Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-04
PARIS AID LONDON.
why Frances Gay Capital is IN
FAVOrite with A merIcRns.

why Frances Gay Capital IL Ghe
FAVOrito with A mericRns.
Colonel Forney's Paris Cor. in Philadelphia
Press. ~
| like London because London
talks English; but it is astonish-
ing how many old prejudices stick
to our English cousins. They are
still displeased about free trade, the
Alabama settlement and their losses
in some Of their investments, and
better times in America must come
to put them in a better humor.
But what is it, then, that makes
even serious Americans prefer
Paris to London, though they can
not speak a word of French? The
answer is easy. They find keener
sympathy for their own country
here; livelier recollection Of mu-
tual sacrifices and sufferings, and a
harmony of politics between their
institutions and those of the
French Republicans. The French
have not lost money in America;
they keep their gold and their peo-
pie at home, and when they want
to borrow money, they borrow 1T
from each other, aud not from
John Bull, as other nations have
done. If you go through Paris you
will find many mementoes Of
French love of America, Wash
ington and Jefferson are found in
the museums and public places,
and in many private residences.
Lafayette and Rochambeau keep
alive in their descendants the best
memories of the American Revolu-
tion. The avenue Yriowphia en-.
circles a part Of the Trocadero sec
tiOn of the Exhibition Universelle.
Even the Bonapartists took to our
country with favor as they recall
the sale of Louisiana to the United
States, while Jefferson was presi-
dent, by the illustrious Napoleon
in 1909. If we are commercially
connected with Great Britain, we
are aHeetionately connected with
France; but the tie that binds us
the closest is our republican sympa-
thy with them. On the other hand,
the same language, the interests of
trade and finance, many similar
historical antecedents, constant
intercourse by land and sea, an ex-
act cooperation in jurisprudence,
and a steady rcfreshment at the
same literary fountains-all these
have not sufficed to create the same
attachment for America in Great
Britain that peryades France, l
regret to say it, but bitter words
come from the English too fire.
quently when they speak Of Amer
lea; and have often reflected, of
late, that there is never much gen.
uine attaehment between people
whose chief bond is trade or debt,
and who square their craftsmanship
and grade their courtesy by fnan-
eial profit and loss. uq % saalt
There is another reason why
Americans like France, apart from
her light, happy and industrious
people and their Latin habit of
making every day in the week a day
Of pleasure, until even the unco'
guide foreigners slide into the Sc
ductive customs, viz; The French
are the best cooks in the world, for
rich and poor. DR.. Cooper, of
Charleston, had maxim that one
Of tbe most important things in
life was the food o man puts into
his belly, and the French under
stand and practice upon the axiom.
That ubiquitous talker, Mr.. Glad
stone, has just made @ speech be-
fore a cooking society of English
ladiss, which has attracted great
deal Of attention in both countries.
! He declared that the English were
tho most eXtragagapt people, and
the French tho mast accomplished
in preparing food aud ii he had
added that the English are the
worat of all cooks, his admission
wovll have been more useful as
we'll as more truthful. The Lon
don Times says that the French
man is born cook, and that the
Knglishman d0spiseS the art. The
fact is, the real Englishman does
nat know how to cook ut all. But
under such advisers he may gather
knowledge on tho subject during
the Paris uniyerselle Exhibition.
1t is now clear that if England
cannot coax France into q Euro.
pean war, or into an Endorsement
Of free trade, she may get some
good lessons in cooking. Nothing
could be more execrable than the
English cuisine in hotels, restaur-
ants, and in many private houses