Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1878 — Why the French Prosper. [ARTICLE]

Why the French Prosper.

The secret of the reserved wealth of the French—their elasticity after disaster—are their habits of economy, their excellence as cooks, their temperance and their family attachments. They are impulsive and violent, but their revolutions are like thunder-storms, useful to clear the atmosphere of bad elements, and generally followed by moderation under whatever regime. They are the paradox of nations. They live among themselves and upon strangers at the same time, ar d there is no other case in which a people gets so much money

from other peoples and gives so little money in return. They, however, give music, plays, manners, books and costumes freely to others, but they remain the same. They are always individual. They imitate nobody except to make somebody ridiculous.— J. W. Forney, in the Philadelphia Press.