A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles Through the United States 8 5
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles Through the United States 8 5
Ferrall
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English novels have very extensive circulation here, which certainly is ofno service to the country, as it induces the wives and daughters ofAmerican gentlemen (alias, shopkeepers) to ape gentility. In Louisville, Cincinnati, and all the other towns of the west, the women haveestablished circles of society. You will frequently be amused by seeing alady, the wife of a dry-goods store-keeper, look most contemptuously atthe mention of another's name, whose husband pursues precisely the sameoccupat...ion, but on a less extensive scale, and observe, that "she onlybelongs to the third circle of society. " This species of embryoaristocracy--or as Socrates would, call it, Plutocracy--is based on wealthalone, and is decidedly the most contemptible of any. There are, notwithstanding, very many well-bred, if not highly polished, women in thecountry; and on the whole, the manners of the women are much moreagreeable than those of the men. Early in the summer I proceeded to Maysville, in Kentucky, which liesabout 220 miles above the Falls.
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