The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-17
CUSTOMS OF EFFETE EUROPE.
They Make a Southern Woman Feel
Like Shouting Freedom.
From the Neto Orleans Picauune.

6lho G1OQLlnR PIoOdOlAs
From the Neto Orleans Picapune.
In America we have district messenger
boys, electric lights in our houses, steam
heaters, gas, patent ice cream freezers,
artificial fires, imitation stained glass,
evening newspapers. ice, big bath tubs,
dime museums. ths thousand and one
amusements and conveniences demanded
by our nervous and luxurious people.
In Europe you sit in your bed room by a
wax candle, you fasten your letter with a
wafer and seal, you have next to no news
PAPER at all, you must battle In a sugar
bowl, and if you call for ice at your hotel
the proprietor comes in person to make
sure you mean what you say, and it is ten
chances to one if he does not formally warn
you you get the ice at your own risk and
that he washes his hands of all responsible
ity in the matter.
In these European cities you hear no
sounds OF building, you see no derricks nor
piles of mortar, you hear no busy whirr Of
factory wheels, and as you 60 on, on, from
town to town and city to city, you beginto,
feel TIE mellow age Of all this civilization
of a world in its aftermath. The soil is
titled for food, and patient human spiders
sit in the sunshine in their filmy cobwebs of
lace, spun as it has been for hundreds of
wears. JH0 DtdUbllui pdRcdU-
tries and ceremonies of the church keep
alive religion, and man works to live, while
with us he lives to work.
am tempted to keep on in this train and
tell how variously and how curiously we
are regarded as a nation. 1t Is more than
true that only a less than a swing remnant
of the population of the old world know
ANYTHING in fact of the United States
Scnoolboys learn but little of our history,
IL Id ,s-.I.A
put European statesman to blush for his
superior knowledge of American affairs.
The Picdultne would lose its readers if 1t
failed to give daily its columns of minuUely
detailed events in European current his
tory. On lucky day find in tho great
London telegraph ten liues devoted to the
United States When tell over here that
came from the south they set me down for
either Brazilian or a Gillian. A hard
working house servant in England gets $40
a wear. many laborers with families to sup
port earn no more than &c month, and on
the continent q good carpenter IS well
pleased if he gets ~ cents day, while his
average wages in many countries are not
more than 40 cents.
In Germany things are worse, where a
period of military life is compulsory. Self
respect is not taught in any of these coun-
tries. How can it be, where the creed is
that one man IS better Than anoGner IL no Is
born the richer of the two and in q more
luxurious social station7 No one, or scarcely
no one is proof against taking fec. You
can fee, and the price is not high. / do not
think the individual to blame for this, but
the whole trend of life. 1t is a shame to
see the one man erect, wholesome, fine
minded, capable, noble, defer himself
abiectly to the v him Of fool who simply
owns by inheritance a coronet or is down
in the blue book.
If wish to travel undisturbed in rail-
way carriage give the guard a tiny bit of
silver-10 or ~ cents. Fancy bribing q
Pullman palace car conductor with a
quarter. In the majority Of the restaur-
auts walters pay for the privilege Of serving
and expect to make living out Of their
fees. Ii is a system that encourages the
moral deterioration of the whole nation,
but unfortunately there seems to be remedy
for il. Honest, pure women nod and
courtesy at their betters, brave men walk
backward before their 'superiorsn-it is all
a variety of slavery. and as | sec 1t feel
like getting upon the housetops and telling
of the freedom of free America.