New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-01

listened to an Grafton in church in Stock bridge and
was nightly surprised to see tho ladies carefully
placed by themselves on one side of the building and
utterly ignored by the masculine part OF the
audience. The result of all the Scotch
mans inquiries and observations was TO con-
vince him that while there was no wish on the
part of men to depress the other sox, they did
manage to do very thoroughly. and that women
did not enjoy that station in society which had
been allotted to them elsewhere, society in copse-
auence lost much of the charm Of polish and grace
known to 1t in older countries. In short, Captain
Hall described American uien as buried la election
eerng. in endless litigation and in business.
pstions which could not possibly be understood by
tine women. who in their turn were engrossed by .
struggle with miserable servants This separation
naturally caused social nselgences The Captain re-
marked that men were careless in their dress, that
their hats uubrushed. their shoes unpolished
and worst or all, they ate with their knives.
The travellers endeavors to do III Rome as
the Romans did were attended by some diff
culties; between reluctance to do what lie had
been taught to consider ill-bred. the desire to
please by conformity and the inpossibility
of fishing up peas. for example, or rice. with the
twopronged forks then exclusively used
slip away from him. The rapidity
with which the Americans devoured their meals
never ceased to horrfy him As he pursued his jour
ney westward he noticed a gradual acceleratIon
in the speed Of the New World cOrmOrant. and no
grew to take fantastic pleasure IN timing his ex
ploits
Republican simplicity did not Of course please this
loyal subject OF the first Gentleman IN Europe. The
UNFINISHED and implanted ballroom in the White
House excited his derision and he care
fully noted down the fact that though
Congress at one session appropriated comfortable
sum for fitting up the place, divers new members
fresh from the woods asked during the next
session what was the use of expanding
so much of the public money when people could
dance as well or even better in the empty room
At the time of the Captains visit Congress
was occupied in discussing the monstrous
extrav agauce of the President in the outfit
of this house, and was especially sharp
concerning the billiard table, which in
visitor himself heard tins biard-tabe spoken If
In the Chamber more than once. and with
perfect seriousness, as sort of charge
against Mr. Adams az cannot support John @.
Adams" says writer in a newspaper of the time,
because he has introduced a olliard-tabe into
its inmates and visitors; thus holding
out inducements to engage in capuyat-
ing INCORPORATING from plain Republican
Misunderstanding the court etiquette of regal
powers, and furn shing an example TO the youth of
our country which can conceive can neither DO
Slavery disturbed the good Captain until he
went to the South and beheld what
seemed to his discipline-loying soul the
sweet patriarchal features of the system.
Our management OF elections. our theories
of representation, and especially our sys-
stout Tory. and he said so in many
pages of what to-day seems the dreariest of twaddc;
but the souls of Americans would have been un-
wrung had he left their manners alone