The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25

The advantages of the move are mani
fold. In London the society man must
dress three times day. In these places
he does as he pleases, and that is one
of the great charms of life in a little
French town. The inhabitants do not
know him-no need to dress for them.
His compatriots, voluntary eXiles like
himself, do know him-no need to dress
for them.
Wherefore, behold, Johns get up is a
compromise between former grandeur
and present poverty. He affects corduroy
and flannel The knickerbockers and
jacket of the former look sportsmanlike,
and are everlasting wear; the flannel shirt
is comfortable, and shortens the washing
bill. The said knickerbockers may be
patched, but they have shooting pocket;
and although he has one meal day less
than he could easily manage, he has a
shooting license.
These Britishers are clannish; they as
sociate only among themselves, unless,
indeed, 1t be among the French arts
tocracy of the town and neighborhood.
The chief qualification to be member
of their set is to do nothing. know one
case of an Englishman having been dis
covered to have accepted an agency from
some English firm, in order to low his
family to live little better. He was
piteously "boycotted' as black sheep.
Yet these worthy folks are kind hearted.
The poorest of them are often charitable.
Not to be able to give to the poor would
have been the hardest privation resulting
from their reduced state. At Christmas,
at any rate, they must permit themselves
the luxury of RECALLING some of the poor
old folks of the neighborhood. Dear,
funny, lovable snobs! They may have
been taught to despise work-they may
have their whims and fads; but at the
core there is. much that is sweet and
wholesome in them, and few of their
acts need be repudiated by the incest
gentleman. | remember once going to
an English church with one of those self
banished Britons. When the collection
bag came round he dropped in a SOU,
which he had pulled out of his pocket in
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bly, very few coins in that pocket of his
At all events, before it was time to leave
he had discovered his mistake, and be-
fore we left he had rectified it, taking
the trouble to go all round the church to
find the person who had carried the bag
These people, plenty of whom have
had luxurious homes in England, are
fain to content themselves with little,
poorly furnished house, for which they
pay forty or fifty francs month. Are
shere no carpets on the floor, they con-
sole themselves with the thought of the
dust those luxuries are apt to harbor. Is
there little furniture in the drawing
room, they think of the overcrowded
salons in South Kensington, and are al
most ready to look upon the possibility
of free movement as blessing cheap at
the price.
Thanks to the Unborn talent English
women have for making their houses
pretty, the plain furniture is soon supple
mented by a hundred knicknacks, and
the aspect of the place is far from being
uninviting. have seen some of these
houses, with poverty plainly staring out
from garnet to ground floor, yet looking
pretty, thanks to the women who lived
in them. Their own drawings, and
f,w good photographs, elegantly
framed, frightened the walls, and
drapery, cheap, but gracefully en-
broidered and looped about the win
dows, doors and fireplace, gave certain