The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-16
FRANCE UNDER THE Sd REPUBLIc
Prof, MuzzareIIi's Lecture Before the
Teachers Normal Class.


Prof. Antoine Muzzsre1ii gave another
of his pleasant and interesting lectures
to the teachers of the city yesterday af-
ternoon. Nearly all the teachers were
present and kept thoroughly interested
throughout the lecture.
After beginning with a statement that
there are two nations on this globe each
claiming to be the greatest on earth
France and America-the lecturer touch
ed upon the superfciality of travellers
books of impressions, according to which
the Americans are all rich or want to be
thought so; they are forever in hurry,
and have no time to be polite Their
young women are frivolous, cold and
heartless, eXcelling in flirting, eating cam
dies and dressing extensively, so that
American marriages are failures and d.
Vorce cases abnormally large Politicians
of low stamp, mostly Irishmen, govern
the cities and plumber them at will and
the police being Irish also, effectualIy
shield them and share the plumber. The
blacks are increasing like wild rabbits,
and servants are independent and impu-
qeIll 70 1eSree. turther, although pro-
Iessedly democraucs they love to bow
down to wealth and titles and to claim
blue blood for themselves.
In the same fashion, Americans wrong
~ and Superfcially criticize France par
tlcularly when they seek doubtful pleas
ures in Paris and go back to tell of that
place of perdition.
I'm order to understand. the France of
to-day thoroughly We'll" Prof Muzzarelli
SAID, we must go back a century, to the
period when it was divided into two
classes widely apart; the naughty, priviI-
eyed aristocracy and the hard-working
simple people, over which it domineered
in its senseleSs pride Then the peasants
were down-trodden and country districts
left barren and waste. Then came the
great revolution, and through it the sal
walton of the country, which has now be-
after A Ia
modern promised land, flowing with milk
and honey, peopled by a happy, prosper
Gus peasantry, methodical leisurely folk
more or less scepucal, preferring a bad
conscience to bad toothache, and as
contemptuouS OF dress as of philosophy
Official statistics prove France to he the
richest country in the world and this
Notwithstanding the disastrous war of no
n. So rich that after having paid 81 co.,
100000 for war indemnity reorganized her
army and armament at a cost of another
billion, built $2000,000000 of railroad
and more than than 10000 new schools
lost S3OO,OOOO00 in Panama and loaned $780,
100000 to Egypt and 81, 500 100000 to Russia
she could raise more than $40, 00O 900 900
from her own people in case of war. Ag-
riculture is the basis of this unexampled
prosperity, while her industries are also
very fiourishing.
In France work in any form is honored.
The women go into business and help
their husbands, whose best partners they
are. A man, when he has about $4,000 laid
by, sells his business and retires with
The French school system, quoting from
the report of an American commission
sent to Europe to study the different sys-
TENS of education, which appeared a few
months ago in the Journal of Pedagogy,
is considered the best in the world. The
kindergarten and Lloyd systems are both
which consists of the primary, the sec
ondary or classical, and the superior edu-
cation, the last of which can only be fol-
lowed after one has gained ones degree
of b. A. or b. s. After ones schooling
is over comes service in the army, last
ing for three years, although one belongs
rela tons are observed between officers
and men, who are never ill-tceated, as in
some foreign armies Each enlisted man
is the equal OF every other men in the
same rank. Merit alone makes a man
out The material of the French army is
more perfect to-day than ever before, and
it's spirit was never more lofty and more
determined.
After having shown the healthy. indus
trious, moral and productive working
France, Prof. Muzzarelli spoke of the up
Der classes, or what is said, in the differ
ent countries in the world, to constitute
society. To enter it, said he, money there
make IN for everything. To be well read,
10 know the current literary language, to
participate in the artistic movement, to
dress with irreproachable elegance, to
nossess that happy faculty of glancing
over a thousand subjects with that deli
cate play of wit and irony which is the
gift OF Ene fTEuCtis " pay tbutb " LNt
ladies' with tact and proprety, are the
only conditions required OF every nccPhyte.
Artists, men of letters officers Of the
army. doctors professors, civil engineers,
Isyyers magistrates, manufacturers
academicians, members of the institute
savants, orators, journalists, senator's
denuties with their wives-all this conSti-
t,ste "society'' gravitating around the la
dies whose salons have some reputation.
The present day salons. which, perhaps.
hest recall those of Nine de Stael and
Mime. Recamier, are unquestionably those !