The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-04
Oscar wilde, once more.

Oscar Wilde, In the course OF lecture
delivered recently ia the Gaioty theatre,
said that II he were asked what MOST ttrnck
him on frat landing ho would say 10 was
this, that if tho Americans were not the
most Well-dressed psopls In tho world
and hs was afraid they we're not--still they
we're the most comfortably dressed. There
were no rags to be seen anywhere. No
American evor .Aunters or strolls, or even
wslks-wslkinE WAS one OF the fins arts un-
known N America. Tney are always
rushing to catch trains, and the TACT OF
their always being in "a hurry would make
peopls here think they werc not roman
Ii, race. Really romantic people arc
never in time for anything, and Old
not care whether they caught their trains
or not. Tuear, hear But In America
catching trains was national amusement.
Their romance Was different from Ours. 10
was not tho romance Of ShakespeGrs-it
YVES the romance of commerce.
OF course, whom one was brought 10
America he was brought to see Niagara.
Every young American when married
went aud spent part OF his honeymoon al
Nigparg. and he thought the great water
fsll must prove tho first disappointment in
avery married lie. laughter NIAGARA
was DISAPPOINTING whether 10 was tnnL .ho
surroundings were 30 abomlnhbly vulgar,
got up like q tea garden, hled wish
melancholy tourists, all trying TO up
that feeling OF ol'hu-iasm which th2 guide.
books assured them they might have with.
ont any extra charge [laughterl-he dld
not know. In order 10 stand unueIneath
ibs waterfall to prevent ons's getting
drenched he had 10 wear Y full OF yellow
oil.skins Of the most unbecom,ng texture,
almost as bad az that terrible macintosh,
which be hoped none of his audience ever
thought of wearing. Laughter ] One OF
the most charming women otmod-rn tines
Nine. Bernherdt, h4I got Photographed IN
with Niagara as sort OF uupreteutioua
background
California, tba ovolisst part OF America
WAS beautiful ss the Riviera ia spring
There, and only there, did he ses n really
artistic cty-not San Francisco with is
steep streets and white heusss-Dut the clsy
built by the Chinese, who come over ei iher
To build railways or dig IN ths mines.
These were looked on as very common peo-
pie, aud great many bricks were thrown
ct men [laugnter;J but they came from a
race so artistic, Il race educated in suoh ira
ditions OF beauty, that they built for them
selves a beautiful little city, With narr "
winding streets lit with painted paper Ian.
tern. Whatever they did was beautiful. Snd
whatever beautiful thing they had they used
American children seemed TO be pale ara
precocious, ana that might be owing TO the
fact that ths only national game oil Amer,
ca was the game OF euchrc, winch could
hardly, Enthusiastically practiced, tend to
create or develop fine manly physique.
These children, however. grew up int very
charming people, the American girl being
one of the most charming de.pots that u
would be thought possible to find living in
n country with free republican institutions.
She was often most delightful oasis of I'M
reasonab lcness in the desert OF common
sense. The only well.dressed men in
America we're the miners. The men in
America had very little childhood; they
lett ssnool at II, had two or three SUGGEST
ful bankruptcies by the time they were ~
and at q were millionaires.-fIrish World