Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-09

PITTSBURG DlSPAIOd
| One of his daughters became a Lady in
Waiting to the Empress Eugene.
The beautiful daughters of DR.. Valentine
Mott afterward Mrs. Van Buren and Mrs.
Isaac Bell, made the American name famous
for that beauty which has continued to hold
sway. Mrs. "Lily" Moulton and Mrs.
Ronalds skated themselves into the favor OF
the Emperor, who reversed the cruelty with
which his great-uncle, Napoleon L, treated
Miss Patterson.
The fair daughters of Mr.. Beckwith, with
their marvellous compilations, made an en-
during record of loveliness.
1t would be impossible to speak Of all the
fine women and brave men who have made
the American colony famous, of those re-
tired scholars and wandering diplomatlsts
who have played their part in the worlds
pageant, all of whom have enriched the
colony with their presence. Nor can L
even enumerate the opulent of all our Amer
ican cities who make this city their home
for at least part of the year. Of course
this has led to many intermarriages, so that
a crowd of young French mobiles now boast
of American mothers, who have given them
good cooks, a plentiful purse and the En-
glish language.
To those Americans who found that 20
years ago Paris was good city to econo-
mize in the change in prices is woeful
misfortune. Rents, provisions, and serv-
ants wages are all twice what they were
once. Servants are less faithful, less re-
spectful. Life in Paris is beginning to
have some Of the domestic tribulations
which it has always enjoyed in New York.
But still, living here is cheaper and easier
than in any American city.
A CLEANLY CITY.
And Paris is so clean. To the New
Yorker, accustomed to the intolerable dirt
OF the metropolis, the pavement of the
Champs Elysees seems fit to eat ones dinner
off of. One may drive whole day in Paris
nor see piece of brown paper in the streets.
The visitors eyes are not assailed by dust
or dirt; his comfort is attended to in every
respect. If the Bostonian who, in Beacon
street, has serene conscience that every
body knows who he is, learns that in the
Boulevard des Italiens, he gains amuse-
ment and distraction" and luxury; if the
Philadelphia is less allied to the Declara-
tion of Independence in the Rue de Rivoli
than in Rittenhouse square, he revels in a
view which Philadelphia cannot give him,
and if the New Yorker, who has less to lose
than any OF them, for all New Workers are
carpet-baggers, If he gives up his Wall
street, his Trinity Church. his position as
one of the ''400"-he gladly mingles in the
human stream of Paris. He is happy in
spite of himself, for as Julius Cesar says in
his "Commentaries": I reached place
called Lutetia, where there are mud baths,
where the air is delicate, and it makes the
people gay and laughter-loving." That was |
Paris, and that subtle jet of gas is playing |
still; it bursts forth with uncommon |
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Concorde, and it illuminates with its cheer |
the great city. Such are the reasons why |
there has always been, is now and ever will |
be, an American colony in Paris.
To the colony and to all Americans, the |
present moment of the Exposition is one of |
deep interest. We can forgive old Frank
lin his lack OF paternal generosity when we |
see the two flags flying together from yonder
watchtower, for the old philosopher, in spite |
of his lapse of virtue, was a diplomatist. |
We shall not insult noble profession if we |
say perhaps because of that lapse. He never |
forgot what he was about. To his constant |
intercession we see the interest felt by |
France in our early struggle for freedom.
1t was he who inspired LAFAYETTE. If he |
made love to pretty maid of honor, he |
still took care of the business of his country. |
In word, he was model member of the |
American colony, its founder in fact.
A FLYING CONTINGENT.
The American olony keeps up a flying
battery: the summer visitors who cross the |
Atlantic ferry twice a year. This contin-
dence of shop-keepers, and it brings new
blood to the old colony. Many American
women come to Paris simply to get their
summer clothes. 1t is cheaper than staying
at home and paying New York shop-keep-
ers their exorbitant prices. What pity
that when they are at the Bon Marche, they
do not go to see the antiquities of Paris, q
city so full of interest, especially to Ameri-
cans. How can they leave it out? There is
a life work of interest in the unvisited
Paris, which all who remember 1885, should
keep in mind. The new arrivals should
initiate the old residents and study their
Paris. Then the two divisions of the
colony would stand on more equal foot
ing. Those who come to buy would then
those who have come to stay.
The American colony is full Of art students
who have profted by the severe and ac-
curate teaching of the French schools of
art How indignant have been these foster
children of artistic Paris at that unwise leg
islation of ours which would put an embargo
On foreign works of art. They remember
but too keenly, the noble generosity of their
French masters. This is still one of the
burning topics of conversation in all the art
circles of this Paris American colony.
As for the schools of law, medicine,
science in all its branches, the neat. defined, |
accurate French mind, has been
If incalculable value to all students, and
specially to Americans; tor our inteiIects
IRE like our scenery, broad, large, inco-
lerent, unformulated, underlined. lacking