Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-06-29

wall, with an apple.tree between each,
and some large flowers at their feet.
When you have arranged all these OBJ.
jects rightly, take cast of them in
the softest part of your brain, and
pour in your word composition as above
described. In conclusion we would re-
mark for beginners that this sort of
composition must be attempted only in
a perfectly vacant atmospheric j..
JOHN PAUL.
His Impressions of France.
Paris Correspondence New York Tribune.
Dieppe is Il quaint.looking old town,
made up chiefly of high.gambled
houses with red tiles, fishermen in
blouses, wrinkled market-women in
caps, dogs and feas. Famous for it's
carved ivory and behring's; you smell
one or the other manufacture as you
pass through. Outside of Dieppe one
gets his first inklings of French scenery.
More picturesque than the English, it
misses the symmetrical hayricks, haw.
thorn hedges, and stacks Of Brussels
sprouts, which surround the English
cottage and inpart to it an air of COM
fort and cleanliness-which is not dis
sipated until you enter the interior.
Along the line Of railroad you see
women taking care of switches. I do
not mean their own back hair, but
those ingenious contrivances for throw.
ing train off the track, and the blame
anywhere but where it belongs, which
no we'll regulated railroad is without.
Passengers who have ever been in 4
smash-up will know what sort of
switches I'm talking about. But rail
road accidents are not frequent in
France. And calling to mind how
we'll women worked switches when
I was a boy, I do not see why they
can't do it now quite rs we'll as men.
1t is long indeed since such vivid re-.
collections of youth and an old stone
school-house as this sight revived have
been called up to me.
The Frenchman is not a big feeder.
He breaks his fast in the morning
with little coffee and good deal Of
bread and butter. Along toward noon,
if ravenously hungry, he seizes on Il
radish or perhaps the hind legs of a
sparrow, which latter make it de.
jeuner a Ia fourch cite. But for dim
ner-ye gods, what q gorging is there
Two spOonfuls of soup, the backbone
of a smelt, a morsel of meat the size of
saddle rock oyster, a mushroom, an
onion, Glove of garlick, a smell of
cheese, gallon of red wine, and he's
ready for an opera or the theatre.
The Frenchman can cook 4 dinner, but
when it comes to eating one, why,
bless your soul, an Englishman can eat
all around him. Yet au fait Though he
be at dressing fish or fowl, the
Frenchman does not, to my thinking,
dress himself-who is neither-well.
His sleeves are too short, his skirts
are too narrow, and he has altogether
a skinny look. When he attempts to
be elegant he is only dandified, and
when he sets out to be heavy swell he
only succeeds in being flashy. But the
French woman-ah! She knows by
instinct what to put on and how. Sup
posing Eve to have been French, it is
safe to assume that when the idea of
dress dawned on Eden, had there been
in the garden Il leaf more becoming
than that of the fig, she would have
gone straight to the tree. Little given
to diffidence, the mere discovery that
she had nothing on could never have
distressed French Eve very much,
but the sudden awakening to guilty
knowledge that she was not well dress
ed would have just about killed her.
A new and becoming bonnet, 4 pair Of
high-heeled shoes, might have relieved
her feelings and the situation, and
saved valuable life. If you doubt
the correctness of my generalization,
go to the opera any evening and see
what is considered full dress. This
being the rule under the Republic,
what must it have been under the En-
pire!
AS it is, compelled by the prejudices
of society to wear some clothes, the
Parisienne considers the lilies - or
roses--on her cheeks IF there be none
there remedies the omission delicately,
not obtrusively), and adopts the style
of dress which is most becoming to
the figure that God has given her, the
color most becoming to her complexion
which--she generally regulates for
herself. Not for worlds--no, not for a
Tribune, even-could you persuade the
Frenchwoman overmuch given to en-
bOnpoint into a pin-back which should
bring the drawback of her figure too
prominently forward. AS to following
any fashion implicitly, this she will
not do. That folly is left for the fair
of my own native land, who, so far
rs l can see, enjoy Il monopoly Of it..
For the Englishwoman follows nothing,
but dresses herself by accident with
some reference to the price of consols
and the state of the dry goods market),
putting on the first thing that comes
handy, and stopping round in it with
supreme self.sa+isfaction.
But with this frank confession Of the
superiority of the French woman in
dress, let the abasement of my nation
end. For the male bird is a horse of
another color entirely. And l come
out of the valley of humiliation where
I have just been crawling, to remark,
in stentorian tones, that, if I could
not dress myself better than the
Frenchman does himself, I'd drown
myself-and perhaps him as well. So
let every country hold to its own.
think that facilities for physical
life inevitably bring about moral de.
termination. hold that it is impossi-
BILE to be great and good, full of high
and earnest purpose, when one has no
heavy pastry to eat, and nothing to
complain of in his kitchen. --
The air here is very different frem
that of London. There in the winter
months you may see people wearing
goggles over their mouths, as else
where over the eyes-not that they
have weak mouths, but to protect the
throat and lungs from the irritating
fogs. While in London only worked
my lungs at half.stroke, and do not
l think drew a full, deep.down breath
till we crossed the channel. There
you have beer in the air, muddy and
muggy; here it is wine, sparkling and
exhilarating.
And Paris is fair city-the fairest
in the world. The scars on her face