The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-08-09
4 suocEsr1vs DIFFERENCE.

Alker living in London two weeks snd seea.E but one handsome wonxn we con- cludod % go to Paris to rest our eyes "Why is it." asked . medical friend, why ts it that there are 70 beautiful wcmen in England?"
 sk i becanse poog people fped % bad y rom nocessisy that they cannot look healfhful, and became the rich aristoc- 1ey drink burgundy and champaene in place of pure water. BoW, broad Ind old cheese" continued tn doctor. sviIl not make good-loeking vumen; neifher
 will burgundy, champaene and lobster salad- The poor live pooe1y ffom ignos- ance nd necessity, and the rich live on l! unhe1Iehful food because it is fashionable.
 If all of our women would stop . mo-
 ment and think about their food If thev
 would consume bowl of heslth-Rivine rice, oatmeal or plain bread and mix
 twlce day, roses would come to their
 cheeks again, their champagny breaths
 would become sweet as the breath of a
 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, Bnght's disease and dys- pepsia would cease. As it is, all our rich people are bucking their stomachs and kidneys against copper distillesy. They
 are redistilling all their food, for nature absorbs nothing but pure water and pure food. If we drink fermented liquor or vine our stonachs have to redistill it. Nature absorbs the food and water, and the poison is pushed off through the sewers of the body, making a poison- oloated nose or 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 Amer-
 can girl-shats-"
 Hold on, Doetor." inturrupted, i" if
 you doctors would only practice what
 you preach could listen to you. be-
 lieve. after talking this way, that you will
 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 America ted President Garfield
 on rum and milk for weeks, and then
 wondered that it poisoned his blood and
 killed him."
 The transition from London to Paris is
 like coming from a funeral on a rainy forenoon and going to a picnic in the
 nnght sunlight of the afternoon. We nde two hours from London down through the hop fields of Kent, pass the great Canterbury Cathedral and find our selves oa the white cliffs of Dover. From the Doves 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. It was Sunday when we landed. Sunday is always a fete day in Normandy and Brittany, so the streets of Calais were full of gaily dressed women, in white cap4 Those who were not in the streets were working in the fields. Every now and then we could see Cath olic procession in the street. There would be the priests, the gay banners, the procession, and the yelled efiigy of the Virgin. It was amusing to see the sim. plicity of the people. Men would come from the field on this Sunday morninr. cross themselves devoutly beiore the vir- gin, say prayer, and % back again to their blows. There is no Sabbath in northern France. Men were hoeing potatoes, gathering tagots, cradling rye or hoeing beans.
 h England the fields are .eparased by hedges which take up much room. In France they are separated by tall Nor mandy poplar trees. These tree are trimmed high up, SO as not to shade the land. The limbs are trimmed oH every year. They make the fuel of France. Out in Kansas our farmers have leaned that row of willow trees half mile long will supply farmhouse with fire wood. Everywhere the French landscape IS made picturesque with the old 6our-sail windmill. This windmill grinds all their flour and feed. Farm machinery is ve.v primitive. Almost all the work is stiil l being done by hand. The American reaper and mower is seen only in large | fields.
 The picture of the farms was always the same from Calais to Paris. Cnlike ! England. the land in Franceis all culti- 1 vated. In England three-Sourths of the | land is in grass. The English do not raise one-hah as much as they consume. | With land worth $500 an acre, they can l buy food cheaper than they can raise it. l ln France thrae-Sourths of the soil is in | grain or vegetables. Trade channels are | not fully opened between France and ! America. so France buys little American | grain, and is selfsustaining. She im- ports little food. England imports almost all her food. France is prosperous. She can pay of her debt quickly. England is not prosperous No one can afford to pay the big rents. and many 6elds are untitled. Her big dehe weighs her to the ground. 1 France could live if all the rest of the would go to destruction in two vears ifl left to herself. To me the future of | France looks bright, but the future of England looks dismal enough. As America grows older sine vii have more manufactures: When our county be- comes perfectly civiEred, she will not seIl | a bale of coffon nr f, ffx, h.,sh>ye ~S -A-s