Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
CELL PERKINS" IN PARIS.

He Tackles Quart or so of French
Wine and Awaits Results, which Fail
to Appear-The Wicked Capital.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Beaos.
PARIS, July 26.-I have been in Paris
three weeks and have seen but one
Frenchman drunk, and he, on investiga-
ton, proved to be an Irishman. Still the
Partisan is always drinking. He drinks
wine with his rolls and butter in the early
morning, swills down a full quart with
his midday breakfast at - O'Clock (dejeu-
ReF q la fOuTchette), and pours down
another quart at his O'Clock dinner.
Wine takes the place of both milk and
water. There is no milk to be had in a
Paris cafe after 10 O'Clock. ] have walked
a mile at II O'Clock in the morning, calling
at every cafe to get coffee and milk and
then failed to get it.
The other day l thought I'd try some
of this wine that all Paris is drinking in
! the place of water. l found that the
ruling price was 90 cents for a quart bot
tie. 1 ordered a pint. l thought that
would do for temperance man. | drank
it and then awaited results. Results did
not come. l ordered another pint. l was
determined to know all about this French
| wine, if it made me have the delirium
| tremens. After drinking the second pint
| was thirsty, and drank off the thfrd in
place II water. Still no results. A
| fourth, and l felt a solemn, tranquilized
! feeling. / felt that | was an habitual
| drunkard without being drunk. | was a
| heavy drinker, and still l could stand up
and address a Sabbath school. | asked q
/ Frenchman why | did not feel this wine.
go, you don't hold enough" he said.
GLOW much would have to hold to get
! drunk ~ 1 asked.
] "AbOut three gallons of ordinary Wine
would do the business" he said.
| By this time 1 was so utterly sober and
| stupid that | went and got cup of strong
| coffee. The coffee brought me up to
normal condition again.
When | mentioned my wine-drinking to
an Englishman he exclaimed:
''DO you call that red slush wine? Why,
egad, man, it is only the washings of the
grapes after the wine has been pressed
out. The wine has all been sent to Eng
land and America. The wine you see IN
the Paris cafes is rain water colored with
grape SKINS"
If any one of my American readers has
the deliriun1 tren1ens he can cure himself
and make himself fit for a temperance
lecturer in ten days if he will come over
here and drink and battle in French cafe
wine. If our American temperance lee.
turers would ship it over to America and
pour gallons of it into our drunkards, it
would reform them cheaper and quicker
than temperance tracts. Talk about |
church festival lemonade. being weak
Why, a gallon of it would give a Wine |
drinking Frenchman the deIiriun2 trenlenS.
Still French wine does not conduce to /
health. 1t may not intOXicate like rum !
and gin in England or whisky in America, |
but it is fermented liquor. 1t is an i'm |
prOvement or whisky, but still wine is |
not water. Followed up, day after day, |
fhn oh Il
is baneful.
BABIES DRINKING WINE.
Last year Paris consumed 107, 426, 900 |
gallons of wine. This was about forty |
seven gallons to each person, or over a |
pint day to each man, woman and child. /
1t is a very common thing to see French |
mothers feeding wine to a nursing babe /
This is why babies always look so sickly |
in France. In fact, this drinking of wine |
in place Of milk and water has changed |
the looks of the French people. 1t is sell /
dom that you see a rosy checked girl, and /
rosy checked, cherub faced babies never! /
They all look sallow. America has more /
beautiful women in Savannah or Phila- |
delphia or Chicago than there are in all |
Europe.
[ asked Mr.. Morton, our Minister, what 1
else the Parisians ATE and he said:
''They drink annually 25,000,000 gallons /
of milk, or about two-thirds of a gill daily I
to each person. / suppose New York |
consumes five times as much. Paris con- /
sumes annually 100000 pounds of cotton /
seed and olive oil. and 1595. 020 pounds of |
horse flesh. The Parisians consume an
nually 312, 0000 900 pounds of fresh meat, or |
about one-thiTd of pound daily to each |
person. They consume nearly pound of .
bread day to each person. So you see /
bread and wine is the chief food of the |
ParisianS.7
I1T1.aA 1.ao1AL 81 o4ro,,c.4L ,,,1 l,oc,,4v-
would come to the ParlslanS If they |
would reason a little and change that pint |
of wine daily to a pint of healthful milk! |
A pint of wine to a gill of milk is hurting !
the French nation.
WICKED PARIS.
There is great liberty in Paris, but
there is not so much wickedness as there
is in London. London at midnight on the
Strand and around the Haymarket is a
pandemOnium of wickedness. The streets
are full of lewd women, who ogle strang-
ers with blear eyes, or, catching hold of
them, try to pull them into bar-rooms.
In Paris the streets are not so wicked.
The old Mabille is closed. Another place
about as wicked, called the Folies Ber-
CERES, has been opened on the Rue du
Faubourg MOntmartre. This has a va
riety show on the stage, while the
! auditorium is filled with the wicked girls
of Paris. Here they sit at tables and
drink wine, chat the fellows, and finally
| go home with some innocent tourist from
London or Kalamazoo.
In the Champs EIysees, the park in the
| centre of Paris, there is the same old Cafe
! Chantant-yes, three or four Of them
where they have female MINISTRIES and
| very coarse variety performances. The
| admission is free, but every one is charged
| 60 cents for an ice cream or lemonade.
! These open-air variety performances are
| patronized by everyone, including few
! of the demi-mOnde.
The worst part of Paris now is over on
| the lie de la Cite. This is the oldest part
! of Paris. Here, near the Luxembourg,
! they have the students balls. The dam
! GERS are grisettes and wicked girls gen.
orally. They are well watched by the
| police, and nothing happens there very
much out of the way.
All the good Christian people Of Paris
| go to the circus on Saturday evening to
see the demi-mOnde, for then, it is gener-
! ally understood, the swell demi-mOnde
will turn out in their best toilets. The
average good woman is always anxious
| to see the bad women. They stare at them
! through opera glasses. When L went to
the circus, everybody seemed to me good.
| really don't believe there were twenty
| bad women there. Still every one Of the
| thousand good women stared at the other
999 good women and thought them bad.
| There were the stald wives OF MaSSachu-
| sets deacons from the American colony
there, and those leveling opera glasses at
them thought them to be grisettes. Half
| of the Wickedness in this world is all sus-
| picion any way. The world is not so bad
as many suspicious good people would
make it out to be.
In my opinion the wickedness of Paris
is all imaginary. New ork or Chicago
| can discount Paris for wickedness, and
| London could even shock the old fire.
! quenters of the Mabille.
ELI PERKINS.