, 1879-05-14
~ Yes: but you farcn't got IN Easter cee, You
seem resolved not 10 conform with TIC ubaped
Of good aoctetr,H 40""~'
r1TLEn AMERICAN nEL1,Es.

Raltfnsor. !gan's iurfs L.t,>y.
| AS I look out upon tho RaY Houteyart tles
Chpucnes and note son,o fair face, Ia tho sty1lsb
carriages passng, and rccollect That once they
were the admiration Of broad arrl also rcry
harrow American circle mt ,,omes mn, when
recall their natfre manner, now lost Under for
eign t'tlcs, ami sm,zcd at uhat tho Cocknoy
ln'n,lady in the play calls Il The llupa md ilc
dorns.n tbs source Of much inward worm
wooans'1 gafl 10 SOME Of us to behold ll,eee fatr
ones fost to American cfltzehshEp anil lollIug
under French coroocis. But lore Is sometimes
blind Hnd sometimes very much witicawakc, antt
when TIC latter, not cvcn ducal Or 4 baronta1
title will cause the most Independent American
republican gill to bluk. Look at tie lat, even
n my no1'!cntary memory Of OUR "I1spulll!cau
court teltcs: The Duchess do praaltn Cliofs-
eu' y charming, stately Indy, we'll known in
baltimore society. The Countess Charettc is
,.,'tl ~otd In Teuncs;co hn1 dcnsjied vtd te pol:
,ane'a period of Presidency Of the United
markc5 men Of court" No higher links Of.
that, t'oso of sime. Charetto BY lar
French marriage eyer II you look down
l,s tl,s avcnuc uf great ptrsonaets as far Dis yu1
W s''i S nnd Peck aEn!n Ia 'he Venerable. Duchess
retts's ttcpchiaron. ri ttoic w1,o @ e eam reeaii
;,.e ;;,.e terson ot our s!nipl bearing Democrat,
Fresident Folk, little dream that nn the banks
OF ite sclne dwe1's his tavoritc niece, eurround-
ed ~ shc Hoyalltts Of tue Bourbon anil T4eetti-
mat schools, attd sllc the mont charming Of
iirm at, crowned with womauly virtues, tho
irttt m pttdo .! an American lady. And ftont The
crescent GitF' eat1c belle Of rnra a,iattttes
NM WonlaHlY beauties, whose maine, ns tho lore
y Nine. dc DAMpIet. few bf, us ri1l forget
when fclnesl tustc and exguitite surroundings
ny the t0plcs u our talk. ! might sny some-
tvnsis o. tne Marcflioi'eas d'Eursce, OF New
X. NFF1 of I 1pjs,
rover sotfcty, hut for tho present remain 81.
lcnt. lln'gtt also say soinethtng Of another |
a'ster M "i,p became thG Princess Lant!' and made
avn ',nsf r. "a rs sostety 81 on9 lnt then a1onId
tue Alarclsoncss t'asotA au!l thy adopted daugh-'
.cr-n.law of tic late Pope rio Sono, nnd ns
a' s,r,1,. nGt a;;'! a1sn9sed tS dwell on details
3 to show, tic nstraclon Of our bellies
to tho oallants abroad and point 10 Tie failures
OF our: bpaus ut hong. I1ere might also say
s,,! s"mesh!nE Of ldyely hte,e Of iile foregoing
tlirec laufes. who became the Countess Snla and
grace1 the sd'v'. OF Paris ami Turin Us well us
y! Nuplcs und Rotne, but space forbid. tic
pleasure. How much, in tho way Of cllulc,,g-
mines Of TIC Countess de Dn1nas and her sster,
wi'1 n'arlied MI Italian Ptiucr, are alluded 10.
Both III Baltimore and New York thr family
tetfgrce and puus faniY examples of thust,
too, that oi the Countess Moptanbai, ami nov
TINT Miss iunaerford, nf California, ii nldctl II
the Hat Of foreign titled American beiles, as
mentioned in my last letter, 1t Is 8 source of
who comes nexsf "Why," / 6ay to myself,
"aloiumcnta City" tair c,,mpanton, " do not
some ot olir Atnotstan men culne over here mud
tnnrry 4 Prl,cess OF two, Just by way Ut rn-
ycngc!n She: !" Do you sce .tat llttle maiden
with big Normandy cap, turk-blue stockings,
hr'Ght.eofoFtd kerchlct, and Wilt, her y!oct.bi,e
eyes an'l 8" eel, att!ess smIle-eyen she would
nut marry other than Frcnetnan!h~ Wby
have our girls not the sanic pntriottslnl