The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-24
PARIS AND ITS PEOPLE.
A Salty Analyzation by an American
Newspaper Cores pondent.


Newspaper Correspondent.
George alfred Townsend an Boston Globe.
As Gouverneur Morris, our minister here
under Washington, wrote of these Paris
ians, calling them the most abomina BILE
populace on the globe, SO they are to-day
Among them are the vilest cutthroats of
the human race. operators in crime of
cruelty prolonged, such as the decoying of
street women to retired places and there
numbering them as the last ecstasy of a
deba lch, for which one recently suffered on
the guillotine
was passing through narrow street
parallel to the Rue r yale near midnight,
a street much trequented, as it leads by a
shorter cut from tae Champs Elysees to the
Madeleine, but dinly lighted, wnen l was
accos ed by one of those stunted, lean
Scoundrels who typify the present size of
the disappearing Partisan race, asking me
tor aims. | walked on, noddi o nv head.
The fello followed and Kissed some term.
the mea ing of which | could only infer
from tire viper accentuation done with the
tongue against the teeth. as u snake emp; les
his venom bag. He had not needed the aims.
but needed the refusal, SO as to get off
that peculiar insult TO stranger.
Their women cheat. too, and are e ln-
Gated TO do SO by their tradesmen husbands
/ w mere else will a wife sit by and aid to sell
TO stra gers the vile,t photographs in the
world. taking up the sale of hem when the
husband is purposely called aside. so that
his wlfe's anomalous influence may fall, as
IL were, accidentally into the scale! They
Tell me that such things are seen every day.
AS to tie restaurant food Of Paris it is,
in the mai only slightly bet er than French
wine at the same places, which is made
from every sort of trash between vinegar
ana water stepped III raiSins aud the COM
monesG Portuguese wines, doct red or used
TO tortlfy the claret water of Paris.
Nevertheless, this IS the most attractive
nation IN Europe. Why?
Because they live in an art which is more
entlclng than character. We avoid Ger
many, and till of late England, because
Eney are cold and up and down. The French
Halter, coquet, cheat and play for the va
lfant nature man and woman-that va
FANCY that IS the easiest to tempt en- it
Il independent circumstances They b.
I'VE man is rascal and cater to this ras-
city: he salon, the exposition, too,
mre Iull or nudity, like the shops of tle
Ne hlVol; the French p ay nudity as their
trlnp card, aud it draws. They have
Uelpting women, no Jose IN in the whole
Iapn; light, fine wine and mirrors They
Aee more glnmlilS to the black than any
peoAe on the globe. They cheat each
ovne NE monkeys and strangers like
wolNs. No wonder SO many of their fables
are upon 8eynard. He and they are
lis sa That he repubIic of Franco will
falIthrough its cGarnn-ion Tha CO. nrnr ~
tioa bank upon this corrnnrion and 0dPp mn
the expulsion of the virtuoug Orleans
princes a. capital to oveAturn the rennbHc
by popular, suffrage, If { were King of
France and wanted to reform the county I
would lang ten French tradesmen every
~ ana SET up court for strangers and
terdays cheahags. -'''ii u
Thee Is young lady In Virginia who
can wl5e two love letters at once2-one w1rh