The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-17


mined, clean shaven faces. their get
there walk, by the broad white hats
with which most of them have elected TO
punctuate Paris by their double-breas ted
jacket-coats and by the thin-legged trous-
ers that most of them wear. Those trous-
ers fitting close to the leg and throwing
the shoe into strong relief, rather startle
the Parisiaus4 who think at once of sta
DleS-Or prairies.
They Take Us All for HOrsemen.
your countrymen ride a great deal evil
IDENTIFY; ! suppose that Is because, with all
your vast railroad systems, you haven't
had time Yet 10 make suburban connec-
tons and Chat sort of thing" remarked
a Frenchman to an American encountered
in a cafe the other day.
Ii was a long time before the Partisan
cOuld understand that there was no neces-
sary connection between the thin-legged
trousers and horse riding, and that New
York Chicago and San Francisco were not
merely vast collections of shops, rising
unexpectedly out of wild prairie lands,
dotted here ana there with milliOnaires
palaces. The notion Of the commuter was
new to him; he thought that redskins
danced hideous war dances every night
round the carefully guarded fortresses
where the oil kings boarded their earn
ings.
French ignorance of America, despite
all the writer's who have been at wor,
discovering US in past years, remains ex-
traordinarily dense This year, however.
the American citizen is leaving such a
mark On the capital that, probably before
the exposition has pulled in its last Ameri-
can dollar. the people will have ceased
10 accept the works of Fenimore Cooper,
much read in translation. as accurate
transcripts of our daily life.
one class of parfefope has a1raadv found
reason TO revise its opinion of our trav-
cling folk. Formerly the tourist Ameri-
can was the pet customer of the scrubby
guides-those plaques Of Paris who talk
little Of every language under the Gun
and poster the innocent stranger to death
with their entreaties 10 be allowed 10
show him round the great city in five
minutes, five hours or five days, according
10 the length of milor's stay. The Ameri-
can was generally in hurry, and he
always had lots of money. He paid the
guides at generous American rates. and
put big commissions into their pockets
by buying oil sorts OF souvenirs at stores
which they indicated. But this time the
Americans have not merely come for a
lew days stay during a hgsty scramble
through Europe. They are going TO ay
a month, two months. the whole eNDosi-
ton season. And tho national love OF do
ing things oneself comes uppermost. The
American brushes the guide away and
bunders leisurcly round the city and its
shows, with his Baedccker and his Con-
Versauonal Manual FOR his only assistants.
SO the guides. when they see the white
hats ana tight fitting trousers. make 1T
tic effort 30 do business. They probably
think. in common with large part of
the French nation, that the American
are all ruined by The war with Spain, and
are doing their own guiding from motives
of economy.
Our Growing Interest in Art.
In the picture galleries and museums
our country folk are gaining reputation
for an interest I'm are. which wae unsus
pccted ia them of old IN former year.
they had a way OF horrifying staid fire.
quenters Of the Louvre and the LuXem
nourg by rushing in at breakneck speed
accompanied by their guides, tearing
through the rooms with one eye on eacl
Tine OF pictures stopping only for a feV
moments opposite some four or five OF tn