New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-16
LITTLE BRITAIN IN FRANCE
THE SETTLEMENTS AT PARAME. DINARD
AND ST MALO.

| THE SETTLEMENTS AT PARAME, DlNAoO
AND ST. MALO
Parame France August 2. :
am STAYING in seaside place far awey from
| Paris, Parame-sur Mer, which. though In FRANCE
IS an English settlement. There are glorious sanos
and the view from the beach Is picturesque. ROCKS
in the offlng. presenting In their gen.
! eral outlines Jagged tuncated cones There are
headlands to correspond, which break the monotony
OF long stretches of sands. smooth hard and elas-
| tic. and good for horse racing or walking. Inc
wel-dressed people nearly all English Inc ser
want and working-class population which gets lie
living chiefly out Of the is Breton. never saw
a place In which there more clean-buiit, wen
set 10 girls with pretty faces and fine heads OK
hair They would be bulky II they ran easily iheo
| flesh. But though drunkenness Is their besettihs
| sin IL is rare TO gee u gross figure among them
| The women and girls very feminine Yet they
| seem as hardy and mettlesome as irish horses
They show in the breadth of their chests and shou-
ders pover TO bear burdens. And fortunate II Is for
! them to have It. for Brittany "a the province VI
France contains most widows ana orphans
| This is because the have TO go TO sea as New
| ,,unaland fishers or into the Navy. Those VINO
| fish regularly for cod receive dispensatioh oi'en
| from the maritime conscrption rules Mackerel
| fishery and oyster trawling also employ ia'sc
| number of the male Inhabitants or the province
| This Il. why there are in Brittany more Vhases
| near the seaside than Inland
Of the Young girls They elegant, airy ana
| pretty beyond description. The WIDOWS eohs'
| which are sadly numerous at fair ana MARKET arc
also most becoming. though severe in character.
| Rack IS the almost universal color Of the dresses
| % maids and natrons Their features are regular
IN nroportions though not of classical outline Tneir
! skins are dark and clear, their brows pencied anu
| dark and their eyes well set under clear-cut HOS.
| one notices the beauty Of the teeth OF iaos ana
,asses and the neatness OF their feet. The breton
| fba
I,,sh Celts They are not laughterloving. ana lack
| a sense Of fun but l!vely-livelier thah 'he
| Welsh and not sour OF humor kno" no NOR
charming sight than bevies OF goden-haireu Els,'"
! children on the sands under the care or Breton
| nursery maids kind and attentively watcnrui'
| parar,e has the disadvantage Of relaxing cii'
| mate Its water supply is also dependent on the
rain that falls into cisterns In stormy weather .e
| salt sea spray gets mixed up with H. besioes' INC
! sand used in making the concrete is taken from the
beach and IL salty What we are given 10 drink
| has more often than a bracksb taste ono
mus, not look for shade Of trees at any SEASIDE
| place One may therefore say without oecry'"s
! Parame that 1t is shadeess. Ten years ago II was
| a wild place. A syndicate bought long stretch OF
| the land with sea frontage. and Perivier. OF FL
| caro- " went into the company that built the hand
some Grand Hotel. and the Casino next door. Mme
| Gauthereau, ia belle femme de Paris OF James
| T7ssot's cartoon. was then induced TO come mere
J A crowd Of fashionable idlers from Paris foiioweo
} s,nca overlooked their old bounds there and CROWDS
| ., villas sprung up in which English families i've
All the year round. They are generaiiy people WIN
| liked incomes. such as pensioned-o1 military an"
| civil servants Many Of them held high situations
| in India. 1870.
| rbov have n tennis court golf and cricket
| grounds and all go 10 the Casino. When the young
ladies' are not there. they are busy with lawn ten
| mis- Those few French Of rank to pay IN the
| tennis court 80 at S in the morning. ana ea'e AZ
H. not to come back again But John Bulrs dausn-
| tars are always at IT, unless when there Is sonhe
! snecal entertainment AT the Casino. They struck
me as being ungraceful and rather mannish IN tneir
attitudes but healthy looking, though their ieVerisn
activity in knocking about balls proclaimed them 70
| belong 20 the unemployed, the most wTetched OF an
| classes The young fellows who play with them are
| here for holidays Many Of them are reading Tor
| competitive examina tons. Not being able TO sup
port domestic establishments according 10 the gem
| tee English standard they are called ihehgiDles
| bv the young ladies' and their mothers When eiisi-
! hles come forward the other pocf feIiows are
| dropped ard il they try to hold on are frozen on
| Tho chit OF ten or eleven is allowed on the tennis
| court and plays with some other chit OF her age -
| Brittany Marquis squat. sunnnrned' coatsev
| dressed and rustic In manners ana appearance IL
| one OF the rare Frenchmen who come after IL
o'clock His object in coming is 70 waten i ms son:
| a singularly tall man, who Is trylhg, WIN ,ns
1 StTe to !. pTn the skin Of an
| man He is slender and has SO sinaiI hea1
hSt som he Tre behind his back His present
! nickname is wireworm. he plays tennis Win las as
much solemnity II he were taxing part III court
We're no, for tennis English Young men could
| of their nationality They are SO warned Dy tnsir
6 the 81 a Mrs. ior 80
| bodness a certain Prussan frauei In ~ 'SSnanS
OF entsrprsns girls young lady shows
nhOn TO r the y1 9Ss man He
h n onlY a 10 be- drawn Out by lawn tennis Most
propaoNh a M iroom does not therefore attract him.
Young and bushes, men are OF sbno:
and sent to SIT be schso business is to prepare
| Evil and Indian service examinations
"A ,st ch TSmsn is are original and interesting
American maron is not forndao IN ma} nssbI per
Bu, her daughter has trick OF sorting t out the
ard Of becoming hsr not Sen shown S IN rSds
way She marmonsl BUSINESS Ssr ana nvs sn no
the Par 1s, Saint and Dnari where Theodore
friends English EN- bhey are R s on
ne M Say Of Is st. o Ml0 standing small peninsula
shaped ike the see@ents w wrsn dcov
cred by halfpay army and navy officers who re-
sa to ave e4 9T Haey IN nd ound
them eramped St MalC was as long Onga . dh0Tn am n
5 ss sae Of Of E"s son a S%
there a maritime outlet Dinaru Is tne most his
| rnrr, a Little Britain In France. It's climate Y
Iormm d 90 tba, Of Jersey current of the Gulf
Stream sweeping r9%nd creates o~ 8rt sna
| ,megnoIias ana fuchsias which grow and noursn
=, ,a tha open air but relaxing for human beings
who 'V have lived India Ike T. Tram cars nov
nnnecf 81 Seryan. St Malo and Parame. Fifteen
connect connect subjects Of Queen Victoria live all the
Year round these places There are Englssh Fps
o COZ an Evangelical Tin Tabernacle at the latter
Mac which is patronized by the British consu-
| General. s.,,,r9 reonie In tho Er0sh
.ns Or rather. they can be charming ana are so
v h he stranger Is well introduced for they 1--we
werv much among themselves and give co!d
stsaayndar IN strnngsrs. This Is much the way with
a .sorvce people" as the families Of military and
naval British officers are called; ih h are n vety
mnsnterprlsing grumble twhen they have peep N