Arizona republican., 1892-05-01

nay on change or at his business and spending the evening at his club, what becomes of the wife? She, during this hme, says M. Simon, forms acquaint- ances and social relations of her own. She is left entirely free to her own de- vices, unhampered by any of the senti- mental scruples of the Old World con ceruing her husband and children, and well, she "hovers on the border line ef divorce.
 Concerning the American practice of living at hotels-and it is clear that M. simon believes that at least 70 per cent. of the well to do population of the United States has adopted that means of existence-he declares that these caravansaries render even super fiuous the hypocrisy of pretending to have a home and family. Monsieur and Madame have each their separately numbered room and their duly num- bered seat at the table d hote, nor is it usual, he adds, for either the rooms of the husband and wife, nor yet their places at table, to be contiguous.
 As to the American children M. Simon asserts that the only tie which binds them to their parents is the sentiment that they are dependent upon the latter for maintenance and support. As soon as from one reason or another they be- come self supporting the tie in question disappears, they shake themselves free from the obligation of obedience, which, according to M. Simon, they look upon as yoke" instead of as a loving duty and they become comparative strangers to their fathers and mothers,
 This is the conception which M. Jules Simon has formed of the typical Ameri- can family, and inasmuch as he is esteemed in Europe to be the greatest living authority and writer on all prob lems connected with the social system, it stands to reason that he will be be- lieved, not alone by the vast maju, y of his countrymen, who are incredibly ignorant of everything beyond their frontiers, but also by the greater portion of the people of the Old World
 It is scarcely necessary for me to men ton the fact that M. Simon has never visited the United States, and that the sole opportunities which he has enjoyed of studying the intricacies of the very complex American character have been on the Paris boulevards or at the sum- mer hotels. Possibly his convictions on the subject have been confirmed by the superficial and altogether valueless opinions of those of his countrymen who, having spent few days in New York drifting about between the Hoff- man House and the Hotel Martin, sond- ly imagine that they know America. Unfortunately neither they nor yet NJ. Simon appear to understand that there are other kinds of Americans than those whom they happen to have encountered in hotels, and that there is just as much regard for family and domestic ties of affection in the United States as in either France or anywhere else in Flu rope. The love of home-and of those dear ones who brighten with their pres ence, be the relation what 1t may-is just as strongly developed in the American heart as in the French character.
 l, too, like M. Simon, am a foreigner, and while can lay no claim to his rep utation, nor to his knowledge. nor to the universal respect which he enjoys abroad, yet there is one thing in which l am his superior-namely, in experi- ence of the American life and of the American character. And let me assure him and those whom he has misled that it is just as preposterous to judge the American family and the American character from what is seen thereof in hotels, either in Europe or in New York, as it is for Americans to gauge the standard of French morality by vile translations of vile French novels. In the cities, towns and villages of the United Statas-aye, and right here in New York as well-there are a home life, a domestic happiness and family organization of which the ordinary for eign globe trotser has no knowledge, but which are every whit as perfect in all their features as those of France or any other country of the Old World
 AN Ex-DIPLoMATIsT .