FRANCE AND THE WAR.

Evening Star, Issue 4273, 6 November 1876, Page 3

FRANCE AND THE WAR.

There are not very many awfully rich men in France, but the masses have so much money, or securities, as to deserve the epithet of wealthy. The people are always working, ever devoted to saving; if a sous cannot be put by, a centine can, and so the "leetie" becomes in time the "muckle." From their earliest years, children are impressed with the duty of being economical, of trying to do without superfluities, and to be satisfied with a. low priced, instead of a high priced commodity. It is by this scraping and hoarding that France has now in her National Bank two thousand millions of coin; This economy neither interferes with the comforts of-homeiior the pleasures out of door; the French alone have the knack , of bfeing bappy over a dinner of heros, and by 'their admirable science and skill in cookery, they make half the quantity of I foodj go'as far as the double in other coun- | tries, because they permit none of it to be lost, and impart; an appetising flavor to every dish. WolL then, in spite of the war in Servia, and the rumors of further complications, we think of little else than passing the warm season in some country work. The operations of the two contending armies would have been followed with interest, but the puzzling names and unblushing fibs of our newspapers have driven many to view the;whole struggle as a hoax. The hecatombs during the German invasion hwe spoiled us for little wars. The other evening, on demanding from a newspaper vendor ' a journal ;with the latest intelligence, he asked me, / " as a matter of course, and with the best desire to be obliging, " Which side are you for T If you wish the Turks to win, take any paper out of the left-hand buudle ; butj if you stand up for the Servians, select one from the other heap." Perhaps this classification of the sheep and goats was about right. - :r