The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-23
MAN As FOUND IN EUROPE.
His Manners Full of Surprises for
American Girls.
From the New York Sun.

words, the place is full of them They
have honey-combed the quarter about the
Champs Elysees, and have secured a con-
trolling interest in half of the salons Of
the neighborhood. In Paris every draw
ing room or parlor. no matter how mi
croscopic, is dignified by the title of salon.
Apropos Of this. Matilde Blind, who is one
of the 10000 poets, who. according to Sir
Edwin Arnold, live and poetize in Eng
land, spent some time in a Paris pension
with particularly small salon. Miss
Blind. who evidently needs epic surround
ings, looked sadly about her when she
was first introduced TO the salon.
rs this the only one you have?" she
! asked.
Yes"
1T does not inspire me-" said Mathilde.
To be sure, the pension salon is not often
inspiring but the American woman rises
above a thing of that sort. She just loves
to talk, and, bless her clever tongue, her
pquancy is like a fash of sunlight after
the leaden conversational atmosphere of
the average English woman English
girls, as a rule seem to think that the
whole duty Of woman, so far as conversa-
ton is concerned. consists in emitting an
occasional Fancy" or Really This
II All l4Ehl LOT purposes OF punctuation
only, but, like Miss Blinds salon, it is
not inspiring.
Whenever two or three tourists are
gathered together there is sure to be an
experience meeting; and in an experience
meeting Of American women in Paris the
conversation always gravitates to one sub
Ject-the American man. Every American
man ought to pinch and scrape and save
If necessary. to send the women of his
family abroad. Oh, the pedestals that are
set up in these same salonsl Always with
the American man on top of them And
oh! the conversational incense which is
nightly burned at his feet
For instance. the other evening. in a
small hotel in the Rue de Bassano, half a
| dozen American girls and women met
after dinner, and the following conversa-
tion occurred:
How do you like PARISH"
"Oh. immensely"
81 like 1t, too, only mother won't let me
walk two blocks alone. She isn't strong
enough to go out very often. and the dgn-
sequence is that l stay at home most of
the time and conjugate French verbs"
why can't you go out alone?
Because l did go out one day and |
stopped TO look in a window and a man
spoke to me. 1t was French, of course,
but mothers afraid the next one might
speak English 1t would be just my luck,
too. You must never look in my win
dowsr
"Oh, but I do! It's more fun than any
thing else in Paris What else can do?''
Stay at home and conjugate French
verbs"
why do you do that?'
IT'S what everybody does when they
stay at home. It's the proper thing"
well I won't do it. III go to Ger
many and stay there"
"Oh, will you? We're going, too. Moth
er doesn't get enough towels here, ana we
can't keep warm, and we are up four
flights of stairs with nothing but the
name of an elevator to help us up"
What do you mean?
| why, they have ground glass windows
on every landing with the word 'Ascen-
seur' in big capitals. They point it out
proudly to every new conner and announce
/ that there is to be an elevator back of
/ the capitals. AT once, tout de suite Oh,
/ oui, Madame! It's a great attraction,
/ that word on the windows. The letters
are trihe high. or I think I should have
/ got Yvette Guilbert to come up and prac-
| tice on it, They say she can kick pretty
i high. You've no idea how irritating that
/ sign gets to be after three flights, We
/ think of going back to Dresden"
How did you like Dresden?"
Pretty well. One has so many novel
/ sensations in Germany. For instance, the
men always help themselves first at the
1 table and the women take what is left
/ At our pension the German next to me
/ used to help himself regularly, and then
/ say to me, oh, beg your pardon! l for
! got that you are an American. Then he
would pass the things to me- One day at
the table an American girl told a little
/ story about friend of hers who had mar
4 ried a German officer. They went to the
! opera one evening, and at the close found
/ that it was raining. They stopped in the
| foyer to get their wraps, and the Amer
hill L.
/ husband could put on her rubbers. Sew
eral of his brother officers were standing
by, and they all looked at her in amaze
ment
- What do you want? asked her hus-
band
Why, I want you to put on my rub
bers.'
You don't want me to do that?'
" OF course l do. My father and my
/ brother always did
and after good deal of hesitation.
her husband did get down and put on her
rubbers. Well Frau --, who kept our
pension, was simply Mortified She forgot
! to carve, while she raved about the man
| ner in which the girl had Inundated her
! husband before his fellow officers Poor
! Frau--! she'd been brought up that
way you know. So had all the Germans
! at the table, and the man next to me said
/ in a Mortified tone: You wouldn't have
]
1 course 1 would, I said. We consider
/ that we are comforting an honor upon
man in allowing him such a privilege
/ He was so puzzled that he looked quite
/ blank for at least three days.
Have they any more such pleasant
/ ideas?"
My dear they are simply padded with
them. Why, one eNening. two German
officers invited two of my friends, with
their chaperon, to go to concert. It was
one of those concerts where you go in
free, sit down at tables in the open air
and pay for what you eat or drink. They
all took something, and when the waiter
came for the money each officer paid for
what he had taken, and the chaperon had
10 pay for herself and the girls. l sup
pose it was etiquette"
Anything more?'
We'll. it might be as we'll for you to
remember that when a man is introduced
to you, you must not say anything to
him until he speaks to you. You must