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Show AS OTHERS SEE US. M. Ilurct, one of the editors of tho Pails Flgaio, has visited us quite recently, re-cently, lie came over with the French Meet and found tho country so Interesting Inter-esting that he stayed a few months among us. Now he has returned to his beloved France and is publishing what ho is pleased to call his Impressions Impres-sions of America. Here follow a few of those "Impressions" as translated by a London paper: "The American surpilses you with his contempt for you. On the cars or railways, for Instance, you feel tho shoes of the man behind you In your back. "Gentlemen chew tobacco or gum and spit everywhere. Hoth men and women use their lingers Instead of handcrchiefs. "Tho American consldeis self-con-tiol the most important virtue, He is prouder of It than of anything else. "America has only one thing that is little the napkins. On the contrary the spittoons are wells. "1 have seen people at Sherry's wiping wip-ing their liugcis and mouth on the tablecloth. "The Americans cat exactly what Is put before them. "Ills even the custom for. a young man to be received by a young girl at her own homo without having been presented to her parents. "In the "smart set" it is tho stjlo to appear as indifferent as possible to tho women. "The Ameilcan bears no hatred, lie has enemies, he beats them oris beaten. "Tho American alwajs seems to be camping out. Ho seems always ready forsomo emergency. "They amuse themselves as they live- -with all their might. A tumult ofgayely greets you. Five hundred thousand human beings arc shrieking, eating, di Inking laughing, climbing. "One meets scarcely any old men In America. I could count those 1 saw-In saw-In eight months. "Have you felt in Monte Carlo the strange sensation that money has lost. Its current value? Ono has exactly the same feeling in all the big American cities." Much that the writer says Is undoubtedly un-doubtedly true.l but It Is a pity for Mr. uurct and his readers, we mean that the author met only persons who chewed tobacco or gum and expectorated expector-ated llucntly In public places; who growled over their food and used the tablecloth Instead of the napkin and the handkcrchlof.and so on, but wo are glad that ho didn't meet the fellow who "eats with his knife." |