The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-16

11iAhNeNiiy pAV PAAlllbNANt PNpPAN' AAANS belong to the same race as the Welsh and the Celts, They are far nearer the original man than the Anglo-Saxons or the Franks, They have many of the habits and customs of the original man. The original man did not require his tub" in the morning and was not victim of sanitary plumbing He was simple and free and woolly. He un- doubtedly had smells by which he could be recognized and distinguished from other animals. The Briton is a most conservative creature. Tn domestic economy, In politics and In religion he holds fast to tradition, This Is the only part of France where republlcanism does not flourish. Brittany is monarch ical and would restore the Bourbons, Brittany Is very religious and very true to the church of Rome. The Britons drink elder, never wash and love the open air for all their functions, As they do they naturally expect others to do. Why should their customs be nl- tered and their houses rebuilt to accom- modate splashing Englishmen and fas- tidious Yankees? If strangers don't like their ways and manners let them stay away. The country was made for its citizens and not for outsiders. If outsiders will come in, let them acquire the habits of the aborigines. This Is sound reasoning and must be accepted by all New Haveners who propose con- ing to Dinard to stay, especially as they live in city where they may so easily set about acquiring the habits of the aborigines aforesaid. The experiences of New Haven harbor at low tide offer as admirable "a field for preparing for Dinard as any other place in the United States. In fact all the citizens of the United States booked for Dinard might we'll camp out about the mud flats of New Haven for a week or two before starting. If this be supplemented by a rejection of soap and by an infinitesimal use of water, they may be assured of attaining a condition of mind and body to enter at once, and without term cf probation, upon the full enjoyment of all that Dinard has to offer. It Is far better to take the probation at home
 than to take it here, for delays on the spot are irritating. You may become offensive to friends and family. But
 friends and family may and must be-
 come reconciled to the necessity and the beauty of the sacrifice. Dinard has the call in the world of fashion and no sacrifice is too great to be laid on its
 altars. The effect of stinks on the
 French nose in the production of the peculiar nasal twang with which the ! Iov, a9, O I1y ot hi
 nard, has not yet been sufficiently in-
 vestigated by physicists and linguistol-
 ogists.
 | Another peculiarity of Dinard, and of
 all this corner of France, is the extra
 ordinary reach and the astonishing ca priciousness of it's tides. Visitors tc
 Mt. Desert and to Nova-Scotia are ac-
 customed to thirty, and even forty, feet
 of tide. But American tides are order
 ly and rarely vary over a few feet at 6
 time. But here tides will jump iron
 twenty feet to forty, and back again with the agility, if not with the grace
 of a French monkey. At dead low tid, New Haven harbor Is not '1n it." MuC banks, sewage covered, stretch out il lall directions as far as the eye can see
 The face of the country is entirel, changed. School children need two ge ographies; one for high, the other fo
 low, tide. At high tide there are hun
 dreds of islands in front of Dinard in
 tercepting ea-breezes, At low tid
 there are thousands. At low tide tn
 ferry-boat cannot reach anywhere
 near St Malo, which, by the way, Is on
 of the great naval harbors of France
 but lands passengers on an island ou
 in the Atlantic ocean, from which the,
 scrambled for a mile or more over slip
 pery rocks and through massive sea
 weed to their destination. Fortunatel
 a, species of submarine causeway ha
 been constructed where footing is bi
 more secure. At dead low tide you ar
 landed on another island still neare
 the setting sun and have double the dis
 tance of moist scramble. How Du
 gueselin and Chaleaubriand did it doe } not appear in any of the printed histc
 ries of these worthies. At low tid
 both St. Malo and Dinard can with irr
 punity, and continually do, defy tn : combined fleets of Europe to come oY 7 At the highest tide navigation is 8 . difficult and intricate that it takes ! pilot long lifetime to discover saf : passages This is the reason for tn , extra ordinary fact that all the pilot } are at least eighty, go on crutches an have one foot in am aquatic gray Running on rocks is an everyday a : fair even for the ferry-boatsl You al , as likely to be fifteen hours as fiftee - minutes in crossing the Rance
 l If you ask what do people do here q ? day long-what do they do at all sue , places all the day long? They rise lat, . they go to bed still later. few bath l A few go about on bicycles. Most ( . the men and women loaf. There's . club where men play cards from 1 9 m. till i a. m. There's a women's clu l to which men are not admitted till : n. and which is said to be the livelie l gossip exchange in all Europe Ever other evening at the Casino there is r dance. The between evenings are G e cupied by dirty French plays whic = would be hissed off the stage of ar c American theater inside of ten second q At the other end of the Casino is tl Q regula tion gambling of "Petits oh ]. vaux." How any man with a head ( l his shoulders can waste money on u - game Is a marvel. If played square k there is about twenty per cent. again ]. the players and in favor of the tabl Il And as what may be going on und e the table has been publicly expos,