Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-16

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gregarious sociableness and by the redu.
plication of family ties. The land itself,
the farms of these quaint peasant folk,
runs back in long strips from the houses
on either hand. Divided and subdivided
as families increase, these long narrow
fields are the sign manual of the
French peasantry all over the
eastern region of Canada. In contra
distinction to their rural fellow peasantry
of France, whose great ambition is said to
be to lay field to field and broaden their
possessions, these peculiar people, in
country where land is so plentiful and SO
cheap. continue to dwell within their
ancient landmarks, dividing to each son
his Just portion, till the neat and carefully
cultivated little domains are 10 many cnses
no wider than good sized cart road
Riding through Lorette now asd looking
at the bright-eyed children that peep from
nearly every house, one questions whether
this generation must not surely bring the
subdivision 10 an end whether they
must not now of necessity go out into the
world around them from which they seem
so strangely separated. Yet il all the
old copy book moralities are true; if
contentmeut is better than wealth, aud
man wants but little here below, and better
is the dinner of herbs (under conditons)
than the stalled OK and all that, il may be
sad day for them when the time comes.
There is poverty now but no restitution.
Shyly- bold children occasionally bold out
little hands and chant out, "Un, dtHE
sous, 81 cons plat, m'aen,'" but you see
the little rogues are more than half III Jest
and will run off just as gayly if refused.
The tiny cottages, with their slopng roofs
and swinging lattces, look very comforta-
BILE. They are so strongly built they seem
to ripen with time instead of falling into
the decrepitude of decay which betalls
the shinge.built antiquities of New
England and the single livingroom, on
which the heavy door opens, has a habit.
able, pleasant look in spite of sparse
furniture. This peasant.life is oddly
removed from nineteenth century india.
ences, but, on Sunday at least it looks
like slice out of the golden age kind,
friendly, contented with little, and never
in hurry. Nj. @. p.
ToRosTo, CANADA, Sept. From the
romantic to the common place is the transit
ton made in the short Journey from
Quebec to Montreal from dreams of the
golden age 10 most open everydayness.
association. Montreal is hs old and long
settled q city as Quebec. Yet it appears
only great, wide spread, somewhat over
grown town with an air rather of raw new
ness, than Of antiquity. Even in the old
suburbs, where the earliest built houses
still remain, there is little picturesqueness
or popularity. A large proportion of the
inhabitants are still French, but they are
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kind than those OF the more eastern city.
At the same time, there does NOT appear
much of the splendor or of the full tide of
life that might be expected in modern
| American city of 10000 inhabitants. The
visitor inquiries what are the points Of the
greatest interest to be seen in
Montreal "Well, there are the churches,
you know. Notre Dame everybody goes
to see-and there's our new Park and
tine Windsor Hotel is the greatest thing Of
the sort, you know, in the country" The
Windsor is indeed a place which the young
lady who dreamed she dwelt ia marble
halls would have delighted in its spaces
immense and its frescoes bewilderment
moreover, 1t il hallowed by memories of
the Princess Louise. who tarried there
awhile Immediately before her departure
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an apartment which the waiter assured me
was the Princess's own bed room-"sO YOU
will surely rest well, said he. In truth,
though was like Marx Twain's critic; saw
mo marks about that room different
from no other room. Maybe it was u
pleasant fiction with which that waiter
regsles every visitor.
The new Mount Royal Park has iuea.
sure of likeness to Mo tresl itself. 1t is
located upon high hill or mount north
of the town, up which the visitor drives
on a broad and well made road, which
goes on, and on, and GU, winding by CIR,
cuitous ways to the crest of the hill
When you reach that and are prepared to
enjoy the Park, behold, that is all. and
you may turn and come down as you went
up That long road is the Park
OF the grand sights Of the city. I'll.
Cathedral Of Notre Dame is the really IL
teresting one. Its architecture is nu'
remarkable, but the interior il very mao
nlfcent and imposing. The maufuid
arches, ceiled with azure studded with
golden stars, spring and meet in lines that
delight the eye with their harmony and
the wide semi-ciscular sweep Of the grand
altar is rich With sculpture and carving
, and color and Eight beyond ali precedent
in our eyes On the ground where thh
splendid catht dral stands was erected tha
rude bark structure in which the first set
: tiers OF Montreal wor-hipped more thtt
2oO years ago, and this maguifcence il t,lt
= lineal successor of that rude simplicity, n
= all essentials the same. The euclesiastica
a element is apparently very strong 10
a Montreal. Priests are 20 be seen at ev r.
turn clad in black robes which flap m