Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-01
AMERICANS IN PARIS.
Wrs. Sherwood Gessips Pleasantly
 the American Colony.

| Ass SAoT~ ~oO0 G0ss1ps Pl6a0antlY 01 the American Colony.
 | The American home in Paris has all the
 Parisian grace and comforts besides. The
 rooms are warmer, there are more rugs on
 the floors than in French apartment, and.
 above all, we have given them that vision of
 Oriental luxury, the Boston rocking chair.
 As MT. Everett used to say, in his fine, state
 ly manner, that Columbus stopped with his
 little boy at the gate of the convent at Palos
 to beg crust of bread; but that we, in re-
 celving the crowd of emigrants from Europe,
 had repaid the act of hospitality from the old world to the discoverer of the new world 50 we Puritan New Englanders, coming to Paris from It's elegance, it's luxurianse of toi- les, It's succulent good chickens, it's marvel. ous cookery, it's art, science and perfect civ. illzatlon, have tried to pay our debt by giy- ing France the Boston rocking chair, it is something to be proud of.
 Colonel Thorn was the first American col
 onlst who began to live like prince in this city. He set the example to 8 host of fol.
 lowers. Our grandfathers, coming labori- ously to Paris in ship which took six weeks for the passage, used to return home and tell us of the handsome colonel, his beautiful daughters, the princes of the house of Or- leans, who were his guests, etc. One of his daughters became lady-in-waiting to the Empress Eugenie.
 The beautiful daughters of Dr. Valentine Mott, afterward Mrs. Van Buren and Mrs. Isaac Bell, made the American name famous TOT that beauty which has continued to hold sway. Mrs. s'Lily" Moulton and Mrs. Ron aids skated themselves into the favor of the emperor, who reversed the cruelty with which his great uncle, Napoleon l., treated Misss Patterson.
 The fair daughters of Mir. Beckwith. with their marvellous complexions, made an en- during record of loveliness.
 It would be impossible to speak of all the tine women and brave men who have made the American colony famous, of those re. tired scholars and wandering diplomats who have played their part in the worlds pa geant, all Of whom have enriched the colony with their presence. Nor can ever ennme- rate the opulent of all our American eities who make this city their home for at least part ot the year. Of course this has led to many intermar-iages, 50 that a crowd of young French nobles now boast of American mothers who have given them good looks, a plentiful purse and the English language.
 TO those Americans who found that twen- ty years ago Paris was good city to econo- mlze ln the change in prices is woeful mis- fortune. Rents, provisions and seryants' wages are all twice what they once were. ! Servants are less faithful, less respectful. Life in Paris is beginning to have some of the domestic tribulations which it has al- ways enjoyed in New York. But still living here is cheaper and easier than in any Amer. ican city.
 And Paris is so clean. To the New York CT, accustomed to the intolerable dirt of the metropolis, the pavement of the Champs- Elysees seems fit to eat onels dinner off of One may drive whole day in Paris and not gee piece of brown paper in the street Ine i! visltors eyes are not assailed by dus < olie, ms comfort is attended to in ever. :. street, has a serene consciousness =.