The daily critic., 1890-10-31
ENGlEgD AND AMERICA C0yI35SIED
A Theory That Our Women Are Best
When Married in France
INFLUENCE or CENTRAL BOOTHS BOOK
Around The World in the Brief Space Of
One Month. A Solid Mountain Of
Pure Salt in Louisiana The
Vale Of Avoea.


going on in Conslantinople has happily
been adjusted and peace reins once
more in the family Of the Sultan. II is
the custom for some member Of the
family TO present the Sultan with
Georgian girl in the springtime and this
last spring there arose two candidates for
that honor. One was the Sultan's sis
ter, Princess Diemlle, and the other
was his aunt, Adile.
There was really a serious rumpus,
but the aunt IA wiful old cat Of Gj) had
herwav, and she selected, purchased
and gave to the Sultan the handsomest
maiden In the market. In accordance
with time. honored custom this maiden
had TO be examined by the royal physi-
clan and a bevy of experienced old
duennas, and, having passed muster,
she was taken in hand by the Nubian
and Albanian attendants and duly fat.
tened and trained for the harem.
At this time there are 214 favorites
,so called) In the harem. OF this
number twenty-four are tlrst-class IA.
vOrites, one Of which Is each year trans
ferred 10 the second class fav0rites.
Graduated from the second class mum
bering 2j0) the girl Is invariably mar
fied off to some Turkish nobleman,
who esteems Il great honor to secure
sample of the Sultan harem goods.
1t Is said that just at present the Sui.
tan Ia In great sorrow over the loss OF
his first wife's sight. To this woman
he Is sincerely attached, and he has
expended enormous sums In his efforts
TO secure her relief from the particu
larly dreadful kind of ophthalmla that
obtains in the Orient. The Sultana's
tight Is completely gone. but Professor
Bergmeister, the famous German spe
cialist, believes that its restoration can
he Effected and still another operation
Is to be essayed.
The Bey Of Tunis supports harem,
hut Il is very modest one. He has had
three wives only and one of these Is
fCad. The survivor, happening 70 be
in Constantinople some years ago,
bought beautiful young girl AMI
lrought her back to Morocco to be ALI
Hey's third wife. Now, there was con
iupal magnanimity for youl These two
wives live most tremendously together;
they dress In European fashion, and,
for that matter S. aoes Ali Bey. who is
now 20 years Of age.
The Bey has ten children, five boys
and five girls. A lack Of money has
compelled the old gentleman to send the
children to the schools patrOnized by
common people. Yet the Bey receives
annually 100000 plasters from the
government, and his personal estate Is
valued at $l4 600, The entire absence
Of jealousy among the wives and favor.
ties OF Mussulmans presents a direct
contrast 10 the feeling that obtains
among womankind In other parts Of the
world, and illustrates how all powerful
IL custom when prescribed by articles Of
religious faith,
The unadullerated strain Of English
blood In America and certain other
small sections Of charming and cult
waited people not English still possess
this steadiness and poise which l have
elsewhere called moral inertia. and are
quite free from vulgar bounce and
boastfulness, says a writer In the o. Fort
nightly Review" But these are no
longer the dominant classes in AmeFi-
can life. Democratic institutions have
tended TO their Acknowledgement,
The remnant, possessing a refined ira
dilion OF manners and OF culture and en-
doWed hereditarily with the love OF
whatsoever things ere noble and of good
report, comparatively speaking, Is very
small. Not unlike the class Of the Fau-
bouTg St. German ia Paris, Il lives ia
as unobtrusive an alienation as possible
in the midst Of a vast number OF good
natured and commonplace vulgarians.
Its function Is the tending of the yestal
fires. Ii Is an aTistoeTaey bey nd quss-
han a rfz
Of England. LeYites of thu rens of the
best IN American life, thg r own self
preservation almost deman Is their isola-
non.
Their condition Is pathetic were Il not
50 enyiable. in the distinction attaching
10 iheir sacred obligation Of preserving
the national records and keeping the
iiTCs alight. Al times they half believe
hey prefer the sinking breath and
lhe 'sWeaIy nightcap' Of the rampant
democracy fast developing In England
10 the eXaspeTating habit Of gaucheTle
manifested IN every gesture By people
given only 10 pennies, psalms OF plati-
iudes. For, though the gap between
the higher and the lower In England IS
yearly narrowing, Still there Is a pleas
ant Difference and that habit Of respect
which leads 70 ease Of living there.
In America the pTesumptuOus famllt-
aTily Of manner, born usually of tue
very kindest aud most unselhsh feel
iBgs, Is extremely odiOus, and none the
less SO for the merit Of its origin.
American bOnhomie seems 10 be an en-
deavor 10 be one thing 10 all men. THIS
is not at an the same thing as being all
things % all men. The Pauline di-
plomaey Is an ideal that neither Eng
land nor America has reached. The
self eenleTed indifference Of Englshmen
is as unf6yorable 10 this ideal as the
hearty abandon Of indiscriminate in
limacy that marks the American type
The Christian conception Of the fel-
loWsbip Of mankind and love of ones
neighbor has become far ripper In
America than IN England aud IL Is
usually more genuine when il exists.
But there Is very little Of the actual
splrit Of Christianity IN either country
There, as here, Jesus, whom haiers OF
the Jegs, with peTFerse thOughuessness.
siill prefer 10 call Christ, Is the most
discussed by the least understood person
In history. In America people are
often Wooed 70 churches where they are
told nine times what Paul said % once
what Jesus said, aud their attendance Is
Won hy theatrical devices which 10
England would be thought very bad
taste indeed.
The young American girl iu France.
even though she should reside there a
long tine. says Madame Adam 10 the