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Show Another ttickebest city in tho world is heard from. This timo it is Bucharest. A Miss Berger, an English Eng-lish lady, has just publiaheJ a volume of travels, in which she refers to Bucharest a. " the city of pleasure," and solemnly declares it to be "the wickedest city on the face of the globe." According to her statement the Bucharest people have imported all the wickedness of Paris, and made it still wickeder. She says: An ignorant, suporstitious clergy, without a shred of morality; criminal in-tiiguea in-tiiguea without love; divorces without restraint; husbands without wives; wtvca without husbands; families divided and Ecatteiod, the sons with tho mothers, tho daughters with the fathers; fortunes eaten ; up by lo&D3; estates burdened by mortgages; mort-gages; rich men without a penny of cash; long streets withaut houses; splendid mansions and villainous looking hovels; line equipages and lilthy gutters; magnificent mag-nificent dress and scanty linen; Aubus-fion Aubus-fion carpets and distempered walls; princely furniture and nothing in the larder such i .Bucharest! After drawing this pleasant picture Bhe proceeds as follows: From modern Babylon, on the banks I of tho Seine, they have imported all tho I old attractive vices, the levity, tho rock-1 loss extravagance, the wicked, witty say- ing?, the well-bred atheism, the comedy , of adultery. Taris has tainted this grow- ing city with the breath of her corruption. corrup-tion. You can traco her influence through all and over all. She has transmitted to young Rumania her lively manners and hor easy morals; but tho liveliness of the ooo and -be ease of the other have U.volop.d in their progress oaetward. |