Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
PARIS AND ITS WICKED PEOPLE.
A Salty Aualyzation by an American News
paper Correspondent.

As Gouverneur Morris, our Minister
here under Washington, wrote of these
Parisians, calling them the most abom-
Unable populace on the globe. so they
are to-day Among them are the vilest
cutthroats of the human race, opera
tors in crimes of cruelty prolong ed,
such as the decoying of street women
to retired places and there numbering
them as the last ecstasy of a debaueh,
for which one recently suffered on the
guillotine.
l was passing through a narrow
street parallel to the Rue Royale near
midnight, a street much frequented. as
it leads by a shorter cut from the
Champs Elysees to the Madeleine, but
dimly lighted, when | was accosted by
one of those stunted, lean scoundrels
who typify the present size Of the dis
appearing Partisan race, asking me
for aims. | walked on, nodding my
head. The fellow followed and Kissed
some term, the meaning of which /
could only infer from the viper &C
centuation done with the tongue
against the teeth, as snake empties
its venom bag. He had not needed
to get off that peculiar insult to a
| stranger.
Their women cheat, too, and are
educated to do so by their tradesman
husbands. Where else will wife sit
by and aid to sell to strangers the
vilest photographs in the world, taking
up the sale of them when the husband
is purposely called aside so that his
wife's anomalous influence may fall, as
it were, accidentally into the scale?
They tell me that such things are seen
every day.
As to the restaurant food of Paris, il
is in the main only slightly better than
French wine at the same places, which
is made from every sort of trash be-
tween vinegar and water stepped in
raisins and the commonest Portuguese
wines doctored or used to fortify the
claret water ofsParis.
Nevertheless, this is the most attrac.
tive nation in Europe. Why?
Because they live by an art which is
more enticing than character. We
avoid Germany, and till of late En-
gland, because they are cold and up
and down. The French fatter, CO.
quette, cheat, and lay for the vagrant
nature in man and woman-that va
grancy that is the easiest to tempt
when it is in independent circum-
stances. They believe man is rascal
and cater to this rascality. The Salon,
the Exposition, too, were full of nudity,
like the shops of the Rue Rivoli; the
French play nudity as their trump
card, and it draws. They have tempt
ing women, no Joseph in the whole
nation; light, fine wine, and mirrors.
They keep more gin-mills to the block
than any people on the globe. They
cheat each other like monkeys and
strangers like wolves. No wonder
so many of their fables are upon Rey-
nard. He and they are images of each
other.
tits said that the Republic of France
will fall through its corruption. The
opposition bank upon this corruption
and upon the expulsion of the virtuous
Orleans Princes as capital to overturn
the Republic by popular suffrage. If
| were King of France and wanted to
reform the country | would hang ten
French tradesmen every day and set
up court for strangers and customers
! 20 obtain the restitution of yesterdays
cheatings George Alfred Townsend,
IN Boston Globe.