Show BAOE animosities tho of feeling between the english and french in canada seems to have reached its present devor through the outbreak of smallpox in montreal for some reason or other the french object to being and the ducasa has accordingly been prevalent among them A bays that this has led to au perci Hous comments in the english press on french habits including aspersions on the cleanliness of the french population which the french has fiercely resented the Catli olic clergy in some cases backing the newspapers up the of the two races has long been a core subject but the controversy has generally been conducted somewhat unfairly on the english side it originated mainly in the failure of the french in franca to adopt ahe practice of in the morning which englishmen took up about fifty years ago it has been aggravated too by the slowness of the french hotels to provide the enlarged bowls and pitchers which british tourists about abo same time began mohave in their own houses ft fact on which the english press has been in the habit of commenting every fall for half a century the way that frenchmen too sometimes talk about a bath as abich it would be well for ft man to take when be feels out of sorts but only then helps n foster the pride of cleanliness in abo english mind |