Arizona republican., 1892-05-01

Il their easy going and deliberate
 , into a mad Yankee gallop which
 5es no time for any such cumbersome
 gage as sentiment and domestic ties
 Affection, he proceeds to state that it
 the family institution alone which
 'etens life and renders it pure. It
 refore follows, according to M. Si-
 n, that if the Americans by means of 4 ir perniciOu5 example are destroying family system of the Old World,
 y are ipso facto also destroying the
 -ity of the latter.
 1 This will doubtless appear to most of \ ? American readers very astOnish-
 remark-especially when it is borne
 mind that it comes from a Gaul. To II accused, by the French of all people,
 the crime of perverting their moral 4 and of contaminating their purity ! probably about the very last thing in
 world that the Americans would i pect. Indeed, the inhabitants of this \ untry have hitherto been under the
 ,pression that it was just the other \ 4y-that, instead of the Americans ryertins the French, it was the latter no were making havoc of American
 nocence; and to such an extent does
 is belief prevail in the United States
 at the terms "yery Gallic" or "very
 rench" are regarded here as synony- ous of propriety that is. to say the
 ast, questionable.
 False and erroneous impressions con
 srning sister nations prevail on both
 des of the Atlantic, which are fostered nd increased by such newspaper arti- les as those of NJ. Jules Simon, and mich can only be dispelled by better nd more thorough mutual acquaint- nee between the Old World and the Jew. Not all French novels, plays and ways are immoral, nor on the other land are the family institution and iome life as conspicuously absent from he social system of the United States IS M. Jules Simon would lead his coun- rymen to believe. There are other and better things in France than the can can md the Moulin Rouge, while in Amer ga people, although eager to get ahead of their competitors in the race of life, nevertheless find time to devote to their nome affections and to domestic ties.
 In the course of his article NJ. Simon compares French family as yet un- ,ainted by transatlantic adulteration with what he imagines to be a typical household The members of .he French family he portrays as living md dying in the house in which they were bora-a house every corner of 1 which recalls to mind and is sanctifed | 1y a caress or a lesson of the mother of | he family. Her he describes as the pattern and apostle of every virtue" The family in question is respectable 1 without being austere, fond of pleas ! lres, but only of those which are com | ,atible with a strict sense of duty and | elf respect addicted to art, sci ence and literature, but disdainful of the more frivolous forms of the latter, and whose intercourse is restricted to polite society.
 This is M. Simons idea of the Preach amily unadulterated by American con animation.
 Quite the opposite thereof in every re- pect is the typical American family--of Jules Simon's imagination. Matri- nony in the United States he declares ! O be more of business contract, ter ninable at pleasure by means of an rdinary lawsuit ending in divorce, han any lasting bond of love, as in france. The ties of marriage are not egarded as sacred or permanent, but re treated merely as the stipulations of n ordinary commercial agreement. The American mother, according to M. imon, is the contrary of that pattern nd apostle of every virtue" above DOT rayed as the French mere de famille. Inc regards her maternal duties as declines to either nurse or tend CT children and packs them ofr UO ;hool as soon as ever they are beyond iere infancy.
 If she does not reside at hotel she has house. where her husband and herself receive their friends, but mich serves for but little else. The hus- and. as rule, prefers his club, where o finds solitude if he desires it, card ames if ho is fond of gambling. gossip he likes conversation, and in many ases luxuries which he cannot afford to ave at his own home. Frequently he ines at his club. Being thus the entire