“That’s just it,” I repliod. “It is the only 
enjoyment I can afford, for it costs nothing. 
We would go and console each other by com¬ 
paring our miseries In the garden yonder, only 
the chairs will cost tie four sous, r should feel 
rich its a princess If t was worth 10 cents. How 
are you spending your time?” 
“ In the most miserable way; there's no other 
word to express my condition. Only to-day I 
received a letter from father; but. ho never 
“Worse!” he exclaimed; “You actually 
have the cruelty to make fun of mol Now, I 
suppose you think you’re miserable because 
you have been awaiting flltliy lucre that hasn’t 
come, and have contemplated writing ‘The 
Romance of a Poor youh^ Woman," or com¬ 
mitting suicide. But you are a thousand times 
happier than many others. You haven’t a 
drunken husband, nor six children all sick 
with the measles, nor a grandmother in jail. 
Poverty Is the 1 
versify has (is uses 
know what it Is t< 
porarlly, financial c .. 
a hard knot, have bei 
at least of Uisclplin 
mother of invention, and ad- 
aml as »<une people nevor 
suffer eithc", unless tem¬ 
pos which tie money up In 
icllclal results in the way 
rr .. ■ ob y Hiving those children 
c.f fortune a dose of privation. 
The great subject now of interest in Franco 
is the trial of Marshal Haz.um; for treason at 
ile * during the Franco-Prussian war. It la 
believed that ho abandoned Metz to the Fims- 
sians without having exhausted all proper and 
available moans for its further defence. The 
trial will be long; the mass of evidence Is 
enormous, ir found guilty, he will bo shot. 
No country but our own can afford to narrinn 
OUR EUROPEAN LETTER, 
“ <*•»»” "sou queer ideas or “our 
country !" It is not uncommon t.o meet wi th 
the country people who fancy that Americans, 
native born, are black like negroes or red like 
Indians; that we live In a soinl-barbaroua way, 
—.-ho clviliza- 
rhen there are others who im- 
money on trees like ap- 
toracyIn the laud of 
country Is a land of 
poverty oriterotii not. Only the 
- -jaruing that I 
une vrai 
native 
thank God. 
tempos ho had 
ordered for dessert. “ Vou havn’t such grapes 
as these in your country,” ho said. 
” Vos, we have," j replied; “ preolsely the 
same, and many others much better." 
“ Bdt I suppose you have no wines ?" 
“American wines areooneodad to be the best 
in the world by unhiimsed judges.” 
“ Vratimntt But you cannot get a dinner 
like ibis in New York for the same money?" 
I erhapB not! but one can live quite us well 
there as here for the same money." 
“ But you are all republicans; I suppose your 
washerwoman is as good as you are?" 
" Yes, In one sense she may bo, or oven bet¬ 
tor." 
“Ami do you invito her to dinner? you have 
no aristocracy.” 
" Wo have loo much ; wo have moro aristoc¬ 
racy than you have in France, but less of caste. 
Anybody can stop over the dividing lino who 
has the wit and energy to do it. Yours is an 
aristocracy of' birth, ours of brains. You may 
judge which is worth the most." 
“ How do you find the French ?” 
“ Lazy and cowardly." 
“ Comment I How can you think that!” 
“Becauseyou haven't, the energy to maintain 
your Republlcjuc, and because you are afraid of 
the development, il will give to the lower classes. 
You would soli your souls for the sake or polit¬ 
ical repose, and don't care to look ahoad of 
next 5 ear, to ' < >rosee what disasters might come 
with a king. You would put Henky V. or Na- 
and ought to ho overwhelmed with M 
tion of Paris. T‘ 
aginc Americans raise r~ - 
pies; that, there Is no aristi 
the freo, and that the 
palaces, where p *—* _ 
other day a stranger at table, le; 
w,-i« American, asked me if I was" 
Americnlno," meaning if I was a real 
born subject. I told him 1 was, 
He pointed to some white 
WOMAN AND MAN OF GAM AN AND ASHANTEE SOLDIER 
seemed to think that the last, chock ho sent 
mo was good for nothing, and I've yet to hear 
of anybody whoso relations at home manifested 
the thoughtfulness to send at once a remit¬ 
tance, no matter how small, in case their 
friends over here found themselves victims of 
loss. I can’t go anywhere, for I've no money. 
I can't ride, nor dine out, nor buy a cigar. Only 
think or it, when i always smoked sta a day I" 
“Well, that is certainly the most heart-rend- 
nor a house on fire, nor a cancer in your head! 
Vou are neither blind, lame, M(|uint.-eyed, 
tongue-tied, bald-headed; neither have you 
lost your last pair of gloves. There’s Aunt 
Fanny has actually been obliged to coniine her¬ 
self to one cup of toa a day, and she always 
drank three ; and Kate is wretched because she 
can’t, buy the daily papers, and Tom Jones be¬ 
cause ho can’t go to the theaters, and so on ; 
every American has his own particular, special 
THE NORMAN FACE, 
Slightest degree exaggerated its lofty and ex¬ 
quisite character. The men, in their way, are 
as handsome us the women. They have the line 
oval face, sedate, bright eyes, and clear com¬ 
plexion of the old race. You look in vain for 
evidence cf their Teutonic descent in these 
sculpcurerl features, the skin and hair alone 
suggesting a reminiscence of their Saxon an¬ 
cestry. The women are remarkabla for the 
natural dignity of their carriage, which har¬ 
monizes strikingly with their tall and com¬ 
manding figures, and the gravity and reserve of 
their expressions. Like the men, their faces 
are oval, with tho slightly aquiline nose, large, 
dashing eyes, and curved Ups. Their complex¬ 
ions are peculiarly transparent, the cheeks 
mantling over with a blush rich in color, but 
delicate In its diffusion. A smile sits in their 
eyes, but the most inquisitive observer cannot 
defect in their look .' 1 or manners the slightest 
indication of levity. A sweet seriousness is 
their predominant characteristic. Il ls strange 
enough to an Englishman to meet groups of 
those people, men and women, reproducing 
before his eyes that famous Norman head with 
which all are so familiar. It carries you back 
at once to the eleventh century. Wherever he 
