The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-11


tho world---strong, just and stable
there would certainly be trouble.
Rncc Prejudice.
came down from Montreal to the
lower part of the province with a
French farmer sitting beside me IN
the train, and we fell into CONVERSE
ton. He spoke the vicux Francnis--
uho French Of Brittany, iou ~ ne
patos Of Canada, and when her peo-
pie go back to France nowadays only
In these provinces are they understood
or can they understand-ln Paris they
are foreigners) only modern
before we reached his station ! asked
him about the entente cordiale be-
tween the two races.
.Ah, madame he said, you Know
the Englishman! He is a pig. For
him the Frenchman is always a stink,
He got out into the aisle He had
aired his best English. He struggled
into his overcoat and lifted ms ma
madame! Bon VOYAGE" and vanished.
,rhe English point of View.
Said young Englishman of Upper
Quebec: II am Just back from ten
years on remote lake, where l naNe
been tutoring lot OF frog {, M :,
sucre and playing dominoes every
evening with st. John on Procession
Day figure of fun that Is. going TO pc
sent to oxford, because his rich DADDY
destines him for public life! And "a
| navy"
Just as Americans all over the world
serve the same purpose that medium
does for an artist In mixing ms colors,
so in Canada they get on well with
both the French and the English.
The Scotch.
One of the most valuable elements
| in the country, though, canny, stable.
industrious and godly. is the Scotch
Province of Ontario as leaves in VAL
lambrosa. Every other man that you
meet is Macsomething. And fine.
sturdy set of people they are, too. IN
like the English too, they d, am Tram tbe
days of the Scottish Archer Guard OF
Louis Nj. this has always been the
| case. There seems to be no race an
even speak French without the terri
BILE "quatre-ving-san accent for which
English people are famed all over the
Continent. And on some of the cana :
dian islands you find scores ana scores ORES
of red-headed. dark-eyed children with
high cheek bones and pretty manners.
speaking only lie vieux Francals, but
named Donald Grant and Sandy Nc
q Whittier and Jean Mcdonald ana otner
names as Scotch aE Burns or bannocks.
The mothers are as French as II they
had Just arrived from Marseilles.
Some Geography.
One of them had heard from a tour
. list of Savannah, and asked II. or
, rather announced that 1t was "une vile
Japonaise" Ga Japanese city,. SO Slowly
:, does news travel UP there 10 be sure
she added: pres San Francisco (near
San Francisco). And then she said
. high propriety say, Aren't Americans
t strange. and comical, and SO ignorant
r but ignorant The Japanese American
: one from Savannah had never heard OF
/ st. Anne de Beaupre! Flgure1 Vous
1 What a Scandal.
t A Paris Bonnet.
!. The pretty, gentle. gracious womai
, was charming in spite of her lack o.
3 geography. 'ologies and isms have
mighty little to do with making g w note
!, SO hospitable so pleasantly welcoming
= and kindly. She contided another ac VI
observation to me: THE Japanese Sa
I vanniahns are not all heather, madame
n Her bonnet was of Paris" 4 fluent de
n scription of it followed. The woman
Y has never lived anywhere who was no
s Interested in bonnets.
Accomplished Horses.
The well-educated horse in Canad
st speaks two languages fluently, and no
E, infrequently has smattering Oh HE'D
e land Scotch as well, II porn or pre-
't In Ontario and sold to Quebec dealer
d Great was my surprise to learn this
"a little Canadian lady was telling m
"a of drive she had taken the day be
IL fore behind new horse In a ne'
~ buggy (shortly after my ar ,l,,Y an n
" myself so miserable again and call
Or pleasure! My husband is a pig-heade
1T Yorkshireman, who has lived. her
ID twenty years and made 1t a point e
~ =, ~, 1aar ErenCl
If And he has just bouRht pig headet
st fractions. balky French horse that ha
s, never learned, and l just know, nov
Is will never learn, word OF Eng ~;
10 And between them was almost kliie
re yesterday. | have told my hus6an
IS, again. The week following, Will
is out for a long walk, we came upo
es a Canadian hill, mile and half Ion
A. and as steep in places as any Souther
ID cliff So when a farmer came alon
of in light cart bargain was made
TT take me to the top Thereon. Al IT., u
ne way up that hill the farmer talke
re vieux Francois to me. but every no
es ana then he would lash his stout por
OF ami speak to him in English. On n
.ir asking why he did this, he relapse
in into vieux Francois and said: "Mi
err dame it is for my interests. am
lx farmer My horse Is French hors
All the summer he works for me.
tho winter have the intention to rel
be him to those English that wish
~. make little promenade in the sleig
Id But he likes not the English languag
MS and he is of an destination incredibl
es In three mouths he will not undo
20 stand Whoa! Gee He is perfe
re re- pig Then l take the whip For .Who
&c give three ticks; for Gee Six. 7
at has made of progress. An yes; Olivt
ric likes not the English. but 1t IS wors
90 the stick" All the way UP. poor O
!. Yier dropped his tail and hung h
"a, I'd, head, the picture of profound discou
" agement, yet it was SO funny to
y, him prick up his ears. and turn !
IN head III melancholy wise toward /
. master, as If to say: Why speak y
this villainous English?" that lauE
ed heartily. was told that Oltyl
was horn on the place; was beloved
wife and children; was fed by ba
every Sunday and on feast days WI
Jumps of sugar: was friend of the fal