They Take Their Money, However.

Southland Times, Issue 9389, 1 December 1886, Page 2

They Take Their Money, However.

(Le Figaro', Oct. 6.) The oniy object an Englishman has in 9 Pans is amu-sement ; consequently he looks upon it aa a place quite unworthy of 11 consideration — as a aort of great fuir, a * tap-room, or any other kiad of disreput- * able place. In an Englishman's eyes tho Parisien is a mountebank, the Paris--1 ienne a liurnbug. In Pariß the Englishman lets himself be seen without his clonk 3 of hypocrisy. No logger obliged to play 1 tbe part of the gentleman, he frankly 3 discloses himself such as Naturo mad'o c him — as selfi&h, proud, and arrogant 1 The same gentleman whom you may have > seen in London irreproachably and |im- * maculately clad is then dressed out in a 3 suit of coloured tweeds with a square 3 patterrj, and a travelling cap with double 5 peat: a.»<i two ears. It is tbaa accoutred * that he goes t<s"£he opera snd the Curnedi© : Franchise. This is his only means of 1 avengiDg himself for the necessity which he finds Paris to be to him. He iv so ' much bored in his smoky London, in the 3 midst of the wretchedness on tbe banks of the Thames, by his Biblical Sundays, and ' the monotony oi: the city, that lie must ' have at any price the sunahioe, wine and gaiety of Paris. But the Eaghs uman do^B * not like to find elsewhere that which is i wanting at home, and, compelled to purchase his pleasure abroad and bring hia ■ guineas with him, ho endeavours to : be haughty and impolite, after the manner of upstarts who bully the footmen in tbeir pay. The Englishman, is ' odea accompanied by hia wite, who comes to try to amusa herself voo, as Englishwomen do. Sho locks upon a 1 visit to Paris aa a great piece of revelry, which &he renews, moreover, several times a year, making the beßt of her opportuaity of eating, flirting and chattering, wbicu tbe English manners do not permit. Sac is often a very charming woman, and makes oce forget what a nuisance her husband is. She likes Frenchmen who talk and amuse her, whilst her husband either scarcely addresses her or treats her like a servant. Not unfrequently you gee passing in a hired carriage a young badly dressed Englishman seated by a a pretty woman dressed in the height ot fashion. You would almost fancy them two waxwork figures hawked about by a showman to advertise the Musee GreviD. Yet there are some amiable Englishmen, even tn Paris, those who have settled there and passed some years in tbe place. But even they have not quite consented to abdicate. Infatuated with themselves, they bear London with them in their luggage, and have a neighbourhood to themselves which cuts them off from other societies. Here are found also the English grocer, chemist, restaurateur, and tailor, with the groceries, patent medicines, and cloth of the Fatherland. All they have taken of Paris are itß sun and air ; two things of which London is entirely ignorant,