foreigners are apt to take their i'm
pressions solely from Paris, which At
tracts them by its brilliancy. Floating
on the surface, they zee a great deal Of
gayety and folly and vice. and hastily
conclude that this il French morality
and French life. But Paris 10 not France
nor, indeed, do they see but . very small
part of Paris. They have nc access to
French society Of the better class. One
must disengage himself from this first
impression, if he would judge justly of
the real character of the French people.
Leaving aside these frivolities of q gay
capital, and seeking the French in those
interiors which are generally closed to
foreigners, we find there Q very strong
feeling of home, in both senses Of that
word. First the love of place, of q fixed
habitation-what phrenologis:s call the
organ Of locality-is largely developed
in the French nature. They love their
country, and never leave it but with re-
l~uctance. Hence they make poor colo
nists. While the English and Germans
emigrate, the French can hardly be torn
from their native soil. And not only
the country, but the province, the city,
or the little village, which gave them
birth, Is always dear to them. Go into
the country, and you find families that
have always lived in the same place.
Generation after generation has come
and gone, and still they cling to the old
spot. Children, and children's children,
are born and die on the same farm, in the
same moss-grown cottage, beneath the
same matched roof where their fathers
lived and died. This single fact--the
love Of . fixed abOde--speaks much for
the home feeling of the French. especi-
ally to Americans, since it appears in
such strange contrast to the migratory
habits of their countrymen.
With this love of the birthplace, the
desire to have . little spot, however hum
bic, where q may become rooted to the
soil, is n If the strongest passions Of q
Frenchman. 1t exists among the poor.
est ~peasantry. Even the common labor.
ers. who 60 to Paris to find employment,
always have it at heart to return to their
native village. The popular songs which
the workmen sing at their tasks almost
all have reference to the country-to the
spot they have left, and to which they
hope some day to return. This is their
safeguard amid the temptations of a great
city. Out of their little savings they
send back something to keep alive the
old people, or to help their younger
brothers. And the height of tfeir am.
bition ID, by many years of hard labor, to
save enough to return, and buy . plot Of
ground, and build . little cottage, where
they may pass the rest of their days.
Every family which il little easy in
its circumstances, though it may spend
half the year in Paris, has somewhere in
the country, buried among the trees, q
retreat which often has been IN the fam.
lily tor generations, and which Is cher
ished with - much Lore and pride q
any baronial castle. Only extreme ne.
cessity ~ induce them to part with it.
It is the frat spot which the children
learn to love, and which remains equally
dear in manhood and old age. True, the
same families. when they come up to
Paris to spend the winter, live in apart
ments. and this has been thought un-
favorable to domestic life. But is it
half 20 much % - that life of boarding
houses and hotels q thing unknown In
France, but % common in Amenca), in
which there can be no such thing as do.
mestic privacyf
A. TO tho home in its more elevated
meaning, not confined to the place, but
including the feeling which unites q
family In affection and in q common in
tsrest q circumstance contributes
greatly to preserve and strengthen this
among tho Preach. It is the social equal
ity Of member - the same family. To
this no contrast can be greater than that
Of families In America. Afarmer IN New
England hes half . dozen sons; one NJ
mains on the old homestead; one goes to
. city and becomes . rich merchant:
another 10 college. and enters Q profes.
don. Thus in . few years the relative
posiioa of different members Of the fam
ily h changed; some are rich, othen
poor; = may become Distinguished,
whils o<Asrs ere wholly unknown.
Bat II France such changes arc very
rars. Fsniliss remain not oaly in the
ssns plaea. bat in the same station of
HE. TIE 6arnab soa tlls the ground;
tAe nsoAan3es ~ parsues the came
tEs1es Al IL sysApss Of life ere %
Ut n - rann ars % clossd up, thss
nsxt = inPsssible i~ - 10 got
spoees. n eAildrea remain
clkhent nsiEAM richer nor
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