Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1903 — HURET'S IMPRESSIONS. [ARTICLE]

HURET'S IMPRESSIONS.

Preach Critic Says Aaaarieass hsms Are Hants Tee Cald. American lovers are cold. Tbis ie the newest disc#very off Jtefea* Huret, the Parisian newspaper writer, now sojourning to America, says the Paris correspondent of the New YackWorld. He doubts that all marriages' are for love and not for the bride’s CM as is claimed. He bas seen too mousy' exceptions, la any case, be thinks thatAmericans will finally discover, wfutti the Europeans have already teamed, - that if aitver does not arenas tore ttatleast aids much in the enjoying ot tL Mr. Huret notes that It la a fllfltalltmatter to distingaisb fiancee to America because of the coldness In* Weir ~ manner toward each other. Theiiritnpossibility astounds him. The French, he says, may not love more tharo the Americans, but at least their lovw to more in evidence. “American girls," the critic flnds> "care too much for quantity in dress. Observe the huge bouquets of violetr at $lO a bunch that they wear glued to their belts. These flowers in nowise Improve the contour of their figure, but they do not consult aesthetics in thto fashion, but run after quantity." Among the curious types Mr. Huret has found two which particularly ~ struck him. One is an old business man of eighty-seven who could hardly walk, but bad himself carried downtown every day for the pleasure o£ breathing the busy air of that quarter. The other Is a churns girl of Weber & Fields’ company, who had a bed curtain made of all the champagne corks that have popped at different suppers she has attended, each .carefully labelled with the date of ltsr*pfl|).” After a few somewhat uncomplimentary observations on American cooking in general be remarks that American buckwheat cakes are M a delicious poem of the cuisine’’ and that American grape fruit is par excellence. These two things compensated him foe much under the stars and stripes re* - gime. ;