The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-11

Iy kind and obliging to foreigners,
and on intimate acquaintance make
excellent friends. They like 10 re-
fer to the fact that they helped us
achieve our independence which we
are about 10 celebrate SO magnifi-
Gently, and claim q sort OF bond up
on that score. Therefore, it is that
an honest individual, with the seal
of Columbia on his brow, has carte
blanche to privileges and favors not
extended every nationality. For
instance, the English do not -four
ish quite so happily as visitors In
France as Americans, and l accord
ingly make q speciality of doing
something or wearing something
whnever opportunity offers. Then,
too, the Americans, as a rule, are
more modest than their English
cousins, and the French admire
modesty, though they do not know
what it is. 1t is either lost art or
one of the things that Providence is
holding in reserve for them.
An illustration occurs to me,
touching the English here. An old
English woman-I really believe 1t
was the one with the concertina,
New Years eve-was at one of the
galleries of painting the other day,
when happened to stroll in. The
galleries are at all times full of stu
dents copying the work of the old
masters. Well, this old concertina
wsman took q complacent Saxon
delight in standing directly behind
the young artists, one at time, and
criticising to herself the work in
process of painting. She spoke in
such generous, LOUD tones, that 1
was forced to hear, and the preju-
dice of knowing her, stamped her
remarks firmly on my mind. Her
first solIloquy ran thus:
''Oh the girl paints well enough,
but you know, Mary Ann, there is
not enough love in her conception,
she ought to put q good big daub
there, in the left cheek Of that vir-
gin-Tve a mind TO show her how
to do it myself" AS i'll fate would
have it we stood together before
Murillo's "Ascent of the Virgin"
Soliloquy second: "Well, now,
that's regular dead nuts She is
dressed so prettilyl So much taste
shown in the selection of the gar
ment! I've a notion to make little
Jenny a dress after that pattern"
Further along we met again in the
French school of painting. She
asked an American standing near
by what a certain picture was call
ed. He replied: "That2 All.
that is the famous Cupid and Psy-
che, madame" Old lady: "Well
WE'LL Cupid and Satan! That il
very wonderful. How pretty sa'
tan lsoksl rather like the idea o.
the artist in making him less repul-
sive than ordinary. IT'S more
pleasant, you know. Mary Ann
when thinking about the matter
After a few more infiictiOns of bel
promiscuOus dissertations on art
left suddenly, and with severa
others, until another day. The las
1 heard of our friend she was at thu
tomb of Napoleon, in a quandar!
talking to- her guide: Nov yol
need not tell me that this is tn
tomb of Napoleon. 1 just cam
from England, and saw his tomb a
Chiselhurst. Mary Ann, 1 won
swallow that, you hear me-"
, 1t is not strange that the ordina
, ry Frenchman finds a foe in hi
neighbor across the channel, whe
, such specimens as the old conceI
f intercollegiate turn up often.
4 The ''season" in Paris is now q
t its height, and it it is acknowledge
Q bad taste in q correspondent
e write about anything else; and "
: l am sure, with the general goo
e taste for which we Western peop,
# are celebrated, that you woul
q much rather entertain in your pr
per q fOw atragglIng notes on oth'
% matters than a systematic narratiO
e of On-ditS at the mask balls, wit
e appendix dilating upon the CO
tunes and the coiffures. OF cours
} fret letter is only an introduC
e ton, the necessary preface, NEAR
n of ascertaining if you are all sti
q alive and Emporia not swallowe
It up by an earthquake. If the GOO
l news of your prosperity comes
!" once, 1 will remit something mo
n substantial for instance, few o
Ie servations on the cathedrAls al
l. churches of Paris, or something
r soothe you to sleep after dinner
a a Sunday before g blazing I'll
l Meanwhile 1 will appoint myself
l. committee of one on church inspe
n ton, and prepare myself in the my
le teries. Until then, adieu,
Ie EDWARD Ill.
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q Kansas.
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