The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-06

Paris. Aug. %.
Paris, fairest city of the continent;
Paris the care-free, Paris the gay:
Paris, as the old French sons has it,
where a man always feels single"
If the fascination once gets into the
blood it is like the smell Of the sea to
an old salt. 1t draws and draws one
forever back again. A bright Ameri-
can woman, who has lived many a
abroad M who lOathes LondOn as
much as she does Paris, as she eX-
presses 1t, said the other day that the
longest road in the world was the n
leaving London for Paris, and the
shortest. any road leading out Of Paris.
However, all Americans are not of this
opinion. and many like LOndOn as well
as Paris; but / haven't heard many say
that they liked London better than
Paris. The old adage that good Amer
leans go to Paris when they die should
be changed up to date, for good Amer
leans are anticipating their paradise
here below, to judge from the troops
OF them in the hotels. on the bOale-
wards, in the galleries-everyWhere.
Personally conducted tourists. or
'-hrsters," as a humorous Washington
ian calls them-those who are abroad
for the first time n are engaged in
comparing Wanamaker's with the
Magazine dU Louvre. or Marshall
Fields with the Bon Marche, and who
also are incidentally gaining much val
liable and costly experience doing a
circular tOur and being done in the
shops where English is spoken"
"~Seconders," who know the ropes
somewhat and who only occasionally
get heeCed. For be it known herewith
that the shearing Of the lambs. espe-
cially Of the American breed, is n OF
the most artistic n successful ndus-
tries of these picturesque lands. Ac-
cording TO the genial WashingtOnian,
the Americans have only themselves
20 blame for this state Of things. and
he insists that they AVE even ruined
the Bon Marche, where the prices are
invariably raised in summer as soon
as the pilgrimage begins. They tip in
disCriminateIy-pOrters and cabmen
and walters. They give % centimes
pour-boire in a cafe where a French
man would only give 10. It has gotten
10 be a custom that whenever a
FrenChman looks at an American he
expects a tip. or vice versa. 1t is said
that in a certain Cafe on the bOule-
wards you are expected to tip the flies
that light on your collar. We certainly
are an amusing people, and the Won
der is h a foreigners ever max us
out. No two of us can be compared to
any other two Of us.
There is a standard. at least. by
which most Englishmen can be judged.
An Englishman or an English woman
of the better class will do certain
things under certain circumstances,
and no possible OF impossible combina-
ton would cause them to have the bad
taste to do otherwise. There are so
many different kinds Of us. from the
north, south, east, and west, and &C
Cording as the fancy strikes us we are
apt to do all sorts of outrageous things.
We. as a nation. are impatient Of re-
straint and don't like to take the good
advice to do as the Romans do. when
we are in Rome. For example. no one
here but peasants and servants 20
around bareheaded. but that fact. we'll
known, doesn't prevent many Ameri-
can girls their "mOmmers" from
parading up and down in front of their
hotels I'm the evening, deliberately
dressed and b~areheaded. Some of the
American papers here have criticised
them pretty Tudely. The French pa
pers are too polite. possibly, but one
can imagine what they say in private
There is also a disagreeable custom
Frenchmen ave Of staring at women
alone in the street, and sometimes
WOrkmen. or men Of the lower class.
will push you with their elbows. It
isn't pleasant, but the only way Is to
ignore it. An American girl who was
tOgtled fin that way not long since
turned around and slapped the man in
the face. In a mOmen she was sur
rounded by a jeerins crowd and had
an exceedingly unpleasant quarter of
an hour. for il was the sort of a crowd