The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-16
THE MORNING NEWS THURSDAY, JANUARY IS 1896

/ Adam. Nine. Beule. the Baroness de Poll
/ ~, Princess Mathilde and Princess Jour
| iewsky. widow Of the late car OF Rus
sia These literary salons. whose mis-
l tresses hold with distinction the scepter
/ OF me art Of conversation, are the TEN
pies OF knoWledge, Wit and elegance
| II IS there that good manners take ref
uge- that custom and fashion is decreed,
/ Inat regulations are made and unmade.
/ Listen for one quarter OF an hour TO the
| conversation in a salon. light and witty
/ as IL Is, when the difficult art OF spoken
/ language Is transformed into mclOdiOus
music. and YOU viii be au cOurant as 10 the
| last fashionable play, the newest book, the
/ latest author, or the next session which is
/ 10 open the doors or the French academy
/ to Mr. So and So. YOU will know all about
| the orator who is going TO overthrow the
/ cabinet and learn who is to be the new
/ prime minister. There, in one evening. you
/ VIII meet all the Ereat men of whom the
] world is proud, and hear them engaged in
! the discussion Of every conceivable sub
/ lect, with that youthful fire OF elOQuence
/ that is the gift OF genius alone.
| As TO the young French girl she does
/ not belong TO herself The tendency of
/ America is to put her women on a level
/ with men. so as TO permit them TO be COM
pletely independent of men, while in
/ France the aim is 10 preserve the individ-
/ uaiity or the girls sex, hitting them at the
| same time to he wives and mothers. For
/ the French a woman at all emancipated
/ Is considered an eccentric creature whose
/ company is not at all sought after. 1t is
| principally for this reason that families
! prefer TO keep their daughters by their
\ side, studying at home under the super
/ vision Of a goVerness, then accompanied
/ by their chaperOns they attend TO the pub
/ lie lectures della sorboune and du college
/ de France, which are open to them on eX-
l acty the same terms as they are to men,
as well as the schools of law and medi-
\ cine.
The French make a great distinction be
/ tween instruction" and education. The
/ first means what one studies in books,
| while education includes manners, breed
| ing, customs, conduct habits and ideas;
Lon HnF
! education of the family circle, wherefrom
/ IS derived that distinction of manner
which is the irrefutable proof Of refined
/ education, means nothing at all.
/ II admit with good grace" said Prof.
/ MuzzarelN. that the American girl, that
| creature of snOW-White purity, half chld,
/ and half enChantress, with her brain run
/ Of chimcras, her disposition fun of whims
/ her head hot and her heart cool is one
/ of the most fascinating types in the whole
/ world. Being free, Intelligent ana bright
/ she is naturally more amusing and at
| tractive than her French rival, who, by
! virtue of her education, is timid and
| maid only becomes interesting when
/ once married Before that she has no lib
/ erty; being entirely subject to her parents,
| who marry her according to their own
/ views. These are called marriages de con-
/ venance,' which contrary to expectations,
| if not always productive of the happiest
/ results, do not prove to be worse than
/ those of other countries where it is left
| to the girls themselves TO choose their
/ husbands"
'.The four articles of a French maids
/ faith is to fear God, love her husband,
| keep an exact account Of her expenses
| and save one-half of her income for a
] dOwry for her daughters. Once married
| the French woman considers herself as
/ much responsible for the success of the
| family as the husband, and in every grade
| of life understands the art of making the
| most of their means. In France, they
| have been complaining for some
| time that French women commence to
/ iunif esfut In fatrfla7
/ to be happier, they ought to initiate them
4 more and like them, have their beauty
as an offensive weapon, with their indif-
| ference as a defensive one. / fear, how
| ever they will never come to that, as
| egOisms is a sentiment they do not pos
sess. The Frenchwoman, in fact, is dis
| interested and full of devotedness, and
| all things considered, she is a thousand
| times more amiable on that account. This
| old stock of sentimentality which has re-
mained in her heart, often causes her de-
| ception and suffering, but on the other
| Iand, 1t raises her above other women
| L; is this forgetfulness of self, this deli
! cate abnegation4 for the loved one this
/ tender, ,heroism, which make of her the
most charming of sweethearts. When we
come to the question Of romance, the
/ Frenchwoman remains its first and per-
| maps only representative. Our literature
/ proves this abundantly. From the prin-
cesses of Racine to the heroines of Bal
| FAC, poetry and prose sing a hymn of
gratitude to the FrenchWOman."
During the revolution the sublime VIC
ueNOtlOn,
| their youth and beauty at the feet of
death. The aristocrats and the Vardeaus
| were not the only witnesses Of the great
ness of soul of the French race. A The
woman of the people also mounted the
scaffold and starved to death without a
murmur during the siege of Paris. The
soul of the French woman-I dwell pur-
posely on this subject, for it is woman
who brings up man and makes him what
he isis soul with many facets, brill
liant, varied and transparent throwing
out a thousand sparkles diamond like
Her face might not be so regular as that
of the English woman or the Spaniard;
but that soul essentially poetical and spir-
ituai, which is possessed by the little Par
1sian shop-girl, in an equal degree with
the lady of fashion, sheds it's luster in
her face, while its rays shine in her eyes,
its seduction in her SMILE and its grace
in her every movement! Whence comes
all this? 1t is the inheritance of four CEN
turtles of real culture fine arts and litera-
ture, the only high roads leading TO a
refined civilization.
asked Prof Muzzareiii, chow Door
America is in these branches? out of a
great population of 100000, your great
living men could be counted on the fin
gers of the hands. How is that? Is there
any lack of intelligence in the American
people? Not at all. The Americans have
the audacity, the magnitude that rest
less spirit of go-aheadism which is never
satisfied as long as there is a progress
to realize; they are full of strength en-
ergy, Intelligence; they are endowed with
such generosity and such noble traits
that, with great ease, they could con-
quer all other nations But unfortunately
they seem to have a false idea, that is
that continual struggle for money, that
attempt to keep up a splendid appear
ance, which leave very little time to cub
tivate the mind; and this is a false theory
which, in the long time, will harm the
whole nation. 1 wish they would open
their eyes to the beauties of Gods work
and to the grandeur of nature, in order
to acquire that love of refinement which
is far stronger in good results than all