Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-27
CELL PERKINS, IN PARIS.
England and France Contrasted-Th
Cereals Versus Meat--Mhat One Acr

Special Correspondence Of the Morning. NeSOs.
PARIS, July 14.-After living in London
two weeks and seeing but one handsome
woman, we concluded to go TO Paris TO
rest our eyes.
why is it, l asked medical friend,
why is it that there are no beautiful
women in England?"
s'It is because poor people feed so badly
from necessity that they cannot look
healthful, and because the rich aristocracy
drink burgundy and champagne in place
of pure drink water. Beer, bread and
old cheese" continued the doctor, twill
not make good-looking women; neither
will burgundy, champagne and lobster
salad. The poor live poorly from ignor-
ance and necessity, and the rich live on
unhealthful food because it is fashionable.
If all our women would stop a moment
and think about their food; if they would
consume bowl of health-giving rice,
oatmeal or plain bread and milk twice
day, roses would come TO their cheeks
again, their champagnY breaths would
become sweet as the breath of baby, and
dimples would come to their chins. And
if our men, too" continued the doctor,
'would stop drinking beer and rum, and
stop eating salads and 'rare-bits' at night,
and astOnish their stOmachs with pure
water and bread and milk, diabetes
BrighPs disease and dyspepsia would
cease. AS it is, all our rich people are
bucking their stOmachs and Kidneys
against copper distllery. They are re-
distilling all their food, for nature abs0rbs
nothing but pure water and pure food. II
we drink fermented liquor or wine our
stOmachs have 10 re-distillit. Nature alb
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is pushed of through the sewers of the
body, making poisoned-bloated nose or
a burgundy-colOred face. That's what is
the matter with the faces Of our English
aristocracy. That's why our women look
coarse. That's why the purple and red
nose takes the place of the pink cheek of
your healthful American girl-thats-''
'Hold on, doctorw l interrupted, ''if
you doctors would only practice
what you preach, | could listen to
you. / believe, after talking this
way, that you viii go and prescribe
brandy or beer or rum and milk TO
the first patient you have. Why, three Of
our most learned medical idiots in Amer
lea fed President Garfield on rum and
milk for weeks, and then wondered that
it poisoned his blood and killed him."
CHANGING FROM LONDON To PARIS.
The transition from London to Paris is
like coming from a funeral on a rainy
forenoon and going to a picnic in the
bright sunlight in the afternoon. We ride
two hours from London down through the
hop fields of Kent, pass the great CanteT-
bury Cathedral and find ourselves on the
white cliffs of Dover. From the Dover
chalk hills, if we strain our eyes on
clear day, we can see across the Channel
to Calais. We get into the new twin boat,
two boats bOlted together side by side),
and in an hour and half we are in Calais.
1t was Sunday when we landed. Sunday
is always a tete day in Normandy and
Brittany, so the streets of Calais were
full of gaily dressed women in white caps.
Those who were not in the streets were
in the fields. Every now and
then we could see a Catholic procession
in the street. There would be the priest,
the gay banners, the procession, and the
yelled effigy of the Virgin. 1t was anus
ing to see the simplicity of the people.
Men would come from the field on this
Sunday morning, cross themselves de-
vOutly before the Virgin, say prayer and
go back again to their ploughsl There Is
no Sabbath in Northern France. Men
were hoeing potatoes, gathering fagOts,
grading rye or hoeing beans.
In England the fields are separated by
hedges which take up much room. In
France they are separated by tall Nor
mandy poplar trees. These trees are
high up, so as not to shade the
land. The limbs are trimmed off every
year. They make the fuel of France. Out
In Kansas our farmers have learned that
a row of willow trees half mile long Will
supply a farmhouse with firewOOd. Every
where the French landscape is made pic
with the old four-sail windmill.
This windmill grinds all their -four and
feed. Farm machinery is very primitive.
Almost all the work is still being done by
hand. The American reaper and mower
is seen only in large fields.
ENGLAND AND FRANCE CoNTRAsTED.
The picture Of the farms was always
the same from Calais to Paris. Unlike
England, the land in France is all Guilt
waited. In England three-tourths of the
land is in grass. The English do not raise
lne-half as much as they consume. With
land worth $500 an acre they can buy food
cheaper than they can raise it. In France
-hree-fOurths of the soil is in grain or
Trade channels are not fully
opened between France and America, so
France buys little American grain and is
She imports little food.
England imports almost all her food.
France is prosperous. She pays off her
debt quickly. England is not prosperous.
No one can afford to pay the big rents,
ana many neluS are untitled. her Dig
debt weighs her to the ground. France
could live if all the rest of the world
should be blotted out. England would 60
to destruction in two years if left to her.
self. To me, the future of France looks
bright, but the future Of England looks
dismal enough. As America grows older
she will have more manufactures. When
our country becomes perfectly civilized
she Will not sell a bale of cotton or fifty
bushels Of wheat and buy with the pro-
ceeds a brass clock from England or a
Limogese vase from France. When we
make our own brass and china ornaments
in America, England will be badly off.
When her manufactures fail her, she will
be a beggar among nations. But even
with no expectations of wine, or china, or
brass, France could live within herself,
for three-fourths of her soil is devoted to
cereals.
THE CEREALS VERSUS MEAT.
England is a meat eater, while France
is a cereal eater, or an eater of bread and
oil. Yesterday / had a long talk with lie
Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps in regard to
the value of cereals for food. NJ. de Les
sons worked thousands of Italians Turks |