, 1876-06-11

| close observer, and somewhat Of a philosopher
as WE'LL and that our forefathers OF 200 years age
| preached more seif5leuial than they" found /,
| pleasant to practice JAMES CHERRY.
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| royr.r
I JVf1N EdUA-
His Impressions OF France.
Dicppe is quaint-loodng old town, made np
| chiefly Of high-gablcd houses with red tiles,
! fishermen In blouscs, wrinkled ma1kct-womcn
| In caps, dogs and fleas. Famous Tor its carved
| ivory and herrings, you smell one or the other
] manufacture Us you pass through. Outside of
! Dieppe one gets his first inklings Of Fronch
| scenery. More picturesque than the English, it
! il not SO comfortable looking. One misses the
symmetrical hayricks, hawthorn hedges, and
asS Of s B5assss n sgTonS na xf + s o the
and % Is not al disspsted st s1
! until you enter the interior.
Along the line Of railroad you Bee women tax
| ing care OF switches. do not mem their own
| back hair, but those ingenious contrivances for
throwing train off the track, and the blame
regulated railroad Is without Passengers who
hare ever been in smash-up Will know what
sort Of switches TIN talking about. But railroad
accidents are not frequent Ia France. And call
| ing to mind how we'll women worked switches
| when WIS boy, l do not SEQ why they can't
do 1t now quite Us we'll as men. It is long IN
decd since such vivid recol1ections Of youth and
| an old stone school-house Us this sight revived
have been called up to me.
Tie Frcnehman is not q big feeder. He
coffee md a good deal Of bread and butter.
Along towards noon, If ravenously hungry, he
selzcs on radish or perhaps the hind legs Of 4
sparrow, which latter make It dtisaaer O Ia
gorging Is there! Two spoonfuls Of soup, the
! backbone Of smeIt, uorscl of meat the size
of q saddle rock oyster, mushroom, an onion,
Glove Of garlick, smell Of cheese, gallon Of
red wine, and he's ready for IN opera or the
theatre. The Frenchman ean cook dinner,
but when It comes TO eating one, why, bless
your soul, TN Englishnan can eat all around
him. Yet oa fat though he be at dressing
fish or 9 fowl, the Frenchman does not, to
my thinking, dress himsell-who is neither
skirts are too narrow, and be has altogether
q skinny look. When be attempts to be
elegant lie Is ouly dandided, and when he sets
out to be heavy swell he only succeeds Ia being
flashy. But the French woman-ah!' She
knows by instinct what to put on and how.
Surprising Eve to have been French, it is safe
to assume that whcn the idea OF dress dawned
on Eden, had there been In the gurden leaf
more becoming than that OF tue de-, she would
have gone straight to tho tree Little given to
difdeucc, the mere discovery that she mad
nothing ox could navcr have distressed French
Eve yeTy much, but the sudden awakening to q
pni1ty Enowlcdec ttst She was not wen dressed
would have lust about killed her. 4 new aud
becoming bonnet, pair Of high-heeicd shoes,
mia1t have relieved her feelings aud the situa-
tIo5. and saved a valuable Tie. Il rou doubt
the correctness of my generalization, 70 to the
oDera auy evening and see what is considered
full dress. This 6eing the rule under the Repub-
lie, what must it have been under the Empirei
As it is, compelled BY the pzs|udices Of So
sidcrs the lilics-or roscs-on her cheeks {f there
be none there remedies the omission delicately,
not obtrusiyely), and adopts the style Of dress
which is most becoming 70 the figure that God
has ea ne tas es to 4er
herself. Not for worlds-no, not for Ttihunes,
cvcn-yould you persuade the Frenchwoman
ovcrmuch given to embonpoint into q 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, 80 far as ean see, enjoy 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
comes handy, and stopping round in It with st1~
premc selt-satisfactfon.
But with this frank confession Of the superb
ority OF the French,ronau ia dress, let the
bird Is horse Of another color entirely. And /
come out Of the Valley Of Humiliation where
have just been crawling, To remark, in stentori-
IN tones, that, If I could not dr ass myself bet
ter than the FrcnchInan docs himself, I'd drown
myseli-and perhaps him rs veil So let each
country hold TO its own.
think that facilities for physical life incvfta-
bly bring about moral deterioration. I hold
that it is Impossible to be great aud gooo, full
Of high and earnest purpose, when ono has no
heavy pastry to eat, and nothing to complain Of
In his kitchen.
: The mir here Is Yef5 different from that Of
London, There In the winter months you may
see people wearing goggles over the mouth, as
elsewhere over the eycs-not that they hays
weak mouths, but to protect throat aud lungs
from tbe irritating fogs, While in London
only worked NY lungs at half-6troke, and do
not think dre,; Till, deep-down breath till
VIC crossed the Channel. There you have tec1
in the Dir, muddy and muggy; here It is wine,
sparkling and e1hi1arating.
And Paris Is fair city the fairest In the
world. The sears upon her face but mark where
scattering drops Of the Vit-iol, thrown by disap
pointed s21ito1s, for Ier hand fell She i lovely
and little wonder that so many come
to admire aud remain to worship a< her feet
But hate her even while she filings her white |
arms around me, and feel her per{umed breath |
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