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" Le Petit Journal pour Eire." One Frenchman is 

 absurdly dressed as an English sportsman ; another 

 finds fault with his appearance: " AlphonsCy tu as 

 Vair diahlement hUe." 



" Qa m'est egal" replies the Anglomaniac com- 

 placently, " Pourvu que faie le chic Anglais!' 



On the Pacific Slope the chic Anglais cuts some 

 queer capers. You will find married women bear- 

 ing crests on notepaper: a solecism not unknown 

 in England amongst people of quality. I told one 

 dame that no woman bears her father's crest, and 

 that it is not the best form to use her husband's ; 

 but I've no doubt she thought me an officious 

 and ignorant ass. There is a story in New York 

 of a lady who chose for armorial bearings a shield, 

 argent, with a bend, sinister ! 



These are the ha'penny matters, but fraught 

 with a certain significance. The English custom 

 of " tipping " servants has also come to the Pacific 

 Slope, where servants receive already enormous 

 wages ; nearly twice as much as is paid in England. 

 This might have been left overseas. More, the 

 people who "tip" deem it necessary to give gold, 

 utterly regardless of those whose pockets are lined 

 with silver. The docking of horses' tails, too, in 

 a fly-infested country, in a country moreover where 

 these same horses are regularly turned out to 

 grass, is not to be commended merely because it 

 is English. 



But the characteristic which more than any 

 other stirs the spleen of the Native Son, and which 

 is far more easily acquired than an English accent 

 (whioh after all is funny without being vulgar), is 



