The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-06

exterior attributes the British model the more
nearly do they nttaih perfection. Initiation Is,
OF course, n sign Of inforiorlty. and Mr.. Bodlcy
deplorcs the Anglomania which pervades tho
upper circles OF Paris. II lie now only possible
to distinguish n French gentleman OF fashion.
able prstcnsions from his loss favored country.
mon by his use of English clothes and English
phrases In the pursuit OF English pastimes.. To
our author, as 70 all persons thoronghly &C.
lie is tho permoation Of civilization to
n levol lower than In other coLnmnnities
masters mo GsSsll wS sop haTs f roSeaieS IN G thoi T'i nSstd rHissdi
tsseTs win sometimes sstonlsh stranger with
regions OF Franco where tho peasants are boor.
ish and thor personal habits unattractive, but,
Their stores Of housebold iinens. their excellent
cooking and. the propriety Of their attire boar
r waSsesi the 20 i iserd iSrfG Ss 'e oi f its eoScr rnGe ~n, At
nightfall tho traveller who passes through
remote villages sometimes secs through
laid with q ~ncatness unknown IN middle.class
houses in other civilized, lands. II he, visits =
their journals, no might believe was pcopIed by
population given to brutal diversion or to in.
Temperament. on. the contrary. II no enters the
humble abode OF q collier or of an iron worker,
family, taking. his dinner served with accesso.
RIGS only found at the tables Of the rich in other
like NJ. Zola to prove that laborers or miners
or shopmen are sometimes revolving In their
Mr.. Boaiey t]estiiess, however. that the novelist
has slandered his countrymen in his com.
pllations; nay. tho avcrment is made that the
humble French people who arc hold mp to horror
in /" Gcrminal' and La Tcrro'' nrc. considering
their disadSantsscs' relatively much more civ
The points on which the. civilization of tho
French proyokes most criticism arc those dis
nation. For instance. in Appliances Of santa.
ton, now much improved Ii France. tho dwell
ings OF the rich were; until late years, as dc.
point Of c%ivilize ion there has been decided Dc.
terioration, under the Third Republic. Public
II has boon at any time since the Directory.
For tho coarse, indecornm. however. of tho
%' the n1 prsss ap the me pea l@PrsD and W So ( per peo.
pie are not responsible.
The all.pervasive civilization, OF, France &C;
counts for the good use to which Frenchmen of
modest origin can put the advantages of q dif-
fused education. Under tho Third Republic.
Of the Government, though not endowed with
the genius which outweiehs defects Of training.
have often filled tho high posts conferred on
them without the nwkwardncss which. in othor
countries, sometimes charactcrizes men who
have risen from a low social stratum. Some of
those who have assembled from humble ranks are
political apostles OF equality. but they conceive
1t as, 2 virtue which prevents q r~ight-minded
any superiors: while not relinquishing his ri tht
to exact due difference from his Interiors. II is
not only the public servants of tho democracy
who relish the obcisance OF their subordinatcs.
A Partisan tradesman who talks to his
customers whatever their rank. with gracious
his Preside. be scandalizcd IL his domestics adj
dressed him in the second person. as a servant
would speak to his master. in England, where
who was a keen observer OF the foibles of his
nation. noted the pleasure which thrilled the
socially ambitious heroine OF the lower middle
class when she heard herself addressed in the
third person; under the Third Republic the prac-
tice has not been interfcred with.