Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18

Paris dozen replicas may be seen OF him in
dress, attitude, manner on the Boulevard. The
fat Frenchman is in an ecstacy because he can
make up easily into the 'boule dogue" style,
and hylif sets we'll on his plumptitude. He
even rouges his fat throat and ears to copy
more nearly the great imperial, until. alas, in
his last visit to the great exposition the prince
presented an extraordinary pallor-the pallor
of i'll health-which was very confusing to the
French BARRIERS. The French women, who
have long since bowed to the superiority of tho
English habit, stood out for a long time against
the British uniform" a waterproof and an
umbrella; but of late years they have invented
their own waterproof. a very pretty mod,tica-
ton OF the English enormity the only dread
full popularity OF which IL. like Lady Maebeth's
hands. lit smells TO heaven" of sulphurous
india rubber.
CERTAIN FRENCH ANaLoMANIAos
have taken to thick, fat-footed shoes and to
mems collars and cuffs, the vest and the straight
shirt, but after two or three walks in the Bots,
and after seeing several male disdainful lorg-
nettes aimed at them, the little heel begins 10
grow and the collar gets a coquettish turn.
Frenchman does not take kindly to anything
unbecomlng in dress. Stylish ladies in the Eau
bourg still refrain from patroniZing Worth,
because he is an English dressmaker, and, as
as they say, STIFF and un-French. Even those
who are determined Anglomsniacs are Curl
ously unlike the stiff English Mees whom they
try to copy. The greatest efforts at copying
are confined TO the horse people. At the races
in the dog cart, in the mattor of "breakes,"
''le boge, 'sportique. ""sportman" and sport
woman" the Frenchman approaches as nearly
to the reality in his 'Knicker boots" as he can
and about as nearly as he does in his
language. He is delighted when in
England to shoot the "grouses," and he is de-
voted to rowing men," On the Seine one
sees an aquatic imitation Of the struggle on the
Isis and the Cam. and one crew will declare
that the other crew is all 'humbog." 1t is
amusing to see group Of young French peo-
pie playing lawn tennis and having afterward
"tea five clocque." The .'clubmans" of these
sports and of the 'criketers" are about as
much like English people as Dick Swiveller
was like marquis OF the Lewis Quinze period.
They are doing thing they do not like to do
They are drinking tea which they detest. They
are getting dyspepsia from it, but they are
happy, because they are 80 English, you
know"
There are three or four initial difficulties
which beset the nglish-speaking French
They never master the possessive case. Mrs.
Stewards dog is always Mrs. Stewart dog, or
Mrs. Stewards dog. Never do they get the
apostrophe IN the right place. Sometimes they
have the land tho apostrophe in q little
later, as 1.-The English Woman Eeviewss," DC,
3 W,
Is not for us, who mako such intolerable mis-
takes when we attempt these beautiful Ian
guages, to laugh at these French errors. 1t is
only permissible to smile. as one may always
at the limitations OF the English character
which one Sees
where one gets ices, ''popche" and everything
but good English tea The weak, feeble. luke
warm decoction which French people call tea
reminds one OF the lemonade which the mar
chionoss made for Dick Swiveller. If you pre-
tend great deal you can make out that it is
tea. The wonderful book OF Alphonse Daudet
which was made into q play, "L'Immortel,'
had phrase which became q proverb The
''strug for lifeurs" were tho men who ambi-
tiously sought to push their way to the front
The strug for life was a word used as a noun
verb and adverb, aud had much that was gram
matically amusing.
ANGLoMANIAo DOCTORS.
The Anglomania has SO affected the doctors
that they will neglect all other patients to at
tend to countess, or o member Of the royal
family. Unable to fix upon any real royal
family OF their own, the members of the medi-
cal profession in France have so peremptorily
adopted the royal family Of England that no
matter how i'll any person Of another nation
ality may be. it is said French doctor would
leave them in eItremis' if a queen or a prin-
cess or a duchess OF the English oligarchy were
Ill or had finger ache. Tins has definitely in
Jured some otherwise clever men In their pro-
fessional life. Because whilo snobs are I'M
lovely aud to be avoided in all social inter-
course, medical snob becomes positively dan
gerous.
LAUaHABLK EFFORTS AT IMITATION.
Frenchmen try with various degrees of sue
cess to adopt English phlegm To this end you
see many vivacious and graceful Frenchmen in
the Bots attempting to be melancholy, gloomy
and awkward. Thoy keep it up for a short
walk, but II they meet one or two comrades
phlegm drops out. They .ob-er-nob-ei," as
they would say, and the bright, cheerful Gas
con blood mounts to the eye and cheek. Then
they remember! The binacle jumps to the eve
and they become pan-English and talk OF
moblsme, Hair tage" they are very great on
this word), "black boulage" and "Inglis" as
she is spoke. A Frenchman who has got half
way In the English language il very fond OF
. Taking, slang. He orders ''gros" or
'.visky" or a ''toasts;" he quotes the songs of
the cole hole" or the ''ciders cellars" He
says he has put himself outside Of a rum
steaks, and he soon becomes American and
orders "coktels' and SHERRY gobblers," buthe
can never bring himself (and the more honor to
hlm) to copy the American extravaganza in
viands and flowers at dinner. Frenchman
is always frugal. He has learned that the first
expense INDUCED in by the English in horse
fesh leather outfits, good harness, good car
riases ana thoroughly good clothes, Is always
an economy in the end. Therefore he ia a wise
Anslomaniac when he spends money freely
Tor all these things and has his reward
In 1t. But he can never be brought to see what
reward there il in flowers at u dinner or too
much to eat and drink. "Catch money if you
can honestly, but catch money" has entered
their wise heads long before 1t entered the
heavier Anglo-Saxon brains. They are quite
ready to marry an American heiress, but they
never wish TO copy American ways. They de-
spise American men. There are wide differ
ences OF character, as consummate q gulf be-
tween the English and French character Us is
that watery channel which runs between which
none Of US like to cross in bad weather.
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN FRANCE.
II was Voltaire who first said that he was the
first FrenchmHn to make his countrymen read
English literature. He had the advantage of
choice era and could troduce to them Boiling
broke, Pope and Swift. He has had long and
immortal following, eliminating in the person
of Taine, whose English Literature" is the
best and most comprehensive OF all collections
and criticisms.
Racine, Moliere and Dumas have, however.
created an immense number types of French
men, but in none Of these, except in their de-
sire for imitation, can We find the excuse for
In tho celebrated "Caractercs"
Of La Bruyere we find many Just and fine OBJ
Of the peculiarities of the authors
but We find no excuse for the an
Rlomaniac. The French are sanguine the
English are melancholy. The critics of La
Bruyere say that be IL "trop descendu dams la |
particuiier;" We might say this of French |
man. A Frenchman has great talent for de- |
While an Englishman takes hls pleasure ..monit |
the Frenchman takea his life