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Show INFATUATED AMERICANS 1 ABROAD. The American colony in Paris con' tinaes to flourish blu1 expand, and wiii remain io bold bWure Cir.i-ts 1 acd cooiuumite a bright example oi now rnucn (.-Itasanter it is to live in Pttr:s witnout perturbation about any principies a: ail. Wby ibouia people peo-ple woo can live comlonbly in Pns be concerned about any further millennium mil-lennium 7 It was a little Parisian girl who said to her dull: -'Dolly, if your good you'll go to heaven, but if you're naughty you'll go to a etill nastier place." Tus American in Paris has somewhat tbe same feeiirg about any other country, cr even Paradise; removal from the Boulevards Boule-vards implies only a choice of ev:hs. Y'tt the besetting ein of English blood survive even m Americans Ameri-cans snobbery. Il the republic oo!y called about it more titled people, I suspect many ol tne American colcny would line it better. Some families thai come here appear to be wild in their adoration of counts and countesses, count-esses, lords and ladies (with a big L.) Even as I write there is a poor American Ameri-can girl here who is crying out her eyes because fate, in the form of an old French mamma, has forbidden her son the pleasure of enjoyiDg this unhappy girl's large fortune. Sue no sooner saw tbe count than she was ready to throw all her father's money at his feet, and so were her father and her mother; the count also was witling witl-ing to accept the sweet boon. But the other mother, a widowed countess, lorbade the alliance; without her consent con-sent tbe marriage could not be olemniz?d iu France, and if performed per-formed in another country would forfeit all inheritance, including title, so iar as the wife was concerned, Iu Paris the young American gi:l would on'y hae hten tbe count's mistress. Henco thosi! tears. Under the second empire em-pire there were innumerable opportunities oppor-tunities for flirtatious with title.! Frenchmen aflorded to Americau girls with bountiful papas. But tuee have sensibly diminished. I should, therefore, Bhudder to have a vote taken in tbe American colony at Paris as to whether Prince Napoleon should be enabled to establish a throne in France. Of course, one must remember that there are Americans Ameri-cans and Americans in Paris; that among them are included many thinking men and women, intelligent republicans; still tbe surprise is that all are not such, the toue of many of our countrymen and countrywomen being so often one of indillerence to the great principles struggling for supremacy in France as to suggest a doubt as to whether it is a normal part of education iu the United States to teach republican prinoiples. Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Commercial. |
