New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-11

folks in France paper their walls with the de
signs Of William Morris and Walter Crane Inc
decoration Of a modern French drawing room
recalls Melbury Road.
other importatons from our shores may be
learned by referring 10 he latest dictionary
arpcndix Golf football. papsr chase have been
added To the list of outdoor sports. "Patences,
or card games Of patience. will soon. doubtless,
follow. We no longer invited by french
hosts to midday dejeuner. but 10 o'clock lunch,
ard hot buttered toast Is the accompaniment
OF ) O'Clock tea.
OLD-FAsHIONED REACTIoNARIEs.
England indeed say d-fashioned French
folks, has been CVerpras"d, and Is IN danger
Of being Over-imitated. This talk about Anglo
Saxon excellence is all very We'll observed
one critic Of this calibre 10 an English Trend
but we French folks have our own character,
let us keep it. have travelled IN your coun-
try and have good English friends, neverthe-
less | hold 10 my opinion. The present lashlon
Of angliczing everything is being carried much
too far Your young girls who 90 out cycling
with their friends Of the other sex alone nave
been brought up to independent habits. ana
risk nothing by indulging IN them. with young
French girls the case is quite different, ana l
forcsce the gravest danger from such an inno-
vation.' $50
How far English and French education differ
in the nursery the following examples Will
show. quite lately two little English boys;
aged respectively eight and nine received Royal
Humane Society's medals for rescue ana at
tempted rescue Of their companions.
And the other day Frenchwoman ana her
English guest We're partakins Of tea in nelsh,
boris garden. Look at that big boy of mine.
remarked the former He has his nose IN a
book from morning till night. yet has to be
washed and dressed like a baby. How Frencn
all this is" Nevertheless these coddled, petted
overcared-f for little beings are often subjected
to ordeals happily unknown among ourselves.
We have no Lyc6es-thOse dreary prisons TO
which hapless children are consigned IN 'enuer
years those "Bastilles awaiting another revo-
luton" so knowingly described by Jean Aicard
in his photographed novel, Il anne uh
enfant."
Just as French educationalists are insisting
upon the superiority Of our nursery reSime-a
following up Of Herbert Spencers theories
do they clamOr for l.ycee Intervals or the mass
ing together Of bOarders- hundreds OF p'ys
from seven years and upward as completely
shut out from home and feminine influence as
our criminals in Portland Prison. NJ. Acard
book is a bitter Indictment Of the military sys-
TEN in education There is one point most
strikingly brought out by all French writer's In
England Whether they are treating OF our
schools our social and philanthrOpc move
nents our trades unions or our home legisla-
ton. one and all dwell on the education OF the
conscience with u.s. the moral ana religious
training developed in the various phases OF
orr national life. Take. for instance, the great
work of the first living French philosopher, LIN
Psychologist due Peuple Francois of NJ. FOUL
lee. 1T has been justly remarked. he writes
that the temperance cause makes far more
progress in Protestant countries, where 1t Is
essentially allied with religion. Again. take the
conscience clause and vaccination. In the eX-
ccllent little fortnightly review entitled La
Fol ct la Vie' another writer thus concludes
A paper on the subject: Happy the people
with whom such self government and such
compromises are possible" A third writer.
whose work on English trades unions was lately
translated into English dwells on the same
subject. namely. the faculty Of self goVern-
ment and habits Of compromise, also the appeal
TO conscience as exempfed in the great in
dustrial crises.
INITIATING ENGLISH LOVE OF TRAVEL
OF late years our neighbors have Initiated.
among other things. insular love OF travel
They are beginning TO return our peaceful IN
vasions Of brittany Normandy and the Riviera
many Of them as we know. carrying back quite
altered and improved notions Of John Bull and
his island" one fact strikes alike the rich
traveller and the cheap tripper, and that IS the
immense the uncompromlsng respect paid by
us all to law. Admirable laws abound in France.
but nobody heeis them. and the example OF
Iawlessness is set I'm high places. Thus bull
fights are strictly forbidden. yet projects may
ors and even Ministers preside at the bull ring
Quite recently attempt has been made in
Paris to protect foot passengers at crowded
crossings. policemen at stated intervals now
LID t.hi a vehicles