Excerpts from page 2:

"...imagine Broadway one third broader than at present, with rows of buildings like Stewarts Store on each side brilliantly illuminated, fill the sidewalks with Clara Flanders, add Gentilles and a sprinkling of old Chegarays by way of contrast and you would have a faint idea of the Boulevards on a fine evening,- the fact of the matter appears to me to be that the French people have no family hearth about which to assemble in the evening, but au contraire the family dispenses, Father and Mother, sons and daughters, children and servants all rush indiscriminately to the Boulevard where they talk politics, make love or fight..."

"But there are two things in which Paris excels in the world, dinners and dancing, the Parisian dinners "oh, oh, oh, oh," the very romance of cookery, so refined and soft, I should positively faint if I should catch sight of a plate of pork and beans or cornbeef and cabbage..."

"I take Polka lessons from a little dancing master named "Cellaruis", I think him the most amusing sight in Paris, his attention is divided between his moustaches and his patent leather boots..."

Original courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, Delhi, NY